Catalogued As Anted (S.379; ABC.2066)
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ANCIENT COINS GREEK 1001. Thracian Kingdom, Lysimachos, posthumous gold stater, Byzantion, 2nd century BC, head of Alexander the Great with horn of Ammon r., rev. Athena seated l., on throne, holding Nike, monogram in left inner field, trident in exergue, wt. 8.26gms. (Thompson-Müller 154),good very fine or better £600-800 ROMAN 1002. Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), Æ sestertius, Rome, AD. 140/144, ANTONINVS AVG PI-VS P P TR P COS III, laur. bust r., rev. ROMAE AETERNAE / S C, decastyle temple on three-tiered base, Roma enthroned seated at apex of roof, two Victories holding out diadems to l. and r., wt. 28.23gms. (RIC.622; BMC.1281), good very fine, some areas of smoothing but a very attractive piece £1500-1800 1003. Septimius Severus (AD 193-211), aureus, Rome mint, AD 210, SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laur. head r., rev. P M TR P XVIII COS III P P, Victory advancing r., head l., leading child by the hand, and carrying trophy over shoulder, wt. 7.08gms. (RIC.IV 237; Calicó 2517), a few scrapes and marks, otherwise nearly very fine, rare £3500-4000 BYZANTINE 1004. Leo IV (AD 775-780), gold solidus, Constantinople mint, Leo IV and Constantine VI, wearing crown and chalmys, seated facing on double throne, rev. facing busts of Leo III and Constantine V wearing crown and loros, wt. 4.40gms. (Sear 1584), a little double struck, large flan, good very fine £320-350 ANCIENT COINS ISLAMIC COINS 1005. Umayyad, temp. Sulayman, silver dirham, Sabur 98h, wt. 2.89gms. (Klat 429), good extremely fine £50-60 1006. Abbasid, al-Rashid (170-193h), dinar, no mint (Misr) 186h, citing Ja’far (A.218.11; Bern.69), very fine £120-150 1007. Abbasid, al-Radi, silver dirham, Madinat al-Salam 329h, citing heir Abu’l Fadl, wt. 3.11gms. (A.255.2), good very fine, scarce £60-80 1008 1009 1008. Abbasid, al-Musta’sim (640-656h), dinar, Madinat al-Salam 643h, wt. 4.29gms. (A.275), pierced, fine £100-120 1009. Hafsid, abu Yahya Abu Bakr II (710-747h), gold dinar, Qafsa?, undated, post 735h, wt. 4.74gms. (A.507.2; Haz.587), very fine, rare £250-300 1010 1011 1010. Ikhshidid, ‘Ali b. al-Ikhshid, silver dirham, Filastin 353h, wt. 3.52gms. (A.676; Bacharach 193), good very fine for issue £80-100 1011. Ikhshidid, Ahmad b. ‘Ali, silver dirham, Filastin 358h, citing gov. al-Husayn b. ‘Ubayd Allah, wt. 3.60gms. (A.683), fine, very rare £200-300 ISLAMIC COINS ISLAMIC COINS 1012. Fatimid, al-Amir, gold dinar, al-Mu’izziya al Qahir 520h, wt. 4.23gms. (A.729; Nicol 2562), brilliant, good extremely fine and rare £350-450 1013. Fatimid, al-Fa’iz, gold ¼ dinar or tari, Misr 553h, wt. 0.55gms. (A.741A; Nicol 2678), slightly ragged around the borders, otherwise about extremely fine and very rare £350-450 1014. Barhi Mamluk, Barquq, dinar, al-Qahira 784h, wt. 8.44gms. (A.972), good very fine £300-400 1015. Amirs of ‘Aththar, Abu’l-Hasan ‘Ali b. Muhammad (fl. AH.368-370/979-981 CE), gold dinar, date unclear (A.D1070), some weakness on outer legends, very fine and very rare £700-900 1016. Zuray’id, Muhammad b. Sabai (533-550h), dinar, ‘Adan 549h?, wt. 2.41gms. (A.1080), slightly crimped, very fine £150-200 ISLAMIC COINS ISLAMIC COINS 1017. Ayyubid Rulers in the Yemen, al-Mu’azzam Turanshah, debased gold dinar, ‘Adan 573h, wt. 2.21gms. (A.A1087), good very fine, extremely rare £650-850 1018. Dulafid, ‘Umar b. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz, dirham, Isfahan 281h, wt. 3.08gms. (A.1400), good very fine, rare £120-150 1019. Buwayhid, Rukn al-Dawla, dinar, Hamadhan 337h, citing Imad al-Dawla as overlord, wt. 4.55gms. (A.1546), good very fine and scarce £200-300 1020. Buwayhid, Rukn al-Dawla, dinar, Hamadhan 355h, wt. 3.65gms. (A.1546), extremely fine £300-400 ISLAMIC COINS BRITISH COINS BRITISH COINS 1021. Celtic coinage, Gallo-Belgic issues, class A, Bellovaci, gold stater, mid 2nd century BC, broad flan, left type, large devolved Apollo head l., rev. horse l. (crude disjointed charioteer behind), rosette of pellets below, wt. 7.10gms. (S.2; ABC.4; VA.12-1), fine/fair, rare £600-700 *ex DNW auction, December 2007 1022. Celtic coinage, Regini, gold ¼ stater, c. 65-45 BC, weak ‘boat’ design, two or three figures standing,rev . raised line, other lines at sides, wt. 1.73gms. (S.39A; ABC.530; VA.-); gold ¼ stater, c.65-45 BC, mostly blank obverse, one diagnostic raised point, rev. indistinct pattern, possibly a ‘boat’ design, scyphate flan, wt. 1.46gms. (cf. S.46; ABC.536; VA.1229-1), the first fair, the second with irregular crude flan, minor flan cracks, very fine or better (2) £200-300 The second found near Upway, Dorset, 1994. 1023. Celtic coinage, early uninscribed coinage, ‘Eastern’ region, gold ¼ stater, trophy type, 1st century BC, small four-petalled flower in centre of otherwise blank obverse with feint bands, rev. stylised trophy design, S-shaped ornaments and other parts of devolved Apollo head pattern, wt. 1.40gms. (cf. S.47; ABC.2246; cf. VA.146-1), reverse partly weakly struck, very fine £250-350 ISLAMIC COINS BRITISH COINS 1024. Celtic coinage, Catuvellauni, Addedomaros (c.45–25 BC), gold stater, six-armed spiral wreath pattern, three crescents at centre, rev. horse r., A∪∪II above, cornucopia below, pellets and pellets within rings in field, wt. 5.47gms. (S.201; ABC.2517; VA.1620-1),porous flan on reverse, very fine £400-500 1025. Celtic coinage, Catuvellauni, Tasciovanus (c.25 BC - AD 10), gold ¼-stater, cruciform wreath patterns, two curved and two straight, two crescents back to back in centre, pellet in centre and in angles, rev. horse r., bucranium above, wt. 1.36gms. (cf. S.222; ABC.2592; cf. VA.1694-1), good very fine, scarce £250-350 *ex DNW auction, December 2007, CCI 03.0888 1026. Celtic coinage, Dobunni, Eisu(?), gold stater (c. AD 20-43), tree with horizontal branches, rev. horse r. with wide-spread legs, three pellets (?) above, star and wheel below, wt. 5.37gms. (S.381[?]; ABC.2075/8[?]; VA.1105[?]), lightly cleaned, fine, rare £400-500 *ex Clarendon Collection, Bonhams, March 2006, where it was catalogued as Anted (S.379; ABC.2066) Attribution to either Anted or Eisu is uncertain as there is virtually no legend visible, but the dies mostly closely match BMC.3042 (Eisu). 1027. Celtic coinage, Corieltauvi (N E Coast), gold stater, ‘kite’ type, late 1st century BC, some traces of devolved Apollo head wreath pattern, rev disjointed horse l., diamond-shaped ornament above containing pellets, wheel to l., part of spiral below, wt. 5.18gms. (S.392; ABC.1761; VA.825-1), nearly very fine, rare £250-350 BRITISH COINS BRITISH COINS 1028 1029 1028. Early Anglo-Saxon (c.700), Continental series, sceatta, series E, ‘porcupine’, rev. TOT II, in standard, + below (S.790; N.48), toned, sharp extremely fine £120-150 Bt. M. Trenerry, Feb./March list, 2013, B78 1029. Early Anglo-Saxon (c.700), Continental series, sceatta, series E, ‘porcupine’, rev. TOT II in beaded standard, emblems around and + below (S.790; N.48), good very fine £100-140 *ex SCMB Jan. 1972 (H. 2351) Spink (Patrick Finn) ticket, 1990 [£170] Baldwin Auction, 8 May 2013 (lot 2137) 1030. Mercia, Offa, penny, light coinage (c.780-792), Ealmund, bust r., rev. EALMVND, lozenge with flower in centre, wt. 1.08gms. (S.905; N.308), darkly toned, a little weak on head, very fine or better £1750-2000 1031. Mercia, Coenwulf, penny, c.810-821, East Anglian mint, bust right with curly hair, rev. PIHTREP around crosses on lozenge with annulets in centre, wt. 1.20gms. (S.920; CSE 12-7), artificial toning and crinkled, good fine, very rare £550-650 1032. Eadgar (959-975), penny, portrait type (BMC Vb), Baldwin, diademed bust r., rev. BALDVVIN MONETA, small cross in centre, small cross and three pellets in field, wt. 1.18gms. (S.1138; N.750; BMC - [this coin illustrated on p.167]), cracked across centre, edge chipped, otherwise good very fine, extremely rare £1100-1300 *ex V. J. E. Ryan, Glendining, 22-24 January 1952, lot 799 ex E. H. Wheeler, Sotheby, 12-14 March 1930, lot 40 ex P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton, Sotheby, 11-13 November 1918, lot 170 ex E. W. Rashleigh, Sotheby, 21 June - 1 July 1909, lot 276 ex Baldwin’s vault BRITISH COINS BRITISH COINS 1033 1034 1035 1033. Aethelred II (978-1016), penny, last small cross type, Winchester, Brunstan, diademed bust l., rev. +BYRVNSTN ON PIN, small cross (S.1154; N.777; SCBI Copenhagen 1405 [same dies]; BMC.-; Hildebrand 4180-4181), toned, very fine £250-350 *ex Glendining Auction, 17 June 1964, lot 375 (part) Spink Auction 6, 10-11 October 1979, lot 340 1034. Cnut, cut halfpenny, pointed helmet type (c.1024-1030), Lincoln, Iustein, helmeted bust l. with sceptre, rev. + IVS..............[N]COL, voided short cross, annulets in angles (cf. S.1158; cf. N.787; cf. SCBI Copenhagen 1663 [same dies]), cracked, otherwise very fine £60-80 *ex Baldwin Auction 62, 29 September 2009, lot 193 1035. Cnut, penny, short cross type (c.1029-1035), Lincoln, Wulfric, diad. bust l. with sceptre, rev. + PVLFRIC ON LIN, short voided cross (S.1159; N.790), unusually sharp portrait, extremely fine £200-250 Bt. W. A. Nicholls, August 2007 1036 1037 1038 1036. Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), penny, trefoil quadrilateral type, Canterbury, Brunman, diademed bust l. with sceptre, rev. + BRVNMAN ON CENT, short voided cross, quadrilateral in centre with trefoils at corners (S.1174; N.817), slight curvature of flan, good very fine £500-600 *ex R.