LOT 2972
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator AR Tetradrachm. Struck circa 300-281 BC. Seleukeia on the Tigris I Mint.
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ, 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 in left field and beneath throne. SC 117.1b; HGC 9, 12i. Near Very Fine.(16.26gr, 25mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman, acquired 1985-1995, thence by descent 2025.
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Euboia, Chalkis AR Drachm. Circa 338-308 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Head of the nymph Chalkis to left, wearing hair-band, single pendant earring and necklace / Χ-ΑΛ (anti-clockwise), eagle flying to left, grasping serpent with his talons that coils around his body; [to left, flower?]; all within shallow circular incuse. Cf. BCD Euboia 120; cf. Picard, Issue 2; HGC 4, 1461. 3.32gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Sicily, Syracuse AE 16mm. Time of Agathokles, circa 317-310 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Head of Arethusa to left; ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ before, cornucopia behind / Bull butting to left; NI above. CNS 107; HGC 2, 1489. 3.30gr, 16mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
Ex cgb.fr (company's ticket included). From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Kings of Cappadocia, Ariarathes III AE 20mm. Circa 230-220 BC. Tyana mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Head of Ariarathes III to right, wearing bashlyk / ΑΡΙA[..?], horseman galloping to right, brandishing spear; before, palm tree; monogram and TYANA(?) below. Simonetta -; HGC 7, -. 4.78gr, 20mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare; variety not in the standard references.
Property of a UK gallery.
