LOT 3046
Pontus, Amisos, AE 22mm. c.85-65 BC.
Bust of Amazon right, wearing wolf's scalp / AMI-ΣΟΥ, Nike walking right, holding wreath in right hand, palm over left shoulder. SNG BMC Black Sea 1218-1219; SNG Stancomb 704; SNG Copenhagen 165; SNG von Aulock 66; Waddington Recueil p.56, 38. Very Fine.(8.29gr, 22mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a London, UK, private collector.
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Lydia, Sardeis AE 17mm. Circa 2nd-1st centuries BC. ΗΡΑΙΟΣ (Heraios), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Laureate bust of young Herakles to right, lion's skin tied around neck / ΣΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ ΗΡΑΙΟΣ, nude Apollo standing to left, holding bird and laurel branch; monogram of NωTE before; all within laurel wreath. GRPC Lydia 86; SNG Copenhagen 493; BMC Lydia pg. 240, 36; Waddington 5202. 6.50gr, 17mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AR Sela'-Drachm. Dated RY 31(?) (AD 22/3). Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Long-haired, laureate, moustached, and draped bust of Aretas IV to right; inscription in Nabataean around / Jugate draped busts to right of Aretas IV and Shaqilat; inscription in Nabataean around containing date at end. Cf. Barkay 170; cf. DCA 975. 3.33gr, 14mm, 6h.
Fine. Obverse off-centre.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Kushan Empire, time of Kujula Kadphises to Vima Takto AE Didrachm. AD 80-113. Uncertain (possibly Begram) mint. 'Soter Megas' issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Radiate and diademed bust to right, holding sceptre; tamgha to left / [ΒΑCΙΛ]ЄV ΒΑCΙΛЄV⟒Ν C⟒ΤΗΡ ΜЄ[ΓΑC], King on horseback to right, holding axe; tamgha to lower right. ANS Kushan 186-95; Senior B17.1vT (listed as tetradrachm); Donum Burns 60. 8.36gr, 21mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
