LOT 3136
Pontos, Amisos AE 26mm. Time of Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 100-95 BC.
Head to right, wearing bashlyk / ΑΜΙ-ΣΟΥ, quiver and unstrung bow. Malloy 12; HGC 7, 236. Good Fine.(20.60gr, 26mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceEx Münzzentrum Rheinland.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Phrygia, Apameia AE 24mm. Circa 88-40 BC. ΑΝΤΙΦΩΝ ΜΕΝΕΚΛΕΟΥΣ (Antiphon, son of Menekles), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Bust of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet and aegis / AΠAMEΩN, eagle, with star above, alighting on base of maeander pattern flanked by Caps of the Dioscuri; ΑΝΤΙΦΩΝ ΜΕΝΕΚΛΕΟΥΣ in two lines below. SNG Copenhagen 164; HGC 7, 67. 9.00gr, 24mm, 2h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Lucania, Velia AR Stater. Circa 293-280 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Head of Athena to left, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with griffin; [Φ?] on neck-guard, monogram of AP behind / Lion advancing to right; kerykeion above, YEΛHTΩN in exergue. SNG Ashmolean 1387; HN Italy 1316; HGC 1, 1325. 6.48gr, 21mm, 10h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon) AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 37 (134/3 BC). Alexandreia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, wearing aegis around neck / [ΠΤΟ]ΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; L ΛZ (date) to left, ΠA to right. Svoronos 1510; CPE II 1366; SNG Copenhagen -; DCA 54. 14.03gr, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Attractive old cabinet tone with blue iridescent highlights. Some roughness on obverse.
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 late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
