LOT 2889
Sicily. Messana, The Mamertinoi AE Pentonkion. 211-208 BC.
Laureate head of Ares to left; helmet behind neck / ΜΑΜΕΡΤΙΝΩΝ, warrior standing to left, holding spear and leading horse to left; Π (mark of value) before. Särström Series VIII, Group A, 187-99; BAR Issue 24; CNS 25 Ds 1; HGC 2, 849. Near Very Fine.(12.69gr, 26mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Bithynia, Kalchedon AE 20mm. Circa 240-230 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Laureate head of Apollo to left; c/m: tripod within circular incuse / ΚΑΛΧΑ -ΔΟΝΙΩΝ, tripod, monogram of AK below. SNG BM Black Sea 143-5 var. (no monogram); HGC 7, 539 var. (same); RG 37. 6.78gr, 20mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare with monogram on reverse.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Lucania, Metapontion AR Stater. Circa 510-470 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
Ear of barley with seven grains; META retrograde downwards to right; all within cable border / Incuse ear of barley with eight grains. Cf. Noe Class IX, 193; HN Italy 1482. 8.11gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Ex Chaponnière & Firmenich SA, Auction 16, 13 November 2022, lot 9b (dealer's ticket included). From a Swiss private collection, before 2005. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Kleopatra III and Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros) ΑΕ Hemiobol(?). 117/6-108/7 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Kyrene mint; struck 116-107 BC. Horned head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing taenia with basileion / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ, double cornucopiae bound with fillet; Σ over Θ to left, Ω over Ε to right. Svoronos 1718 (Ptolemy X, Alexandria); Weiser 169-70 (Ptolemy IX & X, Alexandria); SNG Copenhagen 678-80 (uncertain mint in Cyprus). 3.90gr, 17mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
