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Lot 156

A pair of Queen Elizabeth II silver candlesticks, by SM, of squat circular form on baize lined bases, Birmingham 1967, 9.5cm high. (2, AF)

Lot 157

Various Victorian and later silver, comprising a Victorian silver mustard pot, a miniature pepper pot 3cm high, miniature flask, and a mustard spoon, 1½oz. (4)

Lot 158

An Edwardian silver circular patch box, of typical form with a domed lid revealing a plain interior, Birmingham 1905, 4.5cm dia. 1½oz.

Lot 159

A George V silver salt, with a blue glass liner, London 1897, a mounted crown and a chinoiserie silver mounted scent bottle, 4cm high, 1oz gross. (3)

Lot 160

A quantity of George V and later silver, to include two silver napkin rings, two silver topped bottles etc, various dates, makers and dimensions, 2oz. (5)

Lot 190

A 19thC oak silver chest, of rectangular form, with a part metal banding and exterior carrying handles, the hinged lid opening to reveal a plain interior, when closed, 92.5cm wide x 46.5cm deep x 45.5cm high.

Lot 2

A Victorian silver teapot, of oval bombe form, part gadrooned to the shaped lid and body, with polished angular handle, London 1891, 14cm high, 12½oz gross, and a silver plated two handled sugar bowl of similar form. (2)

Lot 260

Various Royal Crown Derby and other wares, to include soup bowl of circular form, 26.5cm dia. various other plates, dinnerware, an Imari style cruet, silver spoons, an early 19thC Chamberlains Worcester jug, and a Beswick cat and mouse figure etc. (a quantity)

Lot 266

A Victorian silver christening mug, by William Hutton & Sons Ltd, of circular form with an engraved body set with scrolls and flowers, with C scroll handle on circular foot, London 1898, 9cm high, 3oz.

Lot 277

An early 20thC oak cased silver plated canteen of cutlery, by Poston, comprising various serving spoons, ladles and other accessories, when closed 42cm wide x 33cm deep x 20cm high.

Lot 35

A set of six George V silver teaspoons, each with figural tops with turned stems and plain bowls, London 1932, makers marks rubbed, 10.5cm high, in a fitted case. (6)

Lot 36

A George V silver four piece dressing table set, by B & Co, comprising two clothes brushes and two hair brushes, 25cm wide, each of typical engine turned form, Birmingham 1925. (4, AF)

Lot 37

An Elizabeth II silver topped brush and comb set, by Broadway & Co, comprising clothes brush and comb, Birmingham 1992, in a fitted case and a plated figure of a standing fox, 6cm high. (a quantity, AF)

Lot 46

An Edwardian silver handled carving knife, by G H Company with pistol grip handle and plated blade, 5½oz gross, 32cm high.

Lot 47

A set of six George III silver teaspoons, probably Thomas Hayter of Fiddleback pattern probably London 1815, 3oz, in associated case. (6)

Lot 3057

A collection of three silver cased fob watches

Lot 170

a pair of silver globe book ends

Lot 21

Hallmarked silver cased key wind pocket watch with key by Gowland & son. Liverpool with enamel dial and seconds dial

Lot 245

Silver charm bracelet with 26 various charms including cars, houses, animals. Total weight: 73g

Lot 303

A hallmarked silver key wind fob watch with jewelled enamel dial

Lot 305

Hallmarked silver key wind fob watch with painted enamel dial

Lot 307

Top wind Hallmarked silver fob watch enamel dial

Lot 309

Top wind silver and guilt fob watch with enamel dial and gold hands.

Lot 53

Chinese Jade and silver bracelet, Silver and turquoise pendant and a hard-stone pendant

Lot 533

Silver embossed cigarette case with dragon and F.G.B. initials

Lot 548

a hm silver serving tray with shaped rim on 3

Lot 557

a hm silver 6 division toast rack London 1900-01 360mgs

Lot 681

Ladies silver marked 925 art deco silver coloured Quartz watch

Lot 740

5 Various Silver Photo frames

Lot 813

Ornate hallmarked silver fruit basket pierced and chased decoration 430g

Lot 814

Walker & Hall Hallmarked silver sugar basket - chased and engraved decoration 283g

Lot 815

Hallmarked silver trumpet shaped vase with pierced rim weighted base. Total weight 277g

Lot 816

Hallmarked silver cream jug by Mappin and Webb. Total 165g

Lot 819

pair of hallmarked silver sauce boats - classical style and hallmarked silver ladle 217g

Lot 89

10 pairs HM silver sugar tongs various date 225gm

Lot 105

A pair of late 19th century silver plated wine bottle coasters in the Sheraton style. D: 14cm

Lot 133

A silver gilt multi-chain necklace set with semi-precious stones.

Lot 14

An oak canteen of silver plated flatware.

Lot 148

A silver plated ice bucket with lid, having twin handles and glass liner, together with silver plated clawed feet tongs

Lot 267

A mid Victorian burr walnut toilet case, the hinged top enclosing a compartmentalised interior, with silver plate mounted cut glass jars etc.

Lot 298

A German Secessionist style four piece silver plated tea service.

Lot 336

A pair of 17th century Italian style silver plated candle sticks. H.79cm

Lot 68

An unusual bronze plaque, relief cast with the Madonna and child. H.13.5cm, together with various gilt metal miniature animals, a sterling silver overlaid glass scent bottle etc.

Lot 134

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 3.95 g, 4h). Uncertain mint 18, in Areia, Margiana, or Baktria. Horned and bridled head of horse right / BASI?EOS SE?EYKOY, anchor. SC 256.2; ESM 752; HGC 9, 40; Sunrise 179 (this coin). Good VF, lightly toned, some horn silver. Very rare. From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 668.

Lot 1350

Base silver appliqué in repousse. Circa 12th century. (30mm, 3.76 g). Facing half-length figure of St. Demetrios, wearing military attire, holding spear in right hand, shield decorated with cross in left. Good VF, traces of gilding, holed four times for attachment. From the Iconodule Collection.

Lot 1367

MEROVINGIANS, Uncertain. Circa 710-750. AR Denier (12mm, 0.82 g, 6h). Large + RI; long bar above / Large AS; long bar above. NM p. 170, 13; Belfort 6636; MEC 1, –. VF, find patina. From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Wade Hinderling, 15 January 2010.INTRO TO LASSER:The following selections from the Lasser Collection are being sold according to Joe’s explicit wishes. All proceeds from the sale of these coins will be used to acquire additional items for the numismatic collection at Colonial Williamsburg.Born in New York City, Joe grew up in a huge, family-packed house in New Rochelle, not far from the home of Julius Guttag, the famed numismatist of the first half of the 20th century. Working for Guttag in the mid 1930s, Joe got his first taste of numismatics, and formed his first collection, which was sold a few years later to pay for college. While at Lehigh University, where he excelled at everything, including golf, Joe opted to interrupt his education by joining the Army Air Corps shortly after the United States entered WWII. As a bombardier/navigator in both B-26 “Marauders” and A-26 “Invaders,” Joe completed 41 missions over Europe with the 391st Bomb Group of the 9th Air Force, and was highly decorated for his service. Once back in the States, he continued his education, started a family with Ruth, his childhood sweetheart, and began a career as a writer for a financial newspaper. Shortly thereafter, Joe changed direction and began what was to become a very successful career as a securities analyst, stockbroker, and portfolio manager.Joe’s childhood fascination with things numismatic resurged as his young family matured, and he began to collect the paper money of the colonial period, including the Continental Currency issues of the Revolutionary War period. Always brilliant and inquisitive, it was in this area that Joe made his first significant contribution to numismatics. After painstakingly reading through tens of thousands of pages of Continental Congress papers, Joe assembled the universally accepted list of authorized Continental Currency signers, which appears in Eric Newman’s The Early Paper Money of America. Shortly thereafter, Joe set out to collect anything and everything that circulated in colonial America, including coins of the world trade. Over the years, the Lasser collection grew in size and scope, and now contains world-class holdings of American colonial material. Areas of great strength include Betts and Indian peace medals, Massachusetts silver coins by die variety, and French, Dutch and Spanish Colonial coins. In the latter category, Joe’s collection of Colombian coins formed the basis for his The Cob Coinage of Colombia (2000), co-authored with Jorge Restrepo, and now the standard reference on the subject. Other numismatic publications include The Coins of Colonial America (1997) in addition to some two-dozen articles appearing in various publications over the past four decades. Further immersing himself into collecting and publishing, he began not only to lend coins and paper money to museum exhibits, but he began giving them to various North American institutions that had a use for them.Joe never lost sight of how lucky he was, and his unique circumstances allowed him to assemble a collection few could even dream of doing. A lover of numismatics to the core, he was aware of the value of education, and thus his primary focus shifted from the acquisition of material to sharing it with those inside and outside of the numismatic community. After a long and difficult search, and with the support of his family, Joe decided that this unique collection could be best “used,” as he put it, by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Today, the

Lot 1371

CAROLINGIANS. Charlemagne (Charles the Great). As Charles I, King of the Franks, 768-814. AR Denier (18mm, 1.21 g, 11h). Class 2. “Ardis” (Uncertain Provençal) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(AR)o/•/LVS in two lines / AR/DIS in two lines; (triple pellets)+(triple pellets) between. Cf. Coupland, Charlemagne, p. 216; cf. Depeyrot 56 (Arles); cf. M&G 238 (Indeterminate Mints); cf. MEC I, 722 (Arles?). Good VF, traces of find patina. Very rare. From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from James F. Elmen, 22 July 2009.In 755 under Pepin I, the Carolingian currency system was reformed. In addition to reducing the number of mints that had existed previously under the Merovingians, this reform strengthened royal authority over the minting of coins and, most especially, established uniformities of weight, fineness, and design. It also established a set relationship between the Carolingian silver denier, which had become the main denomination, and the fictional denominations of account – the shilling and the gold solidus – that were employed to handle larger sums. Under Charlemagne, this reform was implemented fully and expanded to meet the needs of his ever-increasing empire. Initially, Charlemagne`s deniers followed the weight and general type of Pepin I. As new sources of silver were discovered, and as Charlemagne acquired more power and territory, he issued new, heavier deniers of differing types, some of which types continued under his successors. One of these was the cross pattee / monogram type. Under each successive ruler, the type would be continued with only the monogram being changed to fit the name of the new ruler. Under Charlemagne`s successor, Louis I `le Pieux`, a new type, the XPISTIANA RELIGIO, was introduced and featured a temple facade on the reverse A third type was that with the obverse legend, which originally had the name of the emperor, now replaced with the phrase GRATIA D-I REX, along with the monogram on the obverse, and a cross pattee with the mint name on the reverse. These last two types became so popular that early feudal issuers copied them for their own coinage, long after the Carolingian rulers themselves were gone. Known as immobilized types, the Carolingian denier (and its fraction, the obole) continued as a denominational type throughout western Europe in the form of the denar, denaro, and even the English penny (notated as d. in accounting) for most of the Middle Ages until the introduction of the larger gros in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Lot 1665

RUSSIA, Empire. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. Platinum 12 Roubleï (34.8mm, , 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint. Dated 1832. Dated 1831. Crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb, coat-of-arms of Moskva framed by Order of St. Andrei ????????????? (the First Called) on breast; arms of Kazan, Astrakhan, and Novosibirsk on right wing, Kingdom of Poland, Caucasus, and Grand Duchy of Finland on left; imperial crown above / (rosette) 96 ??? · 68 ??? · ?????? ????????? ??????? (96 zolotniky, 68 doleï unalloyed Ural platinum), (rosette) 12 (rosette)/??????/?? ???????/(ornamental spacer)/1831./?.?.?. ([rosette] 12 [rosette]/Roubles/of Silver/[ornamental spacer]/1831./[mintmark]). Bitkin 40; Severin, Gold, 604; Uzdenikov 0368; Friedberg 158; KM (C)179. In NGC encapsulation graded PF 63 Cameo. Bitkin records a total mintage of 1463 specimens for 1831.

Lot 1691

CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Cunobelin. Circa AD 10-43. AR Unit (13mm, 1.27 g, 10h). Trinovantian W, Cunobelin Sphinx type. Winged and draped bust right; CVNO upwards to right / Sphinx seated left; TASCIO downward to left. De Jersey, Silver group D3; Van Arsdell 2057-1; ABC 2870; SCBC 313. EF, iridescent toning, flan crack, minor granularity. From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 30; Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 1448.

Lot 1700

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (16mm, 1.31 g, 12h). Light coinage. Non-portrait type. Caentwarabyrig (Canterbury) mint; Eoba, moneyer. Struck circa 785-792/3. T¯F within lozenge with crosses at corners; R ? X m with pellets and trefoils around / ? O B A within angles of cross fleurée, with saltire of pellets in annulet at center. Naismith, Offa 36 (this coin); Chick –; SCBI –; BMC; North –; SCBC 904. Near VF, toned. Extremely rare – the only known example of this obverse type. From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Purchased from Davissons, April 2010. Ex Spink (25 March 2010), lot 11. Found in north Yorkshire, 2009.During the eighth century AD, Mercia, under its king, Offa (757-796), was the largest and most powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom in England. As such, this kingdom maintained diplomatic and cross-cultural, and economic contacts with the Carolingian Empire on the Continent (see J. Nelson, “Carolingian Contacts,” in M.P. Brown and C.A. Farr, Mercia [London & New York, 2005]). The coinage reform begun by Pepin I and implemented by his son and successor, Charlemagne (see lot 1371) produced deniers struck on broad flans of good metal. This new coinage became the denominational standard throughout the Carolingian Empire, replacing the earlier, smaller Merovingian silver issues and the sceats found in northern Europe and across the English Channel. In Anglo-Saxon England, these earlier coin types were replaced with a new denomination, the penny. Based on the Carolingian denier, these coins first appear in two very rare issues of the Kentish kings, Heaberht and Ecgberht. It was Offa, however, who introduced the penny to a much wider audience in England, with both heavy and light issues in various portrait and non-portrait types. So successful was this new denomination that it continued to be the sole English silver denomination until the introduction of the groat, halfpenny, and farthing under Edward I in 1279.

Lot 1747

WINDSOR. George V. 1910-1936. Specimen Set. First coinage. London mint. Dated 1911. Includes: AV Five Pounds // AV Two Pounds // AV Sovereign // AV Half Sovereign // AR Halfcrown // AR Florin // AR Shilling // AR Sixpence // AR Maundy Groat // AR Maundy Threepence // AR Maundy Twopence // AR Maundy Penny. SCBC PS11. Proof, the silver attractively toned. In original case of issue. From the Patrick H. James Collection.

Lot 1750

SCOTLAND. James VI. 1567-1625. AR Testoon. (30mm, 1h). Revaluation of 1578 on a Second period, Group II issue of Mary & Francis. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1560. FRAN · ET · MA · D · G · R · R · FRANCO · SCOTOR Q, crowned coat-of-arms; cross to left, X to right / · VICIT · LEO · DE · TRIBV · IVDA · 1560 ·, crowned FM monogram; [crowned lis to left], crowned thistle to right. C/m: crowned thistle. For host coin: Burns 14; SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 1093; SCBC 5418. FOR C/M: SCBC P. 70. In NGC encapsulation graded AU 50. Toned. From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection.The value of silver continually rose during the early years of James` reign, and soon the metal content of the Scottish coinage was considerably higher than face value. Consequently, silver coinage began to disappear from circulation, being melted down or sold abroad. In July of 1578, the Privy Council passed an act authorizing the revaluation of the coinage. Silver coins would be bought in by the Mint and released to circulate at a higher value by the addition of a crowned thistle countermark. Under this new valuation, a ryal, for example, worth 30 shillings face, would be bought in at 32s/6d, revalidated and returned to the supplier with a higher value of 36s/9d. However, the Mint collected a 4s/3d "handling fee" per ryal. In other words, the supplier would get back a value of metal exactly equal to what he put in, while the state collected a 12% surcharge. This measure was obviously very unpopular, and, in 1581, a new revalued coinage had to be introduced.

Lot 1752

SCOTLAND, Countermarked coinage. Ayrshire, Catrine. Catrine Cotton Works. AR Four Shillings Nine Pence (40mm, 26.94 g). Countermarked circa 1800. CATRINE · COTTON · WORKS · NO 5048 around 4/9 within circle, 8 8 8 between, all countermarked on a 1793 Mo FM 8 Real of Carlos IV of Spain. Hodge, “Secret Marks on Merchant Countermarked Silver Coins,” in BNJ 79 (2009), p. 240-2 (unlisted registration number); Manville 18 (unlisted registration number); KM CC17. Host coin Fine, countermark VF, toned. Very rare. For another extremely rare countermarked issue, see lot 1763.

Lot 267

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Vima Kadphises. Circa AD 100-127/8. Set of Four AV 2 Dinars. Mint I (A). 3rd emission. All coins: BACI??YC OH MO KA?FICHC, diademed and crowned figure or half-length bust of Vima Kadphises in various poses, holding mace-scepter or laurel branch in right hand; flames at shoulder, tamgha to right or left / Maharajasa rajadirajasa sarvaloga isvarasa mahisvarasa hima kaphthisasa tradara(sa) in Karosthi script, ithyphallic Siva standing facing, head left, holding trident in right hand and resting left arm on bull Nandi behind, who is standing right with head facing; Buddhist triratana (“Three Jewels”) to left. Lot includes the following: (a) (24mm, 15.96 g, 12h). Bopearachchi, Premiers Série VIII, 12-17; MK 10 (dies 1/– [unlisted rev. die]); Donum Burns 75; Sunrise 522 (this coin) // (b) (25mm, 15.94 g, 12h). Bopearachchi, Premiers Série IX, 22 (this coin); MK 11 (dies 1/– [unlisted rev. die]); Donum Burns 76; Sunrise 523 (this coin) // (c) (23mm, 15.89 g, 12h). Bopearachchi, Premiers Série X, 24 (this coin); MK 12 (dies 4/12A); Donum Burns 78; Sunrise 524 (this coin) // (d) (24mm, 15.91 g, 12h). Bopearachchi, Premiers Série XI, 29; MK 13 (dies 3/– [unlisted rev. die]); Donum Burns –; Sunrise 525 (this coin). All coins Superb EF, a couple light scratches in field on reverse of coin (a). From the Sunrise Collection, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, 2007.The name Kushan derives from the Chinese term Guishuang, used to describe one branch of the Yuezhi, a loose confederation of Indo-European people who had been living in the Xinjiang Province of modern China. Driven west by Xiongnu between 176 and 160 BC, the five groups of the Yuezhi – the Xiumi, Guishuang (Kushans), Shuangmi, Xidun, and Dumi – reached the Hellenic kingdom of Baktria by 135 BC. They expelled the ruling Greek dynasties there, forcing these kings further south to settle along the Indus River. In the following century, the Guishuang forced the other tribes of the Yuezhi into a tight confederation. Now, as the Guishuang was the predominant power, the entire group became known by that name. This appellation was Westernized as Kushan, though the Chinese still referred to them as Yuezhi.Like the Hellenistic Greeks and Romans, the Kushans were a multi-cultural society, incorporating much of the cultures they ruled into their own. Like their Baktrian predeccesors, early Kushan coins used Greek legends on the obverse, along with a translation in the local Karosthi script on the reverse. Beginning with Kanishka I, however, the Kushan language, written in an adaptation of the Greek alphabet with some local alterations, was used almost exclusively. From the time of Vima Taktu (Soter Megas), the Kushans also began to adopt Indian cultural elements. Embracing a wide variety of local Indian and Central Asian deities, they assimilated them with Greco-Roman types already prevalent in the region. Overall, the Kushan pantheon represented a religious and artistic syncretism of western and eastern elements.An adept military leader who expanded Kushan power throughout much of Central Asia, Vima Kadphises was the first Kushan ruler to send a diplomatic mission to Rome, during the reign of Trajan. Vima Kadphises was also the first Kushan ruler to strike gold coins. Because the Kushans under his reign had extended their protective control over the Silk Road, the Roman gold they obtained through the trading of luxury items with the Roman Empire–such as silk, spices, and other exotic goods–provided the metal for the striking of the first Indian gold coins. In addition to the existing copper and silver denominations, Vima Kadphises introduced three gold denomination

Lot 317

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 280-228 BC. Lot of four (4) AR diobols. All coins: Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet / Herakles standing, strangling the Nemean lion with both arms. HN Italy 1061. Includes the following varieties: (a) (9mm, 1.14 g, 12h) Athena with plain helmet; on reverse, club to left, owl between legs of Herakles. Vlasto 1405; SNG ANS – // (b) (12mm, 1.26 g, 9h) Helmet of Athena adorned with hippocamp; on reverse, owl to left, Z between legs of Herakles. Vlasto 1399; SNG ANS 1450–1 // (c) (11mm, 1.08 g, 5h) Same as last // (d) (11mm, 1.25 g, 3h) Athena wears single-pendant earring, helmet adorned with three pellets on bowl and Z on neck guard; on reverse, aphlaston to left. Vlasto 1376–80; SNG ANS –. Lot also includes a small bronze box, 53mm wide, 42mm in depth, 28mm high, dating to late 4th century BC. The bottom part stands on four legs outlined by vertical lines engraved on the body surface, thus delineating the two ends of the box and its front and back. The sides and back are further decorated by two parallel horizontal engraved lines approximately one third up from the bottom. The lid, detached, has a rolled hinge and a flat top with remains of solder, presumably for attaching a decorative repoussé relief now lost. Cf. M. True and K. Hamma, eds., A Passion for Antiquities. Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman (Malibu, 1994), 29, for a very similar box, slightly larger and with its original repoussé decoration intact. All coins in Near EF condition, with underlying luster, typically a little off center on compact flans. The box has been professionally cleaned and restored. From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Nomos 1 (6 May 2009), lot 6.From the Nomos catalog: According to the information that was supplied by Dr. Leo Mildenberg, this box was found in a river and when the deposits that filled it were cleaned out, these four silver coins were found within it. This is by no means improbable: the box itself is probably slightly earlier than the coins, but the idea that it contained them seems perfectly reasonable. Its small size implies it was meant to be used to hold relatively precious items. Given the kind of people who still brought things to Dr. Mildenberg in his later years, and this was brought to him a year or two before he died, it is very unlikely that anyone would have thought it worth while to create a fictitious history for the object (especially since the coins themselves were then of relatively minor value). It was undoubtedly shown to him because it was the kind of curiosity everyone knew he enjoyed seeing. In any event, being able to have the actual container in which the present coins were found is both exciting and romantic. The box is so close in form to the Fleischman example, now Getty 96.AC 87 (dated to 350-310 BC), that one wonders whether it could have been made in the same atelier. While its cataloguers pointed out its resemblance to the cinerary urns used in Macedonian tombs (especially that of Philip II), the fact that this one surely came from Magna Graecia makes one wonder whether the Fleischman piece came from there as well.

Lot 403

CARTHAGE, First Punic War. Circa 264-241 BC. BI Trishekel (30.5mm, 18.82 g, 12h). Reduced standard. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with pendants / Horse standing right; palm tree in background. MAA 43; CNP 161; Müller, Afrique 100; SNG Copenhagen 189 var. (pellets); SNG Lloyd –; Basel –; Gulbenkian –; de Luynes 3773. Near EF, toned, light marks. Very rare. Ex Georges Bouchereau & Robert Boyer Collection.The trishekel was the largest silver denomination struck in Carthage (although of billon quality), and was used for only three issues, all during the First Punic War: one with palm and horse, the other two with uraeus and horse.

Lot 427

THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Bisaltai. Circa 475-465 BC. AR Oktadrachm (33mm, 28.68 g). Horse walking right, bridle held by nude warrior in background, walking right, wearing petasos and holding two spears, CISA-LTIKON (partially retrograde or inverted) around / Quadripartite incuse square. Peykov A3060 (this coin illustrated); Topalov 33; HPM pl. XI, 5-6 var. (breaks in ethnic); AMNG III/2, 4 var. (same); SNG ANS –; SNG Ashmolean 2242 var. (same). Superb EF, lightly toned. Boldly struck on excellent metal. Ex Mieza Collection (Nomos 7, 15 May 2013), lot 33; Triton XI (8 January 2008), lot 100.The Bisaltai were a tribe of Pelasgian or Thracian origin and occupied the territory between the rivers Echedoros and Strymon, including the metalliferous mountains which separate the territory of the Bisaltai from the territory of the Krestonioi and Mygonia on the west (Hdt. 7.115). At the time of the invasion of Xerxes in 480 BC, the Bisaltai were governed by a Thracian ruler who was independent of Macedonian influence, and refused to assist the Great King of Persia when his army crossed Thrace to invade mainland Greece. At some point after the Persian retreat, Alexander I of Macedon, who was in the service of Persians as early as 492 BC, annexed the territory as far as the Strymon Valley. Capturing its rich silver mines, he issued the first regal Macedonian coinage, which is indistinguishable from the Bisaltian but for the placing of his own name. The absence of Bisaltai oktadrachms in the Asyut hoard led Price and Waggoner to suggest a mintage date of circa 475-465 BC. This coinage was terminated about the same time as the disaster at Drabeskos in 465/4 BC, in which the Athenian colonists of Ennea Hodoi (later Amphipolis) were exterminated by the native Thracians, though it is unknown whether this coinage is directly related to the Bisaltai’s involvement in this conflict.

Lot 489

MACEDON (Roman Protectorate), Republican period. First Meris. Circa 167-149 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 17.01 g, 9h). Amphipolis mint. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder, in the center of a Macedonian shield / Club; AP monogram and MAKE?ONON above, ?POTHS below; all within oak wreath, thunderbolt to left. Prokopov, Silver 178 (O48/R150); SNG Copenhagen 1310–1; SNG Dreer 646–7 (same obv. die); SNG Manchester 748 (same obv. die); Triton VIII, lot 203 (same dies). EF, beautiful even light gray toning with peripheral iridescence, a couple minor die breaks. From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from C. H. Wolfe, 3 June 1988.

Lot 556

CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS, Pantikapaion. Circa 325-310 BC. AV Stater (22mm, 9.11 g, 11h). Head of Pan left, wearing ivy wreath / Griffin, holding spear in its mouth, standing left, head facing, forepaw raised, on grain ear; ?-A-N around. MacDonald 63; Anokhin 1027; HGC 7, 21; SNG BM Black Sea 867; Gulbenkian 589; Hunt I 95; Kraay & Hirmer 440. Superb EF, fully lustrous. Fine style. Ex Nomos 6 (8 May 2012), lot 41 (hammer CHF 140,000); Numismatica Genevensis SA VI (30 November 2010), lot 41; Triton XIII (5 January 2010), lot 168 (hammer $95,000).Pantikapaion was founded by Greek colonists from Miletos in the late seventh century BC. Situated on the west side of the Cimmerian Bosporos, in what is now called the Crimea, it achieved great prosperity through its exploitation of the abundant fisheries of the straits and the export of wheat from the Crimea. This wealth is attested by its splendid gold coinage which commenced in the mid-4th century BC and by the magnificently furnished rock tombs of its principal citizens in the same period. Later, it was to become a regional capital of the kingdom of Mithradates VI of Pontos (120-63 BC) and later still the seat of the kings of Bosporos (first century BC - fourth century AD). The coinage of Pantikapaion seems to have commenced with silver issues in the latter part of the fifth century BC, but it is for its beautiful gold staters that the mint is chiefly noted. They depict the head of the god Pan (a pun on the name of the city) and on the reverse the griffin that Herodotos describes as being the guardian of the remote sources of gold.

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