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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Sicily, Himera AE Hemilitron or Hexonkion. Circa 415-409 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Head of nymph to left; six pellets (mark of value) to left / Six pellets (mark of value) within wreath. CNS 35; HGC 2, 479. 4.13gr, 20mm, 2h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Phoenicia, Sidon. Uncertain king AR 1/16 Shekel. Circa 435-425 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Phoenician galley under sail to left; waves below / Persian king or hero in kneeling-running stance to right, drawing bow, within incuse square. E&E-S Group II.4; HGC 10, 217. 0.79gr, 9mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos II Theos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 256-246 BC. Antioch ad Orontem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
Diademed head of Antiochos II to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY, Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, testing arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him; ΛΕ to outer left and monogram of monogram within circle to outer right. Cf. SC 571.4a (slightly different monogram to outer right); HGC 9, 238. 16.25gr, 26mm, 6h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
