Lot 4710

Description

Greek coins, Moesia Inferior, Istros, (400-350 B.C.), silver stater, (4.28 g), obv. two young male heads facing, side by side, left inverted, right upright, rev. sea-eagle standing to left on dolphin to left, which it attacks with its beak, I below tail of sea-eagle, (cf.S.1669); Persian Imperial coinage, Darius I, (521-486 B.C.), silver siglos with countermarks particularly of a lion striding right on the reverse within a rectangle, also has several cuts around edge, (S.4678); Alexander III, AE 15, obv. Apollo, rev. horse prancing right, (S.6744); Parthia, various issues, several of which are probably false, including tetradrachm of Vardanes I, and drachms of Mithradates II and Artabanes III. Egypt, AE of Ptolemy VI under Cleopatra I, (S.7903). First toned, and fine, others nearly fine - very fine. (7)