LOT 2700
Kings of Parthia. Vologases III AE Dichalkon. Circa AD 105-147.
Seleukeia mint. Dated Seleucid Era 451 (AD 139/140). Crowned facing bust wearing tiara; ANY (date) upwards to right / Tyche seated to left on column; palm to left. Sellwood 79.50; Shore -. Near Very Fine. Very rare.(3.70gr, 18mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Group of Two [2] AE Coins of the Ptolemaic Kindgom of Egypt. 2nd-1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Time of Ptolemy IX to Ptolemy XII. 17.67gr total.
Fine to Very Fine.
From a private Barnsley, UK, family collection. -
Group of Eight [8] AE Ancient Coins. 3rd-1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Various rulers and cities. 29.51gr total.
Fine to Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Xerxes I to Darius II AR Siglos. Circa 486-420 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Type IIIb (early). Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding transverse spear with right hand and bow with left; countermark: 121 / Oblong incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb; BMC Arabia pl. XXV, 9. 5.48gr, 15mm.
Near 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.
