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LOT 2755
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. Countermark on reverse.(5.43gr, 15mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceEx 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland.
From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 2755
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 IV Philopator AE Drachm. Struck circa 219-205/4 BC. Alexandreia mint. Series 5E.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Horned head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing tainia with basileion / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle, with closed wings, standing to left on thunderbolt; filleted cornucopia to left, ΣE between legs. CPE B502; Svoronos 992; SNG Copenhagen 205-6. 64gr, 41mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos II Kallinikos AE 22mm. Circa 246-225 BC. 'ΔΕΛ monogram' mint associated with Antioch.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Laureate head of Apollo to right, bow and quiver on shoulder / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣΕΛΕΥΚOY, bull butting to left; in upper left field, monogram of ΔΕΛ. SC 706a; HGC 9, 328. 7.81gr, 22mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nabataea, Rabbel II, with Gamilat AE 15mm. Struck circa AD 88/9-106/6. Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Jugate, laureate and draped busts of Rabbell and Gamilat to right / Crossed cornucopiae; inscription in Nabataean between. Cf. CN 235; cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 163. 4.00gr, 15mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
