LOT 3133
Kings of Bosporos, Rheskouporis V, with Philip I, BI Stater. Dated 543 BE (AD 246/7).
ΒΑCΙΛЄѠC ΡΗCΚΟΠΟΡΙΔΟC, diademed bust to right / Laureate bust of emperor to right; club in right field, ΓMΦ (date) beneath truncation. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 3221; MacDonald 605/1 (Rheskouporis IV). Very Fine.(7.40gr, 20mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection.
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LOT 3133
Kings of Bosporos, Rheskouporis V, with Philip I, BI Stater.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes) AE 19mm. Dated SE 177 (136/5 BC). Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Winged bust of Eros to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY to right, ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ to left, Isis headdress resting on two grain ears and inverted crescent; monogram above Φ to outer left, ZOP (date) to inner left, crescent beneath main type. SC 2067.12; HGC 9, 1087. 5.43gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Lesbos, Mytilene AR Tetradrachm. Circa 160s BC.
Estimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £300
Bearded head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing laurel wreath / Facing xoanon of bearded Dionysos facing, wearing polos; ΜΥΤΙΛΗΝΑΩΝ flanking; all within wreath of ivy. Cf. EHC 650; cf. CH VIII, pl. LXIV, 2 (different obverse style). 13.92gr, 34mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Rough surfaces. Very rare.
From the Fadel family collection, London, UK, 1970s. -
Ionia, Smyrna AE Homereion. After 190 BC. EΡΜΟΛΑΟΣ ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΟΝΤΟΣ (Hermolaos, son of Parmenion), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Laureate head of Apollo to right / Homer seated to left, holding scroll, transverse sceptre behind; [Z]MYPNAIΩN to right, EPMOΛAOΣ ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΟ[NΤΟΣ] in three lines to left. BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; Milne (NC 1927) Pg. 88, No. 302. 8.84gr, 20mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Dark green patina. Extremely Rare.
Acquired on the UK market. Property of a London antiquarian.
Strabo mentions specifically this issue of bronze coinage from Smyrna when, discussing the city, he says "there is also a library; and the 'Homereum', a quadrangular portico containing a shrine and wooden statue of Homer; for the Smyrnaeans also lay especial claim to the poet and indeed a bronze coin of theirs is called a Homereum" (Strabo, Geographica XIV, I.37, transl. by H.C. Jones, The Geography of Strabo, VI [Loeb, 1960], pp. 245-247).
