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LOT 2949
Seleucid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator AR Tetradrachm. Second satrapy and kingship, 312-281 BC.
Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣIΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on high-backed throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on a low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; in left field, [MI above bee]; monogram or MHTP in wreath beneath throne. SC 82.2b; Price 3754; HGC 9, 10f. Near Very Fine.(16.93gr, 26mm, 8h.).
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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Seleucid Empire, Antiochos XII Dionysos AE 22mm. 87/6-83/2 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Damaskos mint. Struck 87-86/5 BC. Diademed and draped bust to right / BACIΛEΩC ANTIOXOV EΠIΦANOVC in three lines to right, ΦIΛO-ΠATOPOC KAΛ-ΛINIKOV in two lines to left; Tyche standing to left, holding cornucopia with left hand and palm frond horizontally with right; Π in outer left field. SC 2473; HGC 9, 1327. 6.88gr, 22mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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South Arabia, Saba' AR Unit. Circa 3rd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Imitating Athens. Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves and palmette, and disc earring; N (in retrograde South Arabian) (mark of value) on cheek / AΘ[E], owl standing to right, head facing, olive spray and crescent to left. Huth 160; HGC 10, 720. 4.93gr, 15mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Ex property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea. First Jewish War AE Prutah. Dated Year 3 (68/9 CE).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Jerusalem mint. 'Year three' in Paleo-Hebrew, amphora with broad, two handles and a lid / 'The freedom of Zion' in Paleo-Hebrew; vine leaf on small branch with tendril. TJC 204; Sofaer 31-35; Hendin GBC 6, 6392; Hendin GBC 5, 1363. 1.67gr, 15mm, 5h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
