LOT 3398
Sasanian Kingdom. Kavad I AR Drachm. Date RY 1(?) (AD 488). BYS (Bishapur) mint.
Bust to right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent and korymbos set on crescent, ribbons and crescents on shoulders; star behind crown / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. Cf. SNS type IIa/1e. Very Fine.(3.57gr, 28mm, 2h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK market before 2000.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
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Thrace, Mesambria AR Diobol. 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Crested helmet facing / M-E-T-A within spokes of wheel; rays around. Karayotov I 37-94; HGC 3, 1560. 0.86gr, 10mm.
Good Very Fine.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 18mm. Struck AD 20-40. Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; [H-F?] in Aramaic across fields / Crossed cornucopiae; legend in Aramaic between and below. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 114. 3.32gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Mysia, Kyzikos AR Hemiobol. Circa 530-500 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Dolphin over tunny fish swimming to left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze, Nomisma IX -; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Tübingen -; SNG ΒnF -. 0.45gr, 7mm.
Near Extremely Fine. Unpublished type and denomination for Kyzikos.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
