LOT 3016
Kings of Parthia, Uncertain Usurper (Tiridates I?) BI Tetradrachm. April/May-October/December 27 BC.
Seleukia on the Tigris mint. Dated Daisios 285 SE (May, 27 BC). Draped and bearded bust to left, wearing diadem and three-band torque / King seated to left, holding Nike who crowns him with wreath, and sceptre, pellet between feet; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ ΑΡΣΑΚΟΥ ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ around, ΕΠΣ (year) under throne, ΔΑΙΣI (month) in exergue. Sellwood 55.5-6 (Tiridates I); Callataÿ 128 (Phraates IV); BMC -. Near Very Fine. Scratches in obverse field.(10.63gr, 30mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3016
Kings of Parthia, Uncertain Usurper (Tiridates I?) BI Tetradrachm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
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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. -
Sicily, Katane AE Chalkous. Late 3rd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Jugate busts of Serapis, laureate and wearing Atef crown and Isis, wearing signature headdress to right; [X (mark of value) before, grain ear behind] / Apollo standing facing, leaning on column, holding laurel branch and bow; quiver and omphalos to left; KATA-[NAIΩN] to either side. CNS III, 22; HGC 2, 609. 5.27gr, 18mm, 7h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. Ex Münzen Gut-Lynt GmbH, Auction 8, 27 November 2022, lot 12 (company's ticket included). -
Lesbos, Mytilene AE 19mm. 3rd-2nd centuries BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Head of Zeus to right, with horn of Ammon / Facing herm of Dionysos on prow to right; M-Y T-I in two lines across fields, grape bunch to left, aplustre to right. BMC 132-3; HGC 6, 1048. 5.91gr, 19mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection.
