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Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 429, lot 87, 26/09/2018

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 460-400 BC. AR Obol (11.5mm, 1.04 g, 6h). Horse trotting right; above, head of lion right / [Λ-Α]-RI, Larissa standing right, balancing hydria on raised knee; to left, spouting water fountain right in the form of lion's head; all within incuse square. BCD Thessaly II 358.1; HGC 4, 482. VF, toned, porosity.
From the BCD Collection.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: PARTICOLARE DEL LATO NORD DEL FREGIO DEL PARTENONE CHE RAFFIGURA UOMINI CHE PORTANO OFFERTE IN VISTA DELLE PANATENEE

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Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions > E-Auction 77	Auction date: 1 December 2019
Lot number: 361 Price realized: 290 GBP   (Approx. 375 USD / 340 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Sicily, Morgantina, The Hispani, c. 2nd century BC. Æ (23mm, 5.72g, 12h). Helmeted head of Athena l.; N above. R/ Warrior, holding spear, on horseback r. Campana 20; CNS III, 2-3; SNG ANS 471-3; HGC 2, 914. Rare, green patina, some smoothing, Good Fine / Good VF Starting Price: 70 GBP ILLUSTRAZIONE: MERCENARIO ISPANICO

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[King John]

Sicilia, Bronzo, Mercenari Ispanici, Dopo il 211 a.C., AE, (g 6,15, mm 19, h 12). HISPANORVM, testa maschile a d., Rv. HISPANORVM, cavaliere su cavallo a d., indossa elmo e regge lancia. CNS III, n. 1; SNG ANS -. spl.
Sicily, Bronze,Hispani, After 211 BC, AE, (g 6,15, mm 19, h 12). HISPANORVM, male head r., Rv. HISPANORVM, warrior on horseback r., wearing helmet and holding spear. CNS III, n. 1; SNG ANS -. Extremely fine.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: MERCENARIO ISPANICO

[King John]

Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVIII	Auction date: 29 September 2019
Lot number: 646 Price realized: 2,800 GBP   (Approx. 3,453 USD / 3,157 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Cilicia, Mallos AR Stater. Circa 440-400 BC. Bearded and winged male deity in kneeling-running stance to left, holding solar disc with both hands / Swan standing to right with wings raised; MAP above, floral ornament before, all within incuse circle. BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; Casabonne, MIMAA -; SNG France -, cf. for type 377 and SNG Levante 149; Numismatik Naumann 71, lot 245 (same dies). 11.08g, 22mm, 3h. Good Very Fine. Extremely Rare; apparently the second known example. From the collection of an antiquarian, Bavaria c. 1960s-1990s. Estimate: 2500 GBP

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVIII	Auction date: 29 September 2019
Lot number: 636
Karia, Kaunos AR Stater. Circa 430-410 BC. Iris running to left, head turned back to right, holding a kerykeion in right hand and a wreath in left / Triangular baetyl with handle on either side of the apex, granulated patterns in the form of stylised birds to left and right; all within incuse square. Konuk 93 (same dies); SNG Keckman 823. 11.65g, 20mm, 12h. Extremely Fine. Very Rare. Ex A.F. Collection, Germany, Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XV, 5 April 2018, lot 262. Beginning as a crude triangular punch mark, then shown as a central device with horn-like tags, and eventually evolving into the depiction with handles as seen on this coin, it was originally thought that the reverse type seen here was possibly a relief map similar to those found on some issues of Ionia, or simply a patterned incuse design. However, as explained by Konuk ('The Early Coinage of Kaunos', in Price Essays, pp. 197-223) it is now known to be the triangular baetyl, or sacred stone, that was venerated in the city. During excavation of an unusual round building near the harbour of Kaunos in 1991, a conical piece of limestone broken into two parts was discovered. Standing at the very centre of this building and dug into the ground to about half of its full height, it appears that this sacred stone was the sole object of worship for a cult established in the fifth century, and thus is very likely the exact baetyl depicted on the coinage of the city. Baetyls such as that at Kaunos were often meteorites, and thus to the ancients had been sent by the gods and required veneration. Iris, seen here on the obverse, was the goddess of the rainbow and the messenger of Hera (two roles possibly conflated because the rainbow seems to connect the earth and the sky), and thus a very fitting deity to appear on the coinage of a city that had received a physical message from above. Estimate: 5000 GBP

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Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd | Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles | Sovereign Rarities Ltd > Auction 48	Auction date: 14 January 2020
Lot number: 25
Judaea, Herodian Kingdom. John Hyrcanus I. Æ 2 pruthot (4.40 g), 134-104 BCE. Uncertain Samarian mint (?). 'Yehohanan the High Priest and Head of the Council of the Jews' (Paleo-Hebrew), double cornucopiae adorned with ribbons. Reverse: Helmet with decorative crest right. Hendin 1136, the plate coin and Hendin GBC 4, 462 (this coin illus.); TJC grp. H. Extremely rare, specially so in this high state of preservation. Extremely Fine. Value $20,000 - UP According to Hendin, this rare coin is the only Hasmonean type that was not struck with beveled edges and for this reason it is suggested that it was not struck at the Jerusalem mint, Samaria is often mentioned as a possibility. Starting Price: 16000 USD

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Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVIII	Auction date: 29 September 2019
Lot number: 646 Price realized: 2,800 GBP   (Approx. 3,453 USD / 3,157 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Cilicia, Mallos AR Stater. Circa 440-400 BC. Bearded and winged male deity in kneeling-running stance to left, holding solar disc with both hands / Swan standing to right with wings raised; MAP above, floral ornament before, all within incuse circle. BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; Casabonne, MIMAA -; SNG France -, cf. for type 377 and SNG Levante 149; Numismatik Naumann 71, lot 245 (same dies). 11.08g, 22mm, 3h. Good Very Fine. Extremely Rare; apparently the second known example. From the collection of an antiquarian, Bavaria c. 1960s-1990s. Estimate: 2500 GBP

Quello che sorprende sempre e’ cone nel 440 a. c. riuscissero già a fare gioielli di tale perfezione e simbolicità !

[King John]

Roma Numismatics Limited, Auction 7, lot 170, 22/03/2014

Sicily, Syracuse AR Hemidrachm. Timoleon and the Third Democracy, circa 344-339/8 BC. Corinthian standard. Head of Aphrodite to left, wearing earring and necklace, hair tied with ribbon and bound at top, falling loose behind / Pegasos flying left, ΣVPAKOΣION around. Giesecke pl. 18, 7; Lederer, Berl. Mzb. 1912 p. 339; Imhoof-Blumer, NymphenChariten, p. 53. 1.76g, 13mm, 12h. Good Very Fine. Of the highest rarity, apparently only the fourth known specimen. Timoleon was dispatched from Corinth at the head of an army to answer a call for aid from Syracuse. When he arrived in Sicily there was no local currency sufficient to pay his mercenary troops. No Greek coinage had been minted for several decades in Sicily and the older coins that remained in circulation were worn and of mixed origin. Timoleon undoubtedly brought with him a war-chest consisting primarily of staters (Pegasi) from his native Corinth and her allies and colonies in northwest Greece which quickly became the dominant currency in Greek Sicily. When bullion became available, it is not surprising that Timoleon struck his own staters, based on the weight and bearing the types of his native Corinth, but with the Syracusan ethnik. The present drachm bears a wonderful portrait of the goddess Aphrodite, whose cult flourished in Corinth more so than in any other city of mainland Greece. The goddess had her temple atop the monolithic rock known as the Acrocorinth, widely regarded as the most impressive acropolis in all of Greece. This mountain peak which towered over the city was assigned to Helios by Briareos when he acted as adjudicator between that god and Poseidon in their contest for the city, and was handed over, the Corinthians said, by Helios to Aphrodite. The temple of Aphrodite here was particularly wealthy, and according to Strabo it at one time possessed over a thousand temple slaves. It is fitting therefore that upon this drachm of Timoleon we find a beautifully engraved image of the goddess Aphrodite.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: ACCONCIATURE SPOSA IN STILE GRECO

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 383, lot 536, 28/09/2016

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.30 g, 1h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AD 170-175/6. Draped bust right / Ceres seated left on chest, holding two grain ears and torch. RIC III 669 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 2-4c (unlisted variety); RSC 35. EF, struck with worn reverse die. Bold portrait. From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Cederlind BBS 174 (22 May 2014), lot 256.According to MIR, this reverse type with Ceres standing holding the grain ears downward and also holding a torch is only known with early obverse varieties with hair styles a and b (RIC and RSC do not specify hair varieties). This example uses hairstyle c and is therefore dated later.

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Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 383, lot 536, 28/09/2016

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.30 g, 1h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AD 170-175/6. Draped bust right / Ceres seated left on chest, holding two grain ears and torch. RIC III 669 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 2-4c (unlisted variety); RSC 35. EF, struck with worn reverse die. Bold portrait. From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Cederlind BBS 174 (22 May 2014), lot 256.According to MIR, this reverse type with Ceres standing holding the grain ears downward and also holding a torch is only known with early obverse varieties with hair styles a and b (RIC and RSC do not specify hair varieties). This example uses hairstyle c and is therefore dated later.

Diciamo pure estremamente di moda anche oggi ! 

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 289, lot 3, 24/10/2012

Ti. Claudius Ti.f. Ap.n. Nero. 79 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (19mm, 3.78 g, 3h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Diana right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Victory driving galloping biga right, holding wreath, palm frond, and reins; LXXXXIIII below. Crawford 383/1; Sydenham 770a; Claudia 6. Good VF, toned, minor deposits, scuff on reverse.
CNG is pleased to offer the following lots from The Artemis Collection , focusing on the theme of the goddess Artemis (Roman Diana) in Graeco-Roman numismatics.
Artemis was one of the many daughters of Zeus and, as a goddess of the hunt, enjoyed widespread worship. Her mother, Leto, had caught the eye of Zeus and, accordingly, the ire of Hera, who banned her from giving birth to the god’s children anywhere on dry land. Leto eventually found an island (exactly which varies by tradition) willing to disobey Hera, on which she gave birth to Artemis and Apollo. In many versions of the tale, Artemis was the first born and immediately helped in the delivery of Apollo, marking her as a deity of childbirth. Apart from her origin, myths also record her role in the demise of several hubristic or simply unfortunate hunters, including Orion, Actaeon, and, in some traditions, Adonis.
There were essentially four major “versions” of Artemis in the ancient Graeco-Roman world (Smith, ed. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , p. 375-6). The most widespread was that of Artemis as the sister of Apollo. In this view, she effectively duplicated many of the roles of Apollo: hunter, protector of flocks and herds, healer, among others. As her brother became equated with the sun (Helios/Sol), so Artemis/Diana became equated with the moon (Selene/Luna). This association was particularly strong in Rome.
A second interpretation of Artemis was worshiped in the hills and valleys of Arcadia. In this region, she was believed to bear no relation to Apollo, though she still retained her role as huntress. Her epithets in Arcadia often connect her to various mountains and rivers and underscore her role as a powerful deity of nature.
A third tradition of the cult of Artemis relates to her worship in Taurica. After Iphigenia escaped sacrifice to the goddess (on Iphigenia, see especially Euripides’ tales), she was taken to the land of the Tauri where she served as a priestess over a particularly brutal religious tradition involving human sacrifice. According to tradition, Iphigenia brought the Tauric cult to Brauron in Attica, from whence it spread to Athens and Sparta and grew in popularity (Pausanias 1.33.1), albeit in a form without such extreme sacrifices.
A final distinct form of Artemis was that worshipped in Ephesus, where a huge temple complex, ruins of which survive today, was devoted the goddess. The famous cult statue housed in the temple was distinctly Anatolian (i.e., non-Greek) in form: mummiform in shape and covered with a multitude of breasts that signify the original association of the goddess with fecundity. With the arrival of the Greeks, the popular tales of Artemis were transferred to this mysterious Ephesian goddess.
On coinage, three depictions of Artemis/Diana predominate: Artemis the Huntress, Artemis Ephesia, and Diana Lucifera. Artemis Huntress is shown as a young woman, generally wearing a short chiton and hunting boots, carrying bow and quiver, and often pursuing a stag or accompanied by hound. Artemis Ephesia is represented by her peculiar cult statue of Ephesus. Diana Lucifera, the Light Bearer, appears on Roman issues as a young woman carrying a torch.

[King John]

Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger, Auction 424, lot 150, 15/05/2019

GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN
Karien Insel Kos
Didrachme 345/340 v. Chr., Beamter Philo... Kopf des Herakles / Kopf einer verschleierten Göttin. BMC 20; Ingvaldsen, 20g (dieses Expl.); HGC 1306. 6.69 g.; Selten Vorzüglich Korrosion
Aus alter, europäischer Sammlung, ex Auktionen Lanz 26, 1983, 263 (600 DM) und Kroha 30, 1981, 65.

 

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Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG, Auction 98, lot 1235, 12/12/2016

The Roman Empire
Crispina, wife of Commodus
As 180-183 (or later?), Æ 11.65 g. CRISPINA – AVGVSTA Draped bust r. Rev. HIL – A – RITAS S – C Hilaritas, standing facing., head l., holding long palm branch and cornucopiae. C 20. BMC Commodus 428. RIC Commodus 678. Lovely enamel-like dark green patina and about extremely fine Ex A. Hess 18 December 1933, Laughlin 670 and UBS 78, 2008, Gillardi 1716 sales. Illustrated on www.romancoins.info, section imagines imperatorum
A Fittschen type two hairstyle of Crispina. AMP.

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Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXIII	Auction date: 14 January 2020
Lot number: 9
Lot description: CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 344-340 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 8.03 g, 10h). Warrior, nude but for crested helmet, holding rein in right hand, spear and shield in left, on horse trotting left; Δ below / Phalanthos, nude, holding trident over shoulder in right hand and supporting himself with his left, riding dolphin left; TAPA-Σ to right; below, K above waves. Fischer-Bossert Group 47, 663 (V253/R514) = Vlasto 443 (this coin); HN Italy 870; SNG ANS 932–3 (same obv. die, the latter = Bement 78); SNG Delepierre 202 (same dies); BMC 193 (same dies); Gulbenkian 28 (same obv. die). Deeply toned. EF. Fine style. From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex Leu 76 (27 October 1999), lot 2; R.P. Pflieger Collection (Vinchon, 13 April 1985), lot 14; Michael Pandely Vlasto Collection; Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury Collection (Part 1, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 15 June 1896), lot 91b. Estimate: 2000 USD

 

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[Baylon]

Il 6/12/2019 alle 18:39, dabbene dice:

Era un po’ che non la leggevo questa discussione, la trovo sempre straordinaria e meriterebbe tanti applausi da parte dei forumisti, intanto li faccio io ....?????

Da silenzioso estimatore quale sono, come non essere d'accordo, la trovo veramente educativa 

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6 ore fa, Baylon dice:

Da silenzioso estimatore quale sono, come non essere d'accordo, la trovo veramente educativa 

Magari ci fossero più discussioni di questo tipo che incuriosiscono e spiegano, purtroppo sono pochissime, Lamoneta non e’ una università ma una piattaforma di tutti e per tutti, ben vengano !

[King John]

Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG, Auction 106, lot 219, 9/05/2018

Greek Coins
Epirus, Ambracia. Stater circa 404-360, AR 8.46 g. Pegasus flying l. Rev. Head of Athena r., wearing Corinthian helmet; on bowl, A and behind, nude male wearing pilos and holding staff, standing facing and resting r. hand on shield (?). Calciati 82 (wrong reference to Colts 127). Ravel, Colts, 122.
Very rare. Old cabinet tone and good very fine
Ex Kirk Davis sale 27, 1999, 43. Privately purchased from Kirk Davis at the NYICC in December 1999. From the Harald Salvesen collection.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: STATUA BRONZEA DEL DIO ARES

 

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[King John]

Heritage Auctions, Auction 3018, lot 20011, 5/09/2012

Gaza (Ca. 445-410 BC). AR quarter-shekel (13.5 mm, 3.62 gm, 10h). Bearded male head r. with oriental hairstyle, bunched in back guilloche border / ÃC (A Z for "Aza" or "Gaza") on lower left and right of facing head of Bes. Gitler-Tal VI.13D. Traite pl CXXIV, 9. Waddington 7285. Narkiss 1938 pl. B,16. Extremely rare. Reverse test cut. Very Fine.
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ILLUSTRAZIONE: il dio Bes, protettore delle famiglie secondo la mitologia egiziana, Dandara, Egitto

Divinità dell’antico Egitto, rappresentata come un nano con le gambe arcuate, provvisto talvolta di una corona di piume; di natura benefica, è dio della musica e protegge il sonno e le famiglie; la sua immagine era un potente amuleto. Forse di origine africana, è divinità ignota prima della XII dinastia. Il culto di Bes di diffuse anche in altre regioni del bacino mediterraneo.

[King John]

Roma Numismatics Limited, Auction 14, lot 432, 21/09/2019

Roman Provincial
Severus Alexander Æ Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 10 = AD 230/231. Α ΚΑΙ ΜΑΡ ΑΥΡ СЄV ΑΛЄΞΑΝΔΡΟС ЄΥϹЄ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Hermanubis standing right wearing kalathos, holding winged caduceus and palm branch, jackal behind to left, palm branch to right; L I (date) to left. Emmett 3165A.10; Dattari (Savio) -; RPC VI Online 10455 (temporary). 26.22g, 34mm, 12h.
Good Extremely Fine, the finest known example. Extremely Rare.
The reign of Severus Alexander witnessed what is probably quite fair to describe as the last great flourishing of numismatic art at the mint of Alexandria, before several centuries of steady decline. The mint had ceased operations following the great massacre perpetrated by Caracalla in 215, and was only reopened after his assassination and the accession of Macrinus, under whose rule it produced an extremely limited coinage. Under Elagabalus output increased markedly, though by now the principal denomination had long been the tetradrachm, and the bronze drachm was struck in very limited numbers. In the reign of Severus Alexander a renewed threat from the East presented by the Sassanids, who had entirely overwhelmed Rome's old adversary the Parthian Empire, required a fresh output of coinage on a larger scale than Alexandria could fulfil. As a result, tetradrachms were struck both at Alexandria and at Rome, whence they were imported into Egypt. Severus Alexander's reign also saw the reintroduction of the drachm on a much greater scale (only two types had been struck under his predecessor), with a wide variety of types both old and new, fully utilising the skills of the engravers evidently brought back to work at Alexandria under Elagabalus. Struck on large flans with dies engraved as competently as any during the 'golden age' reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, this would be the last ever issue of bronze drachms from Alexandria before the demonination was forever rendered obsolete by inflationary forces and retained only as a unit of account.
In his paper entitled "The Onomastic Evidence for the God Hermanubis" (Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology, 2007), Amin Benaissa succinctly describes the conflation of the Greek god Hermes with the Egyptian god Anubis: "Hermanubis is known from a handful of epigraphic and literary sources, mostly of the Roman period. Plutarch cites the name as a designation of Anubis in his underworldly aspect (De Is. et Os. 375e), while Porphyry refers to Hermanubis as 'composite,' and 'half-Greek' (De imaginibus fr. 8, p. 18.1–2 Bidez). The name has been restored in a second-century BC dedicatory inscription from Delos (ID 2156.2), which would be its earliest attestation, but otherwise it appears in three inscriptions of the Roman period, two from Egypt and one from Thessalonike. It is clear that the name is a result of the assimilation of the Egyptian god Anubis to the Greek god Hermes, which is well attested in a number of literary, epigraphic, and artistic sources. Although Hermes was traditionally equated with the Egyptian Thoth, his function as psychopompos encouraged his association with Anubis given the latter's comparable funerary role in Egyptian religion as embalmer and guardian of the dead and as leader of the deceased to the tribunal of Osiris. This assimilation resulted in widespread Greco-Roman representations of the canine-headed Anubis with attributes of the Greek Hermes, such as the distinctive staff known as the kerykeion or winged sandals. In Roman Alexandria there emerges a new iconographical type, well represented in coins and sculpture, in which a fully anthropomorphic young god is flanked by a dog and holds the same attributes as the said Anubis, in addition to wearing the kalathos headdress. It is this type that art historians have traditionally labelled 'Hermanubis'."

ILLUSTRAZIONE: Statua del dio Ermanubi, in marmo bianco (I-II secolo d.C.). Museo gregoriano egizio (Musei Vaticani)

Ermanubi (o Hermanubi; in greco: Ἑρμανοῦβις, Hermanùbis) è un dio greco-egizio nato dalla fusione di Ermes (Ἑρμῆς) e Anubi (Ἄνoυβις). Era considerato figlio di Seth e Nefti. La grande somiglianza fra Anubi ed Ermes (entrambi divinità psicopompe, ovvero guide delle anime nell'aldilà) portò alla formazione sincretistica, nell'immaginario religioso egizio ed ellenistico d'epoca tolemaica, del dio Ermanubi^[3]. Fu popolare durante la dominazione romana dell'Egitto, epoca delle sue prime raffigurazioni, e nella stessa Roma fino al II secolo. Benché la tradizione accomunasse Ermes a Thot (difatti, le dottrine che si credeva provenissero da Thot furono definite ermetiche), la sua funzione di guida delle anime nell'aldilà incoraggiò la sua fusione con Anubi, che svolgeva la medesima funzione nell'immaginario egizio.

Raffigurato con corpo d'uomo e testa di sciacallo, con in mano il sacro caduceo che era uno degli attributi principali del dio greco Ermes, Ermanubi rappresentava il sacerdozio egizio e la sua ricerca della verità.

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[King John]

Leu Numismatik, Web Auction 9, lot 419, 7/09/2019

CILICIA. Hierapolis. 2nd-1st century BC. AE (Bronze, 23 mm, 8.55 g, 12 h). Turreted, veiled and draped bust of the city-goddess to right. Rev. ΙЄΡΟ/ΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ - ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ / ΠΥΡΑΜΩ The river-god Pyramos swimming right, raising his left arm; to left, bird. SNG Levante 1569. SNG Paris 2212-2213. An interesting civic issue with a lovely green patina and a particularly attractive reverse. Good very fine.
From the collection of Dr. P. Vogl, privately purchased from Münzhandlung Athena in May 1991 (with collector's ticket).

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Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXIII	Auction date: 14 January 2020
Lot number: 279
CRETE, Knossos. Circa 300-270 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 5.14 g, 5h). Head of Hera left, wearing ornamented stephanos, triple-pendant earring, and necklace / Labyrinth; A-P flanking, KNΩΣI below. Svoronos, Numismatique 70; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Lockett 2529; BMC 26–7; Boutin 155; Dewing 1987–8; Evans 1597–9; de Luynes 2334; Traeger –. Toned, minor porosity on obverse, a little die rust on reverse. Near EF. Well centered and struck; clearly detailed labyrinth. From the Ancient Miniature Art Collection. The ancient city of Knossos, the remains of which were excavated by Sir Arthur Evans, beginning in 1900, was founded in the Minoan Period (circa 1700-1400 BC) as a large and complex palace-city. Although the exact origin of the word "labyrinth, as well as its location, remains open to scholarly conjecture, the intricate maze of rooms and interior courtyards of this palace-city contributed to the later Greek use of the word to describe a maze and the source of the events connected with it to Crete. According to the Greek myth, Minos was the first king of Crete. Although he gave the island its first constitution, ordered the construction of the palace at Knossos, and was the first to build a navy, he was a cruel tyrant and imperialist. One of his subject cities was Athens. He demanded from its citizens as payment every nine years seven youths and seven virgins. Minos would feed them then to the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull who was held in the Labyrinth, a large walled maze. To stop this brutal tribute, the Athenian hero, Theseus, had himself sent as part of the required tribute. With the assistance of Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, Theseus was able to navigate the Labyrinth successfully and kill the Minotaur. Estimate: 10000 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: TESEO UCCIDE IL MINOTAURO DEL LABIRINTO DI CRETA, VASO ATTICO A FIGURE NERE DEL V secolo A.C.

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Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd | Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles | Sovereign Rarities Ltd > Auction 48	Auction date: 14 January 2020
Lot number: 21
Lot description: Judaea, Yehud (Judah). Silver 1/2 Gerah (0.27 g), before 333 BCE. Left ear. Reverse: "YHD" (Paleo-Hebrew), falcon standing left, wings displayed. Cf. Hendin 428 (obol); MCP 01/R1; cf. TJC 18 (same). The famous "Ear of God" type. Very Rare. Unusually choice quality. Extremely Fine. Value $4,000 - UP Starting Price: 3200 USD

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2 ore fa, King John dice:

Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd | Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles | Sovereign Rarities Ltd > Auction 48	Auction date: 14 January 2020
Lot number: 21
Lot description: Judaea, Yehud (Judah). Silver 1/2 Gerah (0.27 g), before 333 BCE. Left ear. Reverse: "YHD" (Paleo-Hebrew), falcon standing left, wings displayed. Cf. Hendin 428 (obol); MCP 01/R1; cf. TJC 18 (same). The famous "Ear of God" type. Very Rare. Unusually choice quality. Extremely Fine. Value $4,000 - UP Starting Price: 3200 USD

Estremante affascinante e singolare questo obolo !

[King John]

Bertolami Fine Arts, Auction 67, lot 32, 11/07/2019

Greek world and ancient Near East
Bruttium, Brettii, Half Unit, ca. 211-208 BC
AE (g 4,39; mm 18; h 1)
Laureate head of Zeus r., Rv. Warrior advancing right, nude but for helmet, holding shield and spear. HNItaly -.
Extremely rare and apparently unpublished. Green patina and extremely fine.

[King John]

Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 265, lot 1029, 14/10/2019

RÖMISCHE PROVINZIALPRÄGUNGEN
PHRYGIEN. OTROS. Geta als Caesar, 198 - 209 n. Chr. AE Kleinbronze (8,70g). Vs.: ΠΟ ΣΕΠΤ - ΓΕΤΑΣ ΚΑΙ, barhäuptige Panzerbüste n. r. Rs.: ΑΛΕΞΑΝ/ΔΡΟΣ Α/ΝΕΘ - ΟΤΡΟΗΝΩ/Ν, der eponyme Heros Otreus nackt, Chlamys über dem l. Arm, Kopf n. r., den r. Fuß auf eine Prora setzend, in der L. Lanze haltend, die R. ausgestreckt. Aulock, Phrygien 149, 838(stempelgl.); SNG Tübingen 4176 (stempelgl.).
R! Sehr feine grüne, silbrig glänzende Patina, gutes ss
Aus süddeutschem Privatbesitz, Slg. E. L.; ex M&M Deutschland, Auktion 35, 17. November 2011.