Lot 3900

Sale 89 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes, The W.G. & L.M. Wright Collection

Description

Phoenicia, Tyre, (c.332-306 B.C.), silver fifteenth shekel (0.66 grams), obv. hippocamp to left, waves below, rev. owl standing to r., carrying crook and flail under wing all within cable border, (S.5916, BMC 43 [p.233]); Carian Islands, Rhodes, (408-390's B.C.), silver hemidrachm (1.75 grams), obv. head of Helios three-quarter face to right with hair loose, rev. rose, to P and to right O, all within incuse square, (S.5030, SNG Finland 366-368 [similar dies], Ashton 19); Constantius Gallus, (A.D. 351-354), AE centenionalis, Alexandria mint, (4.02 grams), obv. bare headed and draped and cuirassed bust to right, around D N FL C L CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, **D* in left field, rev. soldier advancing left spearing fallen horsenman, around FEL TEMP RE PARATIO, in exergue **ALED*, (S.4054, RIC 77). Mostly fine. (3)

Estimate
$100
Result Status
Sold
Prices Realised
$80

Download session catalogue PDF