LOT 3144
Phoenicia, Tyre AR Half Shekel. Dated CY 146 (AD 20/21).
Laureate bust of Herakles-Melqart to right, with lion skin draped around shoulders / TYPOY [IEPAΣ KAI AΣY]ΛOY], eagle standing to left on prow, palm frond behind; PMς (date) above club to left; KP above monogram to right. DCA Tyre 538; DCA 922; HGC 10, 358. Good Fine.(5.40gr, 20mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Attica, Athens AE 15mm. c.307-300 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Head of Athena in Corinthian helmet right / ΑΘ/Η, owl standing left within olive wreath. Kroll 50; HGC 4, 1719. 3.43gr, 15mm, 3h.
Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, private collector. -
Mysia, Kyzikos AR Obol. Circa 475-400 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Forepart of boar to left with short mane and dotted truncation, retrograde E on shoulder; to right, tunny fish upwards / Head of roaring lion to left with bristling mane, outstretched tongue, and dotted truncation; all within incuse square. Von Fritze, Nomisma IX Kyzikos, Gruppe II 11; SNG France 378. 0.76gr, 13mm, 3h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Kushan Empire, time of Kujula Kadphises to Vima Takto AE Didrachm. AD 80-113. Uncertain (possibly Begram) mint. 'Soter Megas' issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Radiate and diademed bust to right, holding sceptre; tamgha to left / [ΒΑCΙΛ]ЄV ΒΑCΙΛЄV⟒Ν C⟒ΤΗΡ ΜЄ[ΓΑC], King on horseback to right, holding axe; tamgha to lower right. ANS Kushan 186-95; Senior B17.1vT (listed as tetradrachm); Donum Burns 60. 8.36gr, 21mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
