LOT 3130
Nabataea, Obodas III AE 20mm. 30-9 BC.
Petra mint. Dated RY 21 (10/9 BC). Laureate head to right; ḥēth-[semkath?] across fields / Female figure standing facing, head to left, raising right hand; 'Obodas, king of the Nabataeans' and date in Aramaic around; semkath-ḥēth' across fields. Meshorer, Nabataea 39a; Sofaer 25-6. Near Very Fine.(4.61gr, 20mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Near Very Fine to Very Fine.
From an English collection formed before 2000. -
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Type IV (middle) B. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding dagger in right hand, bow in left; unlisted countermark / Oblong incuse punch; countermarks: cf. 169 and 48. Carradice Type IV, Group B. 5.49gr, 16mm.
Near Very Fine.
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Thrace, Byzantion in alliance with Kalchedon AE 26mm. 300-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £60
Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter to right / ΒΥZΑN ΚΑΛΧΑ, Poseidon seated to right on rock, holding aphlaston with right hand and transverse trident with left; HP monogram in inner right field. Schönert-Geiss 1263-1270; HGC 3.2, 1428. 10.58gr, 26mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
