LOT 2993
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos IX Eusebes Philopator (Kyzikenos) AE 17mm. 114-95 BC. Uncertain mint.
Laureate head of Apollo to right / Artemis standing facing, wearing short tunic and boots, holding spear and bow; BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY to right, ΦIΛOΠATOPOΣ to left, uncertain control in outer left field. SC 2379; HGC 9, 1253 (R2). Very Fine. Very rare.(4.74gr, 17mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 2993
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos IX Eusebes Philopator (Kyzikenos) AE 17mm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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Euboia, Chalkis AR Drachm. Circa 338-308 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Head of the nymph Chalkis to left, wearing hair-band, single pendant earring and necklace / Χ-ΑΛ (anti-clockwise), eagle flying to left, grasping serpent with his talons that coils around his body; [to left, flower?]; all within shallow circular incuse. Cf. BCD Euboia 120; cf. Picard, Issue 2; HGC 4, 1461. 3.32gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm. Circa 353-294 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Head of Athena to right, wearing disc earring, 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 and crescent moon in upper left field, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1599. 16.95gr, 23mm, 9h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Philip III Arrhidaios AR Drachm. Struck under Menander or Kleitos, circa 322-319 BC. Kolophon mint. In the name and types of Alexander III.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / [ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ], 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; lyre in left field, A beneath throne. Price 1769. 4.00gr, 19mm, 10h.
Good Fine. Area of corrosion on reverse.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman, acquired before 1985, thence by descent 2025.
