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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Islands off Attica, Aegina AR Stater. Circa 456/45-431 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
Land tortoise with segmented shell / Large incuse square with heavy skew pattern. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIIb; Milbank Period IV, pl. II, 12; SNG Copenhagen 517; Boston MFA 1116; HGC 6, 437. 12.50gr, 20mm, 5h.
Very Fine. Light cabinet tone.
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 late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. -
Judaea, Caesarea Maritima AE 'Minim'. Circa 2nd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Head of Hercules to right, wearing taenia / Boar to right. Cf. Hamburger, Caesarea 36-51. 1.29gr, 11mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Kingdom of Persis. Darev (Darios) II AR Hemidrachm. 1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Diademed bust to left, wearing tiara with ear flap and decorated with crescent / King standing to left, holding sceptre and sacrificing before altar. K&M 4/5; Tyler-Smith, Parcel 9-12; Alram 565. 1.85gr, 15mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
