LOT 3045
Kings of Parthia, Mithradates II AR Tetradrachm. 121-91 BC. Seleukeia on the Tigris mint.
Diademed and draped bust to left, wearing torc / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOΥ AΡΣA-KOΥ EΠIΦANOΥΣ, Arsakes I seated to right on omphalos, holding bow in his right hand. Sellwood 24.1. Shore -. Good Very Fine. Beautiful old cabinet toning.(15.48gr, 32mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom 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.
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Eastern Arabia, Mleiha. Imitative 'Abi'el BI Tetradrachm. 1st century-2nd century AD. In the types of Alexander III of Macedon and in the name of 'Abi'el.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Stylised head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Figure enthroned left, holding sceptre in left hand, right hand extended, upon which horse(?); palm to left, ^ below arm, HE monogram to inner left, Aramaic legend to right, 'b'l ('Abi'el). Huth 132; MacDonald, 'Abiel', Group D 1.4.2.a. 21.22gr, 25mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274. Local imitation.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Radiate and draped bust to right / Spes walking to left, holding flower and raising hem of robe. Cf. RIC V.2, 272-274. 2.32gr, 17mm, 5h.
Very Fine.
Ex Spink, 1970s. Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaios (Yehonatan) AE Prutah. 103-76 BC. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, upright anchor / 'Yehonatan the King' in paleo-Hebrew between rays of eight-rayed star; all within diadem. Hendin 6189; Meshorer Group K; HGC 10, 637. 2.44gr, 16mm.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.
