LOT 2722
Phrygia, Apameia AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm. Circa 88-67 BC.
ΔΙΟΤΡΕΦΗΣ (Diotrephes), magistrate. Basket (cista mystica), with half-open lid, from which snake coils, around, ivy wreath with fruits / Two snakes coiled around a bow case ornamented with aplustre, and containing a strung bow, between the snake heads, ΔIOTPEΦOYΣ in two lines, AΠA to left, two flutes to right. BMC 16; SNG Copenhagen 153. Very Fine. Exceedingly rare; only one other example on CoinArchives (Roma, E-89, 448).(12.24gr, 26mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 18mm. 9 BC-AD 40.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Petra mint; struck AD 20-40. Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; [H-F?] in Aramaic across fields / Crossed cornucopiae; legend in Aramaic between and below. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 114. 4.29gr, 18mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Thrace, Byzantion in alliance with Kalchedon AE 26mm. 300-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter to right / ΒΥZΑN [Κ]ΑΛΧΑ, Poseidon seated to right on rock, holding aphlaston with right hand and transverse trident with left; ΠΑΡ monogram in inner right field. Schönert-Geiss 1271-1275; HGC 3.2, 1428. 10.90gr, 26mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
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Group of Six [6] Nabataean and Phoenician AR Coins. 4th century BC-1st century AD.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Various rulers. 21.93gr total.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
