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LOT 2963
Philistia, Uncertain mint AR Drachm. Circa 450-333 BC.
Bearded male head to left / Paradise flower or Phoenician palmette with two birds within volutes; dolphin to right below; all in dotted square within incuse square. Gitler & Tal XVII.3D; HGC 10, 604. Very Fine. Test cut. Rare.(2.84gr, 14mm, 2h).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Nabataea, Rabbel II, with Gamilat, AR Drachm. AD 70/1-105/6.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Petra mint; uncertain regnal year. Laureate head of Rabbel to right; Aramaic legend and date around / Veiled and draped bust of Gamilat to right; Aramaic legend around. Cf. CN 226-234; cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 149-154. 3.37gr, 15mm, 11h
Good Very Fine. Edge chipped.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Thessaly, Pharsalos AE 20mm. Circa 3rd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £29
Helmeted head of Athena facing slightly to left, spear and shield at shoulders / [Φ-ΑΡ]-ΣAΛIΩ, Thessalian cavalryman, holding flail, on horse rearing to right; footman advancing to right on left, holding mace. Lavva 341-5 var. (V176/R- [unlisted rev. die]); cf. Rogers 505; BCD Thessaly II 674.7 (same obv. die); HGC 4, 646. 5.96gr, 20mm, 9h
Very Fine.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Philip III Arrhidaios AR Tetradrachm. 323-317 BC.
Estimate: £1,800 - 2,400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,000
Uncertain mint in Cilicia. Struck under Philotas or Philoxenos, circa 323-317 BC. In the name and types of Alexander III. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣIΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on high-backed throne, his feet resting on a low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; wreath in left field, ΔI beneath throne. Price 2949 [Side(?)]; Müller 550. 17.17gr, 26mm, 9h
Extremely Fine. Lustrous metal; gold iridescence around the devices.
From a Swiss private collection, before 2005.
