LOT 3104
Seleukid Empire, Alexander I Balas AR Tetradrachm. Dated SE 163 (150/49 BC). Laodikeia in Phoenicia (Berytos) mint. Phoenician standard.
Diademed and draped bust to right / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing to left on palm frond; to left, ΓΞP (date) above monogram; trident to right. SC 1824.2; HGC 9, 881; DCA2 60. Near Very Fine.(12.52, 16mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Cyprus, Salamis. NIkokreon AR Tetradrachm. Struck circa 323-317 BC. In the name of Philip III of Macedon, the types of Alexander III.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣIΛΕΩΣ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; rudder in left field, T beneath throne. Zapiti & Michaelidou 29; Price P130 corr. (T not K); Newell, Some 12; Tziambazis 19 var. (no letter beneath throne). 16.70gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. 'A' graffito on reverse.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Mysia, Pergamon AR Tetradrachm. Struck circa 85-76 BC. Kt-, prytanis. Cistophoric standard.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Basket (cista mystica), with half-open lid, from which snake coils, around, ivy wreath with fruits / Two snakes coiled around a bow case ornamented with aplustre; between the snake heads, KT above prytaneis monogram of ΠΡΥ, civic monogram of ΠΕΡ to left, serpent-entwined staff to right. Kleiner, Hoard 38; SNG BnF 1741. 12.27gr, 27mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Toned.
Acquired on the German art market before 2000. Private collection, South Germany. -
Sicily, Syracuse AE 25mm. Time of Timoleon and the Third Democracy, circa 343-317 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios to right; ZE[ΥΣ ΕΛΕY]ΘΕPΙΟΣ around / Upright thunderbolt, eagle standing to right; ΣYPA[KOΣIΩN] around. CNS II, 72; SNG ANS 477-88; HGC 2, 1440. 16.44gr, 25mm, 10h.
Good Very Fine.
From an English private collection, 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
