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[King John]

Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 136, lot 218, 10/03/2018

GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN (GREEK COINS)
CRETA
KYDONIA.
AR-Stater, 330/280 v. Chr.; 8.45 g. Mänadenkopf r. mit Ohrring und Rebenkranz// Der nackte Heros Kydon steht l. auf Standleiste und spannt seinen Bogen, davor steht Jagdhund r. mit erhobenem linken Vorderbein und blickt zu ihm auf, im Feld l. Speerspitze. Svoronos 2, Pl. IX, 2. Von größter Seltenheit. Sehr schön
Exemplar der Auktion Fritz Rudolf Künker 111, Osnabrück 2006, Nr. 6219; der Auktion Peus Nachf. 372, Frankfurt am Main 2002, Nr. 223 und der Auktion Ceresio 3, Lugano 1992, Nr. 105.
Estimate: 1750 EUR

ILLUSTRAZIONE: ARCIERE CRETESE AL SERVIZIO DELL'ESERCITO ROMANO

 

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Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 3	Auction date: 27 October 2018
Lot number: 204 Price realized: 650 CHF   (Approx. 649 USD / 570 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Mark Antony, 44-30 BC. Denarius (Silver, 17 mm, 3.72 g, 6 h), military mint moving with Mark Antony (Patrae?), 32-31. ANT•AVG - III•VIR•R•P•C Galley to right, with scepter tied with fillet on prow. Rev. LEG III Aquila between two signa. Babelon (Antonia) 106. Crawford 544/15. RBW 1839. Sydenham 1217. A splendid, darkly toned piece, well struck and very well centered. Nearly extremely fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Estimate: 250 CHF

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Editions V. Gadoury > Auction 2018	Auction date: 16 November 2018
Lot number: 55
Lot description: Nero 54-68  Sestertius, Rome, 65-66, AE 27.85 g. Avers : NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P Tête laurée à droite. /Revers : PACE P R TERRA MARIQ PARTA IANVM CLVSIT S - C Temple de Janus avec des fenêtres grillagées et guirlande accrochée à travers des portes fermées. Ref : C 152, RIC 323 Conservation : TTB/SUP Starting Price: 1000 EUR

ILLUSTRAZIONE:  ''Apertura della Porta del Tempio di Giano'', incisione di Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) -

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Live Auction 3	Auction date: 25 October 2018
Lot number: 207 Price realized: 40 GBP   (Approx. 52 USD / 45 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Pamphylia, Aspendos Æ14. Circa 400-200 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Slinger standing right; O-Θ across fields. Imhoof KM, 29; Waddington 3218; SNG France 139. 3.34g, 14mm, 12h.  Good Very Fine; much fine detail remaining. Very Rare.  Estimate: 50 GBP

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Stack's Bowers Galleries, January 2013, lot 5032, 8/01/2013

ROMAN EMPIRE
HADRIAN, A.D. 117-138. Gold Aureus (7.36 gms), Rome Mint, A.D. 137.
RIC-232; Calico-1251a (this coin); Sear-3390. "HADRIANVS AVG. COS. III. P. P." Bare head of Hadrian right; Reverse: "DISCIPLINA AVG." Hadrian veiled, advancing right, followed by three soldiers, each bearing a standard. Attractive well rendered artistic portrait of Hadrian. Small scrape on reverse, otherwise pleasant and quite RARE.NEARLY EXTREMELY FINE.

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 102, lot 1075, 18/05/2016

Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Medallion (37mm, 47.82 g, 12h). Rome mint, 4th officina. Special emission, AD 244. IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FELIX AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / MVNIFICENTIA GORDIANI AVG, Colosseum: within, bull on left fighting elephant on right; to left, Fortuna standing facing behind the Meta Sudans, her head left and holding rudder; to right, statue within small temple or shrine. Gnecchi II 23 (pl. 104, no. 6); Banti 54. VF, green and brown patina with patches of red, small areas of roughness.
Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXXII (10 June 1993), lot 339.
In AD 217, the Colosseum was struck by lightning and damaged. Repairs were begun under Elagabalus, but the amphitheater was not deemed usable again until early in the reign of Severus Alexander, as attested by both the Historia Augusta and a special issue of coins depicting the Colosseum. A revival of the Colosseum type on medallions of Gordian III, such as the present specimen, may indicate that restoration work continued as late as AD 238 (see BMCRE VI, p. 54).
On the other hand, the obverse legend of this medallion could point to a later date. J.M.C. Toynbee draws a parallel with another medallion dated to AD 244, which depicts the emperor presiding (metaphorically) over games in the Circus. Toynbee suggests that the Colosseum medallion was also struck to commemorate games presented by the emperor, presumably in honor of his recent Persian victory (see Roman Medallions , pp. 111, 165, & 200).

ILLUSTRAZIONE: SPETTACOLO GLADIATORIO AL COLOSSEO

[King John]

Auctiones GmbH, eAuction 32, lot 28, 21/12/2014

Iudaea, 1st Revolt AE Lepton
Iudaea, 1st Revolt. AE Lepton (16 mm, 2.79 g), year 2 = 67 AD.
Obv. Crater, year 2 in Hebrew.
Rev. Vine-leaf, Freedom of Zion in Hebrew.
SNG ANS 427; Meshorer II, 260, 11.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: LA PRIMA RIVOLTA GIUDAICA DEL 67 D.C.

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Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 170, lot 1410, 13/10/2008

GRIECHEN 
TROAS
OPHRYNION. AE (0,97g). ca. 350 - 300 v. Chr. Vs.: Kopf des bärtigen Zeus(?) n. r. Rs.: ΟΦΡΥ, gewappneter Hektor mit Lanze, Schild und phrygischem Helm n. l. SNG Aul. - ; SNG Cop. 460. RR! Schwarzgrüne Patina, Vs. Kreispunze, ss
Estimate: 120 EUR

 

[Baylon]

2 minuti fa, King John dice:

Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 170, lot 1410, 13/10/2008

GRIECHEN 
TROAS
OPHRYNION. AE (0,97g). ca. 350 - 300 v. Chr. Vs.: Kopf des bärtigen Zeus(?) n. r. Rs.: ΟΦΡΥ, gewappneter Hektor mit Lanze, Schild und phrygischem Helm n. l. SNG Aul. - ; SNG Cop. 460. RR! Schwarzgrüne Patina, Vs. Kreispunze, ss
Estimate: 120 EUR

 

Buongiorno, avrei da chiederti una piccola curiosità: dove posso trovare queste belle illustrazioni, che sono a corredo della moneta? 

[King John]

Adesso, Baylon dice:

Buongiorno, avrei da chiederti una piccola curiosità: dove posso trovare queste belle illustrazioni, che sono a corredo della moneta? 

cercando qua e là....

[Baylon]

10 minuti fa, King John dice:

cercando qua e là....

Bene, vi divertirò ad andare a caccia 

[King John]

Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Auction 284, lot 2317, 26/09/2012

GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN
KÖNIGREICH MAKEDONIEN
PERSEUS. 179-168. AE-20 mm. Kopf des Heros Perseus r. mit geflügeltem Greifenhelm. Rs: Adler frontal auf Blitz, Kopf r. Beizeichen Harpa. Monogramme. SNG COP. 1280. Dunkle, etwas fleckige Patina. vz

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Classical Numismatic Group, Mail Bid Sale 92, lot 404, 16/09/2009

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander I. 498-454 BC. AR Light Tetrobol (2.02 g, 5h). Aigai mint. Struck circa 480/79-477/6 BC. Horse standing right / Helmet right in linear square within shallow incuse square. Raymond group I, 43 (A9/P7); SNG ANS 19 (same dies); SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Saroglos -. Good VF, toned, minor roughness. Rare.
THE EARLY MACEDONIAN KINGDOM and its COINAGE
The paucity of evidence for the early history of the Macedonian region in the Greek authors indicates an apparent disinterest in the region prior to the onset of Philip II. Apart from mythology, in which the region was populated by wild half-humans, Herodotos, in his limited descriptions of this period, interchanges Thrace and Macedon as well as Thracian and Macedonian, so that the entire region and its inhabitants seemed in their origins a nebulous, semi-barbaric group. In fact, the author’s description belied the actual close relationship between the two. A number of tribal groups inhabited the mountainous northern region of Macedon, Paionia, and Thrace; all of them were headed by chieftains who eventually adopted the nominal title of BAΣIΛEYΣ, such as Getas of the Edones (see lot 223 below). At the same time, these groups entered into a monetary alliance based upon a common weight standard, common denominations, and common numismatic designs emphasizing regional mythological associations, such as Ares-Diomedes, Hermes-Apollo, and Dionysos, as well as the inclusion of specific symbols, such as the caduceus. By the end of the Persian wars this alliance weakened, in part because of the internal strife over Medizing, in part because of the rise of the Macedonian royal house.
According to Herodotos (8.137-139), their origin can be traced to three Argive brothers of the house of Temenos and members of the Heraklidai who had invaded the Peloponnesos after the Trojan War. Exiled from their home, they had been forced to wander northward, eventually settling in Lebaia in far northern Macedon, where they hired themselves to the local king out as herders. The youngest of these three, Perdikkas, tended the sheep and goats, considered to be the least important task. An omen, however, demonstrated his future greatness and, upon report to the king, the young men were once again forced into exile. Before leaving, they demanded their due. Replying that they could have the sunlight coming through the smoke hole in the roof, Perdikkas marked the circle of sunlight on the ground with his knife and gathered it up within his garment. Understanding this to mean that the boy would eventually rule all the lands under the son, the king tried to have the young men killed. Saved from this fate, they made their way to Edessa near the region of the Bisaltai (according to the later author Justin, through the agency of a goat, for whom they renamed the city Aigai), and from there established the future Macedonian royal house.
By the end of the sixth century BC, the Macedonian royal house became the influential power in the regional alliance; it had already been in diplomatic contact with the Peisistratid tyranny in Athens. The wars with Persia further extended Macedon’s importance, especially that of its young prince, Alexander I, the son of Amyntas. An astute politician, Alexander deftly maneuvered this precarious situation. Although he early on offered his sister’s hand in marriage to a Persian to offset punishment for his revenge against the high handedness of a Persian embassy in 514-513 BC, Alexander maintained an aloof but cordial relationship with the Persians as they moved through the region in 492 BC, forcing the other tribes to Medize. At the same time, he worked towards a stronger association with the Greeks. Herodotos (9.44) says that on the eve of the battle at Plataia, Alexander entered the Athenian camp to report that a delay in engaging the Persian’s would help to further diminish their already low supplies. In return, he hoped the Greeks (in particular the Athenians) would assist him when the time came, thereby forging a relationship between the rising power in the north with the rising Greek city-state.
As Raymond has cogently argued, the types of Alexander’s coinage reflects the position of the developing Macedonian state. The earliest types draw from those of the Thraco-Macedonian alliance of which Macedon was a part. Uninscribed issues, like our coin, earlier assigned to the Bisaltai must now be assigned to Alexander at the stage at which Macedon remained an equal member of the alliance and had not yet achieved pre-eminent power in the region, since similar issues inscribed with his name are later and fall into the period after the Persian Wars when Alexander, confident in his support from the Athenians after Plataia, began to consolidate Macedonian control over the other tribes.

[dabbene]

Quante belle monete, difficilmente le vedresti o dovresti cercare molto, qui siamo alle prime monete con un cavallo che ricorda anche cavalli rappresentati nelle monete rinascimentali, un modello direi e poi quel formidabile incuso con l’elmo, un gioiello!

[King John]

Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG > Blue Auction 5	Auction date: 24 February 2018
Lot number: 1528 Price realized: 34 EUR   (Approx. 42 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: City Commemorative AD 330-346. Siscia Follis Æ 17mm., 2,53g. CONSTANTINOPOLIS, laureate, and helmeted bust left, wearing imperial mantle and holding sceptre / No legend, Victory standing facing, head left, right foot on prow, holding sceptre and resting hand on shield, mintmark ASIS. good very fine RIC VII Siscia 224; Sear 16468. ILLUSTRAZIONE: VEDUTA DI COSTANTINOPOLI

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Roma Numismatics Limited, E-Sale 41, lot 558, 2/11/2017

Roman Imperial 
Hadrian Ӕ As. Rome, AD 119. IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG, laureate head right / PONT MAX TR POT COS III, Britannia seated facing, foot on rock, resting head on hand and holding sceptre; large shield right; S-C across fields; BRITANNIA in exergue. RIC 577a; BMC 1175; SCBC 635. 7.22g, 25mm, 5h.
Good Very Fine. Very Rare.
The first appearance on a coin of the personification of the Roman province of Britannia was struck early in the reign of Hadrian and presumably commemorates the suppression of an uprising of the northern British tribes that had begun shortly before or after Trajan's death. The trouble on the northern frontier made obvious the need for a strong fortification to mark the northern boundary of Roman Britain, which would eventually manifest itself as the Vallum Aelium (Hadrian's Wall).

ILLUSTRAZIONE: AVVISTAMENTO DI NEMICI SUL VALLO DI ADRIANO IN BRITANNIA

[King John]

Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions > E-Auction 63

Lot number: 524 Sicily, Segesta. Roman protectorate, c. 210-mid 1st century BC. Æ (13.5mm, 2.83g, 9h). Laureate and diademed male bust r. R/ Warrior standing facing, head l., holding rein of horse standing l. in background. CNS I, 53 var. (bust); HGC 2, 1202. Rare variant, VF - Good VF Starting Price: 40 GBP

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Nomos, Auction 17, lot 320, 26/10/2018

European Medals 
ITALY. Padua. Mid 16th Century. Medallion (Bronze, 38 mm, 42.64 g, 7 h), by Giovanni da Cavino (1500-1570), on Marcus Aurelius Caesar. AVRELIVS CAE-SAR AVG PII F COS I Bare-headed and cuirassed bust of Marcus to right, with drapery on his far shoulder. Rev. On the right, Minerva standing to left, resting her left hand on a shield inscribed VIC/AV/G and pointing with her left at Argos, seated to right before a building with an arched door, working on the prow of a galley to his right. Klawans 93, 4. Lawrence 58. Martini 1724-1725 (but both of those are later and rather coarse casts). A particularly sharp, contemporary struck example with a fine brown patina. Extremely fine.
From a European collection and from the collection of L. Stack, Morton & Eden 9 December 2009, 163, ex Stack's Coin Galleries, 18 July 2007, 2091.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: ATENA COLLABORA ALLA COSTRUZIONE DELLA NAVE ARGO DEGLI ARGONAUTI DI CUI POI ADORNERA' LA PRUA CON UNA POLENA APOTROPAICA (PANNELLO IN TERRACOTTA DEL III SEC.A.C.)

 

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Gemini, LLC, Auction VI, lot 784, 10/01/2010

Gallienus. 253-268 AD. AE 25-28, 14.46g. Phoenicia, Tyre. Obv: IMP C P LIC [GAL]LIENVS AVG Bust laureate, cuirassed right, seen from front, fold of cloak on front shoulder. Rx: COL TERO (sic, for TVRIORVM) ME - T Dido (?) standing left in galley sailing left, holding cornucopia (?) in left hand, reaching right hand towards smaller figure bending left in prow of galley, in stern a second small figure, advancing right and reaching right arm back towards Dido's left hand; below galley, on either side of the block of oars descending into the water, two murex shells. This type is known for Elagabalus and Salonina at Tyre, but may be unpublished for Gallienus: not in BM, Cohen, SNG Copenhagen, Lindgren, Berk photofile, CNG Research, CoinArchives, or Wildwinds. The same obverse die was also used with the reverses naked hero before four running stags (lot 785 below) and portable shrine of Astarte (Lindgren III, 1480). cf. BM 410 (Elagabalus) and CNG E-Auction 77, 12 November 2003, lot 93 (Salonina). Fine/VF.
Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection.
Dido is shown supervising the construction of Carthage on other Tyrian coins (see preceding lot), but we do not know for sure whether she is also meant in our galley type, since no text has survived to explain the incident depicted involving the two smaller figures on either side of her. That incident, in any case, seems to be independent of the ship that is carrying the three figures, since the ship is shown sailing right under Elagabalus (BM, pl. XLIV. 8), but sailing left for Gallienus and Salonina. Therefore under Elagabalus the small figure at left bends towards the stern of the ship while the figure at right runs towards the bow, whereas under Gallienus and Salonina the figure on left bends towards the bow and the figure on right runs towards the stern.
Estimate: US$200

ILLUSTRAZIONE: DIDONE ABBANDONATA DA ULISSE, AFFRESCO POMPEIANO

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Classical Numismatic Group, Triton V, lot 38, 15/01/2002

APULIA, Canusium
Estimate $150
APULIA, Canusium . Circa 250-225 BC. Æ Obol (6.86 gm). Bare male head left / KANUSINWN, nude (?) warrior on horseback right, holding long spear pointed forwards. SNG ANS 694; BMC Italy pg. 135, 4; SNG Copenhagen 643; SNG Morcom -; Laffaille -; Weber 448. VF, brown patina, somewhat unevenly struck. ($150)

ILLUSTRAZIONE: CAVALIERE APULO

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Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 250, lot 117, 23/02/2011

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes I. 333-322 BC. Æ (13mm, 1.82 g, 1h). Ariarathes standing right, shooting bow / Ibex standing right. Simonetta -; Simonetta, Coins 1; SNG Copenhagen 139 (Cappadocia, Uncertain Dynast). VF, green patina. Very rare.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection. 

ILLUSTRAZIONE: LA BATTAGLIA DI PLATEA DEL 479 A.C. IN CUI I GRECI SCONFISSERO I PERSIANI DURANTE LA SECONDA GUERRA PERSIANA.

[King John]

Kölner Münzkabinett Tyll Kroha Nachfolger UG, Auction 107, lot 433, 7/10/2017

Part 2: RÖMISCHE PROVINZIALPRÄGUNGEN 
THRAKIEN PHILIPPOPOLIS
Antoninus Pius, 138-161 n. Chr. AE-Hemiassarion Vs.: Kopf mit Lorbeerkranz n. r., Rs.: Protesilaos steht mit Rundschild und Helm n. l. und weist zu Boden Mouchmov 76; Varbanov 747 ("Mars"); RPC online 7445 ("nude warrior (Ares ?)"). 3.85 g. tiefgrüne Patina, fast vz
Protesilaos, erkannt von C. C. Vermeule, Festschrift U. Westermark 341-346, führte das Aufgebot der Thessaler gegen Troja. Das Orakel erfüllend, wonach der erste Angreifer, der trojanischen Boden betritt, sein Leben für die Nachfolgenden lassen musste (Lukian, dial. mort. 19), erlitt er den Tod durch Aineias, Euphorbos, Hektor oder Achates (Ilias II 695-710 XIII 681-684 XV 703-706 XVI 286 u. a. m.).

ILLUSTRAZIONE: TESTA DI ARES, DA UN ORIGINALE GRECO DELLO SCULTORE ALKAMENES DEL 420 A.C. ( SAN PIETROBURGO, HERMITAGE)

 

 

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LHS Numismatik AG, Auction 96, lot 1753, 8/05/2006

Tegea
The coinage of Tegea under the Severans
Estimate: CHF 200.00
Assarion (AE, 7.41 g, 23 mm, 7), c. 198-209. inscription illegible Laureate and heroically nude bust of Septimius Severus to left, seen from behind, holding spear and with shield over his left shoulder. Rev. Kepheos standing facing, nude but for helmet, holding spear in his right hand and resting his left on his shield. NCP p. 109, 3. Very rare. Dark brown patina. Rough surfaces, otherwise, very fine.
Acquired from Bank Leu in November 1978, from the collection of W. Niggeler.

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Leu Numismatik AG (1991-2007), Auction 86, lot 482, 5/05/2003

COINS OF THE JEWS
The Herodians
Herod I, the Great, 40-4
Estimate: CHF 350.00
8 Prutot (AE, 6.48 g 1), Sebaste, year 3 (c. 40-38/7). Helmet with cheek pieces surmounted by a star and flanked by two palm branches. Rev. Tripod with lebes on base; to left, L, to right, monogram of . AJC 1. Bromberg I, 20. Hendin 486(same reverse die). RPC 4901. TJC 44. Attractive earthen patina. Good very fine.
There is a great deal of controversy swirling around this coin. The object on the obverse has been seen as an incense stand, or a pileus on a table, or as a helmet, the identification adopted here; some have viewed the side bearing the tripod as the obverse; and the date is very debatable. Herod was appointed King by the Romans in 40 but only managed to conquer Jerusalem in 37: thus, dating this coin to 37 seems quite reasonable, except that Herod’s year 3 was in 38! Meshorer, and others, date the coin to 40 and suggest that the PT monogram is the abbreviation for Tetrarch, with the result that the whole inscription reads, "King Herod, in his 3rd year as Tetrarch." The RPC rejects this suggestion because it finds it unreasonable for Herod to have retained his previous title after becoming king. For an extensive listing of the tripod dies of this issue (there termed the obverse, see www.menorahcoinproject.org/h_486htm. The one here, as Hendin 486, is R/A-03.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: SOLDATI DI ERODE IL GRANDE