LOT 3123
Phoenicia, Ake (as Ptolemais) AE 24mm. Dated year 5 of the Caesarean Era (45/4 BC).
Laureate head of Zeus to right; palm frond over shoulder; countermark(?) / ΠΤΟΛΕ-ΜΑΕΩΝ ΙΕΡΑΣ to right ΑΣΥ [KAI] to left, Tyche standing to left on prow of galley, holding aplustre and rudder in right hand, cornucopia and palm in left; L E (date) and monogram to left. Cf. Kadman 69; HGC 10, 8; DCA 743. Near Very Fine.(8.21gr, 24mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Indo-Scythians, Azes AR Tetradrachm. Circa 58-12 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΑΖΟΥ, king on horseback to right, holding whip; letter in Kharosthi before / Athena standing to right, holding spear and shield in left hand and raising right; monogram to left and to right. Senior, Indo-Scythian, 98.160T; Mitchiner, Indo-Greek, 846e. 7.31gr, 23mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Kings of Parthia, Phriapatios to Mithradates I AR Drachm. Circa 185-132 BC. Hekatompylos mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Diademed and draped bust to left, wearing bashlyk / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ APΣ-AKOY, Archer (Arsakes I) seated to right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 10.1 (Mithradates I); Shore 12 (Mithradates I); Sunrise 254. 3.70gr, 20mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Cleaned.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos II Theos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 256-246 BC. Antioch ad Orontem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
Diademed head of Antiochos II to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY, Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, testing arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him; ΛΕ to outer left and monogram of monogram within circle to outer right. Cf. SC 571.4a (slightly different monogram to outer right); HGC 9, 238. 16.25gr, 26mm, 6h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
