Lot 30001 > CALABRIA. Tarentum. Ca. 332-302 BC. AR stater or didrachm (22mm, 7.93 gm, 10h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 4/5. Sa-, magistrate. Nude warrior on horseback charging right, round shield and two javelins in left hand, preparing to cast a third in right; ΣA below / ΤΑΡΑΣ, Taras astride dolphin left, cantharus in outstretched right hand, trident cradled in left arm; dolphin left below. HN Italy 937. Fischer-Bossert 829 (V329/R642). Vlasto 622-3 (same dies). Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 90 (23 May 2012), lot 295; Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 39
Lot 1
Pradinė kaina: 600USD
Lot 30002 > CALABRIA. Tarentum. Time of Pyrrhus of Epirus (ca. 281-240 BC). AV quarter-stater (12mm, 2.14 gm, 10h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style. Ca. 280-275 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right, NK monogram behind / TAPANTINΩN, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings spread, AP monogram behind. Fischer-Bossert G63 (same dies). Vlasto 46 (same dies). SNG ANS 1042 variant (no AP monogram). HN Italy 986. Rare.
Lot 2
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30003 > LUCANIA. Sybaris. Ca. 550-510 BC. AR stater or nomos (30mm, 7.90 gm, 12h). NGC AU 5/5 - 2/5, bent. Bull standing left, head right, on beaded double ground line; VM above, beads between double linear border / Obverse, incuse and reversed, without legend. HN Italy 1729. SNG ANS 817-46.
Lot 3
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30004 > SICILY. Gela. Ca. 490-475 BC. AR didrachm (19mm, 8.38 gm, 7h). ANACS VF 35. Horseman, nude save for pileus, on horse galloping right, brandishing spear in his upraised right hand / CΕΛΑ, forepart of man-faced bull running right. Jenkins, Group I, 11. HGC 2, 362. Ex Jesús Vico, Auction 152 (15 November 2018), lot 214
Lot 4
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30005 > SICILY. Syracuse. Second Democracy (ca. 450-440 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 16.97 gm, 8h). NGC XF 4/5 - 2/5, brushed. Charioteer driving quadriga walking right, kentron in right hand, reins in both; Nike flying right above to crown the horses, ketos right in exergue / ΣYRAKO-Σ-I-O-N, head of Arethusa right, wearing wide taenia, pendant earring and pearl necklace, hair pulled up under taenia and looped over back; four dolphins swimming clockwise around. Boehringer 536 (V274/R374). SNG ANS 171 (same reverse die) and 172-5 (same obverse die). Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XVII (7 January 2014), lot 65; Peus 405 (2 November 2011), lot 2186
Lot 5
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30006 > SICILY. Syracuse. Second Democracy (ca. 450-440 BC). AR tetradrachm (24mm, 17.21 gm, 8h). NGC Choice VF 4/5 - 4/5. Ca. 450 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga walking right, kentron in right hand, reins in both; Nike flying right above to crown the horses, ketos right in exergue / ΣYRAKOΣI-O-N, diademed head of Arethusa right, hair in four large rolls behind, wearing pendant earring and pearl necklace; four dolphins swimming clockwise. Boehringer 517 (V271/R368). SNG ANS 166. Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 96 (14 May 2014), lot 13
Lot 6
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30007 > SICILY. Syracuse. Second Democracy (ca. 440-430 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 17.42 gm, 4h). NGC Choice XF 3/5 - 2/5, Fine Style, brushed. Charioteer driving prancing quadriga left, kentron in right hand, reins in both; Nike flying right above to crown driver, ketos left in exergue / ΣYRAKOΣI-ON, head of Arethusa right, wearing pendant earring and plain necklace, hair drawn up and tied at top; four dolphins swimming clockwise. Boehringer 604 (V296/R410). Jameson 775 (these dies). SNG Copenhagen 652 (same). Ex M. L. Collection of Coins of Magna Graecia and Sicily (Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 82 (20 May 2015), lot 57; Numismatic Fine Arts, Fall Mail Bid Sale (1990), lot 93
Lot 7
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30008 > SICILY. Syracuse. Dionysius I (405-367 BC). AV 20-litrai or trihemiobol (11mm, 1.16 gm, 2h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 4/5. Attic standard, ca. 406/5 BC. ΣYP, head of Heracles left, wearing lion skin headdress / Σ-Y-P-A, quadripartite incuse square, small head of Arethusa in central incuse circle; all within incuse circle with double border. SNG ANS 351-4. HGC 2, 1289.
Lot 8
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30009 > SICILY. Syracuse. Agathocles (317-289 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 16.98 gm, 1h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Pre-royal coinage, ca. 310-305 BC, Nk-, magistrate. Head of Persephone left, wreathed with grain ears, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; three dolphins swimming around, NK below neck truncation, dotted border / ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, charioteer driving fast quadriga left, reins in left hand, kentron in right; triskeles above, AN monogram in exergue, dotted border. HGC 2, 1348. SNG ANS 637 var. (NK ligate). Ex Numismatic Fine Arts, Auction XXVIII (23 April 1992), lot 582
Lot 9
Pradinė kaina: 2600USD
Lot 30010 > SICILY. Syracuse. Agathocles (317-289 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 17.13 gm, 7h). NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 4/5. Pre-royal coinage, ca. 310-305 BC, Fi-, magistrate. Head of Persephone left, wreathed with grain ears, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; three dolphins swimming around, ΦΙ below neck truncation, dotted border / ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, charioteer driving fast quadriga left, reins in left hand, kentron in right; triskeles above, AN monogram in exergue, dotted border. HGC 12, 1348. SNG ANS 640-3.
Lot 10
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30011 > SICILY. Siculo-Punic. Ca. 320-300 BC. AR tetradrachm (27mm, 16.90 gm, 7h). NGC AU S 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Head of Tanit-Persephone left, wreathed in reeds, wearing pearl necklace and triple-drop earring; four dolphins swimming around, dotted border / MMHNT' (Punic for 'People of the Camp'), horse head left; palm tree with two clusters of dates behind, linear border. Jenkins Punic 150 (O47/R135) same dies. HGC 2, 284. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts, Auction XXX (8 December 1992), lot 30
Lot 11
Pradinė kaina: 1500USD
Lot 30012 > ZEUGITANA. Carthage. Ca. 350-320 BC. AV stater (18mm, 9.28 gm, 9h). NGC AU 4/5 - 3/5, marks. Bust of Tanit left, hair wreathed with barley ears, wearing triple-pendant earring, and necklace with ten pendants; dotted border / Horse standing right on exergual line; three pellets to lower right at shin height, dotted border. Jenkins & Lewis, Group IIIh.
Lot 12
Pradinė kaina: 1600USD
Lot 30013 > ZEUGITANA. Carthage. Ca. 320-270 BC. EL stater (18mm, 7.52 gm, 12h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 5/5. Bust of Tanit left, hair wreathed with barley ears with prominent curl, without top spray, wearing triple-pendant earring, and necklace with nine pendants; pellet before, dotted border / Horse standing right on double exergual line; pellet to lower right, dotted border. Jenkins & Lewis, Group V 247-250. From the Estate of Gerald 'Jerry' Farber
Lot 13
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30014 > MACEDON. Acanthus. Ca. 470-430 BC. AR tetradrachm (29mm, 17.30 gm, 11h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Lion springing right, biting into hind quarters of bull kneeling to left with head raised; tunny fish left in exergue, thick beaded border / ΑΚΑ-Ν-ΘΙΟ-Ν, legend in raised letters on incuse band, around raised quadripartite square, all within shallow incuse square. Desneux 96. cf. SNG ANS 14-15 for later type of same issue.
Lot 14
Pradinė kaina: 1500USD
Lot 30015 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Philip II (359-336 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.61 gm, 10h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Lifetime-early posthumous issue of Pella II, ca. 340-328 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, charioteer driving racing biga right, reins in left hand, kentron in right; cantharus below horses. SNG ANS 138-43.
Lot 15
Pradinė kaina: 1500USD
Lot 30016 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Philip II (359-336 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.62 gm, 9h). NGC AU 5/5 - 4/5. Late lifetime-early posthumous issue of Pella, ca. 340/36-328 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / ΦIΛIΠΠOY, charioteer driving racing biga right, kentron in right hand, reins in left; thunderbolt below horses. Le Rider 89 (D42/R68). SNG ANS 130-7. Ex Patrick Mulcahy Collection
Lot 16
Pradinė kaina: 1500USD
Lot 30017 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Philip II (359-336 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 14.13 gm, 5h). NGC Choice XF S 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Amphipolis IV, ca. 315/4-295/4 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / ΦΙΛΙΠ-ΠOY, youth on horseback right, crowning horse with palm; Λ above torch below, tripod below horse's raised left foreleg. Le Rider pl. 47, 24-5. SNG ANS 798. Ex D. F. Grotjohann, private sale; Gemini VI (10 January 2010), lot 68
Lot 17
Pradinė kaina: 825USD
Lot 30018 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.56 gm, 11h). NGC MS 4/5 - 3/5, Fine Style, flan flaw. Posthumous issue of Babylon, under Seleucus I, ca. 311-305 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing earring and triple-crested Corinthian helmet with short parallel crest ends pushed back on head, the bowl decorated with griffin leaping right, hair falling straight in three tight spiral curls / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, Nike standing left, wreath in outstretched right hand, stylis cradled in left arm; MI in outer left field, HYP monogram in wreath in left field below wing. SC 81.3 corr. (griffin, not sphinx). Price 3749 corr. (same).
Lot 18
Pradinė kaina: 1150USD
Lot 30019 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.61 gm, 11h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Posthumous issue of Amphipolis, under Cassander, ca. 310-301 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing necklace and triple-crested Corinthian helmet with long divergent crest ends pushed back on head, the bowl decorated with coiled serpent right, hair falling in five tight spiral curls and loose over left shoulder / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Nike standing facing, head left, wreath in outstretched right hand, stylis cradled on left arm; trident head left in left field, pellet in lower right field. Price -, cf. 175, but apparently unpublished with pellet in field. Müller -.
Lot 19
Pradinė kaina: 2200USD
Lot 30020 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.59 gm, 11h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Lifetime issue of Lampsacus, under Calas or Demarchus, ca. 328/5-323 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing pendant earring, double necklace and triple-crested Corinthian helmet with long divergent crest ends pushed back on head, the bowl decorated with coiled serpent right, hair falling straight in four tight curls and across left shoulder / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing facing, head left, wreath in outstretched right hand, stylis cradled in left arm; conjoined foreparts of two horses in outer left field, ΔIO monogram under wing to left. Price 1358.
Lot 20
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30021 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.58 gm, 9h). NGC AU 5/5 - 2/5, ex-jewelry. Lifetime or early posthumous issue of Amphipolis, ca. 330-320 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing necklace and triple-crested Corinthian helmet with divergent crest ends, pushed back on head, the bowl decorated with coiled serpent, hair falling straight in six tight corkscrew curls / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing facing, head left, wreath in outstretched right hand, stylis cradled in left arm; vertical thunderbolt in outer left field. Price 164.
Lot 21
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30022 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AV stater (17mm, 6h). ANACS XF40. Lifetime or early posthumous issue of 'Amphipolis', ca. 330-320 BC. Head of Athena right, hair falling loose, wearing necklace and crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on head, short parallel crest ends, the bowl decorated with coiled serpent / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, wreath in outstretched right hand, stylis cradled in left arm; trident head downward in left field, AO monogram below wing in left field. Price 179.
Lot 22
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30023 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AV quarter-stater (11mm, 2.15 gm, 5h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Late lifetime-early posthumous issue of Amphipolis, under Antipater, ca. 325-319 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing necklace and triple-crested Corinthian helmet with short divergent crest ends pushed back on head, the bowl decorated with coiled serpent right, hair falling straight in three tight spiral curls and loose over left shoulder / AΛEΞA/NΔPOY, horizontal bow and club left, horizontal thunderbolt above. Price 165. Ex Collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams (Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 100, 7 October 2015), lot 47; Pars Coins, private sale, September 2000 Unusual legend break. Price does not differentiate the legend breaks and positions on the reverse, but there are three known varieties: top to bottom N/Δ (most common); top to bottom A/N; and bottom to top N/Δ.
Lot 23
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30024 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 17.08 gm, 11h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style, scratches. Early Ptolemaic issue of Memphis (or Alexandria), under Ptolemy I Soter, as satrap, ca. 323/2-317/1 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, feet on stool, eagle in right hand, scepter in left; rose in left field, ΔI-O below strut and in inner right field. Price 3971. Ex Stack's Bowers & Ponterio (NYINC, 9 January 2015), lot 57 Tetradrachms of Alexander from the mint of Memphis, Egypt are widely regarded as stylistically the most beautiful in the series.
Lot 24
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30025 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Philip III Arrhidaeus (323-317 BC). AV stater (17mm, 8.54 gm, 12h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 5/5, Fine Style. Magnesia ad Maeandrum, ca. 323-319 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace and triple-crested Corinthian helmet with long divergent crest ties pushed back on head, the bowl decorated with griffin leaping right, hair falling loose in waves and over left shoulder / ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟY, Nike standing left, wreath in outstretched right hand, stylis cradled in left arm; cornucopia below wing in left field. Price P59. Apparently quite rare - no examples in sales archives.
Lot 25
Pradinė kaina: 1250USD
Lot 30026 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Demetrius I Poliorcetes (306-283 BC). AR tetradrachm (28mm, 17.12 gm, 5h). NGC AU 5/5 - 4/5. Amphipolis, 289-288 BC. Diademed head of Demetrius I right, with bull's horn / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΔHMHTPIOY, Poseidon, nude, standing left, grounded trident in left hand, leaning with right arm on leg with right foot on rock; EYΦ monogram in outer left field, ΔP monogram in outer right field. Newell 124. HCG 3, 1014b.
Lot 26
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30027 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Perseus (179-168 BC). AR tetradrachm (32mm, 16.78 gm, 11h). NGC AU S 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Attic-weight issue, Pella or Amphipolis, 179-173 BC. Diademed head of Perseus right, with close beard / ΒΑΣΙ-ΛΕΩΣ / ΠΕP-ΣΕΩΣ, eagle with spread wings standing right on thunderbolt; IΩ monogram above, EY monogram below, and in EΘ monogram in right field; all within oak wreath, plow right below. SNG Copenhagen -. Dewing 1211. Mamroth S. 17, 5. Ex Ed Waddell, private sale with old dealer tag
Lot 27
Pradinė kaina: 775USD
Lot 30028 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Perseus (179-168 BC). AR tetradrachm (33mm, 14.88 gm, 12h). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5. Reduced standard, Pella, ca. 170-168 BC. Diademed head of Perseus right / ΒΑΣΙ-ΛΕΩΣ / ΠΕP-ΣΕΩΣ, eagle standing right on thunderbolt, wings spread; Φ above, AY monogram to right, AN monogram between legs, all within oak wreath, plow right below. Mamroth 24. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts, Auction XXX (8 December 1992), lot 62
Lot 28
Pradinė kaina: 775USD
Lot 30029 > SCYTHIA. Olbia. Ca. 470-460 BC. AE large aes grave (70mm, 110.98 gm, 4h). VF. Head of Athena left, wearing Attic helmet; tailless dolphin with large eye and central spine upward to left / Π-A-Y-Σ, wheel with four spokes. Anokhin 164. SNG BM Black Sea -. cf. HGC 3, 1883 (medium aes grave).
Lot 29
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30030 > SCYTHIA. Geto-Dacians. Coson (ca. after 54 BC). AV stater (19mm, 8.30 gm, 11h). NGC Choice MS S 5/5 - 5/5. Ca. 44-42 BC. Roman consul walking left, accompanied by two lictors fore and aft; BA monogram before, KOΣΩN in exergue / Eagle with spread wings standing left on scepter, clutching laurel wreath in right talon; pellet in left field. HGC 3.2, 2049. RPC I 1701A. Note - the pellet on the reverse exists on some issues and not others, but isn't given distinction in the references.
Lot 30
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30031 > SCYTHIA. Geto-Dacians. Coson (ca. after 54 BC). AV stater (21mm, 8.43 gm, 12h). NGC Choice MS 5/5 - 5/5. Ca. 44-42 BC. Roman consul walking left, accompanied by two lictors fore and aft; BA monogram before, KOΣΩN in exergue / Eagle with spread wings standing left on scepter, clutching laurel wreath in right talon. HGC 3.2, 2049. RPC I 1701A. Nicely centered on ample flan, providing for full beaded border to be visible on both sides. Received as an anonymous donation to the Salvation Army in a Tampa "red kettle" location on 12 December 2019. Originally in an ICG holder, we have since upgraded it to an NGC holder. The successful bidder on this lot will also receive the notecard which accompanied the coin, as shown in the photos. Please {A HREF="https://www.wtsp.com/article/life/holidays/a-second-ancient-gold-coin-found-in-a-salvation-army-red-kettle-in-tampa/67-ff7c257c-21e2-45d7-b5fb-f92bcbc9546b" target="_blank"}click here{/A} to read the news story about this generous donation: All proceeds from the sale of this lot, including the buyer's premium, will be donated back to the Salvation Army.
Lot 31
Pradinė kaina: 1150USD
Lot 30032 > SCYTHIA. Geto-Dacians. Coson (ca. after 54 BC). AV stater (19mm, 8.39 gm, 12h). NGC MS 4/5 - 4/5. Ca. 44-42 BC. Roman consul walking left, accompanied by two lictors fore and aft; KOΣΩN in exergue / Eagle with spread wings standing left on scepter, clutching laurel wreath in right talon; • in upper and lower left fields. HGC 3.2, 2049. RPC I 1701. Received as an anonymous donation to the Salvation Army in a Tampa "red kettle" location on 6 December 2019. Originally in an ICG holder, we have since upgraded it to an NGC holder. Please {a href="https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/rare-coin-from-44-42-b-c-dropped-in-salvation-army-red-kettle-in-tampa/"}click here{/a} to read the news story about this generous donation. All proceeds from the sale of this lot, including the buyer's premium, will be donated back to the Salvation Army.
Lot 32
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30033 > THRACIAN KINGDOM. Lysimachus (305-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (32mm, 17.02 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU S 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Pergamum, ca. 287/6-282 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander III right, with horn of Ammon; K below, dotted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena seated left, Nike crowning royal name in right hand, resting left arm on grounded shield decorated with gorgoneion head boss, transverse spear in background; N in outer left field, archaic xoanon (cult image) in inner left field, crescent left in exergue. Thompson 225. Meydancikkale 2679. Müller 290 (uncertain Thrace). The K-signed dies of Pergamum are often considered the finest style tetradrachm issue of Lysimachus. According to H.A. Cahn ("Frühhellenistiche Münzkunst, Kleine Schriften zur Münzkunde und Archäologie", Basel 1975, p. 121-126), this engraver may have been the same who designed, for the same mint, the dies of the famous portrait of Seleucus I on the silver tetradrachms of Philetaerus.
Lot 33
Pradinė kaina: 1500USD
Lot 30034 > THRACIAN KINGDOM. Lysimachus (305-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (29mm, 16.95 gm, 12h). NGC AU 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style. Lampsacus, 297/6-281 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander III right, with horn of Ammon / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, Athena enthroned left, Nike in right hand crowning royal name, resting left arm on shield decorated with lion head boss, transverse spear beyond; HP monogram in inner left field, crescent left in exergue. Thompson 47. Müller 401. Ex Pars Coins, private sale with old dealer tag
Lot 34
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30035 > THRACIAN KINGDOM. Lysimachus (305-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (31mm, 17.31 gm, 4h). NGC AU 5/5 - 4/5, die shift. Amphipolis, ca. 288-282 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander III right, with horn of Ammon; dotted border / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, Athena enthroned left, Nike in right hand crowning royal name, resting left arm on shield with gorgoneion boss, transverse spear beyond; caduceus with handle in inner left field, MYE monogram in outer right field. Müller 105. Thompson 194. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts, Auction XXVIII (23 April 1992), lot 606
Lot 35
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30036 > THRACIAN KINGDOM. Lysimachus (305-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (31mm, 17.46 gm, 10h). NGC Choice XF S 5/5 - 5/5. Pergamum, ca. 297-281 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander III right, with horn of Ammon / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, Athena enthroned left, Nike in right hand crowning royal name, resting left arm on shield decorated with gorgoneion head boss, transverse spear beyond; ΠYNΘ monogram in inner left field, HΔTP monogram in outer left field. Mueller 543. Thompson 201. From the Estate of Gerald 'Jerry' Farber
Lot 36
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30037 > THRACIAN KINGDOM. Lysimachus (305-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (31mm, 17.22 gm, 11h). NGC Choice XF S 5/5 - 4/5. Amphipolis, 288-282 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander III right, with horn of Ammon / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, Athena enthroned left, Nike in right hand crowning royal name, resting left arm on grounded shield decorated with gorgoneion head boss, transverse spear beyond; caduceus in inner left field, bee seen from above in outer right field. Thompson, Essays Robinson, 190. Ex Harlan Berk, private sale with old dealer tag
Lot 37
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30038 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 510/500-480 BC. AR tetradrachm (21mm, 16.77 gm, 11h). NGC VF 5/5 - 4/5. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet, the crest box ornamented with chevron pattern / AΘΕ, owl standing right with closed wings, head facing; drooping olive sprig with two leaves and one berry behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1590 (ca. 500/490-485/480 BC). Seltman Groups C, G and M.
Lot 38
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30039 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 475-465 BC. AR light weight tetradrachm (24mm, 15.62 gm, 11h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5, edge cuts. Head of Athena right with frontal eye and 'archaic smile', hair drawn in wavy line across forehead, wearing Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll, earring and pearl necklace / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and small crescent moon behind, all within deep incuse square. HGC 4, 1593. Starr Group II.
Lot 39
Pradinė kaina: 500USD
Lot 30040 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 465-455 BC. AR tetradrachm (25mm, 17.16 gm, 7h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1596. Starr Group V.
Lot 40
Pradinė kaina: 625USD
Lot 30041 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 465-455 BC. AR tetradrachm (23mm, 17.10 gm, 10h). NGC AU S 5/5 - 5/5. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1596. Starr Group V.
Lot 41
Pradinė kaina: 875USD
Lot 30042 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 440-404 BC. AR tetradrachm (26mm, 17.21 gm, 10h). NGC Choice MS 5/5 - 5/5. Mid-mass coinage issue. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1597. SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Kroll 8. Perfectly struck on blazing lustrous surfaces.
Lot 42
Pradinė kaina: 1050USD
Lot 30043 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 440-404 BC. AR tetradrachm (26mm, 17.18 gm, 10h). NGC MS S 5/5 - 5/5, Full Crest. Mid-mass coinage issue. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1597. SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Kroll 8. Magnificently struck on ample flan with prooflike luster.
Lot 43
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30044 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 440-404 BC. AR tetradrachm (25mm, 17.19 gm, 3h). NGC MS S 5/5 - 5/5. Mid-mass coinage issue. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1597. SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Kroll 8.
Lot 44
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30045 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 440-404 BC. AR tetradrachm (24mm, 17.22 gm, 10h). NGC MS 5/5 - 5/5. Mid-mass coinage issue. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1597. SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Kroll 8.
Lot 45
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30046 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 440-404 BC. AR tetradrachm (25mm, 17.20 gm, 3h). NGC MS 5/5 - 5/5. Mid-mass coinage issue. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1597. SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Kroll 8.
Lot 46
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30047 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 440-404 BC. AR tetradrachm (25mm, 17.21 gm, 2h). NGC MS 5/5 - 5/5. Mid-mass coinage issue. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1597. SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Kroll 8.
Lot 47
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30048 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 440-404 BC. AR tetradrachm (24mm, 17.23 gm, 6h). NGC MS 5/5 - 5/5. Mid-mass coinage issue. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1597. SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Kroll 8.
Lot 48
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30049 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 440-404 BC. AR tetradrachm (25mm, 17.20 gm, 6h). NGC MS 5/5 - 5/5. Mid-mass coinage issue. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1597. SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Kroll 8.
Lot 49
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30050 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 440-404 BC. AR tetradrachm (24mm, 17.18 gm, 10h). NGC MS 5/5 - 5/5. Mid-mass coinage issue. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1597. SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Kroll 8.
Lot 50
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30051 > ATTICA. Athens. Ca. 440-404 BC. AR tetradrachm (25mm, 17.19 gm, 10h). NGC Choice AU S 5/5 - 5/5. Mid-mass coinage issue. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1597. SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Kroll 8.
Lot 51
Pradinė kaina: 500USD
Lot 30052 > SICYONIA. Sicyon. Ca. 400-323 BC. AR stater (24mm, 12.26 gm, 9h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 1/5, Fine Style, brushed. Chimera advancing left, mouth of lion open and tongue extended, right forepaw raised; ΣE below, laurel wreath above / Dove flying left; N below beak, all within laurel wreath. BMC 54. BCD Peloponnesos 218. Ex D. F. Grotjohann, private sale with old dealer tag; Gorny & Mosch, Auction 55 (January 1991), lot 238
Lot 52
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30053 > PONTIC KINGDOM. Mithradates VI Eupator (120-63 BC). AV stater (19mm, 8.29 gm, 12h). NGC Choice MS 4/5 - 5/5. Late posthumous issue of Tomis, in the name and type of Lysimachus of Thrace, ca. 88-86 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander III right, wearing horn of Ammon; pellet behind / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena seated left, left elbow resting on shield, Nike in right hand crowning royal name, transverse spear beyond; ΔΙO above pellet to inner left, TO below throne, filleted trident left in exergue. Müller 277. SNG Copenhagen 1093. De Callatay 141-2. Note - the pellets on both sides are not noted in the references and there are examples with and without pellets on either side.
Lot 53
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30054 > BITHYNIAN KINGDOM. Prusias I (ca. 230-182 BC). AR tetradrachm (37mm, 16.94 gm, 1h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 3/5. Diademed head of Prusias I right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΠΡΟΥΣΙΟΥ, Zeus standing facing, head left, crowning royal name with diadem in right hand, scepter in left; thunderbolt above ME monogram above ANΣ monogram in inner left field. Waddington 9b. Jameson 1387. SNG von Aulock 6878. Even before the Wars of Diadochi had concluded, the region of Bithynia in Asia Minor along the southern coast of the Black Sea had declared its independence from the vast realms ruled by Alexander's successors. Bithynia's kings were part of a native dynasty descended from two Thracian tribes that occupied the region centuries earlier, with admixture of royal Persian blood. Of the early dynasts, Zipoetres, Nicomedes I, and Ziaelas, we know comparatively little, except their evident love for war and plunder. Prusias I, the fourth independent king of Bithynia, was celebrated for his love of Greek culture and his ability to maintain his kingdom's power and prosperity during a time of turmoil in the Hellenistic world. He successfully conducted wars against the Galatians and the Attalid Kingdom of Pergamum, the latter with the help of the great Carthaginian General Hannibal. However, after first granting Hannibal refuge, Prusias was forced to give him up to the Romans, who demanded his surrender; Hannibal took poison in response. The portrait coins of Prusias are among the finest of the Hellenistic series, depicting him with a luxuriant set of chin-whiskers and a self-satisfied smirk.
Lot 54
Pradinė kaina: 500USD
Lot 30055 > MYSIA. Cyzicus. Ca. 600-550 BC. EL sixth-stater or hecte (10mm, 2.67 gm). NGC XF 5/5 - 3/5. Tunny fish left, with single large, curved griffin wing / Quadripartite incuse square. Greenwell 160. Hurter-Liewald III, 37.2. Cf. BMFA 1405 (stater). Note - Greenwell (written in 1887) describes the obverse of this type as 'pecten shell, hinge downward, tunny left below'.
Lot 55
Pradinė kaina: 500USD
Lot 30056 > MYSIA. Cyzicus. Ca. 550-450 BC. EL stater (22mm, 15.99 gm). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 2/5, brushed. Forepart of ram running left; tunny upward behind / Quadripartite mill-sail incuse square. Greenwell 132. Boston MFA 1420.
Lot 56
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30057 > MYSIA. Cyzicus. Ca. 390-330 BC. AR tetradrachm (23mm, 15.07 gm, 6h). NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 3/5. Head of Kore-Soteira left, wearing single-pendant earring, two grain ears in hair tucked in sphendone / KY-ZI, head of lion left, mouth open with tongue protruding; bee behind, tunny left below. SNG von Aulock 7344.
Lot 57
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30058 > IONIA. Uncertain mint. Ca. 650-550 BC. EL sixth-stater or hecte (10mm, 2.32 gm). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 5/5. Lydo-Milesian standard. Head of lion right, mouth open / Incuse square punch with rough interior. cf. Linzalone 1123 (Smyrna, hemihecte). Cf. Weidauer 184 (stater). Traité -. SNG Kayhan -. Apparently unpublished in the standard references. Superb early post-archaic style.
Lot 58
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30059 > IONIA. Ephesus. Phanes (ca. 625-600 BC). EL 1/12 stater or hemihecte (8mm, 1.17 gm). NGC XF 5/5 - 4/5. Forepart of stag right, head reverted / Abstract geometric pattern within incuse square punch. Weidauer 36-7. Linzalone LN1104 var. (stag left). Traite pl. II, 20. Phanes was evidently a Carian or Ephesian minister or aristocrat of the later 7th century BC. The name is known from a rare group of electrum staters and a lesser denominations that bear a stag and the Greek legend "I am the badge of Phanes" or "of Phanes." These are among the earliest coins to bear legends. It has also been speculated that the name refers to a divinity, perhaps Apollo-Phaneos (light-bringer) or Artemis (due to the stag). The Phanes coinage falls into seven denominations, from a full stater down to a 1/96 stater, all featuring the stag in various poses; only the full stater and third-stater or trite are inscribed, but the distinctive rendering of the stag links all denominations of the series to the same issuer. The fact that Phanes is otherwise unattested as a king or satrap indicates the first coins may have been struck by private individuals, rather than governments or royal courts.
Lot 59
Pradinė kaina: 550USD
Lot 30060 > IONIA. Ephesus. Ca. 133-88 BC. AV stater (19mm, 8.43 gm, 11h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. First series, ca. 133-100 BC. Draped bust of Artemis right, hair drawn into knot at back of head, wearing stephane and drop earring, bow and quiver over left shoulder / Cult statue of Artemis Ephesia facing, fillet hanging from each hand, Ε-Φ to either side of head, lighted torch (or thymiaterion) in inner right field between statue and fillet. Jenkins, Hellenistic, pl. B, 6 (dated 123-119 BC). Head p. 69, 4 var. (different control mark). The Hellenistic gold staters of Ephesus have been the subject of long-running debate over when they were struck. In the 1880s, the eminent Barklay V. Head assigned them to the period of the Mithradatic Wars, circa 88-86 BC, when Ephesus briefly came under the control of the Pontic King Mithradates VI Eupator. However, as more varieties were discovered over the next century, it became clear they were struck over a much longer period of time. G.K. Jenkins, in a 1987 article, placed them in two groups starting in the later second century BC, after the Roman takeover of Asia Province in 133 BC, and linked the reverse symbols present on several varieties to similar symbols found on the common cistophoric tetradrachm coinage of the Roman era. Staters with a simpler two-letter ethnic, including the present example, belong to the earlier period, prior to 100 BC, while coins with a longer form come later in the series.
Lot 60
Pradinė kaina: 1050USD
Lot 30061 > IONIA. Magnesia ad Meandrum. Ca. mid-2nd century BC. AV stater (19mm, 8.44 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Ca. 155-145 BC. Euphemus and Pausanius, magistrates. Draped bust of Artemis right, wearing stephane, hair gathered into knot at back of head, quiver and bow over shoulder / ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ, Nike standing in car of fast biga right, kentron in right hand, reins in left; ΕΥΦΗΜΟΣ below horses, ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΟΥ below ground line. BMC Ionia -. SNG Von Aulock -. SNG Copenhagen -. A completely unrecorded denomination and type for this city. Magnesia ad Meandrum was founded on the banks of the Lecathus, a tributary of the Meander river, in south-western Ionia circa the mid-700s BC by a tribe from Thessaly known as the Magnetes, plus colonists from Crete. In the mid-2nd century BC, Magnesia was among the cities that enjoyed a renaissance of classical Greek coinage, issuing large and beautiful stephanophoric ("wreath bearing") silver tetradrachms bearing a lovely head of the city's patron goddess, Artemis, with a reverse depicting her brother Apollo standing atop a meander pattern. These coins carried the names of a series of magistrates (or, as suggested by Nicholas F. Jones, wealthy civic patrons who financed the coinage), including probably the same Euphemus and Pausanius named on this gold stater, allowing us to date this remarkable piece to the same era as the stephanophoric tetradrachms, circa 155-145 BC. While Artemis graces the obverse, the reverse depiction of Nike driving a biga is otherwise unknown on any coinage of Magnesia and suggests that the issuance of our stater was in honor of a military victory of some kind, or perhaps the anniversary of a great victory. Since Magnesia was not itself a military powerhouse, the occasion must remain an open question, although the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Magnesia, which fell in December 150 BC, is a possibility. Although the battle between the Roman Republic and the Seleucid Kingdom occurred near a different Magnesia (ad Sipylum in Lydia), it effectively freed western Asia Minor from Seleucid control and gave the cities therein a large measure of autonomy within the loosely controlled Pergamene Kingdom.
Lot 61
Pradinė kaina: 1500USD
Lot 30062 > IONIA. Magnesia ad Meandrum. Ca. mid-2nd century BC. AV stater (19mm, 8.49 gm, 11h). NGC AU 5/5 - 3/5. Ca. 155-145 BC. Euphemus and Pausanius, magistrates. Draped bust of Artemis right, wearing stephane, hair gathered into knot at back of head, quiver and bow over shoulder / ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ, Nike standing in car of fast biga right, kentron in right hand, reins in left; ΕΥΦΗΜΟΣ below horses, ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΟΥ below ground line. BMC Ionia -. SNG Von Aulock -. SNG Copenhagen -.
Lot 62
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30063 > IONIA. Magnesia ad Meandrum. Ca. mid-2nd century BC. AV stater (19mm, 8.44 gm, 12h). NGC AU 5/5 - 3/5, brushed. Ca. 155-145 BC. Euphemus and Pausanius, magistrates. Draped bust of Artemis right, wearing stephane, hair gathered into knot at back of head, quiver and bow over shoulder / ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ, Nike standing in car of fast biga right, kentron in right hand, reins in left; ΕΥΦΗΜΟΣ below horses, ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΟΥ below ground line. BMC Ionia -. SNG Von Aulock -. SNG Copenhagen-.
Lot 63
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30064 > IONIA. Phocaea. Ca. 625-522 BC. EL sixth-stater or hecte (10mm, 2.59 gm). NGC AU 4/5 - 3/5. Seal swimming left, head reverted; annulet below / Rough quadripartite incuse mill-sail square punch. Bodenstedt 1.4. Extremely rare - only one example cited in Bodenstadt and only one example in sales archives. Cf. Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 25 (25 June 2003), lot 181.
Lot 64
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30065 > CARIAN SATRAPS. Maussollus (ca. 377-353 BC). AR tetradrachm (23mm, 15.14 gm, 12h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Halicarnassus, after 367 BC. Laureate bust of Apollo facing, turned slightly right, hair parted in center and swept to either side, cloak fastened around neck / ΜΑΥΣΣΩΛΛΟ, Zeus standing right, bipennis in right hand over shoulder, scepter in left; wreath in left field. SNG von Aulock -, cf. 2358-2360 (letters in field). Gulbenkian 782.
Lot 65
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30066 > CARIAN SATRAPS. Pixodarus (ca. 341/0-336/5 BC). AR didrachm (22mm, 6.91 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style, brushed. Laureate bust of Apollo facing, turned slightly right, hair parted in center and swept to either side, cloak fastened around neck / ΠIΞΩΔAPOY, Zeus standing right, bipennis in right hand over shoulder, scepter in left. Konuk, Coin Hoards IX, 36c. SNG Copenhagen 596-7. SNG von Aulock 2375-6. Stunning high-relief obverse, with contrasting toning which serves to bring the portrait to life.
Lot 66
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30067 > CARIAN SATRAPS. Pixodarus (ca. 341/0-336/5 BC). AR didrachm (20mm, 6.96 gm, 11h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Laureate bust of Apollo facing, turned slightly right, hair parted in center and swept to either side, cloak fastened around neck / ΠIΞΩΔAPOY, Zeus standing right, bipennis in right hand over shoulder, scepter in left. Konuk, Coin Hoards IX, 36c (A4/P19) (this coin). SNG Copenhagen 596-7. SNG von Aulock 2375-6. Striking rainbow toning on obverse. Ex Gemini Auction I (11 January 2005), lot 174; Commander David R. Hinkle Collection
Lot 67
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30068 > CARIAN ISLANDS. Rhodes. Ca. 230-205 BC. AR tetradrachm (28mm, 13.52 gm, 12h). NGC AU 4/5 - 3/5, Fine Style, flan flaw. Ca. mid-late 220s BC, Ameinias, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios facing, turned slightly right, hair parted in middle and swept to either side / ΡΟΔΙΟΝ, rose with single bud on tendril to right; AMHEIN-IAΣ across field, galley prow in left field. HGC 6, 1432. Ashton 212. Note - the magistrate's name is actually misspelled on this die. There should not be an H.
Lot 68
Pradinė kaina: 525USD
Lot 30069 > LYDIAN KINGDOM. Alyattes or Walwet (ca. 610-546 BC). EL third-stater or trite (13mm, 4.69 gm). NGC XF 5/5 - 3/5, light scratches. Uninscribed, Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of lion right, mouth open, mane bristling, radiate globule above eye / Two square punches of different size, side by side, with irregular interior surfaces. Linzalone 1090. Weidauer 86. Boston 1764. SNG von Aulock 2868. SNG Kayhan 1013.
Lot 69
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30070 > LYDIAN KINGDOM. Alyattes or Walwet (ca. 610-546 BC). EL third-stater or trite (13mm, 4.69 gm). NGC Choice VF 4/5 - 4/5. Uninscribed, Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of lion right, mouth open, mane bristling, radiate globule above eye / Two square punches of different size, side by side, with irregular interior surfaces. Linzalone 1090. Weidauer 86. Boston 1764. SNG von Aulock 2868. SNG Kayhan 1013.
Lot 70
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30071 > LYDIAN KINGDOM. Alyattes or Walwet (ca. 610-546 BC). EL third-stater or trite (13mm, 4.64 gm). NGC VF 4/5 - 4/5. Uninscribed, Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of lion right, mouth open, mane bristling, radiate globule above eye / Two square punches of different size, side by side, with irregular interior surfaces. Linzalone 1090. Weidauer 86. Boston 1764. SNG von Aulock 2868. SNG Kayhan 1013.
Lot 71
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30072 > LYDIAN KINGDOM. Walwet (before ca. 560 BC). EL third-stater or trite (13mm, 4.67 gm). NGC VF 5/5 - 3/5. Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes(?) mint. Confronting lion's heads, only the left (facing right) visible; WALWET (Lydian script) between / Two incuse square punches of unequal size, side by side, with irregular interior surfaces. Weidauer Group XVII, 95. SNG von Aulock 8204. Known examples of electrum coins inscribed in the name of the Lydian king Alyattes (rendered WALWET in the ancient Lydian script) were in the single digits until recently, when several examples appeared on the market. They remain extremely rare and are certainly among the first coins in history to carry an inscription along with a "type." The dies of third-staters (trites) and sixth-staters (hectes) were engraved with two confronting lion heads with the Lydian legend between them; however, the flans are invariably too small to show both heads.
Lot 72
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30073 > LYDIAN KINGDOM. Croesus (561-546 BC). AV third-stater or trite (11mm, 2.67 gm). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5, light scuff. Sardes, 'light' standard, ca. 553-539 BC. Confronted foreparts of lion right and bull left, both with outstretched foreleg / Rectangular bipartite incuse punch with irregular interior surfaces. Berk 9.6. SNG von Aulock 8212.
Lot 73
Pradinė kaina: 1500USD
Lot 30074 > LYDIAN KINGDOM. Croesus (561-546 BC). AV third-stater or trite (11mm, 2.67 gm). NGC VF 5/5 - 3/5. Sardes, 'light' standard, ca. 553-539 BC. Confronted foreparts of lion right and bull left, both with outstretched foreleg / Rectangular incuse punch, with irregular interior design. Berk 9.6. SNG von Aulock 8212.
Lot 74
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30075 > LYDIAN KINGDOM. Croesus (561-546 BC). AR stater or double siglos (21mm, 10.52 gm). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 2/5. Sardes. Confronted foreparts of lion right and bull left, both with outstretched foreleg / Two square punches of different size, side by side, with irregular interior surfaces. SNG Kayhan 1018. BMFA 2070. Berk, 100 Greatest Ancient Coins, 9.19. Well centered and struck on an attractively toned broad oval flan.
Lot 75
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30076 > LYDIAN KINGDOM. Croesus (561-546 BC). AR stater or double siglos (18mm, 10.51 gm). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 3/5. Sardes. Confronted foreparts of lion right and bull left, both with outstretched foreleg / Two square punches of different size, side by side, irregular interior surfaces. SNG von Aulock 2873-4. Traité I 407-8. Berk, 100 Greatest Ancient Coins, 9.19.
Lot 76
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30077 > LYDIAN KINGDOM. Croesus (561-546 BC). AR stater or double siglos (20mm, 10.65 gm). NGC VF 5/5 - 4/5. Sardes. Confronted foreparts of lion right and bull left, both with outstretched foreleg / Two square punches of different size, side by side, irregular interior surfaces. SNG von Aulock 2873-4. Traité I 407-8. Berk, 100 Greatest Ancient Coins, 9.19.
Lot 77
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30078 > ACHAEMENID PERSIA. Xerxes II-Artaxerxes II (5th-4th centuries BC). AV daric (17mm, 8.38 gm). NGC MS S 5/5 - 5/5. Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes, ca. 420-375 BC. Persian king or hero, wearing cidaris and candys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, transverse spear in right hand, bow in outstretched left hand / Irregular incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb, Group C. Sunrise 28.
Lot 78
Pradinė kaina: 2600USD
Lot 30079 > LYCIA. Phaselis. Ca. 250-220 BC. AR stater (22mm, 10.35 gm, 6h). NGC Choice XF S 4/5 - 4/5. Politas, magistrate. Prow of galley right; sea horse right below / ΦAΣH, stern of galley left; ΠOΛITAΣ above. Heipp-Tamer 122-3. SNG von Aulock 4420 (this coin). An especially attractive example with an animal rarely seen on ancient coins.
Lot 79
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30080 > CILICIA. Celenderis. Ca. 425-350 BC. AR stater (20mm, 10.69 gm, 9h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 4/5. Ca. 425-400 BC. Youthful nude male rider, reins in left hand, kentron in right, dismounting from horse prancing to right / KEΛEN, goat with long whiskers kneeling right, head left; dolphin right in exergue, all in incuse circle. SNG France 2 -. SNG Levante 23 = SNG von Aulock 5631 = Kraay, "The Celenderis Hoard", NC 1962, p. 1-15, 25a (all same dies). Ex Harlan J Berk, private sale with old dealer tag.
Lot 80
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30081 > ARMENIAN KINGDOM. Tigranes II the Great (95-56 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 15.57 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 3/5. Tigranocerta, ca. 80-68 BC. Diademed and draped bust right, wearing tiara with starburst between eagles standing outward looking inward, bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / TIΓPANOY, Tyche seated on rock right, holding palm, river god Orontes swimming right before, ΩI monogram in inner right field, staurogram on rock, laureate border, I in exergue. AC 34. Kovacs 71.2.
Lot 81
Pradinė kaina: 720USD
Lot 30082 > SELEUCID KINGDOM. Seleucus I Nicator (312-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 17.01 gm, 11h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 3/5. Seleucia II (2nd Workshop), from ca. 296/5 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right; dotted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΣEΛEYKOY, Athena, brandishing spear overhead in right hand, shield on left arm, in car of quadriga pulled by horned elephants right; Δ/B flanking anchor right above, dotted border. SC 130.1. SNG Spaer -. Newell -. ESM -. HGC 9, 18a. Apparently scarce, with only three examples in sales archives. Ex Pars Coins, private sale with old dealer tag
Lot 82
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30083 > SELEUCID KINGDOM. Seleucus I Nicator (312-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (27mm, 17.13 gm, 2h). NGC XF 5/5 - 4/5. Seleucia II (2nd Workshop), from ca. 296/5 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right; dotted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΣEΛEYKOY, Athena, brandishing spear overhead in right hand, shield on left arm, in car of quadriga pulled by horned elephants right; flanking anchor right above, KPA monogram in inner left field, HIXP monogram to lower right, dotted border. SC 130.17. SNG Fitzwilliam 5511. HGC 9, 18a.
Lot 83
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30084 > SELEUCID KINGDOM. Antiochus III the Great (222-187 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 17.09 gm, 1h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. ΔΙ mint in southern or eastern Syria, from ca. 202 BC. Diademed head of Antiochus III right, idealizing, godlike portrait with mature features, softened and verging on delicate, touseled hair and slight break in bangs indicating incipient baldness at temple, horn above ear, diadem ends falling straight behind; ΔΙ behind, dotted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ANT-IOXOY, Apollo seated left on omphalus, testing arrow in right hand, left hand resting on grounded bow with grip marked by three pellets at right; ΔΙ in exergue, dotted border. SC 1109.2.
Lot 84
Pradinė kaina: 600USD
Lot 30085 > PHOENICIA. Tyre. Ca. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR shekel (30mm, 14.34 gm, 1h). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5. Dated Civic Year 51 (76/5 BC). Laureate bust of Melqart right, lion skin tied around neck / TYPOY IEPAΣ-KAI AΣYΛOY, eagle standing left on prow, palm over right wing; to left, AN (date) above club in left field, A in right field, aleph (Phoenician) between legs. DCA Tyre 183. DCA 919. From the Estate of Gerald 'Jerry' Farber
Lot 85
Pradinė kaina: 775USD
Lot 30086 > ARABIAN PENINSULA. Uncertain mint. Ca. late 3rd century BC. AR tetradrachm (28mm, 16.92 gm, 2h). NGC Choice XF S 5/5 - 4/5, flan flaw. Late posthumous issue of Gerrha/Icarus, ca. 250 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck / ΛΛEΞΛNΔPOV (N retrograde), Shams seated left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, feet on ground line, eagle in right hand, scepter in left; ΣΒΥ (Shams, Musnad/Southern Arabian) in left field. Price -, cf. 3957 (Σ (shin in Arabic, oriented horizontally) in left field). Huth 106a. Arnold-Biucchi, Arabian, pl. 18, 3. HGC 10, 697. Note from Price, p.495 "The hoard from Failaka in Kuwait enabled Mørkholm to show that the varieties 3957-8, which would normally be termed barbarous, were regular issues from the Arabian peninsula. Failaka itself may now be equated with the ancient Ikaros, but the prominent 'Greek' city in the area was Gerrha, and it was probably there that the Alexander issues were made". Gerrha became the regional leading power after the rebellion of Molon in 222 BC, causing the Seleucids to lose their influence in the area, and asserted their power by striking their own coinage in the name of Alexander, but also with the local deity Shams in the field. Price only lists three coins for Gerrha and none with Shams fully spelled out as on this example. Abi'el of Gerrha, and some local tribes, struck a series of tetrdrachms, drachms and obols in his name (HGC 10, 686-691), and other territories in the region soon followed Gerrha's lead, with Icarus/Failaka striking tetradrachms and obols with just the abbreviation 'shin' (Arabic) for Shams vertically or horizontally (Price 3957-9), along with two Arabian chieftains, Abyatha (ca. 240-220 BC) and Harithat (ca. 180-160 BC), striking coins in their own names (HGC 10, 692-695). Extremely rare - 8 known and of considerable historic importance with the deity fully spelled out, and only three examples in private hands (the others being three in Bahrain Museum, one in BN Paris, one in Vienna). Cf. Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XVI (8 January 2013), lot 576 for the only other known example sold publicly (realized $35,000).
Lot 86
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30087 > PTOLEMAIC EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter (ca. 323-305/4 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 15.67 gm, 11h). NGC AU 4/5 - 5/5. Intermediate Ptolemaic standard. Alexandria, in the name of Alexander III the Great of Macedon, 306-300 BC. Horned head of deified Alexander III right, wearing elephant skin headdress, mitra and scaly aegis; dotted border / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟY, Athena advancing right, shield on extended left arm, brandishing spear held in right hand; Macedonian helmet right above eagle standing right on thunderbolt in outer right field, AX monogram in inner right field. CPE 69. Svoronos 162. Lovely cabinet toning.
Lot 87
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30088 > JUDAEA. The Jewish War (AD 66-70). AR shekel (23mm, 13.86 gm, 11h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Jerusalem, dated Year 2 (AD 67/8). Shekel of Israel (Paleo-Hebrew), ritual chalice with pearled rim, the base resting on raised projections; Year 2 above / Jerusalem the holy (Paleo-Hebrew), staff with three pomegranate buds, globular base. Hendin 1358. Ex An Important Offering of Judaean Coinage (Numismatic Fine Arts, Auction XXVIII, 23 April 1992), lot 158 (cover coin)
Lot 88
Pradinė kaina: 2100USD
Lot 30089 > JUDAEA. The Jewish War (AD 66-70). AR shekel (22mm, 13.71 gm, 11h). NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 4/5. Jerusalem, dated Year 2 (AD 67/8). Shekel of Israel (Paleo-Hebrew), ritual chalice with pearled rim, the base resting on raised projections; Year 2 above / Jerusalem the holy (Paleo-Hebrew), staff with three pomegranate buds, globular base. Hendin 1358.
Lot 89
Pradinė kaina: 1500USD
Lot 30090 > JUDAEA. The Jewish War (AD 66-70). AR shekel (22mm, 13.65 gm, 12h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 2/5, edge chips, edge scuff. Jerusalem, dated Year 2 (AD 67/8). Shekel of Israel (Paleo-Hebrew), ritual chalice with pearled rim, the base resting on raised projections; Year 2 above / Jerusalem the holy (Paleo-Hebrew), staff with three pomegranate buds, globular base. Hendin 1358.
Lot 90
Pradinė kaina: 1500USD
Lot 30091 > ARMENIAN KINGDOM. Kings of Armenia Minor. Aristobulus (AD 54-92). AE (24mm, 9.86 gm, 12h). NGC Fine 4/5 - 3/5. Nicopolis ad Lycum, or Chalkis, dated Regnal Year 13 (AD 66/7). BACIΛEΩC APICTOBOYΛOY ET IΓ, diademed head of Aristobulus left / NEPΩ/NI KΛAY / ΔIΩ KAICA/PI CEBACTΩ / ΓEPMANIK, legend in five lines within wreath. Meshorer 366. Hendin 1257. cf. Roma Numismatics, Auction XV (5 April 2018), lot 285 (realized 19,500 GBP) for the same series from Regnal Year 17 (Hendin 1258). Extremely rare - no examples in coin archives. A loyal client king of Rome, Aristobulus supported the general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo in the Roman-Parthian War of AD 58-63. He received a portion of Greater Armenia as reward, and in AD 73 supplied troops to the governor of Syria, Lucius Caesennius Paetus, who had persuaded Vespasian that Antiochus IV of Commagene was planning to revolt and side with Vologases I of Parthia. Aristobulus' decision to strike dated coins in only two years of his reign - years 13 (AD 66/7) and 17 (AD 70/1) - is significant as they mark the beginning and end of the First Jewish-Roman War respectively, honoring first Nero, then Titus, probably represent a public reaffirmation of Aristobulus' loyalty to his Roman patrons.
Lot 91
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30092 > ARMENIAN KINGDOM. Kings of Armenia Minor. Aristobulus, with Salome. AD 54-92. AE (20mm, 6.78 gm, 12h). NGC VF 4/5 - 3/5, glue residue. Dated Regnal Year 13 (AD 66/7). BACIΛEΩC APICTOBOYΛOY ET IΓ•, diademed, draped bust of Aristobulus left / BACIΛIC-CHC CAΛOMHC, diademed, draped bust of Salome left. Meshorer 365 var. (date). Hendin 1257a. RPC I 3840 var. (date). cf. CNG Triton XIX (5 January 2016), lot 277 (realized $160,000). D. Flusser, "A New Portrait" in Jerusalem Perspective 55 (1999), pp. 18–23 corr. (date). A desireable example with perfectly legible legends. Aristobulus' wife, Salome, was the widow of Philip the Tetrarch and the daughter of Herodias by her first husband, Herod II. Although she is unnamed in the Gospels, it has been traditionally assumed that it was Salome who asked Herod Antipas for the head of John the Baptist in return for her risqué dance for the king. The regnal date on this issue by a client king of Rome, which is known for years 13 and 17, would have a pro-Roman propaganda and political value, as those years correspond to the beginning of the Jewish War (AD 66) and the destruction of the Temple (AD 70).
Lot 92
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30093 > EGYPT. Alexandria. Antinoüs. (died AD 130). AE drachm (34mm, 23.29 gm, 12h). NGC VF 4/5 - 4/5. Dated Regnal Year 19 of Hadrian (AD 134/135). ANTINOOY-HPΩOC, draped bust of Antinoüs right, seen from front, wearing hem-hem crown / Antinoüs on horseback right, wearing cloak flying behind, caduceus in right hand; L / IΘ (date) to right and below raised foreleg. Dattari (Savio) 2081-2. Emmet 1346. Antinoüs was a handsome Bithynian youth whom Hadrian probably noticed on his visit to Bithynium-Claudiopolis in AD 123/4. According to Hadrian's recent biographer Anthony Birley, Antinoüs likely found a "discreet place" in Hadrian's entourage and accompanied the peripatetic emperor on his various journeys. Their relationship came to a mysterious end during Hadrian's visit to Egypt in AD 130. During a barge trip up the Nile, Antinoüs drowned, probably on October 24. In his memoirs, Hadrian insisted the youth's death was an accident, but other historians implied either that Hadrian had killed him in some sacrificial rite, or that Antinoüs had committed ritual suicide to preserve Hadrian's health. Whatever the true story, Hadrian's grief was such that he deified the youth and founded the city of Antinoopolis near the spot of his drowning. The cult of Antinoüs spread rapidly throughout the Greek east, making him the last of the truly popular pagan gods. His sculpted image also became ubiquitous as the very personification of male beauty. Antinoüs is extensively honored on the Roman provincial coinage of the East, particularly in Bithynia and Egypt, but is totally absent from the official Roman coinage.
Lot 93
Pradinė kaina: 1000USD
Lot 30094 > Anonymous. Ca. 225-217 BC. AE aes grave as (67mm, 283.51 gm, 12h). Choice VF. Reduced Libral standard. Laureate, bearded head Janus on raised disk; horizontal I (mark of value) below / Prow of war galley right on raised disk; vertical I (mark of value) above. Vecchi 74. Thurlow-Vecchi 51. Crawford 35/1. HN Italy 337.
Lot 94
Pradinė kaina: 750USD
Lot 30095 > Social War. Marsic Confederation (91-88 BC). AR denarius (18mm, 3.79 gm, 7h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 5/5. Bovianum (?) mint, 89 BC. VITELIU (Oscan), laureate head of Italia left, wearing necklace and earring; dotted border / Soldier, nude to waist, standing facing, helmeted head right, left foot on Roman standard, inverted spear in right hand, parazonium in left; recumbent bull facing at right, I in exergue, dotted border. HN Italy 407. Campana 9b/120-6, 130-47.
Lot 95
Pradinė kaina: 1150USD
Lot 30096 > Julius Caesar, as Dictator (49-44 BC). AR denarius (18mm, 3.85 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 5/5. Military mint traveling with Caesar in northern Italy, ca. 49-48 BC. CAESAR, elephant advancing right, trampling horned serpent / Pontifical implements: simpulum, aspergillum, securis (axe surmounted by dog or wolf's head), and apex. Crawford 443/1. Sydenham 1006. Julia 9.
Lot 96
Pradinė kaina: 1050USD
Lot 30097 > Julius Caesar, as Dictator (49-44 BC). AR denarius (19mm, 3.87 gm, 2h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 4/5. Military mint traveling with Caesar in northern Italy, ca. 49-48 BC. CAESAR, elephant advancing right, trampling horned serpent / Pontifical implements: simpulum, aspergillum, securis (axe surmounted by dog or wolf's head), and apex. Crawford 443/1. Sydenham 1006. Julia 9. Ex Dr. Nicholas Lowe Collection (Roma Numismatics, Auction XVIII, 29 September 2019), lot 948; Classical Numismatic Group, Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 1317
Lot 97
Pradinė kaina: 500USD
Lot 30098 > Julius Caesar, as Dictator (49-44 BC). AR denarius (17mm, 3.92 gm, 5h). NGC Choice AU S 4/5 - 5/5. Military mint moving with Caesar in North Africa, 48-46 BC. Diademed head of Venus right / CAESAR, Aeneas advancing left, palladium in right hand, carrying Anchises on his left shoulder. Crawford 458/1. CRI 55. Sydenham 1013.
Lot 98
Pradinė kaina: 600USD
Lot 30099 > Julius Caesar, as Dictator (49-44 BC). AR denarius (18mm, 3.83 gm, 6h). NGC AU S 5/5 - 5/5. Military mint moving with Caesar in North Africa, 48-46 BC. Diademed head of Venus right / CAESAR, Aeneas advancing left, palladium in right hand, carrying Anchises on his left shoulder. Crawford 458/1. CRI 55. Sydenham 1013.
