LOT 3041
Sasanian Kingdom, Husrav (Khosrau) II AR Drachm. AD 591-628.
WYHC (Veh-az-Amid-Kavād) mint. Dated RY 36 (AD 627). Cuirassed bust to right, wearing mural crown with two wings; stars flanking, ribbons on shoulders; all within double border with star-in-crescents
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.(4.11gr, 32mm, 3h.).
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Group of Eight [8] AR Sigloi of Achaemenid Empire. 5th-4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Various types. 44.51gr total.
Fine to Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. 37-43 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Jerusalem mint. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). BAC[IΛЄധC AΓPI]ΠA, canopy / Three ears of corn; L Ϛ (date) across fields. RPC I 4981; TJC 120; Hendin GBC 6, 6274; Hendin GBC 5, 1244; Sofaer 153-6. 2.59gr, 17mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Kings of Armenia, Artaxias III AE 23mm. Posthumous imitation, circa AD 35-54.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Blundered legend around four-pointed Armenian tiara to left; Δ before, star behind / Blundered legend around horse standing to right. Kovacs 194. 10.14gr, 23mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
