LOT 3233
Scythian, Imitative of Eukratides I AR Tetradrachm. c.130-80 BC.
Diademed and draped bust right, wearing horned Boiotian helmet, within bead-and-reel border / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟΥ, Dioscuri on horseback charging right, with couched spears and holding palm branches, monogram ANT in lower right field. HGC 12, 150. Very Fine. Toned.(15.63gr, 32mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a London, UK, private collector.
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Kingdom of Macedon, Philip III Arrhidaios AR Drachm. Struck under Menander or Kleitos, circa 323-319 BC. Magnesia ad Maeandrum mint. In the types of Alexander III.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; filleted thyrsos in left field. Price P51. 4.08gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Test cut.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Mysia, Pergamon AE 22mm. Circa 133-27 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Helmeted head of Athena to right / ΑΘΗΝΑΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟY, trophy consisting of helmet and cuirass. SNG BnF 1893 var. (monogram to inner left). 6.09gr, 22mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
BACIΛЄധC AΓPIΠA, canopy / Three ears of corn; L Ϛ (date) across fields. RPC I, 4981; TJC 120; Hendin GBC 6, 6274; Hendin GBC 5, 1244; Sofaer 153-6. 2.64gr, 19mm, 5h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
