LOT 2951
Seleucid Empire, Antiochos III AR Drachm. 222-187 BC.
Uncertain mint of the periphery of the Seleucid empire. Diademed head to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY, Apollo Delphios seated on omphalos to left, holding arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him; AP and MYP monograms placed sideways to outer left. SC 1292 corr. (reading of the monograms) = BnF, R 2176; HGC 9, 452o (R3). Very Fine. Exceedingly rare.(4.11gr, 17mm, 3h.).
ProvenanceUK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a London gentleman.
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Lucania, Metapontion AR Stater. Circa 510-470 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
Ear of barley with seven grains; META retrograde downwards to right; all within cable border / Incuse ear of barley with eight grains. Cf. Noe Class IX, 193; HN Italy 1482. 8.11gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Ex Chaponnière & Firmenich SA, Auction 16, 13 November 2022, lot 9b (dealer's ticket included). From a Swiss private collection, before 2005. -
Kingdom of Persia. Pakor II AR Obol. 1st century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Istakhr (Persepolis) mint. Diademed bust to left / Diademed bust to left. Van't Haaff, Persis, Type 590. 0.52gr, 13mm, 8h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Kushan Empire, time of Kujula Kadphises to Vima Takto AE Didrachm. AD 80-113.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Uncertain (possibly Begram) mint. "Soter Megas" issue. Radiate and diademed bust to right, holding sceptre; tamgha to left / [ΒΑCΙΛЄV ΒΑCΙ]ΛЄV⟒Ν C⟒ΤΗΡ [ΜЄΓΑC], King on horseback to right, holding axe; tamgha to lower right. ANS Kushan 186-95; Senior B17.1vT (listed as tetradrachm); Donum Burns 60. 8.25gr, 20mm, 1h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
