Lot 3454

Description

Greek silver coins, including Lucania, Metapontum, silver stater, (c.335-330 B.C.), (7.52 grams), rev. corn ear with mouse on leaf, (cf.S.416, Johnston A.8.24); Ionia, Pergamon, (c.330-284 B.C.), silver diobol, (1.280 grams), obv. Herakles head right, rev. cult statue of Athena, (S.3942); Phoenicia, Sidon, (342/1 - 332 B.C.), silver eighth shekel, (0.68 grams), obv. war galley, rev. king slaying lion, (S.5940, Betylon 38); Parthia, Mithradates I, (171-138 B.C.), silver drachm, (3.45 grams), Nisa mint, (S.7327, Sellwood 9.2) (holed); and Armenia, Hetoum I, (1226-1270), silver half tram, obv. queen Zabel and king Hetoum facing, rev. lion to right with cross, (Nercessian 346). Fair to fine, three in packets described, most with some degree of impairment, corrosion, hole etc. (5)