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[King John]

Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVI	Auction date: 26 September 2018
Lot number: 330 Price realized: 16,000 GBP   (Approx. 21,061 USD / 17,870 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Cilicia, Tarsos AR Stater. Circa 440-400 BC. Horseman (Syennesis?) riding to left, wearing kyrbasia, holding lotus flower in right hand and reins in left, bow in bowcase on saddle; Key symbol below horse / Nergal of Tarsos standing to left, holding lotus flower in right hand and spear in left, bow in bowcase and lion skin over shoulder; Tree of Life behind, Aramaic legend 'LNRGL' (to/for Nergal) to left. BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG France -; SNG Levante -; Traité -; Casabonne -; MIMAA -; for obv. type cf. SNG France 213 = Casabonne pl. 2, 10; for rev. type cf. MIMAA type D4, pl. V, 7. 10.66g, 20mm, 10h. Extremely Fine. Unique and unpublished; of great numismatic interest.  From a private North American collection. Estimate: 10000 GBP

 

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Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG > Online Auction 27 | Silver	Auction date: 25 November 2018
Lot number: 39
Kings of Macedon. Uncertain mint in Macedon 325-310 BC. Time of Alexander III – Kassander Bronze Æ         12mm., 2,01g. Macedonian shield; star on boss / B-A, Macedonian helmet; kerykeion to lower left. Starting Price: 75 EUR

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Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG > eLive Auction 49	Auction date: 15 May 2018
Lot number: 354 Price realized: 48 EUR   (Approx. 57 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: KREUZFAHRER ANTIOCHIA Bohemund III., 1149-1163. AR-Denier; 0,94 g. Stilisierter Kopf r.//Kreuz. Malloy/Preston/Seltman 34; Metcalf² 350. R Feine Patina, sehr schön Estimate: 25 EUR illustrazione: truppe dei Califfi Abassidi che caricano dei Crociati

[King John]

Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Live Auction 1 Auction date: 25 July 2018 Lot number: 192 Price realized: 140 GBP   (Approx. 184 USD / 158 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.   Lykia, Phaselis AR Stater. Circa 4th century BC. Prow of galley right, fighting platform decorated with aplustre above griffin seated to left; dolphin to right in right field, waves below / Stern of galley left; ΦAΣ above, dolphin to right below. Heipp-Tamer Series 6; unlisted variety; cf. CNG e395, lot 173. 10.31g, 23mm, 5h.  Very Fine.  Estimate: 100 GBP

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PISIDIA, Isinda. I Century BC. AE 20 (5.84 gm). Laureate head of Zeus / Warrior holding spear, galloping, snake beneath. SNG.Cop.161. aVF, olive brown patina. Scarce.

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 428	Auction date: 5 September 2018
Lot number: 114 Price realized: 50 USD   (Approx. 43 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: THESSALY, Larissa. Late 4th-early 3rd centuries BC. AR Trihemiobol (12mm, 1.22 g, 10h). Reduced standard. Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, wearing ampyx and necklace / [ΛAPI]-IΣ/[A]IΩN, Thessalian cavalryman on horseback right. BCD Thessaly II 341; HGC 4, 515. VF, toned, some roughness, a little off center. From the BCD Collection. Estimate: 75 USD

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVI	Auction date: 26 September 2018
Lot number: 131 Price realized: 3,600 GBP   (Approx. 4,739 USD / 4,021 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: North Africa, Carthage AR Shekel. Circa 300-260 BC. Head of Tanit-Persephone left, wearing wreath of barley ears, pendant earring and necklace / Horse standing to right, head left, palm tree in background; eight-pointed star to right. SNG Copenhagen 141; Alexandropoulos 371, 36; Jenkins-Lewis pl. 26, 16. 7.67g, 20mm, 1h. Good Extremely Fine; wonderful old cabinet tone. Rare, and of exceptional quality for the issue. Ex Hess-Divo 329, 17 November 2015, lot 123 (hammer: 9,000 CHF); Ex Maison Palombo 13, 13 December 2014, lot 42; Ex Sternberg XI, 20 November 1981, lot 65. This beautiful issue of shekels is rather rare, and like the ubiquitous electrum staters that are roughly contemporaneous, it is very difficult to find in a high state of preservation. Traditionally dated to a fairly broad date range of 300-260 BC, this issue was probably produced in response to one of the two major conflicts faced by Carthage in the first half of the 3rd century. In 278-275 Pyrrhos of Epeiros' waged a campaign against the Carthaginian territories in western Sicily, having received envoys from the Greek cities of the island, requesting his assistance. This campaign was initially successful; with a professional army of 20,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry and 20 war elephants, supported by some 200 ships he pushed back the Carthaginian forces and captured the city-fortress of Eryx. Carthage sued for peace, but though this was rejected by Pyrrhos, his ruthless treatment of the Sicilians had created such animosity that he was forced to withdraw back to Italy. The other great emergency that could have warranted the striking of such this issue was the outbreak of what would come to be known as the First Punic War in 264, which prompted Carthage to assemble a vast mercenary army to meet the Roman threat in Sicily - according to Philinos of Agrigentum this army comprised 50,000 infantry, 6,000 cavalry, and 60 elephants including Ligurians, Celts and Iberians (see Polybius, The Histories, 1:17.4). Such a large mercenary army would entail a considerable outlay of money, and of the two possible circumstances for the striking of this issue, this latter war would seem the more logical. Estimate: 4000 GBP ILLUSTRAZIONE: LA DISTRUZIONE DI CARTAGINE

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Fra un po’ bisogna festeggiare ? cento di queste pagine ?...

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 431	Auction date: 24 October 2018
Lot number: 515 Price realized: 380 USD   (Approx. 332 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Ruggero I. Conte, 1071-1101. Æ Follaro (26.25mm, 10.03 g, 12h). Mileto mint. Struck circa 1098-1101. Knight on horseback riding left, holding lance / The Virgin seated right on throne, holding Infant Christ, both wearing nimbus crown. Travaini, Monetazione type 160; MEC 14, 93-100; Biaggi 1583. Good VF, dark green patina, light scuff on obverse. Attractive and well struck for issue. Estimate: 200 USD

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 426

Lot number: 595 Price realized: 95 USD   (Approx. 82 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.

Lot description: OSTROGOTHS. temp. Theoderic. Æ Decanummium (17mm, 288 g, [6]h). Municipal issue. Ravenna mint. Struck circa 493-518. Draped bust of Ravenna right, wearing mural crown / [Ravenna monogram with central pellet; all within wreath; X (mark of value) at point of wreath ties]. Cf. COI 78a; cf. Ranieri 266; cf. MIB 72a (Rome); cf. MEC 1, 145-9 (all refs. Near VF, earthen black patina. Reverse removed and blank surface inscribed IS (16) in series of points. Estimate: 100 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: GUERRIERO OSTROGOTO

[King John]

Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVI	Auction date: 26 September 2018
Lot number: 327 Price realized: 3,000 GBP   (Approx. 3,949 USD / 3,351 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Cilicia, Tarsos AR Stater. Circa 440-400 BC. Horseman (Syennesis?) riding to left, wearing kyrbasia, holding lotus flower in right hand and reins in left, bow in bowcase on saddle; Key symbol below horse, [Aramaic 'TRZ'] in exergue / Archer in kneeling-running stance to right, quiver over shoulder, drawing bow; Key symbol behind, all within dotted border within incuse square. BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Levante -; SNG France -; Casabonne -; MIMAA -; Traité II, 521, and pl. CVI, 1 = Hunterian, p. 546, 4 and pl. LX, 7. 10.64g, 24mm, 12h. Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare.  From the collection of P.R., United Kingdom.  Estimate: 3000 GBP

[King John]

Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 280, lot 830, 26/09/2016

RÖMISCHE MÜNZEN 
MÜNZEN DER RÖMISCHEN KAISERZEIT 
Tacitus, 275-276  
 Æ-Medaillon, Rom; 19,03 g. Gepanzerte Büste l. mit Lorbeerkranz, Victoria auf Globus und Parazonium//ADLOCVTIO TACIT - I AVG Tacitus steht l. mit erhobener Rechten auf Podest, von Victoria bekränzt, davor fünf Soldaten und drei Feldzeichen. Gnecchi 2. Von großer Seltenheit. Grüne Patina, min. korrodiert, attraktives, sehr schönes Exemplar

 

[King John]

Emporium Hamburg > Auction 81	Auction date: 23 October 2018
Lot number: 160 Price realized: 160 EUR   (Approx. 183 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: SYRIEN, Antiochos III., 223-187 v.Chr., AR Drachme. Diad. Kopf r. Rs.Elefant r. 3,68g. Sear 6940, BMC 4.26.31,  ss        Estimate: 45 EUR

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group, Triton VII, lot 249, 12/01/2004

KINGS of LYDIA. Uncertain King. Before 561 BC. EL Trite (4.71 gm).
Estimate $1000
KINGS of LYDIA. Uncertain King. Before 561 BC. EL Trite (4.71 gm). Head of boar with prominent tusk right / Double incuse punch with rough stellate pattern. Weidauer 55; BMC Lydia -; Spier 2; Boston MFA 1760. Good VF. ($1000)
The Spier coin proves the obverse die shows two boar heads confronted; the small flan causes the right handed boar to be lacking. Conceivably, there existed a full stater with the complete type present.

Prima illustrazione: guerriero miceneo, placchetta in avorio del 1300 a.C. (Museo Archeologico di Delos)

Seconda e terza illustrazione: elmo miceneo ricoperto di zanne di cinghiale (Museo Archeologico di Candia)

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Classical Numismatic Group, Triton VII, lot 249, 12/01/2004

KINGS of LYDIA. Uncertain King. Before 561 BC. EL Trite (4.71 gm).
Estimate $1000
KINGS of LYDIA. Uncertain King. Before 561 BC. EL Trite (4.71 gm). Head of boar with prominent tusk right / Double incuse punch with rough stellate pattern. Weidauer 55; BMC Lydia -; Spier 2; Boston MFA 1760. Good VF. ($1000)
The Spier coin proves the obverse die shows two boar heads confronted; the small flan causes the right handed boar to be lacking. Conceivably, there existed a full stater with the complete type present.

Prima illustrazione: guerriero miceneo, placchetta in avorio del 1300 a.C. (Museo Archeologico di Delos)

Seconda e terza illustrazione: elmo miceneo ricoperto di zanne di cinghiale (Museo Archeologico di Candia)

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[King John]

Agora Auctions, Sale 74, lot 67, 5/06/2018

Roman Provincial 
Bithynia, Heracleia Pontica. Trajan. A.D. 98-117. AE 18 (18 mm, 4.17 g). AYT NЄP TPAIANOC KAIC CЄB ΓЄR DAK, laureate head of Trajan right / Turreted female advancing right, holding lance and shield. RG 95 (same obv. die); BMC --; SNG von Aulock --; SNG Copenhagen --. VF, brown patina, porosity on obverse device.
From the Tom Buggey Collection; ex J. S. Wagner Collection; ex CNG.
Sold for $165 plus buyer's fee, 28.05.2008

 

[King John]

Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 6	Auction date: 9 December 2018
Lot number: 213
Lot description: PONTOS. Chabacta. Time of Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 85-65 BC. AE (Bronze, 23 mm, 13.45 g, 11 h). Head of Perseus to right, wearing Phrygian helmet. Rev. XABAKTΩN Pegasos grazing left; to left, monogram. HGC 7, 261. SNG BM Black Sea 1258-1259. Rare. Good very fine. Starting Price: 50 CHF

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Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 110	Auction date: 24 September 2018
Lot number: 124 Price realized: 26,000 CHF   (Approx. 27,075 USD / 22,965 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Cyrene. Drachm, magistrate Polianthes circa 322-313, AV 4.32 g. ΠOΛI Rider on horseback prancing r. Rev. K – Y / P– A Silphium plant. Traitè 1855b, pl. CCLXV, 15 (this coin illustrated). BMC 132, pl. XIV, 25 (these dies). SNG Lockett 3471 (this coin illustrated). Naville 109h (this coin). Very rare and in exceptional condition for the issue. Extremely fine Ex Ars Classica I, 1921, Pozzi, 3273; Glendining 23 February 1961, Lockett, 2849 sales. This gold drachm was struck during the tenure of Ophellas as the Ptolemaic governor of Cyrenaica. Ophellas had served as a trierarch (commander of a trireme) during the eastern campaigns of Alexander the Great, but after his death entered the service of Ptolemy I, Alexander's former general, who controlled Egypt. In 322 B.C., Ptolemy directed Ophellas to lead an army against Cyrene, which was rocked by civil war, and seize the city with its associated dependencies and territories. Ophellas was successful in this endeavour and became the first Ptolemaic governor of Cyrenaica, a position he retained until 309/8 B.C. We have few details about his rule at Cyrene, but Justin's Epitome of Pompeius Trogus-a sometimes confused, late source-reports that at some point Ophellas became king of the Cyreneans (rex Cyrenarum). This seems rather improbable since Ptolemy himself did not assume the royal title until 305 B.C. Ophellas appears to have been briefly expelled from Cyrene during a popular revolt in 312 B.C., but quickly returned to power with Ptolemaic military support. In 309/8 B.C., Ophellas agreed to aid Agathocles, the duplicitous tyrant of Syracuse, in his ongoing war against the Carthaginians with the understanding that any territorial gains made in North Africa would be given to Cyrene. He raised a large army and made the arduous march to meet the forces of Agathocles in Carthaginian territory. However, not long after Ophellas arrived, Agathocles attacked the Cyrenean camp and killed him. Now finding themselves leaderless and far from home, the Cyrenean troops felt they had little choice but join Agathocles' army. The drachm belongs to the first period of Ophellas' rule in Cyrene. The unidentified horseman on the obverse may perhaps represent the governor himself, while the reverse depicts the silphium plant-an emblem that had served as the distinctive civic badge of Cyrene since the late sixth century B.C. Estimate: 10000 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: PARTICOLARE DEL FREGIO DEL PARTENONE

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Da un bel statere di Metaponto, la testa elmata del giovane guerriero Tarragoras con al rovescio, accanto alla consueta spiga, un trofeo di armi  .

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 428, 5/99/2018, lot 1

Price realized: 400 USD   (Approx. 346 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.

IBERIA, Punic Iberia. Circa 237-209 BC. Æ Half Unit (20.5mm, 5.87 g, 1h). Helmeted male head right / Palm tree. MHC 113; ACIP 581. Good VF, dark green-brown patina. Fine style. The portrait on this Carthaginian bronze of Spain is of exceptional interest because of the direct parallel it offers to the portrait on silver didrachms struck by the Epirote king Pyrrhus during his campaign in southern Italy (K. Rutter, Greek Coinages of Southern Italy and Sicily, no. 98; BMC Thessaly pl. XX, 11). They compare so favorably in both style and content that either one was inspired by the other, or, more likely, they share the same sculptural prototype.  Estimate: 200 USD

 

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Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 6	Auction date: 9 December 2018
Lot number: 1167
Magnentius, 350-353. Follis (Bronze, 23 mm, 6.17 g, 12 h), Treveri. D N MAGNEN-TIVS P F AVG / A Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Magnentius to right. Rev. GLORIA RO-MANORVM / TRP(crescent) Magnentius on horseback to right, holding shield with his left hand and spearing, with his , aright barbarian kneeling to left; below horse, broken spear and shield. RIC 271. An attractive example with a dark glossy patina. Extremely fine. Starting Price: 75 CHF

 

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Bolaffi, Auction 26, lot 1189, 10/06/2015

Denaro databile agli anni 114-117 d.C. - Zecca: Roma - Diritto: busto laureato e drappeggiato dell’Imperatore a destra - Rovescio: la Colonna Traiana sormontata dalla statua dell’Imperatore; alla base, due aquile - gr. 3,05 - Non comune Di tutti i grandi monumenti di Roma, uno esprime più di altri la grandezza di Roma al momento del suo massimo splendore; la Colonna Traiana. Essa costituisce forse il punto più alto dell’arte romana, in una forma del tutto originale, la colonna, non mutuata dall’arte greca. La colonna è alta circa 40 metri, cava, percorsa percorsa al suo interno da una scala elicoidale. All’esterno si snoda una serie di rilievi, divisi in 115 scene distinte, lunghi 198 metri, nei quali l’artista descrive le gesta di Traiano in Dacia. Non a caso gli esemplari che presentano la Colonna Traiana sono fra i più ricercati dai collezionisti. (Coh. n. 284) (R.I.C. II/269/356) argento €200

ILLUSTRAZIONE: TRAIANO SULLA SOMMITA' DELLA SUA COLONNA TRAIANA

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Bolaffi, Auction 26, lot 1189, 10/06/2015

Denaro databile agli anni 114-117 d.C. - Zecca: Roma - Diritto: busto laureato e drappeggiato dell’Imperatore a destra - Rovescio: la Colonna Traiana sormontata dalla statua dell’Imperatore; alla base, due aquile - gr. 3,05 - Non comune Di tutti i grandi monumenti di Roma, uno esprime più di altri la grandezza di Roma al momento del suo massimo splendore; la Colonna Traiana. Essa costituisce forse il punto più alto dell’arte romana, in una forma del tutto originale, la colonna, non mutuata dall’arte greca. La colonna è alta circa 40 metri, cava, percorsa percorsa al suo interno da una scala elicoidale. All’esterno si snoda una serie di rilievi, divisi in 115 scene distinte, lunghi 198 metri, nei quali l’artista descrive le gesta di Traiano in Dacia. Non a caso gli esemplari che presentano la Colonna Traiana sono fra i più ricercati dai collezionisti. (Coh. n. 284) (R.I.C. II/269/356) argento €200

ILLUSTRAZIONE: TRAIANO SULLA SOMMITA' DELLA SUA COLONNA TRAIANA

Moneta didattica, sarebbe da portare a scuola per insegnare ai ragazzi cosa rappresenta e quali messaggi mandava ...esempio perfetto per la divulgazione ...

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Jean Elsen & ses Fils S.A. > Auction 139	Auction date: 8 December 2018
Lot number: 145
NERON (54-68), AR denier, 64-65, Rome. D/ NERO CAESAR- AVGVSTVS T. l. à d. R/ IVPPITER- CVSTOS Jupiter assis sur un trône à g., ten. un foudre et un sceptre. BMC 210, 74; RIC 53; C. 119. 3,35g Petites griffes. Très Beau à Superbe   Very Fine - Extremely Fine    Provient de Münz Zentrum, vente 135, 10 janvier 2007, 478.    Estimate: 400 EUR IL GRANDE INCENDIO DI ROMA DEL 64 D.C. NEL RACCONTO DI TACITO  (Ann. XV 38-41): Seguì un disastro, non si sa se dovuto al caso, oppure alla perfidia del principe, poiché gli storici interpretarono la cosa nell’un modo e nell’altro. È certo però che questo incendio per la sua violenza ebbe effetti più terribili e spaventosi di tutti gli incendi precedenti. Cominciò in quella parte del circo, che è contigua ai colli del Palatino e del Celio, dove il fuoco, appena scoppiato nelle botteghe in cui si trovavano merci infiammabili, subito divampò violento alimentato dal vento ed avvolse il circo per tutta la sua lunghezza, poiché non vi erano palazzi con recinti o templi circondati da mura o qualunque altra difesa che potesse arrestare la marcia delle fiamme. Spinto dalla violenza l’incendio si diffuse dapprima nei luoghi piani, poi salì ai colli e poi di nuovo invase devastando i luoghi bassi e con la sua rapidità prevenne ogni possibilità di rimedio, poiché il fuoco si appiccava con estrema facilità alle vie strette e tortuose e agli immensi agglomerati di case della vecchia Roma. A tutto ciò s’aggiungevano le grida lamentose delle donne atterrite e l’impaccio dei vecchi malfermi e dei bambini e coloro che cercavano di salvare sé e quelli che cercavano invece di aiutare altri, o trascinando i malati, o fermandosi ad aspettarli; chi s’indugiava, chi si precipitava, tutto era causa d’ingombro e d’impedimento. Avveniva spesso che qualcuno, mentre si sorvegliava le spalle, si trovava circondato dalle fiamme ai fianchi e di fronte; altri, poi, che erano fuggiti nelle vicinanze le trovavano già invase dall’incendio, e quelle località che avevano creduto immuni dal fuoco per la loro lontananza, vedevano, invece, avvolte nella medesima rovina. Alla fine, non sapendo più da quali luoghi fuggire ed in quali trovar riparo, si riversarono nelle vie e si buttarono prostrati nei campi; alcuni, per aver perduto ogni possibilità finanziaria anche per la vita di tutti i giorni, altri, invece, per la disperazione di non aver potuto salvare i propri cari, si abbandonarono inerti alla morte, pur avendo una possibilità di salvarsi. Nessuno poi aveva il coraggio di tentare qualche cosa contro l’incendio, di fronte alle frequenti minacce di coloro che ne impedivano l’estinzione ed alla vista di quelli che scagliavano torce ardenti e che dichiaravano a gran voce che avevano ricevuto un ordine, sia che facessero ciò per rapinare in piena libertà, sia che in realtà eseguissero un comando.