LOT 3269
Phoenicia, Tyre AR Shekel. Dated CY 4 (123/2 BC).
Bust of Melkart to right, wearing laurel wreath, [lion skin around neck] / ΤΥPΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ, eagle standing to left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, L Δ (date) above club; monogram of ZB and Phoenician B between legs. DCA-Tyre 10; Rouvier 1957; DCA 919; BMC 51; Hunt II 606; HGC 10, 357. Good Very Fine. Toned.(13.91gr, 27mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Aeolis, Aigai AR Hemiobol. Circa 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Forepart of goat to right, head reverted; [AIΓAION] around / Head of bull to left. SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; SNG Ashmolean -; Traité -; SNG BnF -; SNG Levante -; Klein -; Isegrim -; Asia Minor Coins #10220-1. 0.48gr, 8mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Mysia, Kyzikos AR Hemiobol. Circa 450-400 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Forepart of boar to left with short mane and dotted truncation; to right, tunny fish / Head of roaring lion to left with bristling mane, outstretched tongue, and dotted truncation, in upper left field, star with four rays; all within incuse square. Von Fritze II 14; SNG Arikantürk 446-447; SNG BnF 275. 0.33gr, 9mm, 3h.
Good Very Fine. Edge chipped.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleukid Empire, Alexander I Balas AR Tetradrachm. Dated SE 165 (148/7 BC). Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Diademed head to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY ΘEOΠATOPOΣ EYEPΓETOY, Zeus seated to left, holding sceptre with right hand and Nike with wreath with left; EΞP (date) and monogram of ΠΥΤΡ in exergue. SC 1784.4a var. (slightly differing monogram of ΠΥΡ); DCA 118; HGC 9, 875a. 16.74gr, 29mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Pleasant cabinet tone. Flan crack at 5h. Apparently the only example with this monogram variety.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
