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![Carausius BI Radiate. London, no mintmark, AD 287-289. [IMP C CARA]VSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right /](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/511c8e38-fc68-4f60-a09e-a72200fe76ff/683694e1-934d-486e-a5c6-82ee963aa251/468x382.jpg)
Lot 899
Vabalathus Æ Antoninianus. Antioch, March-May AD 272. IM C VHABALATHVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / VENVS AVG, Venus standing left, holding helmet and transverse spear, leaning on shield behind her; star to left. RIC 5 corr. (bust type); BN 1266; MIR 47, 361a. 3.31g, 23mm, 11h. Near Extremely Fine. Very Rare.
Lot 24
Campania, Nuceria Alfaterna AR Didrachm. Circa 250-225 BC. Head of Apollo Karneios left with horn of Ammon; Oscan legend ‘nuvkrinum alafaternum’ around / Dioskouros standing facing beside his horse, head turned to left, holding the reins and a thyrsos. HN Italy 608; SNG ANS 560; SNG Copenhagen 566; SNG München 388; Sambon 1008. 7.14g, 22mm, 5h. Very Fine. Attractive, lustrous metal. Rare. Around the end of the seventh century BC, inhabitants of the Sarno Valley founded a new city in a strategic location between the gulfs of Naples and Salerno. Created from the synoecism (union) of several scattered villages, the new city was named Nuvkrinum (literally ‘new fortress’), and was situated astride the obligatory route between the aforementioned coastal areas, guarding a fertile valley. The city thus became one of the twelve most important centres of Etruscan colonisation in Campania created to stop the northward expansion of the Greeks. After the defeat of the Etruscan navy at the Battle of Cumae in 474 BC the Etruscans abandoned the region, and the city came into the possession of the Samnites who renamed it Nuvkrinvm Alfaternum, after the Samnite Alfaterni tribe. Hostile to the Romans during the Second Samnite War, in 308 BC it repulsed a Roman attempt to land at the mouth of the Sarnus, but in 307 BC it was besieged and surrendered. In defeat it became an ally of Rome and remained loyal during the war against Hannibal, for which loyalty it suffered greatly, being razed to the ground. The present coin dates to a period of prosperity between the two wars, and represents the only silver issue of this city.
Lot 625
Julius Caesar AR Denarius. Rome, 40 BC. Q. Voconius Vitulus, moneyer. Laureate head of Caesar right; DIVI•IVLI before, lituus behind / Bull-calf walking left; Q•VOCONIVS above, VITVLVS in exergue. Crawford 526/2; CRI 329; Sydenham 1132; Kestner 3808; BMCRR Rome 4308-10; RSC 46. 3.96g, 20mm, 4h. Good Extremely Fine. A bold portrait of Caesar. Very Rare.
Lot 95
Sicily, Syracuse AR Tetradrachm. Deinomenid Tyranny. Time of Hieron I, circa 470-466 BC. Charioteer, wearing long chiton and holding the reins in both hands, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying left to crown the charioteer; ketos swimming to right in exergue / Head of Arethusa right, wearing pearl diadem, pearl necklace, and drop earring, hair tied in a krobylos; ΣVRΑΚΟΣΙΟΝ and four dolphins swimming clockwise around. Boehringer 442; Jameson 758. 17.19g, 26mm, 1h. Good Extremely Fine. A superb example of this simple but elegant type. Beautifully toned. Rare. Ex Leu 48, 10 May 1989, lot 60.
Lot 330
Karia, Kaunos AR Stater. Circa 430-410 BC. Winged female goddess moving to left, her head turned back to right, holding a wreath in left hand and a kerykeion in her right / Triangular baetyl flanked by two bunches of grapes hanging from tendrils, inverted delta above to left; all within incuse square. Konuk, in Price FS, 98 (O40/R39); SNG Kayhan 792; Troxell 27; De Luynes 2776. 11.38g, 23mm, 12h. Near Extremely Fine. Rare.
Lot 413
Kings of Commagene, Epiphanes & Kallinikos Æ19. Laranda mint, AD 72. Epiphanes and Kallinikos on horseback left; BACIΛΕΩC YIOI below / ΛYKAONΩN, Capricorn to right, star above, anchor below; all within wreath. RPC I 3535 (Antiochos IV Epiphanes) = von Aulock, Lykaoniens 11 (same dies); AC 228 (same dies). 8.14g, 19mm, 12h. Very Fine. Very Rare.
Lot 1262
Constantine I BI Nummus. London, circa late AD 309. IMP CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / MARTI CO-N-SERVATORI, Mars in military dress, standing right, holding spear and shield; PLN in exergue. Unpublished in the standard references, for general type cf. CT 6.01.001-2 and RIC 107. 3.36g, 21mm, 6h. Extremely Fine/Very Fine. Extremely Rare.
Lot 1063
Germanus III, Patriarch of Constantinople, PB Seal. May 25, 1265 - September 14, 1266. The Virgin Mary, nimbate and seated facing on a high backed throne / ΓΕΡMANOΣ ΕΛΕΩ ΘΥ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΚΩΝSTΑΝΤΝΙVΠΟΛEΩΣ NΕΑΣ PΩΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ OIKVΜΕΝΗΚΟΣ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧHΣ (Germanos, by the grace of God, archbishop of Constantinople, the New Rome, and ecumenical patriarch) in eight lines. Zacos 38b; DOC 125.1; Laurent, Corpus 5.3, 1633. 36.98g, 46mm, 12h. Extremely Fine. Very Rare.
Lot 1273
Constantine I BI Nummus. London, circa AD 311-312. CONSTANTINVS A-VG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield decorated with Victory holding wreath and palm branch / COMITI AVGG NN, Sol standing left, with raised right hand, holding globe in left; star in right field, PLN in exergue. CT 7.03.058; RIC 66-66a. 4.44g, 23mm, 5h. Very Fine. Rare.
Lot 662
Marc Antony AR Denarius. Obverse die signed by 'P.' Athens, 33 BC. Bare head of Marc Antony right; in hair below ear, small P•; ANTON•AVG•IMP•III•COS•DES•III•V•R•P•C• around / ANTONIVS AVG•IMP•III in two lines. Crawford 542/2; CRI 347; Sydenham 1209; RSC 2. 3.85g, 19mm, 6h. Good Extremely Fine. Rare. Struck on a broad flan, well centred for the type and very complete for the issue. The small P on the obverse represents the only example of an artist engraving his initials on a Roman Republican coin. This fact went unnoticed for centuries, until it was first pointed out in a Santamaria sales catalogue in 1920.
Lot 659
Marc Antony AR Denarius. Military mint travelling with Antony in northern Syria, late summer - autumn 38 BC. Bare head right, ANT•AVG•III•VIR•R•P•C• around / Trophy of arms; at base to left, prow left; Macedonian shield to right; IMP-TER across fields. Crawford 536/3 note; CRI 272; RSC 18b; Sydenham 1204; Kestner 3830 var. (obv. legend); BMCRR East 149. 4.01g, 19mm, 4h. Near Mint State. Sound, lustrous metal. A wonderful example of this desirable type. Very Rare. The Parthians had been well aware of Caesar’s ambitions to invade their territory, and during the civil war that followed the dictator’s assassination, they actively supported the cause of the Liberators, sending a contingent of troops which fought with them at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC. Following that defeat the pro-republican general Titus Labienus, who had lately served as Cassius’ ambassador to Parthia, assisted the Parthians in their bid to invade the Eastern Roman territories. Along with the Parthian prince Pacorus, Labienus commanded the invasion forces which swept into Syria and down the Phoenician coast. Distracted first by his dalliance with Cleopatra, then by his wife Fulvia, in the following year Marc Antony eventually dispatched his lieutenant Publius Ventidius Bassus with eleven legions to drive back the invaders. Ventidius first surprised and defeated Labienus at the Cilician Gates, executing the traitor, then encountered a Parthian army at the Amanus pass which he also defeated. Finally in the spring of 38 at the Battle of Cyrrhestica, Ventidius inflicted an overwhelming defeat against the Parthians which resulted in the death of the Pacorus. Antony at this point hurried to take command of Ventidius’ forces in the prosecution of a campaign of reprisal against Antiochus of Commagene, who had aided the Parthians. Ventidius meanwhile was pensioned off back to Rome, where he became the first Roman to celebrate a triumph over the Parthians.
Lot 91
Sicily, Syracuse AR Tetradrachm. Second Democracy, circa 440-430 BC. Charioteer driving fast quadriga left; Nike above, flying right and crowning charioteer; ketos left in exergue / Head of Arethusa right, wearing earring and necklace, hair tied up with ribbon; ΣYRAKOΣION and four dolphins around. Boehringer 604 (V296/R410); SNG ANS 198-9; Jameson 775 (these dies). 17.02g, 25mm, 5h. Extremely Fine and attractively toned. Rare. Ex David Freedman Collection. Engraved in wonderful style, the usual die break detracts nothing from the beauty of the artistry we observe here.
Lot 1198
Allectus BI Radiate. London, AD 293-295. IMP C ALLECTVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ORIENS AVG, Sol standing right, looking back, with right hand raised and holding globe in left; S-P across fields, ML in exergue. Burnett 9; RIC 26; Webb 34. 3.53g, 23mm, 1h. Very Fine. Very Rare.
Lot 152
Macedon, Philippoi AV Stater. Circa 356-345 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Tripod with legs terminating in lion's paws, circular ornaments on top; ΦIΛIΠΠΩN upwards in left field, grape bunch to right. Bellinger, ANSMN 11, 33, 20. 8.63g, 18mm, 8h. Mint State. Extremely Rare. Originally a Thasian foundation, the town of Daton alternated between Athenian control for most of the fifth century, a brief period of local autonomy in the first half of the fourth century, and once more came under the control on Thasos in circa 360 BC when the local mines were recaptured with Athenian backing and the town was refounded with the new name of Krenides. Shortly thereafter however, in 356 Krenides was threatened by Thracians, and the citizens appealed to the rising power in the area, Philip of Macedon. Philip had conquered Amphipolis the year before, and he now took Krenides under his aegis. The city was strengthened greatly with new fortifications, enlarged with new colonists, and was renamed Philippoi in honour of the king. Having gained command of the Mount Pangeion region and the 1000 talents a year in gold that its mines provided, Philip at first permitted the city to continue striking coinage in its own name, using types that it had previously employed, in both gold and silver - it is to this period of production that the present coin belongs. For a time therefore, the coinage of Philippoi must have circulated alongside Philip’s royal coinage, however with the advent of Philip’s currency reforms of the 340s, gold production at Philippoi came to an end. Philip revolutionised the coinage of the kingdom of Macedon, which would eventually also supersede that of all Greece. Philip’s brother Perdikkas, though he had initially struck a silver coinage, was later like his elder brother Alexander II before him, only able to coin in bronze. Philip now had prodigious quantities of not only silver, but gold too in measure beyond what his brothers could have dreamed. Before Philip, gold coins issued by the Greeks had been extremely infrequent, and struck usually only in times of great emergency. Philip’s control of the Pangeion mines now enabled him to make Macedon the first state in the Greek world to issue gold uninterruptedly year on year, which he did with a new standardised Macedonian gold currency denominated in staters, hemistaters and quarter staters, as well as 1/8 and 1/12 fractions. This wealth would provide the driving force behind his successive conquests, expansion and diplomatic manoeuvres that enabled him to unify all Greece under Macedonian hegemony, and set the stage for his planned invasion of Persia. As for Philippoi, following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Macedon, it would next feature significantly on the pages of history only centuries later when in October 42 BC, on the plain to the west of the city, the legions of Octavian and Marc Antony faced those Brutus and Cassius to determine the fate of the Roman world.
Lot 839
Lucilla AV Aureus. Struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus in Rome, AD 161-162. LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F, draped bust right, hair waved and knotted low at back in chignon / VOTA • PVBLICA in four lines within laurel wreath. RIC 790 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 22-2(a); Calicó 2219; BMCRE 328 (Aurelius and Verus); Biaggi 980. 7.22g, 20mm, 12h. Good Very Fine. Very Rare.
Lot 513
Didius Julianus Æ25 of Prusa ad Olympum, Bithynia. AD 193. ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΔΙΔΟC ΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟC ΑΥΓ, laureate and cuirassed bust right / Hexastyle temple with shield in pediment; ΠΡ-ΟΥ across fields, CΑΕΩΝ in exergue. BMC 15; Rec. gen. I, 4, 66 and pl. C, 17. 13.97g, 25mm, 12h. Good Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 72, 16 May 2013, lot 1626 (professionally conserved since).
Lot 1135
Carausius BI Radiate. London, March AD 289 - March 290. IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, trabeate and cuirassed bust left, holding scipio / PA-X AVG, Pax standing left, holding olive branch and vertical sceptre; F-O across fields, ML in exergue. RIC 104; Webb -. 3.68g, 23mm, 12h. Very Fine. Very Rare.
Lot 72
Sicily, Siculo-Punic AR Tetradrachm. Circa 300-289 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress; kerykeion below neck / Horse’s head left, palm tree with date clusters behind; three pellets before, ‘MHMHN’ in Punic script below. Jenkins, Punic 281 (O90/R232). 17.07g, 25mm, 5h. Extremely Fine. Very rare variety.
Lot 678
Marc Antony Legionary AR Denarius. Military mint moving with Antony, autumn 32 - spring 31 BC. ANT•AVG III•VIR•R•P•C, praetorian galley to right / Aquila between two signa; LEG VIIII across fields. Crawford 544/22; CRI 360; RSC 36; Sydenham 1226; BMCRR East 200. 3.73g, 18mm, 2h. Very Fine. Rare.
Lot 851
Septimius Severus Ӕ Sestertius. Rome, AD 203. SEVERVS PIVS AVG P M TR P XI, laureate and cuirassed bust right / INDVLGENTIA AVGG, Dea Caelestis(?) riding right on lion, holding drum and sceptre, over waters gushing from rock; SC in right field, IN CARTH in exergue. Hill, Severus 619 var. (bust type); BMC -; RIC -, cf. 759 (As). 30.84g, 32mm, 6h. Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare. As he hailed from Leptis Magna in the province of Africa, the production of coins under Septimius Severus bearing this interesting reverse scene and specifically referencing Carthage in the legend have traditionally been taken to mark the granting of a special favour to this city of his native land. It is often suggested that perhaps Severus caused to have built a new aqueduct to improve the water supply, based on the presence of water in the design, though being struck as it was in AD 203 after his successful campaign during the previous year this issue is perhaps more likely to be celebrating the newly expanded and refortified province of Africa as a whole. Although not being named on the coin, that the figure on the reverse is the principle female deity of Carthage, Dea Caelestis, is a generally accepted point. Also understood is Severus' attachment to the province of Africa, and therefore we can assume a continued reverence and worship of the traditional deities of the land by the Emperor. Perhaps then we might see in the scene depicted here the emperor appropriating the local deity of Carthage and carrying her to Rome over the waves of the Mediterranean, just as we see the similar action taken by a later emperor of the Severan dynasty marked in the numismatic record with reverse types showing the transportation of the sacred Stone of Emesa to Rome by Elagabalus in 218.
![Carausius BI Radiate. London, no mintmark, circa AD 287. [IMP CARA]VSIVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / LITI-IA](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/511c8e38-fc68-4f60-a09e-a72200fe76ff/08436f97-bd7f-4b7c-e020-e8103d7bb05a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 1080
Carausius BI Radiate. London, no mintmark, circa AD 287. [IMP CARA]VSIVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / LITI-IA (sic), Laetitia standing right holding trident, clasping hand of Carausius standing left holding sceptre (same reverse die to previous coin). Unpublished in the standard references, for reverse type with legend EXPECTATE VENI or similar, cf. RIC 216 (MSC) and 554 (RSR); Webb 264-5 and 603. 2.70g, 19mm, 10h. Fine. Extremely Rare.
Lot 257
Mysia, Kyzikos EL Hekte. Circa 550-500 BC. Bearded archaic male head to left; tunny fish to left below / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze 66 (stater); Greenwell 78; Boston MFA -; SNG BN 194; BMC -; Gillet -; Gulbenkian -; Jameson 2170; Weber -; R. Käppeli, Kunstwerke der Antike: Kunstmuseum Luzern, Sammlung Robert Käppeli, Sonderausstellung zum 25 Jubiläum der Internationalen Musikfestwochen, Luzern (1938 - 1963), 11 August bis 27 Oktober 1963 (Basel: Schwabe, 1963), 4 (this coin). 2.67g, 11mm. Very Fine; attractive reddish tone, minor flan flaw on obverse. Very Rare. Ex R. Käppeli Collection, Numismatica Genevensis 7, 27 November 2012, lot 74.
Lot 897
Vabalathus Æ Antoninianus. Antioch, AD 272. IM C VHABALATHVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / IVԐNVS AVG, Hercules standing right, leaning on club and holding three apples, lion skin over left arm; star to right. C. 4; RIC 4; Göbl 359; BN 1265. 3.98g, 22mm, 12h. Good Very Fine. Rare.
Lot 284
Mysia, Kyzikos EL Stater. Circa 550-450 BC. Sphinx with curved wings, raising right forepaw, standing left on tunny fish / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze 127; Greenwell 99; Boston MFA 1456 corr. ("lacking in von Fritze"); SNG BN 277; Gillet -; cf. Gulbenkian 1618 (hekte); Jameson -; Prospero 445; cf. Rosen 504 (hekte); Traité II 2720; Weber -. 15.95g, 21mm. Extremely Fine. Rare.
Lot 1043
Constantine IV AV Solidus. Syracuse, circa AD 668-673. D N CONSt…, crowned bust facing, wearing chlamys and holding globus cruciger with thumb emerging from behind globe / VICTORI…, cross potent set on three steps between facing figures of Heraclius and Tiberius, both holding globus cruciger with thumb emerging from behind globe; CONOB in exergue. Cf. MIB 30; DOC 55a; Spahr 161; Sear 1201 (all with spike or finger emerging only from obverse globe); Elsen sale 114, 2012, 526 (same dies). 4.40g, 19mm, 6h. Very Fine. Very Rare. The thumb emerging from the globes held by Constantine IV and his family have not been noted in the standard publications.
Lot 1272
Constantine I BI Nummus. London, circa AD 311-312. CONSTANTINVS A-VG, laureate, helmeted and cuirassed bust left, holding spear and studded shield / COMITI AVGG NN, Sol standing left, with raised right hand, holding globe in left; star in right field, PLN in exergue. CT 7.03.049 var; RIC 186 var. 3.30g, 25mm, 6h. Extremely Fine. Very Rare.
Lot 813
Hadrian Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 119-122. IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG PM TR P COS III, laureate bust right, drapery on far shoulder / LOCVPLETATORI ORBIS TERRARVM, Hadrian seated left on raised platform, extending arm before him, with Liberalitas, standing left, emptying cornucopiae into folds of togas of two citizens standing right on ground before them; SC in exergue. RIC 585b; BMC 1194; Hill 245. 25.48g, 33mm, 6h. About Extremely Fine. Very Rare, and in exceptionally good condition for the issue. Known from ancient sources such as Dio Cassius (LXIX.8.1a) to have made regular and generous largesse to the the people of Rome, Italy and indeed many of the provinces as well, Hadrian is here presented as the 'Benefactor of the World' in a reverse legend never used before or seen again on any Roman coinage. Taken with the rare type of the same issue that depicts the similarly unusual scene of a lictor burning the promissory notes relating to tax arrears of nine million sestertii that Hadrian had cancelled, which is accompanied by the legend RELIQVA VETERA HS NOVIES MILL ABOLITA (RIC 590 ff.; BMC 1206 ff.), it would appear that the munificence of Hadrian knew no bounds. Modern historians have, to a certain extent, viewed this behaviour as simply a means to securing his power in the wake of the scandal surrounding the legality of his adoption by Trajan and the execution of four senators suspected of conspiring against him, however the regularity and continued occurrence of liberalities throughout his reign as we find recorded on the coinage perhaps suggest that Hadrian also had a desire to raise the living standards of the citizenry of all classes and distributed the wealth of the state as he saw appropriate.
Lot 928
Constantine I AV Solidus. Nicomedia, AD 335. Rosette-diademed head right, with uplifted gaze / VICTORIA CONSTANTINI AVG, Victory, wearing long dress, seated to right on cuirass inscribing VOT XXX on shield held by Genius; SMNC in exergue. RIC 175; Depeyrot 44/1; Bastien, Donativa 81, g) and note 8. 4.36g, 22mm, 5h. Extremely Fine; scattered marks. Rare.
Lot 627
Julius Caesar AR Denarius. Rome, 40 BC. Q. Voconius Vitulus, moneyer. Laureate head of Caesar right, wearing laurel wreath / Bull-calf walking left; Q•VOCONIVS above, VITVLVS•Q DESIGN in two lines below, S-C across fields. Crawford 526/4; CRI 331; Sydenham 1133; RSC 45. 3.84g, 20mm, 4h. Extremely Fine. Very Rare.
Lot 28
Lucania, Metapontion AR Stater. Circa 510 BC. Ear of barley with eight grains, META downwards to left, grasshopper to right; raised and braided dotted border around / Incuse ear of barley, dolphin upwards to left in linear relief. Noe 104; HN Italy 1472. 8.05g, 27mm, 12h. Fleur De Coin. Extremely Rare. An issue of great fascination, and the finest known example of the type. Perfectly preserved, a magnificent paragon of the incuse coinage of Metapontion. From the Louvière Collection, Belgium, privately purchased c.1970s. The most desirable of all the incuse types of Metapontion, this remarkable and brief series comprising only four known obverse dies for the staters and one for a third stater marks the first usage of adjunct symbols on the coinage of Metapontion. A series of great fascination, the meaning of the grasshopper and the dolphin has been a subject of debate for many years. Noe advocated the symbols as representing the badges of the moneyers’ houses, an argument not dissimilar to that which led the early archaic Athenian coins to be called ‘wappenmünzen’. Lenormant's view that the insect has a propitiatory significance is rejected with the derisory rhetorical question ‘there may have been a plague of locusts but could there have been a plague of dolphins?’, while avoiding trying to explain its significance. Babelon (Traité, 1395-1396) proposed a punning reference to the hero Alybas, father of Metabos and legendary founder of the city, however the Greek word he proposes to mean locust is incorrect and the argument founders, still failing to explain the dolphin. It is most logical to follow Lenormant and view the appearance of the grasshopper-locust on the coins as being a propitiatory emblem or commemorating the deliverance of the city from a plague of locusts through the intervention of Apollo. Indeed, the god is closely associated with afflictions (and the relief of), and had as one of his epithets ‘Parnopios’, from πάρνοψ, “locust” – the expeller of locusts. Given that the dolphin was both a form he had taken and one of his sacred animals, as well as being a punning allusion to him as Apollo Delphinios, it seems eminently reasonable to determine the link between the two symbols as being in reference to a plague of locusts whose abatement was attributed to the intervention of Apollo. That the grasshopper-locust symbol recurs several times more throughout the extensive coinage of Metapontion and at appreciable intervals is hardly suggestive of descendants of a particular family holding office, as Noe suggested, but rather more likely indicative of recurrent swarms threatening the principle source of the city’s wealth and food.
Lot 66
Bruttium, Terina AR 1/3 Stater. Circa 325-300 BC. Head of the nymph Terina to right, TEPI behind / Nike, wearing chiton and himation, seated left on square cippus, dove alighting on her extended right hand. Holloway & Jenkins 96; HN Italy 2634; SNG München 1741; cf. SNG ANS 858. 2.33g, 15mm, 7h. Extremely Fine. Beautiful old tone. Very Rare. Privately purchased from Tom Cederlind, 26 April 2012.
Lot 1035
Revolt of the Heraclii Æ Nummus. Mint in Cyprus, dated year 3 = AD 610. DM N ERACLIO CONSVLII, facing busts of Heraclius, on left, and his father, the exarch Heraclius, on right, both crowned and wearing consular robes; cross above / Large M; A beneath, cross above, ANNO III (date) across fields; KYΠPOY in exergue. DOC (18) = Ratto 1438; MIBE 182; Sear 725. 9.98g, 27mm, 6h. Good Very Fine. 'Desert' patina. Extremely Rare, only four cited by Hahn (MIBE), two in CoinArchives.
Lot 313
Kingdom of Lydia, Kroisos AR Half Stater - Siglos. Sardes, circa 564/53-550/39 BC. Confronted foreparts of lion right and bull left / Two incuse square punches of unequal size. Berk 23; Traité -; SNG Kayhan -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -. 5.25g, 16mm. Good Very Fine. Rare. The vast majority of Kroiseid type half staters were struck by the Persians after their conquest of Lydia. The pre-Persian Lydian issues can be distinguished by their style, which is more lifelike - the later Persian issues being more stylized. The earlier Lydian half staters are seldom seen, particularly in a good state of preservation.
Lot 507
Nerva AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. New Holy Year 2 = AD 97-98. AYT NEPOYAΣ KAIΣ ΣEB ΓERM, laureate head right, wearing aegis / ETOYΣ NEOY IEPOY B, eagle standing on thunderbolt, wings spread, head right and tail left, standing on thunderbolt, palm branch in left field. Prieur 150. 14.26g, 26mm, 11h. Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare. The inclusion of the title Germanicus on Nerva's year 2 tetradrachms from Antioch date them to a short period between November 97, when he received the title, and his death in January 98. Prieur could find only 8 specimens.
Lot 486
Herodians, Agrippa II, with Domitian, Æ21. Caesarea Maritima, dated RY 26 = 85/6 CE. IM CA D VES F DOM AV GER COS XII, laureate bust of Domitian right, wearing aegis / EΠI BA AΓPI around large SC; ET KS (date) in exergue. RPC II 2272; Meshorer 164; Hendin 1326. 6.25g, 21mm, 12h. Extremely Fine. Rare; an outstanding example of the type.
Lot 84
Sicily, Naxos AR Drachm. Circa 460-430 BC. Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing tainia decorated with an ivy branch / Nude and bearded Silenos squatting half-left, holding kantharos in right hand and resting his left hand on his knee, tail behind; NAXION around; all within shallow concave circular incuse. Cahn 56 (V41/R47); HGC 2, 990; SNG Lloyd 1152; BMC 9; Jameson 676; de Luynes 1064; Pozzi 507 (all from the same dies). 4.29g, 19mm, 6h. Extremely Fine. Very pleasant old cabinet tone, with remarkable visual appeal. Rare. Ex James Howard Collection, Roma Numismatics VII, 22 March 2014, lot 133. Though not as rare as its earlier counterpart, this wonderful type is however notoriously difficult to obtain in high grade. Of all the examples from various properties which Roma Numismatics has handled, this is by far the finest. It also greatly surpasses the two examples from the Niggeler and Hunt Collections which have been sold in recent years. Executed perhaps as little as a decade after the famous archaic tetradrachm (and corresponding drachm), the contrast between it and this coin could not be sharper. The god Dionysos has become increasingly humanised, with a less severe appearance not too dissimilar we may imagine from noblemen of that time. The reverse appears to continue the development away from static, romanticised scenes, instead portraying Silenos in a rather less than reverential pose, clearly inebriated and with an apparent carefree disregard for himself or his surroundings - instead preoccupied solely with his drinking cup.
Lot 477
Kings of Parthia, Artabanos I (Arsakes II) AR Drachm. Rhagai-Arsakeia(?) mint, circa 211-209 BC. Head left, wearing bashlyk / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on backless throne, holding bow; to right, eagle standing facing, head left. Sellwood 6.1; A&S type 6; Shore 4; Sunrise 242 (this coin). 4.06g, 17mm, 12h. Near Mint State. Rare. Ex Sunrise Collection.
Lot 734
Augustus AR Denarius. Emerita, circa 25-23 BC. P. Carisius, legate. IMP CAESAR AVGVST, bare head left / P CARISIVS LEG PRO PR, bird’s-eye view of town, with gateway, in which are two doors and on which are three battlements in front and walls around and behind; EMERITA inscribed above doors. RIC 9b; RSC 398; BMCRE 291 = BMCRR Spain 128; BN 1039-43. 3.93g, 21mm, 12h. Near Mint State. Very Rare variety with left facing bust.
Lot 1282
Constantine I BI Nummus. London, circa AD 312-313. CONSTANTINVS P AVG, laureate, helmeted and cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield / ROMAE RESTITVTAE, Roma seated left, holding branch and globe; star in left field, PLN in exergue. CT 7.12.007; RIC -. 5.05g, 23mm, 4h. Extremely Fine. Very Rare.
Lot 1276
Constantine I BI Nummus. London, circa AD 311-312. CONSTANTINVS P AV-G, diademed, helmeted and cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield decorated with central boss / CONCO-R-D MILIT, Concordia standing slightly left, holding signum in each hand; star in right field, PLN in exergue. Cf. CT 7.04.024 (3); RIC 203. 3.68g, 23mm, 6h. Good Very Fine. Rare.
Lot 1218
Allectus BI Radiate. London, AD 293-295. IMP C ALLECTVS P F I AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / PROVI-D AVG, Providentia standing left, holding baton over globe and cornucopiae; S-P across fields, C in exergue. Unpublished in the standard references, cf. Burnett 162; RIC 97; Webb 153. 4.06g, 23mm, 6h. Fine-Very Fine. Very Rare.
Lot 528
Philip I Æ39 of Tripolis, Lydia. AD 244-249. AVT•K•M•IOVA•ΦIΛIΠΠOC•AVΓ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from the front / TRIΠOΛE-I-TON K• ΛAOΔIK• [NEΩK], Leto, with veil billowing, advancing left while looking backwards; in each arm she holds a twin, the innermost leans to crown Zeus Laodikeos who stands left, holding sceptre and extending right hand towards her; OMONOIA in exergue. SNG von Aulock -, cf. 3323 (different obverse bust type and legend); Franke-Nollé pl. 102, 2371. 22.48g, 39mm, 6h. About Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare.
Lot 256
Mysia, Kyzikos EL Stater. Circa 550-500 BC. Head of youthful Perseus to left wearing winged cap; tunny fish downwards behind / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze 65; SNG France 193. 16.16g, 21mm. Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare, one of very few known examples. Ex Roma Numismatics VII, 22 March 2014, lot 639. Kyzikos, purportedly the first Milesian colony, was located on the southwest shore of the Propontis in ancient Mysia next to the river Aisepos. Its prosperity was due principally to its two fine harbours, which made the city a convenient stopping point for merchant ships trading between the Aegean and Black Seas. Its principal export was the tunny, of which its waters had abundant stock. The prevalence of winged beings in Kyzikene coinage is a reflection of archaic mythological convention that assigned wings to most divine or sacred entities as an immediately visible and understandable symbol of their nature, and in the case of gods, of their power to move at will across great distances. In the case of the winged animals, we should probably understand these to be attributes of or animals sacred to a particular Olympian god. On the present coin we see Perseus, the child of Zeus and the mortal Danaë, the daughter of the king of Argos, who though he had no mythical connection to Kyzikos, is most likely chosen as the type in recognition of his divine status and widespread worship among the Hellenes. He wears here the Ἄϊδος κυνέην - the so-called Helm of Hades which rendered its user invisible to other supernatural entities, given to him by Athena to help him evade the gorgons Sthenno and Euryale after he had slain and decapitated their sister Medusa.
Lot 127
Attica, Athens AR Dekadrachm. Circa 469/5-460 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over the visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing facing with wings spread; olive sprig and crescent to upper left, AΘE around; all within incuse square. Fischer-Bossert 11 (O7/R11); Starr 59a; Seltman 450a, pl. 21 (A305/P385); Svoronos pl.8, 13; Vinchon 14 April 1984, Comtesse de Béhague 123 = Rhousopoulos 1965 (all same dies). 42.98g, 34mm, 10h. Very Fine. Very Rare; weight adjustment ('Stannard gouge') marks. From the collection of an antiquarian, Bavaria c. 1960s-90s; Ex private German collection, acquired c. 1960s. The dekadrachms of Athens have always been regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces in all of ancient coinage, and have ever been amongst the most highly prized possessions of private and institutional numismatic collections. The occasion for the striking of these imposing coins has been a subject of scholarly debate for many years, and several different theories have been advanced concerning the motivation for the striking of such a prestigious issue, and the source of the bullion used. Babelon (Traité II, col. 769-770) and Head (HN, pp. 370-371) both perpetuated a misinterpretation of a passage in Herodotos who said that Athens paid ten drachms to each of its citizens for surpluses from the Laurion mines (7.144.1). They both therefore dated the dekadrachm issue to c. 490 BC, shortly after the Battle of Marathon, a date which has been subsequently shown to be far too early. Robinson (NC [1924], pp. 338-340) proposed the victory at Salamis as the reason for issue, while Regling (Die antiken Münzen), advanced a similar view, suggesting the combined victories of Salamis and Plataea. Only Starr and Kraay (NC [1956], p. 55; ACGC, pp. 66-68) understood the dating to be later than the prevailing views, having themselves reviewed the hoard evidence. It was Starr (Athenian coinage 480-449 BC) who suggested the victory at the battle at the Eurymedon river in c. 469/5 as the reason for the issue. The subsequent discovery of the Asyut hoard in 1968 or 1969, and the Elmali hoard in 1984 confirmed the dating around the mid 460s BC. Certainly the Eurymedon victory provided both the celebratory occasion and the means to finance such a grand issue of coinage. In either 469 or 466 BC, the Persians had begun assembling a large army and navy for a major offensive against the Greeks. Assembling near the Eurymedon, it appears that the expedition’s objective was to move up the coast of Asia Minor, capturing each city in turn, thus bringing the Asiatic Greek states back under Persian domination, and furthermore giving the Persians strategically important naval bases from which to launch further expeditions into the Aegean. Led by the Athenian general Kimon, a combined force of Delian League triremes moved to intercept the Persian force, and taking them by complete surprise, the Persian forces were utterly routed, 200 triremes were captured or destroyed, and their camp was taken along with many prisoners. The spoils were reportedly vast, and such a stunning triumph would have provided ample reason for Athens to strike coins displaying its emblematic owl now standing fully facing, its outspread wings a clear statement of Athenian military power.
Lot 450
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VI Dionysos AR Tetradrachm. Apameia, dated SE 169 = 144/3 BC. Radiate and diademed head right; star behind / The Dioskouroi riding left, holding couched lances; to right, TPY above monogram and Φ; ΘΞP (date) below; all within wreath of lily, ivy, and grain ears. SC 2010.4e; Houghton, Revolt, Group XV, 62 (A10/P29); HGC 9, 1032 correction. 16.37g, 30mm, 1h. Good Extremely Fine. Rare issue with star on obverse.
Lot 1127
Carausius BI Radiate. London, October AD 287 - March 288. IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ADVENTVS AVG, Carausius, with right hand raised and holding sceptre in left, on horseback left, captive below hoof; ML in exergue. RIC 10; Webb 17. 4.17g, 21mm, 6h. Very Fine. Rare.
Lot 321
Karia, uncertain mint AR Quarter Stater. Circa 490-470 BC. Aeginetic standard. Forepart of winged man-headed bull left / Head of female left in dotted square border within incuse square. Cf. Konuk, Orou 1.1 (hemistater); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 8475; Vismara 91; cf. CNG 96/501 (Hemistater). 2.88g, 14mm, 12h. Very Fine. Extremely Rare.
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