LOT 3232
Seleukid Empire, Alexander I Balas AR Tetradrachm. Dated SE 165 (148/7 BC). Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Diademed head to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY ΘEOΠATOPOΣ EYEPΓETOY, Zeus seated to left, holding sceptre with right hand and Nike with wreath with left; EΞP (date) and monogram of ΠΥΤΡ in exergue. SC 1784.4a var. (slightly differing monogram of ΠΥΡ); DCA 118; HGC 9, 875a. Good Very Fine. Pleasant cabinet tone. Flan crack at 5h. Apparently the only example with this monogram variety.(16.74gr, 29mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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LOT 3232
Seleukid Empire, Alexander I Balas AR Tetradrachm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
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Islands off Caria. Rhodos, Rhodes AR Hemidrachm. Circa 170-150 BC. ΑΘΑΝΟΔΩΡΟΣ (Athanodoros), magistrate. 'Plinthophoric' coinage.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Radiate head of Helios facing slightly to right / ΑΘΑΝΟΔΩΡΟΣ, rose with bud to right; kerykeion to left; all within incuse square. Jenkins, Rhodian, Group B, 43; HN Online 881; HGC 6, 1462. 1.43gr, 12mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 19mm. Struck AD 20-40. Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; H-[F?] in Aramaic across fields / Crossed cornucopiae; legend in Aramaic between and below. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 114. 3.54gr, 19mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Kings of Parthia, Pakoros I AR Drachm. AD 78-120. Ekbatana mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Diademed head to left, with long beard / Archer (Arsakes I) seated to right, no throne base visible, holding bow; monogram below bow. Sellwood 78.6 (Vologases III); cf. Sunrise 439 (throne base represented by two dots); Shore -. 3.51gr, 19mm, 12h.
Near Mint State.
Acquired on the UK market. Property of a London antiquarian.
