LOT 2807
Nabataea, Aretas IV AE 14mm. 9 BC-AD 40.
Petra mint. Struck AD 20-40. Laureate head to right; shin-[ḥēth] flanking / Crossed cornucopiae; shin-ḥēth flanking. Meshorer, Nabataea 116. Very Fine.(2.01gr, 14mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm. Circa 454-404 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £276
Head of Athena with profile eye to right, wearing disc earring, pearl necklace and a crested Attic helmet adorned with three olive leaves and a pi-style palmette / ΑΘΕ, owl standing to right, head facing the viewer, olive sprig with berry and crescent moon in upper left field, all within incuse square. Kroll 8; Dewing 1591-8; SNG Copenhagen 31; HGC 4, 1597. 16.44gr, 23mm, 10h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Asia Minor, Uncertain mint AR Diobol. 6th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
Stylised lion's head facing, wearing a five-spiked radiate crown / Rough incuse square. Rosen 395; E.S.G. Robinson, Coins from Al-Mina, NC 1937, p. 186; SNG Copenhagen (Cyprus) 385; Weber 4591; Klein 232. 1.38gr, 9mm.
Very Fine. A mysterious coin with an enigmatic design.
Acquired in London in 2011. Private collection, Switzerland. -
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos III Soter (Keraunos) AR Tetradrachm. 225-222 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Antiochia on the Orontes mint. Diademed head of Seleukos III to right / [B]AΣIΛEΩΣ ΣΕΛΕ-ΥΚΟΥ, Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, holding arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him; monogram of ΞΥ to outer left and monogram of ΩΡ to outer right. SC 921.1; HGC 9, 414c. 16.54gr, 28mm, 1h.
Very Fine. Some deposits.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
