LOT 3038
Sasanian Kingdom, Husrav (Khosrau) II AR Drachm. AD 590-628.
NAL (Nārmashir?) mint. Dated RY 37 (AD 627/8). Draped bust to right, wearing mural crown with two wings and star set on crescent; all within double border with star-in-crescents and legend 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. Göbl type II/3. Good very fine.(2.92gr, 29mm, 3h.).
ProvenanceEx property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Artaxerxes I to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 450-375 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Type IIIb (late). Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding transverse spear and bow / Oblong incuse punch; countermark: unlisted (cf. 42). Carradice Type IIIb. 5.49gr, 15mm.
Good 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. -
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Kingdom of Macedon, Philip II AR Tetradrachm. 359-336 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,690
Amphipolis mint. Posthumous issue. Struck under Kassander, circa 316-314 BC. Laureate head of Zeus to right / ΦΙΛΙΠ-ΠOΥ, nude youth, holding palm frond, on horseback to right; aplustre below, pellet-in-Π beneath raised foreleg. Le Rider pl. 46, 18; Troxell, Studies, Group 9, 323-5; SNG ANS 738-46. NGC graded AU Strike: 4/5 Surface: 4/5 Fine Style (#8221307-001).
Property of a County Durham collector; acquired on the UK art market. -
Nabataea, Anonymous AE 17mm. Mid 2nd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Petra(?) mint. Imitating staters of Alexander III of Macedon. Helmetted head of Athena to right / Nike standing to left, holding wreath and placing hand on uncertain object. Barkay, Earliest, Group 3; CN 3; HCG 10, 671. 3.59gr, 17mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 533, 22 February 2023, lot 259.
