LOT 3044
Kings of Parthia, Mithradates I AR Obol. 165-132 BC. Ekbatana mint.
Diademed head of Mithradates I to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY APΣAKOY, draped and bearded male bust to right, wearing bashlyk. Sellwood 12.5; Shore 31. Near Very Fine.(0.60gr, 11mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceEx Spink, 1970s.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Thrace, Maroneia AE 16mm. 1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Wreathed head of Dionysos to right / Dionysos standing to left, nude but for chlamys draped over his arm, holding grape bunch and two narthex stalks; MAPΩNITΩN to right. HGC 3.2, 1541. 4.63gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos II Kallinikos AR Tetradrachm. Struck before 240-235 BC. Uncertain mint 36, perhaps in Cilicia.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Diademed head to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛ-ΕΥΚΟΥ, Apollo standing facing, head to left, holding arrow in his right hand and resting left elbow on tall tripod; to inner left, monogram of MH; to outer right, monogram of ΔΙ. SC 676.2; Newell, ESM 1641; HGC 9, 303m. 15.96gr, 27mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Areas of delamination on reverse.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. -
Phoenicia, Berytus AE 9mm. AD 218-222. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
CO-L, Marsyas standing to left and holding wineskin / BER above prow to right. RPC III 3858; BMC 27-35. 0.50gr, 9mm, 8h.
Near Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
