LOT 2999
Phoenicia, Arados AE 15mm. Uncertain date, circa 206-126 BC.
Head of Zeus to right / Ram of prow to left; Phoenician letters above, date below. HGC 10, 88. Very Fine.(3.50gr, 15mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes) AE 22mm. Dated SE 174 (137/8 BC). Antiochia on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Prow of a galley to right; above, pilei of the Dioskouroi surmounted by stars / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟY EYEPΓETOY, trident ornamented with two dolphins downward; to outer left, monogram; below, ΔOP (date). HGC 9, 1085. 9.03gr, 22mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Moesia, Istros AR Drachm. Circa 280-255 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Two young male heads facing, right head inverted / Sea-eagle to left, clutching dolphin in its talons; IΣTPI[H] above, ΦΥ below. SNG Stancomb 148; Dima Subgroup VI, pl. 19, 1-7; AMNG I.1, 425; HGC 3.2, 1803. 5.05gr, 17mm.
Good Very Fine.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. -
Sicily, Syracuse AE 16mm. Time of Hieron II, circa 269-240 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Laureate head of Apollo to left / Horse galloping to right; [ΙΕΡΩΝΟΣ] in exergue. CNS II, 203; HGC 2, 1552. 3.52gr, 16mm, 5h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
