LOT 3160
Troas, Gentinos AE 11mm. Circa 350-300 BC.
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). Very Fine. Very rare mint.(1.41gr, 11mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Xerxes I to Darius II AR Siglos. Circa 485-420 BC. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Possibly type IIIb (early), style B.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Lydo-Milesian standard. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding transverse spear and bow / Oblong incuse punch. Cf. Carradice Type IIIb, Groups A/B (pl. XII). 5.49gr, 16mm.
Near Very Fine. Countermarks on both sides and on rim.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Demetrios II Nikator AE 23mm. Circa 146/5 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Laureate head of Zeus to right / Apollo seated to left on omphalos, testing arrow and resting hand on bow; [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ] ΔΗΜΗΤ[ΡΙΟΥ] in two lines to right, ΘΕΟΥ ΦΙΛΑΔΕ[ΛΦΟΥ] ΝΙΚΑΤΟΡ[ΟΣ] in three lines to left, [monograms] in exergue. HGC 9, 992. 11.94gr, 23mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos X Eusebes Philopator AR Tetradrachm. Circa 94-88 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Diademed head to right, with no sideburn / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΕΥΣΕΒΟΥΣ ΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΟΡΟΣ, Zeus seated to left, holding sceptre with right hand and Nike holding wreath with left; to outer left, monogram of ΣΩ above A; monogram of ΔΙ beneath throne; all within wreath. SC 2429.1c; HGC 9, 1287 corr. (without sideburn). 15.58gr, 29mm, 1h.
Very Fine. Some deposits.
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.
