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LOT 2748
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Xerxes I to Darios II AR Siglos. Circa 485-420 BC. Sardes mint. Lydo-Milesian standard.
Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding transverse spear and bow / Oblong incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb A/B (pl. XII); BMC Arabia pl. XXV, 17; Sunrise 25. Near Very Fine.(5.48gr, 16mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceEx 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland.
From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 2748
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Xerxes I to Darios II AR Siglos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon) AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 53 (118/7 BC). Alexandreia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, wearing aegis around neck / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ], eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; L NΓ (date) to left, ΠA to right. CPE II 1376; Svoronos 1529; SNG Copenhagen -; Noeske -; DCA 54. 12.19gr, 25mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Rare for this regnal year.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Islands off Caria. Rhodos, Rhodes AR Drachm. Circa 88-84 BC. Uncertain magistrate. Plinthophoric standard.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Radiate head of Helios to right / [...]ΔΡΟΣ(?), rose with bud to right; P-O flanking; all within incuse square. HGC 6, 1461. 1.89gr, 14mm, 11h.
Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 19mm. Struck AD 20-40. Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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. 5.52gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
