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LOT 3919
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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LOT 3919
Phoenicia, Tyre AR Half Shekel.
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Mysia, Atarneos AE 10mm. 4th-3rd century BC.
Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Laureate head of Apollo to right / A-TA-[P], wreath of grain ears tied above. Unpublished type. 0.67gr, 10mm, 4h.
Very Fine. An unpublished type of Atarneos and unique issue.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos II Theos AR Tetradrachm. 261-246 BC. Seleukeia on the Tigris mint.
Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £55
Diademed head of Antiochos I to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY, Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, testing arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him; monograms to outer left and right. SC 587.3. 16.49gr, 28mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Palmyrene, Palmyra AE 10mm. Circa 2nd-3rd centuries AD. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Estimate: £70 - 90 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £35
Turreted bust of Tyche(?) to right / Astarte standing facing in galley, holding cornucopia and wreath. Unpublished in the standard references, but cf. Stephen Album 28, 14 and Roma E-57, 549. 0.82gr, 10mm, 9h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare; apparently unpublished.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
