LOT 3057
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 / Oblong incuse punch; countermark: cf. 98. Carradice Type IV, Group B (pl. XIV, 43). Near Very Fine.(5.49gr, 14mm.).
ProvenanceEx 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland.
From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
The numbering of countermarks’ varieties has been done according to the chart published in BMC Arabia, p. cxxxvii.
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LOT 3057
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
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Kings of Parthia, Uncertain Usurper (Tiridates I?) BI Tetradrachm. April/May-October/December 27 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Seleukia on the Tigris mint. Dated Daisios 285 SE (May, 27 BC). Draped and bearded bust to left, wearing diadem and three-band torque / King seated to left, holding Nike who crowns him with wreath, and sceptre, pellet between feet; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ ΑΡΣΑΚΟΥ ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ around, ΕΠΣ (year) under throne, ΔΑΙΣI (month) in exergue. Sellwood 55.5-6 (Tiridates I); Callataÿ 128 (Phraates IV); BMC -. 10.63gr, 30mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Scratches in obverse field.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
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Group of Nineteen [19] Greek AE Coins. 3rd-1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Various mints. 66gr total.
Near Very Fine to Very Fine.
From an English collection formed before 2000. -
Judaea, Mattathias Antigonos (Mattatayah) AE Eight Prutot. 40-37 BCE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Jerusalem mint. 'Mattatayah the High Priest and Council of the Jews' in Paleo-Hebrew script around double cornucopiae / [B]ACIΛE[ΩC ANTIΓONOY] around wreath. Meshorer 36; Hendin 1162; HGC 10, 646. 14.43gr, 23mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Off-centre.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 499, 1 September 2021, lot 297.
