LOT 2941
Lesbos, Mytilene AE 19mm. 3rd-2nd centuries BC.
Head of Zeus to right, with horn of Ammon / Facing herm of Dionysos on prow to right; M-Y T-I in two lines across fields, grape bunch to left, aplustre to right. BMC 132-3; HGC 6, 1048. Near Very Fine.(5.91gr, 19mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection.
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South Arabia, Saba' AR Unit. Circa 3rd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Imitating Athens. Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves and palmette, and disc earring; N (in retrograde South Arabian) (mark of value) on cheek / AΘ[E], owl standing to right, head facing, olive spray and crescent to left. Huth 160; HGC 10, 720. 4.93gr, 15mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Ex property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Sasanian Kingdom, Peroz (Firuz) I AR Drachm. AD 457/9-484.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
AS (Aspahān) mint. Struck circa AD 458-465. Draped bust to right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent and korymbos set on crescent, legends flanking; ribbons on shoulders; all within single border / Fire altar with ribbons flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; date to left, mint to right; all within single border. Cf. SNS type IIa/1d; Sunrise -. 4.10gr, 28mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Calabria, Tarentum AE 17mm. Alexander the Molossian, King of Epeiros, circa 342-334 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Eagle standing to right; tripod to left, laurel spray to right / Thunderbolt, ΑΛΕΞΑ TOY NE to right and left, all within wreath. SNG Copenhagen 90; Vlasto, Alexander, Son of Neoptolemos of Epirus, (NC, 1926), type 16. 3.85gr, 17mm, 8h.
Very Fine. Very rare.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
