Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 1



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                        Lot: 259

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                        ARABIA OR THE PERSIAN GULF REGION: Uncertain mint. 
                        3rd-2nd century BC. AR tetradrachm (15.93 gm).

                        ARABIA OR THE PERSIAN GULF REGION. Uncertain mint. Third 
                        to second century BC. Silver tetradrachm (15.93 gm). 
                        Head of young Heracles right in lion skin, of barbarous 
                        style / Barbarized legend, crude Apollo seated left on 
                        omphalos, examining arrow held in right hand and resting 
                        left hand on grounded bow. Unpublished. Nearly very fine 


                        Like the preceding, this tetradrachm combines 
                        Alexandrine and Seleucid iconography, but this time it 
                        is the obverse type that is Alexandrine and the reverse 
                        type that is Seleucid. The imitative legend on the 
                        reverse is reduced to a zigzag on the right, but a 
                        prominent X before Apollo's feet suggests an illiterate 
                        attempt to replicate a legend naming an Antiochus. 
                        Estimated Value: $ 500 




...Sold for $425 USD [ approx 323 EUR, 225.25 GBP ] plus 15% buyers fee. 

Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 

Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) 
                      and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com).