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LOT 3810
Skythia, Olbia AE 10mm. Circa 325-320 BC.
Laureate head of Apollo to right / Dolphin to right; corn grain above. SNG SHM Moskau 754 corr. (Demeter); SNG Stancomb 358; SNG BM Black Sea 418; cf. HGC 3.2, 1924. Near Very Fine.(0.73gr, 10mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3810
Skythia, Olbia AE 10mm.
Estimate £20 - 40€23 - 46 (for guidance only)$27 - 54 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Lesbos, Unattributed Early Mint BI 1/36 Stater. Circa 500-450 BC.
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £25
Boar’s head to left / Incuse square. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG München -; HGC 6, -; seemingly unpublished. 0.32gr, 7mm, 9h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare; apparently unpublished.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Seleucus IV Philopator AR Tetradrachm. 187-175 BC. Antioch mint.
Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £80
Diademed head of Seleucus IV right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ, Apollo seated left on omphalus, examining arrow held in right hand and resting left on grounded bow, palm branch and wreath in outer left field, Φ in exergue. HGC 9, 580e; SC 1313.6b. 15.11gr, 30mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex Swis collection 2000s. -
Kings of Thrace, Lysimachos AR Drachm. Circa 305-281 BC. 'Kolophon' mint. In the types of Alexander III of Macedon.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £111
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ below, ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ to right, forepart of lion to left above crescent in left field, pentagram below throne. Price L28; Thompson 127. 4.26gr, 18mm, 1h.
About Good Very Fine.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 94, 24 February 2022, lot 276. Acquired on UK art market. Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
