LOT 3153
Mysia, Lampsakos AR Tetartemorion. Circa 510-490 BC.
Archaic style female(?) head to left, wearing tainia / Helmetted head of Athena to left within incuse square. Cf. SNG Arikantürk 3, 613. Near Very Fine. Edge chipped. Very rare.(0.15gr, 6mm, 10h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Judaea, Uncertain Ruler AE Prutah. 1st century BCE. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Legend in Paleo-Hebrew within wreath / Splayed double cornucopiae with pomegranate/poppy between the horns. Cf. Sofaer 30-64 (John Hyrcanus I). 3.47gr, 17mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Islands off Attica, Aegina AR Stater. Circa 456/45-431 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
Land tortoise with segmented shell / Large incuse square with heavy skew pattern. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIIb; Milbank Period IV, pl. II, 12; SNG Copenhagen 517; Boston MFA 1116; HGC 6, 437. 12.50gr, 20mm, 5h.
Very Fine. Light cabinet tone.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. -
Mysia, Kyzikos AE 19mm. 2nd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Head of Kore Soteira to right, wreathed with corn / KY-ZI above and beneath monogram of EP, all within oak-wreath, uncertain letter below. Von Fritze III 24, pl. II 6. 5.50gr, 19mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Ex Münzzentrum Rheinland. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
