PESI MONETALI

[King John]

Buonasera,

perchè non parliamo un po' di pesi monetali?

Guardate cosa proponeva l'ultima asta Roma Numismatics. Il pezzo è rimasto invenduto: peccato perchè era molto particolare, anche se un po' caro... Che ne pensi  @Poemenius?

Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 31	Auction date: 26 November 2016
Lot number: 652 Price realized: Unsold
Lot description: Time of Honorius - Anastasius I Æ Exagium Solidi Weight. Mint of Ravenna (?). Cross within frame / RAV-Monogram, S-C across fields. Bendall -. 4.20g, 15mm.  Near Extremely Fine.  The S-C is quite unusual to find on Exagium Solidi Weights. A Senatus Consultum (Latin - decree of the senate; plural senatus consulta) is a text emanating from the senate in Ancient Rome. Under the Roman Empire, the Roman legislative assemblies were rapidly neutralised. Realising these assemblies were very corrupt and dysfunctional, the first emperors transferred all legislative powers to the senate. After this transfer, the senatus consulta had the force of law. The senate's legislative power and right to issue consulta were suppressed in the 3rd century under the Dominate, in reference to the full powers conferred to the imperium. In the continued decline in praetorian law, the change rendered the emperor alone the guarantor of law and the Imperial constitution. Estimate: 2000 GBP

Edited November 30, 2016 by King John

[King John]

Sempre di recente (lo scorso 7 ottobre) è passato in asta quest'altro peso monetale che però ha avuto migliore sorte: è stato venduto a 1.200 CHF contro i 350 della stima di partenza.

Nomos AG > Auction 13	Auction date: 7 October 2016
Lot number: 311 Price realized: 1,200 CHF   (Approx. 1,225 USD / 1,096 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: The Eparch Collection of Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Weights  LATIN COIN WEIGHTS  Leo I, 457-474. Siliqua Weight (?) (Bronze, 12x12x2mm, 1.85 g 6), a square coin-weight on the reduced standard, Thessalonica. Diademed and draped imperial, beardless bust to right. Rev. Square monogram of LEONIS. A. Mazarakis, "A Byzantine check-weight of Leo I (457-474)" NomXhron 30, 2012, pp. 39-43 (this piece, illustrated on p. 39), Roma 10, 2015, 913 (same dies). A weight of great rarity and interest. Nicely patinated. Good very fine. From the Eparch Collection, ex Helios 6, 9 March 2011, 1073. This fascinating piece forms part of a very small series of weights known to have been produced in Thessalonica, albeit primarily for solidi (as Bendall 16 and Lanz, 159, 2014, 653 - 4.23 g). We can be sure that this weight and the two known solidus weights were struck at the same time because the monogram on their reverses was definitely cut by the same engraver. A further weight, ostensibly of this type but weighing 2.02 g (Helios 8, 2012, 546) and supposedly of billon (!) is so stylistically peculiar that one wonders what it is supposed to be! In any case, our piece here is one of the very rare weights that can be ascribed to a specific Roman or Byzantine emperor. Do note that two other examples of the present type have since appeared with Roma in London: 9, 2015, lot 866 (1.46 g) and the above mentioned piece from auction 10 (2.18 g). The weights of the two recent examples diverge so much from that of the present piece, which Mazarakis identified as a reduced siliqua weight, that it is possible that it might, after all, be a semissis weight! Estimate: 350 CHF

[King John]

Altro peso monetale venduto dalla Nomos nella stessa asta menzionata nel post precedente. Questa volta si tratta di Onorio.

Nomos AG > Auction 13	Auction date: 7 October 2016
Lot number: 310 Price realized: 1,200 CHF   (Approx. 1,225 USD / 1,096 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: The Eparch Collection of Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Weights  LATIN COIN WEIGHTS  Honorius, 393-423. Solidus weight or Exagium (Bronze, 16x15x2mm, 4.24 g 12), a square coin-weight, uncertain Western mint, perhaps Ravenna. DN HONORI / VS AVG Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Honorius to right; all within square dotted border. Rev. EXAGIVM / SOLIDI Moneta standing left, holding balance in her right hand and cornucopiae in her left; all within square dotted border. Bendall 5. CW 410. Very rare. A very interesting piece, with uncleaned surface deposits. Very fine. From the Eparch Collection.

Edited November 30, 2016 by King John

[King John]

Sempre Auction 13 della Nomos.

Nomos AG > Auction 13	Auction date: 7 October 2016
Lot number: 315 Price realized: 600 CHF   (Approx. 612 USD / 548 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: The Eparch Collection of Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Weights  LATIN COIN WEIGHTS  Circa 4th-6th centuries. Weight of 3 Solidi or 1/2 Ounce (Bronze, 18x17x4mm, 12.86 g), a square coin-weight with a flat top and bottom, and a plain edge (as MAH B1), solidus of 4.28 g and ounce of 25.72 g. SOL / I I I, engraved in outline. Rev. Plain. Bendall 162. MAH 283. An attractive piece with a fine light olive green patina. Extremely fine.  From the Eparch Collection. Estimate: 175 CHF

[Poemenius]

caro @King John

interessante discussione dalla quale posso solo che leggere e imparare.... tuttavia darò qualche mia impressione.

 

il primo peso ha una lettura che mi pare poco probabile... le lettere potenzialmente incluse sono RANVT e forse una seconda T. quanto alla lettura della SC questa proposta mi sento di escluderla, includendo le lettere nel monogramma da slegare, anche perché le lettere S e C sono posizionate in luoghi "tipici". non viene proposta alcuna bibliografia in merito, quindi non so... mi pare comunque una lettura "frettolosa"

 

il secondo è molto interessante perché anche stilisticamente è certamente vicino  al tempo di Leone, e il monogramma ricorda assolutamente il tipo "Tessalonica" usato sui nummi...molto interessante

 

il terzo è bello e rientra nella casistica degli EXAGIVM "dichiarati", ovvero con scritta

 

il quarto, pur da ignorante, mi pare stilisticamente più tardo del IV-VI secolo dichiarato, ma se esiste una letteratura in merito, probabilmente ho detto una sciocchezza...

 

il tema dei pesi è davvero interessante ma complessissimo...

ci sarà di certo qualche esperto su lamoneta, speriamo ci illumini, magari anche sulla letteratura relativa... cosa è bene leggersi per primo?