LOT 3134
Kings of Bosporos, Thothorses BI Stater. Dated BE 588 (AD 291/2).
BACIΛЄധC ⵙOⵙ[ധPCOV], diademed bust to right / Laurate bust to right, tamgha of Thothorses in right field, ΗΠΦ (date) below. RPC X Unassigned ID 85422; MacDonald 640/2 (ΦΠH). Very Fine.(7.89gr, 20mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection.
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Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
BACIΛЄധC AΓPIΠA, canopy / Three ears of corn; L Ϛ (date) across fields. RPC I 4981; TJC 120; Hendin GBC 6, 6274; Hendin GBC 5, 1244; Sofaer 153-6. 2.76gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos I Soter AR Drachm. Circa 280-271 BC. Aï Khanoum mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Diademed head to right / Horned and bridled horse's head right; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ behind, ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ below; Λ within circle before. SC 432.1 var. (monogram on rev.); HGC 9, 136. 4.26gr, 16mm, 5h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 58, 20 June 2019, lot 380. Acquired on the UK market. Property of a London antiquarian. -
Ionia, Smyrna AE Homereion. Circa 105-95 BC. ΑΠΑΤΟΥΡΙΟΣ (Apatourios), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Laureate head of Apollo to right / ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΑΠΑΤΟΥΡΙΟΣ, Homer seated to left, resting chin on hand and holding scroll; monogram of ΠΑΡ to left. Milne, Autonomous, Period XIII, 278. 7.99gr, 19mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Lovely dark green and brown patina.
Ex Münzzentrum Rheinland. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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).
