LOT 2837
Nabataea, Rabbel II, with Gamilat AE 17mm. AD 70/1-105/6.
Petra mint; struck circa AD 88/9-105/6. Jugate laureate and draped busts to right / Crossed cornucopiae; legend between and above. CN 235; Meshorer, Nabataea 163. Near Very Fine.(3.19gr, 17mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Nabataea, Aretas IV PB Tessera or Token. Circa 9/8 BC-AD 40.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Petra mint. Struck circa 9/8–6/5 BC. Laureate head of Zeus to right / Bull butting to left, legend(?) above. Cf. CN Category II, Group K, fig. 11.10; cf. Younis Al-Qatanani, Nabataean Coins, p. 141, 250, t1. 1.96gr, 13mm, 2h.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator AR Tetradrachm. Second satrapy and kingship, 312-281 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. In the name and types of Alexander III. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / [ΒΑΣIΛΕΩΣ] ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟ[Υ], Zeus seated to left on high-backed 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; monogram in wreath in left field, MI beneath throne. Cf. SC 82.5a; cf. Price 3746; cf. HGC 9, 10f. 16.47gr, 25mm, 7h.
Good Very Fine. Toned.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy III Euergetes AE Diobol. 246-222 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Tyre mint. Horned head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing tainia with basileion / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle with wings closed standing to left on thunderbolt; club to left. CPE B467; Svoronos 707; SNG Copenhagen -. 21.14gr, 30mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
