Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Sale 114    28–31 Mar 2017   Gallery Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 4149    SESSION 16 (9.30AM FRIDAY 31ST MARCH)    Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $80
Bid at live.noble.com.au

SYRIA, Coele-Syria, Chalkis ad Libanon, Lysanias as Tetrarch, (40-36 B.C.), AE 20 (6.77 g), obv. diademed head of Lysanias to right, rev. Athena Nikephoros standing left, monogram to right, around only traces of **LUSANIOU TETRARCOU KAI ARCIEREWS*, (S.5898, SNG Cop.415-416, RPC I 4770, BMC 6 [p.280]). Fine dark brown patina with roughness in fields on reverse, a realistic late Hellenistic portrait, scarce.

Ex Dr Adrian Carr Collection and purchased in 2001.

Lysanias was the ruler of the Kingdom centred on Chalkis in Coele-Syria; a district of southern Syria with Phoenicia to the west and Palestine to the south. His father Ptolemy ruled Chalkis from 80 to 40 BC. Lysanias ruled from 40 to 36 BC and was put to death by Antony and the Kingdom given to Cleopatra. Despite this the kingdom was restored to his son Zenodoros 30 - 20 B.C., following the defeat of Antony & Cleopatra; although he in turn subsequently lost part of his Kingdom to Herod the Great in 24 B.C.

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