LOT 2877
Lucania, Metapontion AR Didrachm or Nomos. Circa 400-340 BC.
Head of Demeter to right, wearing sphendone and pendant earring / META, grain ear with leaf to right. HGC 1, 1052. Near Very Fine.(7.32gr, 20mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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LOT 2877
Lucania, Metapontion AR Didrachm or Nomos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
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Thrace, Byzantion in alliance with Kalchedon AE 26mm. 300-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter to right / ΒΥZΑN ΚΑΛΧΑ, Poseidon seated to right on rock, holding aphlaston with right hand and transverse trident with left; ΠΑΡ monogram in inner right field. Schönert-Geiss 1271-1275; HGC 3.2, 1428. 10.10gr, 26mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Spain. Castulo AE Semis. Early 1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Diademed male head to right; to right, Iberian 'ka' / Bull standing right; above, L and crescent; below, 'kastilo' (in Iberian). ACIP 2156; SNG BM Spain 1359-76; SNG Copenhagen 213-6. 4.66gr, 21mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy X Alexander I AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 19 (96/5 BC). Alexandria mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, aegis around neck / [ΠΤΟ]ΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; L IΘ (date) to left, ΠA to right. CPE 1528; Svoronos 1679; Olivier 6245–88; SNG Copenhagen 368; DCA2 1148. 13.68gr, 24mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Toned.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
