LOT 2995
Seleucis and Pieria, Apameia AE 16mm. Dated Year 8 of the Pompeian Era (59/8 BC).
Veiled bust of Demeter to right, wearing wreath of grain ears / AΠAMEΩN THΣ IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY, grain ear between two poppies; to inner left, H (date); to outer left, MH. Lindgren I 2030; HGC 9, 1430 corr. (date). Near Extremely Fine. Rare.(3.64gr, 16mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Phrygia, Apameia AE 23mm. Circa 88-40 BC. ΑΝΤΙΦΩΝ ΜΕΝΕΚΛΕΟΥΣ (Antiphon, son of Menekles), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / AΠAME[ΩN], eagle, with star above, alighting on base of maeander pattern flanked by caps of the Dioscuri; ΑΝΤΙΦΩΝ ΜΕΝΕΚΛΕ[ΟΥΣ] below. SNG Copenhagen 164; HGC 7, 670. 10.10gr, 23mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Group of Eight [8] AR Sigloi of Achaemenid Empire. 5th-4th century BC.
Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £139
Various types. 44.81gr total.
Condition as seen.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Moesia, Istros AE Arrowhead Cast. 6th-5th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Bilobate arrowhead with axial spine. SNG BM Black Sea 218. 4.40gr, 42mm.
Condition as seen.
From a private Tyneside collection, formed since the early 2000s.
