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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Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III AR Drachm. 336-323 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings, uncertain monogram in left field. Cf. Price 3424 (Arados; tetradrachm). 4.06gr, 17mm, 5h.
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Bristol gentleman. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy IV Philopator AE Hemidrachm. 222-205/4 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Alexandria mint. Series 5. Horned head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing taenia / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle with closed wings standing to left on thunderbolt; to left, filleted cornucopia; ΣE monogram between legs. CPE B505; Svoronos 993; SNG Copenhagen 212. 33.04gr, 35mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Dark green patina.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 17mm. 9 BC-AD 40.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Petra mint; struck AD 20-40. Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; [H]-F in Aramaic across fields / Crossed cornucopiae; legend in Aramaic between and below. Meshorer, Nabataea 114. 3.72gr, 17mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
