LOT 2960
Pisidia, Antioch AE 19mm. 1st century BC. ΘΕΟΦΡΑΣΤΟΣ (Theophrastos), magistrate.
Draped bust of Mên to right, wearing Phrygian cap, set on upturned crescent; uncertain countermark before / ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕωΝ ΘΕΟΦΡΑC[...], Zebu bull standing to right. Unpublished in the standard references. Very Fine. Exceedingly rare; apparently unpublished and possibly unique with this magistrate's name.(5.33gr, 19mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceEx CNG.
Property of a Middlesex, UK, antiquarian.
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Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC. Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint or subsidiary mint. Type IV (middle) B.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding dagger in right hand, bow in left; uncertain countermark / Oblong incuse punch; countermark: 30. Carradice Type IV, Group B; BMC Arabia pl. XXVI, 17. 5.49gr, 14mm.
Near Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
The numbering of countermarks’ varieties has been done according to the chart published in BMC Arabia, p. cxxxvii. -
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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes) AE 22mm. Dated SE 174 (137/8 BC). Antiochia on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Prow of a galley to right; above, pilei of the Dioskouroi surmounted by stars / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟY EYEPΓETOY, trident ornamented with two dolphins downward; to outer left, monogram; below, ΔOP (date). HGC 9, 1085. 9.03gr, 22mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Moesia, Istros AR Drachm. Circa 280-255 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Two young male heads facing, right head inverted / Sea-eagle to left, clutching dolphin in its talons; IΣTPI[H] above, ΦΥ below. SNG Stancomb 148; Dima Subgroup VI, pl. 19, 1-7; AMNG I.1, 425; HGC 3.2, 1803. 5.05gr, 17mm.
Good Very Fine.
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 the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
