LOT 2591
Lucania, Metapontion AE 17mm. Circa 250-207 BC.
Helmetted head of Leukippos to right / Demeter standing facing, head to right, holding long-cross torch; META downwards to right. Johnston, Bronze 66; HN Italy 1702; HGC 1, 1099. Good Very Fine.(5.38gr, 17mm, 10h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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Lesbos, Pyrrha AE 10mm. Circa 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Female head (Aphrodite or nymph Pyrrha?) to left, hair bound in sphendone / ΠΥP, goat standing to left; to left, scallop shell. BMC 1-2 var. (no symbol); HGC 6, 1060; SNG Copenhagen 428. 1.37gr, 10mm, 1h.
Very Fine. Very rare mint.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
Pyrrha was a town on the coast of the deep bay on the west of the island of Lesbos, which had such a narrow entrance that it was called the Euripus of Pyrrha. In the Lesbian revolt the town sided with Mytilene, but was reconquered by Paches. By the time of the geographer Strabo the city no longer existed, but the suburbs and the harbour were still inhabited and Pliny reports that Pyrrha had been submerged by the sea (5.39). -
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Group of Eight [8] AR Sigloi of Achaemenid Empire. 5th-4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
Various types. 44.04gr total.
Fine to Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion AE 20mm. Circa 310-304/3 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Bearded head of satyr to right / Π-Α-Ν around forepart of griffin to left; below, sturgeon to left. Anokhin 1023; SNG BM Black Sea 869-71; SNG Stancomb 542; MacDonald 69; HGC 7, 113. 8.37gr, 20mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine.
From a private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s. From Westminster collection, central London, UK.
