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LOT 3200
Troas, Skepsis AE 12mm. Circa 400-300 BC.
Bearded head of Priapos to right, wearing ivy-wreath / Σ-ΚH, filleted thyrsos; in field to right, eight-rayed star. BMC 24 var. (bunch of grapes); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; cf. Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies Grecques (1883), p. 266, 196 (symbol not visible); Obolos 39, 302. Near Very Fine. Extremely Rare; unpublished variant of a very rare type.(1.19gr, 12mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Troas, Birytis AE 11mm. Circa 350-300 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Head of Kabeiros to left, wearing pileus / B-I P-Y, vertical club, all within laurel wreath. SNG Copenhagen 247-49; SNG von Aulock 1502; Klein 302. 1.08gr, 11mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Sicily, Gela AE Tetras or Trionkion. Circa 420-405 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
ΓΕΛΑΣ, head of the river-god Gelas to right; [barley grain behind neck] / Bull standing to left, head lowered, as if to charge; three pellets (mark of value) in exergue. Jenkins, Gela, Group VIII-IX, 499; CNS 9; HGC 2, 379. 4.64gr, 19mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. From the collection of Mr Carlos Bahamonde, Manchester, UK. -
Kyrenaica, Kyrene. Magas, as King AE 17mm. Circa 282/75-250 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Bearded head of Zeus-Ammon to right, with ram's horn over his ear / K-[Y] PA, palm tree; in field to right, ΔΑ above silphium plant, star in left field. SNG Copenhagen 1261. 5.25gr, 17mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on UK art market. Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
