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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Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Xerxes I to Darius II AR Siglos. Circa 486-420 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Type IIIb (early). Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding transverse spear with right hand and bow with left; countermark: 121 / Oblong incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb; BMC Arabia pl. XXV, 9. 5.48gr, 15mm.
Near Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
The numbering of countermarks’ varieties has been done according to the chart published in BMC Arabia, p. cxxxvii. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Phasael. Circa 9/8 BC-AD 40.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Petra mint; struck circa 5/4 BC. Laureate head to right / Crossed cornucopiae; Phaṣa in Aramaic between. CN 118a; Meshorer, Nabataea 64A. 2.37gr, 14mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy II Philadelphos AR Tetradrachm. 285-246 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £96
Tyre mint. Undated issue, struck circa 274 BC. Diademed head to right, wearing aegis / [ΠΤΟΛEΜΑΙOΥ] ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle with closed wings standing to left on thunderbolt; in left field, civic monogram of TYP above club. CPE 561; Svoronos 644; SNG Copenhagen 482-3. 13.58gr, 25mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Banker's mark on obverse, zig-zag 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 274.
