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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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 Unpublished type and denomination for Kyzikos.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. -
Mysia, Kyzikos AR Trihemiobol. Circa 450-400 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Forepart of boar to left with short mane and dotted truncation; to right, tunny fish upward / Head of roaring lion to left with bristling mane, outstretched tongue, and dotted truncation; all within incuse square. Von Fritze II 9; SNG BnF 361 & 365-6. 1.18gr, 11mm, 4h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Thrace, Byzantion in alliance with Kalchedon AE 26mm. 300-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter to right / ΒΥZΑN ΚΑΛΧΑ, Poseidon seated to right on rock, holding aphlaston with right hand and transverse trident with left; ΔΑ in inner right field. Schönert-Geiss 1257-1262; HGC 3.2, 1428. 11.28gr, 26mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
