LOT 2989
Nabataea, Obodas II, with Hagaru I AE 24mm. Circa 30-9 BC.
Petra mint. Dated RY 6 or 7 (25/4 or 24/3 BC). Jugate diademed and draped busts of Obodas and Hagaru to right / Crossed cornucopiae; 'Obodas the king, king of the Nabataeans year
6 (or 7)' in Aramaic around, O-ח across fields. Cf. CN 38a or 42a; cf. Barkay, King 19A or 23A; cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 26. Near Very Fine.(11.35gr, 24mm, 12h.).
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Thea Neotera AE Obol-40 Drachmai. Circa 51-30 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £598
Alexandria mint. Diademed and draped bust to right / KΛEOΠATPAC BACIΛICCHC, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left, M to right. Svoronos 1872; Weiser 184-5; SNG Copenhagen 422-4; Noeske 383. 9.47gr, 21mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Tooled.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleucid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) AE 20mm. 121/0-97/6 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Antioch on the Orontes mint. Third reign at Antioch, 109-96 BC. Diademed head to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ, filleted double cornucopiae; [monogram to outer left], pileus to inner left. SC 2313.1e; HGC 9, 1213. 8.21gr, 20mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Very rare variety with pileus as symbol.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Uncertain mint in Seleucis and Pieria AE 21mm. Mid 1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Dated year 1 of the Pompeian Era (64/3 BC). Draped bust of Herakles to left, club over shoulder / L A (date) PΩMHΣ in two lines above ram of prow to right; all within wreath. Spijkerman 1 (Gadara); Rosenberger 1 (Gadara); HGC 10, 381. 9.69gr, 21mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
