LOT 3046
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Xerxes I to Darius II AR Siglos. Circa 485-420 BC.
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Type IIIb (early), style B. 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, Groups A/B (pl. XIII, 31). Near Very Fine.(5.56gr, 16mm.).
ProvenanceEx 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland.
From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3046
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Xerxes I to Darius II AR Siglos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
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Nabataea, Aretas IV AE 13mm. Circa 9 BC-AD 40.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Petra mint; struck circa 8/7 BC - AD 15/6. Laureate head to right / Crossed cornucopiae; Aramaic letter ḥēth in between. Meshorer, Nabataea 70; CN 96. 2.09gr, 13mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Calabria, Tarentum AR Drachm. Circa 280-272 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
ΣΩ- (So-), magistrate. Head of Athena to left, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with Skylla hurling rock / ΤΑΡΑΝΤΙΝΩΝ, owl standing facing on thunderbolt, with wings open; ΣΩ upwards to right. Vlasto 1068; HN Italy 1018. 3.05gr, 16mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Philip II AE Unit. 359-336 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Uncertain mint in Macedon. Diademed male head to right / ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, youth on horseback to right; below, spearhead to right. SNG ANS 850-1. 7.85gr, 20mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine. Green patina.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
