LOT 3254
Kushan Rulers of Baktria, Wima Takto, Soter Megas AR Didrachm. AD 90-113.
Radiate, draped and diademed bust of Miiro right, holding ribboned arrow in raised right hand; three-pronged tamga in left field / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ ΣΩΤΗΡ ΜΕΓΑΣ, king on horse right, raising right hand. ANS 147-156; AWC 2964-7. Very Fine.(8.47gr, 22mm, 4h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a London, UK, private collector.
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LOT 3254
Kushan Rulers of Baktria, Wima Takto, Soter Megas AR Didrachm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
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Judaea. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaios (Yehonatan)(?) AE Prutah. 103-76 BCE. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Legend in Paleo-Hebrew within wreath / Splayed double cornucopiae with pomegranate/poppy between. Cf. HGC 10, 641. 2.36gr, 15mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Thea Neotera AE Diobol-80 Drachmai. 51-30 BC. Alexandria mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Diademed and draped bust of Cleopatra to right / KΛEOΠATPAΣ [BAΣIΛIΣΣHΣ], eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left, Π (mark of value) to right. Svoronos 1871; Weiser 183; SNG Copenhagen 419-21; Noeske 380-2. 18.02gr, 26mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Indo-Sasanian. Chalukyas of Gujarat AR Gadhaiya. Circa AD 950-1050.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Stylised crowned head with elongated skull and large ears to right / Stylised fire altar flanked by attendants. Cf. Mitch NI 427; cf. B.U. Abels, Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklung der Gadhia-Münzen, in: Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Archäologie, vol. 4 (1982), p. 114, 4.2. 4.11gr, 15mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
