LOT 2617
Sikyonia, Sikyon AR Triobol or Hemidrachm. Circa 100-60 BC.
ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΔΑΣ (Olympiadas), magistrate. Reduced standard. Dove flying to right / Large Σ; ΟΛΥΜ-ΠΙ-Α-ΔΑΣ in three lines across fields; all within incuse square. BCD Peloponnesos 344.1; HGC 5, 217. Near Very Fine.(1.88gr, 14mm, 10h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Indo-Skythians, Azes AR Drachm. Circa 58-12 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
BAΣIΛEΩΣ BAΣIΛEΩN MEΓAΛ AZOY, King on horseback riding to right, wearing cataphractus and holding whip aloft, uncertain Kharosthi letter before horse / Athena standing facing, holding shield on left arm, raising her right hand; monogram to right, Kharosthi "A" to left. Senior 96.10D-13D; HGC 12, 651. 2.16gr, 16mm, 2h.
Very Fine. Double struck.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. Ptolemy I Soter, as satrap, AR Tetradrachm. 323-305 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 323/2-317/1 BC. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on a low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; rose in left field, ΔIO (moneyer's signature) beneath throne. Svoronos -; Zervos Issue 2B; Price 3971 var. (position of O); SNG Copenhagen 7 var. (same). 17.14gr, 27mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy II Philadelphos AR Tetradrachm. 285-246 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
Uncertain mint 20, on Cyprus. Struck circa 261/0 BC. Diademed head to right, wearing aegis / ΠΤΟΛEΜΑΙOΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle with closed wings standing to left on thunderbolt; to left, monogram of ΘΕΩ above ΣI above ΣT. CPE 476; Svoronos -; SNG Copenhagen -. 13.86gr, 27mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Graffito on reverse.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 560, 17 April 2024, lot 271.
