LOT 3017
Phoenicia, Tyre AE Shekel or Fourrée Shekel Core. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. Uncertain date.
Laureate head of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; [to left, date above club]; [to right, KP above monogram]; [Phoenician letter between legs]. Cf. DCA Tyre 952-4; cf. D. Hendin, "Bronze shekel of Jerusalem recently discovered" in The Celator 6.10 (October 1992), p. 36; cf. HGC 10, 357 (for type). Near Very Fine.(13.34gr, 24mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
FootnotesE. Cohen, in DCA, lists these bronzes as fourrée cores. In his article in The Celator, though, D. Hendin notes that the surfaces of the bronze coin he observed had no indication that it was a fourrée core, and he contends that it is an official strike in bronze.
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Sasanian Kingdom. Bahram II, with Queen and Prince 4 AR Drachm. AD 276-293.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Jugate busts of Vahrām (Bahram), wearing winged crown with korymbos, and his queen, wearing kolah with boar's head, right, vis-a-vis bust of Prince 4, wearing kolah with eagle's head, left / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants facing outward, each wearing winged crown with korymbos; fravahr to left of flames. Cf. SNS type VIa(1)/2(1a), Style A. 3.85gr, 27mm, 3h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK market circa 2015. Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea. Hasmoneans, Mattathias Antigonos (Mattatayah) AE Eight Prutot. 40-37 BC. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
'Mattatayah the High Priest and Council of the Jews' in Paleo-Hebrew script around double cornucopiae / BACIΛEΩC ANTIΓONOY around wreath. Sofaer 418-423; TJC 36; Hendin GBC 6 6179; Hendin GBC 5 1162; HGC 10, 646. 10.99gr, 24mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Phoenicia. Byblos AR 1/16 Shekel. 4th century BC.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £15
Galley to left, containing two hoplites with helmets and round shields; hippocamp to left below / Lion attacking bull to left. Cf. HGC 10, 139. 0.67gr, 10mm, 12h.
Good Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
