Wappenmünzen-type con Pegaso

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Statere presentato alla Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG, Auction 84, lot 625, 20.05.2015.

Greek Coins - Corinthia, Corinth
Stater circa 560, AR 8.38 g. Pegasus flying l.; below, qoppa. Rev. Mail sail pattern incuse. ACGC 220. Ravel 19 (this coin). BCD Korinth –.
An exceedingly rare issue known in very few specimens. Lovely old cabinet tone, a few minor marks on obverse, otherwise about extremely fine
Ex Naville I, 1921, Pozzi, 1642. From the collection of the Conte Sola. One of the earliest coinages of the Greeks was produced in Corinth, a city at the juncture of the mainland and the Peloponnesus. It was an ideal staging point for trade throughout Greece, and to the west, where so many Greeks had established colonies in Italy and Sicily. Between Corinth and the Greek cities in Magna Graecia lie the westernmost regions of the Greek mainland – Illyria, Epirus, Acarnania, and the island of Corcyra – all locations where Corinthian colonies would later issue their own versions of the famous Corinthian ‘colts’.
The primitive ‘mill sail’ punch on the reverse of this coin marks it as being among the very earliest of Corinthian staters. Soon it was replaced with a more refined incuse punch bearing a swastika-like pattern. The extreme rarity of this first type is underscored by its absence from most of the major private collections. None existed, for example, in BCD, a collection in which one might have expected to see multiple examples.
It is now generally believed that the three earliest coinages in Greece were those of Aegina, Corinth and Athens, all of which were introduced soon after the Lydian King Croesus (c.560-546 B.C.) had abandoned electrum in favor of a bi- metallic coinage. This is a significant departure from the thoughts of early scholars, who tended to date the first Corinthian staters perhaps a century earlier than current evidence supports. Barclay Head, for example, dated the present type to 657- 625 B.C., during the time of Cypselus.
It is now supposed that the Aegina turtles were the first Greek coins, commencing in about 555/50 B.C. Following in quick succession were the colts of Corinth, perhaps as early as c.555 B.C., but perhaps closer to c.550 B.C., and the Wappenmünzen (‘heraldic coins’) of Athens, starting in about 545 B.C. Dates as precise as these, however, must be taken with a grain of salt, as they are ever subject to revision upon the discovery of new evidence.
The cast of the coin illustrated in the plate of Ravel's publication is damaged in such a way that one would expect that the coin had a whole in it, however this is evidently not the case.
Lucien Hirsch in the text of the catalogue states that he only knows one other specimen of this exceedingly rare issue.

 

Starting price: 10.000 CHF - Estimate: 12.500 CHF - Result: 22.000 CHF

 

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Esemplare Gemini, LLC, Auction VII, lot 393, 09.01.2011

Quadripartite incuse square with swastika pattern. Ravel 89. Calciati I, p. 159, 39/1 (same obverse die). Asyut Hoard 562. Goldberg, Money of the World, 3. Pegasos' nose off flan, otherwise Choice EF.
Dr. Patrick Tan Collection. Ex Goldberg, The Millennia Collection, 26 May 2008, lot 32 .
The date of Ravel's Period 1, Class 2 is suggested by specimens overstruck on Gorgoneion Wappenmunzen of Athens, and by the wear of specimens found in the Taranto and Asyut Hoards (IGCH 1874, 1644) .

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Esemplare Classical Numismatic Group, Inc., Mail Bid Sale 79, lot 254, 17.09.2008

CORINTHIA, Corinth. Circa 550-500 BC. AR Stater (8.36 g). Pegasos flying left; J below / Quadripartite incuse square with swastika pattern. Ravel 50 (P40/T38); Pegasi 24; BCD Corinth 3; SNG Copenhagen 2-3. VF, porous, struck with worn obverse die. Overstruck on an Athens Wappenmünzen didrachm (gorgoneion clearly visible on the reverse). Very rare.
Estimate: 2000 USD

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Didramma ateniese della serie “Wappenmünzen” (CNG Coin Shop).

Exquisite “Wappenmünzen” Didrachm

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 545-525/15 BC. AR Didrachm (18.5mm, 8.49 g). “Wappenmünzen” series. Facing gorgoneion / Diagonally divided quadripartite incuse punch. Seltman 83d (“A56/P63”); Svoronos pl. 1, 62 (same dies); Asyut –; HGC 4, 1616; SNG München 18; Traité I 1057 (Eretria, same rev. punch). EF. Exceptional metal. Very rare and among the finest known.

"Wappenmünzen" ("Blazon money") is a German term used to describe the earliest coinage of Athens. Although modern scholars have convincingly demonstrated that Seltman's hypothesis that Wappenmünzen types represent the coats-of-arms of Athens' leading families is incorrect, numismatic cataloguers have been hard-pressed to find a more suitable designation to describe the series.

There appears to be some confusion in Seltman’s arrangement of the dies and punches for the Gorgon series. P62 and P63 are the same punch, only at different stages. Meanwhile, 83b, held in Berlin and illustrated by Svoronos, is clearly from a different obverse and possibly reverse die as 83d, illustrated in SNG München.

435871. Sold For $75000

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Questa eccezionale Wappenmünzen (CNG 105) deve anche portare fortuna.

Exceptional Wappenmünzen Scarab Beetle Didrachm

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 545-525/15 BC. AR Didrachm (20.5mm, 8.35 g). “Wappenmünzen” type. Scarab beetle / Quadripartite incuse square, divided diagonally. Seltman Group B, 20 var. (A14/P– [unlisted rev. die]) = Svoronos, Monnaies, pl. 1, 38 = Traité I 1112 = Weber 3420 = Photiades Pacha Collection (Hoffmann, 19 May 1890), lot 495; HGC 4, 1612 (illustrating Weber piece). Good VF, minor roughness. Extremely rare, apparently the second known, after the Weber/Photiades Pacha piece.

CNG 105, Lot: 102. Estimate $30000.  Sold for $60000.