LOT 2704
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Xerxes I to Darius II AR Siglos. Circa 486-420 BC.
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Type IIIb (early). Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding transverse spear with right hand and bow with left; countermark: 121 / Oblong incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb; BMC Arabia pl. XXV, 9. Near Very Fine.(5.48gr, 15mm.).
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 2704
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Xerxes I to Darius II AR Siglos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Lesbos, Pyrrha AE 10mm. Circa 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Female head (Aphrodite or nymph Pyrrha?) to left, hair bound in sphendone / ΠΥP, goat standing to left; to left, scallop shell. BMC 1-2 var. (no symbol); HGC 6, 1060; SNG Copenhagen 428. 1.37gr, 10mm, 1h.
Very Fine. Very rare mint.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
Pyrrha was a town on the coast of the deep bay on the west of the island of Lesbos, which had such a narrow entrance that it was called the Euripus of Pyrrha. In the Lesbian revolt the town sided with Mytilene, but was reconquered by Paches. By the time of the geographer Strabo the city no longer existed, but the suburbs and the harbour were still inhabited and Pliny reports that Pyrrha had been submerged by the sea (5.39). -
Phoenicia, Arados AR Third Shekel. Uncertain king, circa 370-346 BC.
Estimate: £70 - 90 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £35
Contemporary imitation. Laureate head of Ba'al-Arwad to right / Galley to right above waves; Aramaic letter above. For prototype: cf. E&E-A Group III; cf. HGC 10, 40-1. 3.19gr, 14mm, 3h.
Very Fine. Lightly toned.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 560, 17 April 2024, lot 237. -
Paphlagonia, Sinope AE 20mm. Time of Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 120-111 or 110-100 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Head of Artemis to right wearing stephane; bow and quiver over shoulder / ΣINΩ-ΠHΣ, tripod-lebes. SNG BM Black Sea 1524; HGC 7, 417. 8.14gr, 20mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
