LOT 2746
Seleukis and Pieria, Apameia AE 24mm. 1st century BC.
Dated SE 285 (28/7 BC). Pseudo-autonomous issue. Head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath / ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣVΛΟV, thyrsos; EΠΣ (date) to inner left, E-I across fields below. RPC I 4349. Very Fine. Rare date.(7.92gr, 24mm, 12h.).
ProvenancePrivate collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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Kings of Lydia, Kroisos Fourrée or BI Siglos. 560-546 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Sardeis mint. Confronted foreparts of lion to right, with extended right foreleg, and bull to left / Oblong incuse punch. Cf. Berk 23; cf. Demeester 136. 4.24gr, 15mm.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea. Herodians, Herod III Antipas AE Half Unit. 4 BCE-39 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Tiberias mint. Dated RY 33 (29/30 CE). [TIBEPIAC] in two lines within wreath / HPധΔOY [TETPAPXOY], palm branch; across field, L ΛΓ (date). RPC I 4924; Hendin 6236; TJC 81. 5.23gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Ionia, Kolophon AR Tetartemorion. Circa 530-500 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Archaic head of Apollo(?) to left / Quadripartite incuse square punch. Kim & Kroll 84-103; SNG Kayhan 343-7; SNG von Aulock 1810. 0.23gr, 5mm.
Extremely Fine. Toned. Sharply struck and well-centred.
Acquired in London in 2011. Private collection, Switzerland.
