Eleventh Session, Commencing at 9.30 Am ANCIENT GOLD COINS
did him little good and he is usually seen as a comically suffering character. His cult was well established in Lampsacus in Mysia, which struck rare Eleventh Session, Commencing at 9.30 am silver tetradrachms with a portrait strongly resembling the evocative image on this rare electrum hekte. ANCIENT GOLD COINS GREEK 3507* Zeugitana, Carthage, (c.300 B.C.), electrum stater (Shekel - didrachm), (7.33 g), obv. head of Tanit to left, crowned with wreath of corn, wearing earring with triple pendants and necklace, dotted border, rev. free horse standing to right, single exergue line below, (cf.S.6465, Jenkins Group VI No.315 [Pl.13], cf.SNG Cop. 988). Well centred, very fi ne. $2,200 3505* Macedon, Kingdom of, Alexander III, (336-323 B.C.), gold Ex D.J.Foster Collection and previously from Spink Noble Sale 40 (lot stater, (8.57 g), Babylon mint, issued 311-305 B.C. during 2594). second satrapy of Seleucus, obv. head of Athena to right in crested Corinthian helmet, ornamented with serpent, M to left, rev. Nike standing to left, holding wreath in outstretched hand, ΒΑ ΣΙΛΕΩΣ and ΛΥ monogram in lower left fi eld, to ROMAN right ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟ[Υ], (cf.S.6702, Price 3691, M.1271, BMC 3691). Some mint bloom, otherwise nearly extremely fi ne and rare. $3,500 Ex D.J.Foster Collection and previously from Spink Noble Sale 41 (lot 2139). 3506* Lesbos, Mytilene, c.454-427 B.C., electrum hekte (2.55 g), Bodenstedt dates 454-443 B.C., obv. bearded head of 3508* Priapus right, wearing tainia, rev.
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