LOT 2991
Seleucid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) AR Tetradrachm. Struck circa 121-113 BC. Ake-Ptolemais mint.
Diademed head to right; within fillet border / ΒAΣΙΛEΩΣ ΑNTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ, Zeus Ouranios, draped, standing facing, head to left, holding star in outstretched right hand and long sceptre in left; crescent above, monogram of ΔYΡ in left field; all within laurel wreath border. SC 2336.2; HGC 9, 1197h. Near Extremely Fine. Attractive old cabinet tone with hints of golden iridescence.(15.53gr, 33mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 2991
Seleucid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) AR Tetradrachm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
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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. -
Euboia, Histiaia AR Tetrobol. 3rd-2nd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Wreathed head of the Nymph Histiaia right / IΣTIAIEΩN, nymph seated right on stern of galley; thunderbolt on prow; ΔI below. BCD Euboia -; SNG Copenhagen 533; HGC 4, 1524. 1.84gr, 15mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
From a 1990s English collection. -
Phoenicia. Byblos AR 1/16 Shekel. 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £35
Galley to left, containing two hoplites with helmets and round shields; hippocamp to left below / Lion attacking bull to left. Cf. HGC 10, 139. 0.77gr, 10mm, 10h.
Near Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
