LOT 3822
Mysia, Kyzikos AR Obol. Circa 450-400 BC.
Forepart of boar to left; [to right, tunny / Head of roaring lion to left; retrograde K to upper left; all within incuse square. Von Fritze II 15; SNG Arikantürk 439; SNG BnF 380-4. Near Very Fine.(0.69gr, 9mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceLondon, UK, art market, 1980s.
Private collection, London, UK.
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LOT 3822
Mysia, Kyzikos AR Obol.
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Mysia, Parion AE 11mm. 2nd-1st century BC.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Bunch of grapes on vine with two leaves / Π-A P-I, flaming torch. SNG BnF -; SNG von Aulock 1329. 1.86gr, 11mm, 4h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Mysia, Adramyteion(?) AE 9mm. Orontes, Satrap of Mysia, circa 357-352 BC.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Wreathed female head (Io?) to right, wearing sphendone / Forepart of Pegasos to left; OPON below. Troxell, Orontes -; cf. SNG BnF 1223-1226 (Lampsakos); cf. SNG Copenhagen 206-207; BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; otherwise unpublished. 0.67gr, 9mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Exceedingly rare; unpublished.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Trajan AE Pentassarion or 5 Assaria of Midaeum, Phrygia. AD 98-117.
Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
ΑΥ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ [ΚΑΙ ϹΕ Γ]ΕΡ ΔΑ, laureate head to right / ΜΙΔΑ-[ΕΩΝ], Cybele seated to left, holding patera in her right hand, resting on tympanum with her left arm; lion to left and right. Cf. RPC III, 2644; Von Aulock, Phrygiens II -. 21.46gr, 32mm, 7h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare; only one example cited by RPC and none on CoinArchives.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
