LOT 2840
South Arabia, Himyar. 'Amdan Bayan Yahaqbid AR Unit. Circa AD 100-120.
Raidan mint. Bare head to right, within plain border terminated by arrowhead / Small head to right; YNF monogram in left field; South Arabian legend: 'MDN BYN (king's name) above, RYDN (mint) below, 'sceptre' symbol to right. CAF 3.2ai; Huth 430-1 corr. (obv. border interrupted); SNG ANS 1582-94. Good Very Fine.(1.09gr, 13mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Thea Neotera AE Obol-40 Drachmai. Circa 51-30 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Alexandria mint. Diademed and draped bust to right / KΛEOΠATPAC BACIΛICCHC, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; double cornucopiae to left, M (mark of value) to right. Svoronos 1872; Weiser 184-5; SNG Copenhagen 422-4; Noeske 383. 7.95gr, 20mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 20mm. 9 BC-AD 40.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Petra mint; struck AD 20-40. 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. 3.71gr, 20mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Thrace, Abdera AR Tetrobol. Circa 336-311 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
ΙΠΠΩΝΑΞ(?) (Hipponax), magistrate. ΑΒΔΗ-[Ρ]ΙΤΕΩ[Ν], griffin springing to left ΕΠΙ ΙΠΠ[ΩΝΑΚΤΟΣ?], laureate head of Apollo to right; above, scallop shell. Cf. May 544; HGC 3.2, 1227i. 2.56gr, 15mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
