Lot 4819

Description

Persian Imperial Coinage, Kingdom of, Artaxerxes I (475-420 B.C.), silver siglos, (5.45 grams), obv. king as bearded archer kneeling to right with spear and bow, rev. oblong incuse punch, (S.4678, Babelon Pl.86, 11, Carradice Type IIIb); Egypt, Ptolemy VI, (180-145 B.C.), 22mm, hemidrachm, (11.54 grams), obv. Zeus Ammon head to right, rev. eagle standing left on thunderbolt, lotus to left, **EUL* between legs, (S.-, Sv.1399-1401, SNG Cop.294-295). Fine, nearly very fine. (2)

First coin from Downie's Australia, second coin from Romanorum, Canberra.