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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Kingdom of Macedon, Philip III Arrhidaios AR Drachm. Struck under Menander or Kleitos, circa 322-319 BC. Kolophon mint. In the types of Alexander III.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; monogram of ΠA in left field. Price P46. 4.05gr, 17mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman, acquired before 1985, thence by descent 2025. -
Phoenicia, Marathos AE 22mm. Circa 220-150 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Veiled female head (Berenike II?) to right / Marathos standing to left, holding aphlaston and leaning on short column. Duyrat, Ateliers Series 4, 161-7; HGC 10, 193. 9.45gr, 23mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Thrace, Byzantion in alliance with Kalchedon AE 26mm. 300-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter to right; c/m: monogram within incuse square / ΒΥZΑNT ΚΑΛΧΑ[...], Poseidon seated to right on rock, holding aphlaston with right hand and transverse trident with left; ΔΑ in inner right field. Cf. Schönert-Geiss 1257-1262 (ΚΑΛΧΑΔΩ); HGC 3.2, 1428. 9.33gr, 26mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
