LOT 3239
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VI Dionysos AE Serrate. 143-142 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Radiate head wearing ivy wreath to right / Elephant advancing to left, holding torch in trunk; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ in two lines above, ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ in two lines below, ΣTA (?) to right. HGC 9, 1043. Very Fine.(7.36gr, 21mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection.
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Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
BACIΛЄ[ധC 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. 2.54gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Mysia, Kyzikos AR Hemiobol. Circa 530-500 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Dolphin over tunny fish swimming to left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze, Nomisma IX -; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Tübingen -; SNG ΒnF -. 0.45gr, 7mm.
Near Extremely Fine. Unpublished type and denomination for Kyzikos.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Pisidia, Termessos AE 18mm. Dated CY 7 (65/4 BC).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Laureate head of Zeus to right / Bridled horse galloping to left; Z (date) above, TEP below. BMC -; SNG BnF 2111-2; SNG von Aulock -. 4.74gr, 18mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
