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LOT 2842
South Arabia. Himyar, 'Amdan Bayan Yahaqbid AR Unit. Circa AD 100-120.
Raydan mint. Head to right within dotted circle interrupted by monogram to left / Small head to right; 'sceptre' to right. CAF 3.4i; Huth 441; SNG ANS 1595. Very Fine.(1.03gr, 14mm, 3h.).
ProvenancePrivate collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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LOT 2842
South Arabia. Himyar, 'Amdan Bayan Yahaqbid AR Unit.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £42
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Lucania, Metapontum AR Didrachm of Nomos. Circa 330-290 BC.
Estimate: £1,800 - 2,400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £900
Struck under the magistrates EY- (Eu-) and ΛY- (Ly-). Head of Demeter to right, wearing grain wreath, pendant earring and pearl necklace; ΕΥ beneath chin / ΜΕΤΑ, ear of barley with leaf to right; above leaf, sixteen-rayed star; in the lower field to left, ΛΥ. ANS 499 (same dies); Johnston C.8.12 (same dies). 7.77gr, 21mm, 1h.
Near Extremely Fine. Attractive toning with iridescence in fields. Well-centred.
Property of a late collector. Ex Vinchon, 11 April 1988, 185. Ex Münzen und Medaillen FPL 342, February 1973, 6. -
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos III Soter (Keraunos) AR Tetradrachm. 225-222 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Antiochia on the Orontes mint. Diademed head of Seleukos III to right / [B]AΣIΛEΩΣ ΣΕΛΕ-ΥΚΟΥ, Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, holding arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him; monogram of ΞΥ to outer left and monogram of ΩΡ to outer right. SC 921.1; HGC 9, 414c. 16.54gr, 28mm, 1h.
Very Fine. Some deposits.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon) AR Tetradrachm. 145-116 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Salamis mint. Dated RY 48 (123/2 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; L MH (date) to left, ΣA to right. Svoronos 1562; SNG Copenhagen 580-1. 13.02gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Private collection, London.
