Le più belle rappresentazioni di guerrieri

[King John]

Il 6/12/2022 alle 21:37, Oppiano dice:

Contribuisco con un esemplare simile di recente acquisizione:

Greek Italy.  Bruttium, Brettii.  AE Unit-Drachm, c. 211-208 BC.  Obv.  Laureate head of Zeus right; behind thunderbolt.  Rev.  BPETTIΩN. Naked warrior advancing right, holding spear and shield; to lower right, racing-torch.  HN Italy 1988; SNG ANS 104.  AE.  6.70 g.  21.00 mm.  Lovely style. Superb glossy deep green patina.  Good VF.

 

Bellissimi rilievi. L'elmetto, in particolare, é assolutamente spettacolare. Complimenti per la moneta!

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVI	Auction date: 10 January 2023
Lot number: 17 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: LUCANIA, Herakleia. Circa 390-340 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.83 g, 11h). Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla throwing stone held in right hand; [EY to right] / Herakles standing facing, torso right, strangling the Nemean Lion to right; [|-HPAKΛ-EIΩN above], [AΠOΛ] and club to left, oinochoe below. Work 47 (same dies); Van Keuren 51 (same obv. die as illustration); HN Italy 1378; SNG ANS 66; Bement 138 (same obv. die); Hunterian 7 (same dies); McClean 825 (same obv. die); Weber 706 (same dies). Lightly toned, underlying luster, a few hairlines, light scuff on obverse. EF. Estimate: 1000 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: ERCOLE E IL LEONE NEMEO, VILLA MEDICI, ROMA

[King John]

Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG > Online Auction 151 | Black	Auction date: 18 December 2022
Lot number: 54 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Phrygia. Kibyra circa 166-84 BC. Drachm AR 17 mm, 2,88 g Helmeted male head right / KIBYPATΩN, warrior, holding spear, on horse rearing right, monogram to upper left; anchor below. extremely fine cf. HGC 7, 706. Starting price: 1 EUR

[VALTERI]

Pensando agli accessori del guerriero, vale uno sguardo un piuttosto raro diobolo di Argo ( 420-410 a.C. / 2,13 g ) con rappresentati elmi corinzi, di lato e di fronte, passato a suo tempo ( 2010 ) in Nomos 2 al n. 91 .

[King John]

Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 134	Auction date: 21 November 2022
Lot number: 216 Price realized: 190,000 CHF   (Approx. 199,706 USD / 192,756 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Greek Coins. Demetrius Poliorcetes. 306 – 284. Stater circa 290-289, AV 8.63 g. Diademed head of Demetrius r., with horn. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ – ΔΗΜΗΤP[ΙΟΥ] Horseman draped and wearing causia advancing r., holding spear; in field, two monograms. Jameson 1002 (this coin). Weber 2169 (these dies). Newell 83 (this coin listed). Extremely rare. A portrait of superb Hellenistic style and a finely engraved reverse composition. Minor marks in field, otherwise extremely fine Ex Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge sale 17 July 1908, O'Hagan, 340. From the Jameson collection and from an ExceptionalCollection assembled between the early 70s and late 90s. Demetrius Poliorcetes has been characterized as a comet that briefly illuminated the early Hellenistic period with his glory and then disappeared again into the darkness. He rose to prominence as the son of Antigonus Monophthalmus, the general who came the closest of the Successors to controlling the full empire of Alexander the Great. During the wars of the Successors, Demetrius accompanied his father on numerous campaigns to hunt down and destroy his chief rival, Eumenes of Cardia. In 317/16 BC, Demetrius led the cavalry wing at the battles of Paraitacene and Gabiene that ultimately led to the betrayal and execution of Eumenes. He also held independent commands during the struggle against an alliance of Cassander, Lysimachus and Ptolemy in 315-311 BC. At the opening of the war against a coalition of these same kings with the addition of Seleucus in 307-301 BC, Demetrius invaded mainland Greece where he was frequently greeted as a liberator and, at least in Athens, as a god on earth. In 306 BC, he won an impressive victory over the Ptolemaic fleet off Salamis, and in the following year both Antigonus and Demetrius claimed the royal title for themselves. In 305 BC Demetrius earned his nickname, Poliorcetes ("the Besieger"), when he undertook the siege of Rhodes. In order to prosecute the siege, he erected a 125-foot-tall tower known as the helepoleis, or "city-taker" and built a battering ram that required 1000 men to operate. Unfortunately, these impressive and expensive machines ultimately failed to capture Rhodes as the city continued to be supplied by sea thanks to the Ptolemaic fleet. Demetrius ultimately abandoned the siege and the Rhodians sold his equipment for a princely sum that permitted them to erect a colossal statue of Helios that became one of the Seven Wonders of the World. A few years later, in 301 BC, disaster struck when Demetrius and his father faced off against a coalition of their rivals at the battle of Ipsus. An impetuous charge of the cavalry wing by Demetrius carried him too far from the main infantry line and Antigonus was killed as the battle was lost. Demetrius subsequently attempted to hold together his remaining possessions in Greece, the islands and Cilicia and even managed to claim the Macedonian kingdom in 295/4 BC. Unfortunately, his haughty style of rule offended the Macedonian nobility, who expelled him from the kingdom in 290/89 BC with the aid of Pyrrhus of Epirus and Lysimachus. Giving up on Macedonia and Greece, Demetrius employed his still powerful fleet to sail to Asia Minor in the hope of carving out a new kingdom for himself there, but he continued to be dogged by bad luck. After years of campaigning and still little to show for it, Demetrius was at last hunted down by Seleucus in Cilicia in 285 BC. However, in a rather chivalric act typical of the early Hellenistic period, Seleucus did not strike him down, but imprisoned him in luxurious surroundings. The Besieger was safe and lived a life of magnificent opulence, but he would never be king or adventurer ever again. Demetrius could not overcome the deep grief he felt at this terrible loss and drank himself to death in 283 BC. This gold stater was struck during Demetrius' difficult reign as king in Macedonia, perhaps in the context of his wars against the Aetolian League and Pyrrhus. On the obverse he is depicted with a bull's horn-an allusion to his deification by the Athenians as a new Poseidon-while he is shown mounted on the reverse. This mounted type was intended to advertise his martial prowess, which was actually beginning to slip away, and his legitimacy as a Macedonian ruler. Estimate: 80000 CHF

[VALTERI]

Un ottobolo di Magnesia al Meandro  con al diritto una bella figura di guerriero a cavallo, in azione, con armatura e lancia : al rovescio toro anch' esso in postura da combattimento .

La moneta sarà il 10 Gennaio in vendita CNG Triton XXVI al n. 230 .

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVI	Auction date: 10 January 2023
Lot number: 590 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (37mm, 26.61 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 (AD 146/7). AYT K T AIΛ A∆P ANTωNINOC CЄB ЄYC, laureate head right / Herakles and the Stymphalian Birds – Herakles standing right, wearing lion's skin over his head and down his shoulders, quiver over his right shoulder, drawing arrow back in bow and pointing it slightly upward; before, two of the Stymphalian birds falling from the sky; L ΔЄKATOY (date) around. Köln 1538; Dattari (Savio) 2587 (same dies); K&G 35.353; RPC IV.4 13980; Emmett 1543.10. Brown and green patina, some cleaning scratches and smoothing, minor deposits, small pit on reverse. Good VF. Rare. The Stymphalian Birds were man-eating birds that had claws of brass, sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and highly toxic dung. Driven to the heavily wooded area around Lake Stymphalia by a pack of wolves, they bred quickly and took over the countryside, destroying local crops and fruit trees. They were also favorites of Ares. To complete this Labor, Athena and Hephaestos assisted Herakles by forging crotala, or large bronze clappers, by which the birds could be frightened into flight; then, Herakles shot them down with his arrows, as depicted on the coin type. Estimate: 5000 USD

[VALTERI]

Dalla Persia degli Achemenidi, guerrieri di fanteria e cavalleria su un tetradrammo con al diritto re/eroe inginocchiato per scoccare con l'arco ed al rovescio cavaliere/satrapo all' attacco con lancia : forse un poco di riposo dalla guerra è ricordato dal delfino sotto al cavaliere .

La moneta sarà il 17 Gennaio in vendita Heritage 3106 al n. 33115 .

[VALTERI]

Da Leuca di Akarnania, un esemplare di 'Pegaso' di tipologia corinzia, con al rovescio classica testa della guerriera Atena, con elmo corinzio, con simbolo nel campo un secondo elmo, questo di tipo macedone lì esemplare sarà il 13 Gennaio in vendita Stack's January 2023 al n. 20053 .

[Vel Saties]

Scusatemi l'OT parziale ma visto che si parla di guerrieri....
Sto cercando il riferimento ad una moneta in bronzo di una zecca del Sud Italia che riporta al rovescio i dioscuri in carica verso dx come nei denari romani. Magari è già passata in questo topic e qualcuno l'ha vista.
Grazie mille in anticipo ed ancora scusa

[King John]

3 ore fa, Vel Saties dice:

Scusatemi l'OT parziale ma visto che si parla di guerrieri....
Sto cercando il riferimento ad una moneta in bronzo di una zecca del Sud Italia che riporta al rovescio i dioscuri in carica verso dx come nei denari romani. Magari è già passata in questo topic e qualcuno l'ha vista.
Grazie mille in anticipo ed ancora scusa

 

Forse ti riferisci a questa moneta ma è in argento.

Gemini, LLC, Auction IV, lot 22, 08/01/2008. 

BRUTTIUM. Brettii. 215-213 BC. Silver reduced didrachm (5.62 gm). Silver reduced didrachm (5.62 gm). Jugate busts right of the Dioscuri, draped and wearing laureate piloi, two stars above heads, cornucopiae with tiny Γ and squared sigma behind / ΒΡΕΤΤΙΩΝ, Dioscuri on horseback right, stars above heads, each raising right hand and holding palm branch over left shoulder, lance with knurled handle beneath horses' forelegs, tiny Γ behind hind legs of near horse. Pfeiler 16, pl. i, 5 (same dies). Jameson 405 (same dies). SNG ANS 2. HN Italy 1941. Extremely rare. Very beautiful images of the Dioscuri. Extremely fine. During Hannibal's occupation of Italy in the Second Punic War, he held Bruttium from 215 until 203, when he was forced to withdraw to Africa. Under Carthaginian occupation the Brettii produced three issues of silver coinage. The first featured the Dioscuri, and the very earliest phase of the emission shows a squared sigma on the obverse and the divine twins unarmed on the reverse. The tiny letters on obverse and reverse have been identified as the hallmarks of a goldsmith's firm or, alternatively, as artists' signatures. E.S.G. Robinson, in NC 1964, explained the weight of this issue as reflecting the declining standard of the Roman quadrigatus.
Estimate: US$15000

Modificato 23 Dicembre, 2022 da King John

[Vel Saties]

11 minuti fa, King John dice:

Forse ti riferisci a questa moneta ma è in argento.

Gemini, LLC, Auction IV, lot 22, 08/01/2008. 

BRUTTIUM. Brettii. 215-213 BC. Silver reduced didrachm (5.62 gm). Silver reduced didrachm (5.62 gm). Jugate busts right of the Dioscuri, draped and wearing laureate piloi, two stars above heads, cornucopiae with tiny Γ and squared sigma behind / ΒΡΕΤΤΙΩΝ, Dioscuri on horseback right, stars above heads, each raising right hand and holding palm branch over left shoulder, lance with knurled handle beneath horses' forelegs, tiny Γ behind hind legs of near horse. Pfeiler 16, pl. i, 5 (same dies). Jameson 405 (same dies). SNG ANS 2. HN Italy 1941. Extremely rare. Very beautiful images of the Dioscuri. Extremely fine. During Hannibal's occupation of Italy in the Second Punic War, he held Bruttium from 215 until 203, when he was forced to withdraw to Africa. Under Carthaginian occupation the Brettii produced three issues of silver coinage. The first featured the Dioscuri, and the very earliest phase of the emission shows a squared sigma on the obverse and the divine twins unarmed on the reverse. The tiny letters on obverse and reverse have been identified as the hallmarks of a goldsmith's firm or, alternatively, as artists' signatures. E.S.G. Robinson, in NC 1964, explained the weight of this issue as reflecting the declining standard of the Roman quadrigatus.
Estimate: US$15000

 

Meravigliosa ma non è questa, grazie. Il rovescio sembra in tutto e per tutto un denaro romano. Con i dioscuri con la lancia "in resta" diremmo noi
L'ho incrociata tempo fa in un'asta e mi ero ripromesso di salvarne immagine e scheda. Poi a causa di impegni lavorativi mi sono perso via ed ho perso il riferimento, ahimè.
Grazie, @King John.
 

[dracma]

5 ore fa, Vel Saties dice:

Scusatemi l'OT parziale ma visto che si parla di guerrieri....
Sto cercando il riferimento ad una moneta in bronzo di una zecca del Sud Italia che riporta al rovescio i dioscuri in carica verso dx come nei denari romani. Magari è già passata in questo topic e qualcuno l'ha vista.
Grazie mille in anticipo ed ancora scusa

 

Potrebbe trattarsi di un bronzo di Rhegion?

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5771948

[Vel Saties]

4 minuti fa, dracma dice:

Potrebbe trattarsi di un bronzo di Rhegion?

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5771948

 

Ciao. si direi che potrebbe essere questo. Grazie

 

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVI	Auction date: 10 January 2023
Lot number: 611 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: The Pompeians. Cnaeus Pompey Jr. Summer 46-Spring 45 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.65 g, 6h). Corduba (Cordoba) mint. M. Poblicius, legatus pro praetore. Head of Roma right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; M • POBLICI • LEG • PRO PR around / Hispania standing right, shield on her back, holding two spears and presenting large palm frond to Pompeian soldier standing left on large prow, armed with sword; CN • MAG NVS • IMP around lower right. Crawford 469/1e; CRI 48a; Sydenham 1035a; RSC 1a (Pompey the Great); BMCRR Spain 75; Kestner –; RBW 1641. Iridescent tone, light marks, reverse off center. Good VF. From the D.K. Collection. Estimate: 750 USD

[King John]

 

Nomisma S.p.a. > Auction 66	Auction date: 26 November 2022
Lot number: 28 Price realized: 3,100 EUR   (Approx. 3,226 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Marco Aurelio (161-180) Sesterzio - Testa laureata a d. - R/ L'imperatore a cavallo a d. circondato da alcuni soldati - RIC 977; C. 502 AE (g 25,12) RR Un bellissimo esemplare di questa affascinante moneta con la scena di una PROFECTIO cioè la partenza dell'imperatore probabilmente per il nord Europa a combattere contro i barbari. Si tratta quindi di una moneta particolarmente significativa dal punto di vista storico oltre che iconografico.  SPL+ Starting price: 2500 EUR

Modificato 2 Gennaio, 2023 da King John

[VALTERI]

Una bella testa di guerriero con elmo corinzio, da un hektè in elettro di alta epoca da Focea di Ionia .

Sarà il 28 Gennaio in vendita Palombo 21 al n. 58 .

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 531	Auction date: 25 January 2023
Lot number: 629 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (27mm, 13.35 g, 11h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from the front, with gorgoneion on breastplate / Pygmalion advancing left, chlamys over arm, holding long scepter; to right, four stags running right; star in field above, murex shell below horses. RPC VI Online 8637; BMC 408. Earthen brown patina, light roughness. Near VF. Very rare. Pygmalion was king of Tyre and father of Dido, founder of Carthage. Coins with his likeness, all with a similar scene as on this coin, were struck from Elagabalus to Trebonianus Gallus, all are very rare. Estimate: 500 USD   ILLUSTRAZIONE: Pigmalione e Galatea, scultura di Etienne Maurice Falconet del 1763, Hermitage. Pigmalione è una figura della mitologia greca, che ne fa un leggendario re dell'isola di Cipro, il quale si sarebbe follemente innamorato di una statua eburnea della dea Afrodite, prodigandole tenerezze e amplessi come a donna vera. Da questa versione della leggenda (che era in Filostefano, e che è ripetuta da Arnobio, Adv. nationes, VI, 22) differisce assai la versione, più nota, che si trova in Ovidio (Metamorf., X, 243 segg.) e che è probabilmente la forma originaria della leggenda. Ivi Pigmalione è rappresentato come lo scultore stesso di una statua eburnea di donna, di meravigliose fattezze, per la quale si sentì preso d'amore come per creatura viva, e che chiamava sua sposa. Un giorno, durante una festa di Afrodite, Pigmalione, dopo aver sacrificato alla dea, la supplicò di dargli una moglie che somigliasse a quella statua; e la dea l'esaudì: tornato infatti a casa lo scultore, il simulacro eburneo si mosse e tosto si trasformò in una fanciulla vivente. Fu questa, per miracolo di Afrodite, la sposa di Pigmalione, che n'ebbe una figlia di nome Pafo, da cui un nipote di nome Cinira. La statua, priva di nome nel mito, è stata denominata da autori moderni (dal XVIII secolo in poi), Galatea (Treccani.it).

 

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[King John]

Heritage World Coin Auctions > NYINC Signature Sale 3106	Auction date: 17 January 2023
Lot number: 33121 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Ancients CILICIA. Tarsus. Ca. 370 BC. AR stater (23mm, 10.21 gm, 12h). NGC Choice XF 3/5 - 3/5. Heracles, nude, kneeling left, both arms wrapped around neck of the Nemean lion, which crouches right, trying to bite Heracles' right leg; club right below / TEPΣIKON, head of Hera or Aphrodite left, wearing pendant earring, beaded necklace, and turreted stephane decorated with palmette flanked by two medallions. Robinson, NC 1948, pl. V, 11. SNG France 2, 235. SNG Levante 63. Steely surfaces and stunning portrait of the goddess.

[King John]

Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 531	Auction date: 25 January 2023
Lot number: 677 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction -
Lot description: EGYPT, Alexandria. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Drachm (34mm, 20.50 g, 12h). Dated RY 17 (AD 113/4). Radiate and heroic bust right, wearing aegis / Kalathos on a column between two winged serpents (Agathodaemon), each wearing skhent; L IZ (date) in exergue. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 7232; K&G –; RPC III 4805; Emmett 396.17. Red-brown patina, cleaning scratches, bare metal exposed. VF. Extremely rare, only two known to RPC. Estimate: 200 USD ILLUSTRAZIONE: MOSAICO POMPEIANO

[King John]

Heritage World Coin Auctions > NYINC Signature Sale 3106	Auction date: 17 January 2023
Lot number: 33099 Price realized: 7,500 USD   (Approx. 6,944 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Ancients IONIA. Teos. Ca. 460-420 BC. AR stater (26mm, 11.88 gm). NGC Choice XF★ 5/5 - 5/5, Fine Style. T-HI-O-N (N retrograde), griffin seated right on ground line, left foreleg raised, beak open; panther head seen from above below raised paw / Quadripartite incuse square with stippled surfaces. Balcer, SNR 47, 103. BMC 19. Truly stunning in hand, this delightfully well centered piece showcases sharp details that are caressed by deep cabinet toning.

[King John]

Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 134	Auction date: 21 November 2022
Lot number: 195 Price realized: 200,000 CHF   (Approx. 210,217 USD / 202,901 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Greek Coins. Syracuse. Tetralitron circa 406, AV 3.48 g. ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙOΝ Circular shield decorated at centre with a facing gorgoneion. Rev. Ephebe, in the form of a naked athlete, standing l., holding strigil in his r. hand with which he is removing oil from his l. knee. C. Boehringer, Ehrenrettung einer syrakusanischen Goldmünze, FlorNum p. 74, 1 (this coin). C. Boehringer, Zu Finanzpolitik und Münzprägung des Dionysios von Syrakus, Essays Thompson pl. 38, 11 (this obverse die). de Luynes 1402 (this obverse die). Exceedingly rare, undoubtedly the finest of only eight specimens known. A coin of exceptional beauty and fascination perfectly struck and centred on a full flan. Two almost invisible marks on obverse, otherwise good extremely fine Ex NAC sale 9, 1996, 218. From the Athos and Dina Moretti collection and from an Exceptional Collection assembledbetween the early 70s and late 90s. Following the death of Thrasybulus, the last of the Deinomenid tyrants, in 465 BC, the Syracusans took a break from tyranny and established a democratic constitution for themselves. This Second Democracy lasted much longer than the First Democracy of 490-485 BC, continuing for sixty years until 405 BC. It is more than a little ironic that it was during this rare period of democratic rule and not under the tyrants that Syracuse came into conflict with Athens, easily the greatest democratic state of the Greek world. As part of the grand strategy of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), the Athenians hoped to take control of the flow of grain from the Black Sea region and from the breadbasket of Sicily as a means of strangling the Spartan ability to fight. To do this, a military expedition was required to impose Athenian authority on the grain-producing cities of Sicily, many of which were Dorian colonies and had ethnic reasons to support Sparta. Syracuse, the most powerful Greek city of Sicily was at the top of the Athenian hit-list when an expeditionary fleet was sent to the island in 415 BC, but by 413 BC Syracuse had weathered a great siege and encompassed the complete destruction of the Athenian forces. The losses for Athens were so great that they ultimately cost the city the Peloponnesian War. In contrast, the victory over the Athenian expeditionary force greatly enriched Syracuse through plunder and the sale of slaves. As it turned out, this wealth was generated just in time. In 410/09 BC, a great Punic army arrived in western Sicily, which destroyed the cities of Selinus and Himera and defeated allied forces supplied by Syracuse. In 406 BC, the Carthaginians returned to destroy Agrigentum, capture Gela and sack Camarina, despite the ineffectual attempts to stop them made by a Syracusan commander named Dionysius. Amid the fear and chaos of the Punic advance against the Greek cities, Dionysius ended the Second Democracy and declared himself the new tyrant of Syracuse. This extremely rare gold litra multiple was an emergency issue struck in the context of the Syracusan military and political crisis of 406 BC, either to meet the costs of the war against Carthage or to shore up the loyalty of Dionysius' largely mercenary supporters. The obverse type features a shield emblazoned with a gorgoneion-an allusion to the protective aegis of Zeus that was regularly carried by Athena-and may have been intended to cast Dionysius as the defender of Syracuse (and Sicily as a whole), despite the fact that he had not yet enjoyed great success in this role. It is worth noting that on later coins, the island of Sicily was often symbolically represented as a triskeles with a gorgoneion in the centre. The intended meaning of the athlete or ephebe cleaning himself with a strigil on the reverse remains rather mysterious. Nevertheless, it is a remarkably lifelike depiction rarely found on ancient coins Estimate: 100000 CHF

ILLUSTRAZIONE:  Scaraboide in corniola rossa. Etrusco, 500 a.C. Un atleta si deterge con lo strigile. Antikensammlung der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin

Modificato 22 Gennaio, 2023 da King John

[King John]

Gemini, LLC, Auction IV, lot 445, 8/01/2008

Caracalla. (198-217 AD). Bronze medallion, 40-42 mm (36.06 gm). Thrace, Philippopolis, 214 AD. AVT K M AVP CEV— ANTΩNEINOC, bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right, seen from front / KOINON ΘPAKΩN—AΛEZAN ΠVΘIA EN around, ΦIΛIΠ in exergue, Apollo, laureate, nude except for cloak hanging from left shoulder, the top half of his bow emerging over his left shoulder, standing right, seen half from behind, holding patera above tripod on ground before him, a snake is entwined around the middle leg of the tripod and lowers its head over the bowl as though to consume the contents. Possibly unpublished. Not in Varbanov, BMC, SNG Copenhagen, CoinArchives, or Berk photofile. Cf. Varbanov 1290 (left-facing, heroic portrait with aegis, on reverse Apollo sacrificing left not right). Green and red patina. Extremely fine. Ex Tkalec, 23 October 1998, lot 218. In 214 Caracalla began an expedition against the Parthians, imagining himself the reincarnation of Alexander the Great and enrolling a phalanx of six-foottall Macedonians in Alexander's homeland. It appears from the coins that when Caracalla passed through
Thrace, the Commune of the Thracians held special games in his honor at Philippopolis, named "Alexandrian" because Caracalla now considered himself Alexander. Doubtless they were actually attended by the emperor and his army. These games were the occasion of the large issue of coins and medallions of Caracalla with the reverse legend "The Commune of the Thracians (is holding) Pythian games honoring Alexander in Philippopolis." Though the reverse type of our medallion may be unpublished, its obverse die is well known, also occurring with the reverse types Arrival of Caracalla on Horseback; Victorious Caracalla Placing Foot on Parthian Captive;
Group of Asclepius, Hygieia, and Telesphorus; Asclepius Standing; and Heracles Leaning on his Club (Hercules Farnese). See Varbanov 1251, 1258, and 1283; Munzzentrum Koln 64, April 1988, lot 422; and NFA XVIII, Part II, 1 April 1987, lot 515.
Estimate: US$15000

[King John]

Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 102	Auction date: 3 November 2022
Lot number: 369 Price realized: 1,500 GBP   (Approx. 1,719 USD / 1,742 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: Islands off Troas, Tenedos AR Drachm. Late 5th - early 4th century BC. Janiform head of female, facing left, and bearded male, facing right / Labrys; grape bunch to lower left, amphora to lower right, TEN-EΔ-I-ΩN around. SNG Copenhagen 512; SNG von Aulock -; HGC 6, 386. 3.61g, 15mm, 12h. Near Extremely Fine; well-centred and exhibiting a stunning old cabinet tone. Rare with this combination of symbols on rev. From a private Scandinavian collection. Tenedos was an island of strategic importance throughout antiquity due to its location at the entrance to the Hellespont, which ensured every ship sailing to or from the Propontis and the Black Sea would pass by. It is referenced in both Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid, in the latter as the place where the Greek fleet was concealed towards the end of their siege of Troy in order to trick the Trojans into taking the fateful Trojan horse within the walls of the city. During the fifth century, Athens used the island as a stronghold to protect their vital shipping routes, but it came under the influence of successive Hellenistic dynasties from the third century onwards: controlled first by the Seleukids, then the Attalids and eventually by Mithridates VI Eupator, who used the island as a naval base in the Third Mithridatic War against the Roman general Lucullus in 73-63 BC. Estimate: 300 GBP

 

 

 

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Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61309	Auction date: 12 February 2023
Lot number: 21023 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction
Lot description: Ancients THESSALY. Larissa. 4th century BC. AR drachm (20mm, 6.14 gm, 11h). NGC MS 4/5 - 5/5, Fine Style. Head of nymph Larissa facing, turned slightly left, wearing ampyx, pendant earring, and plain necklace, hair in sphendone / ΛAPIΣ/AIΩN, horse kneeling right, preparing to roll. BCD Thessaly 316-319. Stunning example with a delicate toning and an abundance of luster. From A Professor's Collection of Ancient and Medieval Coinage. Ex Davisson's, Auction 18 (November 2002), lot 50