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LOT 3302
Persia. Alexandrine Empire, Uncertain satrap of Babylon AR Hemiobol. Circa 328-311 BC.
Baaltars seated to left, holding sceptre / Lion walking to left, spearhead to left above. CNG MBS 63, lot 786 (Samaria); BMC -, cf. 4 (tetradrachm); Nicolet-Pierre -, cf. 2 (same); otherwise unpublished. Near Very Fine. Extremely rare; apparently unpublished.(0.42gr, 8mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3302
Persia. Alexandrine Empire, Uncertain satrap of Babylon AR Hemiobol.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos I Soter AE 13mm. 281-261 BC. Smyrna, Sardes, or Magnesia on Mt. Sipylus mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Helmeted head of Athena facing / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ, Nike standing to left, holding wreath and palm frond; [monogram to outer left?]. Cf. SC 315a and 320; HGC 9, 193 corr. (also SC 315). 2.14gr, 13mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC. Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint or subsidiary mint. Type IV (middle) B.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
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. 5.45gr, 16mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Ionia, Lebedos AE 12mm. Circa 4th-3rd centuries BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
[ΛEBEΔIΩ], prow to left / Cow standing to left, head turned to right towards calf suckling to right below; above, spearhead to right. Imhoof-Blumer, Antike griechische Münzen, in: SNG XIX (1913), p. 38, 108 corr. (legend); Lindgren III 1644 corr. (misdescribed as Leukas) = Münzen & Medaillen GmbH 21 (2007), 790 corr. (as 'incert'). 1.29gr, 12mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare smalll denomination of Lebedos.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
