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[King John]

Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 94, lot 608, 27/09/2004

GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN
MACEDONIA
BISALTAI. 
AR-Oktodrachme nach 480 v. Chr.; 28.72 g. Heros mit Petasos und Lanzen steht halbr. hinter einem Pferd//Viergeteiltes Incusum. AMNG -, vergl. 1 ff.; Svoronos, L´ Hellénisme primitif de la M Pl. XI, 6. R Ausdrucksvoller Stil, sehr schönes Exemplar
Der Heros ist Rhesos, der Sohn des Strymon, König der Thraker. Er kämpfte vor Ilion für die Troianer und wurde durch Odysseus und Diomedes getötet (Homer, Ilias, 10. Buch und Euripides, Rhesos).
Schätzpreis: 4,000,00 EUR

[eracle62]

6 ore fa, King John dice:

Gyrton, Thessaly, AE17, 3.9 gr. ca. 340-330 BC.
Obv: Bare male head of the hero Gyrton right in front of and 
next to the head and neck of a bridled horse right.
Rev: GYRTWNIWN, Nymph Gyrtone left, her hair bound up in 
a roll and wearing pendant earring and beaded necklace.
BCD Thessaly II 78; Rogers 228.

Beh qui siamo d'innanzi ad un triplo ritratto...

Mi sa che De Chirico o Gonzaga ci hanno messo un cavallo di troppo...

Stupendo questo tondello...

[eracle62]

5 ore fa, King John dice:

Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 94, lot 608, 27/09/2004

GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN
MACEDONIA
BISALTAI. 
AR-Oktodrachme nach 480 v. Chr.; 28.72 g. Heros mit Petasos und Lanzen steht halbr. hinter einem Pferd//Viergeteiltes Incusum. AMNG -, vergl. 1 ff.; Svoronos, L´ Hellénisme primitif de la M Pl. XI, 6. R Ausdrucksvoller Stil, sehr schönes Exemplar
Der Heros ist Rhesos, der Sohn des Strymon, König der Thraker. Er kämpfte vor Ilion für die Troianer und wurde durch Odysseus und Diomedes getötet (Homer, Ilias, 10. Buch und Euripides, Rhesos).
Schätzpreis: 4,000,00 EUR

Questo tondello invece mi ricorda molto i cavalli stilizzati di Sironi...

 

                

 

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XXI, lot 454, 9/01/2018

Greek 
MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9.5mm, 2.60 g). Bearded male, nude but for petasos and cloak tied at neck, crouching left on the back of a sacrificial ram lying left, holding its head up with his left hand, exposing its neck that he prepares to strike with a knife held above in his right hand / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze I 156 (unlisted denomination); Greenwell 71; Boston MFA –; SNG BN –; BMC –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Rosen –; Weber –; Traité II 2646. EF, lightly toned. Very rare, only two in CoinArchives.
The identification of the male on the obverse has long been debated. M. F. Lenormant first suggested Phrixos sacrificing the ram with the golden fleece, but Greenwell preferred Odysseus slaying the animal Circe provided him before his descent into Hades, in part due to the figure being bearded, which indicated an older individual, which contrasts with the youthful portraits traditionally given to Phrixos.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: STELE FUNERARIA ATTICA DEL 390 A. C. IN CUI SI OSSERVA UN SOLDATO NELL'ATTO DI UCCIDERE UN GUERRIERO LACONIANO CADUTO A TERRA CHE CERCA DI DIFENDERSI CON LA SUA CORTA SPADA; IL PILEO CHE GLI CINGE LA TESTA E' SIMILE A QUELLO INDOSSATO DA ULISSE SULLA MONETA,

[King John]

Nomos, Auction 4, lot 290, 21/02/2016

ARKADIA, Arkadian League. Megalopolis . Circa 175-168 BC. Triobol (Silver, 16mm, 2.51 g 6). Laureate head of Zeus to left. Rev. Pan seated left on rock, his right hand raised and holding lagobolon with his left; above knee, eagle; to left and right, Λ - Δ. BCD 1546. Dengate IIB, 2, 16. Nearly extremely fine.
From a European collection, formed before 2005. 

ILLUSTRAZIONE: BASSORILIEVO DEL V SECOLO A.C. CHE MOSTRA DEI GIOVANI CHE GIOCANO AD UN GIOCO  SIMILE AL MODERNO HOCKEY UTILIZZANDO UNA MAZZA RICURVA (IL  LAGOBOLON RAFFIGURATO AL ROVESCIO DELLA MONETA) DI SOLITO UTILIZZATA PER CACCIARE LE LEPRI.

Modificato 19 Maggio, 2019 da King John

[dabbene]

2 ore fa, King John dice:

Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XXI, lot 454, 9/01/2018

Greek 
MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9.5mm, 2.60 g). Bearded male, nude but for petasos and cloak tied at neck, crouching left on the back of a sacrificial ram lying left, holding its head up with his left hand, exposing its neck that he prepares to strike with a knife held above in his right hand / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze I 156 (unlisted denomination); Greenwell 71; Boston MFA –; SNG BN –; BMC –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Rosen –; Weber –; Traité II 2646. EF, lightly toned. Very rare, only two in CoinArchives.
The identification of the male on the obverse has long been debated. M. F. Lenormant first suggested Phrixos sacrificing the ram with the golden fleece, but Greenwell preferred Odysseus slaying the animal Circe provided him before his descent into Hades, in part due to the figure being bearded, which indicated an older individual, which contrasts with the youthful portraits traditionally given to Phrixos.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: STELE FUNERARIA ATTICA DEL 390 A. C. IN CUI SI OSSERVA UN SOLDATO NELL'ATTO DI UCCIDERE UN GUERRIERO LACONIANO CADUTO A TERRA CHE CERCA DI DIFENDERSI CON LA SUA CORTA SPADA; IL PILEO CHE GLI CINGE LA TESTA E' SIMILE A QUELLO INDOSSATO DA ULISSE SULLA MONETA,

Ma dove le trovi tutte queste perle numismatiche ? ?

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 222, lot 284, 11/11/2009

CORINTHIA, Corinth. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ As (20mm, 6.69 g, 11h). Ti. Claudius Optatus and C. Julius Polyaenus, duovirs. Struck AD 57-58 or 58-59. Bare head right / Bellerophon advancing left, holding shield and seizing by bridle Pegasos standing left. RPC I 1201; Amandry XXI9 (De/RIa7); BCD Corinth 454. Fine, red and brown patina.
From the J.P. Righetti Collection, 7013. Ex Auctiones 29 (12 June 2003), lot 304. 

[King John]

Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung > Online Auction 263	Auction date: 7 March 2019
Lot number: 3226 Price realized: 50 EUR   (Approx. 56 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: KILIKIEN. INCERTUM. Obol (0,72g). 300 - 190 v. Chr. Vs.: Kopf des Ares mit korinthischem Helm n. l. Rs.: Frontales Gorgoneion. SNG Levante 248f.; SNG BN ­ . Leichte Tönung, gutes ss Estimate: 60 EUR ILLUSTRAZIONE: TESTA DI ARES

[King John]

Stater from Pandosia, Bruttium, C. 375–350 BC

Obverse: Head of Hera Lakinia wearing earrings, necklace, and a lofty stephanos adorned with fore-parts of griffins and palmettes. Reverse: Pan the hunter, with a hound at his feet, seated to the left on a rock. At the left is a bearded terminal figure of Hermes to which is affixed a caduceus. A fillet hangs from the caduceus. In field at left: signature of the artist, the Greek letter phi. Inscription around.

This facing portrait of Hera can be considered to be directly inspired by Kimon’s famous facing Arethusa tetradrachm (example)  that was widely admired and imitated throughout the ancient world; the difficulty of creating an attractive facing portrait apparently led to engravers considering the undertaking of such a die as a challenge and proof of their skill 

About Pandosia…

Pandosia was an ancient city of Bruttium (now Calabria), Italy. According to Livy it was situated near the border between Bruttium and Lucania (now Basilicata). Strabo writes it was located in Bruttium, a “little above” Consentia (modern Cosenza). The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World places the site of the city in the vicinity of Cosenza, but the village Acri has been suggested as a more precise location.

Pandosia’s only historical celebrity arises from its being the place near which King Alexander of Epirus (Alexander the Great’s uncle), was slain in the Battle of Pandosia by the Lucanians in 331 BC. That monarch had been warned by an oracle to avoid Pandosia, but he understood this as referring to the town of that name in Thesprotia, Greece, on the banks of the Acheron, and was ignorant of the existence of both a town and river of the same names in Italy. (Strab. vi. p. 256 ; Livy viii. 24 ; Justin, xii. 2; Plin. iii. 11. s. 15.) 

[eracle62]

7 ore fa, King John dice:

Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung > Online Auction 263	Auction date: 7 March 2019
Lot number: 3226 Price realized: 50 EUR   (Approx. 56 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: KILIKIEN. INCERTUM. Obol (0,72g). 300 - 190 v. Chr. Vs.: Kopf des Ares mit korinthischem Helm n. l. Rs.: Frontales Gorgoneion. SNG Levante 248f.; SNG BN ­ . Leichte Tönung, gutes ss Estimate: 60 EUR ILLUSTRAZIONE: TESTA DI ARES

Per essere un obolo non male veramente visto le dimensioni, doppio ritratto frontale e di profilo, ambedue dialoganti..

[eracle62]

3 ore fa, King John dice:

Stater from Pandosia, Bruttium, C. 375–350 BC

Obverse: Head of Hera Lakinia wearing earrings, necklace, and a lofty stephanos adorned with fore-parts of griffins and palmettes. Reverse: Pan the hunter, with a hound at his feet, seated to the left on a rock. At the left is a bearded terminal figure of Hermes to which is affixed a caduceus. A fillet hangs from the caduceus. In field at left: signature of the artist, the Greek letter phi. Inscription around.

This facing portrait of Hera can be considered to be directly inspired by Kimon’s famous facing Arethusa tetradrachm (example)  that was widely admired and imitated throughout the ancient world; the difficulty of creating an attractive facing portrait apparently led to engravers considering the undertaking of such a die as a challenge and proof of their skill 

About Pandosia…

Pandosia was an ancient city of Bruttium (now Calabria), Italy. According to Livy it was situated near the border between Bruttium and Lucania (now Basilicata). Strabo writes it was located in Bruttium, a “little above” Consentia (modern Cosenza). The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World places the site of the city in the vicinity of Cosenza, but the village Acri has been suggested as a more precise location.

Pandosia’s only historical celebrity arises from its being the place near which King Alexander of Epirus (Alexander the Great’s uncle), was slain in the Battle of Pandosia by the Lucanians in 331 BC. That monarch had been warned by an oracle to avoid Pandosia, but he understood this as referring to the town of that name in Thesprotia, Greece, on the banks of the Acheron, and was ignorant of the existence of both a town and river of the same names in Italy. (Strab. vi. p. 256 ; Livy viii. 24 ; Justin, xii. 2; Plin. iii. 11. s. 15.) 

Meraviglioso questo ritratto frontale di Hera, poi cosi adornata, e con quei capelli che sembrano muoversi senza un'attimo di tregua..

Ad averlo uno statere cosi...

[King John]

The New York Sale, Auction 42, lot 129, 9/01/2018

Elis, Olympia. 134th-143rd Olympiads. Silver Drachm (4.73 g), ca. 244-208 BC. Eagle flying right, tearing at hare held in talons. Reverse: F-A across field, thunderbolt with double volutes above and wings below. Elis Hoard group II; BCD Olympia 236 (same dies); SNG Delepierre 2228 (same dies). Lightly toned. Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $500
From the Dionysus Collection
Ex Tkalec (17 May 2010), lot 37.

[King John]

Nomos, Auction 15, lot 120, 22/10/2017

GREEK COINS
Elis. Olympia. 91st Olympiad, 416 BC. Stater (Silver, 22 mm, 11.93 g, 2 h), signed by Da.... Eagle's head to left; below, large white poplar leaf with the signature ΔΑ below the center vein. Rev. F A Thunderbolt with wings and volutes above, and volutes below; above, uncertain countermark in an oblong indent. BCD Olympia -. Gulbenkian 541 (=Seltman 148 i, ex Locker-Lampson and Weber). Seltman, Temple 148 (BS/γπ). SNG Copenhagen 368 (=Seltman 148 e). Very rare. A splendid example of one of the finest of all the eagle-head staters of Olympia. Struck in high relief with exceptional detail. Slightly rough surfaces and minor countermark, otherwise, extremely fine.
Ex Nomos 1, 6 May 2009, 69.
The engraver Da... (Daidalos?) was the first artist who signed the dies he engraved at Olympia. He seems to have been active from the late 420s down to the end of the century and he was responsible for what is possibly the finest eagle head ever to appear on a Greek coin (if not on any coin). The eagle was the bird of Zeus, and the creature on this coin shows the nobility of the god himself. It has what seems to be an all-seeing eye and what can only be termed an expression of great power. The coinage of Olympia is rather notorious for the often poor striking and poor preservation of most surviving coins: this piece is a wonderful exception to that rule.

[King John]

Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 340. Closing Date: Jan 
10, 2005. ELIS, Olympia. Circa 460s-450s BC. AR 
Stater (11.74 gm, 7h). Sold For $4250 

      ELIS, Olympia. Circa 460s-450s BC. AR Stater 
      (11.74 gm, 7h). Eagle flying left, wings spread 
      above, clutching dead hare in its talons / F A, 
      thunderbolt with wings and volutes. Seltman, 
      Temple 32 (dies W/ad) = Weber 4005 (this coin); 
      BCD 20 (same dies); BMC Peloponnesus -; SNG 
      Copenhagen -; McClean 6599 (same dies and 
      counterstamp); SNG Delepierre 2033-2034 (same 
      dies); SNG Berry 810 (same dies). VF, toned, small 
      banker's mark on obverse, a few light scratches 
      under tone. Well centered and struck. ($4000)

      Ex Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933), lot 1284; 
      Clarence S. Bement Collection (Naville VII, 23-24 
      June 1924), lot 1244; Sir Herman Weber Collection, 
      4005; Gustav Philipsen Collection (J. Hirsch XXV, 
      Munich, 29 November 1909), lot 253; W. Talbot 
      Ready Collection.

[King John]

Tetradracma - argento - Clazomene, Ionia (ca.375-360 a.C.) - testa di Apollo con lunghi capelli quasi frontale -Münzkabinett Berlin

Obverse	Kopf des Apollon in der Vorderansicht, leicht nach l. gewendet, er trägt die lockigen, schulterlangen Haare offen und einen Mantel (chlamys), der vor dem Hals geknotet ist. Im l. F. die Signatur [ΘΕΟΔΟ]ΤΟΣ / ΕΠΟΕΙ.
Reverse	ΜΑΝΔΡ-[Ο]ΝΑ[Ξ] - ΚΛ-ΑΖ-Ο. Ein Schwan mit gespreizten Flügeln nach l. ILLUSTRAZIONE: L'APOLLO DI CENTOCELLE

[eracle62]

11 ore fa, King John dice:

Nomos, Auction 15, lot 120, 22/10/2017

GREEK COINS
Elis. Olympia. 91st Olympiad, 416 BC. Stater (Silver, 22 mm, 11.93 g, 2 h), signed by Da.... Eagle's head to left; below, large white poplar leaf with the signature ΔΑ below the center vein. Rev. F A Thunderbolt with wings and volutes above, and volutes below; above, uncertain countermark in an oblong indent. BCD Olympia -. Gulbenkian 541 (=Seltman 148 i, ex Locker-Lampson and Weber). Seltman, Temple 148 (BS/γπ). SNG Copenhagen 368 (=Seltman 148 e). Very rare. A splendid example of one of the finest of all the eagle-head staters of Olympia. Struck in high relief with exceptional detail. Slightly rough surfaces and minor countermark, otherwise, extremely fine.
Ex Nomos 1, 6 May 2009, 69.
The engraver Da... (Daidalos?) was the first artist who signed the dies he engraved at Olympia. He seems to have been active from the late 420s down to the end of the century and he was responsible for what is possibly the finest eagle head ever to appear on a Greek coin (if not on any coin). The eagle was the bird of Zeus, and the creature on this coin shows the nobility of the god himself. It has what seems to be an all-seeing eye and what can only be termed an expression of great power. The coinage of Olympia is rather notorious for the often poor striking and poor preservation of most surviving coins: this piece is a wonderful exception to that rule.

E questo statere???

Pazzesco sembra un foto montaggio...

Impressionante la testa dell'aquila...

Mi ricordo quando negli anni 70 nascevano i primi iperrealisti in pittura, me li trovavo ai concorsi, erano tutte derivazione della cultura Americana che la Pop Art stava imponendo in quegli anni.

Ma dopo aver visto questo statere, con quell'occhio e la cavità orbitale cosi ben eseguita, altro che iperrealismo...

Rimango sempre più esterrefatto, delle capacità incisorie di certi artisti...pensando a quegli anni..

Ti seguo con vero piacere.

[King John]

Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Auction 96, lot 1495, 14/02/2017

Calabria, Taras. Silver Nomos (7.12 g), ca. 344-340 BC. Helmeted warrior standing facing, head right, holding spear and shield, behind horse standing right; before horse's forelegs, |-. Reverse: TAPAΣ, Phalanthos riding dolphin left, holding trident and shield; below, A above waves. Fischer-Bossert group 48, 680 (V259/R527); Vlasto 518 (same obv. die); SNG ANS 964 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 277 (same dies);; Dewing 154 (same dies); HN Italy 889. Lightly toned and fine artistic style. Nearly Extremely Fine. Estimate Value $600 - 700 
The Hanbery Collection; Purchased privately from F. Kovacs in 1990.

[King John]

Nomos AG > Auction 18	Auction date: 5 May 2019
Lot number: 14 Price realized: 1,600 CHF   (Approx. 1,570 USD / 1,404 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: CELTIC, Lower Danube. Uncertain tribe. Imitations of Thasos, 1st century BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 31 mm, 16.73 g). Completely deconstructed wreathed head of Dionysos to right (the snake-like item with a curlicue at the end is the remains of the god's hair, and is above his large, circular eye). Rev. Curiously formed figure of Herakles standing facing, holding a club and a lion's skin, which have been transformed into a tasseled muffler-like object; around, legend transformed into dots. Lukanc pl. 145, 1651-1652 (very similar obverses, and pl. 160, 1827 (nearly the same dies, but obverse illustrated upside-down); all three examples from the museum in Plovdiv). OTA Class V. An extraordinarily deconstructed and stylized piece. Virtually as struck. From a Swiss collection. The Balkan imitations of the late Hellenistic tetradrachms of Thasos were produced in enormous numbers. Some are stylistically quite good (in fact, almost as good as the originals), but for most the style is best described as amusing, while what might be termed the bottom end shows a completely non-Hellenic spirit that changes the types of Dionysos and Herakles into grotesque figures surrounded by pellets. They can best be paralleled, at least in spirit, by the way the gold staters of Philip of Macedon are deconstructed by the Celts of western Europe. The present piece is quite exceptional in the way the obverse head has been 'artistically schematized' in an almost modern, Picasso-esque way, while the reverse figure of Herakles seems to have been turned into a triumphant fisherman holding two prize salmon!. Estimate: 450 CHF

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXII	Auction date: 8 January 2019
Lot number: 1087 Price realized: 10,000 USD   (Approx. 8,739 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.21 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 141-143. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head left / IOVI STATORI, Jupiter, naked, standing facing, holding vertical scepter in right hand and thunderbolt at side in left. RIC III 72d; Strack 90; Calicó 1553 (but not illustrated); BMCRE p. 32, 210 note citing variant with obv. k (laureate head left) in Revue Belge 1880, p. 60f. EF, lustrous. Extremely rare with Pius' head facing left. None listed in CoinArchives, possibly the second known example. Artistic portrait.  Ex Classical Numismatic Group 105 (10 May 2017), lot 901. Estimate: 7500 USD

 

[King John]

Extremely Rare & Fine Greek Coin Showing Dionysos

This stater is worth about $211,000 and is the finest example of this type known. It’s from the ancient city of Thebes in Boeotia from around 405-395 BC. On the obverse is a Boeotian shield with the reverse side displaying an image of Dionysos wearing an ivy wreath with the letters Θ and Ε.

The mint of Thebes produced a number of unusually fine representations on the reverses of its staters, but this one must be the most startlingly impressive of them all. Dionysos, the god of wine, is clearly a figure of great power and emotion; his eyes are fully open and stare out at us, and his lips are parted so that we can see the teeth within his mouth. The brilliant engraver who created this astonishing head has let us imagine the flush moving over the god’s cheeks, as he gets redder and redder with all the sacred wine he has drunk. This is unquestionably one of the finest facing heads in all Greek numismatic art.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: TESTA BARBATA DI DIONISO, MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO DI NAPOLI

[eracle62]

13 ore fa, King John dice:

Nomos AG > Auction 18	Auction date: 5 May 2019
Lot number: 14 Price realized: 1,600 CHF   (Approx. 1,570 USD / 1,404 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: CELTIC, Lower Danube. Uncertain tribe. Imitations of Thasos, 1st century BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 31 mm, 16.73 g). Completely deconstructed wreathed head of Dionysos to right (the snake-like item with a curlicue at the end is the remains of the god's hair, and is above his large, circular eye). Rev. Curiously formed figure of Herakles standing facing, holding a club and a lion's skin, which have been transformed into a tasseled muffler-like object; around, legend transformed into dots. Lukanc pl. 145, 1651-1652 (very similar obverses, and pl. 160, 1827 (nearly the same dies, but obverse illustrated upside-down); all three examples from the museum in Plovdiv). OTA Class V. An extraordinarily deconstructed and stylized piece. Virtually as struck. From a Swiss collection. The Balkan imitations of the late Hellenistic tetradrachms of Thasos were produced in enormous numbers. Some are stylistically quite good (in fact, almost as good as the originals), but for most the style is best described as amusing, while what might be termed the bottom end shows a completely non-Hellenic spirit that changes the types of Dionysos and Herakles into grotesque figures surrounded by pellets. They can best be paralleled, at least in spirit, by the way the gold staters of Philip of Macedon are deconstructed by the Celts of western Europe. The present piece is quite exceptional in the way the obverse head has been 'artistically schematized' in an almost modern, Picasso-esque way, while the reverse figure of Herakles seems to have been turned into a triumphant fisherman holding two prize salmon!. Estimate: 450 CHF

Hai ragione da quando ti seguo ho avuto anch'io la stessa idea...

O erano tutti collezionisti di tondelli classici, altrimenti la storia li ha comunque preceduti tutti..

Questo tondello sembra fatto da Mirò è vero....

[eracle62]

Il 20/5/2019 alle 20:48, King John dice:

Tetradracma - argento - Clazomene, Ionia (ca.375-360 a.C.) - testa di Apollo con lunghi capelli quasi frontale -Münzkabinett Berlin

Obverse	Kopf des Apollon in der Vorderansicht, leicht nach l. gewendet, er trägt die lockigen, schulterlangen Haare offen und einen Mantel (chlamys), der vor dem Hals geknotet ist. Im l. F. die Signatur [ΘΕΟΔΟ]ΤΟΣ / ΕΠΟΕΙ.
Reverse	ΜΑΝΔΡ-[Ο]ΝΑ[Ξ] - ΚΛ-ΑΖ-Ο. Ein Schwan mit gespreizten Flügeln nach l. ILLUSTRAZIONE: L'APOLLO DI CENTOCELLE

Questo ritratto quasi frontale a 3/4 è anch'esso degno di nota.

Incisione da fare invidia ai più grandi che vennero dopo..

Oggi parlavo con un caro amico proprio sulle difficoltà, dell'improntare i coni più piccoli..

Si parlava di tondelli minuscoli della Magna Grecia fino a 0.20 gr.

Oserei dire degli extraterrestri...

Mi inchino d'innanzi a tanta maestria...

Cosa vuoi fare più dopo...

[King John]

Nomos AG > Auction 18	Auction date: 5 May 2019
Lot number: 19 Price realized: 750 CHF   (Approx. 736 USD / 658 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: CALABRIA. Tarentum. Circa 344-340 BC. Nomos (Silver, 21 mm, 7.99 g, 9 h). Helmeted ephebe, nude, holding a small round shield and a lance with his left hand and the reins with his right, riding to right; below horse,⊣. Rev. ΤΑΡΑΣ Phalanthos, nude, riding dolphin to left, holding kotyle in his outstretched right hand and resting his left hand on the dolphin's back; below, Π above waves. Fischer-Bossert 674 (V257/R523). HN III 878. An attractive lightly toned example, struck from particularly artistic dies. Traces of overstriking on the reverse, otherwise, about extremely fine. From the Vineyard Collection, ex Elsen 58, 12 June 1999, 786. Estimate: 450 CHF

[King John]

The New York Sale, Auction 27, lot 213, 4/01/2012

The Prospero Collection of Ancient Greek Coins. BLACK SEA REGION. Pantikapaion (c.350-300 B.C.), Gold Stater, 9.12g,. Head of bearded satyr facing, inclined slightly to the left, with long dishevelled hair and pointed horse’s ear. Rev. Π-A-N , winged griffin standing to left, with its horned head facing, its right forepaw raised, holding a spear in its jaws, a large grain-ear below on which the griffin stands (Locker Lampson 122 (ex Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich collection) = Gulbenkian 583 (these dies); Gulbenkian 584 (this obverse die), 580 (this reverse die); K. Regling, ‘Der Griechische Goldschatz von Prinkipo’, ZfN XLI, 1931, 165 (this obverse die); BM Principal Coins III. B, 1, pl. 21, 1; Jameson 2143). One small area of softness at top of the head, otherwise well-struck and extremely fine, fantastic style, one of the greatest and most admired of all ancient Greek coins, a true masterpiece and incredibly rare, a coin of the highest importance . Purchased from Bank Leu Ltd., Zurich, 1991 The facing head Pantikapaion gold stater, among the most spectacular numismatic objects to survive from the classical world, is one of the greatest pinnacles of ancient Greek numismatic art. The opportunity to acquire an example is seldom encountered by numismatists. Godfrey Locker Lampson, whose example was struck from the same dies as this coin, provides us with his own inspired account of the obverse: “The head of the satyr is a marvel of speaking portraiture. That so much expression could be packed into so small a round would not be believed by any one who had not seen it....If a single coin had to be selected from those described in these pages, as by the greatest of all die-engravers, whoever he may have been, whose work had lasted to the present day, the writer would choose this one. Its creator has left no name behind him, but none but a consummate artist of remarkable and original genius could have produced this unforgettable and amazing little gem.” (Locker Lampson Collection (foreword, p. vii)). The example from the Locker Lampson Collection is now in the Gulbenkian Collection, where it resides together with two other similar examples, one of which shares the same obverse die. The Greek colony of Pantikapaion was founded in the seventh century B.C. by the Milesians and, by the fourth century, the city had amassed considerable wealth through its exports of grain. The griffin on the reverse of this coin is seen standing upon a grain-ear, symbolic of its importance to the financial well-being of the city. The issue of gold staters, this three-quarter facing head example being one of the most important, was a manifestation of the wealth of Pantikapaion. US$ 650,000

ILLUSTRAZIONE: TESTA DI PAN, DA UN RECIPIENTE IN BRONZO (SITULA) DEL 340-320 A.C. CONSERVATO A SOFIA (BULGARIA), VASSIL BOJKOV COLLECTION

 

Modificato 22 Maggio, 2019 da King John

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 111	Auction date: 29 May 2019
Lot number: 177
Lot description: CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS, Pantikapaion. Circa 340-325 BC. AV Stater (22.5mm, 9.11 g, 11h). Head of Pan left, wearing ivy wreath / Griffin, holding spear in its mouth, standing left, head facing, forepaw raised, on grain ear; Π-A-N around. Anokhin 1021; MacDonald 54; HGC 7, 20; SNG BM Black Sea 864; Gulbenkian 587 = Locker-Lampson 123; cf. Kraay & Hirmer 440. Choice EF, lustrous. Well centered and struck.  Pantikapaion was founded by Greek colonists from Miletos in the late seventh century BC. Situated on the west side of the Cimmerian Bosporos, in what is now called the Crimea, it achieved great prosperity through its exploitation of the abundant fisheries of the straits and the export of wheat from the Crimea. This wealth is attested by its splendid gold coinage, which commenced in the mid-4th century BC, and by the magnificently furnished rock tombs of its principal citizens in the same period. Later, it was to become a regional capital of the kingdom of Mithradates VI of Pontos (120-63 BC) and later still the seat of the kings of Bosporos (first century BC – fourth century AD). The coinage of Pantikapaion seems to have commenced with silver issues in the latter part of the fifth century BC, but it is for its beautiful gold staters that the mint is chiefly noted. They depict the head of the god Pan (a pun on the name of the city) and on the reverse the griffin that Herodotos describes as being the guardian of the remote sources of gold.  Estimate: 75000 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: TESTA DI PAN SCOPERTA A KALUGEROVO (BULGARIA)