LOT 2979
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos IV Philopator AE Serrate. 187-175 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Bust of Artemis to right, wearing stephane and with quiver over shoulder; [monogram of AB behind?] / Artemis huntress standing facing, head to left, holding spear and with small deer standing to left at her feet; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to right, ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ to left, monogram of AB or NB to outer right. Cf. SC 1317.3; HGC 9, 591. Good Very Fine. Extremely rare variant.(5.47gr, 18mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Persia, Alexandrine Empire. Uncertain Satrap AV Double Daric. After 315 BC. Babylon mint.
Estimate: £2,500 - 3,500 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,200
The Great King, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding transverse spear with right hand and bow with left / Wavy stripes patterned incuse punch. Cf. Nicolet-Pierre, Travaux Le Rider, p. 298, 6 and pl. 30, 6. 16.72gr, 20mm.
Good Very Fine. Test cut on reverse. Areas of weakness. Rare.
Ex Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 182, 14 March 2011, lot 362. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 123, 9 May 2021, lot 873. -
Pamphylia, Aspendos AR Stater. Circa 380/75-330/25 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Two nude wrestlers, standing and grappling with each other; between them, BI / [ΕΣΤ]FΕΔΙΙ[ΥΣ], slinger standing to right, about to shoot from his sling; to right, triskeles running to left. Tekin Series 4; SNG BnF -; SNG von Aulock -. 10.85gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Toned. Small area of delamination on obverse.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy IV Philopator AE Drachm. 222-205/4 BC. Alexandreia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Horned head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing tainia with basileion / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle, with closed wings, standing to left on thunderbolt; filleted cornucopia to left, Σ(?) between legs. Cf. CPE B497; cf. Svoronos 992. 54.38gr, 41mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
