LOT 3361
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC. Sardes mint or subsidiary mint. Type IV (middle) B.
Lydo-Milesian standard. 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. Carradice Type IV, Group B; BMC Arabia pl. XXVI, 17. Very Fine. Countermarks on reverse.(5.51gr, 14mm.).
ProvenanceEx 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland.
From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3361
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
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Kingdom of Macedon, Demetrios I Poliorketes AR Tetradrachm. 291-290 BC. Pella mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
Diademed and horned head to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ, Poseidon, nude, standing to left, right foot propped on rock, holding trident and resting on leg; monogram to outer left. Newell 82; SNG Copenhagen 1177-9 var. (monogram). 17.03gr, 27mm, 3h.
Good Very Fine. Some surface marks, knock to edge 6/3h.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 57, 30 May 2019, lot 327. Property of a London antiquarian. -
Macedon, Thessalonika AE 16mm. Time of the Flavians(?), circa AD 69-96. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Nike standing on globe to left; crescent in left field / ΘЄCCAΛΟΝΙΚЄΩΝ in four lines within laurel wreath. RPC I 326; Touratsoglou, Pseudoautonomen, II B, 1–4 (Domitian?). 3.89gr, 16mm, 1h.
Very Fine. Rare.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 90, 18 November 2021, lot 365 (company's ticket included). Property of a London antiquarian. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos IV Epiphanes AE 27mm. Struck 169-168 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint. 'Egyptianizing' series.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Head of Isis to right, wearing tainia / Eagle, with closed wings, standing to right on thunderbolt; BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY to right, ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ to left. SC 1414; SMA 60; HGC 9, 644. 22.89gr, 27mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
