LOT 2894
Thrace, Byzantion in alliance with Kalchedon AE 27mm. 300-200 BC.
Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter to right / ΒΥZΑN ΚΑΛΧΑΔ, Poseidon seated to right on rock, holding aphlaston with right hand and transverse trident with left; ΗΡ monogram in inner right field. Schönert-Geiss 1263-1270; HGC 3.2, 1428. Good Very Fine.(10.82gr, 27mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a London, UK, gentleman.
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Seleucid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) AR Tetradrachm. 121/0-97/6 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
Ake-Ptolemais mint; struck circa 121-113 BC. Diademed head to right; within fillet border / ΒAΣΙΛEΩΣ ΑNTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ, Zeus Ouranios, draped, standing facing, head to left, holding star in outstretched right hand and long sceptre in left; crescent above, monogram of ΔΑΡ in field; all within laurel wreath border. SC 2336.2; HGC 9, 1197h. 16.59gr, 30mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Lustrous metal, lightly toned.
Acquired in the USA, November 2010. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 19mm. 9 BC-AD 40.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Petra mint; struck AD 20-40. Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; [H F?] in Aramaic across fields / Crossed cornucopiae; legend in Aramaic between and below. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 114. 4.09gr, 19mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleucid Empire, Antiochos XII Dionysos AE 22mm. 87/6-83/2 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Damaskos mint. Struck 87-86/5 BC. Diademed and draped bust to right / BACIΛEΩC ANTIOXOV EΠIΦANOVC in three lines to right, ΦIΛO-ΠATOPOC KAΛ-ΛINIKOV in two lines to left; Tyche standing to left, holding cornucopia with left hand and palm frond horizontally with right; Π in outer left field. SC 2473; HGC 9, 1327. 6.88gr, 22mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
