LOT 3073
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. Near Very Fine. Countermarked on both sides.(5.50gr, 15mm.).
ProvenanceEx 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland.
From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3073
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
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Kings of Elymais, Kamnaskires V AR Tetradrachm. Circa 54-32 BC. Seleukeia on the Hedyphon mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Diademed and draped bust to left, with pointed beard; star and anchor behind / Diademed and draped bust to left; degraded legend around, date off flan. van't Haaff Type 9.1.1-7; Alram 463. 14.21gr, 30mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK market circa 2015. Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Indo-Scythians, Azes AR Tetradrachm. Circa 58-12 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΑΖΟΥ, king on horseback to right, holding whip; letter in Kharosthi before / Athena standing to right, holding spear and shield in left hand and raising right; monograms flanking. Senior 98.370T; Mitchiner, 848k. 9.35gr, 24mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK market before 2000. Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Phoenicia, Tyre AE Shekel or Fourrée Shekel Core. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. Uncertain date.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Laureate head of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; [to left, date above club]; [to right, KP above monogram]; [Phoenician letter between legs]. Cf. DCA Tyre 952-4; cf. D. Hendin, "Bronze shekel of Jerusalem recently discovered" in The Celator 6.10 (October 1992), p. 36; cf. HGC 10, 357 (for type). 13.34gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
E. Cohen, in DCA, lists these bronzes as fourrée cores. In his article in The Celator, though, D. Hendin notes that the surfaces of the bronze coin he observed had no indication that it was a fourrée core, and he contends that it is an official strike in bronze.
