GC Le monete più attraenti di Alessandro Magno

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Il 23/10/2018 alle 16:18, apollonia dice:

A seguito dei tetradrammi con il cervo scambiato per il Pegaso e viceversa, alcuni tetradrammi ‘giusti’ delle aste Nomos e Leu di questo mese.

Nomos AG   |   Auction 17   |   26 October 2018   Lot 149. Estimate: 24'000 CHF   |   Starting price: 19'200 CHF

KINGS OF PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 120-63 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 30 mm, 16.59 g, 2 h), Amaseia or Sinope, c. 115/114. Diademed head of Mithradates VI to right, shown as a young man with slightly unruly hair, a short beard on his cheeks and below his chin, and with his diadem ends fluttering behind him. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ // ΜΙΘΡΑΔΑΤΟΥ/ [Ε]ΥΠΑΤΟΡΟΣ Pegasos standing left, his right leg bent upwards and his head bent down to graze; above Pegasos's head to left, eight-rayed star above crescent; below belly, monogram . De Callataÿ -, but see D2/R2 for a very similar die pair. HGC 7 -. Cf. Waddington 116 and Winterthur 2388 (same types but struck from different dies). Of the highest rarity, one of only four known coins of this type, and the only example not in a museum. Some traces of corrosion and minor marks, otherwise, good very fine.
From a European collection.

This coin is not only extremely rare, but it also bears one of the finest and most realistic portraits ever to have appeared on a Greek coin. Mithradates VI Eupator was born c. 135 BC and became king upon the assassination of his father, Mithradates V, in 120. He was, however, under the regency of his mother Laodike VI; because of his adamantly independent nature, and his mother's obvious preference for his younger brother Mithradates Chestos, Eupator felt increasingly threatened. Considering how prevalent murder by poison was in Hellenistic courts (Eupator's father was murdered by poison at a banquet), his fear was surely justified. So, along with a small number of his friends, who served as his loyal companions, he went into a self-imposed internal exile during which he traveled all around his kingdom. Living rough most of the time, surviving by hunting – though often staying in local palaces or lodges – Eupator also carefully visited and familiarized himself with all of the military units in his kingdom. After approximately five years he returned, disposed of both his mother and younger brother (though he gave them honorable funerals), and began his tumultuous reign. The tetradrachm and stater coinage of Mithradates VI has been ably studied by the distinguished Belgian scholar François de Callataÿ; he divided them into two main groups, an undated series, which he implied began c. 100 and a much more massive dated series (separated into less and more idealized portrait groups) beginning c. 96. However, Eupator was a very active campaigner who expanded his kingdom considerably in the years prior to 100, and the possibility that he had issued no coinage at all during that period seems unlikely in the extreme. In fact, those undated issues actually fall into a number of groups, which are not only stylistically discrete but chronologically as well. The present coin, and the other three known examples of this group, was issued at the time of Eupator's return to full power in c. 115. It differs from all of his remaining issues by having a powerfully realistic portrait of the young king (then about 20): he is shown with a light, straggly beard and traces of a mustache, somewhat unruly hair, and a determined expression. In addition, the reverse shows Pegasos feeding left with a harpa below, and with the inscriptions above and underneath the type. All but the very earliest remaining issues show him beardless and an increasingly idealized.

 

 

 

Hammer 24.000 CHF.

[apollonia]

Il 23/10/2018 alle 18:37, apollonia dice:

Nomos AG   |   Auction 17   |   26 October 2018   Lot 151, Estimate: 5'000 CHF   |   Starting price: 4'000 CHF

KINGS OF PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 120-63 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 32 mm, 16.77 g, 12 h), Pergamum, year 212, 10th month = July 85 BC. Diademed head of Mithradates VI to right, his hair streaming out behind. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ // ΜΙΘΡΑΔΑΤΟΥ / ΕΥΠΑΤΟΡΟΣ Stag feeding to left; to left, star within crescent over monogram; to right, date ΒΙΣ over monogram; below legend, month Ι; all within ivy wreath. De Callataÿ, Idealized Style, D2-R1. Clear, attractive and well-centered. Minor marks and scratches, otherwise, about extremely fine.

 

Hammer 4500 CHF.

[apollonia]

Il 23/10/2018 alle 17:17, apollonia dice:

Nomos AG   |   Auction 17   |   26 October 2018   Lot 150, Estimate: 5'500 CHF   |   Starting price: 4'400 CHF

KINGS OF PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 120-63 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 32 mm, 16.74 g, 12 h), Pergamum, year 3 = 86 BC (?). Diademed head of Mithradates VI to right, his hair flowing wildly. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ // ΜΙΘΡΑΔΑΤΟΥ / ΕΥΠΑΤΟΡΟΣ Stag feeding to left; to left, star of eight rays within crescent; to right date Γ over monogram; all within ivy wreath. Callataÿ D1-R2 (?). A clear and attractive example, nicely centered. Some minor marks, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.

 

Hammer 6.000 CHF.

[apollonia]

Tetradramma Price 3566 (CNG 399).

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.02 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Uncertain mint in Phoenicia or Syria. Struck under Laomedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monograms in left field and below throne. Price 3566. VF, toned. Very rare, only one in Pella (the other is a variety), one in CoinArchives (the other is also a variety).

 

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Tetradramma Price 3566A (CNG 324).

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.71 g, 4h). In the name of Alexander III. Uncertain mint in Phoenicia or Syria. Struck under Laomedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; wreath in left field, monogram below throne. U. Wartenberg & J.H. Kagan, “Some comments on a new hoard from the Balkan area,” Travaux Le Rider, p. 398, 60 (this coin, illustrated on pl. 43); Price 3566A. Fine, toned, two test cuts on obverse.

Ex 1990s Balkan Area Hoard (CH IX, 196).

 

[apollonia]

Tetradramma Price 3567 (Savoca 26).

Kings of Macedon. Uncertain mint. Philip III Arrhidaeus 323-317 BC. In the name and types of Alexander III. Struck under Laomedon
Tetradrachm AR

27mm., 17,12g.

Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩ[Σ] [Α]ΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated left on high-backed throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing right with closed wings, wreath in left field, monogram of AYE below throne.
 

nearly very fine

Price 3567; Müller 1545.

 

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Tetradramma Price 3568 (CNG 365).

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.77 g, 5h). In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Uncertain mint in Phoenicia or Syria. Struck under Laomedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; wreath in left field, ΣΙ below throne. Price 3568. Fine, toned.

 

[apollonia]

Tetradramma Price 3569 (VCoins).

 Price 3569, Extremely Fine, die breaks on obverse, 29.6mm, 16.96 grams, Struck 323 - 317 B.C.E. Uncertain Phoenician or Syrian Mint
Obverse: Head of Alexander as Herakles in lionskin headdress to right

Reverse: Zeus seated left on throne, holding eagle in right and scepter in left, wreath in left field, monogram below throne, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ in exergue, ΑΛΕΞΑΝ∆ΡΟΥ in right field
 

Lustrous obverse and a FANTASTIC reverse with full circle of dots! A very RARE issue, with NO examples showing offered or sold in the ACSEARCH archives.

 

[apollonia]

Tetradramma Price 3570 (CNG 423).

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.18 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Uncertain mint in Phoenicia or Syria. Struck under Laomedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; wreath in left field, monogram below throne. Price 3570. VF, toned, die break and area of weak strike on obverse, off center on reverse.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 18 January 2002.

 

[apollonia]

Tetradramma Price 3571 (Gorny & Mosch 232).

GRIECHEN 
MAKEDONISCHE KÖNIGE 
Alexander III. der Große, 336 - 323 v. Chr. Tetradrachme (17,18g). ca. 323 - ca. 317 v. Chr. Mzst. in Phönizien oder Syrien. Vs.: Kopf des Herakles im Löwenskalp n. r. Rs.: AΛEΞANΔΡOΥ, Zeus mit Zepterstab und Adler n. l. thronend, davor Statuette der Athena n. r. Unter dem Thron Φ. Price 3571; Müller ­. R! ss-vz

 

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Tetradramma Price 3573 (CNG 61).

MACEDON, Kings of. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.13 gm). Uncertain Phoenician mint. Struck 323-317 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; Aramaic 'A' under throne. Price 3573 (same dies); Müller -. VF. Very rare issue. ($300)

Newell attributed this variety to Sidon, Year 1 (333/332 BC). Price, noting the absence of the Aramaic ‘S’ in the left field and the drawn back right leg of Zeus, concluded that this issue was not from Sidon but was unable to assign a specific mint.

 

 

 

[apollonia]

Tetradramma Price 3575 (CNG 63).

NGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.06 gm). Uncertain Phoenician or Syrian mint. Struck 317-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; boar's head before. Price 3575; Müller 900. Good VF, flat strike on reverse. ($300)

 

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Tetradramma variante del Price 3576 (CNG 416).

KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Antigonos I Monophthalmos – Ptolemy I Soter. Circa 317-300 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 17.02 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Uncertain mint in Phoenicia or Syria. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Corinthian helmet left above Σ. Price 3576 var. (position of Σ); Arena 31. Near EF, toned, mount removed from edge. Extremely rare, only the BM piece published.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.

 

Nella moneta pubblicata dal Price la lettera Σ è sotto il trono di Zeus.

 

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Tetradramma Price 3577 (Baldwin's Auctions, Autumn 2009).

ANCIENT COINS. Greek. Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III, The Great (336-323 BC), Silver Tetradrachm, uncertain Phoenician or Syrian mint, c.323-317 BC, head of young Herakles right, wearing lion-skin headdress, rev AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and sceptre, monograms to left and below throne, 16.20g (Price 3577). Some light scratches and surface erosion on reverse, good very fine.
Estimate: £140-180.

 

 

 

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Bronzo di Alessandro Magno, zecca di Mileto (acquisto dalla Savoca 11th blue auction).

KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great' (336-323 BC). Bronze, 17 mm, 3.92 g. Miletos mint, struck posthumously, circa 323-319 BC. Obv: Diademed head (Apollo?) right. Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY. Horseman right; labrys and monogram behind; monogram below. Price 2131. Very fine.

 

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La forma del monogramma è determinante per stabilire l’esatta attribuzione del bronzo secondo la classificazione del Price.

Posso documentare il bronzo 2132 con la foto del Price e quella dell’esemplare in Wildwinds, nella quale però la forma del monogramma non è molto evidente.

    

 

Alexander III, AE Unit. Miletus mint. ca 320 BC. Diademed male head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ (above) AΛEΞANΔΡOY (below) Horseman right. Double-axe and HYM monogram at top left, ME monogram beneath horse's forelegs. Price 2132.

 

 

[apollonia]

In questo esemplare Price 2133 (Solidus Numismatik 20) il monogramma è chiarissimo e l’attribuzione non presenta problemi.

Greek 
Königreich Makedonien. Alexander III. der Große (336 - 323 v. Chr.).
Bronze. 323 - 319 v. Chr. Milet.
Vs: Kopf des Apollon mit Tainia rechts.
Rs: Jugendlicher Reiter mit erhobener Hand nach rechts galoppierend, darunter Monogramm; im Feld links Doppelaxt (Labrys) neben Monogramm, links ovaler Gegenstempel: Blitzbündel.
18 mm. 5,19 g.
Price 2133; Vgl. Roma Numismatics, E-Sale 24 (2016), Nr. 63.
Äußerst seltene Variante. Vorzüglich / fast vorzüglich.

 

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Bronzo di Alessandro Magno con testa di Eracle a sinistra (Savoca 11th blue auction).

Grecia, re di Macedonia, Alessandro III il Grande, 336-323 a. C. AE (5,39 g, 16 mm). Zecca incerta della Macedonia. D/ Testa di Eracle con copricapo in pelle di leone, rivolto a sinistra. R/ Lettere B (Basileos) A (Alexandroy), sopra arco e faretra, sotto una clava, fulmine sotto la clava. BB

 

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Il bronzo è stato preso come modello anche nella monetazione di alcune città dell’Illiria, come questo esemplare di Dyrrhachion (Solidus Numismatik 12).

Illyrien. Dyrrhachion. Bronze. Ca. 42 - 38 v. Chr.
Vs: Kopf des jugendlichen Herakles mit Löwenfell links. Rs: Bogen, Keule und Köcher.
13 mm. 2,14 g.
SNG Copenhagen - (vgl. 519); HGC 3, - (vgl. 54).
Sehr schön.

 

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Bronzo simile con il nome del magistrato di zecca (Savoca 19).

Greek. Illyria. Dyrrhachion. ΚΛΕΙΤΟΡΙΟΣ (Kleitorios), magistrate circa 100-0 BC. Bronze Æ 15mm, 3,08g. Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin / ΚΛΕΙΤΟ-ΡΙΟΥ, bow, club and quiver, [ΔΥΡ within bow]. Nearly very fine. BMC, Thessaly to Aetolia, p. 77, 171.

 

[apollonia]

Tetradramma Price 3571 di una zecca siriana o fenicia (v. post # 3710) e tetradramma Price 105 di una zecca macedone (mio esemplare da un’asta Varesi, v. post # 56).

Dal confronto si nota come il Price distingua i tetradrammi con Atena come simbolo tra quelli con la dea in atteggiamento da combattimento (Atena Promachos, cioè prima in battaglia) e la dea sempre armata ma in un atteggiamento diverso (come l’Atena Parthenos).

 

 

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Il 13/10/2018 alle 19:36, apollonia dice:

In questa discussione ho avuto modo in più occasioni di parlare di Mitridate VI Eupatore, re del Ponto, e di presentare alcune monete sue e dei suoi tempi. Nell’asta Gorny & Mosch 257 che si tiene a giorni sarà battuto questo bronzo dei tempi di Mitridate VI che raffigura sul rovescio Pegaso al pascolo, ricollegandosi direttamente al mito di Perseo che era considerato l'antico progenitore dei sovrani del Ponto.

PONTUS. AMISOS. AE (12,77g). 85 - 65 v. Chr., Zeit des Mithradates VI. Vs.: Kopf des Perseus mit Greifenkopfhelm r. Rs.: ΑΜΙΣΟΥ, grasender Pegasos n.l., darunter Monogramme. SNG BM 1212ff. (Var.); Rec.gén. S. 69 Nr. 32 mit Taf.VII 27.
Dunkelbraune Patina, vz

 

Il lotto successivo è uno statere di Pergamo che raffigura sul rovescio un cervo al pascolo, animale già adottato da Farnace che sembra in questo caso alludere al culto di Artemide ad Efeso, riprendendo quella che era l'iconografia monetale della città sin dai tempi più antichi.

 

PONTUS. ACHÄMENIDISCHES KÖNIGTUM PONTUS. Mithradates VI. Eupator, 120 - 63 v. Chr. Stater (8,86g). 88 / 87 v. Chr. Mzst. Pergamon. Vs.: Kopf des Mithradates mit Königsbinde n. r. Rs.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΜΙΘΡΑΔΑΤΟΥ / ΕΥΠΑΤΟΡΟΣ, Hirsch n. l. äsend, im Feld l. Mondsichel und Stern, im Feld r. B / ΠΕ (= Jahr 2), das Ganze in einem dionysischen Kranz. SNG Aul. 6676 (Vs. stgl); De Callatay D7/R­ (ungelisteter Rs.­Stempel); HGC 334; Gulbenkian 941 (Vs. stgl).

Gold. R! Drittes bekanntes Exemplar! Rs. leicht dezentriert, sonst vz
Ex CNG, Auktion 97, 17. September 2014, Los 150

 

Statere di Mitridate VI: Lot 425, Estimate: 15'000 EUR   |   Starting price: 12'000 EUR Price realized: 17'000 EUR

 

[apollonia]

L’esemplare Price 3571 (non mio) al post # 3721 proviene dalla Gorny & Mosch 232.

GRIECHEN 
MAKEDONISCHE KÖNIGE 
Alexander III. der Große, 336 - 323 v. Chr. Tetradrachme (17,18g). ca. 323 - ca. 317 v. Chr. Mzst. in Phönizien oder Syrien. Vs.: Kopf des Herakles im Löwenskalp n. r. Rs.: AΛEΞANΔΡOΥ, Zeus mit Zepterstab und Adler n. l. thronend, davor Statuette der Athena n. r. Unter dem Thron Φ. Price 3571; Müller ­. R! ss-vz

 

L’esemplare Price 105 è il mio acquisto da un’asta Varesi.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.03 g, 24 mm). Amphipolis mint. Lifetime issue struck under Antipater, circa 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right wearing lion's skin headdress / ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Athena Promachos standing right. Price 105; Troxell, Studies Group F4. EF.

 

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Tetradramma tipo ‘Athena’ di Corinto Price 694 (Gorny & Mosch 219).

GRIECHEN 
MAKEDONISCHE KÖNIGE 
Alexander III. der Große, 336 - 323 v. Chr. Tetradrachme, (17,09g). ca. 310 - 290 v. Chr. Mzst. Korinth. Vs.: Kopf des Herakles mit Löwenskalp r. Rs.: AΛEΞANΔΡOΥ BAΣIΛEΩΣ, thronender Zeus mit Adler, l. im Feld Athenastatuette, unter dem Thron, der mit Niken geschmückt ist, Kranz, darin OΛ. Price 694; Müller 883. vz

 

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Tetradramma tipo ‘Athena’ di Corinto Price 695 (Triton IX).

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.35 g, 5h). Corinth mint. Struck circa 310-290 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / BASILEWS [AL]EXANDROU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; two Nikai decorating throne back; in left field, statue of Athena Nikephoros facing; OLU below throne. Price 695; SNG München 386 var. (OL not OLU). EF, minor die rust on obverse, slight die shift on reverse. ($500)