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Testa di Seleuco I al Louvre

 

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Maison Palombo > Auction 18	Auction date: 17 November 2019
Lot number: 4
Calabre - Tarente Statère d'or (333-330 av. J.-C). Exemplaire exceptionnellement bien centré ayant conservé son brillant d'origine. Probablement le plus bel exemplaire connu. D'une insigne rareté. Acheté à l'amiable chez NAC le 30 août 2012. 8.54g - FB G1 - Vlasto av. 4 et rv. 10 - HN Italy 905 Superbe à FDC - Choice AU As is so often the case, this emission was issued to finance a military campaign. Indeed, the Tarentines regularly asked Greek allies for assistance against their non-Greek neighbours, which had led to the death of the Spartan king Archidamus in 338 BC, and in 334 BC, they requested help from Alexander 'Molossus' of Epirus (c.371-331 BC), uncle of Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). At first successful against the Samnites and the Lucanians in 332 BC near Paestum, as told by Pliny, he was then killed in action at the Battle of Pandosia against the Bruttians. This was somehow a relief for the Tarentines, as it seems that Alexander Molossus had changed his objectives from helping them to conquering the West – emulating the conquests of his nephew in the East. In any case, the thunderbolt on the reverse of this coin is almost certainly a reference to Alexander Molossus. Estimate: 90000 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: PARTICOLARE DEL FREGIO DEL PARTENONE

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Editions V. Gadoury > Auction 2019	Auction date: 15 November 2019
Lot number: 408
Hadrianus 117-138 Sestertius, Rome, 134-138, AE 26.00 g. Avers : HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS COS III P P Buste lauré et drapé à droite Revers : RESTITVTORI PRHYGIAE S C Hadrian debout à droite dans la toge, Phrygie agenouillée à gauche serrant la main, coiffée d'un bonnet phrygien et tenant son épée courbée Ref : C 1290, RIC 962 Conservation : traces de manipulation dans le champs sinon TTB. Rare Starting Price: 200 EUR ILLUSTRAZIONE: STATUA DI PRIGIONIERO DACICO SULL'ARCO DI COSTANTINO

 

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Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung > Auction 265	Auction date: 14 October 2019
Lot number: 94
Lot description: SIZILIEN. MORGANTINA. AE (8,00g). Spätes 2. / frühes 1. Jh. v. Chr. Vs.: C SIC/LIVN, jugendlicher männlicher Kopf n. r. Rs.: HISPANORVM, behelmter Krieger mit eingelegter Lanze n. r. Morgantina Studies Erim Nr.13; HGC 915,. Schöne hellgrüne Patina, vz Hinter den Hispani verbergen sich iberische Söldner, die den Römern in 2. punischen Krieg dienten. Estimate: 200 EUR

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Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung,   Auction 265, Auction date: 14 October 2019,  Lot number: 1536

RÖMISCHE KAISERZEIT. Constantius II., 337 - 361 n. Chr. AE Maiorina (2,90g). 348 - 350 n. Chr. Mzst. Treveris. Vs.: DN CONSTAN-TIVS PF AVG, drapierte Panzerbüste mit Globus in der rechten Hand u. Perlendiadem n.l. Rs.: FEL TEMP REPAR-ATIO / TRP, Soldat mit Lanze führt Mann aus Hütte neben Baum. RIC VIII, 222; LRBC 30.
Schöne, dunkelgrüne Patina, vz
Ex Künker, Osnabrück, Auktion 257, 2014, Los 8769.
Estimate: 100 EUR

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Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 5	Auction date: 27 October 2019
Lot number: 79
ISLANDS OFF THESSALY, Peparethos. Circa 500 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 24 mm, 16.51 g, 10 h), Attic standard. Triple grape-cluster. Rev. Crested Corinthian helmet to right within incuse square. J. M. Balcer: Peparethos: The Early Coinage reconsidered, in: SNR 46 (1967), 4c = Jameson 2043 = Weber 2958 (but with the obverse confused with 2956 on pl. 114) = W. Wroth: Peparethus and its Coinage, in: JHS XXVIII (1907), p. 96, III.A and pl. IV, 4 (all this coin). Leu 38 (1986), 78 (same dies). Pozzi (Boutin) 4626-4627 (same dies). Traité IV, 762 and pl. CCCI, 12 (same dies). Of the highest rarity and arguably the finest of apparently just six known examples. A wonderful coin of splendid Archaic style, beautifully toned and with an illustrious pedigree. A few very faint marks and with a light scuff on the edge, otherwise, about extremely fine. From the collection of PWH, privately acquired from BCD, from the C. Gillet Collection ('Kunstfreund'), Bank Leu / Münzen & Medaillen, 28 May 1974, 32, and from the collections of R. Jameson, Sir Hermann Weber, Stoney Stratford, and A. J. B. Wace. Peparethos (modern Skopelos) is one of the main islands of the Sporades archipelago, situated to the North of Euboia and to the East of the Pelion Peninsula, which separates the Pagasetic Gulf from the Aegean Sea. The island was usually considered part of the Cyclades in antiquity (Diod. XV, 30.5), although Strabon calls it more precisely one of 'the islands in front of Magnesia' (Strab. IX, 436), whereas Pliny speaks of the 'islands in front of the Athos' (Plin. n. h. IV, 72). Peparethos was reportedly first settled by Minoans and recolonized in the 8th century BC by Chalkidians from the nearby island of Euboia. In the 470s BC, the island joined the Delian League, where it paid an annual tribute of 3 talents or 18'000 drachms, a surprisingly high amount compared to the 1000 drachms imposed on its somewhat smaller neighbor Skiathos, clearly reflecting its considerable wealth and prosperity at the time. In 340 BC, Peparethos subjected to Philip II of Macedon before regaining its independence in 196 BC after the defeat of Philip V against the Romans. Mark Antony gave the island back to the Athenians in 42 BC, in whose possession it apparently remained until the time of Septimius Severus (193-211). The first scholar to connect a series of impressive late Archaic silver coins showing a grape cluster on the obverse with the island of Peparethos was W. Wroth, who in 1907 challenged Head's attribution of the coins to Kyrene, that of Hill to the Chalkidiki, and that of Svoronos, more specifically, to Skione. Wroth was challenged, in turn, by Milne in 1941, who connected some of the coins – including the present piece - with the Naxian revolt from the Delian League in 467, while J. M. Balcer, in 1967, argued in favor of Wroth's original attribution of the entire series to Peparethos. This was called into question again, to some degree, by Price and Waggoner in their discussion of the tetradrachm in the Asyut Hoard (no. 232, struck from the same obverse die as our piece but with a differing reverse), where they suggested that the series may originate in the Thraco-Macedonian region. As with so many Archaic Greek silver coins, the latter is certainly a possibility, but Balcer's arguments should not be discarded lightly. The issue consists of a few tetradrachms, a unique didrachm and a handful of tetrobols, all of which carry, in differing forms, a grape-cluster on the obverse and much more varied types on the reverse. That the coins form a closely related group becomes clear from the consistent obverse type and the extensive die linkage among the tetradrachms and the didrachm, the latter of which was struck from the same reverse die as our coin. Balcer argues that the grape cluster would be an astounding type for Naxos, as the island's emblem had always been a kantharos, and that it would be surprising for a Naxian independence movement to briefly come up with a new coat of arms rather than reviving the old symbol of civic pride. In addition, he points out that his no. 7, which is die-linked to no. 6 (given by Milne to an uncertain Thessalian mint), was part of the 1911 Taranto Hoard, thus dating the entire series to before 490 BC. Last but not least, he refers to his no. 8 - the only coin Milne had also given to Peparethos based on the clear ethnic ΠE on the obverse and its find spot on the island - arguing that albeit being plated, the iconography clearly connects it to the rest of the series, making an attribution of the entire group to Peparethos rather persuasive. The grape bunch was unquestionably a fitting civic emblem for the island, which was famous in antiquity for the quality of its wine and worshiped Dionysos as its chief deity. It is worth noting that the Archaic silver coinage of Peparethos bears close resemblance to the output from the nearby Thraco-Macedonian mints, with our example finding its closest parallel in an issue by the Orreskioi with a virtually identical reverse (AMNG III, 18 and Asyut 93). This similarity was also the main argument put forward by Price and Waggoner for a tentative reattribution of the series to the Thraco-Macedonian mainland. However, the location of Peparethos on the important trade route from Attica to Macedon, just one sailing day south of the Pallene peninsula, readily explains the influence of the northern neighbors on the island's earliest coinage, all the more, as the silver-rich Chalkidiki was much more easily accessible by sea than the dangerous Thessalian mainland coast to the west. This changes from the 4th century onward, when the island's very rare bronze coinage more closely resembles contemporary outputs from nearby Thessalian mints, reflecting initially, perhaps, a reaction to the expansionism of the Macedonian Kingdom in the North, as well as, most certainly, a much more interconnected Greek world in the late Classical and Hellenistic period in general. This present coin is arguably the finest of just six known examples, forming part, over the years, of some of the finest collections of Greek coins ever assembled, most notably those of Sir Hermann Weber, Robert Jameson, Charles Gillet ('Kunstfreund'), and BCD, the latter of whom acquired it for a hammer of 52,000 CHF in the famous Kunstfreund sale by Leu / Münzen & Medaillen Sale in 1974. The current owner PWH, a friend of BCD, first saw the coin in person over a coffee at Sprüngli in Zürich in the 1990s, and thanks to BCD's generosity and goodwill, he was able to privately purchase it during the time of the BCD sales. However, now that the time has come to part with an old friend, PWH expresses his hope that the lucky future owner of this magnificent piece of late Archaic art will enjoy it as much as he and its previous custodians did. Estimate: 30000 CHF

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Jean Elsen & ses Fils S.A. > Auction 142	Auction date: 14 September 2019
Lot number: 40 Price realized: 280 EUR   (Approx. 310 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
SICILE, GAULOS, sous domination romaine, AE bronze. D/ T. casquée à d. Derrière, un globule. Devant, V. En dessous, un croissant. R/ Soldat avançant à d. avec bouclier et lance. Dans le champ d., une étoile. SNG ANS -; Calciati 365, 1. 3,46g Très rare Patine brun-vert. Très Beau Very Fine Estimate: 175 EUR

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Splendido tetradramma di Patraos

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Solidus Numismatik > Auction 46	Auction date: 22 September 2019
Lot number: 36
Sizilien. Mamertinoi. Bronze (Pentachalkon). 2. Jhdt. v. Chr. Vs: Kopf des Zeus mit Lorbeerkranz rechts. Rs: Krieger mit Schild und Speer nach rechts kämpfend; im Feld rechts Pi. 18 mm. 4,36 g. HGC 2, 858. Sehr selten. Sehr schön. Starting Price: 30 EUR

 

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Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 5	Auction date: 27 October 2019
Lot number: 2
Lot description: CELTIC, Britain. Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Tasciovanus, circa 25-10 BC. Stater (Gold, 17 mm, 5.45 g). Crossed vertical and curved wreaths with opposed crescents at center; annulets and sprays forming hidden faces in quarters. Rev. [T]-AS-C Warrior on horseback to right, holding carnyx; four-spoked wheels above, [to left], and in exergue. ABC 2565. SCBC 217. Van Arsdell 1732-1735. A toned, sharp and unusually complete example. Extremely fine. Ex Hess-Divo 332, 31 May 2017, 70. Estimate: 1000 CHF

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Emporium Hamburg > Auction 87	Auction date: 12 November 2019
Lot number: 17
Lot description: ITALIEN, BRUTTIUM / Brettische Liga, AE 21 (215-205 v.Chr.). Belorb. Kopf des Zeus n.r. Rs.Nackter Krieger mit Speer und Schild n.r., BP ETTION. 8,50g. Sear 703 Var.; BMC 1.327.71 Estimate: 50 EUR

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Ritrovato a Pompei un affresco raffigurante dei gladiatori.

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVIII	Auction date: 29 September 2019
Lot number: 655 Price realized: 3,200 GBP   (Approx. 3,947 USD / 3,608 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Cilicia, Tarsos AR Stater. Circa 440-400 BC. Horseman (Syennesis?) riding to left, holding lotus flower in right hand and reins in left, bow in bowcase on saddle; Key symbol below horse / Two Persian soldiers, standing vis-a-vis, each holding spear, with bow in bowcase over shoulder; Aramaic legend 'TRZ' between, letters 'L R' before right hand figure. BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG France -; SNG Levante -; Traité II, 526, pl. CVI, 6 = Casabonne Type D1, pl. 2, 9 = Hunterian p. 546, 3 and pl. LX, 6; MIMAA -. 10.76g, 23mm, 9h. Extremely Fine. Of the greatest rarity, apparently only the third known example, one of just two in private hands (and the finer example). From the collection of an antiquarian, Bavaria c. 1960s-1990s. Babelon considered the two figures on the reverse of this coin to be "deux rois de Perse", noting that J. P. Six (NumChron 1884, p. 155) identified them as soldiers, but countering this description with the observation that they both wear 'le costume royal'. In fact, as shown on the 'Relief of the Immortals' at the Apadana Palace, Persepolis, their attire may be considered to be generic, and not necessarily indicative of any special status. While probably not simply representing the frontier guards of Syria and Cilicia as suggested by Six, the type likely does hold some military significance. Certainly, the Syrian Gates (the Belen pass) were of great strategic importance, as attested first-hand by both Xenophon and Alexander the Great, however garrison of this natural choke-point would logically fall not to Cilicia whose territory one would have to pass through before reaching the gates, but to the forces of the satrapy beyond. Indeed Xenophon informs us that they were guarded by a garrison of the King's troops. The Cilician Gates (a pass through the Taurus Mountains connecting the low plains of Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau) which were of no less importance were guarded by the Cilician troops of the Syennesis, local ruler of Cilicia, and could well be represented here, but in this case it is quite an oblique reference. The paucity of surviving specimens suggests that this issue, along with the other related types of the period, was perhaps either a payment for the services of a small group of mercenary Greek soldiers (for the native Cilician troops would not themselves be paid by their overlords) or part of a tribute which was then melted down into bullion again almost in its entirety, leaving only a couple of surviving specimens. Estimate: 2500 GBP

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Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 5	Auction date: 27 October 2019
Lot number: 263
TROAS. Alexandria Troas. Pseudo-autonomous issue. 'As' (Bronze, 23 mm, 5.84 g, 4 h), time of Trebonianus Gallus to Valerian I, 251-260. CO ALEX TR Turreted and draped bust of the city-goddess to right, with vexillum inscribed CO / AV behind. Rev. COL ALEX AVG Cult statue of Apollo Smintheos, with quiver over shoulder, standing right on short column, holding patera in his right hand and bow in his left; before to right, lighted tripod. RPC IX 494. A lovely piece with a very attractive patina. Extremely fine. Estimate: 200 CHF

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVIII	Auction date: 29 September 2019
Lot number: 628 Price realized: 15,000 GBP   (Approx. 18,500 USD / 16,911 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Mysia, Kyzikos EL Stater. Circa 400-350 BC. Bust of Hera left, wearing earring and mural crown and with her hair curled up behind her head, holding sceptre over right shoulder; tunny fish to left below neck truncation / Granulated quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze -; Hurter & Liewald, SNR 81 (2002), pg. 23 & pl. 1, no. 2a (same dies). 16.04g, 22mm. Near Extremely Fine; struck from an obverse die of delightfully feminine style. Extremely Rare; Hurter & Liewald knew of only two examples of the type. From the property of Konstantin Barkovskiy. The bust depicted on this coin is described by Hurter & Liewald as being that of Hera, who despite her prominent rank among the gods and the frequency with which she appears in myth, is considerably under-represented on the coinage of the Greeks. The reasons for this may be subconsciously rooted in the supplanting of the Aegean pre-Hellenic matriarchal culture with the Indo-European male dominated culture of the 'Greeks' that took place during the Dark Age of Greek history (see C. G. Thomas, Matriarchy in Early Greece: The Bronze and Dark Ages) and the consequent replacement of early mother-goddess cults with the patriarchal Olympian pantheon in which Hera is often assigned the role of the jealous and capricious meddler. Where veneration of Hera persisted she is portrayed as majestic and solemn, often enthroned, and crowned with the polos. Later representations of Hera varied her headdress quite considerably, and it is not impossible that the mural crown worn by representations of the syncretised Hera-Tyche evolved from the leaf crown that already existed in the prehistoric Creto-Mycenaean area and which was later characteristically utilised by the Dorians and Illyrians (for further discussion see Chrysoula Kardara, Problems of Hera's Cult-Images, in American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 64, no. 4, October 1960). Hurter & Liewald note that neither Hera nor Kybele (who is also often depicted with mural crown, and thus a possible alternative identification for the here-depicted goddess) are represented elsewhere in Greek numismatics with a sceptre attribute. Estimate: 15000 GBP

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 Bronzo coniato a Venusia (Venosa) nel II secolo a.c., al rovescio un calzare di Ermes.

 

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bellissime immagine. PS, un generale romano del V secolo in Britannia, come poteva apparire?

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31 minuti fa, Ale1900 dice:

bellissime immagine. PS, un generale romano del V secolo in Britannia, come poteva apparire?

 

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVIII	Auction date: 29 September 2019
Lot number: 42 Price realized: 17,000 GBP   (Approx. 20,967 USD / 19,166 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Central Europe, the Boii AR Hexadrachm. Titto, mid to late 1st century BC. Male bust left; tree before, ribbon behind / Harpy standing to right, head left; TITTO above. Göbl, Hexadrachmen pl. 6, XV/1, 1 (this coin); cf. Paulsen pl. 35, 811; Lanz 86 (this coin). 17.20g, 25mm, 1h. Extremely Fine. Very Rare. From the Hermann Lanz Collection; this coin published in M. Kostial, Kelten im Osten - Gold und Silber der Kelten in Mittel- und Osteuropa - Sammlung Lanz (Staatlichen Münzsammlung München, 1997); This coin published in Göbl, Die Hexadrachmenprägung der Groß-Boier. Ablauf, Chronologie und historische Relevanz für Noricum und Nachbargebiete (Wien, 1994); This coin exhibited by the Staatlichen Münzsammlung München at the 1997 International Numismatic Congress in Berlin; at the Berliner Bank also in 1997; also exhibited at the Luitpoldblock Palmengarten, Munich in 2003 (exhibition #31[reverse]). Estimate: 5000 GBP

 

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[Ale1900]

18 ore fa, King John dice:

 

grazie infinite  quale gruppo storico rievocativo è?

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2 ore fa, Ale1900 dice:

grazie infinite  quale gruppo storico rievocativo è?

Si tratta del festival della ricostruzione storica dal titolo "Renovatio Arragonis" che si svolge a Sabadell, in Catalogna, presso il santuario de La Salut.

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1 ora fa, King John dice:

Si tratta del festival della ricostruzione storica dal titolo "Renovatio Arragonis" che si svolge a Sabadell, in Catalogna, presso il santuario de La Salut.

gentilissimo  

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Nomos AG > Auction 19	Auction date: 17 November 2019
Lot number: 358
Constantine I, 307/310-337. Follis (Bronze, 18 mm, 3.20 g, 12 h), Constantinople, 1st officina, 327. CONSTANTI - NVS MAX AVG Laureate head of Constantine to right. Rev. SPES PVBLIC / A / CONS Labarum, with three circular medallions on the drapery and a Christogram on the top, on tall spear with its base piercing s serpent/dragon lying to right. RIC VII, p. 572, 19. Of great rarity, an evocative and exciting type. Very well-preserved with hard earthen deposits overlaying a dark, greenish black patina. About extremely fine. The reverse of this coin shows Constantine's personal standard, crowned by the Christogram, used to pierce a serpent/dragon, the symbol of Licinius I. This is a remarkably fine example: unlike most of those on the market in the past few years, this piece shows no signs of manipulation, corrosion or damages. Estimate: 2250 CHF

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Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 117	Auction date: 1 October 2019
Lot number: 242 Price realized: 55,000 CHF   (Approx. 55,143 USD / 50,583 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Kumaragupta I, 409 – 450/452 AD. Dinar, Elephant-Rider type, 409-450/452, AV 7.88 g. King holding goad and seated on elephant advancing l.; behind him an attendant is seated and holding chattra over him. Rev. The goddess Lakshmi standing facing on lotus, grasping stalk of lotus and holding lotus in l. hand; in the r. field, vase (?). BMC Gupta 257 bis and pl. XV, 16. Bayana Hoard1870 (these dies). Kumar p. 301, variety B. Extremely rare. Struck on a narrow flan, otherwise about extremely fine Ex Spink-Taisei Singapore 9, 1991, 137. From the Skanda collection. Estimate: 25000 CHF