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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Euboia, Chalkis AR Drachm. Circa 338-308 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Head of the nymph Chalkis to left, wearing hair-band, single pendant earring and necklace / Χ-ΑΛ (anti-clockwise), eagle flying to left, grasping serpent with his talons that coils around his body; [to left, flower?]; all within shallow circular incuse. Cf. BCD Euboia 120; cf. Picard, Issue 2; HGC 4, 1461. 3.32gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
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Group of Eight [8] AR Sigloi of Achaemenid Empire. 5th-4th century BC.
Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £139
Various types. 45.07gr total.
Condition as seen.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
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Group of Five [5] Thrace, Byzantion in alliance with Kalchedon AE Coins. 300-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Various types. 50.73gr total.
Condition as seen.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
