GC Le monete più attraenti di Alessandro Magno

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Quarto di statere Price 1361 (Roma Numismatics Auction 12)

Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III 'the Great' AV Quarter Stater. Lampsakos, circa AD 328-323. Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet / ΑΛΕΞΑΝ-ΔΡΟΥ in two lines above and below bow and club; conjoined foreparts of two horses in central upper field. Price 1361; SNG Berry 147. 2.14g, 10mm, 9h.
Very Fine. Extremely Rare, no examples present on CoinArchives with this symbol.

Starting price: 400 GBP. Estimate: 500 GBP. Result: 700 GBP

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Stateri falsi con il simbolo della doppia protome equina pubblicati dal Price.

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Falso Price F12 da forgerynetwork (Item 3987)

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Falso Price F13 da forgerynetwork (Item 3588)

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Falso del Price 1358 pubblicato da forgerynetwork (Item 14262)

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Esemplare dello statere Price 1358 di dubbia autenticità (TimeLine Auctions, May 2017 Antiquities & Coins Auction, lot 1026)

Macedonia - Alexander III - Gold Nike Stater 325-323 BC. Lampsakos mint. Obv: head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet ornamented with serpent. Rev: ALEXANDROY legend with Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis, conjoined foreparts of two horses back to back in left field; DIO monogram in lower left field. Price 1358; Mueller 394; SNG Cop 630. 8.46 grams.
Extremely fine.

Starting price: 1.125 GBP. Estimate: 1.250 GBP. Result: 1.450 GBP

 

Il dubbio è motivato dal nome del sovrano sul rovescio, giusto nella didascalia ma mancante della quarta lettera sulla moneta.

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Due esemplari dello statere Price 1358 sono stati aggiudicati alla CNG Electronic Auction 401.

Stesso conio, diversa centratura dei diritti, rovesci praticamente identici.

Lot 13. Estimate: 1500 USD. Price realized: 2400 USD

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (17.5mm, 8.56 g, 10h). Lampsakos mint. Struck under Kalas or Demarchos, circa 328/5-323 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; conjoined horse foreparts in left field, monogram below left wing. Price 1358; ADM II Series V. Good VF, underlying luster, tiny flan flaw on obverse.

 

Lot 14. Estimate: 1500 USD. Price realized: 2750 USD

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.61 g, 11h). Lampsakos mint. Struck under Kalas or Demarchos, circa 328/5-323 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; conjoined horse foreparts in left field, monogram below left wing. Price 1358; ADM II Series V. Good VF, underlying luster.

 

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Nel Price troviamo due tetradrammi con due protome di cavallo congiunte come simbolo, il no. 3064 e il no. 3065, attribuiti a una zecca incerta dell’Asia Minore meridionale.

Tetradramma Price 3065 (Collezione ANS) http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.33768

 

Dritto: Head of beardless Heracles right wearing lion skin headdress

Rovescio: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ - Zeus seated on stool-throne left, eagle on outstretched right hand, sceptre in left hand

Descrizione fisica: Asse: 10, Dimensioni: Peso: 16.86 g, Diametro: 26 mm

 

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Esemplare del tetradramma Price 3065 della National Numismatica Collection, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam https://nnc.dnb.nl/dnb-nnc-ontsluiting-frontend/#/collectie/object/GR-02699

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Un obolo dei sovrani macedoni ai tempi di Filippo III e Lisimaco con il simbolo della doppia protome equina non pubblicato dal Price (CNG Electronic Auction 345).

KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Philip III – Lysimachos. Circa 323-280 BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.56 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Thrace or Asia Minor. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, two horse foreparts conjoined at their truncation; P below throne. Price 3871 corr. (not Susa). VF, toned, light porosity. Extremely rare. From the Patrick H. James Collection.

The Hersh coin cited by Price for his 3871 is now in the BM: 2002,0101.953. That coin is poorly struck, but one can see the right side horse. This confirms that it is not an issue of Susa, and thus SC 194 ("attribution doubtful [possibly barbarous]") is correct in suspecting that the issue is not Seleukid. This obol issue is not otherwise known, but the style is consistent with Price 3064 (and probably also 3065), which are tetradrachms with this same left field control mark. This control mark was used on civic issues of Perinthos, which led Thompson (Newell) to assign coins of Lysimachos with it to this mint, though hesitatingly. In her study on the mint of Perinthos, Schönert-Geiss notes that it the city had a mint under Alexander and Lysimachos (p. 4), and that these tetradrachm issues were expressly from that mint, as this symbol was representative of Perinthos (p. 14). No other cities seems to have used this particular symbol as a badge. Unfortunately, there is little hoard evidence to support an attribution to any mint at this time, but Price’s placement of these under Southern Asia Minor is speculative.

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Il simbolo delle due protome di cavallo congiunte compare anche sui tetradrammi lisimachei di Perinto essendo il marchio della zecca di questa antica e fiorente città portuale greca della Tracia, affacciata sul Mar di Marmara.

Esemplare della CNG Feature Auction 118.

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.92 g, 12h). Perinthos mint. Struck circa 283/2 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; joined foreparts of two horses to inner left, two monograms in exergue. Thompson –; Müller –; HGC 3, 1750q. Toned, die break on reverse. Near EF. Extremely rare, unpublished in the standard references.
From the Father & Son Collection. Ex Berk BBS 203 (18 January 2018), lot 92; Berk BBS 204 (18 July 2018), lot 68.

Est. $1,500 - SOLD $4,500

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Esemplare del tetradramma di Lisimaco con doppia protome equina della CNG Electronic Auction 477.

Est. $750 – SOLD $850

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.03 g, 11h). Perinthos mint. Struck circa 283-281 BC, or shortly thereafter. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; to inner left, joined foreparts of two horses above monogram; monogram in exergue. Thompson –; Müller 135; HGC 3, 1750q. Lightly toned. VF.
 

From the James Barry Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 46 (24 June 1998), lot 236.

The reverse die used to strike the present coin was apparently used for a variety of issues at Perinthos--see Berk BBS 204, lot 68; CNG E-421, lot 31; Gorny & Mosch 134, lot 1206; Numismatick Naumann 81, lot 46; and Numismatick Naumann 63, lot 566 for examples of five separate issues with the same joined horse foreparts, but different monograms. As such, the joined horse foreparts symbol is certainly the mintmark, and only Perinthos is known to have employed it as such during this period.

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Esemplare del tetradramma di Lisimaco con doppia protome equina della CNG 485.

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.60 g, 12h). Perinthos mint. Struck circa 283/2 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; joined foreparts of two horses above monogram to inner left. Thompson 256; Müller 132; HGC 3, 1750q. Toned, porosity, scratches, marks. VF. Very rare mint for Lysimachos.

Est. $200 – SOLD $500

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Esemplare del tetradramma di Lisimaco con doppia protome equina della Triton XX.

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.89 g, 11h). Perinthos mint. Struck circa 283/2 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; to inner left, joined foreparts of two horses above monogram. Thompson 256; Müller 132. Near EF, toned. Fine style. Very rare mint for Lysimachos.

Ex Tkalec (7 May 2009), lot 31.

Triton XX, Lot: 98. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2750.

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Esemplare del tetradramma di Lisimaco con doppia protome equina della CNG 81.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.00 g, 12h). Perinthos mint. Struck circa 283/2 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; to inner left, joined foreparts of two horses above monogram. Thompson 256 (same dies). Good VF, a few minor contact marks. Interesting symbol.

During the closing years of his reign, much of Lysimachos’ coinage was produced in the Macedonian part of his kingdom. However, the buildup to his eventual confrontation with Seleukos I in 281 BC may have necessitated a revival of output from many mints that had been largely inactive by this time. These events would account for late issues from such mints as Perinthos and Ainos.

CNG 81, 20 May 2009, Lot: 256. Estimate $750. Sold For $1660.

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Esemplare del tetradramma di Lisimaco con doppia protome equina della Triton X.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.06 g, 11h). Perinthos mint. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BASILEWS LUSIMACOU, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; to inner left, joined foreparts of two horses above HP monogram. Thompson 256 var. (monogram); Müller 132-3 var. (same); cf. Meydancikkale 2688. EF, lovely cabinet tone with dark iridescence.

Triton X, 8 January 2007, Lot: 123. Estimate $3000. Sold For $3250. 

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Sempre nella nella NAC 124 ha raggiunto un costo di aggiudicazione astronomico questo decadramma babilonese del tipo Alessandro su Bucefalo in lotta con due indiani sull’elefante/Alessandro in tenuta militare incoronato dalla Nike, una tipologia rimasta a lungo assente dalle aste, a ricordo della battaglia dell’Idaspe (327 a. C.) contro il re indiano Poro quando i Macedoni incontrarono per la prima volta gli elefanti in battaglia.

Starting price: 240.000 CHF. Estimate: 300.000 CHF. Result: 700.000 CHF

Lot 84. Alexander III, 336 – 323 and posthumous issues.  
Decadrachm of 5 shekels, Babylon circa 327, AR 40.08 g. Alexander on Bucephalus facing r., spearing at a mahout and his master seated on an Indian elephant retreating r.; the mahout and master look back towards Alexander, the latter grasps the end of Alexander’s sarissa with his r. hand, the former brandishes a spear in his r. hand above his head while holding two further spears in his l. hand; above, [Ξ].

Rev. Alexander standing l. in military attire, wearing plumed Phrygian (?) helmet and holding a thunderbolt in his r. hand and a sarissa in his l.; above, Nike flies r. to crown him. In lower l. field AB ligate.

BMC 61 and pl. XXII, 18. Price, Circulation at Babylon in 323 B.C. in Mnemata: Papers in Memory of Nancy M. Waggoner, p. 70, 12 and pl. 15, 12 (this coin illustrated). Price, The Poros coinage of Alexander the Great, a Symbol of Concord and Community, in Studia Paolo Naster Oblata, pp. 75-6, OA/Rc. Mitchiner Type 21. Dürr, Neues aus Babylonien, SM 94, May 1974, p. 36, 1.
Exceedingly rare, ten specimens known of which only five are in private hands. An issue
of tremendous importance and fascination, of which this is undoubtedly one of the
finest specimens known. Areas of weakness, but unusually clear and complete and
with an unusually metal good for the issue. Good very fine.

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Dalla NAC AUCTION 124 una dracma di stile superbo sia nel volto di Eracle sia nella figura di Zeus.

Starting price: 600 CHF. Estimate: 750 CHF. Result: 850 CHF

Lot 86. Alexander III, 336 – 323 and posthumous issues.  
Drachm, Sardis circa 319-315, AR 4.25 g. Head of Heracles r., wearing lion’s skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Zeus seated l. on throne, holding eagle and sceptre; in lower l. field, monogram and, beneath the throne, Δ / monogram. Price 2685.
Of superb style and with a wonderful old cabinet tone. Good extremely fine

Ex New York sale XXVII, 2012, Prospero, 310. Privately purchased from Spink & Son 7 November 1984.

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Ancora dalla NAC AUCTION 124 un altro tetradramma “extra” ricomparso dopo una lunga assenza di questa tipologia dalle aste.

Lot 252. Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt, Ptolemy I as satrap, 323 – 305/4.  
Tetradrachm in the name and type of Alexander III, Memphis 322/1, AR 17.24 g. Head of Heracles r., wearing lion’s skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Zeus seated l. on throne, holding eagle and sceptre; in inner l. field, rose and below throne, ΔΙ – Ο. Müller 124. SNG Copenhagen 7. Zervos, ANSMN 13, issue 2c. Price 3971. CPE 19.
Wonderful old cabinet tone and extremely fine

Ex LHS 102, 2008, 136 and Manhattan II, 2011, 32 sales. From the Peter Guber and Starr collections.

Starting price: 3.200 CHF. Estimate: 4.000 CHF. Result: 10.000 CHF

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Un notevole bronzo di Alessandro della zecca di Tarso alla obolos WEBAUCTION 21 del 2 gennaio dell’anno prossimo.

Starting price: 75 CHF

Lot 230. KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’, 336-323 BC. Hemiobol (Bronze, 19 mm, 5.95 g, 10 h), Tarsos, c. 327-323. Head of youthful Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev. AΛEΞANΔPOY flanked by bow in case and club; above club, grape bunch on stem and A. Newell, Tarsos -. Price 3028. Glossy hard dark green patina, well centered and sharply struck. Extremely fine.

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Due esemplari del bronzo di Tarso del post precedente presenti nella mia collezione.

Greek, ALEXANDER III THE GREAT (336-323), Æ Unit (4,94 g. - 18 mm) Tarsos mint. Struck under Menes or Philotas, circa 327-323 BC. Vs: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin. Rs: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Club and bow in bow-case; grape cluster and A above. Price 3028, Müller 1537 - Good Very Fine.

 

Greek, ALEXANDER III THE GREAT (336-323), Æ Unit (6.455 g. – 17.5-19 mm), Tarsos mint. 327 - 323 BC. Vs: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin. Rs: ALEXANDPOY, Club and bow in bow-case; grapes and A above. Price 3028. Very Fine.

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Mi sono appena perso in asta questo incredibile tetradrammo di Alessandro; la conservazione non è la migliore possibile, ma un conio così gradevole non lo si vede spesso. Persa per 10 euro allo scadere del tempo... un vero peccato (per me).
Appena mi ricapiterà una moneta altrettanto bella non mancherò di metterla in collezione... spero presto.

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Mi sembra sia dell'asta Leu 18. Un bell'esemplare. Non so quanto abbia realizzato, ma un bel 500 euro tutto compreso ce l'avrei messo.

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Il bronzo catalogato dal Price col numero 3028 fa parte della terna di bronzi di Tarso elencati nella tabella tratta dal Price.

Esemplare del British Museum corrispondente al Price 3028 della foto.

Esemplare del British Museum corrispondente al Price 3029 della foto.