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LOT 3271
Kings of Sophene, Mithradates II Philopator AE 18mm. Circa 89-after 85 BC.
Bust to left, wearing bashlyk; uncertain countermark / [BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΙΘΡΙΔΑΤ ΦΙΛO], club within wreath. Kovacs 36. Near Very Fine.(4.30gr, 18mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Mysia. Astyra, Tissaphernes AE 11mm. Circa 400-395 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
[TIΣΣA], bare, bearded head of Tissaphernes to right / ΑΣΤΥΡΗ, facing cult statue of Artemis Astyrene, wearing polos and with fillets hanging from wrists; to upper right, vertical club. Klein 253; SNG Arikantürk 331-61; SNG BnF 124A. 1.52gr, 11mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
Astyra was a small town of Mysia, in the plain of Thebes, between Antandros and Adramyteion. It had a temple of Artemis, of which the Antandrii had the superintendence, and Artemis had hence the name of ΑΡΤΕΜΙΣ ΑΣΤΥΡΗΝΗ (Artemis Astyrene), as it appears on our coin. -
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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos III AE 19mm. 223-187 BC. Antioch mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Laureate head of Apollo to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, tripod. Cf. SC 1060; cf. HGC 9, 468. 7.09gr, 19mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Laconia, Lakedaimon (Sparta) AE 17mm. Circa 48-35 BC. ΑΦΙ- (Aphi-), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Jugate heads of the Dioskouroi to right / Λ-A, two amphorae; Α-Φ-Ι in fields. BCD Peloponnesos II 2349; Grunauer group XV, series 9; HGC 5, 629. 3.63gr, 17mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
