LOT 3057
Mysia, Pergamon AR Tetradrachm. Struck circa 76-67 BC. Te-, prytaneis. Cistophoric type.
Basket (cista mystica), with half-open lid, from which snake coils, around, ivy wreath with fruits / Two snakes coiled around a bow case ornamented with aplustre; between the snake heads, TH above prytaneis monogram of ΠΡΥ, civic monogram of ΠΕΡ to left, serpent-entwined staff to right. Kleiner, Hoard 49; SNG BN 1752-3. Very Fine.(12.53gr, 26mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the German art market before 2000.
Private collection, South Germany.
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Mysia, Kyzikos AR Hemiobol. Circa 500-450 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Forepart of boar to left, retrograde K on shoulder; to right, tunny fish upwards / Head of roaring lion to left with bristling mane, and dotted truncation, in upper left field, facing head of panther; all within incuse square. Von Fritze, Nomisma IX Kyzikos, Gruppe II 13; SNC BnF 386. 0.39gr, 10mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaios(?) (Yehonatan) AE Prutah. 103-76 BCE. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Legend in Paleo-Hebrew within wreath / Splayed double cornucopiae with pomegranate/poppy between. Cf. HGC 10, 641. 2.01gr, 16mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nabataea, Rabbell II, with Shaqilat AE 16mm. AD 70-106. Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Jugate busts to right of Rabbel II and Shaqilat / Inscription in two lines in Nabataean within filleted crossed double cornucopiae. 2.80gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
