LOT 3111
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, ΕΠΙΦΑΝ[ΟΥΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ] in two lines below, ΣTA to right. HGC 9, 1043. Near Very Fine.(9.09gr, 21mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Group of Two [2] Coins from Nabataea. 1st century BC-1st century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising: various issues and reverse types. 2.94gr total, 10-13mm.
Condition as seen.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Mysia, Pergamon AR Tetradrachm. Struck circa 76-67 BC. Te-, prytaneis. Cistophoric type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
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, TH above prytaneis monogram of ΠΡΥ, civic monogram of ΠΕΡ to left, serpent-entwined staff to right. Kleiner, Hoard 49; SNG BN 1752-3. 12.53gr, 26mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
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.
