LOT 3228
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos IV Epiphanes AR Tetradrachm. Sruck circa 167-164 BC. Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Series 3.
Diademed head to right; monogram of AB behind / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOΧOY ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ NIKHΦOPOY, Zeus seated to left on high-backed throne, right leg drawn back, holding sceptre with his left hand and Nike with wreath in his right; palm frond to outer left, AΓ in exergue. SC 1476.1b; Mørkholm 7; HGC 9, 620c. Very Fine. Lightly toned.(16.80gr, 31mm, 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 3228
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos IV Epiphanes AR Tetradrachm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
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Seleukid Empire, Tryphon AE 19mm. Circa 142-138 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Diademed head to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ TPYΦΩNOΣ AYTOKPATOPOΣ, spiked Macedonian helmet with cheek guards, adorned with wild goat's horn above visor; star to inner left. SC 2034.2e; CSE 261; HGC 9, 1061. 5.96gr, 19mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Phoenicia, Arados AE 21mm. Dated CY 175 (85/84 BC).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Veiled bust of Astarte to right / Humped bull running to left, KN-ΠC above; POЄ (date), P and Phoenician 'b' below. Duyrat 4481-4490; HGC 10, 80. 6.98gr, 21mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
[BACIΛЄധ]C AΓPIΠA, canopy / Three ears of corn; L [Ϛ] (date) across fields. RPC I 4981; TJC 120; Hendin GBC 6, 6274; Hendin GBC 5, 1244; Sofaer 153-6. 2.75gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
