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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 460	Auction date: 29 January 2020
Lot number: 89
SICILY, Messana. The Mamertinoi. 211-208 BC. Æ Pentonkion or Pentachalkon (18mm, 4.16 g, 1h). Laureate head of Zeus right / Warrior, holding spear and shield, advancing right; Π (mark of value) to right. Särström Series XXII, Group A, 405–18; BAR Issue 40; CNS 51; HGC 2, 858. Brown surfaces, heavily tooled and smoothed. EF. SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Estimate: 100 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: MONUMENTO A LEONIDA, TERMOPILI (GRECIA)

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 460	Auction date: 29 January 2020
Lot number: 171
Lot description: KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Drachm (15.5mm, 2.80 g, 6h). Third Macedonian War issue. Rhodian standard. Uncertain mint in Thessaly; Hermias, magistrate. Stuck circa 171/0 BC. Head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to right; EPMIAΣ above, Z-Ω flanking stem. Price, Larissa, pl. LV, 247; SNG Keckman 795. Areas of iridescent toning. EF. From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Davissons 13 (2 May 2000), lot 72. Estimate: 300 USD ilustrazione: testa del dio Helios, periodo ellenistico, Museo Archeologico di Rodi

 

 

 

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Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger > Auction 355	Auction date: 12 February 2020
Lot number: 1665
GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN, GRIECHISCHES MUTTERLAND, KÖNIGREICH MAKEDONIEN PHILIPPOS II. 359-336, Makedonien, Amphipolis.Tetradrachme. 323-315. Belorbeerter Zeuskopf r. Rs: Reiter mit Zweig r. Beizeichen Delphin. Le Rider Taf. 46,19. 14.38g, Hohes Relief. Schöne Tönung. Rs. Prüfhieb. vz Ex Sammlung M.G. Erworben bei La Galerie Numismatique, Lausanne, im Februar 1972. Mit Unterlagszettel des Sammlers. Estimate: 425 EUR illustrazione: A Roman copy of an original Greek bust depicting Phillip II, king of Macedonia. Dimensions: 36.5 x 43 cm (14.4 x 16.9 inches). Provenance: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copanhagan, Denmark.

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Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXIII	Auction date: 14 January 2020
Lot number: 43 Price realized: 12,000 USD   (Approx. 10,778 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 330-290 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.90 g, 8h). Head of Demeter left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace / Barley ear with leaf to left; to left, pitchfork above leaf, [A]Δ below; META upward to right. Johnston Class C, 5.5 = BMC 112 (same dies); HN Italy 1582. Even deep gray tone with golden hues, die break on reverse. Superb EF. Ex Gasvoda Collection (Triton XXII, 9 January 2019), lot 47 (hammer $9500); Numismatica Ars Classica 84 (21 May 2015), lot 559; LHS 100 (23 April 2007), lot 116. Estimate: 7500 USD

ILLUSTRAZIONE: Urna cineraria di marmo (urna Caetani Lovatelli), con coperchio, di epoca imperiale (terzo quarto I secolo a.C.), decorata a rilievo figurato con scene di iniziazione ai misteri eleusini. – h 31 cm d 32 cm - Sul corpo del vaso: Demetra, in trono, con accanto la figlia Kore in piedi che regge una fiaccola

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Heritage Auctions, Auction 3071, lot 32228, 6/01/2019

Ancients
Probus (AD 276-282). AV aureus (21mm, 5.97 gm, 12h). NGC MS★ 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style, marks. Siscia, 5th emission, AD 278. IMP C M AVR P-ROBVS P F AVG, laureate bust of Probus left, wearing imperial mantle, scepter surmounted by eagle in right hand / HERCVLI ERY-MANTHIO, Hercules standing right, carrying the Erymanthian boar over his shoulder. RIC V.II -, cf. 587 (P instead of PF obverse legend, bust type with Probus also holding a branch). Calicó 5146. CNG, Triton III, (1999), lot 1168 (this obverse die). NAC 39, (2007), lot 169 (this obverse die).
From the Morris Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 27 (12 May 2004), lot 485.
A choice depiction for the fourth labor of Hercules, the live capture of the Erymanthian boar. The aggressive boar lived on the Erymanthus mountain and each day it would come down and attack everything in its path. Heracles awoke early and found the boar still on the mountain and after chasing it around the mountain several times, he drove the exhausted boar into a snow patch where it became hopelessly stuck. He then trapped the boar in a net and carried it all the way to Mycenae; his arrival depicted on this aureus.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: SCULTURA IN BRONZO CHE RAFFIGURA ERACLE CHE CATTURA IL CINGHIALE CHE VIVEVA SUL MONTE  ERIMANTO E TERRORIZZAVA TUTTA LA REGIONE. ERACLE LO CATTURA VIVO PER POTERLO CONSEGNARE AD EURISTEO E COMPIE COSI' LA SUA QUARTA FATICA.

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 Numismatik Naumann (formerly Gitbud & Naumann), Auction 42, lot 451, 3/04/2016

 TROAS. Ilion. Pseudo-autonomous. Time of the Antonines (138-192). Ae. Obv: ΙΛΙ. Helmeted bust of Athena right, wearing aegis.
Rev: ЄKTOP. Hector standing right, head left, holding spear and sword.
Bellinger T205; SNG Copenhagen 375.
Condition: Good very fine.
Weight: 2.43 g.
Diameter: 16 mm.

ILLUSTRAZIONE:  Andromaca osserva dalle mura di Troia Achille che trascina il corpo di Ettore legato al suo carro. Frammento di sarcofago calcareo, fine del II secolo d.C. Da Reggio Calabria. Conservato al Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria.

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 460	Auction date: 29 January 2020
Lot number: 141
THRACO-MACEDONIAN REGION, Uncertain. 5th century BC. AR Diobol(?) (10mm, 1.16 g). Warrior, nude but for kausia, on horse galloping right / Quadripartite incuse square. SNG ANS 993. Toned, slight granularity. Near EF. Very rare. From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Estimate: 200 USD

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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 460	Auction date: 29 January 2020
Lot number: 29
Lot description: CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 335-333 BC. AR Nomos (20.5mm, 7.74 g, 5h). Warrior, nude but for crested helmet, holding shield and spear, on horse rearing right; Δ below / Phalanthos, his chlamys wrapped around his arms and flowing behind him, holding trident, riding dolphin left; to left, Nike flying right, crowning him; below, |- above waves. Fischer-Bossert Group 55, 720e (V268/R564 – this coin); Vlasto 519 (same dies); HN Italy 891; de Luynes 322 (same dies). Toned, compact flan, slightly off center on obverse. Good VF. Fine style. From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 211 (4 March 2013), lot 30; Herbert A. Cahn Collection; Auctiones AG 13 (23 June 1983), lot 28. Estimate: 500 USD

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Coins of Thessaly, the BCD Collection. Pherai. Later 4th century BC. Obol (Silver, 0.84 g 2). Head of Ennodia to right, wearing pendant earring and necklace; before her to right, flaming torch. Rev. FERAIWN Head of a mastiff to right. Demetriadi 2000, 3, and pl. 6, 3 ( this coin ). Extremely rare. A lovely coin of the finest style, with a particularly lifelike head of a dog. Some slight surface roughness, otherwise , extremely fine. This coin is an enigma because of its use of the W in the ethnic. It is clearly related to the chalkous with O that appears in the preceding lot, given their common obverse types, but the omega makes it rather more ‘up-to-date’ in form, like the trichalkon that follows. This makes the stater and hemidrachm, with FERAIOUN (lots 1320 - 1321, below) real anomalies, but, as I suggest below, that ethnic was used in a consciously archaistic way. This piece was published by Demetriadi in 2000, but, unfortunately, he does not date it other than to the 4th century.
A note from BCD : He was probably hoping, like all of us, that the forthcoming die study of the mint by Ute Wartenberg-Kagan would provide the correct sequence of the issues and narrow down their date ranges.
Estimate: 1'000 CHF, Starting price: 800 CHF, Price realized: 14'000 CHF.
Provenance: Nomos AG Zürich Auction 4 of 10.05.2011, lot: 1318.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: MASTINO (MASTIFF)

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Solidus Numismatik e.K.
Premium Auction 26  17 Feb 2018

Solidusgewicht (exagium solidi). 403 - 408 n. Chr. Constantinopolis (?).
Vs: DDD NNN GGG. Büsten des Honorius, Arcadius und Theodosius II. mit Perldiadem und Paludament nebeneinander en face.
Rs: GLORIA RO - MANORVM. Moneta mit Waage und Füllhorn nach links stehend; im Abschnitt Kranz zwischen zwei Palmzweigen.
21 mm. 4,15 g.
Bendall, Byzantine Weights 9 corr.; C. VIII, S. 191, 9 corr.
Äußerst selten. Fast vorzüglich / sehr schön.

illustrazione: bassorilievo in cui Teodosio I offre il lauro della vittoria al vincitore di una corsa di cavalli; il bassorilievo è posto alla base dell'obelisco di Teodosio eretto nell'ippodromo di Costantinopoli. 

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Coins of Thessaly, the BCD Collection. Pherai. Later 4th century BC. Obol (Silver, 0.84 g 2). Head of Ennodia to right, wearing pendant earring and necklace; before her to right, flaming torch. Rev. FERAIWN Head of a mastiff to right. Demetriadi 2000, 3, and pl. 6, 3 ( this coin ). Extremely rare. A lovely coin of the finest style, with a particularly lifelike head of a dog. Some slight surface roughness, otherwise , extremely fine. This coin is an enigma because of its use of the W in the ethnic. It is clearly related to the chalkous with O that appears in the preceding lot, given their common obverse types, but the omega makes it rather more ‘up-to-date’ in form, like the trichalkon that follows. This makes the stater and hemidrachm, with FERAIOUN (lots 1320 - 1321, below) real anomalies, but, as I suggest below, that ethnic was used in a consciously archaistic way. This piece was published by Demetriadi in 2000, but, unfortunately, he does not date it other than to the 4th century.
A note from BCD : He was probably hoping, like all of us, that the forthcoming die study of the mint by Ute Wartenberg-Kagan would provide the correct sequence of the issues and narrow down their date ranges.
Estimate: 1'000 CHF, Starting price: 800 CHF, Price realized: 14'000 CHF.
Provenance: Nomos AG Zürich Auction 4 of 10.05.2011, lot: 1318.

ILLUSTRAZIONE: MASTINO (MASTIFF)

Come amante dei cani come non può piacermi una raffigurazione così ? 

Vedo dal realizzato che e’ piaciuta molto anche ad altri ?

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Ex Gillet, Vicomte de Sartiges, Berlin Königliches Münzkabinett, and Löbbecke.
SICILY, Naxos. Circa 461-430 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.32 g, 7h). Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing tainia decorated with an ivy branch / Silenos, nude and bearded, squatting half-left, holding kantharos in right hand and resting his left on his knee, tail behind; N-A-XI-ON around; all within shallow concave circular incuse. Cahn 55.1 (V40/R46) = Gillet 484 = Sartiges 110 = H. Dannenberg, Grundzüge der Munzkunde (1912), pl. I, 7 = J. Friedländer, "Die Erwerbungen des Koniglichen Miinzkabinets vom 1. Januar 1877 bis 31. März 1878." in ZfN 6 (1879), p. 10 and pl. I (this coin); HGC 2, 990; SNG Lloyd 1151 = Weber 1467; Basel 385; SNG Lockett 841 = Pozzi 508; Jameson 674; de Luynes 1063; McClean 2467; Rizzo pl. XXVIII, 13 (all from the same dies). Superb EF, lovely deep cabinet tone. Among the finest examples of the type, with a choice pedigree.
From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Triton XIX (5 January 2016), lot 44; Leu 81 (16 May 2001), lot 89; Charles Gillet Collection (1972), 484; Vicomte de Sartiges Collection, 110; Duplicates from the Berlin Königliches Münzkabinett (J. Hirsch XXVI, 24 May 1910), lot 81 (acquired by the museum c. 1874); Arthur Löbbecke Collection.
In the Hirsch sale of the Berlin duplicates, this coin received a rare lengthy note:
Euböische Drachme von wundervollem Uebergangsstil. Cabinettstück ersten Ranges. Avers und Revers einzigartig im Raume stehend. Pracht-exemplar, wohl das schönste der bekannten Exemplare und deshalb von grösster Seltenheit. [Euboean drachm of wonderful transitional style. Choice example of the first order. Obverse and reverse superbly well centered and struck. Magnificent example, probably the finest of the known specimens and therefore of the utmost rarity.]
On the day of the sale, the coin hammered at 2225 DM, an exceptional amount for a drachm, and the same price that the Berlin Museum's Naxos tetradrachm of Cahn 54 type realized in the same sale.
Provenance: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. Triton XXII of 08.01.2019, lot: 130.
Estimate: 150'000 USD. Sold for: 250'000 USD.
P.S: Located on the eastern shore of Sicily in the shadow of Mt. Aitna, Naxos was the oldest of the Greek colonies on the island, founded in 735 BC by colonists from Chalkis in Euboia and Ionia. According to Thucydides (1.100), Naxos established its own colony by founding Leontini in 730 BC, which was soon followed by the foundation of a second colony, Aitne, later known as Katane. Taking advantage of the fertility of the surrounding volcanic soil of Mt. Aitna, Naxos developed an economy of viticulture, and along with Leontini and Katane became very prosperous. This wealth attracted the attention of Syracuse, which subjugated Naxos in 476 BC, removing its citizens along with those of Katane to Leontini. Upon the death of Hieron in 461 BC, the Naxians were reinstated to their original city, and formed a close alliance with Leontini and Katane. During the first Athenian Expedition in 427 BC, Naxos actively provided support to the Athenians, who had sent a large fleet to support the allies against Syracuse. In 409 BC, Naxos sided with Syracuse against the Carthaginian threat to Sicily, but in 403 BC, the tyrant Dionysios of Syracuse turned against the Naxians, destroying the city and selling the women and children into slavery.
The present issue is composed of multiple denominations in silver, and is dated by Cahn to the first few decades after the refoundation of the city in 461 BC. Some theorize that it was struck upon the refoundation as a celebratory issue, but one wonders whether the city had the resources for such a coinage so soon. It could also have been struck somewhat later, after the city had prospered from its trade ties to Kamarina and Leontini, and could afford the requisite silver for such a large output. The types found on the drachms are the same as that on the famed tetradrachms (Cahn 54), and the styles of both are so close that it is likely they were engraved by the same hand. The obverse features Dionysos, the god of the vine. The reverse is also an allusion to wine and the Dionysiac cult, featuring the satyr Silenos. Half-man, half-goat followers of Dionysos, these satyrs were often depicted in an ithyphallic state as they pursued the god's female attendants, the mainads. Silenos was the oldest, wisest, and most drunken of the satyrs. According to Euripides' only surviving satyr-play, the Cyclops, Silenos had been forced to attend to Polyphemos, who dwelled in the region of Mt. Aitna, hence providing another reason for Silenos' appearance on this coin of Naxos.

illustrazione: danza satiresca da un cratere a campana apulo a figure rosse opera del pittore di Sisifo, 420-410 a.C.
 

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Maison Palombo > Auction 18	Auction date: 17 November 2019
Lot number: 30
Tribus thraco-macédoniennes Statère (c.500-470) Bergé ou Datos. D'un magnifique style archaïque et d'une qualité remarquable. Splendide exemplaire frappé sur flan large. 9.94g - Boutin manque Superbe - AU Many archaic Greek coins bear overtly sexual designs, as a reference to spirits of nature rather than Olympian gods, celebrating the fecundity of fields and flocks. This coin is much less explicit, the nymph still being dressed, but it illustrates nevertheless a ritual abduction – probably linked to some Dionysiac cult. This charming coin is a typical example of how amazing the early northern Greek engravers approached the interplay of nymphs and satyrs, expressing joie-de-vivrewhich is not found on other ancient coins. Whether this issue was struck in Lete or in Siris has been previously debated, but it has recently been convincingly argued that they should be ascribed to Berge, a Greek settlement in the region of Bisaltia – north west of Amphipolis, which was founded by Thasians around the time of the strike of this coin. See S. Psoma, "The 'Lete' coinage reconsidered", in P.G. van Alfen, Agoranomia. Studies in Money and Exchange presented to J.H. Kroll, New York 2006, pp. 61-85. The city lost importance after the foundation of Amphipolis in 437 BC, but it remained self-sufficient, and gave its name to the verb βεργαΐζειν which means 'lying' because of the local writer Antiphanes in the 4thcentury BC who had written a book of Unbelievable stories. Estimate: 10000 CHF ILLUSTRAZIONE: menade e sileno, anfora a figure rosse del 525-515 a.C.

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Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 116	Auction date: 1 October 2019
Lot number: 30 Price realized: 28,000 CHF   (Approx. 28,073 USD / 25,751 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Velia Nomos circa 420-410, AR 7.74 g. Helmeted head of Athena l. decorated with wreath. Rev. YEΛHTΩ[N] Lion l. pulling down stag. Williams 144. Gillet 271 (this coin). SNG ANS 1244 (this obverse die). Gulbenkian 104 (this obverse die). Historia Numorum Italy 1270. Rare and in exceptional condition for the issue, undoubtedly the finest specimen known. Struck on an unusually large flan and exceptionally complete for the issue. Wonderful old cabinet tone and extremely fine Ex Leu/M&M 28 May 1974, Kunstfreund, 181 and Morton & Eden 51, 2011, Exceptional Greek coins, 17 sales.As Velia was an original colony of Phokaia founded around 535 BC, its coinage regularly paid homage to its mother city through its types and weight standard down to the third century BC. Silver staters (nomoi) were struck to the Phokaic weight standard and, beginning in the fourth century BC, regularly featured the helmeted head of Athena on the obverse and a lion on the reverse. The depiction of Athena, including the griffin ornament on the bowl of her helmet, is derived from the obverse type used for Phokaian electrum hektai in the fifth century BC. The griffin was a popular civic badge of Phokaia. Likewise, the lion, particularly when shown devouring its prey was a staple type for early electrum issues of Phokaia in the late sixth and early fifth centuries BC.On the present stater, the usual stand-alone lion is shown in a dramatic scene attacking a hapless stag. This new image is ultimately derived from Near Eastern artistic traditions and can be found on coins struck by the fifth-century Phoenician kings of Kition on Cyprus, as well as on issues of Tarsos and Myriandros under the Persian satrap Mazaios (c. 361-334 BC). This ubiquitous Near Eastern motif entered the Greek iconographic repertoire during the Archaic period, as evidenced by numerous representations on painted pottery and in sculpture. The representation of the lion attacking the stag on Velian coins therefore probably comes from the use of the image in Greek art rather than direct exposure to the Near Eastern models. Still, it is notable that Velia is the only Greek city to employ this somewhat ubiquitous image as a coin type.The enduring popularity and influence of this Velian lion and stag type may be gauged by the fact that it was later resurrected to serve as the reverse type for a denarius issue of Augustus (RIC 318), perhaps serving to indicate the southern Italian origin of the responsible moneyer, M. Durmius. Estimate: 20000 CHF

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Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXIII	Auction date: 14 January 2020
Lot number: 127 Price realized: 13,000 USD   (Approx. 11,677 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 17.16 g, 6h). Unsigned dies in the style of Eukleidas. Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in both hands; in exergue, grain ear left / Large head of Arethousa right, hair in ampyx and sphendone decorated with stars, wearing double hoop earring and necklace with six pendants; [ΣYP]-A-KO[Σ]-IΩ-N and four dolphins around. Fischer-Bossert, Coins 63 (O22/R41); Tudeer 63; HGC 2, 1339; SNG Lloyd 1386 (same dies); BMC 221 (same dies); Boston MFA 414 = Warren 382 (same dies); Gillet 632 and 634 (same dies); Gulbenkian 285 (same dies); Jameson 108 (same dies); Pozzi 621 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XLVII, 10 (same dies). Toned, typical edge splits. EF. Fine style head of Arethousa, from dies of exceptional artistic merit. From the M.J.W. Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 82 (16 September 2009), lot 302. Estimate: 15000 USD

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38 minuti fa, King John dice:

Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 116	Auction date: 1 October 2019
Lot number: 30 Price realized: 28,000 CHF   (Approx. 28,073 USD / 25,751 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Velia Nomos circa 420-410, AR 7.74 g. Helmeted head of Athena l. decorated with wreath. Rev. YEΛHTΩ[N] Lion l. pulling down stag. Williams 144. Gillet 271 (this coin). SNG ANS 1244 (this obverse die). Gulbenkian 104 (this obverse die). Historia Numorum Italy 1270. Rare and in exceptional condition for the issue, undoubtedly the finest specimen known. Struck on an unusually large flan and exceptionally complete for the issue. Wonderful old cabinet tone and extremely fine Ex Leu/M&M 28 May 1974, Kunstfreund, 181 and Morton & Eden 51, 2011, Exceptional Greek coins, 17 sales.As Velia was an original colony of Phokaia founded around 535 BC, its coinage regularly paid homage to its mother city through its types and weight standard down to the third century BC. Silver staters (nomoi) were struck to the Phokaic weight standard and, beginning in the fourth century BC, regularly featured the helmeted head of Athena on the obverse and a lion on the reverse. The depiction of Athena, including the griffin ornament on the bowl of her helmet, is derived from the obverse type used for Phokaian electrum hektai in the fifth century BC. The griffin was a popular civic badge of Phokaia. Likewise, the lion, particularly when shown devouring its prey was a staple type for early electrum issues of Phokaia in the late sixth and early fifth centuries BC.On the present stater, the usual stand-alone lion is shown in a dramatic scene attacking a hapless stag. This new image is ultimately derived from Near Eastern artistic traditions and can be found on coins struck by the fifth-century Phoenician kings of Kition on Cyprus, as well as on issues of Tarsos and Myriandros under the Persian satrap Mazaios (c. 361-334 BC). This ubiquitous Near Eastern motif entered the Greek iconographic repertoire during the Archaic period, as evidenced by numerous representations on painted pottery and in sculpture. The representation of the lion attacking the stag on Velian coins therefore probably comes from the use of the image in Greek art rather than direct exposure to the Near Eastern models. Still, it is notable that Velia is the only Greek city to employ this somewhat ubiquitous image as a coin type.The enduring popularity and influence of this Velian lion and stag type may be gauged by the fact that it was later resurrected to serve as the reverse type for a denarius issue of Augustus (RIC 318), perhaps serving to indicate the southern Italian origin of the responsible moneyer, M. Durmius. Estimate: 20000 CHF

Scena straordinaria di lotta e di natura al rovescio !

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Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 10	Auction date: 7 December 2019
Lot number: 156 Price realized: 131 CHF   (Approx. 133 USD / 119 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: THRACE. Mesambria. Circa 216-196/88 BC. AE (Bronze, 20 mm, 6.18 g, 10 h). Crested Thracian helmet to right. Rev. METAM-BPIANΩN around shield. SNG Stancomb 229-30. A beautiful and very well centered example. Light deposits, otherwise, about extremely fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting Price: 50 CHF

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Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 10	Auction date: 7 December 2019
Lot number: 408 Price realized: 600 CHF   (Approx. 607 USD / 547 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: LESBOS. Mytilene. Circa 377-326 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 11 mm, 2.55 g, 1 h). Head of Athena facing slightly to right, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet. Rev. Head of Hermes to right, wearing kausia behind his draped neck, within linear square. Bodenstedt 86. SNG von Aulock 1709. A beautifully toned piece. Struck from a slightly worn obverse die, otherwise, very fine. From an American collection, ex Leu Web Auction 8, 29-30 June 2019, 347 and Leipziger Münzhandlung 77, 19 March 2013, 689. Starting Price: 200 CHF

illustrazione: TESTA DI BENEVENTO (BUSTO DI EFEBO). Il busto, in bronzo e rame, tagliato fin dalle origini all’inizio delle spalle, coronava un’erma. Rinvenuto a Ercolano, apparteneva all’arredo di una villa distrutta dall’eruzione del Vesuvio. Avvicinato all’Idolino di Firenze, è interpretata come una «creazione classicizzante, impregnata della lezione policletea», per l’espressione malinconica del volto, il contrasto tra il carattere pittorico della frangia e la superficie liscia dell’epidermide, la libera disposizione delle ciocche sulla nuca. - cm 33 x 23 x 20 - 50 a.C. circa - Musée du Louvre, Parigi

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Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 10	Auction date: 7 December 2019
Lot number: 507 Price realized: 30 CHF   (Approx. 30 USD / 27 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: PHRYGIA. Laodikeia. Circa 133/88-67 BC. AE (Bronze, 14 mm, 1.91 g, 1 h). Draped bust of Aphrodite to right. Rev. ΛAOΔI-KEΩN Aphrodite seated right, raising her right hand to her mouth. BMC 25. Beautiful dark patina. Good very fine. Starting Price: 25 CHF Illustrazione: Statua della Dea Afrodite, dello scultore greco Menophantos, I sec. 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: 63 Price realized: 60,000 USD   (Approx. 53,892 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.52 g), 132-135 CE. Year 1 (132/3 CE). 'Jerusalem' (Paleo-Hebrew), tetrastyle façade of the Temple of Jerusalem; show bread table or Ark of the Covenant in chest form with semicircular lid and short legs, seen from a narrow side. Reverse: 'Year one of the redemption of Israel' (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. Hendin 1373; Mildenberg 1 (O1/R3); TJC 218. Very Rare. A magnificent year one sela, quite beautiful. Toned. Extremely Fine. Value $50,000 - UP Most of the silver Bar Kochba coins were overstruck upon tetradrachms of Antioch commonly circulating in Judaea at that time. They served as a declaration of independence from Rome, since only sovereign entities could mint coins in silver, and in their overstriking, the rebels could simultaneously insult the emperor and make nationalistic declarations. David Hendin maintains that the inscription "First Year" had an "aggressive posture… The principal motive of the coins was both political and psychological-to make bold statements of Jewish sovereignty, whether or not it actually existed, to both Jews and Romans."The Temple façade on the obverse has been variously described as a schematic depiction of the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem, or perhaps as an imaginary sketch of a rebuilt Temple to come. It has been posited that the item within the two central columns is the Ark of the Covenant, an ark holding Torah scrolls, the showbread table, or possibly a stylized generic ritual chalice.On the reverse of the sela are represented the Four Species, the most important articles Jews utilize in the ritual observance of Sukkot, known as "The Holiday" while the Temple stood in Jerusalem.The Four Species are here depicted as the central object, the lulav (a bundle comprised of three of the species) and, to its left, the etrog (the fourth species). The objects used in the ritual celebration of the festival of Sukkot is commanded in Leviticus 23:40-41: "You shall take for yourselves on the first day [of Sukkot] the fruit of the citron tree (etrog), the branches of the date palm (tamar), twigs of a plaited tree [myrtle] (aravot), and brook willows (hasadim)… You shall celebrate it [Sukkot] as a festival for God …[This is] an eternal decree for your generations."After the destruction of the Temple (70 C.E.), Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai (who had escaped from the besieged Jerusalem in a coffin) ordered that the ceremony of the Four Species should be carried out as a memorial to the Temple. (Mehahot 65a). Ex Goldberg 90 (2 February 2016), 3010. Starting Price: 40000 USD illustrazione: modello del tempio di Gerusalemme

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Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXIII	Auction date: 14 January 2020
Lot number: 382 Price realized: 8,500 USD   (Approx. 7,635 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: IONIA, Teos. Late 6th-early 5th century BC. AR Hemistater – Drachm (16.5mm, 6.00 g). Griffin seated right, raising forepaw / Incuse square. Matzke Series Bc2; Balcer 30 var. (A30/P– [unlisted rev. die]); SNG Copenhagen 1433; Weber 6197 (same obv. die). Beautiful cabinet tone, very light granularity. EF. Well centered and struck. Exceptional for issue. Ex Künker 277 (21 June 2016), lot 63. Estimate: 5000 USD ILLLUSTRAZIONE: statua di grifone, Parlamento austriaco, Vienna

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Artcoins Roma, Asta 6, 11/12/2012, Lot 167 

Sicilia, Oncia, Camarina, c. 420-410 a.C., AE, (g 1,55, mm 12, h 10). Gorgoneion, Rv. KAMA, civetta stante a d., regge lucertola; in ex. globetto. CNS III, n. 7; SNG ANS -. Patina scura. spl+.
Sicily, Onkia,Kamarina, c. 420-410 BC, AE, (g 1,55, mm 12, h 10). Gorgoneion, Rv. KAMA, owl standing r., holding lizard; in ex. pellet. CNS III, n. 7; SNG ANS -. Dark patina. Good extremely fine.

 

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Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG, Auction 116, lot 12, 1/10/2019

Greek Coins
Calabria, Tarentum
Stater after 272, AV 8.59 g. Laureate head of Zeus l.; behind, NK ligate. Rev. TARANTINΩN Eagle standing l. on thunderbolt, with spread wings; at its feet, owl. In upper field r., SΩK. Vlasto 41 (these dies). Jameson 82392 (these dies). AMB 98 (these dies). Gulbenkian 43 (these dies). SNG ANS 1040 (these dies). Fischer-Bossert G 44. Historia Numorum Italy 983.
Very rare. A bold portrait of high style and a superb reddish tone, about extremely fine
Privately purchased from NAC London in 2011.
This very rare gold stater dates to the time of King Pyrrhos of Epiros' involvement in Tarentine affairs in southern Italy. During the first decades of the third century B.C., Roman power had extended to most of Italy. Attempting to subdue the loose tribal confederation of Lucanians in the southwestern tip of the peninsula who had proven a nuisance to their ambitions, the Romans violated their preexisting treaty with Tarentum when they sent warships into the Tarentine Gulf to blockade the city of Thurium. The Tarentines responded in force, expelling the garrison which the Romans had installed at Thurium. Knowing that this would precipitate an unwanted war with Rome for which they were unprepared, the people of Tarentum called on Pyrrhos for assistance. At the time that this request from Tarentum came, Pyrrhos had just been evicted from his Macedonian possessions by King Lysimachus of Thrace. The previous decades had seen Pyrrhos largely as a pawn in the great games of the warring Diadochs, the successors of Alexander the Great, and their sons. While he had certainly proven to be a capable and dynamic general during these events, at the time Tarentum called on him, having recently lost his kingdom in Macedonia and reduced to only his possessions in Epiros (and that owing substantially to financial and material support from the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt), the prospect of a western campaign offered Pyrrhos an outlet for his energies as well as a chance for expanding his domain and for earning greater glory. While Pyrrhos defeated the Romans decisively in three engagements, he had not counted on Roman tenacity. At this time the Romans controlled an incredibly vast territory and also had the support of a large network of allied states, all of which could provide more troops and material. Additionally, his gains were not without cost: in each engagement he lost large numbers of his most experienced officers, which indeed provides some insight into Roman military tactics. According to Plutarch, these losses caused him to quip "[if] we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined" (Plutarch, Pyrrhus 21.9), which gives us the modern phrase Pyrrhic victory, meaning a success earned at such a heavy toll that any sense of achievement or profit is negated. The gold of Tarentum is all very rare today, but must have originally seen a very large output. In addition to staters, there are halves, thirds, quarters, eighths, tenths, twelfths, and sixteenths. Additionally at this time the silver nomoi were reduced in weight from circa 7.9 g to circa 6.6 g, and were struck in prodigious quantities. This increased productivity simply illustrates the effect of war on a mint, especially of a city like Tarentum needed to hire mercenaries in order to wage war. The gold is often signed, as in the case here with the signature ΝΙΚΑΡ (other signatures that appear are ΣΩΚ and ΑΠΟΛ), and features the portraits of Zeus, Herakles, Apollo and Athena on the obverse, with either their respective animals (the eagle and the owl) or representations of the eponymous founder of Tarentum, Taras, either driving a biga of horses or dolphins, on the reverse.

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Leu Numismatik, Web Auction 6, lot 705, 9/12/2018

Roman Provincial
SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Elagabalus, 218-222. Assarion (Bronze, 19 mm, 5.72 g, 1 h). IMP C M AVR ANTONIN Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus to right, seen from behind. Rev. LAVDICEON / ΔЄ Two wrestlers grappling. SNG Hunterian 3224. An attractive piece with a lovely patina. Good very fine.
From a European collection, formed before 2005.

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Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG, Auction 114, lot 570, 6/05/2019

The Roman Empire
Octavian, 32 – 29 BC. Denarius, uncertain Eastern mint 28, AR 3.86 g. CAESAR·DIVI F· – COS·VI Bare head r.; below neck, small capricorn. Rev. AEGVPTO / CAPTA Crocodile r. with jaws closed. C 4. BMC 653. Sear Imperators 432. RIC 545. CBN 928
Very rare and in exceptional condition for the issue, undoubtedly among the finest
specimens known of this important and intriguing issue. Struck on fresh
metal and with a light iridescent tone. Good extremely fine
Ex Rome Numismatics sale XIII, 2017, 728.Egypt would play a surprising role in the imperatorial period throughout much of the civil war. Having been under Ptolemaic rule since the death of Alexander the Great it would come down to the manipulative Cleopatra VII to try and save her dynasty. Shown on coinage not to be the great beauty that has been portrayed in film she was rather a master at playing her odds to maximum success. And Egypt itself would be: the scene of the first romance between Caesar and Cleopatra; the site of the killing of Pompey the Great; the place where Cleopatra captivated Marc Antony and showed him "how to live as a king"; and it would be the place where Antony and Cleopatra would finally die. Cleopatra had seduced Julius Caesar and managed to secure her right to rule with his support when he settled the dispute with her young brother Ptolemy XIII. She was staying in Rome as a "guest" of Caesar at the time of his assassination. She was able to return to Egypt and watch things play out between the successors of Caesar and the last loyalists to the republican cause. When it became clear that the Caesareans would win she formed an allegiance with Marc Antony. It must have seemed a fortuitous move on her part when Antony divorced Octavia and wed her. Surely if Antony could maintain his power she would continue to rule Egypt unimpeded. She had placed great reliance on this relationship by supplying Antony with both funds
ammunition that he needed to declare war on Antony and, in the process, gain the blessing of the Roman senate. Overtly, war was declared on Cleopatra – not Antony. It came to the point where she could now see what a great risk she had taken. Her only hope was that Antony would prevail and her dynasty would be preserved. The battle of Actium would prove to be the turning point in the battle between the two triumvirs. Antony was significantly supported in this battle by ships supplied by the queen and when the battle was lost so, in turn, was any remaining hope that she had chosen the correct alliance. It is reported that in a last ditch effort she offered herself to Octavian with the hope that she could salvage Egypt. It was not to be and Cleopatra was eliminated and Egypt was lost. It is important to recognize that the new province of Egypt was not to be owned by Rome but to be the personal property of Octavian. The wealth of this territory would not fill the coffers at Rome but rather the pockets of the, soon to be, emperor himself. The role of Egypt as a major supplier of grain would increase with Roman control. It would become a key factor in managing the ever growing population of Rome itself. Here the coin says much but in a most interesting way. Egypt was indeed captured, but not for the empire. It was captured for Octavian. It had to be a most personal of coin types for the sole survivor of the civil war. The historical importance of this coin cannot be overstated.