LOT 3966
Kyrenaika, Kyrene AR Hemidrachm. Circa 500-480 BC. Asiatic standard.
Head of Zeus-Ammon to right, with ram's horn above his ear; all within incuse square / Silphium fruit with pellet above and below. BMC 26-27; Buttrey, Coins, Period I, Group 2, 83; SNG Copenhagen -. Very Fine.(1.81gr, 10mm, 2h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on UK art market.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
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LOT 3966
Kyrenaika, Kyrene AR Hemidrachm.
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Mysia, Kyzikos AR Didrachm. 3rd century BC.
Estimate: £1,800 - 2,400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £900
Wreathed head of Kore Soteira to right, hair in sphendone / K-Y Z-I, Apollo, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, seated to left on omphalos, holding phiale, left arm resting on kithara seated on ground to right; monogram to left. Unpublished denomination. 6.88gr, 23mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Exceedingly rare; unpublished and unique.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm. Circa 454-404 BC. Contemporary imitation(?).
Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £167
Head of Athena with profile eye to right, wearing disc earring, pearl necklace and a crested Attic helmet adorned with three olive leaves and a pi-style palmette / ΑΘΕ, owl standing to right, head facing the viewer, olive sprig with berry and crescent moon in upper left field, all within incuse square. Cf. HGC 4, 1597. 15.41gr, 24mm, 9h.
Good Fine.
From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
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Dynasts of Lykia, Uncertain Dynast AR Hemiobol. Circa 480-430 BC.
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £25
Forepart of boar to left / Head and neck of leashed hunting dog to right; within incuse square. SNG Keckman 349-351; SNG von Aulock -; Traité II, 184 var. (dog to left). 0.30gr, 7mm, 9h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
