LOT 3291
Kings of Numidia, Massinissa or Micipsa AE Unit. 203-148 BC or 148-118 BC.
Laureate head to left / Horse galloping to left; pellet below. Mazard 53; MAA 18a; SNG Copenhagen 505. Good Fine.(12.56gr, 28mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Corinthia, Corinth AE Quadrans. 40-30 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
COR, rudder / Trident. RPC I, 1232; BCD Corinth 514. 2.41gr, 13mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine. Rare.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea, Uncertain Ruler AE Prutah. 1st century BCE. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Legend in Paleo-Hebrew within wreath / Splayed double cornucopiae with pomegranate/poppy between the horns. 2.36gr, 15mm, 2h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos II Theos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 256-246 BC. Antioch ad Orontem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
Diademed head of Antiochos II to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY, Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, testing arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him; ΛΕ to outer left and monogram of monogram within circle to outer right. Cf. SC 571.4a (slightly different monogram to outer right); HGC 9, 238. 16.25gr, 26mm, 6h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
