LOT 3017
Kings of Parthia. Pakoros I AR Drachm. AD 78-120.
Ekbatana mint. Diademed and draped bust to left, with long beard / Archer (Arsakes I) seated to right, no throne base visible, holding bow; monogram beneath bow. Sellwood 78.3 (Vologases III); cf. Sunrise 439 (throne base represented by two dots); Shore 413 (Vologases III). Extremely Fine.(3.62gr, 22mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Arabia, Mleiha. Imitative Abi'el BI Tetradrachm. Circa 1st century BC-2nd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress; dot on cheek / Figure seated to left, holding sceptre and horse in outstretched hand; 'b'l in Aramaic to right, palm tree before, trident-like symbol in inner left field, pellets behind, above and beneath strut of throne. Cf. Huth 130-5; HGC 10, 689. 16.36gr, 22mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. -
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Type IV (middle) B. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding dagger in right hand, bow in left; unlisted countermark / Oblong incuse punch. Carradice Type IV, Group B. 5.55gr, 16mm.
Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
The numbering of countermarks’ varieties has been done according to the chart published in BMC Arabia, p. cxxxvii. -
Uncertain mint in Seleucis and Pieria AE 21mm. Mid 1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Dated year 1 of the Pompeian Era (64/3 BC). Draped bust of Herakles to left, club over shoulder / L A (date) PΩMHΣ in two lines above ram of prow to right; all within wreath. Spijkerman 1 (Gadara); Rosenberger 1 (Gadara); HGC 10, 381. 9.69gr, 21mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
