LOT 2678
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Phasael. Circa 9/8 BC-AD 40.
Petra mint; struck circa 5/4 BC. Laureate head to right / Crossed cornucopiae; Phaṣa in Aramaic between. CN 118a; Meshorer, Nabataea 64A. Near Very Fine.(2.37gr, 14mm, 12h.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Artaxerxes I to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 450-375 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Type IIIb (late). Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding transverse spear and bow / Oblong incuse punch; countermarks: 22 & 41. Carradice Type IIIb; BMC Arabia pl. XXIV, 16. 5.63gr, 15mm.
Near Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
The numbering of countermarks’ varieties has been done according to the chart published in BMC Arabia, p. cxxxvii. -
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Group of Seven [7] Ancient AE Coins. 3rd-1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Various types. 115gr total.
Near Fine to Near Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes) AR Tetradrachm. 138-129 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
Tyre mint. Dated SE 176 (137/6 BC). Diademed and draped bust to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, eagle standing to left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, [I]EPA above club surmounted by Tyre monogram, to right, ΑΣΥ above ςOP (date); monogram between legs. SC 2109.4a; HGC 9, 1074; DCA 198. 14.00gr, 31mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Apparently double struck of reverse.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
