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Click here to subscribeδ Salvador Dali (1904-1989)Jeremiah (from Our Historical Heritage) (M & L 7521; Field 75-4-K)Etching with pochoir printed in colours, 1975, signed and inscribed 'E.A.' in pencil, an artist's proof aside from the edition of 300, on Arches paper, published by Léon Amiel, with full margins, sheet 660 x 505mm (26 x 19 7/8in) (unframed)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
δ Salvador Dali (1904-1989)Visión del Paraíso (M & L 800d; Field 73-1-K)Etching with aquatint printed in colours, 1975, signed and numbered from the edition of 75 in pencil, on Arches paper, as included in 'Life is a Dream', printed by Branons-Duplessis, published by Subirana, with full margins, sheet 316 x 382mm (12 1/2 x 15in) (unframed)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
British Coins, George III, proof twopence, 1797, struck in bronzed copper, late Soho, laur. and dr. bust r., K.:, on shoulder, rev. [inverted die axis], Britannia seated left on rock with shield, holding trident and olive branch, ship to left, SOHO on rock to right, three rows of waves below, date on raised rim below, edge plain (S.3776; P.1075, KT3), certified and graded by NGC as Proof 65 Bronzed
British Coins, George III, proof farthing, 1806, K on truncation, date double-struck, laur. bust r., rev. Britannia std. l., holding trident and olive branch (S.3782; P.1386), about mint state An extremely interesting coin, with a double-struck date reading 11880066. The portrait is the one used on the 1806 Irish farthings.
Set of Late Victorian Correspondence and Financial Ephemera Relating to Suffolk and Norfolk Artillery Volunteers. Handwritten letter from CO of 1st Administrative Bde, Norfolk Artillery Volunteers on the matter of inspecting ‘cast iron guns’; invoice for lace and sword knot dated 1866; invoice for various uniform items, forage caps, busby strap and repairs dated 1865 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers; invoice to Sgt Thomas for care and cleaning of arms dated 1866 2nd Suffolk Artillery Volunteers; and three cheques from 1866/67 drawn against private bank Sir Edmund K Lacon Bart Lacons Youell & Co.
Dynasts of Lycia, Kuprilli AR Stater. Telmessos, circa 480-440 BC. Lion standing left, head turned / Tetraskeles, [K]O?P??[E] around, [ivy leaf] above, all within dotted border within incuse square. Mørkolm-Zahle 153; SNG von Aulock 4140. 8.49g, 18mm. Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; apparently the second known example. From the A.F. Collection, Germany.
Septimius Severus BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 2 = AD 193/4. K•?•C??T C?OYHPOC ??PT•C?B•AVTOKPA•, laureate head right / Nike driving quadriga to left, holding reins in both hands; LB (date) above. Dattari 3993, Emmett 2683. 11.42g, 25mm, 12h. Good Very Fine. Extremely Rare; Emmett records 4 examples, none in CoinArchives. From a private North American collection.
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Thea Neotera Æ Obol - 40 Drachmai. Alexandria, circa 51-30 BC. Diademed and draped bust right / K?EO?ATPAC BACI?ICCHC, Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left, M to right. Svoronos 1872; Weiser 184-5; SNG Copenhagen 422-4; Noeske 383. 8.77g, 22mm, 11h. Extremely Fine; in outstanding condition for the type, with a high-relief portrait of fine style. Sold with export licence issued by The Israel Antiquities Authority. Much has been written concerning the differences in appearance of the queen on her various coinage issues, and the apparent inconsistency in depicting both her age and beauty. Collectors often wonder at her plain appearance on the surviving coins both in her sole name and those issued jointly with Marc Antony, an appearance which seems at odds with her famous seduction of two of the most powerful men in history – first, Julius Caesar in 48/47 BC when she was twenty-one, then Marc Antony in 41/40 BC, the year this coin was struck. Surviving busts of Cleopatra certainly are more flattering than her coinage; the exaggeration of certain features on the coinage can often be explained by deliberate emphasis on attributes associated with strength and power, notably the angular jaw and chin, and distinctive Ptolemaic nose.
Dynasts of Lycia, Kuprilli AR Stater. Telmessos, circa 480-440 BC. Winged male figure, nude, with winged heels, in kneeling stance to right, holding long kerykeion; three pellets to upper right / Triskeles, K[O]?P??E around. Vismara, Falghera 130; Traité II, 303; Mørkholm-Zahle 130. 8.55g, 14mm. Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; one of the finest known examples. From the A.F. Collection, Germany.
Maximinus I ?31 of Anemurium, Cilicia. Dated RY 1 = AD 235. AVT K ? IO OVHPON MA?IMEINON, laureate and cuirassed bust right / ???????????, lion advancing right, looking back; star and crescent above, ?? ? (date) below. RPC Online 7011 (temporary); SNG France 711; Ziegler, Anemurion 74. 15.20g, 31mm, 6h. Extremely Fine. Minor scrape to obverse edge. Rare; RPC cites only 6 other examples and the first example to be offered at auction since 2010.
Ionia, Ephesos AV Stater. Circa 155-140 BC. Draped bust of Artemis right, wearing stephane, and with bow and quiver over shoulder / Cult statue of the Artemis of Ephesos facing, a fillet hanging from each hand; thymiaterion in inner right field, ?-? across fields. G. K. Jenkins, Hellenistic Gold Coins of Ephesos, in Festschrift Akurgal, Ankara, 1987, p. 134, pl. B, 6 (BM) = R Fleuscher I, Artemis von Ephesos und der erwandte Kultstatue von Anatolien und Syrien, EPRO 35, 1973, pl. 53b; LIMC II, pl. 565, 23. 8.43g, 21mm, 12h. Good Extremely Fine. Very Rare. From the A.F. Collection, Germany. The Hellenistic era gold coinage struck at Ephesos is extremely rare and rarely well preserved. Previously thought to have all been struck during the Mithradatic wars, this is now known not to be the case. Some seem to be dated by the era of the Province of Asia and the dates they bear are too early for them to be Mithradatic War issues. Certain other issues such as the present example appear to be part of an extraordinary issue of gold struck in conjunction with an extremely rare gold stater type of Magnesia in the mid-second century. The style and fabric of both issues seem consistent with an emergency issue struck to meet an immediate expense. The reverse of this coin depicts the famous cult statue of Ephesian Artemis, housed in the great temple of Artemis that is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The original image of the goddess was a wooden xoanon that had represented a pre-Hellenic goddess who the Greeks later equated with Artemis. This first image, which was kept decorated with jewellery, was possibly lost in a flood in the 8th or 7th century which destroyed the temple; excavations have discovered the tear-shaped amber drops of elliptical cross-section which must have dressed it. In circa 550 BC, when reconstruction of the temple was begun (partly financed by Kroisos), it was undertaken in grand style and was supposedly the first Greek temple to be built of marble. The wooden xoanon was replaced by a new ebony or grapewood statue sculpted by Enoidos, which presumably survived until the temple was again destroyed, this time by an act of arson on the part of one Herostratos. The second destruction of the temple coincided with the birth of Alexander the Great; Plutarch later noted that Artemis was too preoccupied with Alexander's delivery to save her burning temple. The form of the goddess is distinctly near-eastern in appearance; characteristics such as her legs being enclosed in a tapering pillar-like term are closely related to Egyptian and Hittite images, and the curious feature of the many protuberances on her chest (usually described as breasts or eggs) are decidedly non-Greek in origin, and indeed have defied explanation or identification for centuries, though an association with fertility seems implicit.
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Arsinoe II Philadelphos AV Mnaieon - Oktadrachm. Alexandria, circa 253-246 BC. Head right, veiled and wearing stephane; lotus-tipped sceptre in background; K to left / Double cornucopiae, grape bunches hanging at sides, bound with fillet; AP?INOH? ?I?A?E??OY around. Svoronos 1498-9; Troxell p. 67, 8; SNG Copenhagen 321-2. 27.75g, 28mm, 11h. Near Extremely Fine. From the A.F. Collection, Germany, outside of Egypt prior to April 2007.
Dynasts of Lycia, Kuprilli AR Stater. Circa 480-440 BC. Dolphin leaping to left over decorative line; symbol above / Triskeles, K-O around, floral ornament in corner. cf. for type Mørkholm-Zahle 5; BMC 53; Traité II, 247; Müseler IV, 6-8 (all dolphin to right); cf. Müseler IV, 1 (same reverse die). 9.81g, 20mm. Very Fine. Apparently unique and unpublished. From the Mordecai Medvin collection.
Cyprus, Salamis AR Stater. Nikodamos, circa 460-450. Recumbent ram to right, oinochoe above; Cypriot script 'pa-si-le-wo-se ni-ko-ta-mo' around / Head of ram to left, olive branch and elaborate ankh symbol below; Cypriot script 'pa-si ni-ko-ta' around. Bank of Cyprus -; BMC -; Traité II -; Tziambazis -; cf. Masson & Amandry, Notes de numismatique chypriote, VI-VIII in RN 1988, p. 33 and pl. II, 4-5 = Kunstfreund 169 (same obverse die). 11.19g, 23mm, 1h. Extremely Fine. Apparently unique and unpublished; of great numismatic interest. From the Dr. Albert Potts collection, outside of Cyprus before December 1992. The Greek dynasty of Salamis traced its ancestry back to the legendary hero Teukros (Teucer), son of Telamon, king of the Greek island of Salamis in the Saronic Gulf. The first king and founder of the dynasty of Cypriot Salamis whose name appears on the Persian standard double sigloi and fractions is that of Evelthon (560-525 BC). It has long been recognised and confirmed by the Celenderis, Asyut, Lanarca, Zagazig and Jordan hoards, that many if not all of these issues were minted by his successors from c. 515 until the mid 5th century; Herodotus (5.104) lists four successors to Evelthon: Siromos, Chersis, Gorgos and Onesilos, none of whom are confirmed by the numismatic record. Thus it appears that the royal numismatic custom at Salamis was to continue using the types of one’s predecessor, with the name of the reigning king of secondary importance to the primary message - that he was of the dynasty of Evelthon. The only other names recorded on coins before the well attested Evagoras I are: Phausis (cf. J. Kagan and K. McGregor 1995: “The Coinage of king Phausis of Salamis”, CCEC 23, 3-9, 1995); Nikotamos (cf. BMC 31-32 (Nikodamos) and Evanthes (BMC 38-9) dated to the period 480-450 BC. The recumbent ram type of the obverse ultimately derives from the type instituted by Evelthon, so continuing the theme which appears to have been retained for dynastic purposes. Significantly, a coin discovered with the name of Nikodamos on the reverse also bears the name of Evelthon on the obverse (Troxell-Spengler 1969, 17). The use of the latter’s name in the middle of the fifth century is significant, as it apparently confirms that Nikodamos was descended (or at least claimed descent) from Evelthon. The reverse type of a ram’s head may have been an innovation introduced by Nikodamos, which appears to have been retained by his successor Evanthes, and most surprisingly, by the uncertain and possibly Phoenician king ‘Maxakosa’ who coined an issue survived by a single example (Roma Numismatics XIII, lot 411) circa 450-430 BC. Nikodamos himself appears to be unknown to history other than from his coins, but he must have reigned at Salamis in the years immediately preceding the expedition of the Athenian fleet under the general Kimon against the Persians on Cyprus in 450 BC.
Cyclades, Paros AR Drachm. Circa 520-500 BC. Goat kneeling right, within border of dots / Incuse square. K. Sheedy, The Archaic and Early Classical Coinages of the Cyclades, RNS SP 40, London 2006, 9a; SNG Lockett 2619. 6.00g, 16mm. Very Fine. Rare. Ex Frank James Collection; Ex A H Baldwin & Sons 44, 2 May 2006, lot 73.
Lucania, Herakleia AR Stater. Circa 330-280 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with Skylla hurling a stone; [|-HRAKLHIWN] above, small K behind / Herakles standing facing, holding club, bow, and arrow, lion's skin draped over arm; AQA to left of club, |-HRAKLHIWN to right; aryballos above. HN Italy 1384; van Keuren 84f; Work 66 (this coin). 7.92g, 20mm, 2h. Near Extremely Fine; pleasant old cabinet tone. This coin published in E. Work, The Earlier Staters of Heraclea Lucaniae (ANSNNM 91, 1940); Ex Fritz Rudolf Künker 262, 13 March 2015, lot 7032; Ex Ars Classica XII, 18 October 1926, lot 369.
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Thea Neotera Æ Obol - 40 Drachmai. Alexandria, circa 51-30 BC. Diademed and draped bust right / K?EO?ATPAC BACI?ICCHC, Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left, M to right. Svoronos 1872; Weiser 184-5; SNG Copenhagen 422-4; Noeske 383. 10.12g, 21mm, 12h. Near Extremely Fine; excellent state of preservation for the type. Sold with export licence issued by The Israel Antiquities Authority.
Antoninus Pius Æ Drachm of Egypt, Alexandria. Dated RY 5 = AD 141/142. AYT K T AI? A?P ANT?NINOC C?B ?YC, laureate head right / Achilles and the Centaur Chiron walking to right, Chiron with left foreleg raised, head and human torso turned towards Achilles, holding a helmet in his left hand, his right arm across the shoulder of the young Achilles who holds a spear in his right hand and places his left around Chiron; between them billows Achilles' cloak, L? (date) in exergue. Köln 1873 (same dies); Dattari (Savio) 2505 & 8369; K&G -; Emmett 1485.5 (R5); Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 135 (this coin). 23.86g, 34mm, 1h. Very Fine. Wonderful surfaces with a dark brown patina with hints of green and red. Extremely Rare; probably the finest known specimen of the type. Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection, Triton XXI, 9 January 2018, lot 164; Ex Kerry K. Wetterstrom Collection, Classical Numismatic Auctions XIII, 4 December 1990, lot 218. Numismatic artistry flourished at the mint of Alexandria during the early years of Antoninus Pius’ reign with the introduction of an ambitious range of new reverse types. This coin is a rarity of the mythological series, alongside which the Labours of Hercules and the signs of the Zodiac were also produced. The reason for these strikingly different pictorial types has been examined by J.G. Milne, who suggests that a masterful Greek artist was active for a limited time at Alexandria, producing imagery previously unfamiliar to Egypt and later copied in a less expert style (speaking specifically about the Hercules series, see Pictorial Coin-Types at the Roman Mint of Alexandria, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 39, 1943). This artist seemed to work exclusively on bronze drachms which in comparison to smaller silver and bronze denominations were naturally preferable for these new medallic designs. The childhood of Achilles was only briefly touched upon in the Homeric cycle; it is not until much later that the story is embellished and his early years described at length. That Achilles was tutored by the wise centaur Chiron was mentioned in Homer’s Iliad, not an unusual upbringing for a mythical hero as many other heroes including Herakles, Jason, Perseus and Theseus were also trained by Chiron as youths. The work which is the most descriptive in presenting Achilles' time with Chiron on Mount Pelion is Statius’ unfinished epic, the Achilleid, published in the first century AD, which also covers his time on Skyros where he was hidden by his mother Thetis, disguised as a girl so that he might avoid his fated death should he go to Troy and war. Statius expanded upon the surviving Greek sources for Achilles’ upbringing with Chiron, portraying the centaur as more than a teacher and mentor, adapting his role into that of a loving foster father. Thus Achilles, when later describing what he ate when growing up, refers to Chiron as such: “thus that father [pater] of mine used to feed me” (2.102). Statius may have been following a theme begun by Ovid some years earlier; in Fasti (5.412) Achilles laments at Chiron’s death, saying “Live, I beg you; don’t leave me, dear father [pater]!” It was perhaps with such thoughts in mind that the engraver here portrays Achilles and Chiron: the old centaur drapes his left arm in an affectionate, paternal manner across the youth’s shoulder, a gesture which Achilles reciprocates, as the two walk together. Chiron carries Achilles helmet, while Achilles himself rests his spear across his shoulder, the point of which emerges on the far side of Chiron, behind him. It may be that we are invited to see in this scene the end of a day’s training: “Already at that time weapons were in my hand... Never would he suffer me to follow unwarlike deer through the pathless glens of Ossa, or lay low timid lynxes with my spear, but only to drive angry bears from their resting-places, and boars with lightning thrust; or if anywhere a mighty tiger lurked or a lioness with her cubs in some secret lair upon the mountain-side, he himself, seated in his vast cave, awaited my exploits, if perchance I should return bespattered with dark blood; nor did he admit me to his embrace before he had scanned my weapons” (2.106-128)”.
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Arsinoe II Philadelphos AV Mnaieon - Oktadrachm. Alexandria, circa 253-246 BC. Head right, veiled and wearing stephane; lotus-tipped sceptre in background; K to left / Double cornucopiae, grape bunches hanging at sides, bound with fillet; AP?INOH? ?I?A?E??OY around. Svoronos 1498-9; Troxell p. 67, 8; SNG Copenhagen 321-2. 27.81g, 29mm, 11h. Good Very Fine. From the A.F. Collection, Germany, outside of Egypt prior to April 2007.
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Æ Diobol of Alexandria, Egypt. 51-30 BC. Diademed and draped bust right / K?EO?ATPA? BA?I?I??H?, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopiae to left, ? to right. Svoronos 1871; Weiser 183; SNG Copenhagen 419-21; Noeske 380-2. 22.58g, 26mm, 12h. Very Fine. Sold with export licence issued by The Israel Antiquities Authority.
Ionia, Magnesia ad Maeandrum AV Stater. Circa 155-140 BC. Euphemos, son of Pausanias, magistrate. Draped bust of Artemis to right, wearing stephane, and with bow and quiver over shoulder / Nike, holding kentron and reins, driving fast biga to right; MA?NHT?N (of the Magnesians) above, EY?HMO? ?AY?ANIOY below. Heritage 3056, 30066 (same dies); unpublished in the standard references, but for the magistrate Euphemos son of Pausanias and dating of the stephanophoric tetradrachms of Magnesia, cf. N. F. Jones, The Autonomous Wreathed Tetradrachms of Magnesia-on-Maeander", ANSMN 24, 1979, pp. 63-109, especially nos. 8-25; for the obverse Artemis bust type cf. B. Head, History of the Coinage of Ephesus, London 1880, p. 69, 1-7, pl. 5 and Mørkholm, Early Hellenistic Coinage, Cambridge 1991, 657 = Gulbenkian 985. 8.43g, 19mm, 12h. Extremely Fine. A coin of extreme rarity and great numismatic importance. From the A.F. Collection, Germany. The discovery of this totally new reverse type for a gold stater on the Attic weight standard of about 8.5g, fortunately signed by a very well known Magnesian magistrate, solves two long standing numismatic problems. Firstly, it allows for the dating of the Ephesian gold staters with which it is associated, and it confirms the mid second century dating of the Ionian stephanophoric coinage. Euphemos, son of Pausanias, was one of the eight magistrates who were responsible for the substantial silver stephanophoric 'wreath-bearer' tetradrachm issues, beautifully engraved and struck on broad flans on the Attic silver standard of about 17.2 grams. It is notable that Magnesia had in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries produced very high quality Attic standard gold staters with polished dies in the names of Philip, Alexander and Lysimachos. The obverse bust of Artemis is of exactly the same style as the well known Ephesos gold staters which depict on their reverse the Ephesian cult figure of Artemis. Until now those Ephesian staters have defied proper dating, having been given a chronological range by various authors from 150 to 88 BC (cf. Gilbert K. Jenkins, 'Hellenistic gold coins of Ephesus', in Festschrift E. Akurgal, Anadolu-Anatolia 21, 1978/80, Ankara, 1987, pp. 183-8, pls. A-B). Though of course it does not preclude the possibility that they were struck over an extended period of time, we may now at least say with some certainty that they were already being struck by around 150-140 BC. The evidence from the seven extant stephanophoric tetradrachm hoards from the contemporary territory of the Seleukid Empire, found together with dated Seleukid coins, points to a secure narrow chronological range for all these issues of 150-138 BC. Significantly the Magnesian coinage has often been found in close association with similar wreathed issues from Aigai, Kyme, Myrina, Herakleia, Lebedos and Smyrna in what must have been an unattested 'entente' by cities that had been guaranteed their autonomy following the imposition by Rome of the Treaty of Apameia between the Republic and Antiochos III in 188 BC - an attempt to stop the constant quarrelling between the Greeks. For the numismatic history of the period cf. Jones 1979, pp. 90-100 and Ch. Boehringer, Zur Chronologie Mittelhellenistischer Münzserien 220-160 v. Chr., Berlin 1972, pp. 49f."
A MISCELLANEOUS JEWELLERY COLLECTION, to include a round belcher link chain measuring approximately 600mm in length, stamped '9ct', a late Victorian mourning gold plated brooch, a small pair of gold cross earrings, a shell cameo ring, oval shape depicting maiden in profile, ring size K, stamped '9ct'
A collection of three Victorian gem set ringsthe first of navette outline, the blue enamel ground onset with three old round-cut diamonds, in a border of rose-cut diamonds, unmarked; together with a green paste and diamond set ring, and a garnet and pearl set cluster ring, unmarked (3)Ring sizes: J/K, L, K
Dumfries - Two Scottish provincial toddy ladlesDAVID GRAY David Gray, marked anchor, unicorn, G, anchor, DG, foliate Q to terminal; marked unicorn, G, anchor, DG, crest and initials to terminal, both of Fiddle pattern; together with Joseph Pearson & Mark Hinchscliffe marked e, stag, anchor, JP, italic H engraved to terminal; marked stag, K, anchor, Hinchcliffe M, Gothic D engraved to terminal, both of Fiddle pattern(4)Lengths: 16cm, 16.5cm, 15.5cm & 17cm, combined weight: 141g
Toddy ladle, marked URQUHART, Edinburgh 1822, PERTH, engraved initials to terminal of fiddle pattern; teaspoon, marked CAM/ERON, hallmarked for Chester 1896, fiddle pattern; James Wright, a tea spoon, JW, oak tree, S, eagle, of Fiddle pattern, foliate K engraved to terminal; a sugar spoon, Aberdeen, William Jamieson, WJ, ABD, of Fiddle pattern; toddy ladles, John Urquhart, marked, JC, U, double headed eagle, U, S, foliate F engraved to terminal; James Wright, J.W. star S, eagle, of Old English pattern; marked marked I.P eagle, I.P, eagle, of fiddle pattern; James Stobie, marked J.S. eagle, J.S. of Fiddle pattern
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