LOT 3230
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos IV Epiphanes AE 27mm. Struck 169-168 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint. 'Egyptianizing' series.
Head of Isis to right, wearing tainia / Eagle, with closed wings, standing to right on thunderbolt; BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY to right, ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ to left. SC 1414; SMA 60; HGC 9, 644. Very Fine.(22.89gr, 27mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Judaea. Herodians, Herod II Archelaus AE Half Prutah. 4 BCE-6 CE. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Prow to left; H-P-ധ anticlockwise around / ЄΘN within wreath. RPC I 4916; TJC 72; Hendin 1197. 1.72gr, 14mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Pharaonic Kingdom of Egypt, Uncertain Pharaoh(s) AR Tetradrachm. Late 5th-mid 4th centuries BC. Imitating Athens.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Head of Athena with profile eye to right, wearing disc earring, pearl necklace and a crested Attic helmet adorned with three olive leaves and a pi-style palmette / ΑΘΕ, owl standing to right, head facing the viewer, olive sprig with berry and crescent moon in upper left field, all within incuse square. Van Alfen pl. 11; Van Alfen, Mechanisms, Group III.A.1, Fig. 3 = Buttrey Type X. 17.02gr, 24mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Sasanian Kingdom. Kavad I AR Drachm. Date RY 1(?) (AD 488). BYS (Bishapur) mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Bust to right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent and korymbos set on crescent, ribbons and crescents on shoulders; star behind crown / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. Cf. SNS type IIa/1e. 3.57gr, 28mm, 2h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK market before 2000. Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
