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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Nabataea. Obodas II, with Hagaru I AR Sela'-Drachm. Circa 30-9 BC. Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Jugate diademed and draped busts of Obodas and Hagaru to right; Nabataean Ḥ to left / Diademed head of Obodas to right; Nabataean Ḥ to inner left, inscription in Nabataean around. Cf. Al-Qatanani 42 t9; cf. Meshorer, Nabataea, Sup. 3. 4.60gr, 16mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Kings of Parthia, Mithradates II AR Tetradrachm. 121-91 BC. Seleukeia on the Tigris mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £598
Diademed and draped bust to left, wearing torc / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOΥ AΡΣA-KOΥ EΠIΦANOΥΣ, Arsakes I seated to right on omphalos, holding bow in his right hand. Sellwood 24.1. Shore -. 15.48gr, 32mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Beautiful old cabinet toning.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. -
Ionia, Ephesos AR Hekte or 1/6 Stater. Circa 550-500 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Bee / Stellate pattern within incuse square. Karwiese I Series IIIA, 21; SNG Kayhan 1227-30. 1.70gr, 10mm.
Good Very Fine. Toned.
Acquired in London in 2011. Private collection, Switzerland.
