LOT 3237
Seleukid Empire, Demetrios II Nikator AE 24mm. Struck circa 146-145 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Laureate head of Zeus to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ ΝΙΚΑΤΟΡΟΣ, Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, testing arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him; in exergue, monogram of MHT and star. SC 1912.1a; HGC 9, 992. Very Fine.(13.24gr, 24mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3237
Seleukid Empire, Demetrios II Nikator AE 24mm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
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Ionia, Magnesia ad Maeandrum AE 19mm. Circa 145-early 1st century BC. ΕΥΚΛΗΣ and ΚΡΑΤΙΝΟΣ (Eukles and Kratinos), magistrates.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Helmetted head of Athena to right / [MAΓΝΗΤΩΝ], warrior, holding spear, on horse galloping to right; N to left, ΕΥΚΛΗΣ ΚΡΑTΙΝΟΣ below. Kinns, Didrachm 5; SNG Kayhan 429-31. 7.08gr, 19mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex Münzzentrum Rheinland. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Ionia, Ephesos AR Hemiobol. Circa 550-500 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Bee with spread wings seen from above / Incuse square of mill-sail form, divided into raised and sunken triangles. Karwiese Series III; Rosen 572. 0.39gr, 7mm.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Cyclades, Andros AE 17mm. Circa 200-180 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Head of young Dionysos to right, wearing ivy-wreath; c/m: kantharos / Filletted thyrsos; Α-Ν-Δ-ΡΙ across fields, bunch of grapes to right. BMC Crete pg. 86, 14; Joy 510; SNG Copenhagen 613; HGC 6, 472; for countermark see Tselekas & Papageorgiadou-Banis, Countermarks on the Hellenistic coinages of the Cyclades in ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 53, p. 159. 4.11gr, 17mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare countermarked Cycladic bronze.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
