LOT 3395
Sasanian Kingdom. Peroz I AR Drachm. AD 457/9-484.
AT (Ādurbādagān) mint. Bust to right, wearing crown, frontal crescent, and korymbos set on crescent / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. SNS III, type IIa/1e. Near Very Fine.(4.17gr, 28mm, 3h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK market before 2000.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
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Kings of Bosporos, Rheskouporis V, with Philip I, BI Stater. Dated 543 BE (AD 246/7).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
ΒΑCΙΛЄѠC ΡΗCΚΟΠΟΡΙΔΟC, diademed bust to right / Laureate bust of emperor to right; club in right field, ΓMΦ (date) beneath truncation. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 3221; MacDonald 605/1 (Rheskouporis IV). 7.40gr, 20mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Group of Seven [7] Judaea AE Prutot. 1st century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Various types. 14.87gr total.
Condition as seen.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos X Eusebes Philopator AR Tetradrachm. Circa 94-88 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Diademed head to right, with no sideburn / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΕΥΣΕΒΟΥΣ ΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΟΡΟΣ, Zeus seated to left, holding sceptre with right hand and Nike holding wreath with left; to outer left, monogram of ΣΩ above A; monogram of ΔΙ beneath throne; all within wreath. SC 2429.1c; HGC 9, 1287 corr. (without sideburn). 15.58gr, 29mm, 1h.
Very Fine. Some deposits.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
