LOT 3091
Lucania, Metapontion AE 14mm. Circa 250-207 BC.
Athena Promachos advancing to right, brandishing spear and shield / Owl standing on grain ear to right, head facing; META upwards to left. Johnston, Bronze 68; SNG ANS 565-6; HN Italy 1704; HGC 1, 1113. Good Very Fine.(2.66gr, 14mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on UK art market.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
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LOT 3091
Lucania, Metapontion AE 14mm.
Estimate £20 - 30€23 - 35 (for guidance only)$27 - 41 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Seleukid Empire, Seleukos II Kallinikos AE 11mm. 246-226 BC. Uncertain mint in Northern Syria or Mesopotamia.
Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Head of Athena to right, wearing Attic helmet / [ΒΑΣΙ ΣΕΛΕ], forepart of horned(?) horse to left; in left field, monogram; in right field, EY. SC -; HGC 9, -; Obolos 24, 325. 1.38gr, 11mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine. Exceedingly rare; unpublished and apparently the second known example.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) AE 19mm. Dated SE 193(?) (120/9 BC). Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Diademed and radiate head to right / BAΣIΛE[ΩΣ] ANTIO[XOY] EΠIΦAN[OYΣ], eagle standing to left, sceptre under far wing, monogram(?) to outer left, date below. Cf. SC 2300.2; HGC 9, 1212. 5.57gr, 19mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on UK art market. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. -
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Kingdom of Macedon, Philip II AR Tetradrachm 359-336 B.C. Amphipolis mint. Posthumous issue. Struck under Kassander, circa 316-314 BC.
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,000
Laureate head of Zeus to right / ΦΙΛΙΠ-ΠOΥ, nude youth, holding palm frond, on horseback to right; aplustre below, pellet-in-Π beneath raised foreleg. Le Rider pl. 46, 18; Troxell, Studies, Group 9, 323-5; SNG ANS 738-46. Slab: 62 grams, 85 x 60mm
NGC graded AU Strike: 4/5 Surface: 4/5 Fine Style (#8221307-001).
Acquired on the UK art market. Ex County Durham collector. Ex private collection, UK.
