LOT 2858
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; countermarks: 188 and uncertain. Carradice Type IV, Group B. Near 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 2858
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon) AR Tetradrachm. 145-116 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Salamis mint. Dated RY 37 (134/3 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, wearing aegis / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; transverse sceptre in background, L ΛZ (date) to left, ΣA to right. Svoronos 1550; BMC 27; SNG Copenhagen -. 11.52gr, 25mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare date. No other examples on CoinArchives.
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Private collection, London. -
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Judaea. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaeus (Yehonatan) AE Prutah. 103-76 BCE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Jerusalem mint. Splayed double cornucopiae with pomegranate/poppy between the horns / 'Yehonatan the High Priest and the Council of the Jews' (in Paleo-Hebrew) in four lines within wreath. Cf. Hendin GBC 6, 6180; HGC 10, 639. 1.97gr, 13mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Nabataea, Rabbel II, with Shaqilat AR Sela'-Drachm. AD 70-106.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Petra mint. Dated RY 3 (AD 72/3). Laureate and draped bust of Rabbel II to right; 'Rabbel, king of the Nabataeans. Year 3' in Aramaic around / Veiled and draped bust of Shaqilat to right; 'Shaqilat, his mother, queen of the Nabataeans' in Aramaic around. CN 218; Meshorer, Nabataea, 144. 3.34gr, 13mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Obverse struck off-centre.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
