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LOT 2624
Sicily, Syracuse AE 25mm. Time of Agathokles, circa 295-289 BC.
Draped bust of Artemis Soteira to right; quiver over shoulder, ΣΩTEIPA downwards before / Winged thunderbolt; AΓAΘOKΛEOΣ above, BAΣIΛEOΣ below. CNS II, 142; BAR Issue 33; SNG ANS 708; HGC 2, 1537. Very Fine.(9.77gr, 25mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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Thrace, Maroneia AE 16mm. Circa 398-346 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Horse galloping to right; monogram of ΠΝΚ below / ΜΑΡ-ΩΝΙ-ΤΩΝ, legend around grape arbor within linear square border; monogram of EY below. Evelpidis 962-3; SNG Copenhagen 632; Schönert-Geiss, Maroneia 721-923; BMC -. 4.29gr, 16mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 40, 28 October 2017, lot 129 (professionally cleaned since). Property of a London antiquarian. -
Euboia, Histiaia AR Tetrobol. Circa 196-146 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Wreathed head of the nymph Histiaia to right / The nymph Histiaia seated to right on stern of galley, holding stylis; wing on galley, IΣTI-AIEΩN around. HGC 4, 1525. 1.82gr, 14mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch AE 20mm. Dated year 44 of the Actian Era (AD 13/14). Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus, legatus Augusti pro praetore. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Laureate head of Zeus to right / EΠI ΣIΛANOY ANTIOXEΩN, ram running to right, head to left; star above, ΔM (date) below. RPC I, 4269; McAlee 99. 7.28gr, 20mm, 12h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
