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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LOT 2840
South Arabia, Himyar. 'Amdan Bayan Yahaqbid AR Unit.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy IV Philopator AE Drachm. 222-205/4 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Tyre mint; struck circa 217-204 BC. Horned head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing tainia with basileion / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle with wings closed standing to left on thunderbolt; club to left, ΔI between legs. CPE B542; Svoronos 1129; SNG Copenhagen -. 73.00gr, 42mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Persia, Alexandrine Empire. Uncertain Satrap AV Double Daric. After 315 BC.
Estimate: £3,000 - 4,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,350
Babylon mint. The Great King, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding transverse spear with right hand and bow with left / Wavy stripes patterned incuse punch. Cf. Nicolet-Pierre, Travaux Le Rider, p. 298, 6 and pl. 30, 6. 16.72gr, 20mm.
Good Very Fine. Test cut on reverse. Areas of weakness. Rare.
Ex Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 182, 14 March 2011, lot 362. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 123, 9 May 2021, lot 873. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochus VII Euergetes (Sidetes) AR Drachm. 138-129 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Tarsos mint. Diademed head to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EYE-PΓETOY, Nike advancing to left, holding wreath in outstretched right hand; monogram of KA above monogram of NE in outer left field. SC 2056.7 = CSE 477 corr. (upper monogram); HGC 9, 1080a. 4.09gr, 18mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Some deposits on reverse. Extremely rare variant with no other examples on CoinArchives.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
