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Numismatica Varesi > Auction 73	Auction date: 13 November 2018
Lot number: 59
Lot description: GERUSALEMME I CROCIATI (1187-1250 Secolo) Bisante, imitazione del DInaro fatimide, Akko (?). D/ e R/ pseudo legende cufiche. Metcalf tipo 141 Au g 3,57 • Ex Numismatica Picena, listino 2009 al n. 639 BB  Starting Price: 400 EUR

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Münz Zentrum Rheinland, Auction 167, lot 556, 4/09/2013

Solidus (607/609) 4,55g, Konstantinopel, 5. Off. Paludamentbüste m. Kreuzkrone (ohne Pendilien) u. Kreuzglobus v.v. d N FOCAS - PERP AVC / VICTORIA - AVGU E Victoria steht mit Chrismon- Sceptrum u. Kreuzglobus v.v. unten CONOB. S. 620, Hahn MIB 9, DOC 10e. GOLD St

ILLUSTRAZIONE: VESTIZIONE DELL'IMPERATORE FOCA

[dabbene]

Bene, siamo ai bizantini, a Focas, un mio prediletto iconografico, con quella lunga barba, quegli occhietti, mondo affascinante e monete simbolo  !

[King John]

Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 159, lot 341, 8/12/2014

RÖMISCHE MÜNZEN 
KAISERREICH 
CALIGULA (37 - 41) 
GERMANICUS (gest. 19 n. Chr.) 
Dupondius, Rom. GERMANICVS CAESAR, Germanicus in Triumphalquadriga nach rechts fahrend, in den Händen Zepter mit Adlerkopf. Rs: SIGNIS-RECEPT / DEVICTIS-GERM, Germanicus, in militärischer Tracht, stehend nach links, in der linken Armbeuge Legionsadler, die rechte Hand grüßend erhoben (adlocutio), unten im Feld S - C. RIC 57; BMCRE 94; BN 140; Hunter 37; C. 7. 13,60g. Geglättet, gewachst, fast vorzüglich.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: GERMANICO, NATO DA  DRUSO MAGGIORE (FIGLIO DI LIVIA DRUSILLA) E ANTONIA MINORE, NIPOTE DI AUGUSTO.

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Il 15/3/2019 alle 16:32, King John dice:

Classical Numismatic Group, Triton VII, lot 88, 12/01/2004

SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AV Tetralitron (3.47 gm). Struck circa 406 AD.
Estimate $75000 
SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AV Tetralitron (3.47 gm). Struck circa 406 AD. SURAKOSION around broad rim of circular shield ornamented with a facing gorgoneion / Ephebos, in the form of a naked athlete, standing left, holding strigil in his right hand with which he is removing oil from his left knee. C. Boehringer, "Ehrenrettung einer syrakusanischen Goldmünze" in FlorNum, pg. 74, 1 (V1/R1); C. Boehringer, "Zu Finanzpolitik und Münzprägung des Dionysios von Syrakus" in Essays Thompson, pl. 38, 11 (same obverse die); SNG ANS -; SNG Lloyd -; SNG Copenhagen -; Jameson -; Rizzo -; Gulbenkian -; Pozzi -; Weber -; De Luynes 1402 (same obverse die). Choice EF, slight graze on athlete's face. Extremely rare, one of only eight specimens known, and one of only three in private hands. [See color enlargement on plate 2] ($75,000)
From the James A. Ferrendelli Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 18 (29 March 2000), lot 128; Numismatica Ars Classica 7 (2-3 March 1994), lot 203.
This coin type, the subject of Boehringer's study in FlorNum, is one of the most exquisite examples of numismatic art in the classical period. The obverse shield is certainly influenced by the shield held by the sitting Athena found on the balustrade of the temple of Athena-Nike on the Akropolis at Athens. Boehringer points-out that the die used for the present coin (V1) is the most similar to this sculpture. He regards the reverse of an athlete (an unprecedented motif in Sicilian numismatics) as masterful and lifelike, and compares this image to two contemporary gemstones from Greece and Etruria that reside in the Oxford and Berlin museums.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: TESTA IN BRONZO DI ATLETA RITROVATA A ERCOLANO

Questo piccolo Tondello non può essere lasciato solo a se stesso..

Una magnificenza del genere merita di essere esaltato e lodato..

La figura esprime tutto il movimento richiesto, immobile ma mobile, stupenda incisione.

 

[King John]

Nomos AG > obolos 12	Auction date: 31 March 2019
Lot number: 117
KINGS OF COMMAGENE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes, with Iotape, AD 38-40 and 41-72. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 20 mm, 7.59 g, 1 h), early series, Samosata, c. 38-40 or 41-54. ΒΑCΙΛEΩC [YIOI] The young princes, Epiphanes and Callinicus on horseback to left. Rev. KOMMAΓHNΩN Capricorn to right, with star behind and anchor below; all within laurel wreath. ACV 226. Kovacs 241. RPC I 3861. Brown glossy patina;. Obverse slightly off center, otherwise, very fine. From the collection of Yerets' Kariatin, Switzerland. Starting Price: 75 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: PARTICOLARE DE FREGIO DEL PARTENONE

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Nomos AG > obolos 12	Auction date: 31 March 2019
Lot number: 228
Lot description: THESSALY. Krannon. Circa 400-344 BC. Dichalkon (Bronze, 19 mm, 4.48 g, 5 h). Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. ΚΡΑ-N IΩNO Horseman wearing petasos riding right; trident below. BCD II 117.9 (this obverse die). Rogers 179. Dark brown glossy patina; unusual legend for the series. Very fine. Starting Price: 50 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: DETTAGLIO DEL CD. SARCOFAGO DI ALESSANDRO (MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO DI ISTANBUL)

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Nomos AG > obolos 12	Auction date: 31 March 2019
Lot number: 555
Lot description: PHRYGIA. Stectorium. Philip I, 244-249. (Bronze, 23 mm, 5.70 g, 6 h). AYT K M IOYΛ ΦIΛIΠΠOC CEB Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip I to right. Rev. CTE-KTOΡHN /ΩN Hero on horseback to right,, holding bipennis. BMC 17. SNG Copenhagen 695. This coin was published in wildwinds: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/phrygia/stectorium/t.html. Well centered, with an appealing deep green patina and a very clear reverse. Very fine. Starting Price: 75 CHF

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 54	Auction date: 28 February 2019
Lot number: 602
Lot description: Marc Antony Legionary AR Denarius. Military mint moving with Antony, autumn 32 - spring 31 BC. ANT•AVG III•VI[R•R•P•C], praetorian galley to right / Aquila between two signa; LEG VII across fields. Crawford 544/20; CRI 357; RSC 34. 3.64g, 18mm, 12h. Good Very Fine; banker's mark to obv. From a private European collection. Estimate: 200 GBP

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Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXII	Auction date: 8 January 2019
Lot number: 1126 Price realized: 13,000 USD   (Approx. 11,361 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.22 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Septimius Severus, circa AD 193-196. IVLIA DO MNA AVG, draped bust right / VENE RI VI CTR, Venus Victrix, with drapery falling below hips, standing with back turned, head right, resting left arm on low column, holding apple in extended right hand and in left, palm frond sloped upward to left; drapery falls over column. RIC IV 536 (Septimius); Calicó 2641; BMCRE 47 (Wars of Succession); Biaggi 1155 var. (pellet in rev. legend); NAC 67, lot 184 (same dies). EF, attractively toned.  Estimate: 15000 USD illustrazione: statua di Venere proveniente dagli scavi di Pompei, conservata al Museo Archeologico Di Napoli.

[King John]

Hess Divo AG, Auction 327, lot 31, 22/10/2014

ANTIKE 
GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN 
KÖNIGREICH MAKEDONIEN 
PHILIPPOS V., 221-179 
Tetradrachmon, 212-179. Philipp als Perseus im geflügelten phrygischen Helm und mit geschulterter Harpa auf einem makedonischen Schild mit sieben Sternen und sieben Mondsicheln n. l. Rv. BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΦIΛIΠΠOΥ Keule, im Felde drei Monogramme; das Ganze in einem Eichenkranz; aussen l. Keule. 17,05 g. Mamroth, Phil. 296, 6. Selten . Vorzüglich

ILLUSTRAZIONE: PERSEO CHE REGGE LA TESTA DI MEDUSA APPENA RECISA, OPERA DI ANTONIO CANOVA CONSERVATA AI MUSEI VATICANI

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3 ore fa, King John dice:

Hess Divo AG, Auction 327, lot 31, 22/10/2014

ANTIKE 
GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN 
KÖNIGREICH MAKEDONIEN 
PHILIPPOS V., 221-179 
Tetradrachmon, 212-179. Philipp als Perseus im geflügelten phrygischen Helm und mit geschulterter Harpa auf einem makedonischen Schild mit sieben Sternen und sieben Mondsicheln n. l. Rv. BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΦIΛIΠΠOΥ Keule, im Felde drei Monogramme; das Ganze in einem Eichenkranz; aussen l. Keule. 17,05 g. Mamroth, Phil. 296, 6. Selten . Vorzüglich

ILLUSTRAZIONE: PERSEO CHE REGGE LA TESTA DI MEDUSA APPENA RECISA, OPERA DI ANTONIO CANOVA CONSERVATA AI MUSEI VATICANI

Perseo Perseo tutta la vita...

Ero bambino e nella mia stanza  mio padre mi mise questa statua, avendo le altre stanze già colme, ovviamente in dimensioni accettabili, mi accompagno per un lungo periodo, e prima di addormentarmi era il mio eroe...

Ovviamente meraviglioso tondello e stupendo ritratto.

Ti seguo..

[King John]

Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVII	Auction date: 28 March 2019
Lot number: 685
Lot description: Julius Caesar AR Denarius. Rome, January-February 44 BC. Lifetime issue. P. Sepullius Macer, moneyer. CAESAR DICT PERPETVO, wreathed head of Caesar right / P•SEPVLLIVS MACER, Venus standing left, holding Victory, and sceptre resting on star. Crawford 480/11; RSC Sepullia 4; CRI 107b. 3.67g, 21mm, 10h. Extremely Fine; a minute scratch beneath the portrait and some minor areas of weakness. A superb portrait of Caesar, of fine style and centrally struck. Acquired from Leu Numismatik AG;  Ex Yves Gunzenreiner Collection, and reportedly from a French collection of the early 20th century. In the years of his supremacy, Caesar had amassed unprecedented power by corrupting the institutions of the old Republic to his own requirements. First appointed Dictator in 49 BC by the Praetor (and future Triumvir) Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, possibly in order to preside over elections, Caesar resigned his Dictatorship within eleven days but in 48 BC he was appointed Dictator again, only this time for an indefinite period, and was also given permanent tribunician powers making his person sacrosanct and allowing him to veto the Senate. In 46 BC he was appointed Dictator for ten years, and he gave himself quasi-censorial powers under the mantle of 'Prefect of the Morals', enabling him to fill the Senate with his partisans who duly voted him the titles of Pater Patriae and Imperator. He increased the number of magistrates who were elected each year, thus allowing him to reward his supporters, and in October 45 BC, having served in the unconstitutional role of Sole Consul for that year, Caesar resigned his consulship and facilitated the election of two successors for the remainder of the year - theoretically restoring the ordinary consulship, but in practice submitting the Consuls to the Dictatorial executive - a practice that later become common under the Empire. In February 44 BC, one month before his assassination, Caesar was appointed Dictator for life.  More followed; he was given the unprecedented honour of having his own likeness placed upon the Roman coinage, his statue was placed next to those of the kings, he was granted a golden chair in the Senate, and was permitted to wear triumphal dress whenever he chose. Then, at the festival of the Lupercal, Marc Antony presented Caesar with a royal diadem, and attempted to place it on his head. Yet for all these hideous affronts to the ancient institutions of the Republic and the sensibilities of the Roman people, perhaps his most egregious reform was the law he passed in preparation for his planned campaign against the Parthian Empire. Realising that his absence from Rome would impede his ability to install his own men in positions of power and that therefore his back would be exposed while away from the city, Caesar decreed that he would have the right to appoint all magistrates in 43 BC, and all consuls and tribunes in 42 BC, thus at a stroke transforming the magistrates from being representatives of the people to being representatives of the dictator.  The obverse of this coin presents a bold portrait of the dictator in the final months of his life, wearing the corona civica Caesar had won while serving in the army of M. Minucius Thermus at the Siege of Mytilene in 81 BC. Estimate: 20000 GBP ILLUSTRAZIONE: Cesare abbandona il suo mantello viola durante la battaglia navale di Alessandria, catturato poi dai nemici come trofeo di battaglia. Questa battaglia avvenne nel 47 a.C. tra le forze romano-pergamene e idumee guidate da Cesare contro le forze di Arsinoe IV e Tolomeo XIII , che tentavano di sottrarre l'Egitto all'egemonia romana e alla sicura nomina di Cleopatra quale reggente fiduciaria per conto di Roma.

[King John]

Roma Numismatics Limited, E-Sale 20, lot 66, 29/08/2015

Islands off Sicily, Gaulos Æ17. Roman rule. Mid 3rd-2nd century BC. Bust of Astarte right above large crescent; V below chin / Warrior advancing right, brandishing shield and holding spear; star to right. CNS 1; SNG Copenhagen (Africa) 454. 3.21g, 17mm, 5h.
Good Very Fine. Very Rare.

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Il 17/3/2019 alle 12:59, King John dice:

Nomos AG > obolos 12	Auction date: 31 March 2019
Lot number: 117
KINGS OF COMMAGENE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes, with Iotape, AD 38-40 and 41-72. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 20 mm, 7.59 g, 1 h), early series, Samosata, c. 38-40 or 41-54. ΒΑCΙΛEΩC [YIOI] The young princes, Epiphanes and Callinicus on horseback to left. Rev. KOMMAΓHNΩN Capricorn to right, with star behind and anchor below; all within laurel wreath. ACV 226. Kovacs 241. RPC I 3861. Brown glossy patina;. Obverse slightly off center, otherwise, very fine. From the collection of Yerets' Kariatin, Switzerland. Starting Price: 75 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: PARTICOLARE DE FREGIO DEL PARTENONE

E poi ho dovuto sempre assorbirmi quella cantilena sull'attribuzione all'uso della vera prospettiva da parte di Piero della Francesca..

Basta guardare i bassorilievi del Partenone per capire da dove nacque il tutto, e di come i Greci furono i primi in assoluto...

Tondello intrigante, ma non all'altezza...

 

[King John]

Nomos AG > obolos 12	Auction date: 31 March 2019
Lot number: 940
Lot description: Andreas, Strategos, circa 550-650. Seal (Lead, 21 mm, 8.81 g, 12 h). Rider on horse, advancing to right, wearing hat and mantle; holding scroll in his right hand; star in upper left field. Rev. ANDRE(OY) in cruciform monogram [..]P-A [Τ] Η ΓS across the fields. See Zacos I 1375 for type, cf. Triton XI, (2008) 1117. Particularly artistic early byzantine seal with an unusual depiction. Good very fine. The resemblance of this seal with the Zacos I 1375 of the Cubicularios Andreas, can lead us to the assumption that both seals are from the same person. If this is correct, then the seal in the present auction should be a little later than the one in Triton, after Andreas was promoted from Cubicularios to General.  Starting Price: 100 CHF

[King John]

Roma Numismatics Limited, Auction 9, lot 335, 22/03/2015

Mysia, Kyzikos EL Hekte. Circa 450-400 BC. Nike crouching left, sacrificing with knife she holds in her right hand a ram she holds by the horn with her left; tunny fish below to left / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Hurter & Liewald 8 (stater and myshemihekte); cf. Triton XVII, 7 January 2014, 375 (twelfth stater); otherwise unpublished. 2.65g, 11mm. Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare, apparently unique and unpublished as a hekte.

[King John]

Gemini, Auction VII, lot 106, 9/01/2011

Sicily. Gela. c. 339-310 BC. AE, 12.97g. (h). Obv: Hero, naked but for crested helmet and chlamys, standing left, holding sword in order to sacrifice the ram in front of him. Rx: Horse prancing to right. Above, eight-rayed star. Jenkins, Group XIII, 552. SNG ANS 126. SNG Morcom 592. Calciati I, p. 20, 61. Rare. Greenish brown patina and of exceptional quality. About EF.
Rams were the favored sacrificial victim in heroic cults. In contrast to sacrifices for gods, the animal was not killed on an altar but in a pit. The blood was not spread over the altar for the gods to enjoy but was to seep down into the earth, where the deceased heroes were thought to dwell. Here the hero who is being worshipping is sacrificing himself, just as the gods themselves are often depicted performing a sacrifice, particularly in late archaic and early classical vase painting .

[King John]

Agora Auctions, Sale 54, lot 9, 26/04/2016

Sicily, Syracuse. Fifth Democracy. 214-212 B.C. AE 23 (23.4 mm, 10.13 g, 1 h). Helmeted head of Ares right / ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, Nike sacrificing ram. Calciati 233; SNG ANS 1087. aVF.

 

Modificato 19 Marzo, 2019 da King John

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 374, lot 190, 11/05/2016

THESSALY, Homolion. Circa 350 BC. Æ Trichalkon (20mm, 7.46 g, 9h). Head of Philoktetes right, wearing conical pilos / OMOΛ-IEΩN, serpent coiled right; grape bunch to upper left. Rogers 257; BCD Thessaly I 1064 corr. (tetrachalkon); BCD Thessaly II 93.1 var. (head left); HGC 4, 86. Near VF, dark green patina. From the BCD Collection.

[VALTERI]

In tema di teste "guerriere", uno statere nella diffusissima tipologia dei Pegasi di Corinto .

Estremamente raro però l'esemplare, perchè uno dei pochissimi ad oggi noti, battuto dalla zecca di Reggio .

Passerà a giorni in asta RomaNum. XVII al lotto 314 .

 

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13 ore fa, King John dice:

Roma Numismatics Limited, Auction 9, lot 335, 22/03/2015

Mysia, Kyzikos EL Hekte. Circa 450-400 BC. Nike crouching left, sacrificing with knife she holds in her right hand a ram she holds by the horn with her left; tunny fish below to left / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Hurter & Liewald 8 (stater and myshemihekte); cf. Triton XVII, 7 January 2014, 375 (twelfth stater); otherwise unpublished. 2.65g, 11mm. Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare, apparently unique and unpublished as a hekte.

Incantevole raffigurazione, sublime tondello...

Movimento, e poi ancora movimento, grande dinamismo per qualche solco incisorio...

[King John]

Stephen Album Rare Coins > Auction 33	Auction date: 17 January 2019
Lot number: 85 Price realized: 150 USD   (Approx. 132 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: ELYMAIS: Kamnaskires V, 54/3-33/2 BC, AE tetradrachm (15.17g), cf. van t'Haaff 2, diademed bust left, long-armed anchor behind, star above the anchor // small bearded bust, long hair, blundered Greek inscription around, slightly porous surfaces, EF. Estimate: 170-220 USD

[King John]

Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVII	Auction date: 28 March 2019
Lot number: 626
Lot description: Augustus and Agrippa Æ As of Nemausus, Gaul. Circa AD 10-14. Heads of Agrippa and Augustus back to back, Agrippa wearing rostral crown and laurel wreath, facing left, Augustus laureate, facing right; IMP above, DIVI F below, P-P across lower fields / Chained crocodile right, palm frond upwards in centre, wreath to left of palm tip with long ties trailing to right; COL-NEM across fields. RPC I 525; RIC 159. 13.86g, 28mm, 5h. Extremely Fine; an attractive brown patina with hints of red and green. In exceptional condition for the type.  Ex Osaka Collection, Hess-Divo AG, Auction 334, 29 May 2018, lot 92 (professionally cleaned and conserved since). This artistically fascinating and typologically unique type refers directly to the victory of Octavian (as was) and Agrippa at Actium over the forces of Cleopatra VII and Marc Antony, and to the settlement of veterans in Nemausus. The crocodile, collared around the neck and chained to a palm on the reverse of this coin is a clear reference to the subjugation of Egypt, thus obliquely referring also to Antony and Cleopatra; the wreath above with ties fluttering in the breeze is a reminder that the war was both just and necessary, with the victory having brought about the deliverance and salvation of the Roman people and the state. It is noteworthy also that the portraits of Agrippa and Augustus on the obverse are presented on the same level and back to back, at once recalling the ancient Janiform types once so prevalent on the Roman coinage, and also presenting princeps and general as inseparable and heroic partners - the one adorned with a wreath of laurel, the other with a rostral wreath in recognition for his naval victories. Estimate: 3000 GBP

 

 

Modificato 20 Marzo, 2019 da King John

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Anche qui siamo ai top della monetazione, artistica ma soprattutto simbolica, se le monete dovevano esprimere messaggi qui indubbiamente siamo agli esempi più alti ...