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LOT 2622
Lucania, Metapontion AE 16mm. Circa 225-220 BC.
Head of Leukippos to left, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / [ΜΕ]ΤΑ, Demeter standing facing, holding long cross-torch in her right hand and resting her left on her hip; to left, barley ear. Johnston, Bronze, 67; HN Italy 1703; SNG München 1019; SNG ANS 561. Good Fine. Rare variety with left facing head of Leukippos.(3.48gr, 16mm, 10h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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Very Fine.
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Euboia, Histiaia AR Tetrobol. 3rd-2nd centuries BC. Reduced standard.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Near Very Fine.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon) AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 53 (118/7 BC). Alexandreia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, wearing aegis around neck / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ], eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; L NΓ (date) to left, ΠA to right. CPE II 1376; Svoronos 1529; SNG Copenhagen -; Noeske -; DCA 54. 12.19gr, 25mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Rare for this regnal year.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
