LOT 3355
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Artaxerxes I to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 450-375 BC. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Type IIIb (late).
Lydo-Milesian standard. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding transverse spear and bow / Oblong incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb. Near Very Fine. Countermark on reverse.(5.51gr, 15mm.).
ProvenanceEx 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland.
From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3355
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Artaxerxes I to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
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Kings of Bithynia, Nikomedes IV Philopator AR Tetradrachm. Dated 207 BE (91/0 BC). Nikomedeia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Diademed head to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΟΥ, Zeus standing to left, holding long sceptre with left hand and wreath with right; to inner left, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt above monogram of MHN and ZΣ (date). Callataÿ p. 62 (dies D173/R9); Dewing 2160 (same dies); Hermitage Sale II, lot 1133 (same dies); DCA2 499; HGC 7, 646 (92/1 BC). 16,72gr, 33mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Toned, struck with worn obverse die.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. -
Judaea. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaios (Yehonatan) AE Prutah. 104-76 BCE. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
'Yehonatan the High Priest and the Council of the Jews' in paleo-Hebrew within wreath / Two cornucopiae splayed outward, adorned with ribbons; pomegranate/poppy between. Cf. Hendin 6186; HGC 10, 641. 1.96gr, 14mm, 5h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Judaea, Caesarea Maritima AE 'Minim'. Circa 2nd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Head of Hercules to right, wearing taenia / Boar to right. Cf. Hamburger, Caesarea 36-51. 1.29gr, 11mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
