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Auction: 23105 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 25: Ancient Coins Featuring Further Coins From the Cabinet of Robert P. Ball - e-Auction
Lot: 6135

Syria and Phoenicia, A Selection of Bronze Coinage, (5): Seleukid Kingdom of Syria, Antiochus VIII Epiphanes, (121-97BC) AE, Antioch, radiate head right, rev. BASILEIOS ANTIOX[OI]/EPIPHAN[OS] eagle standing on thunderbolt left, transverse sceptre behind shoulder, date-mark off flan, 12h, 5.08g, (Cf. Spaer, 2501-15, 17-21, 24-26) nice contrast with desert patina, details flattened otherwise fine; Demetrius I Soter, AE, Sidon, diademed head right, ME date-mark behind, rev. BASILEIOS/DIMITRIY war-galley left, SIDONION below, Punic inscription 'Of Sidon' in exergue, 12h, 6.08g, (SC, 1666; HGC 9, 829) toned and lustrous, light patina and carbon-spotting, otherwise very fine; Phoneica, Sidon, autonomous issue, AE, turreted head of Tyche right, rev. ZOE[?] (datemark) SIDONOS/THEAS galley sailing left, 12h, 2.69g, (BMC, 179-182) residually lustrous, porous, good to fine; Phoenicia, Aradus, (2), AE, c.135BC, jugate heads of Zeus and Hera right, rev. prow of galley left, Phoenician inscription above and below, 12h, 3.45g, (BMC Phoenicia, p. 35, 292; SNG Copenhagen, 69), flattened, toned, fine to good fine; AE, c.144BC, head of Zeus right, rev. triple pointed ram of galley to right, Phoenician letters above, date below in Phoenician, 12h, 3.98g, (BMC, 135; AUB, 68) nicely toned, brown patina, lustrous, very fine (5)

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