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Heritage World Coin Auctions > ANA Signature Sale 3075	Auction date: 15 August 2019
Lot number: 32071
Maximinus II, as Caesar (AD 310-313). AV aureus (20mm, 5.32 gm, 12h). NGC MS 5/5 - 3/5. Nicomedia, AD 305-306. MAXIMINVS-NOB CAES, laureate head of Maximinus I right / SOLI INVI-CTO NIK (last three letters in monogram), Sol standing slightly right, radiate head right, nude save for chlamys over shoulders and spread behind, right hand raised, globe and whip in left; SMN in exergue. RIC VI 36 (R5). Calicó -. Very rare - only one example in sales archives. Bold strike with a massive Tetrarchic portrait and a particularly well-modeled reverse. Maximinus II Daza ("the Dacian"), the nephew of Galerius, was serving in the imperial bodyguard in AD 305 when his uncle plucked him from obscurity and elevated him to the rank of Caesar in the Second Tetrarchy. Once established in power in his territories of Egypt and Syria, Daza seems not to have impressed his uncle greatly, for he was passed over for promotion twice in the chaotic years AD 306-309. In 310, he took matters into his own hands by having his troops proclaim him Augustus, setting him against four other Augusti (Galerius, Licinius, Constantine and the rebel Maxentius) and making a shambles of Diocletian's carefully constructed Tetrarchic system. After Galerius' death in 311, Daza cast himself in his uncle's mold as the defender of paganism and a persecutor of Christianity, placing him in opposition to Constantine and Licinius, who favored religious toleration. After Constantine crushed Maxentius in 312, Daza attempted to do the same to Licinius, invading Thrace the following year with a sizeable force of 70,000. But his long forced marches exhausted his troops and the outnumbered army of Licinius won a resounding victory at the Battle of Tzirallum in AD 313. Daza fled the field dressed as a slave, but soon died either of disease or by his own hand. His rule had been harsh and his subjects welcomed Licinius as a liberator. Christians in particular reviled Daza as the last great Roman persecutor. Estimate: 8000-10000 USD illustrazione: MASSIMINO II DAIA E LA SUA SCORTA

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Heritage World Coin Auctions > ANA Signature Sale 3075	Auction date: 15 August 2019
Lot number: 32060
Pertinax (1 January-28 March AD 193). AV aureus (20mm, 7.24 gm, 12h). NGC Choice MS 5/5 - 5/5, Fine Style. Rome. IMP CAES P HELV-PERTIN AVG, laureate, draped bust of Pertinax right, seen from behind / PROVID-DEOR•COS II, Providentia standing facing, head left, raising right hand toward star in upper left field, resting left hand on breast. RIC IV.I 11b. Calicó 2390a. Ex Stack's, J. Whitney Walter Collection (November 1990), lot 57.  The brief, tragic reign of Helvius Pertinax stands as evidence of how far talent and hard work could take an individual in the Roman world, as well as the dangers of high office. Pertinax began life as the son of a freed slave. Given a good education, he first became a school teacher, then began a career with the Roman Legions and rose quickly. He won the confidence of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius during the Marcommanic War, when he took charge of a legion and intercepted a barbarian horde invading Italy. He was made a senator and heaped with honors, including the governorships of Moesia, Dacia, and Syria. With Commodus descending into megalomania, a conspiracy formed and the plotters saw the elderly, widely respected Pertinax as the ideal candidate to replace him. Whether he was privy to the plot is uncertain, but immediately after the murder of Commodus on December 31, AD 192, Pertinax went to the Praetorian camp, promised the guard a bonus, and was proclaimed emperor. The Senate enthusiastically ratified his elevation and he initiated a number of popular reforms against the excesses of Commodus, including a crackdown on military indiscipline. This, along with his failure to pay the promised donative, alienated the Praetorians, who held true power in Rome. Although one plot against him was thwarted, Pertinax made the mistake of trying to quell another mutiny by addressing the guard in person. In the middle of the address, a soldier hurled his spear and transfixed him. Pertinax had ruled all of 86 days. Due to the brevity of his reign, the coinage of Pertinax is quite rare, but of unusually high artistic quality. The obverse portrait of this beautiful gold aureus bears a powerful portrait of the elderly emperor, his blunt features recalling his lower-class origins. The reverse depicts Providentia reaching toward a star, perhaps indicating the new emperor's belief that the stars foretold his accession. The rating of Choice MS by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation places this stunning specimen tied with two others, with only two coins higher, making this among the finest known aurei of Pertinax. Estimate: 50000-70000 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: BUSTO DI PERTINACE

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CILICIA, Mallos. Circa 385-375 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 10.61 g, 7h). Athena seated left, holding spear, arm resting on shield at side; olive tree to right / Hermes, holding kerykeion, standing facing, and Aphrodite, leaning half-left on pedestal, placing hand on back of Hermes. Casabonne Type 12; SNG BN 403–4; SNG Levante 155. Good VF, deep iridescent tone, struck with worn obverse die. Well centered.
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Lanz 106 (26 November 2001), lot 164. 
Provenance: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. 
Auction 103 of 14.09.2016, lot: 341.

ILLUSTRAZIONE : Pinax con Hermes, Afrodite e piccolo erote, da Medma (oggi Rosarno), 470. a.C.  – Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Monaco di Baviera

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Roma Numismatics Limited, Auction 11, lot 528, 7/04/2016

Maximinus I Æ37 'Medallion' of Tralleis, Lydia. AD 235-238. Aur. Faidreios, magistrate. AYT K Γ IOYL OYH MAXIMEINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / EΠI ΓP AYP ΦAIΔPEIOY A TPAΛΛIANΩN, statue group of diademed Venus standing right wearing stola and palla with arms around Mars, nude but for crested helmet, standing facing, holding shield; cuirass on low column on right field ground line. F. Imhoof,  Lydische Statdmünzen, Winterthur 1897, pp. 178-9, 38, pl. 7, 16. 23.63g, 37mm, 5h.
About Extremely Fine. Dark green patina. Of the highest rarity; the only other known specimen is the one recorded by Imhoof in his collection.
Under the Antonines there was an increased interest in depicting both aristocratic and freed men and women in mythical guise. The models for such statuary groups in the round and in the relief undoubtedly belonged to courtly circles. Even though no extant groups or coins explicitly portray an emperor or empress as Mars and Venus, such examples certainly existed. We know from Cassius Dio (81-96) that Marcus Aurelius and Faustina minor were celebrated as Mars and Venus and that she was commonly represented as Venus. Hadrian and other emperors also commonly appeared in statues in the guise of Mars.
Three Roman statue groups have survived of a man and woman depicted as Mars and Venus in which portrait heads were placed on bodies based on the 5th century BC Greek so called ‘Ares Borghese’ type with attributed to the sculptor Alkamenes, now in the Louvre (MA 866; LIMC II, Ares 23). He stands in a counter-pose (contrapposto), with his right leg advanced in front and his weight resting on the left leg. In his right hand he carries a shield or lance and on his head he wears a high crested helmet. The woman also stands in counter-pose to the male figure which ultimately derives from a 4th century BC Greek so called ‘Aphrodite of Capua’ type now in the Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Naples (LIMC II, Aphrodite 627), an earlier version of the celebrated Aphrodite of Milos type now in the Louvre (LIMC II, Aphrodite 645), and close to the Venus of Arles attributed to Praxiteles, also now in the Louvre (LIMC II, Aphrodite 526). The statue probably represented the goddess admiring her reflection in the reflective surface of Ares’ shield, a motif known on coins from Corinth. (cf. Corinth, Plautilla BMC 664-6), with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist around from the hips and legs, giving the figure a dynamic and tender appearance.
The earliest extant of these three groups was found on the Isola Sacra in Ostia and now in the Museo Capitolino, Rome (LIMC II, Ares/Mars 348). The woman is represented according to the Capuan Aphrodite type: she turns toward her husband and puts her left arm around his shoulders, unlike the Venus of Capua, she is clothed in a stola and palla. The man is nude, wears a helmet and short pallium and stands in the Ares Borghese counter-pose. The woman’s diademed head is coiffure with its series of overlapping locks and bun at the back of the head, is comparable to that of Faustina II on coins and portraits in the round of about AD 147. The carving of the hair style and face of the man resembles the portraits of a young Marcus Aurelius in about AD 145. This group must date from AD 145-150.
The second group, formerly from the Borghese Collection and now in the Louvre (LIMC II, Ares/Mars 350) depicts the woman, probably Sabina, represented in the style of the Capuan Venus, except that she is also clothed in a stola and palla. The man is heroically nude, save for helmet and balteus with parazonium, and stands in the Ares Borghese counter-pose with a portrait that has often been identified as Hadrian during the principate of Antoninus Pius and can be dated to about AD 150-160.
The third and latest group was found in the so-called Basilica at Ostia, now in the Museo Nazionale, Rome (LIMC II, Ares/Mars 347) also represents a man and woman in the style of the Venus of Capua and Ares Borghese statuary group, but now the woman is partially nude and the man is again completely heroically nude but for helmet and balteus with parazonium. The carving style of this group suggests an unknown Roman and his wife in the time of Marcus Aurelian and Faustina II to Commodus and Crispina, circa AD 175-180.
Although there is no consensus amongst scholars as to the identification of these three groups as celebrating imperial personages or high status wealthy members of Roman society emulating the conceit of mythological portraiture popular among the imperial circle, there are three other lesser works with very similar representations of the general Mars/Venus group theme: the ‘Concordia group’ high relief sarcophagus panel in Palazzo Mattei, Rome (LIMC II, Ares/Mars 351); a mint of Rome medallion of Faustina II (Gnecchi II, p. 39, 10, pl. 67, and a rare mint of Rome As of Faustina II (RIC III, 1680; BMC IV, 999-1001).

illustrazione: Gruppo scultoreo con Marte e Venere, Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme di Diocleziano

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SICILY. Kamarina. Litra (410-405 BC).
Obv: KAMAPINA. 
Head of nymph Kamarina left.
Rev: Swan right on waves; below, fish swimming left.
SNG ANS 1210.
Condition: Very fine.
Weight: 0.84 g.
Diameter: 13 mm.

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Roma Numismatics Limited, Auction 12, lot 145, 29/09/2016

Corinthia, Corinth AR Drachm. Circa 375-345 BC. Pegasos flying left, Q below / Head of Aphrodite left, wearing necklace, hair bound in elaborately decorated sakkos; A before, P behind. SNG Cop -; BCD Corinth -; BMC pl. XII, 9. 2.66g, 15mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare. Of the 34 Classical period drachms amongst the 981 coins of the BCD Collection of Corinth, there were none of this type.
From the B.R.H. Collection, privately purchased c.1980s in Munich.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: LE ACCONCIATURE GRECHE

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Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 4	Auction date: 25 May 2019
Lot number: 518 Price realized: 3,400 CHF   (Approx. 3,378 USD / 3,030 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: GALATIA. Tavium. Julia Domna, Augusta, 193-217. Tetrassarion (Orichalcum, 26 mm, 12.11 g, 7 h), 197/8. IOYΛIA ΔOMNA CЄBACTH Draped bust of Julia Domna to right. Rev. ЄIC ЄΩNA TOYC KYPIOC / TAOYIA Septimius Severus, radiate and in military attire, standing front, head to left, holding scepter in his left hand and clasping his right hand with Caracalla, on the left, standing right in miltary attire and holding scepter in his left; on the right, Geta, togate, standing front, head to left, holding patera in his right hand and scroll (?) in his left. BMC -. Imhoof-Blumer, KM -. SNG Copenhagen -. SNG Leypold -. SNG Paris -. SNG von Aulock -. Winterthur -. Unpublished and of great historical interest. A beautiful coin with a lovely portrait of Julia Domna and an exceptional reverse type. Good very fine. This emergence of this beautiful dynastic issue from Tavion showing Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta is very exciting. The reverse legend ЄIC ЄΩNA TOYC KYPIOC translates as 'eternal rulers' and is a praise on the Severan dynasty, which is celebrated for bringing peace and stability to the empire after the civil wars in 192-196. It is interesting to note that both the reverse legend and type are copied from an extremely rare issue from Nicaea, which was misdescribed in the von Aulock Sylloge as showing Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Homonoia (SNG von Aulock 590). However, the present coin clearly shows that the figure on the right is a togate juvenile male and thus in all likelyhood the emperor's younger son Geta. But why, then, are Septimius and Caracalla shown in military attire, whereas Geta is togate? The answer lies in the date of the coin, which through an obverse die match to dated issues from Tavium (SNG Paris 2659-2660) can be determined to be 197/8, the year in which Caracalla became Augustus and Geta Caesar. This very important event was, as this coin shows, celebrated throughout the empire before the imperial family set out for the East to fight the Parthians. As the titular co-ruler of his father Septimius Severus, Caracalla appears in military attire, whereas Geta wears the toga virlis, which was given to Romans when they reached adulthood. In actual fact, both of Septimius' sons were way too young to be considered adults in 197/8, but the interests of the imperial family always took precedence over Roman traditions. Estimate: 500 CHF

ILLUSTRAZIONE:  Severus, Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax; Roman Emperor (193–211); 146–211. 
Dextrarum-iunctio with the sons Caracalla and Geta (detail).
Relief, severisch, 203/204 n. Chr. Marble, H. 172 cm. Attica relief from the triumphal arch of Septimius Severus in Leptis Magna (Tripolitania, Libya).
Tripolis, Archäologisches Museum.

IDENTIFIER

AKG940778

MUSEUM

TRIPOLIS, ARCHÄOLOGISCHES MUSEUM

SOURCE

GILLES MERMET

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Heritage World Coin Auctions > ANA Signature Sale 3075	Auction date: 15 August 2019
Lot number: 32007
Lot description: Ancients SICILY. Syracuse. Time of Dionysius I (405-367 BC). AR decadrachm (35mm, 42.69 gm, 3h). NGC MS 5/5 - 5/5, Fine Style. Reverse die signed by Euainetos, ca. 400 BC. Racing quadriga driven left by charioteer, reins in left hand, kentron in right; Nike flying right in field above to crown him, military arms, including aspis (shield), greaves, cuirass, and crested Attic helmet, all joined by horizontal spear, ΑΘΛΑ ("prizes") in exergue (off flan) / ΣΥ-ΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ, head of Arethusa left, hair wreathed in barley ears, wearing triple pendant earring and beaded necklace, four dolphins around, die-engraver's signature EYAINE below bottom dolphin (off flan). Gallatin 20 (R IV / CX). SNG ANS 366. Rare. Deeply struck from dies of exquisite style, producing a very high relief. Simply breathtaking in hand. One of just two decadrachms of this type graded MS by NGC. Ex Dr. Busso Peus Nachf., Auction 357 (28-30 October 1998), lot 242. Widely considered to be the most beautiful coins ever struck, the immense silver decadrachms of Syracuse from the later fifth century BC represent the full flowering of classical Greek sculptural art. Syracuse, the foremost Greek city in Sicily, had produced coins of exceptional beauty for nearly a century when, ca. 415 BC, engravers began signing their coin dies. Chief among these were the master engravers Kimon and Euainetos, whose large silver decadrachms seemed to capture the spirit of the artistic and intellectual revolution then sweeping the Greek world. The obverse of these pieces depicts a four-horse racing chariot, or quadriga, in full career to left while Nike, goddess of Victory, flies above to crown the driver with a laurel wreath. Below this scene is a set of Greek armor offered as a prize to the victorious charioteer. The reverse depicts a beautiful head of Arethusa, nymph of a sacred spring, with dolphins frolicking around her. The decadrachm of Euainetos became a widely-copied archetype for Greek coinage, and the master engraver's head of Arethusa remains a paradigm of cool, classical beauty today. Estimate: 65000-85000 USD

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Nomos AG > Auction 18	Auction date: 5 May 2019
Lot number: 382 Price realized: 800 CHF   (Approx. 785 USD / 702 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Gilialmos (Guillaume), Patrikios and Strategos, 2nd half of the 11th century. Seal (Lead, 24 mm, 12.71 g, 12 h). ΜΑΡ - ΘV The Theotokos, nimbate, seated facing on a high-backed throne, holding a medallion bearing the bust of the infant Jesus on her lap. Rev. +ΘKE RO / HΘ TO CO OI / KETH ΓHΛH / AΛMO ΠPI / S CTPATH / Γω in six lines. Istanbul 2.238 (same dies?, but partially damaged). Nicely centered, clear and well-preserved. Very rare in the name of a Byzantine official of western-European origin. Nearly extremely fine. This seal is one of a relatively small number of Byzantine seals that are in the name of an official of western European origin; in this case (William), perhaps, an English- or Norseman. Since, aside from the title strategos, there is nothing overtly 'military' about this seal, - we do not have a military saint like Demetrios or George, and there are no weapons used as ornaments above or below the inscription - we cannot assume that the owner of this seal was, as the name might suggest, a member of the Varangian Guard; but it is, nevertheless, a tempting thought. In any case, the important civil and military/civil titles Gilialmos has (patrician and strategos = general or civil commander) ought to indicate that, as a Westerner, he must have been both highly talented and fully trusted. Estimate: 450 CHF

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Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions > Auction 67	Auction date: 11 July 2019
Lot number: 116 Price realized: Unsold
Lot description: Sicily, Messana under Mamertinoi, Onkia, ca. 220-200 BC AE (g 1,61; mm 14; h 7) Head of Aphrodite r.; behind, dove, Rv. Naked warrior, laureate, standing to l., holding sword and spear; on l., throphy and monogram. CNS 37; SNG ANS 438. Very rare. Green patina and extremely fine. Starting Price: 250 GBP ILLUSTRAZIONE: Sebasteion, Ares. Aphrodisias Museum

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Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions > Auction 67	Auction date: 11 July 2019
Lot number: 591 Price realized: 240 GBP   (Approx. 301 USD / 268 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Gordian III, Bronze, Moesia Inferior: Nicopolis ad Istrum, AD 238-244 AE (g 13,08; mm27; h 6) City gate with two battlemented towers. Varbanov 4181. Brownish patina, extremely fine - good extremely fine. Ex Gorny & Mosch 165, 17 March 2008, lot 1469. Starting Price: 200 GBP ILLUSTRAZIONE: UNA PORTA DI INGRESSO NELLE MURA DI UNA CITTA' ROMANA

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Nomos, Auction 9, lot 197, 21/10/2014

Kyrene, c. 322-313 BC. Stater (Gold, 18mm, 8.60 g 1), Pheidon. ΦEIΔΩN[OΣ] Male (?) charioteer, wearing long robes and holding a sceptre in his right hand, driving a team of four horses (the horse on the far right is mostly off the flan). Rev. KΥΡANAION Apollo Kitharoidos standing facing, wearing long chiton and laurel wreath, holding kithara in his left hand and pletrum in his right; to left, at his feet, silphium plant; above left, laurel plant. BMC -. Naville -. Apparently unique and unpublished! , an extraodinary and exceptional coin. Some minor marks and an edge bang, otherwise , about extremely fine. From the Battos Collection. This coin is decidedly unexpected! The gold coinage of Kyrene has been very carefully studied, both by E.S.G. Robinson in the BMC and by L. Naville in his well known publication of 1951, and the idea that a completely unknown Kyrenaian stater should appear from an old collection is astounding. Not only that, the appearance of Apollo Kitharoidos as its reverse is a further novum since this aspect of the god was also previously unknown on the coinage of Kyrene. The type is very close to the well-known Apollo Barberini in the Glyptothek, which is thought to reflect the cult statue of Apollo from the Temple of Apollo Palatinus in Rome (though this statue was surely based on an earlier Greek prototype).

ILLUSTRAZIONE: APOLLO CITAREDO, COPIA ROMANA DA ORIGINALE GRECO DEL IV SECOLO A. C., MUSEO DI CAPODIMONTE, NAPOLI

 

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Heritage World Coin Auctions > ANA Signature Sale 3075	Auction date: 15 August 2019
Lot number: 32048
Vespasian (AD 69-79). AE sestertius (31mm, 19.71 gm, 6h). NGC AU★ 5/5 - 5/5, Fine Style. Judaea Capta issue. Rome, AD 71. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS III, laureate head of Vespasian right / IVDAEA-CAPTA, Jewess, in attitude of mourning, seated right on cuirass beneath palm tree; emperor standing right at left, parazonium in left hand, scepter in right, left foot on helmet; S C in exergue. RIC II 167. Hendin 1504. An absolutely stunning sestertius, made even more desirable with the Judaean commemorative reverse. Easily among the most attractive examples known and the highest graded specimen with the coveted star designation for superior eye appeal. Ex Roma Numismatics, Auction XVI (26 September 2018), lot 696; B&H Kreindler, private sale; Goldberg, Auction 98 (6 June 2017), lot 1696 (described as "sharpness of Extremely Fine...under close microscopic inspection, we have determined that the surfaces have been expertly smoothed and the letters strengthened." It is the opinion of Heritage and NGC the coin is original, however we are including all of the known opinions for accuracy.); Brody Family Collection, part I (The New York Sale XXXIX, 10 January 2017), lot 236 (cover coin); Abraham Bromberg Collection, part II (Superior Galleries, 10 December 1992), lot 611. This magnificent Judaea Capta sestertius is part of the propaganda campaign touting Vespasian's victory in the Jewish War. The figure of Judaea is shown in an attitude of mourning, while the emperor stands behind in a display of might. Such images, while supremely brutal to modern eyes, were to the Romans justified and indeed glorious - the rebellious Jews having broken faith with their overlords and killed tens of thousands of Roman soldiers and civilians. The IVDAEA CAPTA propaganda helped consolidate Vespasian's hold on power in the wake of the disastrous civil wars of AD 69. Estimate: 10000-15000 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: UNA FASE DELLA PRIMA GUERRA GIUDAICA

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 446	Auction date: 19 June 2019
Lot number: 139 Price realized: 60 USD   (Approx. 54 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: CYPRUS, Salamis. Nikokreon. Circa 331-310 BC. Æ Half Unit (16mm, 4.08 g, 6h). In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Struck circa 323-317 BC. Macedonian shield decorated with gorngoneion on the boss / Macedonian helmet; kerykeion to lower left. Zapiti & Michaelidou (Wars of the Successors) 5–7 var. (monogram on rev.); Price 3158. VF, dark green patina, some roughness. Estimate: 100 USD

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Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 112	Auction date: 11 September 2019
Lot number: 670
Gratian. AD 367-383. AR Heavy Miliarense (25.5mm, 4.65 g, 12h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 367-375. DN GRATIA NVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA D N AVG, Victory standing left, holding wreath in right hand and staff surmounted by shield inscribed VOT/ V/ MVLT/ X; to left and right, seated captive; (christogram)|-//(palm)CONS(wreath). Cf. RIC IX 31 (for a similar issue of Valentian I); cf. RSC 53B (same). Deeply toned, find patina, small flan crack. Near EF. Extremely rare.  Estimate: 3000 USD

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Nomos AG > obolos 13	Auction date: 2 July 2019
Lot number: 627 Price realized: 1,800 CHF   (Approx. 1,828 USD / 1,614 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Gaius (Caligula), 37-41. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 35 mm, 27.67 g, 6 h), Rome, 40-41. C•CAESAR•DIVI•AVG•PRON•AVG• P•M•TR P•IIII P•P Laureate head of Gaius to left. Rev. ADLOCVT / COH Bare-headed and togate Gaius standing left before the sella castrensis on a platform, haranguing five soldiers, all of whom bear shields and, all but the first, standards. BMC 68. Cohen 3. RIC 48. Clear surfaces, well centered. Some tooling and smoothing, otherwise, nearly extremely fine. Starting Price: 750 CHF

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Da Aspendo di Pamfilia, Una gradevolissima dracma (420-360 AC.)  con al diritto cavalleggero al galoppo con lancia .

Passerà in asta CNG 112 al lotto 301 il prossimo 21 Settembre

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Dutch Numismatic Auction > Auction 3	Auction date: 28 April 2019
Lot number: 70 Price realized: 110 EUR   (Approx. 123 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Kingdom of Macedon, Pyrrhos of Epiros.  Uncertain mint in Macedon, 287-285 BC or 274-273 BC. Æ17, 4.00 g. Macedonian shield with monogram of Pyrrhos in central boss / macedonian helmet; below: ΒΑΣΙ and monogram ; all within oak wreath. SNG Alpha Bank 971 var. (control). Extremely fine. Starting Price: 20 EUR ILLUSTRAZIONE: L'ESERCITO DI PIRRO

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVII	Auction date: 28 March 2019
Lot number: 371 Price realized: 650 GBP   (Approx. 858 USD / 762 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Sicily, Syracuse Æ21. Struck in the name of Pyrrhos, King of Epeiros, circa 278-276 BC. Wreathed head of Kore to right; torch? behind / Demeter seated slightly right, holding grain ear and sceptre; BAΣIΛEΩΣ to right, ΠΥΡΡΟΥ to left. CNS II 185; SNG ANS 836-8 var. (control). 8.33g, 22mm, 10h. Extremely Fine. From a private European collection, outside of Italy prior to December 1992. Estimate: 500 GBP ILLUSTRAZIONE: MORTE DI PIRRO, UCCISO AD ARGO DA UNA TEGOLA LANCIATA DA UNA VECCHIA ALLA FINESTRA. Nel 272 a.C., Cleonimo, nobile spartano che si era inimicato le autorità della sua città, chiese a Pirro di attaccarla, affinché lui stesso potesse comandarla nel nome dell'Epiro. Pirro si dichiarò d'accordo nella volontà di ottenere per sé il controllo del Peloponneso, ma il suo esercito trovò un'inaspettata resistenza, tale da impedirgli ogni assalto su Sparta. Il re, allora, decise di passare l'inverno nel Peloponneso per poi riprendere la campagna di conquista in primavera dato che gli era stata offerta la possibilità di intervenire in una disputa interna alla città di Argo. Entrato di soppiatto con l'esercito in città, Pirro si ritrovò coinvolto in una confusa battaglia strada per strada. Una donna anziana, vedendolo dal tetto della sua casa, gli lanciò una tegola che, secondo quanto si dice, lo colpì e lo distrasse, permettendo a un soldato argivo di ucciderlo. I suoi resti furono portati nel tempio di Demetra.

Modificato 9 Agosto, 2019 da King John

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Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger > Auction 352	Auction date: 25 September 2019
Lot number: 2246
GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN, GRIECHISCHES MUTTERLAND, ATTIKA, ATHEN. Tetradrachme. 479-404. Behelmter Athenakopf r. Rs: Eule r., dahinter Olivenzweig und Mondsichel. SNG COP. 32 ff. Svoronos Taf. 12-16. 17.23g, Hohes Relief. Schöne Tönung. vz Estimate: 2000 EUR ILLUSTRAZIONE: ATENIESI CONTRO SPARTANI

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Nomos, Auction 5, lot 255, 25/10/2011

Coins of the Romans
Maximianus. First reign, AD 286-305. Medallion (Bronze, with traces of silvering or, perhaps, billon, 34mm, 31.44 g 12), Rome, c. later 280s - early 290s. IMP C M AVR VAL MAXIMIANVS P F AVG Laureate bust of Maximianus to left, wearing elaborately embroidered imperial robes, holding Victory on a globe in his right hand, and an eagle-tipped scepter in his left. Rev. MONETAE AVGG The three Monetae standing facing, heads to left, each holding scales in her right hand and a cornucopiae in her left (unlike the others, the Moneta at the center wears a conical headdress and her scale has a long handle); at each of their feet below scales to left, pile of coins. Cohen 403. Gnecchi II p. 128, 11 and pl. 126, 10 ( this coin ). L. M. Tocci, I medaglioni romani e i contorniati del medagliere Vaticano (Rome 1965), pl. 30. 90. Extremely rare and of superb style, the finest example known . Good extremely fine. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 18, 29 March 2000, 713 and Leu 20, 25 April 1978, 392, and from the collections of H. Platt Hall, II, Glendining & Co., 16 November 1950, 1989, C. S. Bement, Naville VIII, 25 June 1924, 1456 and P. Barron, Hirsch XXX, 11 May 1911, 1245.
This is probably the finest surviving base metal medallion from the period of the Tetrarchy, and bears a portrait of Maximianus of the very best style. The imperial robes he wears are given in great detail and the medal itself undoubtedly was struck to commemorate the supposedly victorious nature of the emperor’s rule. The idea that this portrait is that of Diocletian (!), as suggested in the commentary to NAC 18, is extremely unlikely and has been accepted by no subsequent commentators.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: I BAGNI DI DIOCLEZIANO COMMISSIONATI NEL 298 D.C. DALL'IMPERATORE MASSIMIANO IN ONORE DI DIOCLEZIANO

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Stephen Album Rare Coins > Auction 35	Auction date: 12 September 2019
Lot number: 438
MACEDONIAN KINGDOM: Alexander III, the Great, 336-323 BC, AR drachm, head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress // Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding eagle and scepter, NGC graded EF. Estimate: 100-150 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: ALESSANDRO IL GRANDE ALLA CONQUISTA DELLA SOGDIANA

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Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 114	Auction date: 6 May 2019
Lot number: 648 Price realized: 4,250 CHF   (Approx. 4,176 USD / 3,733 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Titus caesar, 69 – 79. Sestertius 72, Æ 24.68 g. T CAES VESPASIAN IMP PON TR POT COS II Laureate head r. Rev. S – C Titus on horseback r., spearing fallen Jewish soldier. C 236. BMC Vespasian 634. RIC Vespasian 430. CBN Vespasian 622. Hendin 1524. Very rare and in unusually fine condition for the issue. Green patina with some minor areas of smoothing on reverse and areas of encrustations, otherwise good very fine / about extremely fine Estimate: 2500 CHF

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Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger > Auction 352	Auction date: 25 September 2019
Lot number: 2112
GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN, GRIECHISCHES MUTTERLAND, KÖNIGREICH THRAKIEN  LYSIMACHOS. 323-281, Lydien, Sardeis.Tetradrachme. Alexanderkopf mit Diadem und Ammonshorn r. Rs: Athena thront l. mit Nike. Monogramme. Müller 407 var. SNG COP. 1119 var. 17.01g, Hohes Relief. Schöne, etw. fleckige Tönung. Kl. Kratzer. ss-vz Seit den frühen 1980er Jahren in deutschem Privatbesitz. Estimate: 500 EUR illustrazione: ricostruzione delle reali fattezze di Alessando il Grande

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Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger,  Auction 352, 25 September 2019, Lot number: 2884

RÖMISCHE MÜNZEN, RÖMISCHES KAISERREICH 
HADRIANUS. 117-138, As. Belorbeerte und drapierte Büste r. Rs: Pax steht l. mit Zweig und Füllhorn. C. 1142. R.I.C. 616c. Schöne dunkle Patina. ss-vz
Seit 6 Jahren in deutscher Sammlung. 
Estimate: 175 EUR

illustrazione: l'imperatore Adriano

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