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Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 58	Auction date: 20 June 2019
Lot number: 1122
Lot descrition: Antoninus Pius AR Denarius. Rome, AD 144. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right / ANNONA AVG, modius with two corn ears and two poppies. RIC 62a; RSC 33. 3.63g, 18mm, 1h.  Good Very Fine; light tone over highly lustrous metal. From the inventory of a UK dealer. Estimate: 65 GBP

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Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 8	Auction date: 29 June 2019
Lot number: 1714
Lot description: Isaac I Comnenus, 1057-1059. Histamenon (Gold, 26 mm, 4.42 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. +IhX IIC RЄX RIςNANTҺIm Nimbate Christ enthroned facing, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. +ICAAKIOC RACIAЄVC PωM Isaac I Comnenus, bearded, standing facing in military attire, wearing crown with pendilia, holding sword upwards in his right hand and placing his left on scabbard. DOC 2. SB 1843. Good very fine. Starting Price: 200 CHF

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Nomisma S.p.a. > Auction 59	Auction date: 14 May 2019
Lot number: 158 Price realized: 260 EUR   (Approx. 292 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Marco Antonio - Denario (32-31 a.C., zecca itinerante con Antonio in Oriente) Nave a d. - R/ LEG IX, aquila legionaria tra due insegne - Cr. 544/23 AG (g 3,66) Graffietto ma buon esemplare centrato   BB+   Starting Price: 200 EUR

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 446	Auction date: 19 June 2019
Lot number: 210
MACEDON, Koinon of Macedon. Pseudo-autonomous issue. temp. Gordian III, AD 238-244. Æ (26mm, 10.33 g, 7h). Diademed head of Alexander the Great right / Lion walking right; club above. AMNG III 583. VF, silvered in antiquity. Estimate: 100 USD In questo giorno, il 10 giugno del 323 a.C. moriva a Babilonia Alessandro il Grande https://jt1965blog.wordpress.com/2019/06/10/morte-di-alessandro-13-giugno-323-d-c/?fbclid=IwAR1GBQOTBvAwko3pWl8AFgDgtfpqbOlmlqG_5t39XKkT-1yO5m0xtTm1UmQ

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Nomos, Auction 7, lot 116, 15/05/2013

GREEK COINS
Cyclades
Naxos. Late 3rd-mid 2nd century BC. Didrachm (Silver, 7.83 g 1), Leokr(ates), c. 250 BC. Head of bearded Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath. Rev. NAΞI / ΛEΩKΡ Wreathed krater on a high foot with low handles; to right, thyrsos. Nicolet-Pierre, Cratérophores 2 (D2-R2, same dies, but this piece unlisted ). Very rare. Beautifully struck, of unusually fine quality and lightly toned. Virtually as struck. From the Spina Collection, ex Numismatica Ars Classica 27, 12 May 2004, 171 and Leu 65, 21 May 1996, 179.
This head of Dionysos has a very curious, almost hieratic quality, which makes it look as if it were an archaic cult statue that was ‘modernized’ by the die cutter. It does, in fact, have an almost Babylonian feeling to the way the beard is made, and the staring look is far from what one would expect in a contemporary Hellenistic portrait.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: Part of a triangular base with a relief of the statue of Dionysos being transported to the sanctuary of another god (Theoxenia), Getty Museum

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Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 105, lot 572, 26/11/2001

BRONZEPRäGUNG
BRONZEPRäGUNG DER KAISERZEIT
Autonome Prägungen unter Domitianus
No.: 572
Schätzpreis-Estimation: DM 150,-
Bronze. Kopf des Poseidon mit Tainia rechts, links dahinter Dreizack. Rs: Nackter Athlet nach rechts schreitend, in der Rechten Strigilis (?) und in der Linken auf den Boden gesetzte Keule haltend. Amandry Anon. L 11.1. corr. (D4b2/R8h) und Taf. XLVII = RPC 213, 3 corr. und Taf. 10, 213 (dieses Exemplar; das Objekt in der rechten Hand des Athleten jeweils nicht beschrieben). 3,52 g, St. 5. Selten. Dunkle, braungrüne Patina, sehr schön.

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Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 114	Auction date: 6 May 2019
Lot number: 1149 Price realized: 1,600 CHF   (Approx. 1,572 USD / 1,405 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Greek coins  Thessaly, Larissa. Drachm circa 380-365, AR 5.98 g. Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly l., wearing wreath of grain ears and necklace. Rev. Thessalian warrior galloping r., wearing tunic, chlamys, and petasos, holding lance. L-S Series 5, Dies O1/R1. BCD Thessaly II, 292 (this obverse die). cf. Leu 81, lot 190 = Leu 42, lot 210 (these dies) Light tone; work of a very skilled master engraver; Surfaces somewhat porous, otherwise about extremely fine Ex Triton sale XVI, 2013, 338. From the BCD collection. Estimate: 2000 CHF

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Jean Elsen & ses Fils S.A. > Auction 141	Auction date: 15 June 2019
Lot number: 24
Lot description: REGION THRACO-MACEDONIENNE, SIRIS ("LETE"), AR statère, vers 500 av. J.-C. D/ Satyre, avançant à d., saisissant par le bras une ménade dansant à d., t. à g., le bras g. levé. De part et d''autre, deux globules de chaque côté. R/ Carré creux irrégulier. Svoronos, Hellénisme primitif, pl. VII, 16 var.; AMNG pl. XIV, 21 var.; SNG Lockett 1323 var.; Kraay, ACGC, 515 var. 9,33g Très rare.  presque Superbe,   about Extremely Fine    Estimate: 5000 EUR ILLUSTRAZIONE: SATIRO E MENADE (MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO DI NAPOLI)

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Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger > e-Auction 8, 19/01/2019 Lot number: 363 Price realized: 110 EUR   (Approx. 125 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.  Kilikien Soloi-Pompeiopolis Bronze nach 66 v. Chr. Kopf des Cn. Pompeius Magnus / Nike mit Palmwedel und Kranz. SNG BN 1213-1217 var. (Beizeichen). 7.39 g.; Dunkelgrüne Patina Sehr schön.  Estimate: 100 EUR ILLUSTRAZIONE: STATUA DI POMPEO MAGNO (PALAZZO SPADA, ROMA) http://urloweb.com/cultura/le-meraviglie-e-misteri-di-roma/curiosita-sulla-statua-di-pompeo-magno/?fbclid=IwAR2Xd1ILEDY_N1sZbASiajlBBjKDW-43h2_XkvvOu9GaDEjMyJIa78Aeo9A

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Gemini, Auction VII, lot 520, 9/01/2011

Caria. Cnidus. c. 411-394 BC. Drachm, 5.99g. (h). Obv: Lion's head to right, roaring, paw outstretched. Rx: Κ-Ν-[Ι] Draped bust of Aphrodite facing to right, wearing sphendone and necklace. Truncation dotted. All within incuse square. Cahn, Knidos, p. 62, 106/4 (O54/R69, this coin). Obverse struck with worn die. VF.
The Rockefeller University/Dr. Alfred E. Mirsky .

ILLUSTRAZIONE:  copia romana del II-III secolo d.C. dell'Afrodite di Cnido, opera di Prassitele del 350-340 a.C.

 

 

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Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG, Auction 84, lot 557, 20/05/2015

Greek Coins 
Calabria, Tarentum 
Nomos circa 315-300, AR 7.90 g. Naked ephebus on horse prancing r., holding reins, shield and two spears in l. hand and striking with spear in r.; below, ΣA. Rev. TAPAΣ Taras seated on dolphin l., holding trident and cantharus ; in upper l. field, AP ligate. In lower r. field, dolphin l. Vlasto 605 (these dies). SNG Fitzwilliam 278 (these dies). Fischer-Bossert 852. Historia Numorum Italy 937. 
Light iridescent tone and extremely fine
From a private Swiss collection.

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Numismatica Ibercoin > Online Auction 27	Auction date: 3 April 2019
Lot number: 89 Price realized: 155 EUR   (Approx. 174 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: BOLSCAN. Denario. 180-20 a.C. Huesca. A/ Cabeza barbada a derecha, detrás letras ibéricas BoN. R/ Jinete con lanza a derecha, debajo leyenda ibérica. FAB-1911. Ar. 3,96g. EBC. Starting Price: 100 EUR ILLUSTRAZIONE: SOLDATI ROMANI CHE COMBATTONO CONTRO GUERRIERI CELTIBERI

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Nomos AG > obolos 13	Auction date: 2 July 2019
Lot number: 410
CILICIA. Uncertain. Circa 4th Century BC. Obol (Silver, 11 mm, 0.69 g, 12 h). Turreted and bearded male head of Persian style to left. Rev. Bearded male head facing (Nergal?), with a turreted crown and with a facing lion's mask underneath and blending into his beard. SNG Cop. -. SNG Levante -. SNG France 485. SNG von Aulock -. Winzer 3.1 (as Artaxerxes III). A fine example of a rare and iconographically fascinating type. About extremely fine. The head on the reverse of this coin is really extraordinary, even for 4th century Cilicia, which is well-known for unusual iconography. The Paris sylloge identifies the reverse portrait as possibly being that of Herakles: the turreted crown, off the flan on the Paris coin, makes that identification impossible. The most likely explanation is that the head is that of Nergal, the rather dark Mesopotamian god of war and pestilence. As such, this is an unexpectedly surprising iconographic coin type. Starting Price: 125 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: IL DIO NERGAL DELLA MITOLOGIA MESOPOTAMICA

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Nomos AG > obolos 13	Auction date: 2 July 2019
Lot number: 170
Lot description: SICILY. Herbessos. Circa 344-339/8 BC. Litra (Silver, 11 mm, 0.70 g, 6 h). Head of Sikelia to right, wearing myrtle wreath. Rev. EPBHΣ[ΣOΣ] Bearded head of the river-god Herbessos to right, wearing taenia. Campana 1. Rare. Very fine. From a collection in Ticino, formed over 20 years ago.  Starting Price: 50 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: IL DIO FLUVIALE EUFRATE, MOSAICO GRECO-ROMANO DA ZEUGMA, I-II SECOLO.D.C.

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Nomos AG > obolos 13	Auction date: 2 July 2019
Lot number: 536
Lot description: LYDIA. Mostene. Claudius, with Agrippina Minor, 41-54. (Bronze, 19 mm, 3.84 g, 12 h), Pedanios. TI KΛAYΔION KAICAPA ΘEAN AΓΡIΠΠINAN Jugate draped busts of Claudius, laureate, and Agrippina to right. Rev. EΠI ΠEΔANIOY KAICAPEΩN MOCTHNΩN Rider on horseback right, carrying double axe. RPC 2461. SNG von Aulock 3029. Glossy dark green surfaces. Very fine. Starting Price: 50 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: CAVALIERE ROMANO IN ASSETTO DA CERIMONIA

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Nomos AG > obolos 13	Auction date: 2 July 2019
Lot number: 74
BRUTTIUM. The Brettii. Circa 282-203 BC. Quartuncia (Bronze, 13.5 mm, 1.99 g, 1 h). Head of Amphitrite to left, wearing crab helmet; below, thunderbolt. Rev. BPET-TIΩN Crab; between claws, bunch of grapes. HN III 1944. Scheu 50. SNG ANS 120. With wonderful surfaces and a chocolate brown patina. Reverse struck slightly off-center, otherwise, extremely fine. From the Vineyard Collection, ex Classical Numismatic Group 51, 15 September 1999, 75. Starting Price: 150 CHF

Anfitrite era  una delle Nereidi, sposa di Poseidone. Tra i suoi figli figurano Tritone e Rodo. Ebbe culto non distinto da quello di Posidone.

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Nomos AG > obolos 13	Auction date: 2 July 2019
Lot number: 61
LUCANIA. Metapontum. Circa 400-340 BC. Didrachm or nomos (Silver, 21 mm, 7.85 g, 4 h). Bearded head of Leukippos to right, wearing Corinthian helmet; behind, bunch of grapes. Rev. ΜΕ Barley ear with leaf to right. HN III 1553. Johnston Class A 4.3 (this coin). SNG Ashmolean 738 (same dies). Nicely toned and of particularly fine style. Possibly overstruck on a "pegasos", otherwise, about extremely fine. From the Vineyard Collection, ex Triton I, 2 December 1997, 103 and from a private collection cited by Johnston in 1990. Starting Price: 300 CHF

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Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 114	Auction date: 6 May 2019
Lot number: 570 Price realized: 32,000 CHF   (Approx. 31,443 USD / 28,104 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Octavian, 32 – 29 BC. Denarius, uncertain Eastern mint 28, AR 3.86 g. CAESAR·DIVI F· – COS·VI Bare head r.; below neck, small capricorn. Rev. AEGVPTO / CAPTA Crocodile r. with jaws closed. C 4. BMC 653. Sear Imperators 432. RIC 545. CBN 928 Very rare and in exceptional condition for the issue, undoubtedly among the finest specimens known of this important and intriguing issue. Struck on fresh metal and with a light iridescent tone. Good extremely fine Ex Rome Numismatics sale XIII, 2017, 728.Egypt would play a surprising role in the imperatorial period throughout much of the civil war. Having been under Ptolemaic rule since the death of Alexander the Great it would come down to the manipulative Cleopatra VII to try and save her dynasty. Shown on coinage not to be the great beauty that has been portrayed in film she was rather a master at playing her odds to maximum success. And Egypt itself would be: the scene of the first romance between Caesar and Cleopatra; the site of the killing of Pompey the Great; the place where Cleopatra captivated Marc Antony and showed him "how to live as a king"; and it would be the place where Antony and Cleopatra would finally die. Cleopatra had seduced Julius Caesar and managed to secure her right to rule with his support when he settled the dispute with her young brother Ptolemy XIII. She was staying in Rome as a "guest" of Caesar at the time of his assassination. She was able to return to Egypt and watch things play out between the successors of Caesar and the last loyalists to the republican cause. When it became clear that the Caesareans would win she formed an allegiance with Marc Antony. It must have seemed a fortuitous move on her part when Antony divorced Octavia and wed her. Surely if Antony could maintain his power she would continue to rule Egypt unimpeded. She had placed great reliance on this relationship by supplying Antony with both funds ammunition that he needed to declare war on Antony and, in the process, gain the blessing of the Roman senate. Overtly, war was declared on Cleopatra – not Antony. It came to the point where she could now see what a great risk she had taken. Her only hope was that Antony would prevail and her dynasty would be preserved. The battle of Actium would prove to be the turning point in the battle between the two triumvirs. Antony was significantly supported in this battle by ships supplied by the queen and when the battle was lost so, in turn, was any remaining hope that she had chosen the correct alliance. It is reported that in a last ditch effort she offered herself to Octavian with the hope that she could salvage Egypt. It was not to be and Cleopatra was eliminated and Egypt was lost. It is important to recognize that the new province of Egypt was not to be owned by Rome but to be the personal property of Octavian. The wealth of this territory would not fill the coffers at Rome but rather the pockets of the, soon to be, emperor himself. The role of Egypt as a major supplier of grain would increase with Roman control. It would become a key factor in managing the ever growing population of Rome itself. Here the coin says much but in a most interesting way. Egypt was indeed captured, but not for the empire. It was captured for Octavian. It had to be a most personal of coin types for the sole survivor of the civil war. The historical importance of this coin cannot be overstated. Estimate: 25000 CHF

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Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 114	Auction date: 6 May 2019
Lot number: 32 Price realized: 80,000 CHF   (Approx. 78,609 USD / 70,260 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Rhegium. Tetradrachm circa 300-280, AR 17.29 g. [PHΓINOΣ] Laureate head of Apollo l., long hair falling in curls over neck. Rev. Lion's head facing. SNG ANS 676. Herzfelder 115. Historia Numorum Italy 2501. Very rare and among the finest specimens known. A superb Hellenistic portrait of enchanting beauty, work of a very talented master engraver. Struck in high relief and with a lovely light iridescent tone. Good extremely fine Ex Tkalec sale 19 February 2001, 18.Perhaps during the 290s, but conceivably a decade before, Agathocles of Syracuse was involved in a poorly recorded campaign in Bruttium in which he captured Hipponium and Croton. Rhegium, as an ancient enemy of Syracuse, which had burnt Rhegium nearly two centuries before, should have been involved in some way. Our coin seems closely related to certain issues from Syracuse and Punic Sicily, and moreover depicts the solar deity Apollo and a lion, which, although the emblems of the city since time immemorial, seem singularly appropriate to the typology favoured by the tyrants of the new Hellenistic world. These splendid dies could well have been engraved by the master who cut the best dies of the Agathocles Kore coinage and perhaps also those of the vastly rare Ptolemaic-type gold stater of the same ruler. Estimate: 60000 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: FREGIO ARCHITETTONICO DEL VI SECOLO A.C. DA KAUOLONIA

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Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH > Auction 108	Auction date: 4 June 2019
Lot number: 508 Price realized: 380 EUR   (Approx. 427 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: (D) Basileios II. Bulgaroktonos (976-1025). Histamenon Nomisma (4,08 g), Constantinopolis, 977-989 n. Chr. Av.: + IhS XIS REX REGNANTIUm, Christusbüste im Benediktionsgestus mit Nimbus und Evangelium v.v. Rv.: + bASIL C COnSTANTI b R, Halbkörperbüste des Basileios II. sowie Halbkörperbüste des Konstantinos VIII. nebeneinander v.v. halten gemeinsam Patriarchenkreuz. Sear 1796, DOC 2j, Sommer 41.2. Geklippt, einige kleine Druckstellen am Rd., etwas berieben, kleine Kratzer. Gold f.vzgl. Starting Price: 300 EUR ILLUSTRAZIONE: L'IMPERATORE BIZANTINO BASILIO II BULGAROCTONO

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Roma Numismatics Limited, Auction 14, lot 119, 21/09/2017

Greek 
Kingdom of Macedon, Time of Philip V - Perseus AR Tetrobol. Pella or Amphipolis, circa 187-168 BC. Macedonian shield with MA-KE and club on boss / Macedonian helmet, two monograms to left, monogram and thunderbolt to right. SNG Ashmolean 3278 var.; SNG Copenhagen 1282 var.; SNG Alpha Bank -. 2.17g, 15mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Rare.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: SOLDATI MACEDONI

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Roma Numismatics Limited. Auction 6, lot 656, 29/09/2013

Satraps of Karia. Pixodaros AR Didrachm. Circa 341-335 BC. Laureate head of Apollo facing, turned slightly to right, drapery tied around neck / Zeus Labraundos standing right holding lotus tipped sceptre and bipennis ; ΠIΞOΔAPOY to right. Pixodarus 25h (A3/P11 – this coin); Babelon, Perses 414-21; Traité II 111; SNG von Aulock 2375-6; SNG Kayhan 891-2; SNG Copenhagen 597. 6.91 g, 20mm, 12h. Good Extremely Fine. Ex Leu 91, 10 May 2004, lot 173; Ex Peus 343, 26 April 1995, lot 150; Ex Pixodarus Hoard (CH IX, 421).

 

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Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG, Auction 106, lot 354, 9/05/2018

The Roman Republic 
Half-stater circa 218-216, AV 3.41 g. Laureate Janiform head of the Dioscuri. Rev. Oath taking scene with two warriors: one Roman and the other representing the Italian allies, standing facing each other, holding spears and touching with their swords a pig held by a figure kneeling between them. In exergue, ROMA. Sydenham 70. Bahrfeldt 2 and pl. V, 14 (these dies). RBW 62 (this coin). Crawford 28/2. Historia Numorum Italy 333. Treasures of Ancient Coinage, p. 64, 58 (this coin).
Extremely rare and possibly the finest specimen known of this important and
intriguing issue. Struck on an exceptionally large flan and perfectly
centred, light marks, otherwise extremely fine
Ex Triton III, 1999, 807 and NAC 45, 2008, Feirstein, 3 sales. From the RBW collection.
The Second Punic War was one of the defining events in the history of Rome, a city-state on the verge of becoming an imperial power. It lasted nearly a generation and tested the government, the military and the system of alliances that Rome had painstakingly built in Italy and beyond. It also caused economic devastation: to pay for the war, the Roman state resorted to credit for the first time in its history, soliciting loans from leading citizens and their ally Hieron II, king of Syracuse. The strain is reflected in Rome’s coinage: not only was gold coinage required for the first time in Rome’s history, but the course of events forced a monumental change by which the Roman monetary system came to be based on the silver denarius rather than the bronze as, which had lost 80 percent of its weight in the first six years of the war. That the Romans prevailed is remarkable, for the news at the outset was terrifying. Despite Hannibal losing an eye while crossing the Apennines, his skills were in peak form: in the ambush at Lake Trasimene in 217 he killed 15,000 men and took 10,000 prisoners; and at Cannae the number of Romans and allies he killed or captured perhaps reached 50,000. The devastation of individual communities throughout Italy must have been incomprehensible, and the Romans responded with a gold coinage meant to support their war effort both in a financial and a political sense.
The janiform head of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) on the obverse no doubt was meant to recall the miraculous intervention of the saviour twins so long ago at the Battle of Lake Regillus. The reverses of the staters and half-staters offered here, both struck early in the struggle against Hannibal, c. 218-216 B.C., show an oath-taking scene in which two soldiers touch the tips of their swords to a pig held by an attendant. The man on the right, un-bearded, youthful and armoured, is a Roman, and the man on the left, bearded and without armour, represents one of his Italian allies.
The meaning of this scene is clear: Rome demonstrates to her allies that the war against Carthage is a cooperative effort. This was critically important because not only did Rome need this system of alliances to survive Hannibal’s invasion, but it has often been suggested that Hannibal’s true goal in invading Italy was not to capture the city of Rome, but to dismantle its alliances. As such, these gold coins should be regarded as historical documents of Rome’s counterpoint to Hannibal’s effort to undermine its emerging empire.

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Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions > E-Auction 71	Auction date: 16 June 2019
Lot number: 689
Lot description: M. Servilius C.f., Rome, 100 BC. AR Denarius (21.5mm, 3.93g, 11h). Helmeted head of Roma r.; Ξ to l. R/ Two warriors, a Roman and a barbarian, fighting on foot, each armed with sword and shield and standing before horse; L in exergue. Crawford 327/1; cf. RBW 1183; RSC Servilia 13. VF Starting Price: 50 GBP illustrazione: la battaglia di Canne

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