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LOT 3885
Lydia. Ifes, Lydian usurper(?) AR Hemiobol. Circa 450/425-400 BC. Uncertain mint.
Youthful male head to left / 'Ifelim' in Lydian above grain of wheat. M. Egetmeyer: Eine neue Münze mit lydischer Inschrift, in: Kadmos 51 (2012), Heft 1, 175-178, illustration 1-2 = Gemini VIII (2011), 98 (misattributed to Salamis on Cyprus). Near Very Fine.(0.36gr, 6mm, 2h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3885
Lydia. Ifes, Lydian usurper(?) AR Hemiobol.
Estimate £30 - 40€35 - 46 (for guidance only)$41 - 54 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Kingdom of Macedon, Antigonos I Monophthalmos AR Drachm. Struck as Strategos or king of Asia, in the name and types of Alexander III. Lampsakos, circa 310-301 BC.
Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £119
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; AΛEΞANΔPO[Y] to right, forepart of Pegasos to left in left field, monogram beneath throne. Price 1382; Müller 612; SNG Copenhagen 887; ADM II Series XVIII. 4.25gr, 18mm, 7h.
Extremely Fine.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 97, 26 May 2022, lot 180. Acquired on UK art market. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. -
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Persia, Alexandrine Empire AR Hemiobol. Time of Stamenes to Seleukos, Satraps of Babylon, circa 328-311 BC.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Baal seated to right, holding sceptre with right hand, and uncertain object (animal?) in extended left hand / Lion walking to left. BMC p. 183, 12 and pl. 21, 6; Traité II, 799 and pl. 115, 25. 0.40gr, 8mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Kyrenaika, Kyrene AR Obol. Circa 510-490 BC. Attic standard.
Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Silphion fruit; above and below(?), pellet / Quadripartite incuse square. BMC -, cf. 9 (hemiobol); Boston MFA -; Buttrey 49; SNG Copenhagen -. 0.79gr, 8mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on UK art market. Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
