LOT 3309
Nabataea, Aretas IV AE 11mm. Struck circa 8/7 BC–AD 15/6. Petra mint.
Laureate head to right / Uncertain bell-shaped object with five fringes; 'Hagra' in Aramaic below. CN 149; Meshorer, Nabataea 87. Very Fine. Very rare.(1.48gr, 11mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Seleukid Empire, Alexander II Zabinas AE 21mm. Struck circa 125-122 BC. Antioch mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Radiate and diademed head to right / BAΣIΛE[ΩΣ AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ], double cornucopiae; A-Π flanking, [symbol] to lower left. SC 2237.1. 10.62gr, 21mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Mysia, Kyzikos AR Obol. Circa 550-480 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Head of tunny fish to right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze, Nomisma IX Kyzikos, Gruppe I 3, Tafel V 3 var. (tunny's head to left); SNG BnF 356 var. (diobol). 0.46gr, 9mm.
Very Fine. Rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Troas, Gergis AR Tetrobol. Circa 5th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Sphinx seated to right / Athena wearing Corinthian helmet to left; within incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references, but cf. Asia Minor Coins online #11089 (Sphinx with forepaw raised). 1.51gr, 12mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 58, 20 June 2019, lot 228. Property of a London antiquarian.
