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LOT 2721
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 17mm. AD 17-40. Petra mint.
Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; legend above / Crossed cornucopiae; legend between and below. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 112. Near Very Fine.(3.65gr, 17mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Dynasts of Lykia. Uncertain dynast AR Third Stater or Tetrobol. 5th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Forepart of goat or horse to left / Triskeles within incuse square. Traité -; Müseler -; Vismara -. 2.87gr, 14mm, 12h.
Good Fine. Apparently unpublished.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch AE 20mm. Dated year 44 of the Actian Era (AD 13/14). Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus, legatus Augusti pro praetore. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Laureate head of Zeus to right / EΠI ΣIΛANOY ANTIOXEΩN, ram running to right, head to left; star above, ΔM (date) below. RPC I, 4269; McAlee 99. 7.28gr, 20mm, 12h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Indo-Scythians, Azes AR Drachm. Circa 58-12 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Azes on horseback to right, wearing cataphractus and holding whip aloft; Karosthi letter before horse / Zeus Nikephoros standing to left, holding transverse sceptre; monogram to left, Karoshthi letter to right. Cf. Senior 105.500D; HGC 12, 655. 2.00gr, 15mm, 7h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex Lockdales. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
