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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Mysia, Parion Fourrée Hemidrachm. Circa 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Bull standing to left, head reverted / Facing gorgoneion with protruding tongue. Cf. SNG BnF 1368-70. 1.31gr, 12mm.
Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes) AE 18mm. Dated SE 175 (138/7 BC). Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £49
Winged bust of Eros to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ, Isis headdress resting on two grain ears and inverted crescent; below, EOP (date). SC 2067.3a; SNG Spaer 1901; HGC 9, 1087. 5.16gr, 18mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Kingdom of Persis. Uncertain king II AR hemidrachm. 1st century BC-1st century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Bearded bust to left, wearing diadem and Parthian-style tiara with two rows of pellets around pellet-in-crescent; triskeles behind / Diadem with no ties. Cf. K&M 4/59 (“Fürst Y”); cf. Tyler-Smith, Parcel type 1, 216 (obol; diadem with ties); Alram 619 var. (diadem with ties); Sunrise -. 1,31gr, 14mm.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
