LOT 2939
Pontos, Amaseia AE 18mm. Circa 120-100 BC.
Draped male bust to right, with bare head and wings at temples / Cornucopia between pilei of the Dioscuri, each with eight-rayed star above; ΑΜΑΣ-ΣΕΙΑΣ across lower fields. SNG Stancomb 655; SNG BM Black Sea 1046-7; HGC 7, 225. Good Very Fine.(3.89gr, 18mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a UK gallery.
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LOT 2939
Pontos, Amaseia AE 18mm.
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
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Troas, Abydos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 80-70 BC. ΑΝΑΞΑΓΟΡΑΣ (Anaxagoras), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £299
Draped bust of Artemis to right, wearing stephanos, bow and quiver over shoulder / Eagle with wings spread standing to right; ABY-ΔH-NΩN above, filleted thyrsos in right field, ANAΞAΓOPOY in exergue; all within laurel wreath. SNG ANS 1945.33.4; SNG Ashmolean 1003; BMC 50; CN Type 2488. 14.87gr, 28mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Dark toning with hints of golden and blue iridescence around the devices.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Sasanian Kingdom, Husrav (Khosrau) II AR Drachm. Dated RY 36 (AD 627). AHM (Hamadan) mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Draped bust to right, wearing mural crown with two wings, frontal crescent and star-in-crescent; stars and legends flanking, ribbon on shoulders; all within double border with star-in-crescents in margin / Fire altar with ribbons flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; date to left, mint to right; all within triple border, with star-in-crescents in margin. SC Tehran 1594-1605; Göbl II/3. 4.08gr, 33mm, 3h.
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. -
Euboia, Histiaia AR Tetrobol. Circa 196-146 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Wreathed head of the nymph Histiaia to right / The nymph Histiaia seated to right on stern of galley, holding stylis; wing on galley, IΣTIAIEΩN around. BCD Euboia 430-431; HGC 4, 1525. 2.11gr, 13mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
