LOT 3145
Phoenicia, Tyre AR Half Shekel. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6.
Laureate head of Melkart to right, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing to left on prow, palm frond in background. Cf. HGC 10, 358. Good Fine.(5.88gr, 19mm, 2h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Phrygia, Eumeneia AE 22mm. Circa after 133 BC. Uncertain magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Helmeted head of Athena to right / EYME-NEΩN, Nike advancing to left, holding wreath and palm branch. Cf. BMC 7-8 (Diophan-, magistrate). 7.16gr, 22mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
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Seleukid Empire, Alexander II Zabinas ΑΕ 21mm. Struck circa 125-122 BC. Antioch mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Radiate and diademed head to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, double cornucopiae; A-Π flanking, club to lower left. SC 2237.1b; HGC 9, 1164. 8.79gr, 21mm, 1h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Macedon, Amphipolis AE 21mm. Circa 148-32/1 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Laureate head of Apollo to right, bow and quiver over shoulder / ΑΜΦΙΠΟ-ΛΙΤΩΝ, bull butting to right. SNG ANS 113. 7.74gr, 21mm, 3h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the German art market before 2000. Private collection, South Germany.
