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Lot 171
GOOD SELECTION OF SILVER AND OTHER JEWELLERYincluding stone set and other silver rings and pendants, a Sheila Fleet pink enamel and silver 'Flight' pendant on silver chain; a 1998 Britannia silver 20 pence coin in pendant mount, a green stone and silver bracelet; a Japanese ivory button decorated with mother of pearl and tortoiseshell ship at sea; carved shell cameos (unmounted), brooches, necklaces, etc.
Lot 1049
Umayyads of Spain, Caliphate of Cordova, Sulayman al-Musta'in (1st reign AH 400/AD 1009-10) AV Mule Dinar. Al-Andalus, "AH 381", struck by obverse die of Hisham II and reverse die of Sulayman. Kalima in three lines across field, ornamented with three circles above field; "in the name of God was struck this dinar in al-Andalus in the year one and eighty and three hundred" around / "The Imam Sulayman, Commander of the faithfuls, al-Musta'in billah" in three lines across field; Qur'an IX:33 around. Album -; Miles -; Vives -. 4.09g, 21mm, 10h. Very Fine. Heavily cleaned. Apparently unrecorded. This coin, of which no bibliographical reference could be found, could have been struck by coupling an old obverse die of Hisham II dated AH 381 (Miles type 289k; Miles only cited AR dirhams with that kind of ornament) and a reverse die of Sulayman, hypothetically dated AH 400, without mention of any name below field (Miles type-342f), so during his first reign only, therefore during the beginning of the collapse of caliphate. The epigraphic style does not seem to determine that it is a contemporary falsification even if the wear of both dies in an almost equal manner could indicate that it is not the product of the "official" mint. We know other examples of "imitations" of silver coinage, above all of Hisham II (see Antonio Vives, p.392) but none of Sulayman and particularly for gold issues.
Lot 149
Crete, Praisos(?) Æ14. Circa 300-270 BC. Facing head of Medusa / Bee; E(?) above. Unpublished in the standard references, cf. Naumann 56, 127, CNG e387, 112, CNG e148, 145 (rose in rev. field). 1.94g, 14mm, 1h. Good Fine. Extremely Rare; the fourth recorded example. The seemingly first recorded example of this type was sold by Classical Numismatic Group in 2006 and exhibits a rose symbol in the reverse field. The coin was attributed to Praisos on the basis that the reverse type and symbol is shared by an issue of silver hemidrachms minted there (see SNG Copenhagen 542). The rose symbol appears to be absent on the two subsequent examples of the Medusa / Bee type offered at auction since (see references) and the example offered here.
Lot 163
Ionia, uncertain mint AV Ingot. Circa 7th-6th century BC. Oval shaped flan with rounded ends and flat sides; smooth blank 'obverse' surface absent of design, 'reverse' surface displaying abstract granulations. 3.00g, 10mm. Extremely Fine, as made. A very interesting example of pre-coin currency.
Lot 185
Mysia, Kyzikos EL Stater. Circa 450-330 BC. Gaia rising out of the earth, bearing in both hands the infant Erichthonios; tunny fish below to right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 157, pl. V, 5; Greenwell 31; Boston MFA 1500 = Warren 1449; BMC 65; cf. SNG France 304 (hekte). 16.04g, 18mm. About Good Very Fine. Very Rare. This type depicts the myth of Erichthonios, a legendary early king of Athens. According to myth, the warrior goddess Athena was said to have visited the smith-god Hephaistos in order to request more arms be forged for her. Overcome by desire, Hephaistos attempted to seduce Athena, and when he was rebuffed, chased her and tried to rape her. Though Athena fought him off, in the struggle Hephaistos' seed fell upon her thigh. In disgust, she wiped it from her leg and flung it to the earth. Upon contact with Gaia, the earth-goddess, an autochthonous boy was born and named Erichthonios (earth-shaker). This coin depicts the moment the new-born boy was presented by the personified Earth to the goddess of wisdom. Athena accepted the child, and gave him to the three daughters of Kekrops, the first king of Athens, in a box for safekeeping, warning the three daughters never to open it. Overcome by curiosity the sisters decided to take a fateful look inside, and the sight that greeted them (depending on the version of the myth) was the infant Erichthonios who either was encircled by a snake, or was himself half-man and half-serpent. Terrified and driven mad, the daughters threw themselves from the cliff-face of the Acropolis (or were killed by the snake). In this depiction of the myth, the pair are classically idealised, perhaps (as suggested by Greenwell) inspired by a statue group. This coin, with its clear pro-Athenian type, was almost certainly struck during the period of the city's membership of the Delian League (478-411 BC).
![Karia, Idyma Æ9. Circa 400-350 BC. Horned head of Pan right / Fig leaf; [I-? flanking stem]. SNG Kayhan 1633; HN Online 580 (](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ab4169c6-1afd-479f-a071-a96c010ff0ce/d5946a2b-b65c-483d-9ce1-e39d36c9bab4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 198
Karia, Idyma Æ9. Circa 400-350 BC. Horned head of Pan right / Fig leaf; [I-? flanking stem]. SNG Kayhan 1633; HN Online 580 (temporary); Roma E-45, lot 284; Münzen & Medaillen Deutschland 13, lot 426. 0.93g, 9mm, 12h. About Good Very Fine. Rare, Historia Numorum Online only cites five examples of this coin.
Lot 233
Kings of Armenia, Tigranes IV (Restored) and Erato Æ18. 2 BC-AD 1. Jugate busts of Tigranes, wearing tiara and diadem, and Erato right / [???????C??], the two peaks of Mount Ararat, as seen from the Armenian capital Artaxata; A in exergue. F. Kovacs, Tigranes IV, V, and VI: New Attributions, AJN 20, 5; CAA 128 (Tigranes II?); AC 122 (Tigranes II). 3.06g, 18mm, 12h. Fine. Extremely Rare. From the property of a European Gentleman, privately purchased from Numismatik Lanz 2016-7. This remarkable type was only discovered in 1978, being first published by Bedoukian. Admitting that he could not arrive at a certain attribution, he placed it in his catalogue under Tigranes II, stating that 'it may have been struck by Tigranes when he conquered Cappadocia in 93 BC, forcing the ruling king, Ariobarzanes I, to flee to Rome,' and that the double-peaked mountain on the reverse resembled Mt. Argaios in Cappadocia (CAA pg. 24). It seems that Nercessian merely followed Bedoukian in his placing the coin under Tigranes II without further explanation, although he included a footnote telling the reader to see additional information in a subsequent chapter which he then neglected to provide. More recently Frank Kovacs convincingly argued for assigning the coin to Tigranes IV and his sister-queen Erato. He based his argument on four points: the reverse legend ???????C?? ('Friend of Caesar'), which was previously misread by Bedoukian as KAICAPE?N; the regnal year A in the exergue, which 'implies that Tigranes' earlier reign under the Parthian aegis was illegitimate and that Rome alone had the right to crown the king of Armenia,' and draws parallels to similar instances in the coinages issued by other client kingdoms of Rome; the extreme scarcity of the coins which of course better fit this king's short reign than do the plethora of types and number of extant pieces assigned to him by both Bedoukian and Nercessian; and finally the beardless portrait better fits the youthful son of Tigranes III than do the previously assigned bearded types.
![Kings of Armenia Minor, Aristoboulos Æ26. Nicopolis-ad-Lycum, or Chalkis, dated year 17 = AD 70/1. BACI?E?C A[PICTOBOY?]OY ET](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ab4169c6-1afd-479f-a071-a96c010ff0ce/d8da79b1-7cd3-4344-9137-5eb1c27e2ac9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 240
Kings of Armenia Minor, Aristoboulos Æ26. Nicopolis-ad-Lycum, or Chalkis, dated year 17 = AD 70/1. BACI?E?C A[PICTOBOY?]OY ET IZ, diademed head left; c/m: monogram within square incuse / [TIT?] O?[EC?A]C[IAN? AYTOKPAT?P CEBACT?] in six lines [within wreath]. Kovacs 301; Meshorer 367a; Hendin 1258; Sofaer 172; RG 3; RPC II 1692; for c/m: Kovacs 24; Howgego pl. 33, 722.1. 11.60g, 26mm, 11h. Very Fine - Near Blank. A fine portrait. Very Rare. Son of Herod of Chalkis and great-grandson of Herod I the Great, Aristoboulos hailed from the Herodian Dynasty of Roman vassal kings and in turn was granted the kingdom of Armenia Minor in AD 54 by the emperor Nero (Josephus 'Antiquities', XX.158). Though uncertain, his wife Salome is often identified as the young woman whom the New Testament relates danced for Herod the Great and, at the encouragement of her mother, received the severed head of John the Baptist in return (Matthew 14:1-12; Mark 6:14-29). The martyrdom by beheading of John the Baptist is a holy day observed by various Christian churches, and a theme often seen in art, sculpture, music and poetry. A loyal client king of Rome, Aristoboulos supported the general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo in the Roman-Parthian War of AD 58-63, receiving a portion of Greater Armenia as reward, and in AD 73 supplied troops to the governor of Syria, Lucius Caesennius Paetus, who had persuaded the new emperor Vespasian that Antiochos IV of Commagene was planning to revolt and side with Vologases I of Parthia. Aristoboulos' decision to strike coins in only two years of his reign, years 13 (AD 66/7) and 17 (AD 70/1), as asserted by Kovacs, noted by Hendin (pg. 275), and proven by the clear date on a coin from the only other known issue of Aristoboulos, that which features dual portraits of himself and Salome (cf. Triton XIX, 277 and RPC I, 3839) is significant. The years AD 66 and AD 70 mark the beginning and end of the First Jewish-Roman War, as commemorated in the reverse of the present type which refers to Titus, whom Vespasian had left to suppress the revolt while he himself made his bid for imperial power. The two issues, struck at the beginning and end of the war, honouring first Nero and now Titus, probably therefore represent a public reaffirmation of Aristoboulos' loyalty to his Roman patrons. Also king of Chalkis from AD 57 until his death in 92, whereupon the region was absorbed into the Roman provincial territories, a mint location in Chalkis has been cited as a possibility for the production of Aristoboulos' coinage, though traditionally it has been noted as 'presumably' being from Nicopolis-ad-Lycum, where a specimen was acquired by F. Cumont c. 1900. Given the close proximity of Chalkis to the war in Judaea and the notable similarity in appearance and fabric of these coins to those of Chalkis, a mint location in Chalkis cannot be discounted.
![Kings of Mauretania, Juba II with Cleopatra Selene AR Denarius. Caesarea, Circa AD 11-23. REX IVB[A], diademed head of Juba r](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ab4169c6-1afd-479f-a071-a96c010ff0ce/9179ee9a-59d7-475b-f607-0050641b6684/468x382.jpg)
Lot 35
Kings of Mauretania, Juba II with Cleopatra Selene AR Denarius. Caesarea, Circa AD 11-23. REX IVB[A], diademed head of Juba right / BACI?ICCA K?E?????A, diademed and draped bust of Cleopatra left. MAA 108; Mazard 361; SNG Copenhagen 566 var. (rev. bust type, earring). 3.24g, 18mm, 5h. Good Very Fine. Attractively toned. The Ptolemaic princess Cleopatra Selene was born to Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony in about 40 BC, but the precise date of the death of is unknown - she may have died before AD 6/7 when Juba II married the Herodian Princess Glaphyra, but dated coin issues in her name indicate her being still alive until about AD 17 and that in fact Glaphyra was probably Juba's second wife while she still lived. It is known that by the time Juba II died in AD 23 she was already dead, as it is recorded that he was buried alongside his first wife in the Royal Mausoleum near ancient Iol, later Caesarea Mauretaniae, modern Cherchell in what is today Algeria.
Lot 40
North Africa, Carthage AR Shekel. Time of Hannibal. Carthago Nova, circa 218-206 BC. Bare male head (Hannibal?) left / Horse right, palm tree behind. Villaronga 1973, 142; CNH p. 71, 64; BMC 104. 5.96g, 21mm, 12h. Very Fine. Very Rare. This coin is conventionally believed to carry the portrait of Hannibal on the obverse. In 237 BC Hamilcar Barca, after having lost the First Punic War against Rome, but having won the Mercenary War against the Libyans, disembarked at Gadir with a Carthaginian expedition with the purpose of "re-establishing Carthaginian authority in Iberia" (Polybios, Histories, 2.1.6), and within 9 years he had expanded the territory of Carthage well into the Iberian peninsula, securing control of the southern mining district of Baetica and Sierra Morena, before dying in battle in 228. Hamilcar was succeeded by his son-in-law Hasdrubal the Fair who expanded the new province by skilful diplomacy and consolidated it with the foundation of Akra Leuka, Mahon and finally in 227, Qart Hadasht (Latin: Carthago Nova) as his capital. After his untimely death in 221 he was succeeded by Hannibal (247-182), oldest son of Hamilcar Barca, and Hamilcar's second son Hasdrubal (245-207 BC). The Barcids now wielded control over much of the mineral rich Mediterranean side of the peninsula until 219 when Hannibal made the fateful move of taking and sacking Saguntum, a well established Roman ally. The wholesale slaughter of this Roman ally's population, and the arrogance with which the Roman ambassadors sent to Carthage to seek redress were met, led directly to the Second Punic War: the great statesman Quintus Fabius, speaking to the Carthaginian senate, gathered a fold of his toga to his chest and held it out, saying "Here, we bring you peace and war. Take which you will." The Carthaginians replied "Whichever you please - we do not care." Fabius let the fold drop and proclaimed "We give you war."
Lot 88
Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm. Circa 350-294 BC. Overstruck on an earlier Athens type. Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind. Kroll 15; SNG Copenhagen 64. 15.10g, 24mm, 9h. Very Fine. Overstruck. Clear evidence of the overstruck nature of this coin can be seen in the rounded and pointed olive leaves visible above the helmet visor, and the shadow of nose and chin in the obverse right field.
Lot 14
A Scandinavian covered tankard, possibly Norwegian, of cylindrical form with repoussé decoration around the lower body and symmetrical decoration around the rim, the flat topped hinged cover similarly decorated, the centre set with a token to represent a Norwegian1/2 speciedaler coin dated 1776, with rampant lion holding a shield as the thumbpiece, and raised on three seated beast and ball feet, unidentified marks to the base, 25.2ozt 20 x 12 x 12cm (8 x 5 x 5in)
Lot 176
Munsey & Co of Cambridge - A 9ct gold half hunter pocket watch and chain, the front lid with blue enamel Roman numerals, signed to the 4cm white dial with black Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds register, crown wind with hand setting button at 4 o'clock, the jewelled and signed movement numbered 400169, the case by Rotherham & Sons, hallmarked Birmingham 1922 monogrammed to the reverse, and engraved to the dust cover, with an early 20th century Chester marked 9ct gold graduating curb link watch chain, with T bar and base metal swivel catch and coin, total length 37cm, gross weight of chain 33.2g
Lot 35
A pair of George IV silver basting spoons and a punch ladle, the 'Fiddle' pattern spoons by William Chawner, London 1835, 30cm (12in) long, the ends initialled, 7.4ozt gross, and an unmarked punch ladle with oval shaped bowl inset with a George II coin dated 1757, flared spout, with turned whalebone handle, lacking finial (3) Basting spoons are specially designed with a long handle to enable the chef to reach in the oven to baste or stir without being burned. toddy ladle dented and bruised and missing the silver finial on the handle.
Lot 110
A Quantity of Proof Sets. This lot includes set of Jersey 1980 Proof Coin Set, Guernsey 1979 Brilliant Uncirculated Proof Coin Set, Bailiwick of Guernsey £5.00 Coin Set, States of Jersey Brilliant Uncirculated Coin Set and 1999 £5.00 coin together with Guernsey 8 Doubles, 1885, 4 Doubles 1889, 2 Doubles 1885, 1 Double 1889, Guernsey 3p 1956 (cow), p 1971 (windmill of Sark), Emergency WWI Coinage 10c 1917, 5c 1917 x 2, 5c 1917 'Bayonne', 10c 1918 together with the Jersey Shipbuilders of the 19th Century coin set £1.00 Silver Proof Coins. This lot includes 'The Tickler 1858', The Hebe 1861', 'The Percy Douglas 1861', 'The Gemini 1864', 'The Century 1866', 'The Resolute 1877' and a 1992 Jersey Bailiwick Seal. (7)
Lot 4
Rare and Very Fine Vintage Cartier 1906 US $20 Liberty Head Gold Coin Watch with Manual Movement. Signed to watch face, appears to be numbered to case back. Measures 1-1/4" diameter. Approx. weight: 33.4 grams. Shipping $30.00 (estimate $8000-$10000) Condition: Very good condition. Running. Please note the gallery does not warranty the running condition of watches. Domestic Shipping: $30.00 Min Est. $8000.00 Max Est. $10000.00
Lot 301
Calabria, Taras, didrachm, c. 390-380 BC, ephebos naked on horseback riding right, holding reigns in both hands; beneath horse, Λ, rev., ΤΑΡΑΣ, Phalanthos, founder of Taras, seated on dolphin left, holding acrostolion before him; below dolphin, Λ, 7.88g, die axis 10.00 (Fischer-Bossert 406b, this coin; Vlasto 367, this coin; SNG Lockett 155, same dies; HN Italy 870), good extremely fine, toned, very rare and of perfect metal quality, one of the finest known staters of Tarentum of the early 4th century, formerly in the Kunstfreund (Charles Gillet) collection. Provenance: Santangelo collection, Naples (“from a small part of the collection given away, before the sale of the collection to the Museum of Naples”, Vlasto p. 46, footnote); M.P. Vlasto collection, Marseille; Kunstfreund (Gillet) collection, Bank Leu and Mϋnzen und Medaillen, 28 May 1974, lot 173; Hermann Robinow collection, Morton & Eden 51, 24 October 2011, lot 5.
![Lucania, Velia, stater, c. 435-400 BC, head of Athena right wearing crested Attic helmet adorned with griffin, rev., [ΥΕΛΗΤ]Ω](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0af4c024-d6a7-4eb4-8dcd-a962010bb399/2c2d0578-ca3f-4c5e-c5c7-a7d438b929f8/468x382.jpg)
Lot 304
Lucania, Velia, stater, c. 435-400 BC, head of Athena right wearing crested Attic helmet adorned with griffin, rev., [ΥΕΛΗΤ]ΩΝ, lion to right pulling down stag; dotted exergual line below, 7.72g, die axis 6.00 (Williams 154o, this coin; SNG Lloyd 518, this coin; BMC 44, same dies), about extremely fine, toned, very rare, formerly in the collection of Sir Arthur Evans and a British Museum duplicate. Provenance: Sir Arthur Evans collection (photo file in Ashmolean Museum, pl. 18, 420); Lloyd collection and British Museum duplicate; Münzen und Medaillen VIII, 8 December 1949, lot 725; Niggeler collection, Münzen und Medaillen and Bank Leu, 3 December 1965, lot 45; Münzen und Medaillen 53, 1977, lot 12; Numismatica Ars Classica 92, 23 May 2016, lot 97.
Lot 305
Bruttium, Caulonia, stater, c. 525-500 BC, ΚΑΥΛ, Apollo, naked, standing right with branch in right hand raised behind head and with small running figure of a daimon holding a branch on his left arm extended in front of him; all within dotted and cabled border, rev., the same type incuse but without the ethnic and the daimon without branch, 8.40g; die axis 12.00 (Noe 2d, this coin; SNG Lloyd 571, same dies; SNG ANS 141, same dies; HN Italy 2035), well-toned, good extremely fine and virtually as struck. Provenance: Naville-Ars Classica XII, 18 October 1926, lot 547; Hess Leu sale 36, 17-18 April 1968, lot 39; Hermann Robinow collection, Morton & Eden 51, 24 October 2011, lot 18.
Lot 306
Akragas, didrachm, c. 495-485 BC, eagle standing left with closed wings; around, ΑΚΡΑ-CΑΣ, rev., crab within incuse circle; ΕΧΑ (retrograde) below, 8.79g, die axis 1.00 (Westermark 94.5, this coin; Traité 2328 = de Luynes 848, same dies), about extremely fine, very rare. Provenance: A.D. Moretti collection; Numismatica Ars Classica, 12 May 2005, lot 1135; Triton XIII, 5 January 2010, lot 28; Roma VII, 22 March 2014, lot 79.
Lot 308
Akragas, gold tetradrachm, c. 410-406 BC, ΑΚΡΑ, eagle with closed wings standing left on rock, about to tear at serpent; on the rock, two globules (marks of value), rev., ΣΙΛΑ-ΝΟΣ, crab, 1.35g, die axis 11.00 (Westermark 1013.5, this coin; Ward 138, this coin; SNG ANS 998, same dies; SNG Lloyd 719, same dies; Gulbenkian 171, same dies), extremely fine and very rare, with provenances including Bunbury, Ward, J. Pierpoint Morgan and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Provenance: Bunbury collection, Sotheby’s, 15 June 1896, lot 259; John Ward collection; J. Pierpoint Morgan (before 1905); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sotheby’s, Zurich, 5 April 1973, lot 113; Numismatica Ars Classica 8, 2 April 1995, lot 117; Numismatica Ars Classica 27, 12 May 2004, lot 68; Numismatica Genevensis 4, 11 December 2006, lot 30; Numismatica Genevensis 8, 24 November 2014, lot 15.
Lot 309
Kamarina, tetradrachm by Exakestidas, c. 410 BC, fast quadriga driven right by Athena, helmeted and holding goad and reins; Nike flying above to crown her; signed on the exergual line ΕΞΑΚΕΣΤΙΔΑΣ; in ex., linked amphorae, rev., ΚΑΜΑΡΙΝΑΙΟΝ, young head of Herakles left wearing lion-skin headdress, 16.82g, die axis 10.00 (Westermark- Jenkins 149; Kraay-Hirmer 152, same dies; SNG Lloyd 871, same dies; Rizzo pl. V, 11, same dies), toned, very fine and rare, formerly in the Gillet collection. Provenance: Charles Gillet collection (Gillet inventory 366 bis, this coin); Spink/Galerie des Monnaies, 10 October 1977, lot 72; Hermann Robinow collection, Morton & Eden 51, 24 October 2011, lot 28; Numismatica Ars Classica 88, 8 October 2015, lot 361.
Lot 311
Messana, tetradrachm by Simin.., c. 412-408 BC, slow biga of mules driven left by female charioteer holding goad and reins; above, Nike flying right to crown her; on exergual line in tiny letters, traces of ΣΙΜΙΝ; in ex., dolphin left, rev., ΜΕΣΣ-ΑΝΙ-ΩΝ, hare springing left; below, eagle perched on serpent, 17.11g; die axis 3.00 (Caltabiano 628, 2 and pl. 38, this coin; Jameson 653, same dies; Gulbenkian 226-227, same obverse die; SNG ANS 381, same obverse die; Basel 368, same obverse die), toned, very fine and very rare. Provenance: Maison Platt, June 1921, lot 38; A.D. Moretti collection; Classical Numismatic Group and Numismatica Ars Classica sale 40, 1996, lot 801; M.L. Collection of Coins of Magna Graecia and Sicily, Numismatica Ars Classica 82, 20 May 2015, lot 46. This signed obverse die by an otherwise unknown die engraver is paired with three reverse dies with differing arrangements of the legend. While Caltabiano doubted the existence of the signature because on most specimens it is difficult to read, she seems not to have examined the Bunker Hunt specimen (formerly in the Käpelli collection) upon which the signature is particularly clear (see Hunt sale part 2, Sotheby’s New York, 21 June 1990, lot 238 with enlargement). Both Exakestidas at Kamarina and Kimon at Syracuse (see lots 9 and 16 in this catalogue) signed their coins in a similar way with tiny letters inscribed along the exergual lines of their obverses. Caltabiano has suggested that the present coin is struck over a coin of Akragas but since the Jameson example from the same dies shows the same “flaws” they must be on the die rather than indicative of an overstrike. Caltabiano 628, 6 (Gulbenkian 226) actually belongs to her no. 627 so that she has recorded a total of only six coins including the present piece from these particular dies.
Lot 313
Segesta, didrachm, c. 475-450 BC, hound standing right with head lowered, on double exergual line, rev., ΣΕΓΕΣΤΑZΙ-Β, head of nymph Segesta right wearing earring and necklace, 8.44g, die axis 5.00 (Hurter 45a, this coin; Ward 221, this coin; Weber 1502, same dies), faint flan crack, good very fine and very rare, from the Ward collection, J. Pierpoint Morgan and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Provenance: John Ward collection; J. Pierpoint Morgan (before 1905); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sotheby’s Zurich, 4 April 1972, lot 181; Numismatica Ars Classica 6, 1993, lot 78; Dr. Murray Gell-Mann collection; Roma XI, 7 April 2016, lot 102.
Lot 316
Syracuse, dekadrachm by Kimon, c. 405-400 BC, fast quadriga driven left by charioteer who holds goad over horses in extended right hand and reins in left; above, Nike flies to crown him; below, in exergual area, arranged on two steps are a panoply of arms below which, ΑΘΛΑ; on exergual line faint traces of the signature ΚΙΜΩΝ, rev., [ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩ], head of Arethusa left, her hair in ampyx and held in net, wearing single-drop earring and pearl necklace; Κ on ampyx; four dolphins around (one off flan) with the lower one bearing the signature ΚΙΜΩ[Ν], 43.36g, die axis 11.00 (Jongkees 3p, this coin; Rizzo pl. LII, 3, same dies; SNG Lockett 998, same dies), about extremely fine and rare, formerly in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Provenance: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (published by J. De Foville, Choix des monnaies grecques du Cabinet de France, RN 1913, pl. I, 173); Münzen und Medaillen XXV, 17 November 1962, lot 419; Denyse Bérend collection (before 1985); exhibited at the Edward Merrin Gallery, New York, 1985; Morton & Eden 66, 7 November 2013, lot 340. In the 1962 Münzen und Medaillen sale this coin was described as Chef-d’œuvre du célèbre graveur syracusain et peut-être sa creation la plus attachante – Superbe. It is struck from the dies which are signed three times by the artist, once on the obverse and twice on the reverse. The purpose of this issue is thought to be in celebration of the famous Syracusan victory over the Carthaginians in 405 BC and Kimon’s brief coinage was followed by the much larger issue of decadrachms by Euainetos which extend into the early 4th century BC.
Lot 318
Siculo-Punic coinage, Entella, tetradrachm, c. 330-320 BC, head of Tanit left, hair wreathed with barley leaves, wearing triple-drop earring and pearl necklace, rev., free horse rearing forwards and to right in front of palm tree, 17.09g, die axis 5.00 (Jenkins 123, this coin cited; SNG Lloyd 1616, same dies; Boston 488, same dies), fine toning, good extremely fine and rare, from the Niggeler and Robinow collections. Provenance: Walter Niggeler collection, Bank Leu-Münzen und Medaillen, 3 December 1965, lot 541; Hermann Robinow collection, Morton & Eden 51, 24 October 2011, lot 65.
Lot 319
Siculo-Punic coinage, Entella, tetradrachm, c. 320-300 BC, head of Tanit left wreathed with barley leaves, wearing earring and pearl necklace; four dolphins around and scallop shell beneath chin, rev., horse’s head facing three-quarters left; to right, palm tree; below Punic inscription, 16.93g, die axis 11.00 (Jenkins 163, this coin cited; SNG Fitzwilliam 1488, same dies; SNG Copenhagen 85, same dies), well toned, about extremely fine. Provenance: G. Picard collection, A. Sambon, Paris, 1923, lot 312; Helbing 70, Munich, 1932, lot 538; Helbing fixed price list XVII, 1934, 176; Ars Classica, Lucerne, 1933, lot 923; Münzhandlung Basel 8, 1937, lot 185; Denyse Bérend collection (before 1985); exhibited at the Edward Merrin Gallery, New York, 1985; Morton & Eden 59, 13-14 November 2012, lot 743.
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