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Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens and Histo... (6 February 1998)

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Lot 1

Italy, Italy, Lucania, Metapontum (525-510 BC), Stater, 7.698 gms, ear of corn; met to left, reverse ear of corn incuse (Noe 11; S 235). Some crystallisation to fabric, ragged edge but otherwise good very fine (£120-150)

Sold for £160

Lot 2

Italy, Lucania, Sybaris (525-510 BC), Stater, 6.49 gms, bull standing l., looking back, reverse the same, incuse, but standing right. (BMC 1; S 245). Rare, heavily crystallised, good fine (£80-100)

Sold for £200

Lot 3

Italy, Lucania, Sybaris (525-510 BC), Stater, 5.40 gms, as last, but one third broken off. Crystallised but otherwise about extremely fine (£80-100)

Sold for £100

Lot 4

Macedonian Kings, Alexander the Great (336-323), Tetradrachms (3), Amphipolis, Pella and uncertain (Pr 112, 236, --) [3]. Fine (£100-120)

Unsold

Lot 5

Thracian Kings, Lysimachus (323-281), Tetradrachm, Pergamum, head of Alexander the Great, reverse Athena (Thompson 224). About very fine (£140-160)

Lot 5

Sold for £180

Lot 6

Thrace, Thasos (after 148 BC), Tetradrachms (2), head of Dionysos, reverse Herakles (BMC 72) [2]. Fine, one cut (£80-100)

Sold for £60

Lot 7

Egypt, Ptolemy II (285-246 BC), Tetradrachms (6), Sidon Mint [6]. About fine, some countermarked (£60-80)

Sold for £75

Lot 8

Ancient Jewish Bronze Prutot (81), mainly of the Procurators (81). Some fine (£80-100)

Sold for £160

Lot 9

Egypt, Ptolemaic Kings, late Tetradrachms (6), all Paphos mint, and bronzes (11) [17]. Many fine (£60-80)

Sold for £110

Lot 10

Parthia, Tetradrachms (3), Phraates IV (Sellwood 51), Tiridates I ( S 55. 3) and Gotarzes II (S 65.25) [3]. Last good very fine, others fair to fine (£100-120)

Sold for £75

Lot 11

Indo-Scythic, Azes I (57-35 BC), Drachm, Bannu mint, King standing left, reverse Nike advancing holding wreath (M 738), very fine, scarce, Tetradrachm, King on horseback right with couched spear, reverse Zeus standing left holding thunderbolt & sceptre (M 749) [2], small amount of corrosion on obverse, very fine (£60-80)

Sold for £55

Lot 12

Ancient India, late Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythic bronze coins (110). A few fine (£60-80)

Sold for £50

Lot 13

Ancient India, Kabul Valley, bronze coins (3), with types of the last Bactrian King Hermaeus [93]. From an old hoard, mainly about fine (£100-120)

Unsold

Lot 14

Ancient India, A collection of Bronze coins (approximately 100), mostly of the late Kushan period but some later [Lot]. Fair to fine (£120-180)

Unsold

Lot 15

Kushan Kings of N.W. India (c. 2nd century AD), bronze coins (110), many Kanishka and later. Good to fine (£60-80)

Sold for £65

Lot 16

India, Kushan, late Stater, 3rd to 4th Century AD, Kidera type. About very fine (£80-100)

Sold for £110

Lot 17

Greek Silver Coins (4), Didrachms of Velia, plated, Neapolis, a Stater of Corcyra, and a Leucas Stater of Corinthian type. About fine (£100-120)

Sold for £80

Lot 18

Miscellaneous Ancient coins (27), Greek AR (8), including a Ptolemaic tetradrachm, Alexander III drachm, a Thurium Stater and sixth-staters (5), Greek Æ’s, some identified (15); Roman AEs (3); plus a German medallet of a cat; Brazil 100-Réis, 1859 [29). The Æ’s mostly poor to fine, the Greek mostly very fine or better (£140-160)

Sold for £180

Lot 19

Miscellaneous Ancient Coins (40), including Tetradrachms of Alexander III and Ptolemy, Roman Imperial silver (2), plus bronzes of Greece (4), and Rome (36), including Asses of Agrippa (2), a Sestertius of Trajan (Danube bridge) [40]. Mostly fine (£120-150)

Sold for £150

Lot 20

Greek Bronze Coins (55), mainly Hellenistic Kings [55]. Some fine (£80-100)

Sold for £110

Lot 21

Greek Bronze Coins (136). A few fine (£120-140)

Sold for £200

Lot 22

Greek Bronze Coins (63), Macedonian Kings (30), Sicily (11), others (22) [63]. Some fine (£100-120)

Sold for £200

Lot 23

Roman Republic (240-225 BC), Æ Quadrans, head of Hercules left, three dots behind, reverse prow right, three dots below (Cr. 35/4; Vecchi/Thurlow 54). Green patina, scarce, very fine (£120-160)

Sold for £120

Lot 24

Roman Republic, Denarii (58), various [58]. Many impaired, few fine (£100-120)

Sold for £180

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