LOT 3040
Sasanian Kingdom, Husrav (Khosrau) II AR Drachm. AD 591-628.
NH / WH (Nahr Tire?) mint; uncertain date. Draped bust to right, wearing mural crown with two wings and star set on crescent; star-in-crescent before; all within double border with star-in-crescents in margin / Fire altar with ribbons flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; all within triple border with star-in-crescents in margin. For mint's initials see Göbl, Tafel XVI, 51. Very Fine. Rare mint.(3.85gr, 32mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceEx property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Sicily, Syracuse AR 10 Litrai. Time of Hieronymos, circa 215-214 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
Diademed head to left / BAΣIΛEOΣ IEPΩNYMOY, winged thunderbolt; ΑΦ above. HGC 2, 1567. 8.17gr, 22mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
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Sicily, Syracuse AE 20mm. Roman rule, after 212 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Diademed head of Serapis to right, wearing atef crown / [ΣYPAK]-O-CIΩN, Isis standing facing, head to left, holding sistrum with right hand and sceptre with left. CNS II, 240 corr. (wreath); HGC 2, 1478. 8.63gr, 20mm, 12h.
Good Fine.
Ex Stocker collection, Kent, UK, 1955-early 2000s; collector's ticket included. -
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Type IV (middle) B. 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; unlisted countermark / Oblong incuse punch; countermarks: cf. 169 and 48. Carradice Type IV, Group B. 5.49gr, 16mm.
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.
