LOT 3276
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator AE 20mm. Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Seleukeia I mint.
Helmeted head of Athena to right / Elephant standing to right; monograms above and below. SC 128. Near Very Fine.(8.66gr, 20mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
From the collection of Mr Carlos Bahamonde, Manchester, UK.
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LOT 3276
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator AE 20mm.
Estimate £20 - 30€23 - 35 (for guidance only)$27 - 41 (for guidance only)
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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) AE 19mm. 121-110 BC. Antioch mint.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Diademed and radiate head to right / [B]AΣIΛEΩ[Σ] ANTIOX[OY EΠIΦANOYΣ], eagle standing to left, sceptre under far wing, date and symbols off flan/obscured. Cf. SC 2300.2; HGC 9, 1212; DCA 279. 4.96gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Purchased from Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, September 2009. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 104, 15 December 2022, lot 522. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Berenike II, wife of Ptolemy III AE Dichalkon. Circa 244/3-221 BC. Uncertain mint on the Levantine Coast.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £35
ΒΕPENIKHΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ, diademed and draped bust of Berenike II to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, filleted cornucopiae. Svoronos 1054; CPE B454; SNG Copenhagen -; Weiser 82. 3.89gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Kings of Thrace, Lysimachos AR Drachm. Circa 301/0-300/299 BC. Abydos mint. In the types of Alexander III of Macedon.
Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £60
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ] ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧ[ΟY], Zeus seated to left on low throne, holding long sceptre in his left hand and eagle standing right with closed wings in his right; to left, forepart of lion to left above monogram; below throne, head of griffin to left. Müller -; Thompson 65. 4.17gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
