LOT 3146
Phoenicia, Tyre AE 17mm. Dated CY 51 (76/5 BC).
Head of Tyche to right, veiled and turreted, palm at shoulder / Palm tree, monogram of Tyre to right, AN (date) to left, IEPA-Phoenician letters and A-ΣΥ (ligate) across field. Rouvier 1903, 2126; HGC 10, 364. Near Very Fine.(3.78gr, 17mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Decapolis, Gadara AE 20mm. Dated year 20 of the Pompeian Era (45/4 BC).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Turreted, veiled, and draped bust of Tyche to right, palm frond over shoulder / ΓΑΔΑ-ΡΕധΝ, cornucopia; L K (date) to inner left. Spijkerman 5; Rosenberger 5. 5.35gr, 20mm, 2h.
Very Fine.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 565, 3 July 2024, lot 448. From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos I Soter AV Stater. 281-261 BC. Uncertain or Aï Khanoum mint. Imitative issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,073
Diademed head to right / BAIIΛΥ ΑΝΤΙΟΧ, horsehead to right, ΔΙ to right. For prototype cf. ESM 683a; cf. Vecchi I, 360, A13 p.14; cf. Kritt, The Seleucid Mint of Aϊ Khanoum, pl.38.2. 8.21gr, 17mm, 5h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex Oxford academic collection; ex de Clermont. -
Scythian, Imitative of Eukratides I AR Tetradrachm. c.130-80 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Diademed and draped bust right, wearing horned Boiotian helmet, within bead-and-reel border / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟY, Dioscuri on horseback charging right, with couched spears and holding palm branches, monogram ANT in lower right field. HGC 12, 150. 16.50gr, 32mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Toned.
Property of a London, UK, private collector.
