LOT 3055
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; countermarks: 50, 96 and uncertain / Oblong incuse punch; countermarks: 116 and uncertain (cf. 195 & 46). Carradice Type IV, Group B; BMC Arabia pl. XXVI, 19. Near Very Fine.(5.48gr, 15mm.).
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 3055
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
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Judaea. Herodians, Herod II Archelaus AE Half Prutah. Circa 4 BCE-6 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £42
Jerusalem mint. Prow to left; HP[ധ] anticlockwise around / Є[ΘN] within wreath. RPC I 4916; TJC 72; Hendin 1197. 1.66gr, 15mm, 3h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Kleopatra III and Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros) AE Hemiobol(?). 117/6-108/7 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Kyrene mint; struck 116-107 BC. Horned head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing taenia with basileion / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ, double cornucopiae bound with fillet; Σ over Θ to left, Ω over Ε to right. Svoronos 1718 (Ptolemy X, Alexandria); Weiser 169-70 (Ptolemy IX & X, Alexandria); SNG Copenhagen 678-80 (uncertain mint in Cyprus). 4.25gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Judaea. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaios (Yehonatan) AE Prutah. 103-76 BCE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Jerusalem mint. BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, anchor / "Yehonatan the King" in paleo-Hebrew between rays of eight-rayed star; all within diadem. Hendin 6189; Meshorer Group K; HGC 10, 637. 3.33gr, 15mm.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
