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Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 111	Auction date: 24 August 2023
Lot number: 89 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction -
Lot description: Arkadia, Orchomenos Æ 16mm. Circa 345-300 BC. Head of Kallisto to right, hair bound with sphendone / Hero, nude but for helmet, advancing to right holding transverse spear and shield; E-P across lower fields. BCD Peloponnesos 1580 (same dies); BMC 5 (same dies); Traité III 945, pl. CCXXVI, 21 (same dies); HGC 5, 961. 3.66g, 16mm, 5h. Near Very Fine. Very Rare. From the Dr. Burkhard Traeger Collection; Ex Jean Elsen & ses Fils S.A., Auction 65, 12 December 2020, lot 331. Estimate: 40 GBP

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Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 26	Auction date: 8 July 2023
Lot number: 2335 Price realized: 160 CHF   (Approx. 180 USD / 164 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: CILICIA. Tarsus. Hadrian, 117-138. Tridrachm (Silver, 22 mm, 10.59 g, 1 h). ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΘΕ ΤΡA ΠΑΡ ΥΙ ΘΕ ΝΕΡ ΥΙ ΤΡΑI ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹEB Laureate head of Hadrian to right. Rev. TΑΡϹΕΩΝ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩϹ City-goddess, turreted and veiled, seated left, holding palm in her right hand and cornucopiae in her left; at feet to left, river-god Kydnos, crowned with wreath of sedge, swimming left. Prieur 761. RPC III 3262. Graffito of 'AXI' on the obverse and with a scratch on the reverse, otherwise, good very fine. Starting price: 50 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: LA TICHE DI ANTIOCHIA, COPIA MARMOREA DI UN ORIGINALE GRECO IN BRONZO DEL III SECOLO A.C. OPERA TI EUTICHIDE, MUSEI VATICANI

 

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Sale: Triton X, Lot: 561. Estimate $750. 
Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. 
Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.    

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (14.83 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Dated Actian Era 29 (2 BC). KAISAPOS SEBASTOV, laureate head right / ETOVC QK NIKHS, Tyche seated right, holding palm branch; below, river-god Orontes swimming to right; in right field, UPATOS monogram and IG above AVT monogram. RPC I 4155; Prieur 54; SNG München 6 var. (Actian date); SNG Copenhagen -. Near EF, beautiful old cabinet tone. Great metal for issue.

Ex Sternberg XXXV (29 October 2000), lot 436; Sternberg XIII (17 November 1993), lot 566.

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Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles > Auction 136	Auction date: 5 September 2023
Lot number: 161 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Mysia, Kyzicus, c. 400 BC. Silver Tetradrachm (14.28 g). Head of Kore Soteira left, wreathed with grain, veil wound around hair, wearing ampyx, triple pendant earring, and pearl necklace. Reverse: Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding phiale in extended right hand and kithara in left, feet resting on tunny fish left, monograms in lower left field and in lower right field. Cf. SNG Paris 414 (right monogram varies). Rare. A handsome tetradrachm struck in high relief. Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $5,000 - UP Situated adjacent to the mouth of the river Aisepos on the southwest shore of the Propontis, Kyzikos was purported to be the first in a long line of Milesian colonies. The city possessed two fine harbors, both contributing greatly to its growth and prosperity. Traders plying the routes between the Aegean and Black Seas often stopped at Kyzikos to load tunnies, a main export as the fish were plentiful in the waters thereabouts.The earliest coinage of Kyzikos was struck in electrum, a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver. However, by the fifth century BC, although electrum was still used to facilitate trade with the coastal cities of the northeastern Black Sea littoral, Kyzikos had also adopted the use of gold and silver for its coinage, appealing to its Greek market. On this magnificent tetradrachm stuck on the Rhodian standard, the obverse sports a large bust of the goddess Kore-Soteira, the "maiden saviour" goddess Persephone, her hair bound with a large band of cloth known as an ampyx and wreathed with grain ears. The reverse shows the god Apollo, seated upon the omphalos (Greek: navel or center), a boulder from Delphi which was criss-crossed with fillets and thought to be the center of the world, having his lyre within handy reach beside him and his feet resting on the symbol of the city, the tunny fish. Ex Sternberg 23 (29 X 2000), lot 263Goldberg's Auction 59, lot 2135 The Peh Family Collection. Ex Sternberg 23 (29 X 2000), lot 263 Goldberg's Auction 59, lot 2135 The Peh Family Collection

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Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger > Auction 383	Auction date: 21 September 2023
Lot number: 2136 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN, ASIEN, PAMPHYLIEN, ASPENDOS. Stater. 465-430. Krieger r. mit Speer und Schild. Rs: Triskelis, darunter Löwe l. Alles in Quadratum incusum. SNG COP. -. SNG Frankreich 12. 10.91g, Schöne Tönung. Min. korrodiert. R ss-vz Seit den frühen 1980er Jahren in deutschem Privatbesitz. Estimate: 1000 EUR

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Nomos AG > Auction 27	Auction date: 22 May 2023
Lot number: 1010 Price realized: 28,000 CHF   (Approx. 31,039 USD / 28,773 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: LUCANIA. Herakleia. Circa 350-340 BC. Nomos or Didrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 7.88 g, 1 h), "signed" with the initial Α on the obverse and reverse. Head of Athena to left, wearing Attic helmet adorned with a figure of Skylla raising her right hand in the gesture of aposkopein on the bowl and an owl standing right on the neck guard; below neck, Α. Rev. ͰΗΡΑΚΛΗΙΩΝ Herakles, nude, standing right and strangling the struggling Nemean lion with both hands; to left, club and bow; above left, Α. AMB 108 = Kraay-Hirmer 256 (same dies). Gillet Plates 121 (this coin). HN III 1376. SNG Spencer Churchill 13 (this coin). Van Keuren 42. Work 24a (this coin) . A beautifully toned coin of the finest Classical style, very well-struck and well-centered. Nearly extremely fine. Ex Peus 366, 29 October 2000, 12, Leu Numismatics 77, 11 May 2000, 43 and Numismatics Fine Arts V, 23 February 1978, from the collections of C. Gillet, E. G. Spencer Churchill, Ars Classica XVI, 3 July 1933, 128, S. Pozzi, Naville I, 4 April 1921, 127, H. C. Hoskier, Hirsch XX, 13 November 1907, 46 (bought for Pozzi by Rollin & Feuardent for RM 735), E. P. Warren, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 2 May 1905 ("Well-Known Collector"), 47 and H. Hoffmann, Rollin & Feuardent 17 May 1900, 98. Aside from its present owner, this coin has been owned by several of the greatest connoisseur-collectors of the Twentieth Century! We can trace it back to 1897 to the private collection of the French dealer Henri Hoffmann, which means that it must have been in a collection no later than the last quarter of the 19th century. The letter Α which appears on the obverse, under the neck truncation, and the reverse, behind Herakles's head, has been taken by many to be the signature of the engraver Aristoxenos who primarily worked at Metapontum. Given the quality of the dies that struck this coin, this possibility seems quite reasonable. Estimate: 12500 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: The sea-monster Skylla. Terracotta plaque, Melos, 460–450 BC. Found on Aegina.

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Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles > Auction 136	Auction date: 5 September 2023
Lot number: 167 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Cilicia, Nagidos, c. 375-365 BC. AR Stater (10.71 g). Aphrodite enthroned left, holding phiale over circular altar before her; behind her, Eros standing left, holding up branch. Reverse: Dionysos standing left, holding thyrsos and vine branch with grapes. Lederer 26; cf. BMC p. 111, 12 (same obverse die). Excellent metal. Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $2,500 - UP Little is known about the Cilician city of Nagidos beyond that it was considered a Samian foundation, had an eponymous hero named Nagis, and was incorporated into the Achaemenid Persian Empire perhaps as early as 545 BC. In the Classical period the city and the rest of Cilicia was governed by Persian satraps. The coinage of Nagidos and other Cilician cities of the period is notable for the frequent use of full figure designs on both sides of the coin. Here Aphrodite is depicted on the obverse, which has been taken as an indication that the city had an important temple dedicated to the Greek goddess of love, but it is just as possible that this type refers to the cult of the Persian deity, Anahita, which was often brought to Asia Minor by Persian officials and who was frequently identified with Aphrodite by the Greeks. The reverse depicts Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, shown holding a bunch of grapes and his staff, the pinecone-tipped thyrsos. The dies used to strike this particular coin are the most commonly scene in the series; the obverse is notable for the thin die-break extending from the edge of the coin to Aphrodite's phiale. Ex Sternberg Auktion XXXI, lot 110Goldberg's Auction 59, lot 2159 The Peh Family Collection. Ex Sternberg Auktion XXXI, lot 110 Goldberg's Auction 59, lot 2159 The Peh Family Collection ILLUSTRAZIONE: EROS ALATO CON CORONA NELLA MANO DESTRA DA UN LEKYTHOS APULO A FIGURE ROSSE DEL IV SECOLO A.C. (MUSEUM FINE ARTS, BOSTON)

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Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung > Auction 297	Auction date: 9 October 2023
Lot number: 1199 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction -
Lot description: ÄTOLIEN Ätolische Liga. Stater ø 24mm (10,37g). ca. 220 - 205 v. Chr. Vs.: Jugendlicher männlicher Kopf mit Eichenkranz n. r, darunter ΦΙ. Rs.: ΑΙΤΩΛΩΝ, n. l. mit auf einen Felsen gesetzten Fuß stehender Krieger, die Rechte auf einen Speer gestützt, l. im Feld zwei Monogramme. Scholten 549, Chart III, 5-10; F. Scheu, Coinage System of Aetolia, NC 1960, 51 Emission 11; De Laix 72, 10; Tsangari 663. R! Vs. etwas porös, gutes ss/vz-st Ex Giessener Münzhandlung Dieter Gorny GmbH Auktion 60, München 5. Oktober 1992, Los 146. Estimate: 1000 EUR

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Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 27	Auction date: 9 September 2023
Lot number: 733 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: CILICIA. Mallos. Circa 425-400 BC. 1/3 Stater (Silver, 15 mm, 3.26 g, 3 h). ΔΙΟΝ Dionysos, bearded and holding kantharos in his right hand, reclining left on the back of a donkey walking to right. Rev. M - A Winged female goddess (Nike?) advancing right and holding a band passing around the horns of a bull springing right; all within shallow incuse square. Gorny & Mosch E-Auction 267 (2019), 3027 corr. (misdescribed as Incertum of Sicily). W. Müseler, Between Mesopotamia and Greece: Cultural influences in Cilician coin-iconography from the late 5th to the early 4th century BC, in: Gephyra 22 (2021), -. SNG Levante -. SNG Paris -. SNG von Aulock -. Extremely rare, apparently the second known example. A beautiful piece with highly interesting iconography. Somewhat granular and with a test cut on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 250 CHF

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cgb.fr > Internet Auction July 2023	Auction date: 25 July 2023
Lot number: 119 Price realized: 60 EUR   (Approx. 66 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: TIBERIUS Type : Assarion Date : c. 14-30 AC. Mint name / Town : Philippes, Macédoine Metal : copper Diameter : 16 mm Orientation dies : 12 h. Weight : 3,88 g. Rarity : R1 Obverse legend : TI AVG Obverse description : Tête nue d'Auguste à droite (O°) Obverse translation : "Tiberius Augustus", (Tibère Auguste) Reverse legend : Anépigraphe Reverse description : Scène de fondation avec deux prêtres voilés avec un attelage à droite Commentary : Poids léger. Pour cette série, les auteurs ont relevé une liste de 28 exemplaires avec une estimation de 23 coins de droit. Le poids moyen de cette série est de 4,18 g pour un total de 26 exemplaires. Le monnayage continua sous Tibère sans changement en dehors du nom de l'empereur et de son visage Catalogue references : C.- - BMC.89 - Cop.283 - RPC.1657 Grade : XF Inventory number: 834949 Estimate: 100 EUR ILLUSTRAZIONE: IL RITO DI FONDAZIONE DI UNA CITTA' DA UN BASSORILIEVO ROMANO

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Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG > Online Auction 171 | Silver	Auction date: 20 August 2023
Lot number: 398 Price realized: 2,400 EUR   (Approx. 2,613 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Michael I Rhangabe, with Theophylactus. AD 811-813. Constantinople Solidus AV 21 mm, 4,45 g Michael I Rhangabe, with Theophylactus. 811-813. AV Solidus (19.5mm, 4.48 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. • mIXA HL ЬASILЄ´, crowned facing bust of Michael, wearing chlamys, holding cross potent in right hand and akakia in left / ΘЄOFVLA CτOS ∂ЄSP´, crowned facing bust of Theophylactus, wearing loros, holding globus cruciger in right hand and cruciform scepter in left; X at end of legend. Good Very Fine Sear 1615; DOC 1a; Füeg 1.B Michael I Rhangabe was a Byzantine Emperor who ruled from AD 811 to 813. He was born around AD 770 and belonged to the prestigious Rhangabe family. Michael ascended to the throne after the death of his father-in-law, Emperor Nikephoros I, as he had married Prokopia, the daughter of Nikephoros. During his reign he proclaimed his son Theophylactus as co-emperor. Also,he recognized Charlemagne as emperor and addressed religious issues with the Iconoclasts and Paulicians. He faced defeat in battle against the Bulgarians, leading to his abdication and subsequent life as a monk until his death in AD 844. His sons followed suit, becoming monks and ineligible for the throne. Starting price: 1000 EUR ILLUSTRAZIONE: MOSAICO RAFFIGURANTE L'IMPERATORE ALESSANDRO (BASILICA DI SANTA SOFIA, ISTANBUL)

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Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 27	Auction date: 9 September 2023
Lot number: 27 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: CENTRAL ITALY. Uncertain. 1st century BC. AE (Bronze, 17 mm, 4.95 g, 3 h), 'Pseudo-Panormos'. ΟΔΟN Draped bust of Hermes to right, wearing winged petasos; crescent behind. Rev. NAV Warrior standing facing, head to left, holding patera and spear. HN Italy -. Roma, The Anders Collection part II (2023), 44 (same dies). Stannard & Carbone Group 7, O16/R22. Very rare and with an attractive green patina. Somewhat rough, otherwise, very fine. From a Swiss collection in Ticino, formed over the past 25 years. Starting price: 25 CHF

 

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MDC Monnaies de Collection sarl > Auction 13	Auction date: 12 October 2023
Lot number: 1152 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction -
Lot description: EMPIRE ROMAIN - ROMAN Majorien (457-461). Silique ND, Gaule ? Av. D N MAIORI - ANVS P F AVG. Buste casqué et diadémé à droite, drapé, tenant une lance et un bouclier. Rv. VOTIS - MVLTIS. L'Empereur debout, de trois-quarts face à droite, en habits militaires, tenant une lance de la main gauche et un bouclier orné d'une étoile de la main droite ; sous le bouclier, une petite tête et dans le champ à droite, une étoile à huit rayons. RIC.X. - (cf. 2649) ; Argent - 1,03 g - 15,5 mm - 7 h De remarquable qualité pour un type mal répertorié. Sans doute quelques exemplaires connus. Belle patine et de beau style. Superbe. Starting price: 300 EUR

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 108	Auction date: 13 April 2023
Lot number: 845 Price realized: 500 GBP   (Approx. 623 USD / 568 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: P. Accoleius Lariscolus AR Denarius. Rome, 43 BC. P•ACCOLEIVS [LAR]ISCOLVS, draped bust of Diana Nemorensis to right / Triple cult statue of Diana Nemorensis facing, supporting on their hands and shoulders a beam, above which are five cypress trees; the figure on the left holding a poppy, that on the right holding a lily. Crawford 486/1; CRI 172; BMCRR Rome 4211; RSC Accoleia 1. 4.01g, 19mm, 12h. Extremely Fine; stunning old cabinet tone. Ex Bolaffi Spa, Auction 41, 26 May 2022, lot 156. Estimate: 500 GB

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Schulman b.v. > Auction 377	Auction date: 19 October 2023
Lot number: 12 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Ancient - GREEK COINS AR Nomos Ca. 302-280 BC, ITALY, CALABRIA, TARENTUM Nude warrior holding shield on horse rearing left, EY behind, (NIKOTTAΣ) below. Rev. Phalanthos holding shield and two spears and raising hand astride dolphin left, TAPAΣ above, IOR to left, hippocamp below.Vlasto 700; SNG ANS 1075.8.01 g. NGC Cf XF. Strike 5 out 5, Surface 4 out 5. Fine Style Estimate: 500 EUR

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Heritage World Coin Auctions > ANA Signature Sale 3109	Auction date: 17 August 2023
Lot number: 31015 Price realized: 120,000 USD   (Approx. 110,208 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Ancients CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS. Panticapaeum. Ca. 340-320 BC. AV stater (20mm, 9.11 gm, 11h). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Ca. 340-325 BC. Head of bearded Satyr (or Pan) left, wreathed with ivy bough / Π-A-N, griffin standing left, head facing, holding spear in its mouth, right forepaw raised, on grain ear left. MacDonald 54. Anokhin 1021. HGC 7, 20. SNG BM Black Sea 867. Gulbenkian 590. The magnificently styled, fresh dies, showcase beautifully on this bright and lustrous example. A stunning coin in hand. Starting out as a Greek trading post on the northern Black Sea coast settled by Milesian pioneers in the 7th century BC, Panticapaeum soon grew into a thriving city and home to the Spartocid kings - dynastic Greek rulers of the Bosporus. The city's fabulous wealth derived from its fertile grain fields and the thriving fishing industry of the northern Black Sea, all leading to a rich trade with the cities of mainland Greece and Asia Minor. This wealth is attested by its gold coins, which are typically larger and weightier than contemporary Greek gold pieces, and depict a wild-eyed satyr thought to represent the city's patron god and namesake, Pan. Here, Pan is shown with an expression evoking his role in sowing discord and fear (hence the term "panic") in enemy armies. While categorized as a mythological creature today, the griffin depicted on the reverse was very real to the Greeks of the Thracian hinterland, where it was thought to live. Griffins were said to be highly covetous of gold, a trait carried over into medieval conceptions of the dragon. Estimate: 120000-180000 USD

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Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 123	Auction date: 23 May 2023
Lot number: 415 Price realized: 500 USD   (Approx. 464 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: CYRRHESTICA, Hierapolis. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (27mm, 17.05 g, 1h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Atargatis, wearing kalathos and holding scepter, seated left on lion advancing right. Butcher 54; SNG München 480 var. (rev. legend); cf. BMC 50-52. Dark brown patina with earthen highlights. Good VF. Very rare. Attractive. Estimate: 500 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: RAPPRESENTAZIONE MODERNA DELLA DEA ATARGATIDE

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 113	Auction date: 28 September 2023
Lot number: 379 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Persia, Achaemenid Empire AR Obol. Uncertain mint in Cilicia, 4th century BC. Persian king or hero in kneeling-running stance to right, holding dagger and bow / Crowned head of Persian king to right within incuse circle. Sunrise 92; BMC 25 (Mallos). 0.63g, 10mm, 12h. Good Very Fine; well-centred and of fine style. Rare. Estimate: 100 GBP

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 545	Auction date: 30 August 2023
Lot number: 217 Price realized: 375 USD   (Approx. 346 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: PHRYGIA, Kibyra. Circa 166-84 BC. AR Drachm (16.5mm, 2.78 g, 12h). Cistophoric standard. Helmeted head of Kibyras right / Warrior, holding couched lance, on horse galloping right; grape bunch to left, OPO below. HGC 7, 708; SNG von Aulock 3717. Deep iridescent tone, minor double strike on reverse. Good VF. From the Weise Collection. Ex Kirk Davis FPL 66 (Fall 2015), lot 34. Estimate: 200 USD

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Heritage World Coin Auctions > ANA Signature Sale 3109	Auction date: 17 August 2023
Lot number: 32171 Price realized: 13,000 USD   (Approx. 11,939 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Ancients INDIA. Gupta Empire. Kumaragupta I Mahendraditya (ca. AD 409-450). AV dinar (20mm, 8.26 gm, 12h). XF. Horseman type. Kshitipatirajito vijayi Kumaragupto jayatyajitah (Brahmi), Kumaragupta I, nimbate, on horseback prancing right with no weapons, wearing dhoti, armbands, and jeweled necklace, horse with jeweled braided mane / Ajitamahendrah (Brahmi), Lakshmi, nimbate, seated left on a wicker stool, lotus stalk in left hand, feeding bunch of grapes to peacock standing right at left; no tamgha in fields, dotted border. Kumar Class III.D, pg. 314. Mitchiner 4836. Extremely rare. A sharp, butterscotch offering exhibiting very little wear. Ex Tamco Numismatics, private sale with old dealer's tag included. ILLUSTRAZIONE: LA DEA LAKSHMI

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Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 123	Auction date: 23 May 2023
Lot number: 670 Price realized: 700 USD   (Approx. 649 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Otacilia Severa. Augusta, AD 244-249. Æ Sestertius (26mm, 19.09 g, 12h). Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) issue, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Rome. Rome mint, 4th officina. 9th emission of Philip I, AD 248. Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Hippopotamus standing right. RIC IV 200a (Philip I); Banti 13. Dark brown patina, minor roughness on obverse. Good VF. A wonderful Hippopotamus. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 87 (18 May 2011), lot 1104. Continuing the tradition of Claudius and Antoninus Pius before him, the celebration of the Secular Games at the end of every century since the founding of Rome culminated during the reign of Philip I, as the city celebrated her 1,000th anniversary in AD 248. The legends on these issues almost exclusively read SAECVLARES AVGG, and feature a similar iconography from previous games, such as the she-wolf suckling the twins, the various wild beasts paraded through the amphitheater, and a cippus inscribed for the preservation of the memory of these events. Estimate: 500 USD

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Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger > Auction 383	Auction date: 21 September 2023
Lot number: 2716 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: RÖMISCHE MÜNZEN, RÖMISCHES KAISERREICH CONSTANTINUS I. MAGNUS. 307-337, Treveri.Kleinfollis. Behelmte und gepanzerte Büste l. mit geschultertem Speer. Rs: 2 Victorien halten zwischen sich Schild mit der Aufschrift VOT P R über einen Altar. C. 638. R.I.C. 208a. Silbersud vollständig. RRR ss Ex Sammlung Paul Friedemann, Augsburg. Es hat den Anschein, als ob diese Münze aus einer Silberlegierung besteht. Estimate: 150 EUR

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 111	Auction date: 24 August 2023
Lot number: 9 Price realized: 220 GBP   (Approx. 278 USD / 257 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Umbria, Ariminum Æ 19mm. Circa 268-225 BC. Bust of Vulcan to left, wearing wreathed pileus / Warrior advancing to left, holding spear and shield; ARIM in exergue. Campana, CNAI 7; SNG Copenhagen 59; HN Italy 8; HGC 1, 22.4.69g, 19mm, 2h. Very Fine; irregular planchet. Very Rare. Estimate: 50 GBP ILLUSTRAZIONE: STATUA DI EFESTO

 

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Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 14	Auction date: 14 October 2023
Lot number: 126 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: LYDIA. Saitta. Clodius Albinus, as Caesar, 193-195. Tetrassarion (Bronze, 29 mm, 16.48 g, 5 h), Androneikos, son of Iollas Kratistos Stephanophoros and first archon for the second time, late 193-195. KΛΩ•CЄΠ• - •ΑΛBЄINOC K-AICAP Bare head of Clodius Albinus to right. Rev. ЄΠI•ANΔPONЄIK-OY APX A CAITT/HN-ΩN Aphrodite, nude, standing front, head to left; to left, winged cupid standing right, presenting torch; to right, dolphin swimming downwards. GRPC Lydia 98 = NAC 80 (2014), 125 (same dies, but badly tooled). Imhoof-Blumer, Lydische Stadtmünzen, p. 129, 7. SNG München 440 (same dies). Extremely rare and very likely the finest known example. A beautiful coin with a spectacular portrait and a very interesting reverse. Very light porosity, otherwise, nearly extremely fine. Ex Leu 11, 14 May 2022, 196 and previously from a European collection, formed before 2005. As governor of Britain, Albinus refrained from claiming the throne for himself following Pertinax' murder on 28 March 193 and instead allied himself with Septimius Severus, the legate of Pannonia, who invaded Italy and deposed Pertinax' successor, Didius Julianus, in June 193. Septimius appointed Albinus to the rank of Caesar, thereby accepting him as his designated successor to have free rein to deal with Pescennius Niger, the governor of Syria, who had also made a bid for power. This was a wise move on behalf of Septimius, gaining him a strong ally in the West while campaigning in the East, where his generals defeated Niger in three subsequent battles in late 193 and 194. With Italy, the Balkans, Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt now under his firm control, Albinus' value for the new emperor vanished, all the more as Septimius had two sons and thus intended to found his own imperial dynasty. It is not entirely clear who commenced hostilities, but the two massive armies of the pretenders eventually clashed in February 196 (or 197) in the Battle of Lugdunum, one of the largest battles in Roman history. After a fierce fight, Septimius prevailed and Albinus was killed on the battlefield, ending three years of civil wars and reuniting the empire under a single banner. With the East of the empire either under control of Septimius Severus or of Pescennius Niger, only very few provincial mints issued coins in the name of Septimius' Caesar Albinus. In the case of Saitta, this can only have occurred after Septimius' successes against Pescennius Niger in late 193 and early 194, when Asia Minor fell to the victor, and perhaps reflects the desire of local authorities to assure Septimius Severus and his co-emperor Clodius Albinus of the loyalty of the city and in so doing avoid punishment for the previous support of Niger (see lot 125 above). The wonderful craftmanship displayed on this coin is typical for Saitta early in Septimius' reign, which is all the more remarkable considering the turmoil of the years 193-195 and the rarity of Clodius Albinus' provincial coinage. The city must have taken great care to hire a prime available artist for its Severan coinage, resulting in a spectacular portrait of Clodius Albinus that rivals the finest output of the imperial mint in Rome. Estimate: 10000 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: VENERE BORGHESE, MUSEO DEL LOUVRES