LOT 3063
Sasanian Kingdom. Peroz I AR Drachm. AD 457/9-484. ART (Ardaxšir-Xvarrah) mint.
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/1c. Near Very Fine.(4.05gr, 26mm, 3h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK market before 2000.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
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Phoenicia, Marathos AE 22mm. Circa 220-150 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Veiled female head (Berenike II?) to right / Marathos standing to left, holding aphlaston and leaning on short column. Duyrat, Ateliers Series 4, 161-7; HGC 10, 193. 9.45gr, 23mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Sicily, Syracuse AE 16mm. Time of Agathokles, circa 317-310 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Head of Arethusa to left; ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ before, cornucopia behind / Bull butting to left; NI above. CNS 107; HGC 2, 1489. 3.30gr, 16mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
Ex cgb.fr (company's ticket included). From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm. Circa 353-294 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Head of Athena to right, wearing disc earring, necklace and a crested Attic helmet adorned with three olive leaves and a pi-style palmette / ΑΘΕ, owl standing to right, head facing the viewer, olive sprig and crescent moon in upper left field, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1599. 16.95gr, 23mm, 9h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
