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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Indo-Parthians. Gondopharid Dynasty, Sases (Gondophares-Sases) BI Tetradrachm. Circa AD 19/20-46.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
King on horseback to right, raising right hand; tamgha to right; Kharosthi A beneath horse / Zeus standing to right, raising right hand and holding sceptre with left; nandipada to left; va above pa in Kharosthi to right; Greek A between Zeus' legs. Senior 242.615T. 9.42gr, 21mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. 37-43 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Jerusalem mint. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). [B]ACIΛЄധC AΓ[PIΠA], 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. 2.34gr, 17mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Euboia, Histaia AR Tetrobol. Circa 350-300 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Wreathed head of the nymph Histiaia to right, hair in sphendone / ΙΣΤΙ-ΑΙΕΩΝ, nymph seated to right on prow of galley; wing on prow. BCD Euboia 372; HGC 4, 1524. 1.95gr, 12mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
