LOT 2994
Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch AE 26mm. Dated year 4 of the Caesarean Era (46/5 BC). Time of Sex. Iulius Caesar or Q. Caecilius Bassus, Proconsul, 47-46 BC or de facto proconsul, 46-44 BC.
Laureate head of Zeus to right; c/m: female head (Isis or Cleopatra?) to right within oval incuse / ANTIOXEΩN THΣ MHTΡOΠOΛEΩΣ KAI IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY KAI AΥTONOMOΥ, Zeus seated to left, holding Nike in right hand and sceptre in left; Δ (date) in exergue. RPC I 4220; DCA 392; McAlee 49; SNG Copenhagen 79; HGC 9, 1367. Very Fine.(12.15gr, 26mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
FootnotesAccording to McAlee [The Coins of Roman Antioch (p. 74, note 25)], coins bearing a countermark, appear to depict Cleopatra, and were used to mark the coins circulating in the Syro-Phoenician territories which were given to her by Mark Antony.
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Mysia, Pergamon AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm. 166-67 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Basket (cista mystica), with half-open lid, from which snake coils, around, ivy wreath with fruits / Two snakes coiled around a bow case ornamented with aplustre, and containing a strung bow, between the snake heads, A above monogram of ΠΛ, civic monogram of ΠΕΡ to left, serpent-entwined staff to right. Kleiner, Hoard 6; Pinder 100. 12.64gr, 26mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Very rare.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Antigonos I Monophthalmos, as strategos of Asia, AR Tetradrachm. Struck circa 316-301 BC. Tarsos mint. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon.
Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on high-backed throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; ΣΩ in left field, monogram of ΣΤΡ beneath throne. Price 3807 (Carrhae). 15.50gr, 24mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy II Philadelphos AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 33 (253/2 BC). Tyre mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Diademed head to right, wearing aegis / ΠΤΟΛEΜΑΙOΥ [ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ], eagle with closed wings standing to left on thunderbolt; TYP civic monogram above club in left field, ΛΓ (date) above MA monogram in right field; MY or MI monogram between eagle's legs. CPE 600; Svoronos 676; SNG Copenhagen 490; BMC -; Meydancikkale -; Noeske -; DCA 20. 14.04gr, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
