LOT 2911
Macedon under Roman Rule AR Tetradrachm. Circa 95-70 BC.
Uncertain mint. Aesillas, quaestor. Head of the deified Alexander III 'the Great' to right; Θ behind neck, MAKEΔONΩN around / AESILLAS Q, money chest, club, and chair; pellet beneath chair; all within laurel wreath. SNG Copenhagen 1330 var. (no pellet); HGC 3.1, 1110. Very Fine.(15.18gr, 30mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceEx Numismatik Naumann, Auction 71, 4 November 2018, lot 97.
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Thrace, Byzantion in alliance with Kalchedon AE 28mm. 300-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
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. 9.37gr, 28mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine. Struck on a large oval flan.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Kingdom of Persis. Ardaxsir (Artaxerxes) II AR Obol. 1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Diademed bust of Artaxerxes II to left, wearing mural crown; behind, monogram / King standing to left, holding sceptre and sacrificing before altar to left. Klose & Müseler 4/13; Alram 572; Tyler-Smith 81-93; cf. Sunrise 596 (no monogram). 0.73gr, 11mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion AE 15mm. Circa 250-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Wreathed head of Pan to left / ΠΑΝ beneath bow and arrow. MacDonald 118; HGC 7, 124. 2.67gr, 15mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
