LOT 3345
South Arabia. Himyar, 'Amdan Bayan Yahaqbid AR Unit. Circa AD 100-120. Raydan mint.
Head to right within linear circle interrupted at top by South Arabian letter y / Small head to right; yanaf-monogram to left, 'sceptre' to right. CAF 3.2bi; Huth 427. Good Very Fine.(1.59gr, 15mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Troas, Gentinos AE 11mm. Circa 350-300 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Female head to right, wearing mural crown; crescent(?) before / Г-Е, bee in linear square. SNG Copenhagen 336 (crescent not mentioned); SNG Ashmolean 1141 (same). 1.41gr, 11mm, 11h.
Very Fine. Very rare mint.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Time of Philip V and Perseus AE Unit. 187-168 BC. Uncertain mint in Macedon.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Laureate head of Zeus to right / MA-KE-ΔO-NΩN, thunderbolt; monogram below. Cf. SNG Copenhagen 1307. 10.15gr, 22mm, 10h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex Münzzentrum Rheinland. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos (Auletes) AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 21 (61/0 BC). Alexandreia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, aegis around neck / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; to left, L KA (date), ΠA to right. Svoronos 1868 (Kleopatra VII); CPE II 1684; SNG Copenhagen 391; DCA2 1149. 13,81gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Toned.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
