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LOT 3269
Kings of Armenia, Tigranes II AE Dichalkon. Dated RY 6 (91/0 BC). Nisibis mint.
Head of Tigranes II to left, wearing four-pointed tiara decorated with star and tied with diadem; to left, c/m: APK within rectangular incuse / BAΣΙΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY TIΓPANOY, tree; in inner left and right fields, I ς (date). Kovacs 64. Very Fine.(3.83gr, 17mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Caria, Heraclea Salbace AE 15mm. Circa time of Tiberius, AD 14-37. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ (Apollonios, son of Apollonios), magistrate. AΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ, head of Dionysus(?) to right / ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΩΝ, Zeus seated to right, holding Nike and long sceptre. RPC I, 2857; SNG Copenhagen 391. 3.40gr, 15mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Kings of Thrace. Rhoemetalkes I with Augustus AE 19mm. 11 BC-12 AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΡOIMHTAΛKOΥ, diademed head of Rhoemetalkes to right / KAIΣAPOΣ ΣEBAΣTOY, bare head of Augustus to right. RPC I, 1718. 4.86gr, 19mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London gentleman. -
Cyprus, Marion AE 21mm. Timarchos or Stasioikos II, 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Shield adorned with wreath containing ['sa-pa'] in Cypriot / Head of lion to left; [MAPIEYΣ] below. Cf. Tziambazis Supp. 20 (no king named); Destrooper 16 (no king named); cf. Roma E-91, 496 corr. (Stasioikos II) and Roma E-74, 668 (Timarchos). 7.83gr, 21mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 101, 13 October 2022, lot 515. Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
The two Roma Numismatics auction specimens listed both have clear letters on the obverse, one reading 'ti-pa' and the other 'sa-pa' for Timarchos and Stasioikos II.
