LOT 3202
Nabataea, Rabbel II, with Shaqilat AR Sela'-Drachm. Dated RY 4 (AD 73/4). Petra mint.
Laureate and draped bust of Rabbel to right; date in legend to left / Veiled, laureate, and draped bust of Shaqilat to right. Meshorer, Nabataea 145; DCA 984. Near Very Fine.(3.68gr, 13mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Kushan Rulers of Baktria, Wima Takto, Soter Megas AR Didrachm. AD 90-113.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Radiate, draped and diademed bust of Miiro right, holding ribboned arrow in raised right hand; three-pronged tamga in left field / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ ΣΩΤΗΡ ΜΕΓΑΣ, king on horse right, raising right hand. ANS 147-156; AWC 2964-7. 8.47gr, 22mm, 4h.
Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, private collector. -
Pharaonic Kingdom of Egypt, Uncertain Pharaoh(s) AR Tetradrachm. Late 5th-mid 4th centuries BC. Imitating Athens.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £293
Head of Athena with profile eye to right, wearing disc earring, pearl necklace and a crested Attic helmet adorned with three olive leaves and a pi-style palmette / ΑΘΕ, owl standing to right, head facing the viewer, olive sprig with berry and crescent moon in upper left field, all within incuse square. Van Alfen pl. 11; Van Alfen, Mechanisms, Group III.A.1, Fig. 3 = Buttrey Type X. 16.59gr, 24mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 16mm. Struck AD 20-40. Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; [H-F?] in Aramaic across fields / Crossed cornucopiae; legend in Aramaic between and below. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 114. 2.38gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
