| Heritage World Coin Auctions > NYINC Signature Sale 3114 | Auction date: 16 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 33083 Price realized: 2,200 USD (Approx. 2,021 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients BITHYNIAN KINGDOM. Prusias I (ca. 230-182 BC). AR tetradrachm (33mm, 17.01 gm, 12h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Diademed head of Prusias I right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΠΡΟΥΣΙΟΥ, Zeus standing facing, head left, crowning royal name with diadem in right hand, grounded scepter in left; thunderbolt above ME monogram above ANΣ monogram in inner left field. Waddington 9b. Jameson 1387. SNG von Aulock 6878. Cleanly struck with sharp and delicate devices on a broad flan. Even before the Wars of Diadochi had concluded, the region of Bithynia in Asia Minor along the southern coast of the Black Sea had declared its independence from the vast realms ruled by Alexander's successors. Bithynia's kings were part of a native dynasty descended from two Thracian tribes that occupied the region centuries earlier, with admixture of royal Persian blood. Of the early dynasts, Zipoetres, Nicomedes I, and Ziaelas, we know comparatively little, except their evident love for war and plunder. Prusias I, the fourth independent king of Bithynia, was celebrated for his love of Greek culture and his ability to maintain his kingdom's power and prosperity during a time of turmoil in the Hellenistic world. He successfully conducted wars against the Galatians and the Attalid Kingdom of Pergamum, the latter with the help of the great Carthaginian General Hannibal. However, after first granting Hannibal refuge, Prusias was forced to give him up to the Romans, who demanded his surrender; Hannibal took poison in response. The portrait coins of Prusias are among the finest of the Hellenistic series, depicting him with a luxuriant set of chin-whiskers and a self-satisfied smirk. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-bithynian-kingdom-prusias-i-ca-230-182-bc-ar-tetradrachm-33mm-1701-gm-12h-ngc-choice-xf-5-5-4-5/a/3114-33083.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3114-01162024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61356 | Auction date: 29 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 25053 Price realized: 340 USD (Approx. 313 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients BACTRIAN KINGDOM. Euthydemus I (ca. 225-200 BC). AR tetradrachm (28mm, 16.16 gm, 12h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 2/5, Fine Style, brushed. Mint B, ca. 206-200 BC. Diademed head of Euthydemus right, with elderly features / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΕΥΘΥΔΗΜΟΥ, Heracles, nude, seated left on rock, right hand balancing club on knee, leaning back on left hand; KP monogram to lower right. Bopearachchi 12A. HGC 12, 43. From the Dynasty Collection, #208. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-bactrian-kingdom-euthydemus-i-ca-225-200-bc-ar-tetradrachm-28mm-1616-gm-12h-ngc-choice-xf-5-5-2/a/61356-25053.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61356-01292024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61356 | Auction date: 29 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 25010 Price realized: 4,300 USD (Approx. 3,958 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients PARTHIAN KINGDOM. Arsaces I (ca. 247-211 BC). AR drachm (16mm, 4.24 gm, 12h). NGC AU 4/5 - 4/5. Mithradatkart-Nisa(?). Head of Arsaces I left, wearing bashlyk; dotted border / ΑΡΣΑΚΟY / KRNY (Aramaic), Arsaces I seated left on backless throne, with bow in outstretched right hand; MT monogram below throne, dotted border. Shore 2. Sunrise 238. Sellwood 3.1. From the Dynasty Collection, #282. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-parthian-kingdom-arsaces-i-ca-247-211-bc-ar-drachm-16mm-424-gm-12h-ngc-au-4-5-4-5/a/61356-25010.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61356-01292024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61356 | Auction date: 29 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 25001 Price realized: 2,400 USD (Approx. 2,209 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients BITHYNIAN KINGDOM. Prusias II (ca. 182-149 BC). AR tetradrachm (34mm, 16.85 gm, 12h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 3/5. Reduced Attic Standard. Winged-diademed head of Prusias II right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΠΡΟΥΣΙΟΥ, Zeus standing facing, head left, crowning royal name with diadem in right hand, grounded scepter in left; thunderbolt above ME monogram above ΔK monogram in inner left field. HGC 7, 622. SNG von Aulock -. From the Dynasty Collection, #69. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-bithynian-kingdom-prusias-ii-ca-182-149-bc-ar-tetradrachm-34mm-1685-gm-12h-ngc-choice-vf-5-5-3-/a/61356-25001.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61356-01292024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > CSNS Signature Sale 3115 | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 32179 Price realized: 800 USD (Approx. 744 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients SELEUCID KINGDOM. Antiochus Hierax (ca. 242-227 BC). AR tetradrachm (33mm, 16.97 gm, 11h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 4/5, light marks. Mysia, Parium. Diademed head of idealized young king right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / AN-TIOXOY, Apollo seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in right hand, left hand on grounded bow to right; in exergue, AP monogram to left and satyr mask right to right. SC 836.8. Charming rare specimen well-struck on a broad smoky flan. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-seleucid-kingdom-antiochus-hierax-ca-242-227-bc-ar-tetradrachm-33mm-1697-gm-11h-ngc-choice-xf-5-5/a/3115-32179.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3115-05082024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > CSNS Signature Sale 3115 | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 32190 Price realized: 4,000 USD (Approx. 3,721 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients BACTRIAN KINGDOM. Demetrius I (ca. 200-185 BC). AR tetradrachm (34mm, 17.03 gm, 11h). NGC Choice XF★ 5/5 - 4/5, die shift. Diademed, draped bust of Demetrius I right, seen from side, wearing headdress composed of elephant head, ears, trunk, and tusks; dotted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΔHMHTPIOY, Heracles standing facing, nude, crowning himself with wreath in right hand, club cradled in left arm and draped with lion skin; ΦΔΠ monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi Série 1B. SNG ANS 186. HGC 12, 63. Spectacular specimen with stern portrait struck on a luscious broad and toned flan. The unusual elephant headdress worn by Demetrius on this tetradrachm recalls the similar headgear sported by Alexander the Great on early coins of Ptolemaic Egypt, referring to his conquests in northern India. Demetrius also campaigned in India while serving a long apprenticeship under his father, Euthydemus I, as recorded on a dedicatory stone recently discovered north of Ai Khanoum in Afghanistan. After succeeding to the throne, he launched an invasion of northern India that extended Greek control into modern Pakistan. The historian Strabo claims "more tribes were subdued by [Demetrius] than Alexander." https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-bactrian-kingdom-demetrius-i-ca-200-185-bc-ar-tetradrachm-34mm-1703-gm-11h-ngc-choice-xfand-9733-/a/3115-32190.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3115-05082024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
