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Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXI	Auction date: 24 March 2021
Lot number: 144
Lot description: Islands off Thrace, Thasos AR Stater. Circa 412-404 BC. Bald-headed and nude Satyr in kneeling-running stance to right, carrying off protesting nymph; Α in right field / Quadripartite incuse square. Kraay-Hirmer 437; Gulbenkian 464; Le Rider, Thasiennes, 6; SNG Copenhagen Supp. 103; HGC 6, 334. 8.24g, 22mm. Extremely Fine; excellent high classical style. Acquired from Leu Numismatik AG. Thasos, a large island off the western coastal region of Thrace, gained its enormous wealth by virtue of its local silver mines as well as mines it controlled on the Thracian mainland opposite the island city-state. According to Herodotos (VI, 46), the city derived 200-300 talents annually from her exploitation of this mineral wealth. Additionally, Thasos gained much material wealth as a producer and exporter of high quality wines, which was tightly regulated by the government, and it was perhaps due to this trade in wine that her coinage spread throughout the Aegean making it a widely recognized and accepted currency in distant lands. The artistry of this coin is exceptional, and belongs to the very end of the 5th century BC before the end of the Peloponnesian War. Earlier didrachm staters struck to a local Thracian standard originally of 9.8 g and subsequently to 8.7 g are quite crude in style, portraying a vigorous and beastly satyr forcibly abducting a very unwilling nymph. By contrast the nymph on this coin seems to barely protest the abduction, and the satyr is imbued with almost wholly human qualities. The engraving is by a superior artist and is in a very lovely style, the head of the satyr reminding us of the miniature masterpieces from Katane in Sicily depicting a satyr's head facing, while the head of the nymph here is strongly reminiscent of the head of the nymph found on the coins of nearby Neapolis in Macedon. There is no explanation in the relevant literature of the letters A, Σ, or Φ which sometimes appear in the obverse field of these later staters (they never appear on the earlier staters). They cannot be the signatures of the artists as the staters with the same letter often show a markedly different hand at work, so they most probably simply identify the magistrate responsible for the issue, a commonplace feature on other coinages from a number of mints during this and subsequent times. Estimate: 2500 GBP

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Heritage World Coin Auctions > March Signature Sale 3096	Auction date: 25 March 2021
Lot number: 30066 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Ancients Magnentius (AD 350-353). AV medallion of 3-solidi (34mm, 13.46 gm, 11h). NGC MS★ 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style, light graffito. Aquileia, ca. AD 351. D N MAGNEN-TIVS P F AVG, bare headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Magnentius right, seen from front / LIBERATOR•REI•PVBLICAE, Magnentius, nimbate and in military attire, cloak flying behind, on stallion stepping right, offering his right hand to raise turreted and draped figure of Republica bowing left, cloak billowing behind, cornucopia and end of cloak in left hand, the other end of her cloak in right; SMAQ in exergue. RIC VIII 128. Gnecchi -. P. Bastien, Le monnayage de Magnence (350-353) (2nd ed. 1983), 196, 339 and pl. SV, 339. A. Jelocnik, Le trésor d'Emona, RN 1967, 12 and pl. 36, 5. Superbly struck and perfectly centered on bright flan. From the Paramount Collection. Ex Münzen & Medaillen, Auction 92 (22 November 2002), lot 329; Münzen & Medaillen, Auction 79 (28 February 1994), lot 617; Emona Hoard, 1956 Born around AD 303 to parents of barbarian stock, Flavius Magnus Magnentius showed enough talent and initiative to rise high in the Roman army during the reigns of Constantine the Great and his son, Constans I, emperor of the West. In the AD 340s, Constans appointed Magnentius as commander in his personal guard, the Protectores. Whatever his merits, gratitude does not seem to have been among them, for in AD 350 he began plotting the overthrow of his benefactor. At a birthday party for a government minister, Magnentius walked in wearing an emperor's purple cloak and was immediately hailed by all the soldiers present. Constans, who had made himself unpopular with the army, attempted to flee to his brother, Constantius II, emperor of the East, but was overtaken and executed. After putting down the usurper Nepotian (half-nephew of Constantine I) in Rome, Magnentius solidified his rule in the West and appointed his brother Decentius as Caesar to fight the Germans on the Rhine. He also attempted to enter into negotiations with Constantius, but the Eastern emperor would hear none of it and vowed to avenge his brother's murder. However, he was preoccupied fighting the Persians, and had to disengage before he could turn his army against the West, which took more than a year. Constantius finally struck in the summer of AD 351, but Magnentius defeated his initial thrust into Italy and quickly went on the offensive, seizing the strategic town of Siscia and forcing a major engagement in the Balkans. The clash at Mursa on 28 September AD 351 proved one of the costliest battles in Roman history, leaving the ground strewn with 55,000 dead. Magnentius fared much the worse and retreated back into Gaul. Constantius took his time in pursuit, invading Italy the following year and methodically tightening the noose around Magentius, who was forced to take refuge in the city of Lugdunum. Rather than surrender, Magnentius fell on his sword in August AD 353. Decentius followed suit a few days later. Magnentius posed as a champion of the common people, a role reflected in this gold multiple, where he is usually shown without a diadem or other trappings of royalty. The reverse legend also carries a populist message, celebrating the liberation of the state from the tyranny of the sons of the House of Constantine, and struck to celebrate his entry into Aquileia in late AD 350 or early AD 351. Estimate: 100000-150000 USD

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Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XI, lot 656, 8/01/2008

Octavian. 30-29 BC. AR Denarius (4.06 g, 12h). Italian (Rome?) mint. Laureate head of Apollo of Actium right, with features resembling Octavian / IMP CAESAR in exergue, Octavian, as city founder, veiled and wearing priestly robes, plowing right with yoke of oxen, holding whip in outstretched left hand and plow-handle in right. RIC I 272; CRI 424; RSC 117; BMCRE 638-40 = BMCRR Rome 4363-5; BN 92-6. Near EF, toned, test punch on obverse.
This issue alludes to the foundation of Nicopolis in Epiros by Octavian during the Actian campaign. This scene, in which the founder is ploughing with oxen, refers to the Roman custom of fixing a boundary for a new city by marking it with a pomerium, or sacred furrow.
Estimate: 500 USD

ILLUSTRAZIONE: Rilievo raffigurante la fondazione di una città di cui viene tracciato il solco primigenio che ne delimita il pomerio, Museo Archeologico di Aquileia

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Roma Numismatics Ltd,  Auction XX, 29 October 2020, Lot number: 596

Price realized: 35,000 GBP   (Approx. 45,167 USD / 38,735 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.


Hadrian AV Aureus. Rome, AD 117. IMP CAES TRAIAN HADRIANO AVG DIVI TRA PARTH F, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / DIVI NER NEP P M TR P COS, radiate head of Sol to right, ORIENS below. RIC II.3 50; C. 1003; BMCRE 35, pl. 46, 16 (same obverse die); Calicó 1293. 7.24g, 19mm, 6h.

Good Extremely Fine; superbly struck from dies engraved in the finest style, and among the finest known specimens of the type.

From the Long Valley River Collection;
Ex Baldwin's Auctions Ltd - Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals - M&M Numismatics Ltd, The New York Sale XXXII, 8 January 2014, lot 18 (hammer: USD 50,000);
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 38, 21 March 2007, lot 56;
Ex Bank Leu AG, Auction 10, 29 May 1974, lot 140;
Ex Adolph Hess AG - Bank Leu AG, Auction 9, 2 April 1958, lot 329;
Ex Münzen & Medaillen AG Basel, Auction 12, 11-13 June 1953, lot 811.

Struck in AD 117 at the beginning of Hadrian's reign and shortly after the death of Trajan on his return journey from the campaign against Parthia, this stunning aureus contains layers of symbolism hidden within its splendour.

The murky circumstances surrounding Hadrian's accession needed to be legitimised. He had, officially, been adopted by Trajan on his deathbed. Yet whether this was actually the case, and whether it was Trajan's uninfluenced will, were subjects of whispered debate. It was rumoured that Plotina might have compelled the dying emperor to adopt her favourite, Hadrian, or even perhaps that Trajan had died leaving no successor and that Plotina had afterwards forged Trajan's will herself. Hadrian was therefore required to cement his own position as well as to consolidate the vast territorial gains of his predecessor, tasks that he undertook quickly and decisively.

Realising the untenable position that the annexation of Mesopotamia had created, Hadrian withdrew the legions stationed there and effectively abandoned this province, also later giving up Armenia to a local king, who was soon defeated by Parthia. Unpopular as Hadrian's abandonment of his predecessor's conquests in Mesopotamia would have been, it did help to stabilise the empire. These tactical withdrawals also left him able to concentrate on quelling the last pockets of resistance left over from the Kitos War, the second great Jewish-Roman war which had begun under Trajan and which was estimated by contemporaries to have cost the lives of many hundreds of thousands of Greeks and Roman citizens. As a result of the insurrection, the Legio VI Ferrata was also moved to a new permanent station at Caesarea Maritima in Judaea.

The rumour of a falsified adoption carried little weight, but in any case Hadrian was keen to emphasise the legitimacy of his position, and therefore we see on his coinage legends proudly proclaiming the deified Trajan and Nerva as his father and grandfather.

The reverse type of Oriens may be understood to have several meanings. At the time it was struck, Hadrian remained in the East consolidating the frontiers of the empire and assisting in the restoration of Egypt, Cyprus, Cyrene and Judaea. Thus it may refer to the new emperor who had arisen in the East, yet it might also be viewed as a celebration of the end to the Jewish rebellion that had so ravaged the eastern provinces. One may also see in this type a melancholic marking of the conclusion to Trajan's glorious conquests on that most distant border of the Roman empire, a demanding campaign that had ultimately claimed the life of this great and wise emperor.

Estimate: 27500 GBP

ILLUSTRAZIONE: IL DIO HELIOS SUL SUO CARRO (IV SEC.A.C.), PERGAMON MUSEUM

 

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ArtCoins ROMA, Asta 6, 10-11/12/2012, lot 555

P. Licinius Nerva, Denario, Roma, 113 o 112 a.C., AR, (g 3,86, mm 17, h 2). Busto elmato di Roma a s., tiene scudo e lancia; sopra, un crescente; davanti, *; dietro, ROMA, Rv. Scena di votazione ambientata presso il Comitium: un addetto consegna la scheda elettorale ad un personaggio stante sulla sinistra del pons; a d., un secondo personaggio inserisce la scheda nell’urna; sopra, [P] NERVA; all’apice superiore del campo, una tavoletta riportante la lettera [P]. Crawford 292/1; Licinia 7; Sydenham 548. Patina di collezione. q.spl.
P. Licinius Nerva, Denarius,Rome, 113 or 112 BC, AR, (g 3,86, mm 17, h 2). Helmeted bust of Roma l., holding shield and spear; above, crescent; before, *; behind, ROMA, Rv. Voting scene in the Comitium: one voter on l. of pons receives ballot from attendant below, another voter on r. of pons places ballot in cista; above, [P] NERVA; at top of coin, bar on which stands tablet bearing letter [P]. Crawford 292/1; Licinia 7; Sydenham 548. Cabinet tone. About extremely fine.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: DISEGNO DEL ROVESCIO DEL DENARIO DI P. LICINIUS NERVA CHE RAFFIGURA UNA SCENA DI VOTAZIONE AMBIENTATA PRESSO IL COMITIUM.

 Il Comitium, primo luogo di riunione della gente patrizia romana, per discutere sulle decisioni di Roma, fu costruito nel primo Foro, il Foro Romano, in epoca monarchica, sotto i Re di Roma.
Era il centro politico dell'Urbe, e poichè vi si discuteva di politica, è rimasto oggi come termine per indicare discorsi politici rivolti a tutti i cittadini.

 

Durante la Roma del periodo repubblicano (509 a.C. – 30 a.C.), i cittadini ebbero la possibilità di esprimere la propria volontà mediante il voto sia per eleggere i propri governanti, sia per approvare le leggi dello Stato e sia per giudicare reati.

Le elezioni avvenivano nei giorni detti comitiales, cioè adatti per i comizi, ed erano fissate con un certo anticipo (circa due mesi prima). Quando il giorno fissato arrivava, era necessario propiziarsi il favore degli dei mediante l’intervento degli aruspici, che osservavano il volo degli uccelli o leggevano le viscere degli animali sacrificati. Solo se l’esito di questi rituali era positivo, si procedeva con le operazioni di voto, annunciate da un araldo, a cui spettava anche l’incarico di girare lungo le mura con la tromba per chiamare a raccolta i cittadini.

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXI	Auction date: 24 March 2021
Lot number: 647 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Commodus Æ Medallion. Rome, AD 186-187. M COMMODVS ANTONINVS PIVS FELIX AVG BRIT, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / P M TR P XII IMP VIII, Tellus reclining to left, left arm resting on basket of fruit and cradling long vine branch from which hangs grapes above, her right hand placed on star-studded globe, around which are the figures of the Four Seasons; TELLVS STABIL COS V P P in two lines in exergue. Gnecchi 129, pl. 86, 9. 53.18g, 39mm, 1h. Good Very Fine. Very Rare. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XV, 5 April 2018, lot 576. The production of medallions had been gradually growing since the reign of Hadrian, and reached a climax under Commodus. Used as gifts for the elite, we might consider them one of the devices of the emperor's new policy of self-promotion for they all spoke to the themes Commodus sought to uphold by his reign. On this medallion the theme of Tellus Stabilita ('The Earth Firmly Established') is embodied by the allegorical figure of Tellus who sits on the ground leaning upon an abundant basket of fruit, produce of the earth. Tellus reaches out her hand to rest on a large globe, representative of the heavens and thereby encompassing the whole empire. Around Tellus the seasons, in the guise of four women, pose gracefully. For the average resident of the Roman Empire, life under Commodus was – if not a Golden Age – then peaceful and somewhat prosperous, according with the vision of the present medallion. His reign marked the final stage of the period known to historians as the Pax Romana, and within that saw much less warfare than the rule of his father Marcus Aurelius – even if it was to become notorious for instability in the upper echelons of the government and for the subjective style of Commodus' rule, which sparked much of this instability. In comparison to his spiteful relationship with the Senate, Commodus appears to have been popular among the army and the people, not least because of his organising of and taking part in gladiatorial fights and his magnificent distributions of largesse. This relationship with his subjects is evidenced in the controversial reversal of the conventional order of the subjects on which the power of the Emperor is supposed to rely, in the phrase Senatus Populusque Romanus – which became Populus Senatusque Romanus in many inscriptions across the Empire. Estimate: 10000 GBP ILLUSTRAZIONE: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI, MOSAICO ROMANO AL MUSEO DEL BARDO, TUNISI

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXI	Auction date: 24 March 2021
Lot number: 264 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Cyprus, Salamis AV Stater. Evagoras II, circa 361-351 BC. Turreted head of Aphrodite to left; EYA behind / Lion standing to left, eagle standing to left on its back with head reverted; star above. BMC p. cv, 1 and pl. XXIV, 11; Tziambazis 123; Markou, L'or 368 = Kraay-Hirmer, pl. 195, 679 = Hess-Leu, 12-13 April 1962, lot 339 = Leu 30, lot 199 = NAC 114, lot 332 (same dies). 8.27g, 20mm, 5h. Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; one of only four known examples of this variety, with only six examples of the type known in total, of which just three are in private hands. The rules of Evagoras I, his son Nicocles, and his son Evagoras II - kings of Salamis in the 4th Century BC - demonstrate well the cultural, political and military tug of war that dominated the Eastern Mediterranean at this time, between the two dominant centres in the region, Greece and Persia, in which all marginal states necessarily had to take part. The policy of Evagoras I and Nicocles was to seek friendship with the Greeks, particularly the Athenians, in order to shore up their independence against the Persians, who sought to expand their power Westward over smaller states such as that of Salamis or Egypt. Furthermore, as Isocrates reported in his encomium to the king, Evagoras I actively strived to Hellenise Salamis: it had been under the control of the Phoenicians until he returned his family to its throne in 410 BC, and there had been a strong anti-Hellenic current under these rulers. Isocrates relates that because of Evagoras' pursual of Greek culture and refinement, Salamis' inhabitants under this king "have greater pleasure in owning Greek possessions and observing Greek institutions than their own, and more of those who occupy themselves with the liberal arts and with education in general now dwell in these regions than in the communities in which they formerly used to live" (Isoc.9.50). Whilst we can witness the advancement of Hellenic culture further into Salamis under the reign of Evagoras II, nevertheless this King's political movements reversed those of his forebears. The former is demonstrated for example on this king's coinage, on which the Greek alphabet first replaced the old Cypriot syllabary as a means of rendering the Cypriot dialect of Greek called Arcadocypriot, and which depicts such Greek images as the turreted Aphrodite on this coin's obverse (a goddess with particular connection to Cyprus, having been born from the foam of its shores, but also a cognate of the goddess Astarte worshipped by Cypriot Phoenicians). On the other hand, Evagoras II sought a closer alignment with the Persians, abandoning the ties his predecessors had built with the Greeks. This, however, sparked a popular revolt led by his nephew Pyntagoras in 351 BC aiming for the continuation of independence in the style of the Greek polis, and Evagoras fled to his friends in the Persian court. After this he led a successful campaign against his nephew in Cyprus, which nevertheless ended when Artaxerxes III decided, surprisingly, to affirm Pyntagoras as king of Salamis, installing Evagoras instead as Satrap of Sidon following the defeat of the rebellion of Tennes, its last governor. Evagoras proved that his first failure as a king was not a fluke by once again inspiring a popular revolt with his poor governance, and was expelled from the city after only 3 years of rule, in 346 BC. He fled back to Cyprus, where he was immediately arrested and sentenced to execution by Pyntagoras, who later was to become an ally of Alexander the Great in his invasion of Persia. Estimate: 30000 GBP illustrazione: Statua di Afrodite con testa turrita da Idalion, 450-425 a.C., Neues Museum Berlin

 

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXI	Auction date: 24 March 2021
Lot number: 161 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Pontos, 'Areos' Æ 15mm. Circa 88-65 BC. Male head (Perseus?) to right, wearing Phrygian-style helmet ending in griffin's head / Humped Zebu bull butting to right on ground line; ΑΡΕΩΣ above, sunburst in right field. Unpublished in the standard references. 1.45g, 15mm, 12h. Extremely Fine; flan crack. Unique and unpublished, and of great numismatic interest. From the inventory of Roma Numismatics Ltd. Areos can be translated from Greek as 'of Ares', and may have been applied to an unknown location or temporary camp in the Pontic area during the Mithridatic Wars of 88-63 BC. This would be similar to the appellation given in Athens to Πεδίον Άρεως ('Field of Ares'), a term also present in Latin as the 'Field of Mars' , the military exercise area in the flood plain of the Tiber north of Rome. Alternatively, Areos may be an indication that this coin could have been issued by a mercenary band; the Mamertinoi in Sicily two centuries earlier had employed a similar legend "ΑΡΕΟΣ" on their coinage, also in conjunction with a bull reverse type. In either case, the issue was evidently extremely limited in size and must have served to fulfil only a localised or immediate expenditure. The obverse type is usually referred to as the helmeted head of the hero Perseus, inspired by the coinage Philip V and Perseus of Macedon and employed by the most of the Pontic mints allied to Mithradates during the wars against Rome. The reverse type depicts a sacrificial humped bull or Zebu which can also be seen on the reverse on the bronze coinage of the same period at Pharnakeia, while the sunburst is one of the most common astrological symbols used by Mithradates VI on much of his coinage. Estimate: 500 GBP

ILLUSTRAZIONE: CASCO DI CAVALLERIA ROMANA IN STILE FRIGIO CHE TERMINA NELLA TESTA DI UN GRIFONE, II-III SECOLO D.C., PAUL GETTY MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES

 

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 488	Auction date: 24 March 2021
Lot number: 253 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: PISIDIA, Isinda. 2nd-1st century BC. Æ (21mm, 7.33 g, 12h). Dated year 1 (25/4 BC[?]). Laureate head of Zeus right / Warrior, holding spear, on horse leaping right; A (date) above; below, serpent coiled to right. SNG BN 1570; DCA 549. Dark green-brown patina, small area of weak strike, a couple of light scrapes on reverse. VF. From the Ray Johnson Collection, purchased from Irv Carroll, 1965. Estimate: 150 USD

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Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXIV	Auction date: 19 January 2021
Lot number: 640 Price realized: 9,500 USD   (Approx. 7,833 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Stater (16mm, 16.02 g). Apollo seated half-left, wearing laurel wreath and chiton draped from waist, holding branch in right hand, on griffin springing right; below, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 151; Greenwell 20; Boston MFA 1545 = Warren 1438; SNG BN –; BMC –; FSD –; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –. Toned. VF. Very rare, one of only three in CoinArchives. From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex LVL Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 102, 18 May 2016), lot 383. This, one of the more intricate scenes on the Kyzikene electrum, probably depicts Hyperborean Apollo en-route to the land where griffins controlled gold, a myth mentioned by Herodotos (3.116). Estimate: 7500 USD

ILLUSTRAZIONE: Wine Cup with Apollo Riding a Griffin
Greek, made in Athens, about 380 BC
Terracotta, Red-figured kylix attributed to the Meleager Painter, Getty Villa, Los Angeles

In Greek myth, griffins represented the power of the sun and were sacred to Apollo (god of prophecy and music). They also served Nemesis (goddess of retribution), drawing her chariot and helping her turn the wheel of fortune. The griffin in the center of this vessel rears up, perhaps to take flight, with Apollo riding on its back.

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Numismatica Ibercoin > Online Auction 46	Auction date: 17 February 2021
Lot number: 127 Price realized: 3,750 EUR   (Approx. 4,512 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: LUCIO VERO. Medallón. (Ae. 49,23g/42mm). 165 d.C. Roma. Anv: L AVREL VERVS AVG ARMENIACVS IMP II TR P V COS II. Busto laureado con coraza a izquierda. Rev: Hércules de frente sosteniendo maza y piel de león, a su izquierda árbol y a su derecha altar. (Gnecchi 27). EBC-/MBC+. Ligeramente repasado. Muy raro ejemplar, y más en esta calidad.Precisamente por tener un tamaño notablemente mayor del de una moneda, los medallones se convirtieron en un lienzo perfecto para que los grabadores nos deleitasen con un gran número de imágenes y escenas no vistas anteriormente en el monetario común. Generalmente en bronce, pero también acuñados en materiales tan dispares como el oricalco o el oro, el auténtico valor de estas piezas residían en su simbolismo, ya que poseer una de éstas era sinónimo de cercanía al emperador. En el año de acuñación de esta pieza, Lucio Vero se encontraba en Oriente dirigiendo la guerra contra los Partos en Antioquía, al norte de Siria. Quizás y por esta razón la representación de Hércules, luchador de fuerza y valores excepcionales y gran impulsor civilizador, no es casual. Las formas de representación del héroe tebano que aquí observamos son las más comunes: la piel de león constituye, además, su insignia de combatividad victoriosa. Normalmente la lleva sobre su cuerpo, aunque existen variaciones en las que el propio Hércules sostiene la piel sobre un brazo. El otro de los elementos es la maza, atributo que acompaña generalmente al héroe. Puede aparecer apoyado en ella, alzada en el aire, en reposo sobre el hombro o como arma cuando se lo representa luchando. En algunas imágenes la maza es un objeto que aparece sin interacción con el personaje pero que ayuda, sin embargo, a identificarlo. En cuanto a sus formas de representación, aquí aparece en la conocida como constelación, consistente en, como ya se ha comentado con anterioridad en llevar los dos atributos: la piel de león y la maza. Starting Price: 3000 EUR

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Nomos AG > obolos 18	Auction date: 21 February 2021
Lot number: 246 Price realized: 75 CHF   (Approx. 84 USD / 69 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: BITHYNIA. Kios. Circa 345-315 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 14.5 mm, 2.34 g, 12 h), struck under magistrate Proxenos. ΚΙA Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΠΡΟΞ-ΕΝΟΣ Prow of galley to left, decorated with a star. HGC 7, 552. McClean 7461. RG 2. Lightly toned. Porous, scratches, otherwise, very fine. From the Trausnitz Collection, acquired from Athena Münzhandlung on September 1999. Starting Price: 50 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: Greek carnelian scaraboid with Protesilaos, Classical Period, circa 4th cent. BC, Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 488	Auction date: 24 March 2021
Lot number: 448 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ As (30mm, 12.70 g, 8h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 104/105-107. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Elaborately decorated oval shield set over an oblong shield, three spears, a falx (curved sword), and vexillum. RIC II 584; Woytek 198cA. Green patina, scrapes on obverse, some cleaning/smoothing scratches on obverse. VF. From the Lampasas Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 463 (11 March 2020), lot 368. Estimate: 300 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: GUERRIERI DACI

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Nomos AG > Auction 21	Auction date: 21 November 2020
Lot number: 344 Price realized: 1,700 CHF   (Approx. 1,863 USD / 1,574 EUR)
Lot description: SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Philip I, 244-249. Tetradrachm (Billon, 25 mm, 10.48 g, 2 h), 249. AYTOK K M IOYΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOY CEB Laureate, and cuirassed bust of Philip I to left, holding scepter over his right shoulder with his right hand and with a shield decorated with a fight scene, covering his left side. Rev. ΔHMAΡX EΞOYCIAC Eagle standing facing with wings spread, head to right, holding wreath in his beak; in exergue, ANTIOXIA/SC. McAlee 945. Prieur 428. Good extremely fine. Estimate: 350 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE:

Particolare del grandioso "Sarcofago di Portonaccio", che raffigura l'aquila legionaria della Legio IIII Flavia.
L'aquila poggia le zampe su una corona d'alloro la quale riporta un ovale con il numero della legione;
sotto alla corona una phalera.
Il sarcofago è celebrativo delle campagne marcomanniche
di Marco Aurelio nel 172-175 d.C. Databile al 180 d.C.

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Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 7	Auction date: 24 October 2020
Lot number: 1205 Price realized: 28,000 CHF   (Approx. 30,868 USD / 26,099 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: CRETE. Gortyna. Circa 330-270 BC. Stater (Silver, 26 mm, 11.82 g, 3 h). Europa seated half-right in a plane tree, resting her right hand on tree trunk and extending her left to right. Rev. Bull standing right, head turned back to left to lick its flanks. BMC 17 (same dies). Boston MFA 1275 (same dies). Gulbenkian 564 (same dies). Le Rider pl. XIII, 4-9 (same dies). Svoronos, Crete, 61 and pl. 14, 8 (same obverse die). Beautifully toned and in exceptional condition for the issue. A magnificent and unusually complete example of fine style with virtually no traces of overstriking. Minor scrape on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine. From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015, 547, ex Numismatica Ars Classica 10, 9 April 1997, 230 and Numismatica Ars Classica 4, 27 February 1991, 125. Obverse and reverse of this magnificent coin relate to the myth of Zeus and Europa, the daughter of Agenor, the Phoenician King of Tyre. Wary of his jealous wife Hera, Zeus took the form of a bull and abducted Europa, whom he had fallen in love with, from Tyre to Crete, where he begot three children with her: Minos, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon. It is worth noting that most Cretan staters show heavy signs of overstriking, as they were often quite carelessly overstruck on Kyrenaikan coins arriving on the island with Cretan mercenaries returning home from Kyrenaika in 322 BC, where they had served the Macedonian general Thibron. The present coin is a pleasant exception: it shows virtually no traces of overstriking, which so often plague the series, and hence reveals the full beauty of its exceptional Cretan artisanship. Estimate: 30000 CHF

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Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions > Auction 87	Auction date: 14 December 2020
Lot number: 505 Price realized: 11,150 GBP   (Approx. 14,863 USD / 12,254 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Nero (54-68), Sestertius, Rome, AD 64; AE (g 27,53; mm 34; h 6); NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head r., Rv. Triumphal arch decorated with friezes of battle scenes surmounted by statue of emperor in quadriga accompanied by Pax and Victory, flanked by two soldiers; inside niche of arch, a nude statue of helmeted Mars; in field, S - C. RIC 147; C 308. A very appealing portrait struck in high relief on a full flan, and an exceptionally detailed reverse composition. Pleasant riverine patina, good extremely fine. Citing from Numismatica Ars Classica: "Coins sometimes are the only evidence that survives to illustrate lost Roman monuments, such as the Arcus Neronis, a monument that probably did not long survive Nero's downfall. Details of the date and the location of the arch are sketchy, but the coinage provides an excellent understanding of its form, and, with some variety, we can appreciate the relief's decorative elements and statues that adorned it. It is generally accepted that the arch celebrates the victories of the general Corbulo over the Parthians, and that it was built on the Capitoline Hill sometime between 58 and 62. Its precise location has not been determined from ancient sources or from archaeological investigation, though proximity to the Temple of Vejovis or the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus have both been suggested." Starting Price: 2000 GBP ILLUSTRAZIONE: RICOSTRUZIONE GRAFICA DELL'ARCO DI TRIONFO DI NERONE, COSTRUITO SUL CAPITOLINO NEL 62 A.C. E ANDATO PERDUTO, NOTO SOLO DALLE SUE MONETE

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Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung > Auction 276	Auction date: 19 April 2021
Lot number: 357 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: UNBESTIMMTES KLEINASIEN. METROPOLIS. Gordianus III., 238 - 244 n. Chr. AE Medaillon ø 36mm (19,22g). Aurelius Bassus, zum zweiten Mal Strategos. Vs.: ΑΥΤΟΚ Μ ΑΝΤ-Ω ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟΣ, drapierte Panzerbüste mit Lorbeerkranz n. r. Rs.: ΕΠΙ ΣΤ-ΡΑ ΑΥΡ ΒΑΣΣΟΥ Β Τ Β / ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛ/ΕΙΤΩΝ, drei Krieger mit Speeren u. Schilden nebeneinander stehend, zwei einander zugewandt. RPC VII 1, 441. R! Grüne Patina, ss Aus der Sammlung Peter Weiß, Kiel, erworben zwischen 1967 und 2015.

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Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 14	Auction date: 12 December 2020
Lot number: 997 Price realized: 640 CHF   (Approx. 722 USD / 595 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: PHRYGIA. Eumeneia. Antoninus Pius, 138-161. Triassarion (Bronze, 27 mm, 9.89 g, 6 h). AYTO KAIC ANTΩNЄINOC Laureate and cuirassed bust of Antoninus Pius to right, wearing aegis. Rev. ЄYΜЄΝЄΩΝ ΑΧΑΙΩΝ Hump-backed bull walking right, about to be sacrificed by Nike standing to right behind him, grasping the bull's horns with her left hand and holding a knife above his neck with her right. BMC -. RPC IV online 1990. SNG München -. SNG von Aulock -. Very rare and with a wonderful reverse. Light doubling on the obverse, otherwise, very fine. Eumeneia was founded by Attalos II (159-138 BC) in honor of his brother and predecessor Eumenes II (197-158 BC). Unlike many of the other Attalid foundations, the city claimed Achaean rather than Macedonian heritage in Roman times, indicating that its original settlers were not Macedonian veterans but Achaean colonists. Starting Price: 75 CHF

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Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG > Auction 347	Auction date: 22 March 2021
Lot number: 81 Price realized: To Be Posted
Lot description: PRÄGUNGEN DER RÖMISCHEN MÜNZSTÄTTE ALEXANDRIA BIS ZUM ENDE DER BINNENWÄHRUNG ÄGYPTENS. Traianus, 98-117. Æ-Drachme, Jahr 12 (= 108/109), Alexandria (Aegyptus); 30,22 g. Kopf r. mit Lorbeerkranz, Aegis l.//Ägyptischer Tempel; zwischen den Pylonen Statue der Isis mit Zepter v. v. Dattari 1163 (dies Exemplar); Geissen -; Kampmann/Ganschow 27.182; RPC 4330.2 (Nr. 5, dies Exemplar). RR Fast sehr schön Erworben im Juni 1993 von Günther Schlüter (Vorsitzender der Deutschen Numismatischen Gesellschaft von 1975-1977), Berlin; zuvor erworben 1970 bei der Firma Peus, Frankfurt am Main. Exemplar der Sammlung Giovanni Dattari. Estimate: 500 EUR

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Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions > Auction 87	Auction date: 14 December 2020
Lot number: 456 Price realized: 6,000 GBP   (Approx. 7,998 USD / 6,594 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: L. Flaminius Chilo, Denarius, Rome, 43 BC; AR (g 3,81; mm 20; h 6); Laureate head of Caesar r., Rv. Goddess standing l., holding caduceus and sceptre; on r., L FLAMINIVS; on l., IIII VIR. Crawford 485/1; Flaminia 3, Julia 45; Sydenham 1089. Very rare with an amazing portrait of the finest style, struck in high relief on a sound metal. Lustrous and good extremely fine.; ; Starting Price: 4000 GBP

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Leu Numismatik AG - Auction 7, Lot 1218, 24/10/2020

CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. The Sindoi. Circa 400 BC. Diobol (Silver, 14 mm, 1.32 g, 3 h). Skythes, nude, kneeling right, holding Herakles' buckle in his hands; behind, Herakles' strung bow. Rev. ΣINΔΩN Owl standing facing, wings spread; all within shallow incuse square. Anokhin -. HGC 7, 4 corr. (reverse description). MacDonald 79 corr. (reverse description). SNG BM Black Sea -. SNG Stancomb -. Extremely rare and in exceptional condition, the finest known example. 

illustrazione: Pittore di Ambrosios, kylix con arciere scita, 520-500 a.C.

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Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions > Auction 87	Auction date: 14 December 2020
Lot number: 63 Price realized: 550 GBP   (Approx. 733 USD / 604 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Cilicia, Mallos, Stater, ca. 440-390 BC; AR (g 10,92; mm 20; h 9); Bearded male god (Kronos or Semitic deity El), with four wings, in the running-kneeling position to l., holding a solar disc with both hands, Rv. ΜΑΡΛΟ, swan with closed wings walking r.; perched on his back to r., a sea eagle with its head bent down. SNG France 375-376; Traité 1394, pl. CXXXVII, 20. Very rare and attractive. Struck from slightly worn dies, otherwise, about extremely fine. Starting Price: 200 GBP ILLUSTRAZIONE: CIGNI E AQUILE DI MARE

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Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 15	Auction date: 27 February 2021
Lot number: 832 Price realized: 550 CHF   (Approx. 609 USD / 498 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: PHOENICIA. Arados. Uncertain king, circa 400-380 BC. 1/12 Shekel (Silver, 9 mm, 0.70 g, 9 h). ?? ('ma' in Phoenician) Half-length bust of marine deity facing, head to right, holding fish by the tail in each hand. Rev. Prow of galley to right; below, dolphin right; all within dotted square within incuse square. Betlyon 8. HGC 10, 45. An exceptionally sharp and attractive example. Scrapes on the reverse, otherwise, about extremely fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting Price: 75 CHF

ILLUSTRAZIONE: Dettaglio di un mosaico romano, Museo del Bardo Tunisi – Ponto appare come una testa gigante che sorge dal mare ornato da una barba grigio-acquosa e corna di artiglio di granchio. 

Ponto (Pontos), il cui nome vuol dire “flutto”, è la personificazione maschile del mare. Non figura in alcuna leggenda specifica e compare solo nelle teogonie e nelle cosmogonie. 

Alcuni testi lo danno come figlio di Gea che si autofecondò: “e il Ponto generò, senza gioia d’amor, ch’è un immane pelago, dove mai non si miete, che gonfia ed infuria” (Esiodo, Teogonia).

Da altre fonti apprendiamo che era figlio di Gea (la Terra), e dell’Etere (il Giorno). Dall’unione di Ponto con la madre Gea nacquero Nereo, Taumante, Forco, Ceto ed Euribia, forse anche Briareo e i Telchini.

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 82	Auction date: 15 April 2021
Lot number: 593 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Karia, Kaunos AR Stater. Circa 430-410 BC. Iris running to left, head reverted, holding kerykeion in right hand and wreath in left / Triangular baetyl, inverted Δ and Γ across upper fields; all within incuse square. Konuk Period V, 114 (O53/R54); SNG von Aulock 2350 = Jameson 1601 (same dies). 11.49g, 23mm, 11h. Good Very Fine; struck with a worn rev. die, light cabinet tone. From the inventory of a German dealer. Beginning as a crude triangular punch mark, then shown as a central device with horn-like tags, and eventually evolving into a depiction with handles at the top, it was originally thought that the reverse type seen here was possibly a relief map similar to those found on some issues of Ionia, or simply a patterned incuse design. However, as explained by Konuk ('The Early Coinage of Kaunos', in Price Essays, pp. 197-223) it is now known to be the triangular baetyl, or sacred stone, that was venerated in the city. During excavation of an unusual round building near the harbour of Kaunos in 1991, a conical piece of limestone broken into two parts was discovered. Standing at the very centre of this building and dug into the ground to about half of its full height, it appears that this sacred stone was the sole object of worship for a cult established in the fifth century, and thus is very likely the exact baetyl depicted on the coinage of the city. Baetyls such as that at Kaunos were often meteorites, and thus to the ancients had been sent by the gods and required veneration. Iris, seen here on the obverse, was the goddess of the rainbow and the messenger of Hera (two roles possibly conflated because the rainbow seems to connect the earth and the sky), and thus a very fitting deity to appear on the coinage of a city that had received a physical message from above. Estimate: 1500 GBP

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Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 15	Auction date: 27 February 2021
Lot number: 699 Price realized: 500 CHF   (Approx. 553 USD / 453 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: CYPRUS. Kition. Melekiathon, circa 392/1-362 BC. Chalkous (Bronze, 13 mm, 1.86 g, 12 h). Head of Aphrodite to left, wearing polos. Rev. Herakles in fighting stance right, holding club over his head and bow in his left, lion skin draped over arm; to left, ? ('m' in Aramaic). BMC 7273. SNG Copenhagen 20. Rare and unusually attractive for the issue. Thin flan crack and minor pitting, otherwise, nearly extremely fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting Price: 50 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: RILIEVO DA GANDHARA, I SECOLO A.C.