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Menorah Judaea. Mattathias Antigonus. 40-37 AD. Prutah, 1.26g (12h). Obv: Mattatayah the High Priest around showbread table. Rx: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΟΥ; seven-branched menorah. Hendin 1168. Beautifully centered. About EF Other than the first type of the Year One Shekel of the Jewish War, the Menorah coin of Antigonus Mattatias is the most significant and sought-after of all Jewish coins. At the time that this coin was minted the golden show-bread table was considered more relevant than the menorah, which is why it is on the obverse. Possibly because of its relationship to the Christian Mass and the body of Christ our modern perception has changed totally. Less than forty of these coins are recorded. While we hesitate to call anything the finest known, this specimen is marginally better than Bromberg and far better than the two Sheshona examples. A testament to its rarity is the fact that in fifty years this is the first example of this important coin that we have ever had the honor to offer
Nero. 54-68 AD. Copper semis, 6.53 (6h). Rome, 64 AD. Obv: NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P Head laureate right. Rx: CERTAMEN - QVINQ - ROM CO, without S C, Prize table, its legs ending in lions` feet, on top of which are an urn decorated with at least two human figures, and an oak wreath whose ties hang down to left and right of the table`s back right leg. On the strut between the table`s two front legs, two griffins leaping towards each other; above the griffins, a hanging garland fastened at both ends and in the middle; below on the ground, a shield. BM 250 note (Naples). Paris 252, pl. XLIII (same dies). Cohen 65 (6 Fr.). RIC 91. MacDowall 306, p. 44 (3 spec., Paris, Naples, Oxford, all same dies as ours). Rare early copper semis without SC, fine style. Fine/VF Acquired from Platt in Paris, June 1968 From Nero`s earliest issue of bronze coins, struck in 64 AD, experimentally omitting the normal letters S C, and before the change from copper to orichalcum asses and semisses. These rare copper semisses without S C are found with two reverse types, Roma seated and Prize table. The Prize table pieces, according to MacDowall, were struck from only one obverse die and two reverse dies, namely our reverse die reading CERTAMEN and a second die reading just CERTAM. This reverse type commemorates Nero`s establishment in 60 AD of games on the Greek model to be held at Rome every four years: "Contests on a four-year cycle established at Rome"
Stag in Wrong Officina, Unpublished Gallienus. 253-268 AD. Antoninianus, 4.15g (1h). Siscia c. 267-8 AD. Obv: GALLIENVS AVG Head radiate right. Rx: DIANAE CONS AVG Stag with branching antlers standing left, two front legs vertical and parallel, two back legs parallel and bent slightly forward at knees, XI (=officina 11) in exergue. Apparently unpublished; not in Göbl, Cunetio treasure, or Appendix 5 in the Cunetio report on the Animal coins by I. Carradice. Silvered Mint State Ex Berk 166, 15 October 2009, lot 408 Animal and officina mismatched: the stag with branching antlers normally appears in officina X, while officina XI has the same legend DIANAE CONS AVG but shows gazelle with two simple, one-pronged horns, not stag. The X of XI in exergue is damaged by a short flan crack and therefore not distinct, but it cannot be anything else, because XI is the only two-digit officina number in Gallienus` Animal issue. The standing pose of our stag, with legs strictly parallel, is also unusual: normally the stag walks with one front leg and one back leg advanced, see sketches 40-44 in Carradice`s table of the animal types, on p. 191 in the Cunetio reportmint mark 51 and same reverse die as lot 512
Lot of Three Rare Animal Antoniniani of Gallienus. (0h). . Mint of Rome, c. 267-8 AD. (1) 2.95g, 7h. Obv: GALLIENVS AVG Head radiate right. Rx: LIBERO.P.CONS AVG Tigress walking and looking right, B (=officina 2) in exergue. Göbl 715b (6 spec.), RIC 230, Cohen 591 (BM, 3 Fr.). Rare with tigress walking right rather than left: Göbl`s photofile included only six such coins, there were none in the Cunetio hoard, and Cohen 591 cited this variety from the BM, meaning that it was not in the Paris collection in his day. Moreover, our coin shows the tigress looking forward, not with raised head as on the Vienna specimen illustrated by Göbl, pl. 56, 715b, and the BM specimen reproduced by Carradice`s sketch in the Cunetio report, p. 190, fig. 4. (2) 3.09g, 11h. Obv: GALLIENVS AVG Head radiate right. Rx: APOLLINI CONS AVG Griffin standing right, Δ (=officina 4) in exergue. Göbl 721b (2 spec.), RIC 166, Cohen 75 (Paris, 1 Fr.). Very rare variant with griffin standing right rather than striding left as usual. Göbl 721 knew of only two such coins with obverse legend GALLIENVS AVG like ours, plus six specimens with obverse legend IMP GALLIENVS AVG; there were no specimens of either variety in the Cunetio hoard. (3) 2.38g, 6h. Obv: IMP GALLIENVS AVG Head radiate r. Rx: APOLL[INI CON]S AVG Griffin sitting l., Δ (=officina 4) in exergue. Göbl 722z, Cunetio 1350 (1 spec.), RIC 165, Cohen 78 (citing BM, 3 Fr.). Rare with griffin sitting left rather than striding left. There was only one such coin in the Cunetio hoard; Cohen cites it from the BM, indicating its absence in the Paris collection in his day. Göbl`s Table 20 alleges that he knew 66 specimens of this coin, but that figure must be an error, meant to apply to some other variety. VF to Fine
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