LOT 3219
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator AR Tetradrachm. Second satrapy and kingship, struck circa 311-300 BC. Babylon I mint. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon.
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣIΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on high-backed throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings, monogram of MHTP within wreath in left field, H beneath strut of throne. Price 3704; SC 82.6; HGC 9, 10f. Very Fine. Light toning.(16.97gr, 26mm, 3h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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Group of Six [6] Nabataean and Phoenician AR Coins. 4th century BC-1st century AD.
Estimate: £180 - 240 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £90
Various rulers. 21.93gr total.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Kings of Bosporos, Rhadamsades and Licinius I BI Stater. Dated BE 615 (AD 318/19).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
RACIΛEΩC ΡΑΔΑΜC, diademed and draped bust to right / Laureate and draped bust of emperor to right, EIX (date) below, club before. SNG Stancomb 1032; MacDonald 666/1; Frolova II, pl.47, 30. 7.50gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 19mm. Struck AD 20-40. Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; [H]-F in Aramaic across fields / Crossed cornucopiae; legend in Aramaic between and below. Meshorer, Nabataea 114. 4.91gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
