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Da un vecchio catalogo (Num.Genevensis VII n. 80), un gradevolissimo didramma arcaico dalla città di Methymna in Lesbo .

Al rovescio testa di Atena  con bell'elmo attico con calotta decorata e fronte con protome di Pegaso a rilievo .

Naturalmente mi scuso, se un elmo così particolare già fosse comparso nello sconfinato arsenale fin qui pubblicato . 

[King John]

Stack's, The Golden Horn Collection, lot 3435, 12/01/2009

Roger I (1072-1101).
Trifollaro. Mileto, c. 1098-1101. ROC ERIVS COME +S . Knight on horseback l., holding spear and shield. Rv. + MARIA MATER DИI . Enthroned nimbate Virgin holding on lap Christ child, nimbate and in swaddling clothes r. Æ 12.89 grams, 6h. MEC 14, 93-100; Travaini 160. Extremely Fine. (475-500)
Crédit Suisse Bern sale 2, 1984, lot 946.

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Nomos, Auction 12, lot 108, 22/05/2016

SOUTHEAST, Pamphylia or Cilicia. Uncertain city . Circa 380-340/330. Stater (Silver, 23mm, 10.64 g 11). Three letter Pamphylian inscription Athena, helmeted and wearing long robes, standing left, holding Nike in her right hand and spear and shield with her left; to left, serpent coiled to left. Rev. Eight letter Pamphylian inscription Apollo standing left, wearing short chiton, holding a phiale in his right hand, from which he pours a libation onto a flaming altar to the left, and a long, laurel-branch-scepter with his left. Classical Numismatic Group MBS 78, 2008, 895 ( same dies ), otherwise, unpublished . An elegant coin, nicely toned. Some light pitting, otherwise , about extremely fine.
From a European collection, acquired prior to 2000.
Exactly where this coin was struck is uncertain: the inscriptions are not helpful and the types relate to those used at both Side and Holmoi. The one previously known piece was that published in CNG MBS 78 (the comment that the serpent next to Athena might be a mint mark is to be discarded, it is one of her familiars). The quality of the engraving is outstanding.

ILLUSTRAZIONE:STATUA DI ATENA VARVAKEION, COPIA ROMANA DELLA STATUA CRISOELEFANTINA DI ATENA PARTHENOS,

OPERA DI FIDIA, RINVENUTA VICINA ALLA SCUOLA DI VARVAKEION, DA CUI IL NOME.

 

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Nomos, Auction 12, lot 108, 22/05/2016

SOUTHEAST, Pamphylia or Cilicia. Uncertain city . Circa 380-340/330. Stater (Silver, 23mm, 10.64 g 11). Three letter Pamphylian inscription Athena, helmeted and wearing long robes, standing left, holding Nike in her right hand and spear and shield with her left; to left, serpent coiled to left. Rev. Eight letter Pamphylian inscription Apollo standing left, wearing short chiton, holding a phiale in his right hand, from which he pours a libation onto a flaming altar to the left, and a long, laurel-branch-scepter with his left. Classical Numismatic Group MBS 78, 2008, 895 ( same dies ), otherwise, unpublished . An elegant coin, nicely toned. Some light pitting, otherwise , about extremely fine.
From a European collection, acquired prior to 2000.
Exactly where this coin was struck is uncertain: the inscriptions are not helpful and the types relate to those used at both Side and Holmoi. The one previously known piece was that published in CNG MBS 78 (the comment that the serpent next to Athena might be a mint mark is to be discarded, it is one of her familiars). The quality of the engraving is outstanding.

ILLUSTRAZIONE:STATUA DI ATENA VARVAKEION, COPIA ROMANA DELLA STATUA CRISOELEFANTINA DI ATENA PARTHENOS,

OPERA DI FIDIA, RINVENUTA VICINA ALLA SCUOLA DI VARVAKEION, DA CUI IL NOME.

 

Incredibile questo tondello per quello che rappresenta e per quello che trasmette, doppio messaggio, doppio divinità, doppio tondello...

Magnifico!

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 111	Auction date: 29 May 2019
Lot number: 651
Lot description: Augustus, with Divus Julius Caesar. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.31 g, 8h). Rome mint; M. Sanquinius, moneyer. Struck 17 BC. Bare head of Augustus right / Youthful, laureate head of deified Julius Caesar right; above, a comet with four rays and a tail. RIC I 338; RSC 1 (Julius Caesar and Augustus). Good VF, toned, surface marks and light porosity.  The idealized head on the reverse has been variously identified as a deified and rejuvenated Julius Caesar, Augustus himself, or a male personification of the dawning Golden Age. The presence of a comet above the head, likely intended as the "Julian star" that appeared shortly after Caesar's death, argues for the first identification.  Estimate: 1000 USD

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Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 224, lot 542, 13/10/2014

RÖMER 
RÖMISCHE KAISERZEIT 
Antoninus Pius, 138 - 161 n. Chr. AE Medaillon (42,18g). 139 n. Chr. Mzst. Rom. Vs.: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP, drapierte Büste mit Lorbeerkranz n.r. Rs.: TR POT COS II, in langem, wehenden Kitharoedengewand nach rechts schreitender Apoll mit einer Kithara in der Linken und einem Plektron in der Rechten. Im Hintergrund links ein Dreifuß und rechts ein Altar, auf dem ein Lorbeerzweig liegt. Gnecchi ­ (vgl. 46, Taf. 48,5); Strack - (vgl. 530).
Vorzügliches Prachtexemplar mit herrlicher grüner Patina! 
Von dem einzigen publizierten Exemplar dieses Medaillontyps weicht das vorliegende Stück durch die Büstenform - die von hinten gesehene Büste ohne Lorbeerkranz - ab. Zusammen mit der Vorderseitenlegende ist dieser Obverstypus bei Strack nicht nachgewiesen. Mit dem Bildnis des Apoll, das seit Augustus nicht mehr in der römischen Reichsprägung vorkam, propagiert Antoninus Pius die altehrwürdigen Kulte, die in republikanischer und augusteischer Zeit von höchster Bedeutung waren.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: Apollo carrying his kithara holds a phiale (flat cup) for Nike (Victory) to pour a libation in; they are standing on both sides of the omphalos.

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Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 114	Auction date: 6 May 2019
Lot number: 1164
Lot description: Greek coins  Attica, Athens. Tetradrachm new style coinage circa 135-134, AR 16.82 g. Helmeted head of Athena r. Rev. Owl standing r., head facing, on amphora. In l. field, Asclepius standing l., holding serpent-entwined staff; Λ on amphora and below, ΣΦ; all within wreath. Thompson, ANSNS 10, 355c (this obverse die). Light iridescent tone and extremely fine Ex Triton sale XIV, 2011, 193. Estimate: 1500 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: TESTA DELLA STATUA DI ATENA VARVAKEION, COPIA ROMANA DELLA STATUA CRISOELEFANTINA DI ATENA PARTHENOS,OPERA DI FIDIA, RINVENUTA VICINA ALLA SCUOLA DI VARVAKEION, DA CUI IL NOME.

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Agora Auctions > Numismatic Auction 82	Auction date: 12 February 2019
Lot number: 31 Price realized: Unsold
Lot description: Seleukid Kingdom. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 B.C. AE 19. Antioch, ca. 280 B.C. Winged head of Medusa right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, bull butting right; Ξ in exergue. SC 21.2b; SNG Spaer 23. VF. Scarce.  From the D. Thomas Collection.  Estimate: 100 USD

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Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 224, lot 542, 13/10/2014

RÖMER 
RÖMISCHE KAISERZEIT 
Antoninus Pius, 138 - 161 n. Chr. AE Medaillon (42,18g). 139 n. Chr. Mzst. Rom. Vs.: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP, drapierte Büste mit Lorbeerkranz n.r. Rs.: TR POT COS II, in langem, wehenden Kitharoedengewand nach rechts schreitender Apoll mit einer Kithara in der Linken und einem Plektron in der Rechten. Im Hintergrund links ein Dreifuß und rechts ein Altar, auf dem ein Lorbeerzweig liegt. Gnecchi ­ (vgl. 46, Taf. 48,5); Strack - (vgl. 530).
Vorzügliches Prachtexemplar mit herrlicher grüner Patina! 
Von dem einzigen publizierten Exemplar dieses Medaillontyps weicht das vorliegende Stück durch die Büstenform - die von hinten gesehene Büste ohne Lorbeerkranz - ab. Zusammen mit der Vorderseitenlegende ist dieser Obverstypus bei Strack nicht nachgewiesen. Mit dem Bildnis des Apoll, das seit Augustus nicht mehr in der römischen Reichsprägung vorkam, propagiert Antoninus Pius die altehrwürdigen Kulte, die in republikanischer und augusteischer Zeit von höchster Bedeutung waren.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: Apollo carrying his kithara holds a phiale (flat cup) for Nike (Victory) to pour a libation in; they are standing on both sides of the omphalos.

Maedaglione tutta la vita......

Magnifico il bassorilievo, con tutti quei particolari..

Ti seguo! 

[King John]

Nomos AG > Auction 18	Auction date: 5 May 2019
Lot number: 91
Lot description: THESSALY. Larissa. Circa 370 BC. Drachm (Silver, 21 mm, 5.96 g, 2 h). ΛΑΡΙΣΑΙΩΝ Bull leaping to right. Rev. Thessalian horseman, wearing tunic, chlamys and petasos, holding a lance in his right hand and the reins in his left, riding a horse galloping to right; all within a very shallow circular incuse. BCD II, 186 (this coin). BMC p. 29, 54 and pl. V, 13. Traité IV, 698, pl. CCXCVIII, 9. Very rare, especially in such fine condition. Nicely toned and very well centered. A few minor marks, otherwise, about extremely fine. From the BCD Collection, Triton XV, 3 January 2012, 186, ex Spink Zürich 20, 6 October 1986, 219 and Hess-Leu 31, 6 December 1966, 281. Estimate: 2750 CHF

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Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG, Auction 88, lot 381, 8/10/2015

Greek Coins 
Uncertain mint 
Stater circa 480, AR 8.75 g. Winged male figure, wearing chiton , kneeling r.; around, three pellets. In r. field, lotus flower (partially out of flan). Rev. Rough quadripartite incuse square. Traité I, pl. 59, 6. Svoronos, Hellénisme Primitif pl. XVIII, 6. Price, Macedonians, pl. 1, 8. SNG ANS 1010.
Very rare. A very interesting representation of superb Archaic style struck
in high relief. Lovely old cabinet tone and about extremely fine Ex Feuardent 9 May 1910, G. Duruflé, 317; Naville I, 1920, Pozzi 2067; Leu-M&M 28 May 1974, Kunstfreund 41; Leu 48, 1989, 137 and Leu 76, 1999, 86 sales.
The running, winged man on this remarkable stater-didrachm is among the most intriguing of all early Macedonian coins. Head, Babelon, Svoronos, Waggoner and Wartenberg all describe this issue as having emanated from an undetermined mint, though Kraay proposes that it may have been produced at Acanthus prior to the introduction of its tetradrachms.
On this example the running figure is nude, except for a tunic; wings emerge at his hips and a lotus flower or ‘rose’ is engraved in the field before him. Svoronos illustrates a few variants of the type, all clearly related. On some examples the subject is a woman clothed in a long garment from the waist down; she maintains the same running position as our winged male, though both of her arms point downward. On a most divergent example a woman runs while virtually upright, and instead of flowers as ornaments in the field there is a heavy, ornate, cord border. On some examples with the winged male it is clear that he holds some kind of pelleted orb or disc.
It has long been recognised that the lotus flower or ‘rose’ is a design element that unites a relatively diverse group of Thraco-Macedonian silver coins of the Archaic period. It occurs on coins of Abdera, the Derrones and Olynthus, and is a prominent and recurring feature of coins of Acanthus. It also appears conspicuously on those issues usually attributed to Stageira or Methone which depict flowers arranged in a circular pattern that sometimes is interrupted by a standing boar.

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Roma Numismatics Limited, Auction 13, lot 330, 23/03/2017

Greek 
Karia, Kaunos AR Stater. Circa 430-410 BC. Winged female goddess moving to left, her head turned back to right, holding a wreath in left hand and a kerykeion in her right / Triangular baetyl flanked by two bunches of grapes hanging from tendrils, inverted delta above to left; all within incuse square. Konuk, in Price FS, 98 (O40/R39); SNG Kayhan 792; Troxell 27; De Luynes 2776. 11.38g, 23mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine. Rare.

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Nomos AG > Auction 18	Auction date: 5 May 2019
Lot number: 91
Lot description: THESSALY. Larissa. Circa 370 BC. Drachm (Silver, 21 mm, 5.96 g, 2 h). ΛΑΡΙΣΑΙΩΝ Bull leaping to right. Rev. Thessalian horseman, wearing tunic, chlamys and petasos, holding a lance in his right hand and the reins in his left, riding a horse galloping to right; all within a very shallow circular incuse. BCD II, 186 (this coin). BMC p. 29, 54 and pl. V, 13. Traité IV, 698, pl. CCXCVIII, 9. Very rare, especially in such fine condition. Nicely toned and very well centered. A few minor marks, otherwise, about extremely fine. From the BCD Collection, Triton XV, 3 January 2012, 186, ex Spink Zürich 20, 6 October 1986, 219 and Hess-Leu 31, 6 December 1966, 281. Estimate: 2750 CHF

Mi piace questa dracma di Larissa, per la coposizione che viene a formarsi fra il dritto ed il rovescio, il toro che impenna nella sua corsa e il cavaliere della Tessaglia che pare fuggire per il suo impeto..

Insomma sempre e comunque grande movimento, e rappresentazione, determinate per raccontare..

Il bassorilievo con tutti quei piani da terza dimensione..

Viva l'espressione in ogni sua forma..

Eros 

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 56	Auction date: 9 May 2019
Lot number: 747
Marc Antony Legionary AR Denarius. Military mint moving with Antony, autumn 32 - spring 31 BC. ANT•AVG III•VIR•R•P•C, praetorian galley to right / Aquila between two signa; LEG VIII across fields. Crawford 544/21; CRI 358; RSC 35. 3.48g, 18mm, 12h. Extremely Fine. From the inventory of a European dealer. Estimate: 400 GBP

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Münzen & Medaillen GmbH (DE), Auction 17, lot 566, 4/10/2005

GRIECHISCHE BRONZEMüNZEN
THESSALIEN
HALOS
No.: 566
Schätzpreis/Estimate: EUR 220
d=20 mm
Bronze, 375-333. Kopf des bärtigen Zeus Laphystios mit D. n. r. Rv. ALEWN Phryxos mit fliegender Chlamys auf einem n. r. springenden Widder sitzend, sich mit beiden Händen am Hals des Tieres festhaltend; im Felde l. oben Monogramm. 7,08 g. BMC 13, 2. Rogers 85, 241. Moustaka 134, 167. Selten. Dunkle, braungrüne Patina. Leicht ovaler Schrötling.
Gutes sehr schön
Erworben 2000.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: Frisso vola sull'ariete dal vello d'oro, pittura su piatto, conservato a Berlino, Staatliche Museen.

Frisso (gr. Φρίξος) era figlio di Atamante e di Nefele; fu fatto fuggire dalla madre insieme alla sorella Elle sull’ariete dal vello d’oro al fine di sottrarlo alle persecuzioni di Ino, seconda moglie di Atamante, che aveva convinto il marito a sacrificarli. Elle cadde in mare, morendo, mentre Frisso, giunto a Ea nella Colchide, sposò la figlia del re Eeta, Calciope. In cambio Frisso sacrificò l’ariete a Zeus e ne donò il vello a Eeta.

 

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Heritage Auctions, Auction 2011 long Beach Signature World, lot 23268, 12/09/2011

Marcus Junius Brutus, Assassin of Caesar and Imperator (44-42 BC). AR denarius (3.72 gm). Mint moving with Brutus in northern Greece, L. Plaetorius Cestianus, magistrate, late summer-autumn 42 BC. BRVT IMP L. PLAET. CEST., bare head of Brutus right, wearing slight beard / EID MAR, pileus (cap of liberty) between two daggers. Crawford 508/3. Cahn 10b (this coin cited, four pieces known from this die pairing). CRI 216. RSC 15. RCV 1439 (this coin illustrated). Struck in exceptionally sound metal and beautifully toned. Superb portrait of the famed tyrannicide and among the finest specimens known. Nearly extremely fine / Extremely fine. From the Rubicon Collection. Ex NAC 29 (11 May 2005). Ex Peter Weller Collection (Antiqua Fixed Price List VIII, Summer 2000). Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection Part I (Sotheby's, June 1990), acquired by private treaty from the Sy Weintraub Collection. Ex Hall Park McCollough Collection (Stack's November 1967). Ex Woodward Collection (Naville-Ars Classica XV, 1930). The EID MAR denarius, undoubtedly the most historically important of all ancient coins, is the only Roman coin to mention a specific date, the only Roman coin to openly celebrate an act of murder, and one of the very few specific coins mentioned by a classical author. In his account of the Roman civil wars of 49-31 BC, the Roman historian Dio Cassius writes: "Brutus stamped upon the coins which were being minted his own likeness and a cap and two daggers, indicating by this and by the inscription that he and Cassius had liberated the fatherland." Although the EID MAR type is justifiably famous (it was selected in a 2008 vote by top numismatists as Number 1 of the "100 Greatest Ancient Coins"), the EID MAR offered here has perhaps the most distinguished pedigree of all among the 75 or so surviving specimens, with auction records dating back to 1930. It has resided in the collections of Hall Park McCollough, Sy Weintraub, Nelson Bunker Hunt and actor-turned-history-professor Peter Weller. Numerous books, articles and TV productions have used this specimen to illustrate the type, including the most widely used handbook of Roman coins, David R. Sear's "Roman Coins and Their Values Vol. I" (no. 1439). Also, of all the known EID MAR denarii, this example inarguably has the best metal quality-important since most EID MARs were apparently struck in slightly base silver and survive in a highly porous state that is subject to further deterioration, cracking and / or delamination. The event so celebrated, of course, is the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC. The man depicted on the obverse, Marcus Junius Brutus, was one of the ringleaders of the assassination plot, despite being the son of Caesar's longtime mistress, Servilia. In the centuries since, he has been both hailed as a champion of liberty and damned as the vilest of traitors. Brutus was born in about 85 BC, the product of two of Rome's most distinguished families, the Junii, represented by his father M. Junius Brutus the elder, and the Servili, exemplified by his mother Servilia. The themes of Republican liberty and the defeat of tyrants ran strong in Brutus' bloodlines. One of his distant ancestors, L. Junius Brutus, expelled the last Tarquin king of Rome and went on to become the Republic's first chief magistrate, or Consul; another ancestor, Servius Ahala, murdered the tyrant Spurius Maelius, who had threatened to overthrow the Republic and install himself as king. His father had resisted the tyranny of the Dictator Sulla and was murdered on the orders of his henchman, Pompey the Great, during the bloody Proscriptions of 78-77 BC. After entering public life in 58 BC, Brutus became a protégé of the Republican firebrand Cato the Younger and later married his daughter, Porcia. Although viewed by many as a paragon of the Roman virtues, Brutus was anything but kindly to non-Romans. As a finance officer (Quaestor) in the provinces, Brutus made his fortune by loaning money at the extortionate interest rate of 48 percent to provincial cities, then using Roman armies to squeeze his debtors dry. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and plunged the Republic into Civil War on January 10, 49 BC, Brutus was faced with a dilemma: Should he support his friend (and his mother's paramour) Caesar, or back the Republican cause embodied by his benefactor Cato, but led by his father's murderer, Pompey? Despite his hatred for Pompey, Brutus chose to side with him and the Republicans, joining them in exile in Greece in mid-49 BC. After Pompey's defeat at Pharsalus the following year, Brutus sought and obtained Caesar's pardon. During the dictatorship, he stood in high favor and won many plum positions in the regime, prompting rumors that Brutus was actually Caesar's illegitimate son. As Caesar grew ever more megalomaniacal, Brutus began to have misgivings about the fate of his beloved Republic. When his friend C. Cassius Longinus asked him to join a conspiracy against the great dictator, Brutus eagerly accepted and became one of its ringleaders. On the Ides of March, 44 BC, a cabal of senators led by Brutus and Cassius surrounded Caesar during a monumental session of the Senate, where Caesar was about to announce his plans for the invasion of Parthia. In a bloody, frenzied scene reenacted countless times since, they stabbed him to death. Caesar's poignant last words were delivered in Greek as Brutus delivered the fatal thrust: "Kai su, teknon?" ("You too, my child?"). Shakespeare would later translate this to Latin to create the immortal line, "Et tu, Brute?" The conspirators expected to be hailed as liberators, but the Roman populace was horrified by Caesar's murder and wanted the assassins punished. Brutus left Rome in April barely ahead of a lynch mob. He joined Cassius in assembling a pro-Republican power base in Macedonia, where they could wage war against Caesar's successors, Mark Antony and Octavian. A successful campaign against the Bessi in Thrace won him acclamation as Imperator, after which he began to strike coins to pay his growing army. His early coinage follows traditional themes, but his final type, the EID MAR issue of mid-42 BC, breaks the old Republican taboo by placing his own portrait on the obverse, coupled with the pileus or cap of liberty (traditionally given to slaves who had received their freedom) between the daggers that executed Caesar. The irony is palpable: One of the acts that got Caesar killed was putting his own portrait on coins, prompting fears that he aimed to make himself King of Rome. Now Brutus was following suit, while celebrating his betrayal of Caesar on the iconic reverse. The choice of types could be seen as a final, brazen act of defiance as the armies of the warring factions closed for an ultimate clash in northern Greece. In a final twist of fate, Brutus used the same dagger he had plunged into Caesar to take his own life following final defeat of the assassins at the second battle of Philippi on October 23, 42 BC. The great rarity of Eid Mar denarii today is doubtless because the type was deliberately recalled and melted down by the victors, Mark Antony and Octavian.

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Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 4	Auction date: 25 May 2019
Lot number: 677
Lot description: Macrinus, 217-218. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 32 mm, 23.69 g, 12 h), Rome, summer 217-early 218. IMP CAES M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG Laureate and cuirassed bust of Macrinus with long beard to right. Rev. VICTORIA PARTHICA / S C Victory seated right on cuirass, holding stylus in her right hand, about to inscribe round shield balanced on her left knee; behind cuirass, shields. BMC 143. Clay Issue 2. Cohen 133. RIC 209. Very rare and undoubtedly among the finest known. An exceptionally attractive coin with a superb portrait of the finest style and a lovely brown patina. Thin flan crack, otherwise, nearly extremely fine. From an old Viennese collection, formed in the 1950s and 1960s and in 3rd generation family possession since. The reverse of this wonderful sestertius proclaims a victory over the Parthians, which is somewhat ironic, since Macrinus - a civilian North African lawyer of humble origin and without any military experience - had to agree to a humiliating peace agreement with Artabanos IV following a defeat against the Parthians in the Battle of Nisibis in 217. In classic Roman propagandistic tradition, Macrinus' coinage celebrated the peace treaty as a victory over the archenemy, but the opposition among Severan loyalists and the Roman military soon sparked the rebellion of Julia Maesa and Elagabal in Emesa, which eventually led to the downfall and execution of Macrinus and Diadumenian in the summer of 218. Estimate: 5000 CHF

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Heritage World Coin Auctions > Monthly Auction 271920	Auction date: 26 May 2019
Lot number: 40008
Ancients SICILY. Gela. Ca. 339-310 BC. AE litra (21mm, 9.90 gm, 4h). VF. Warrior standing right, nude except for helmet and cloak, about to sacrifice a ram / Horse prancing right, eight-pointed star above. SNG ANS 126-128. BMC Sicily 79. SNG Copenhagen 288. From the Morris Collection HID02901242017 Estimate: 300-500 USD

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qual è il ritratto monetale di Giulio Cesare più somigliante?? Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 111	Auction date: 29 May 2019
Lot number: 634
Lot description: The Caesarians. Divus Julius Caesar. 40 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.85 g, 11h). Rome mint; Q. Voconius Vitulus, moneyer. Laureate head right; lituus to left / Bull-calf walking left. Crawford 526/2; CRI 329; Sydenham 1132; RSC 46; RBW –. EF, attractive cabinet tone, small test cut on edge. Excellent portrait.  Ex Matthew Rich Collection (Triton XXI, 8 Januaury 2018), lot 670 (hammer $7000); Spink Australia 15 (27 March 1985), lot 962; Spink Australia (19 November 1981), lot 1569; Patrick A. Doheny Collection (Sotheby's, 20 June 1979), lot 181. Estimate: 5000 USD

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Gemini, Auction II, lot 168, 11/01/2006

BACTRIAN KINGDOM. Lysias. (ca. 120-110 BC). Silver tetradrachm (16.84 gm). Bust of Lysias left, viewed from behind, wearing crested Boeotian helmet ornamented with ram's horn and fleece(?), brandishing spear in right hand, shoulders draped with elephant skin with head left covering king's left shoulder / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΥ ΛΥΣΙΟΥ, Heracles standing facing, crowning himself with right hand, left hand holding club, palm, and lion skin, TAE monogram in lower left field, Σ in lower right field. Bopearachchi Series 2, A, pl. 38. Qunduz 614. Perhaps the second specimen recorded. Perhaps the rarest Attic weight tetradrachm of the Bactrian series. Obverse slightly double struck. Extremely fine. Known only from his coinage, Lysias appears to have been closely associated with his fellow king Antialcidas, the only Greco-Bactrian ruler mentioned in an Indian monument (dated ca. 100 BC). Coin finds indicate that these two kings ruled in Arachosia and Paropamisadae, that is, in southern and central Afghanistan. The extraordinary iconography of Lysias' portrait, in which an elephant skin replaces the aegis, combines contemporary conventions with a theme revived from the coinage of Demetrius I. The heroic pose was first introduced on the coinage of Eucratides I, the horned and fleece-covered helmet on that of Heliocles I (Bopearachchi pl. 26, Series 3-4). Both were repeated on the coinage of Menander and combined on that of his son Strato I (Bopearachchi pl. 36, Series D). As a contemporary and rival of Strato I, Lysias sought a yet more powerful visual rhetoric. The elephant imagery, the Heracles reverse type, and the epithet Aniketos (Unconquered) all connect him with Demetrius I, celebrated for his conquest of "India"—probably really territories south of the Hindu Kush—and perhaps an actual ancestor of Lysias.
Estimate: US$40000

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Gemini, Auction II, lot 168, 11/01/2006

BACTRIAN KINGDOM. Lysias. (ca. 120-110 BC). Silver tetradrachm (16.84 gm). Bust of Lysias left, viewed from behind, wearing crested Boeotian helmet ornamented with ram's horn and fleece(?), brandishing spear in right hand, shoulders draped with elephant skin with head left covering king's left shoulder / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΥ ΛΥΣΙΟΥ, Heracles standing facing, crowning himself with right hand, left hand holding club, palm, and lion skin, TAE monogram in lower left field, Σ in lower right field. Bopearachchi Series 2, A, pl. 38. Qunduz 614. Perhaps the second specimen recorded. Perhaps the rarest Attic weight tetradrachm of the Bactrian series. Obverse slightly double struck. Extremely fine. Known only from his coinage, Lysias appears to have been closely associated with his fellow king Antialcidas, the only Greco-Bactrian ruler mentioned in an Indian monument (dated ca. 100 BC). Coin finds indicate that these two kings ruled in Arachosia and Paropamisadae, that is, in southern and central Afghanistan. The extraordinary iconography of Lysias' portrait, in which an elephant skin replaces the aegis, combines contemporary conventions with a theme revived from the coinage of Demetrius I. The heroic pose was first introduced on the coinage of Eucratides I, the horned and fleece-covered helmet on that of Heliocles I (Bopearachchi pl. 26, Series 3-4). Both were repeated on the coinage of Menander and combined on that of his son Strato I (Bopearachchi pl. 36, Series D). As a contemporary and rival of Strato I, Lysias sought a yet more powerful visual rhetoric. The elephant imagery, the Heracles reverse type, and the epithet Aniketos (Unconquered) all connect him with Demetrius I, celebrated for his conquest of "India"—probably really territories south of the Hindu Kush—and perhaps an actual ancestor of Lysias.
Estimate: US$40000

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 443	Auction date: 1 May 2019
Lot number: 38
Lot description: THESSALY, Larissa. 1st century BC. Æ Tetrachalkon (20.5mm, 10.96 g, 9h). Head of the nymph Larissa left; monogram behind neck / Warrior, holding lance, on horseback right. Rogers –; BCD Thessaly 398.1; HGC 4, –. VF, dark brown patina. Very rare. Estimate: 100 USD

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Drachm, Alexandria, 133/4, Æ 22.68 g. AVT KAIC TPAIAN ADPIANOC CEB Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust r. Rev. Confronted busts of Isis-Demeter (?) r. and Serapis-Zeus-Ammon(?) l., holding infant Harpocrates; in lower left field, L – IH. Unlisted in the standard references.An apparently unique and unrecorded variety. Of magnificent style and with a superb brown-reddish tone, good extremely fine4’000

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