LOT 2998
Thrace. Apollonia Pontika AR Drachm. Circa 470-435 BC.
Facing Gorgoneion with tongue protruding, serpents around / Upright anchor; in field, crayfish to left and A to right. SNG Copenhagen 452; SNG BM Black Sea 157; SNG Bulgaria Russe 2, 120-168; HGC 3.2, 1323. Good Very Fine.(3.03gr, 13mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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Persia, Achaemenid Empire. Time of Artaxerxes II to Darios III AR Obol(?) 4th century BC. Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor (Ionia or Caria?).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Head of Satrap to right, wearing bashlyk / Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding spear and bow. Corfù pl. 4, 3; Sunrise 92 (Uncertain Cilicia). 0.59gr, 12mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AR Sela'-Drachm. Dated RY 33(?) (AD 24/5). Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Long-haired, moustached, laureate and draped bust of Aretas IV to right; inscription in Nabataean around / Jugate draped busts to right of Aretas IV, and Shaqilat; inscription in Nabataean containing date around. Cf. Barkay 172-173. 4.13gr, 15mm, 12h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator, second satrapy and kingship AR Tetradrachm. Struck circa 311-308/5 BC. Uncertain mint 6A, in Bablyonia. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣIΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔ[ΡΟΥ], Zeus seated to left on high-backed throne, legs spread, his feet resting on low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; anchor and monogram of EΠΡ in left field, K beneath throne. SC 67.5c; Price 3437 (Marathus); HGC 9, 10d. 17.16gr, 27mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
