LOT 2802
Nabataea, Malichos I AE 16mm. Circa 59/8-30 BC.
Petra mint. Dated RY 27(?) (33/2 BC). Diademed head to right / Palm of hand; “Malichos the king. King of the Nabataeans" around, ''Year 27(?)" (date) in Aramaic across field. Cf. CN 14b; DCA 966; HGC 10, 685. Near Very Fine.(3.45gr, 16mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 2802
Nabataea, Malichos I AE 16mm.
Estimate £250 - 350€290 - 410 (for guidance only)$340 - 470 (for guidance only)
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Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III AR Drachm. 336-323 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings, uncertain monogram in left field. Cf. Price 3424 (Arados; tetradrachm). 4.06gr, 17mm, 5h.
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Bristol gentleman. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Philip II AR Tetradrachm. 359-336 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
Pella mint; struck circa 323-315 BC. Posthumous Issue. Laureate head of Zeus to left / ΦIΛIΠ-ΠOY, horseman riding to right, holding palm branch and bridle; beneath horse's foreleg, Θ. SNG ANS 430; SNG Alpha Bank 275; Le Rider 439. 13.75gr, 25mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare left-facing issue.
Private collection of a North London lady before 2000. Property of a London gentleman. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Antigonos I Monophthalmos Fourrée Tetradrachm. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £159
Imitating Tyre mint issue, with uncertain date. In the name and types of Alexander III. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on a low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; to left, date in Phoenician. Cf. Price 3293. 12.81gr, 25mm, 9h.
Very Fine. Deposits on obverse.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
