LOT 3291
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) AE 19mm. Dated SE 193(?) (120/9 BC). Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Diademed and radiate head to right / BAΣIΛE[ΩΣ] ANTIO[XOY] EΠIΦAN[OYΣ], eagle standing to left, sceptre under far wing, monogram(?) to outer left, date below. Cf. SC 2300.2; HGC 9, 1212. Very Fine.(5.57gr, 19mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on UK art market.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
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LOT 3291
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) AE 19mm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Kings of Commagene, Antiochos III AE Hemichalkon. Circa 12 BC-AD 17. Mopsos mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Laureate head of Apollo to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ, wreathed head of Artemis to left; below, monogram (?). RPC Online -; Kovacs -, cf. 236 (head of Artemis to right); for another example see Leu Numismatik AG, Web 30, 953 = Obolos 39, 351 (hammer: 608 GBP). 1.09gr, 11mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine. Exceedingly rare; unpublished and the second known example. Of great numismatic interest.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Caria, Heraclea Salbace AE 15mm. Circa time of Tiberius, AD 14-37. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ (Apollonios, son of Apollonios), magistrate. AΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ, head of Dionysus(?) to right / ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΩΝ, Zeus seated to right, holding Nike and long sceptre. RPC I, 2857; SNG Copenhagen 391. 3.40gr, 15mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Caria, Halikarnassos AE 12mm. Circa 350-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Laureate head of Apollo to left / [ΑΛΙ], eagle standing to left; lyre(?) to left. Cf. SNG Copenhagen 346-7; cf. SNG Keckman 50; cf. HNO 457. 1.28gr, 12mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
