LOT 3088
Lucania, Metapontion AE 16mm. Circa 250-207 BC.
Helmeted head of Leukippos to right / Demeter standing facing, head to right, holding long-cross torch; META to right. Johnston, Bronze 66; SNG ANS 561; HN Italy 1702; HGC 1, 1099. Near Extremely Fine.(5.13gr, 16mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on UK art market.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
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LOT 3088
Lucania, Metapontion AE 16mm.
Estimate £20 - 30€23 - 35 (for guidance only)$27 - 41 (for guidance only)
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Troas, Skepsis AE 12mm. Circa 400-300 BC.
Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £20
Bearded head of Priapos to right, wearing ivy-wreath / Σ-ΚH, filleted thyrsos; in field to right, eight-rayed star. BMC 24 var. (bunch of grapes); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; cf. Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies Grecques (1883), p. 266, 196 (symbol not visible); Obolos 39, 302. 1.19gr, 12mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely Rare; unpublished variant of a very rare type.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Kings of Thrace. Odrysian, Kersebleptes AE 13mm. Circa 359-340 BC.
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Female head to right, wearing stephane and with hair bound in sphendone / K-E-P, kotyle; below, grain of barley. SNG Copenhagen 1070-1071; Jurukova 54-57; HGC 3.2, 1701. 1.76gr, 13mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Sicily, Syracuse AE Tetras(?) Time of Dionysios II, 367-357 BC. 'Kainon' issue.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £10
Griffin springing to left / [KAINON], horse galloping to left, with trailing rein. Campana 1 ('Kainon'); CNS I, p. 249, 1 ('Kainon'); HGC 2, 509 ('Kainon'). 10.15gr, 22mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. From the collection of Mr Carlos Bahamonde, Manchester, UK.
