Lot 4923

Description

Ancient silver and bronze issues including, Ancient British, Celtic coinage, Iceni, Ecen symbol type coinage, silver unit, obv. double crescent emblem, rev. celticized horse to right, dots above and below (S.436, Van A 752-1, noted as ER, BMC 4297-4325); Parthia, Kingdom of, Artabanos III, (c.A.D. 80-81), silver drachm, Ecbatana mint, obv. square bearded bust to left, wearing diadem, hair and beard in straight lines, rev. archer enthroned to right, mint mark below, (S.5826, Sell.74.6); Hadrian, billon tetradrachm of Alexandria; Sassanian silver drachm; counterstamped issues of Trajan and Severus Alexander; a series of Parthian dichalkoi (12); others including a papal lead seal of Urban VII, 1590. Toning, poor - nearly extremely fine, many scarce. (22)