LOT 3227
Kings of Parthia, Phriapatios to Mithradates I AR Drachm. Circa 185-132 BC. Hekatompylos mint.
Diademed and draped bust to left, wearing bashlyk / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ APΣ-AKOY, Archer (Arsakes I) seated to right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 10.1 (Mithradates I); Shore 12 (Mithradates I); Sunrise 254. Near Very Fine. Cleaned.(3.70gr, 20mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3227
Kings of Parthia, Phriapatios to Mithradates I AR Drachm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) AR Tetradrachm. Circa 121-113 BC. Ake-Ptolemais mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Diademed head of Antiochos VIII to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠI-ΦANOYΣ, Zeus Ouranios standing facing, head to left, holding star in his right hand and long sceptre in his left; above, crescent; to left, monogram; all within laurel wreath. SC 2336.2a; HGC 9, 1197h. 14.02gr, 32mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Cleaned.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy III Euergetes AE Dichalkon. 246-222 BC. Kyrene mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, wearing aegis around neck / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ, draped bust of Libya to right, wearing taenia; double cornucopiae beneath chin. CPE B483; Svoronos 857. 3.30gr, 21mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Cilicia, Aigeai, AE 21mm. c.169-120 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Turreted head of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, horse head left, monogram to right. SNG Paris, BnF 2293-6; Bloesch 157. 5.48gr, 21mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, private collector.
