LOT 3100
Sicily, Kamarina AE Tetras or Trionkion. Circa 420-405 BC.
Head of Athena to left, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with wing / [KAMA], owl standing to left, head facing, clutching lizard in talons; in exergue, three pellets (mark of value). CNS 33; SNG ANS 1229; HGC 2, 548. Near Very Fine.(3.17gr, 17mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
From the collection of Mr Carlos Bahamonde, Manchester, UK.
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LOT 3100
Sicily, Kamarina AE Tetras or Trionkion.
Estimate £20 - 30€23 - 35 (for guidance only)$27 - 41 (for guidance only)
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Thrace, Apollonia Pontika AR Drachm. Circa 470-435 BC.
Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £40
Upright anchor, A under left fluke and crayfish under right / Facing gorgoneion. SNG BM Black Sea 1507; SNG Ruse, MN II, 246-250; HGC 3.2, 1323. 3.32gr, 14mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Ex Austran art market. Property of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Kyrenaica, Kyrene. Magas, as King AE 17mm. Circa 282/75-250 BC.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Bearded head of Zeus-Ammon to right, with ram's horn over his ear / K-[Y] PA, palm tree; in field to right, ΔΑ above silphium plant, star in left field. SNG Copenhagen 1261. 5.25gr, 17mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on UK art market. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. -
Mysia. Astyra, Tissaphernes AE 11mm. Circa 400-395 BC.
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
[TIΣΣA], bare, bearded head of Tissaphernes to right / ΑΣΤΥΡΗ, facing cult statue of Artemis Astyrene, wearing polos and with fillets hanging from wrists; to upper right, vertical club. Klein 253; SNG Arikantürk 331-61; SNG BnF 124A. 1.52gr, 11mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
Astyra was a small town of Mysia, in the plain of Thebes, between Antandros and Adramyteion. It had a temple of Artemis, of which the Antandrii had the superintendence, and Artemis had hence the name of ΑΡΤΕΜΙΣ ΑΣΤΥΡΗΝΗ (Artemis Astyrene), as it appears on our coin.
