LOT 3396
Sasanian Kingdom. Peroz I AR Drachm. AD 457/9-484.
DA (Dārābgird) mint. Struck circa AD 477-484. Bust to right, wearing crown with two wings, frontal crescent, and korymbos set on crescent, ribbon over each shoulder / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. Cf. SNS type IIIb/1e. Near Very Fine.(4.09gr, 27mm, 2h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK market before 2000.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
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Seleucis and Pieria, Apameia AE 21mm. Dated SE 275 (38/7 BC).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Helmetted and draped bust of Athena to right / ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜΟΥ, Nike advancing to left, holding wreath and palm; EOΣ (date) to inner left, [letters?] in exergue. RPC I 4337; DCA 413; HGC 9, 1424. 7.98gr, 21mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Calabria, Tarentum AR Didrachm or Nomos. Circa 272-240 BC. Struck under the magistrate ΑΓΑΘΑΡΧΟΣ (Agatharchos). Reduced standard.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Nude youth on horseback to right, crowning horse and holding rein; beneath horse, AΓAΘ-A[P] XOΣ in two lines / TAPAΣ, Phalanthos, holding kantharos in outstretched right hand and cornucopia in left, on dolphin to left; to right, race torch. Vlasto 852-4; HN III 1028. 6.57gr, 20mm, 8h.
Very Fine. Lightly toned. Minor flan flaws.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Boeotia, Thebes AR Stater. Circa 390-382 BC. Wast(ias), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,510
Boeotian shield / Volute krater with a decorated upper half, barley grain above, FA-ΣT across central field; all within shallow incuse circle. Hepworth 36; BCD Boiotia 494; BMC 120; HGC 4, 1330. 12.14gr, 22mm, 2h.
Near Extremely Fine. Attractive old cabinet tone with blue iridescence around the devices on obverse and gold on reverse.
Ex A. A. Ravel, 1938. Ex Pozzi 1443v TTB. Ex Prunier Auction, Numismatic Auction June 2022, 27 June 2022, lot 198. Acquired from Pecunia Numismatics.
Wastias was the pro-Spartan rival of Androkleidas and was instrumental in the latter's exile and assassination.
