LOT 2695
South Arabia. Himyar, Dhamar'ali Yuhabirr AR Fraction. Late 1st century BC-early 1st century AD.
Raidan mint. Head of male with curly hair to right / Bearded head of male to right; inscription in South Arabian in fields and below. CAF 3.14iii and 3.21iii; Huth 401-3. Very Fine. Very rare.(0.36gr, 10mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Thea Neotera AE Obol-40 Drachmai. Circa 51-30 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Alexandria mint. Diademed and draped bust to right / KΛEOΠATPAC BACIΛICCHC, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left, M to right. Svoronos 1872; Weiser 184-5; SNG Copenhagen 422-4; Noeske 383. 9.47gr, 21mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV AE 14mm. Circa 9/8 BC-AD 40.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Petra mint; struck circa 6/5 BC. Laureate head to right; [Aramaic letter in right field] / Crossed cornucopiae; X between, O-[H] across fields. Cf. CN 152; cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 57. 2.16gr, 14mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Rare.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Western Asia Minor, uncertain mint AR Diobol. Circa 6th-5th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Possibly Caria, uncertain mint or Ionia, Miletos. Forepart of roaring lion to left / Stellate pattern within incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references including HN Online. 0.98gr, 9mm.
Very Fine. Apparently unpublished and possibly unique.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
The fact that the present coin has the same reverse stellate pattern as the Diobols of Miletos (cf. SNG Kayhan I 462-75 and SNG Copenhagen 953) and some of the silver coins of the satraps of Caria (cf. HN Online 2926), leads us to attribute its origin to one of these two regions.
