LOT 3052
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC.
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint or subsidiary mint. Type IV (middle). 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; countermarks: 53 & unlisted. Carradice Type IV, Group B (pl. XIV, 43); BMC Arabia pl. XXVII, 10; Sunrise -. Very Fine.(5.52gr, 17mm.).
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 3052
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
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Phoenicia, Marathos AE 20mm. 175/4-170/69 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Dated CY 84 (176/5 BC). Laureate and draped bust of Ptolemy VI (?) as Hermes to right, with kerykeion over left shoulder / Marathos advancing to left, holding aphlaston in his right hand; to outer right, 'Amrit' in Phoenician; to outer left, 'year 84' in Phoenician. DCA 832; HGC 10, 194. 6.02gr, 20mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV AE 14mm. Circa 9/8 BC-AD 40.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Petra mint; struck circa AD 17/8-39/40. Laureate head to right; [Aramaic letter ḥēth before?] / 'Aretas' in Aramaic within wreath. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 115; cf. CN 189. 2.16gr, 14mm, 11h.
Very Fine
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Mysia, Pergamon AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm. 166-67 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Struck circa 123-95 BC. Group 2. Basket (cista mystica), with half-open lid, from which snake coils, around, ivy wreath with fruits / Two snakes coiled around a bow case ornamented with aplustre, and containing a strung bow, between the snake heads, MIH monogram, civic monogram of ΠΕΡ to left, serpent-entwined staff to right. Kleiner, Hoard 184 = ANS 1944.100.37470; Pinder 103. 12.59gr, 26mm, 2h.
Very Fine. Very rare variant.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
