LOT 3040
South Arabia. Himyar, 'Amdan Bayan Yahaqbid AR Unit. Circa AD 100-120. Raydan mint.
Head to right within circular torque / Small head to right; yanaf-monogram to left, 'sceptre' to right. CAF 3.2ai; Huth 429. Very Fine.(1.27gr, 15mm, 2h.).
ProvenancePrivate collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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Thrace, Byzantion in alliance with Kalchedon AE 26mm. 300-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter to right; c/m: monogram within incuse square / ΒΥZΑNT ΚΑΛΧΑ[...], Poseidon seated to right on rock, holding aphlaston with right hand and transverse trident with left; ΔΑ in inner right field. Cf. Schönert-Geiss 1257-1262 (ΚΑΛΧΑΔΩ); HGC 3.2, 1428. 9.33gr, 26mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Phrygia, Apameia AE 23mm. Circa 88-40 BC. ΑΝΤΙΦΩΝ ΜΕΝΕΚΛΕΟΥΣ (Antiphon, son of Menekles), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / AΠAME[ΩN], eagle, with star above, alighting on base of maeander pattern flanked by caps of the Dioscuri; ΑΝΤΙΦΩΝ ΜΕΝΕΚΛΕ[ΟΥΣ] below. SNG Copenhagen 164; HGC 7, 670. 10.10gr, 23mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Thrace, Maroneia AE 15mm. Circa 398-346 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Horse prancing to right; monogram below / ΜΑΡ-ΩΝΙ-ΤΩΝ, legend around grape arbor within linear square border; monogram below. Evelpidis 962-3; SNG Copenhagen 632; Schönert-Geiss, Maroneia 721-923; BMC -. 3.85gr, 15mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 86, 8 July 2021, lot 424 (since professionally cleaned). Property of a Middlesex, UK, antiquarian.
