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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Illyria, Dyrrhachion AR Drachm. Circa 80/70-60/55 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΣ (Meniskos) and ΛΥΚΙΣΚΟΣ (Lykiskos), magistrates. Cow standing to right, looking back at suckling calf standing to left below; MENIΣKOΣ above, statue of Isis to right / Double stellate pattern in double linear square; ΔYP ΛY-KIΣ-KOY around; all within linear circle border. Ceka 325; Maier 278; HGC 3, 40. 2.78gr, 18mm, 5h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Indo-Parthians. Gondopharid Dynasty, Sases (Gondophares-Sases) BI Tetradrachm. Circa AD 19/20-46.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
King on horseback to right, raising right hand; tamgha to right; Kharosthi A beneath horse / Zeus standing to right, raising right hand and holding sceptre with left; nandipada to left; va above pa in Kharosthi to right; Greek A between Zeus' legs. Senior 242.615T. 9.42gr, 21mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Nabataea, Anonymous AE 17mm. Mid 2nd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Petra(?) mint. Imitating staters of Alexander III of Macedon. Helmetted head of Athena to right / Nike standing to left, holding wreath and placing hand on uncertain object. Barkay, Earliest, Group 3; CN 3; HCG 10, 671. 3.59gr, 17mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 533, 22 February 2023, lot 259.
