LOT 3232
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 IA in lower right field. HGC 12, 150. Good Very Fine. Contemporary plugged hole.(14.54gr, 34mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a London, UK, private collector.
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LOT 3232
Scythian, Imitative of Eukratides I AR Tetradrachm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
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Islands off Ionia, Samos AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 3 (452/1 BC) (restoration era date).
Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5,000
Facing lion scalp / Forepart of ox to right; ΣA above, olive branch to left, Γ (date) below; all within incuse square. Barron Class VII, 72a (A33/P72) (this coin); Slg. O'Hagan 591 (this coin); Coll. Berlin (Fox coll.); HGC 6, 1190. 12.96gr, 24mm, 9h.
Near Extremely Fine. Amazing old cabinet tone. Well centred and of fine style. Extremely rare date (no other examples on CoinArchives).
Ex Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 23 March 1896, lot 592. Ex Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 4 May 1908, lot 591. From Hyman Montagu (1844-1895) collection. From Henry Osborne O'Hagan, Esq. (1853-1930) collection. Ex Cahn, 1951. Ex Bourgey Emile, Collection de Monnaies Grecques Gauloise-romaines, Hôtel Drouot Sale, Paris, 13 June 1952, lot 127. Ex Münzen & Medaillen, Basel. From Rollin & Feuardent (William Talbot Ready), London. Acquired privately from Jean Vinchon, Paris. -
Judaea. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaios (Yehonatan) AE Prutah. 103-76 BCE. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
[ΒΑΣΙΛΕ]ΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, upright anchor / 'Yehonatan the King' in paleo-Hebrew between rays of eight-rayed star; all within diadem. Hendin 6189; Meshorer Group K; HGC 10, 637. 2.69gr, 16mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Kingdom of Axum, Wazena (Ella Gabaz) AE Unit. Circa AD 550-570.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Draped bust to right, wearing head cloth, holding wheat stalk topped with cross; Ge'ez legend "May this please the peoples" around / Cross crosslet with gilt punch holed centre crossed by oblique cross; Ge'ez legend "of Wazena, of the King" around. SACAM 391; H 70; Munro-Hay Types 118-123. 1.26gr, 17mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Pierced.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
