LOT 3102
Sicily, Syracuse AE Tetras(?) Time of Dionysios II, 367-357 BC. 'Kainon' issue.
Griffin springing to left / [KAINON], horse galloping to left, with trailing rein. Campana 1 ('Kainon'); CNS I, p. 249, 1 ('Kainon'); HGC 2, 509 ('Kainon'). Very Fine.(10.15gr, 22mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
From the collection of Mr Carlos Bahamonde, Manchester, UK.
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LOT 3102
Sicily, Syracuse AE Tetras(?)
Estimate £30 - 40€35 - 46 (for guidance only)$41 - 54 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) AE 19mm. 121-110 BC. Antioch mint.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Diademed and radiate head to right / [B]AΣIΛEΩ[Σ] ANTIOX[OY EΠIΦANOYΣ], eagle standing to left, sceptre under far wing, date and symbols off flan/obscured. Cf. SC 2300.2; HGC 9, 1212; DCA 279. 4.96gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Purchased from Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, September 2009. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 104, 15 December 2022, lot 522. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. -
Lydia, Thyessos AE 18mm. Circa 400-300 BC.
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Laureate head of Zeus Ammon to left / Eight-rayed star, Θ-Y above. GRPC Lydia 3; BMC 3 (Troas, Thymbra); SNG von Aulock 1584 (same). 5.24gr, 18mm, 3h.
Very Fine. Very rare city.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
For the reattribution of this coinage from Thymbra in Troas to Thyessos in Lydia, see D. S. Lenger, Thyessos in Lydia, not Thymbra in the Troad in D. Boteva, ed., Ex nummis lux: Studies in Ancient Numismatics in Honor of Dimitar Draganov (Sofia, 2017). -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 18mm. Struck AD 20-40. Petra mint.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; [H-F?] in Aramaic across fields / Crossed cornucopiae; legend in Aramaic between and below. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 114. 3.95gr, 18mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the private collection of Mr Brian Edwards, New Malden, Surrey, UK, formed from the late 1970s-early 1980s; thence by descent.
