LOT 2706
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC.
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; uncertain countermarks / Oblong incuse punch. Carradice Type IV, Group B; BMC Arabia pl. XXVI, 17. Good Fine.(5.51gr, 17mm.).
ProvenanceEx 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland.
From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 2706
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Kings of Parthia. Phraates III AR Drachm. 70/69-58/7 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Ekbatana mint. Struck circa 62 BC. Diademed facing bust, wearing necklace with medallion / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOV APΣ-AKOV ΘΕOΠATOPOΣ EVEPΓETOV EΠIΦANOVΣ ΦIΛEΛΛHNOΣ, archer seated to right on throne, holding bow; monogram of ΑΓ beneath bow. Sellwood 35.1 var. (Darius?); Sunrise 326; Shore -. 4.02gr, 20mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Lesbos, Pyrrha AE 10mm. Circa 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Female head (Aphrodite or nymph Pyrrha?) to left, hair bound in sphendone / ΠΥP, goat standing to left; to left, scallop shell. BMC 1-2 var. (no symbol); HGC 6, 1060; SNG Copenhagen 428. 1.37gr, 10mm, 1h.
Very Fine. Very rare mint.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
Pyrrha was a town on the coast of the deep bay on the west of the island of Lesbos, which had such a narrow entrance that it was called the Euripus of Pyrrha. In the Lesbian revolt the town sided with Mytilene, but was reconquered by Paches. By the time of the geographer Strabo the city no longer existed, but the suburbs and the harbour were still inhabited and Pliny reports that Pyrrha had been submerged by the sea (5.39). -
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Group of Ten [10] Greek AE Coins. 3rd-1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Various cities. 65gr total.
Near Fine to Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
