Imitazioni ‘barbare’ e falsi moderni della monetazione imperiale macedone

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Altro esemplare dell’imitazione del tetradramma Price B13 (Rauch, Summer Auction 2007).

Griechen: Makedonien bis Kilikien
MAKEDONIEN - Könige von Makedonien
Alexander III.-336-323
Tetradrachme (16,76 g), Kolophon (Ionia), posthum 323-319 BC. Av.: Kopf des Herakles n.r. Rv.: Zeus Aetophoros auf Thron n.l., im l. Feld Lyra, unter dem Thron A. Price - (cf 1769, Drachme): kl. Schürfspuren und Kratzer. R s.sch.+

 

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Dramma autentica Price 1769, prototipo dell’imitazione Price B14.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.31 g, 1h). Kolophon mint. Struck under Philip III, circa 322-319 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin / ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; lyre in left field, A below throne. Price 1769. EF.

 

 

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Dramma di Flippo Arrideo Price P44 corrispondente alla dramma di Alessandro Magno Price 1769 (CNG 72).

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Drachm (4.33 g, 11h). Colophon mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; lyre in left field, A below throne. Price P44. EF.

 

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Imitazione di una dramma Alessandro Magno (Savoca, Online Auction 28 | Silver).

Asia Minor. The Galatians (?) circa 300-100 BC. Imitations of Alexander III of Macedon
Drachm AR 17mm, 3,71g.
Stylized head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Stylized Zeus seated left on throne, holding eagle and sceptre.
fine
Cf. Dembski 1457-1459; cf. OTA 574-575.

 

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Tetradramma celtico del Basso Danubio tipo Audoleone (Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio, The January 2019 NYINC Auction).

CELTIC. Lower Danube. AR Tetradrachm (13.72 gms), Audoleon Type, ca. 3rd Century B.C. NGC VF★, Strike: 5/5 Surface: 4/5
cf.Lanz-704-06. Imitation of a Philip II of Macedon issue. Laureate head of Zeus facing right; Reverse: Horseman facing left holding palm. Small countermarked just below horse. Good strike, toned and attractive.

 

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Imitazione est europea di un obolo di Filippo II di Macedonia (Savoca Numismatik, 15th blue auction).

Eastern Europe. Imitation of Philip II of Macedon circa 300 BC. Obol AR
12 mm - 0,77 g

 

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Imitazione est europea di una dramma di Alessandro Magno (Savoca Numismatik, 15th blue auction).

Eastern Europe. Imitations of Alexander III of Macedon circa 300 BC. Drachm AR
15 mm, 3,76 g.
very fine

 

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Imitazione est europea di una dramma di Alessandro Magno (Savoca Numismatik, 15th blue auction).

Eastern Europe. Imitations of Alexander III of Macedon circa 300 BC. Drachm AR
17 mm, 3,93 g.
very fine

 

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Possibile imitazione contemporanea di un obolo di Alessandro Magno (Savoca Numismatik, 15th blue auction).

Kings of Macedon. Uncertain mint in Macedon. Alexander III "the Great" 336-323 BC. Contemporary imitation (?)
Obol AR

8 mm, 0,47 g.

 

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Interessante imitazione in piombo di uno statere di Filippo II di Macedonia (CNG 267).

Interesting Lead Imitation

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. PB ‘Stater’ (19mm, 7.41 g, 11h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Nike driving galloping biga right. VF, scuff on obverse. Unusual.

Lead coins were issued in several areas of the ancient Greek world. Most prominent among the issuers are Alexander Jannaeus of Judaea and the rulers of the Nabataean kingdom. Yet unique lead objects from other areas are periodically seen as well, sometimes directly copying one or both sides of an official coin, sometimes bearing completely unknown fantasy types (for example, CNG 85, 330 and BCD Thessaly 1305). These enigmatic pieces are frequently identified as distribution tokens or entry tickets, an untenable attribution given the lack of precise provenance. Other possible uses for the objects abound, including: tokens, bullae, weights, contemporary or modern counterfeits, funerary money, test-pieces or strikes, and even circulating coinage. Of these suggestions, a use as a token or test-piece is most likely. As tokens, the objects may have initially served as proof or guarantee of some sort. As test-pieces, the objects would have served to demonstrate coin designs for approval prior to mass striking, as pattern coins do in the modern world.

 

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Imitazione est europea di un tetradramma di Filippo III di Macedonia (CNG 437).

EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Philip III of Macedon. 3rd-2nd centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 11.69 g, 11h). Mint in the lower Danube region. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; two monograms in left field, [Greek Z below throne]. OTA 579; KMW 1470–5. VF, toned, a bit off center, area of flat strike.

 

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Imitazione est europea di una dramma di Demetrio I (Savoca 16th blue auction).

Eastern Europe. Imitation of a Demetrios I 162 BC-AD 150. Drachm AR
17mm, 1,45g.
nearly very fine

 

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Imitazione di un tetradramma di Filippo II di Macedonia (Savoca 16th blue auction).

Eastern Europe. Imitations of Philip II of Macedon 100 BC. Tetradrachm AR
25mm, 8,36g.
very fine

 

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Tetradramma imitativa suberata di Filippo II di Macedonia  (Savoca 16th).

Eastern Europe. Imitations of Philip II of Macedon 100 BC. Foureé Tetradrachm AR
21mm, 5,16g.
fine

 

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Imitazione barbara di un bronzo di Filippo II di Macedonia (Savoca 16th).

Kings of Macedon. Pella. Philip II. 359-336 BC. Barbaric imitation. Bronze Æ
20mm, 4,89g.
very fine

Questo bronzo ha suscitato interesse in quanto è stato aggiudicato a 140 €, sette volte il prezzo di partenza.

 

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Imitazione di un bronzo di Alessandro Magno (Numismatik Naumann 65).

Celtic Coins
EASTERN EUROPE. Imitations of Alexander III 'the Great' of Macedon (3rd-2nd centuries BC). Ae. Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin. Rev: Club, bow and quiver. Cf. HGC 3.1, 950-3 (for prototypes). Condition: Very fine. Weight: 4.03 g. Diameter: 16 mm.

 

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Imitazione di un bronzo di Alessandro Magno (Savoca 30th Silver Auction).

Celtic
Eastern Europe. Imitations of Alexander III of Macedon circa 300-100 BC. Bronze AE
13 mm., 1,76 g.
Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Club, bow and quiver.
very fine
Cf. HGC 3.1, 950-3 (for prototypes).

 

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Imitazione est-europea di un tetradramma di Filippo II di Macedonia (Savoca 32nd).

Eastern Europe. Imitation of Philip II of Macedon circa 350 BC. Tetradrachm AR
26 mm, 13,48 g.
Laureate head of Zeus right / Nude youth, holding palm frond, on horseback right; Λ above torch below horse, kantharos below raised foreleg. 
very fine
cf. Lanz 355-6.

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Imitazione est-europea di una dramma di Filippo II di Macedonia (Savoca 19th blue auction).

Eastern Europe. Imitation of Philip II of Macedon circa 300-200 BC. 
Drachm AR
14mm, 2,18g.
very fine

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Imitazione est-europea di una dramma di Alessandro III di Macedonia (Savoca 19th blue auction).

Eastern Europe. Imitations of Alexander III of Macedon circa 300-100 BC. 
Drachm AR
17mm, 3,03g.
very fine

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Imitazione est-europea di un tetradramma di Filippo III di Macedonia (Savoca 19th blue auction).

Eastern Europe. Imitation of Philip III of Macedon. Imitations of Alexander III and his successors circa 200-100 BC. 
Tetradrachm AR
27mm, 14,85g.
very fine

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Imitazione est-europea di un bronzo di Lisimaco di Tracia (Savoca 19th blue auction).

Eastern Europe. Imitations of Lysimachos of Thrace circa 300-200 BC. 
Bronze AE
20mm, 3,88g.
nearly very fine

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Più di cento lotti celtici sull'elegante catalogo della prossima Leu Numismatik 4.

Tra questi l'imitazione di uno statere di Flippo II di Macedonia

An extremely rare early stater from the Helvetii (?), perhaps the finest known
CELTIC, Central Europe. Helvetii (?). Late 4th to early 3rd century BC. Stater (Gold, 18 mm, 8.47 g, 10 h), 'type de Soy au canthare', imitating Philip II of Macedon. Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΦΙΛΙΠΠOY Charioteer driving biga to right, holding reins in his left hand and kentron in his right; below the horses, kantharos. Allen, SNR 53 (1974), 3. DT 2001. Flesche 123. LT -. SLM 375. Extremely rare and perhaps the finest known. A wonderful and very sharp piece of splendid, very early style. Faint marks, otherwise, extremely fine.
From a Swiss collection.
Exactly where this wonderful coin was struck is unclear: Delestrée and Tache attribute it to the Armorica region in northwestern France while Allen saw it as Helvetian issue. Find spots include Brittany, Central France, Switzerland, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, an unusually large-scale pattern that indicates that the issue was used mostly in trade. The present piece is of very early style: it must have been struck in the late 4th or in the early 3rd century BC at the latest, when the first Macedonian prototypes from Pella were reaching the vastnesses of Celtic Europe.

Starting price: 10'000 CHF per chi vuol entrare in lizza.

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Tetradramma imitativo di Lisimaco e Filippo II

A rare and beautifully toned tetradrachm imitating Lysimachos and Philip II
CELTIC, Lower Danube. Uncertain tribe. Circa 2nd century BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 23 mm, 12.52 g, 9 h), imitating Lysimachos and Philip II of Macedon. Celticized head of Alexander the Great to left with flowing hair and stylized horn of Ammon over his ear. Rev. Celticized horseman to left, with long hair ending in volute. Lanz 582. OTA pl. 24, 284.1. Rare. An attractive and beautifully toned piece. Good very fine.

From the Keltika Collection, Switzerland.

Qui bastano 350 CHF per entrare in gara.

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Imitazione di un tetradramma di Filippo II.

CELTIC, Lower Danube. Uncertain tribe. Circa 2nd century BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 22 mm, 8.91 g, 7 h), imitating Philip II of Macedon. Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. Celticized horse to left within shallow circular incuse. Lanz 609 (same dies). OTA 300/2. Nicely toned. Struck from a worn obverse die, otherwise, good very fine.

From the Keltika Collection, Switzerland, ex Leu 83, 6 May 2002, 521 (part of) and Kölner Münzkabinett, 2 May 1969, 63.