LOT 2693
Phoenicia. Byblos, 'Aynel (Enylos) AR 1/16 Shekel. Circa 350-326 BC.
Galley to left, containing two hoplites with helmets and round shields; hippocamp to left below / Lion attacking bull to left; legend in Phoenician above. E&E-B Group IV.4.2; HGC 10, 139. Good Fine.(0.84gr, 11mm, 2h.). [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Artaxerxes III to Darios III AE Unit. Circa 350-333 BC. Uncertain mint in Ionia or Caria.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Persian king, wearing kidaris and kandys, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding spear and bow / Two concentric squares; line projecting outward from one side of the outer square. Bodzek pl. IX, 4; Sunrise 72. 1.31gr, 13mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group. Property of a Middlesex, UK, antiquarian. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VI Philometor AR Didrachm. Circa after 174 BC. Alexandreia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, aegis around neck / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; no control marks. CPE II 1118; Svoronos 1490 (Ptolemy VIII); SNG Copenhagen -; Noeske 194. 6.47gr, 20mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine. Rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Illyria, Dyrrhachion AR Drachm. Circa 80/70-60/55 BC. ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΣ (Meniskos) and ΛΥΚΙΣΚΟΣ (Lykiskos), magistrates.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Cow standing to right, looking back at suckling calf standing to left below; MENIΣKO[Σ] above, [statue of Isis to right] / Double stellate pattern in double linear square; ΔYP ΛY-KIΣ-KO[Y] around; all within linear circle border. Ceka 325; Maier 278; HGC 3, 40. 3.13gr, 18mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
