LOT 2652
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes) AR Tetradrachm. 138-129 BC.
Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head to right / Athena Nikephoros standing to left, resting hand on shield and spear under arm; ΒAΣΙΛEΩΣ ΑNTIOXOY in right field, EVEPΓETOV in left field; to outer left, mint monogram above AI; no secondary control mark; all within wreath. SC 2061.1m; Lorber, Die, Phase 1, 304 (obv. die A33); HGC 9, 1067d. Very Fine.(16.44gr, 30mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 561, 1 May 2024, lot 256.
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LOT 2652
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes) AR Tetradrachm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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Lesbos, Pyrrha AE 10mm. Circa 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Female head (Aphrodite or nymph Pyrrha?) to left, hair bound in sphendone / ΠΥP, goat standing to left; to left, scallop shell. BMC 1-2 var. (no symbol); HGC 6, 1060; SNG Copenhagen 428. 1.37gr, 10mm, 1h.
Very Fine. Very rare mint.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
Pyrrha was a town on the coast of the deep bay on the west of the island of Lesbos, which had such a narrow entrance that it was called the Euripus of Pyrrha. In the Lesbian revolt the town sided with Mytilene, but was reconquered by Paches. By the time of the geographer Strabo the city no longer existed, but the suburbs and the harbour were still inhabited and Pliny reports that Pyrrha had been submerged by the sea (5.39). -
Judaea, Herod I AE Prutah. 40-4 BCE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Small diadem / Tripod table within dotted circle. Hendin 6214; TJC 54; Sofaer 24. 1.22gr, 14mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) Fourrée Tetradrachm. 121/0-97/6 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Antioch mint. Diademed head of Antiochos to right / ΒAΣΙΛEΩΣ ΑNTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ, Zeus Nikephoros seated to left, holding sceptre; monograms and letter in outer left field, control mark under throne. For prototype cf. SC 2309.2c. 13.84gr, 24mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
