LOT 3090
Lucania, Metapontion AE 13mm. Circa 300-250 BC.
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headdress / META, grain ear with leaf to right. HN III 1696; Johnston Bronze 60; HGC 1, 1124. Very Fine.(2.39gr, 13mm, 4h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
From the collection of Mr Carlos Bahamonde, Manchester, UK.
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LOT 3090
Lucania, Metapontion AE 13mm.
Estimate £20 - 30€23 - 35 (for guidance only)$27 - 41 (for guidance only)
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Berenike II, wife of Ptolemy III AE Dichalkon. Circa 244/3-221 BC. Uncertain mint on the Levantine Coast.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £35
ΒΕPENIKHΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ, diademed and draped bust of Berenike II to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, filleted cornucopiae. Svoronos 1054; CPE B454; SNG Copenhagen -; Weiser 82. 3.89gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Cyclades, Paros AE Dichalkon. Late 3rd-mid 2nd century BC.
Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £54
Wreathed head of Demeter to right / ΠAPI, goat standing to right; in right field, grain ear(?). Cf. HGC 6, 670. 4.09gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare, apparently unpublished with this control.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Kings of Thrace, Lysimachos AE 15mm. 305-281 BC. Lysimacheia mint.
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet / Forepart of lion to right; BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ above, ΛYΣIMAXOY below, [kerykeion and monogram?] to left, spearhead below. Cf. SNG Copenhagen 1159; cf. SNG Tübingen 969; HGC 3.2, 1760. 2.70gr, 15mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
