Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
12 February 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/548
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    214 216 21 Tetradrachm of Carthage, head of Persephone to left ; 7ev. horse’s head and palm-tree, fine 1 Another, but on rev. free horse to right and palm-tree ; Didrachms (2), of same type 3 Himyarite A (2), Persian siglos ; Coins of Thurium, Velia, Arcadia, including some false coins 16 Greek Autonomous and Royal A, varied, some fine 38 Cut and Defaced Greek Coins. Aegina Stater (fourré) and Hemidrachm; Agrigentum Tetra- drachm, and others of Athens (4), including one of Asiatic fabric 7 Staters of Aspendus (3) and Calenderis 4 Tetradrachms of Philip II (3), Alexander III, Mende, early type (Babelon, 1620); and Macedonian Octadrachm of Alexander ] ( fourré ) 6 Staters of Lete (2), one of early type (cf Bab. 1, 1569), fine, the other of slightly later date ; another of Thasos, early 3 Drachms of Sinope (4), varied types ; Staters of Tyre and Aradus 6 Staters of Celenderis, Soli (B. MW. Cat. 2), and Elis, head of Zeus and eagle (Seliman, pl. vil, CR <A), pierced ; also an Incuse Stater of Caulonia, early 4 Cilician Staters of Datames, facing head of Arethusa, 7ev. bearded head of warrior ; and Mazaeus, Baal enthroned, vev. lion killing stag (1), lion attacking bull (3 var.) 5 Others of Mazaeus, bust of Athena Megarsis, 7ev. Baal enthroned (3 var.) ; Baal, rev. two lines of turreted wall, above, lion killing bull 4 Stater of Nagidos, Aphrodite seated to left, and Eros flying towards her, rev. Dionysos Pogon standing to left, Al, fine and rare; and Drachm of Tyre, with owl and Melkart on hippocamp 2 Roman Family Denarii (6), found on site of Spanish ruins; J.on- don short-cross Penny of Henry II; Shillings of George III and V; Sixpence, 1888 ; two Almoravid Dirhems (2), etc. 15
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