LOT 2637
Lydia, Apollonis AE 15mm. Circa 200-1 BC.
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / AΠOΛΛΩ-NIΔEΩN, winged thunderbolt. GRPC Lydia 3; SNG Copenhagen 17; BMC 4; SNG München 33. Good Very Fine.(4.17gr, 15mm, 8h.).
ProvenanceEx 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland.
From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Sasanian Kingdom, Kavad I AR Drachm. Second reign, AD 499-531.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
DA (Dārābgird) mint. Dated RY 21 (AD 520). Draped bust to right, wearing mural crown with two wings, frontal crescent and korymbos set on crescent, stars flanking; ribbons on shoulders; all within single border with star-in-crescents in margin / Fire altar with ribbons flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; date to left, mint to right; all within single border. Göbl type III/1; SNS III/2, type Ic/1a. 3.89gr, 27mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darios II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint or subsidiary mint. Type IV (middle) B. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding dagger in right hand, bow in left / Oblong incuse punch; countermarks: 50, 88, triskeles (unlisted), 132 & 121. Carradice Type IV, Group B (pl. XIV, 43); BMC Arabia pl. XXVII, 10; Sunrise -. 5.51gr, 15mm.
Near Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
The numbering of countermarks’ varieties has been done according to the chart published in BMC Arabia, p. cxxxvii. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy II Philadelphos AR Tetradrachm. 285-246 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Uncertain mint 9, on Cyprus. Struck circa 285-275 BC. Diademed head to right, wearing aegis / ΠΤΟΛEΜΑΙOΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle with closed wings standing to left on thunderbolt; to left, monogram of ΠΑΤΡ above A. CPE 414; Svoronos 365; SNG Copenhagen -. 13.65gr, 26mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 562, 15 May 2024, lot 207.
