Auction 259 September 2024 - Day 2 Netherlands and colonies single lots

Satraps of Caria, 351-344 BC, AR Tetradrachm (15,08gr, 23mm). Halikarnassos, head of Apollo facing slightly right, wearing laurel wreath, drapery around neck / Zeus Labraundos standing right, wearing chiton and himation at his waist and wrapped around his left arm, holding labrys and inverted spear; E between foot and spear, IΔPIEΩΣ to right, BMC 183,1 | SNG Aulock 8046 | SNG Kayhan 880, EF+ à EF, rare, Münzen & Medaillen GmbH, Auction 49...

Philip II (359 – 336) and posthumous issues, 336-326 BC, AR Tetradrachm (14,43gr, 24mm). Amphipolis, laureate head of Zeus rirght / horseman riding right, holding palm branch and bridle with bee and prow below, Le Rider 469-470 (unlisted reverse die) | SNG ANS 556-559. Old cabinet tone, VF, Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 123, Lot 213, 09.05.2021

Bactria, 323-315 BC, AR Drachm (3,39gr, 15mm). Sophytes or Andragoras, head of Athena to right, wearing modified Attic helmet, disc earring and pearl necklace / eagle standing left with head right, above grape bunches on stalk, Mitch. 26c | Nicolet-Pierre et Amandry, RN (1994), 56 (this piece). Patinated. EF, very rare, Elsen Auction 148, Lot 87, 11.09.2021 | Elsen public sales 32, 11.12.1993, 202 | NFA, New York, Sale 25, 29.11.1990, 200

Ptolemy I Soter (323-283), 310-305 BC, AR Tetradrachm (15,69gr, 27mm). Alexandria, head right, wearing elephant headdress, mitra, and scaly aegis tied before neck / Athena advancing right, brandishing spear in right hand, shield on raised left arm; HP monogram in inner right field, Corinthian helmet right above eagle standing right on thunderbolt to lower right, with closed wing and AΛEΞΑΝΔPOY left, CPE 65 | Svoronos 170 | Jenkins, ANSMN 9 (...

Lucania, a. 300 BC, AR Nomos (7,94gr, 21mm). Herakleia, head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet, bowl decorated with Scylla hurling stone, earring and necklace, with behind K / Heracles standing facing, holding club, lion's skin and bow with arrow; in upper left field, jug and AQA, at right HPAKLHIWN, van Keuren 85 | HN Italy 1384. Unusually well centred and with a lovely old cabinet tone, aEF, Hirsch Nachf., Auction 272, Lot...

Ptolemy II Philadelphos (285-246), 260-246 BC, AE Obol (9,19gr, 21mm). Alexandria, CPE B211 | Svoronos 424 | SNG Copenhagen -, gVF

Ionia, Herognetos, son of Zopyrion, magistrate, a. 150 BC, AR Tetradrachm (17,04gr, 30mm). Magnesia ad Meandrum, diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, wearing stephane, hair tied in knot at back of head, bow and quiver over left shoulder / Apollo, nude, standing left on maeander pattern, laurel branches downward in right hand, leaning on tripod with left arm, all within wreath, SNG von Aulock 7921 | SNG Copenhagen -. Lustrous | Jones...

Antiochos VI (144-142), 144-143 BC, AR Drachm (3,94gr, 19mm). Antioch, HGC 9, 1036a | SC 2002.2a. Very clearly struck | hairline flan crack as is nearly always the case for this issue, EF, Nomos Web, Auction 19, Lot 451, 08.05.2021

Ptolemaic kings of Egypt, Ptolemy VIII (146-116), 121-120 BC, AR Tetradrachm (14,41gr, 26mm). Alexandria, Svoronos 1524 | SNG Copenhagen -, EF, very rare, Bertolami, Auction 9, Lot 281, 29.04.2014

Cleopatra III & Ptolemy IX, Soter II, 116-115 BC, AR Tetradrachm (14,33gr, 26mm). Alexandria, Svoronos 1660 | SNG Copenhagen 348. Dated year 2, VF

Islands of Caria, 88-42 BC, AR drachm (4,14gr, 20mm). Rhodos, Ashton & Weiss 138-151 var | (A36/P- unrecorded reverse die) | BMC 337-8 (same obverse die) | SNG Keckman 742 (same obverse die). Wonderful and bold three-quarter depiction of Helios | exceptionally well-struck, EF, Obolus Web Actuion 19, Lot 370, 08.05.2021