CNG 115 Virtual Catalog

CNG Feature Auction 115 September 16-17, 2020

CNG Classical Numismatic Group, LLC

CNG Feature Auction 115 September 16–17, 2020 To Be Conducted Live Online Featuring: A Diverse Offering of Coins from the El Medina Collection Ancient Coins from the Batory, James Barry, Toliver Besson, Jonathan P. Rosen, & Weise Collections Syracuse Dekadrachms of the Masters Kimon and Euainetos Further Selections of Electrum of Kyzikos from the Siren Collection Seleukid Rarities from the MNL Collection Extremely Rare Tetradrachm of Pantaleon Soter Alexandrian Coins from the Rocky Mountain and Stein A. Evensen Collections The Enigmatic Crawford 482/1 Denarius of Octavian An Exceptional “Eyes to God” Solidus of Constantine I Byzantine Coins from the Simon Bendall Collection and the Gasvoda Duplicates Knights of Malta from the El Medina Collection British Coins from the Todd Hansen, Maxwell, and James & Martha Robertson Collections The Finest Known Sceatt of Eardwulf A Pleasing Anglo-Viking St. Peter Sword-and-Hammer Penny

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Grading Conditions English

Proof

Mint State/Uncirculated

Extremely Fine (EF)

Very Fine (VF)

Fine Good/Fair

Deutsch

Français

Polierte Platte Stempelglanz Vorzüglich Sehr Schön Schön Gut

Flan Bruni Fleur de Coin Superbe Très Beau Beau Bien

Italiano

Fondo Specchio Fior di Conio Splendido Bellissimo Molto Bello Bello

Common Abbreviations

AD Anno Domini BE Bithynio-Pontic Era IY Indictional Year Æ Bronze BI Billon MBS Mail Bid Sale AE Actian Era CE Common Era mm Mintmark AH Anno Hegirae Cf. Confer (compare) PB Lead AR Silver c/m Countermark p.

Page AV Gold CY Civic Year (Era) pl.

Plate

BBS Buy or Bid Sale EL Electrum RPE Roman Provincial Era BC Before Christ FPL Fixed Price List RY Regnal Year BCE Before the Common Era g Gram SE Seleukid Era

See Bibliography on our website, www.cngcoins.com, for a complete list of reference abbreviations.

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All lots in this auction were in the possession of CNG in CNG’s Lancaster, Pennsylvania office no later than 27 July 2020. This information is provided for the protection of buyers in the event that US import restrictions are introduced subsequent to that date on any of the types of coins and antiquities that are included in this auction.

Notice Regarding “Slabs”

Coins that have been encapsulated (“slabbed”) by a grading and/or authentication service may not be returned for any reason, including authenticity, if they have been removed from the encapsulation (“slab”).

Acknowledgement CNG would like to thank Jan Moens (jan.moens@bvdmc.com) for creating and providing the Numismatica Medievalis font used in this sale.

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AUCTION TERMS 6.

Estimates are in U.S. dollars ($US) and bids must be in even dollar ($) amounts. CNG will execute mail bids on behalf of mail bidders. Subject to reserves and opening prices, mail bids will be executed at one bidding increment (approximately 10%) over the next highest bid. In the case of identical bids, the earliest bid wins. A mail bid has priority over an identical floor bid. Bid by lot number. No lots will be broken. Bidders are responsible for errors in bidding. Check your bid sheet carefully.

This is a public, mail bid, and internet auction conducted by Classical Numismatic Group, LLC (CNG). Bidding in the auction constitutes acceptance of the following terms: 1.

The property listed in this catalogue is offered for sale by CNG for itself and as agent for various owners and other consignors.

We reserve the right to reject any bid, to determine the opening price, to set bidding increments, to vary the order of the auction, to reopen bidding in the case of a dispute, to withdraw any lot, to bid on behalf of CNG, to bid on behalf of the consignor, to permit the auctioneer to bid on his own behalf, and to permit the consignor to bid on his own lots. CNG may loan or advance money to consignors or prospective bidders, and may have an interest other than commission charges in any lot. CNG may bid on its own account as an “insider” with information not available to the public.

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All lots are subject to reserve unless otherwise indicated.

However, no reserve will be higher than the estimate, and ordinarily lots are reserved at 60% of estimate.

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Bidders personally guarantee payment for their successful bids, including bidders executing commission bids from other parties and bidders representing corporations or other entities. Buyers accepting commission bids from other parties do so at their own risk and remain responsible for payment under these Auction Terms.

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A buyer’s fee will be charged to all successful bidders as follows on the hammer price: A. 22.5% for written, fax, email, telephone, and live internet bids.

B. 20% for floor bids placed in person at the auction and electronic bids placed directly on cngcoins.com.

All written bids, email bids, non-live telephone bids, live internet bid registrations, and live telephone bid registrations must be received before 5PM Eastern time on the day before the auction begins. CNG reserves the right to change the format of cngcoins.com at any time.

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At the conclusion of bidding for each lot, the sale contract is concluded and the successful bidder becomes liable for immediate payment under these Auction Terms. In the event a successful bidder fails to make full payment within 30 days of the auction date, CNG reserves the right either: (a) to require payment as provided under these Auction Terms; or (b) to deem the sale incomplete and to re-auction the material, in which case the successful bidder agrees to pay for the reasonable cost of such a sale and also to pay any shortfall between the re-auction price and the successful bidder’s purchase price. CNG reserves all rights that it is entitled to under the Pennsylvania Uniform Commercial Code, including the right to offset any sums due from a successful bidder against any future consignment or purchase or monies or goods in possession of CNG.

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All coins are guaranteed genuine. Attribution, date, condition, and other descriptions are the opinion of the cataloguer, and no warranty is expressed or implied. Please note that an auction sale is not an approval sale. Lots examined prior to the sale and lots purchased by floor bidders (including bidders executing commission bids on behalf of other parties) may not be returned for any reason except lack of authenticity. All claims of misdescription and all claims of return, except claims regarding authenticity, must be made within 5 days of receipt of material. Any claim of lack of authenticity must be made in writing by the original purchaser immediately after discovery that an item is not authentic, and upon making such a claim the original purchaser must immediately return the lot to CNG in the same condition as at the time of the auction. Coins that have been encapsulated (“slabbed”) by a grading and/or authentication service may not be returned for any reason, including authenticity, if they have been removed from the encapsulation (“slab”). If payment is made by credit card, rights of return are governed by these Auction Terms which supercede any rights of return promulgated by the card issuer. Estimates are intended as a guide only and not as a statement of opinion of value.

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Sales tax, postage, handling and insurance are the responsibility of the buyer and are added to all invoices where appropriate. For buyers in the European Union, CNG may import lots into the United Kingdom prior to shipment and charge buyers the import Value Added Tax. On any tax not paid by the purchaser which should have been paid, even if not invoiced by CNG, the purchaser agrees to pay the same on demand together with any interest or penalty that may be assessed. It is the responsibility of the buyer to comply with foreign customs and other regulations.

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Invoices are due and payable immediately upon receipt.

Interest and late fees of 2.0% per month, or at the highest rate permitted by law, whichever is less, from the date of the auction, shall be payable on invoices not settled within 30 days of the auction date.

Payment may be made by check or bank wire. Credit cards (Visa or MasterCard) will be accepted; credit card payments will not be accepted more than 14 days after the sale date. Payment by credit card for printed sale auctions will be charged a 2.5% handling fee.

Payment by check must be made in either US dollars ($) drawn on a US bank or British sterling (£) drawn on a British bank. All successful bidders outside North America and the United Kingdom will be charged an additional $20 fee for bank charges that are the result of international wire transfer fees; this fee will be deducted for credit card or check payment as described above. CNG may reduce or compromise any charge or fee at its discretion.

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All rights granted by CNG or otherwise available to bidders and purchasers, under these Auction Terms or otherwise, are personal and may not be assigned or transferred to any other person or entity, whether by operation of law or otherwise. No third party may rely on any benefit or right conferred by these Auction Terms. Bidders acting as agents must disclose the agency in writing to CNG prior to the auction; otherwise rights are limited to the agent and are not transferable to the undisclosed principal.

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Prices realized are published after the sale and are mailed with CNG’s next publication. Prices realized are also posted after the sale on CNG’s web site: cngcoins.com 12.

Bidders hereby waive any claim for incidental, consequential or exemplary damages arising from this auction. The sole remedy that any participant in the auction shall have for any claim or controversy arising out of the auction shall be a refund, without interest, of all or part of the purchase price paid by the participant.

14. Any dispute regarding this auction shall be governed by the laws of Pennsylvania and shall be adjudicated only by the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas or the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; all bidders submit themselves to the personal jurisdiction of these courts for this purpose, consent to service of process by registered or certified mail, and waive any contrary provisions of Articles 14 or 15 of the French Civil Code and any similar provisions in any jurisdiction. All bidders consent to the confidentiality of consignors’ identities and waive any right to require disclosure of the name of the consignor or owner of any auction lot, whether such right is based on any provision in any jurisdiction. In any dispute regarding this auction, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its reasonable costs and attorney fees.

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Bidders not known to us must provide us with satisfactory credit references or pay a deposit as determined at CNG’s discretion before bidding. Minors are not permitted to bid without written consent of a parent guaranteeing payment. CNG may require payment in full from any bidder prior to delivery of lots. Title does not pass until lots are paid in full. Upon receipt of lots, the buyer assumes full responsibility for loss or damage. Delivery to the buyer’s address of record shall constitute receipt by the buyer regardless of the identity of the person accepting delivery.

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Meet the Team

Mike Gasvoda

Victor England

Eric McFadden

Dave Michaels

Steve Pruzinsky

David Guest

Paul Hill

Bradley R. Nelson

Ken McDevitt

D. Scott VanHorn

Bill Dalzell

Kerry Wetterstrom

Julia TrocmĂŠ-Latter

Caroline Holmes

Jeffrey B. Rill

Travis Markel

Ally Martin

Dylan Ossman

Karen Zander

Alexandra Spyra

Managing Director Lancaster Office

Managing Numismatist London Office

Numismatist Lancaster Office

Manager IT & Production Lancaster Office

Consulting Director Lancaster Office

Managing Numismatist London Office

Senior Numismatist Lancaster Office

Photography Lancaster Office

Consulting Director London Office

Senior Numismatist Lancaster Office

Numismatist London Office

Photography Lancaster Office

Director Shows & Consignments Lancaster Office

Numismatist Sale Development Lancaster Office

Numismatist London Office

Office Manager Lancaster Office

Chief Financial Officer Lancaster Office

Senior Numismatist Lancaster Office

Numismatist Lancaster Office

Office Manager London Office

Additional Support IT Consultant: A.J. Gatlin Printing Control: Robert A. Trimble Auctioneers: Jeffrey B. Rill

(License No. AU006206)

Brian Callahan

(License No. AU005870)

Sharon Pruzinsky Accounting Lancaster Office

Kate Rill

Customer Relations Manager Lancaster Office

Julia Motter

Office Staff Lancaster Office

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Participate in CNG 115 using CNG’s New Bidding Portal

With the new CNG Bidding Portal, you can: • Log on and bid at any time at auctions.cngcoins.com • View the lots, follow the bidding, and see hammer prices as they are sold • Hear and see the auctioneer live • Enjoy all the advantages of an auction room bidder to win your favorite lots To bid live in this Feature auction: • Visit our new Bidding Portal before the auction at auctions.cngcoins.com • Register online with your email address and a password • Once approved, you may place pre-bids up until the moment the lot opens in the auction room • On the auction day, login to join the auction and participate live Please Note • If you have not already registered for our new bidding platform, launched in November 2019, you must create a new registration at auctions.cngcoins.com/register. Your old cngcoins.com handle and password will not allow you to log on or bid.

• You must register to bid before 5PM EST on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 • All lots won through the CNG Bidding Portal will be subject to a 20% buyer’s fee

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Important Notice of Changes Due to the developing situation regarding the novel coronavirus COVID-19, governments may change restrictions upon public gatherings and travel. It is therefore possible that all of the information below, regarding venue, lot viewing, and lot pickup, as well as the terms of sale listed above, may change.

CNG will communicate any changes via email and social media (Facebook and Twitter).

Lot Viewing Lancaster, PA

Auction lots may be viewed at our Lancaster Office from August 17, 2020 until September 15, 2020, by appointment only.

Lancaster Office Hours: 10 AM - 5 PM (Monday - Friday).

Online Viewing Enlargements of all single lots and selected multiple lots may be viewed on the internet at

CNGCOINS.COM SIXBID.COM NumisBids.com We are sorry, but photographs of individual coins in multiple lots cannot be provided.

Auction Location This Sale will be conducted live Online from our Lancaster, PA Office

Lot Pickup Lots will be mailed from our Lancaster, PA Office subsequent to the sale

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ORDER OF SALE Session One – Wednesday Morning – September 16 – 9:00 AM Greek Coinage (part 1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–331

Session Two – Wednesday Afternoon – September 16 – 2:00 PM Greek Coinage (part 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332–373 Celtic Coinage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374–382 Oriental Greek Coinage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383–413 Central Asian Coinage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414–419 Roman Provincial Coinage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420–523 Roman Republican & Imperatorial Coinage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524–607 Roman Imperial Coinage (part 1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608–673

Session Three – Thursday Morning – September 17 – 9:00 AM Roman Imperial Coinage (part 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674–745

Romano-Byzantine Weights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

Byzantine Coinage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747–803

Early Medieval & Islamic Coinage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804–832 World Coinage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833–961 World Medals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 962–983

Session Four – Thursday Afternoon – September 17 – 2:00 PM British Coinage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984–1217 British Medals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1218–1221 Electrotypes & Reproductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1222–1223 Antiquities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1224–1235

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Jim Barry A life member of the American Numismatic Association (ANA), James R. Barry is a dedicated collector and hobby volunteer.

Jim is a member of the Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG), Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG), the South Carolina Numismatic Association (SCNA), Augusta Coin Club, and Florida United Numismatists (FUN).

He is also a Charter and Founding member of the Stephen James CSRA Coin Club, and served as their Vice President and Program Chairman from 2001-2010. He is a Past President and Board Member for the SCNA, and has served as an ANA District Delegate and Regional Coordinator for North and South Carolina. Jim also taught adult education classes on the history and coinage of antiquity for the University of South Carolina–Aiken.

In 2008, Jim received the Glenn Smedley Award from the ANA, and in 2014 Jim and his wife, Helen, were both presented with the ANA’s Presidential Award for dedicated service to the numismatic community. In 2016, James and Helen were awarded honorary membership in the Stephen James CSRA Coin Club of Aiken, South Carolina to recognize them as charter members and a lifetime of contributions to numismatics at the local, state, and national levels.

Simon Bendall (1937-2019) CNG is proud to present selections from the collection of the late dealer, collector, and scholar Simon Bendall. Born on 8 November 1937, Simon attended the Junior and Senior departments of Cheltenham College between 1945 and 1956. In 1953, he found his first Roman coin, thus becoming a collector, and he immediately began to spend his spare time and holidays working on excavations, mainly of Roman sites, for the next 17 years.

He spent two years, 1956-1958, doing his military service in the Royal Artillery, the last year being in Dortmund, Germany. Simon worked for H. J. Heinz & Co. in London from 1959-1965 before joining the ancient coin department of Spink & Son as assistant to George Muller. Between 1961 and 1965 he studied, part time, at the Institute of Archaeology, London University, obtaining a diploma in the subject and was later elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1985. Simon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1961, and became an Honorary Fellow in 2010.

In 1967, he became the ancient coin expert at A. H. Baldwin & Sons where he worked for twenty years. In November 1987, he joined Numismatic Fine Arts in Los Angeles and worked there for two years. In 1990, he catalogued the first sale of the Byzantine gold coins from the Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection for Sotheby’s, New York.

After returning to London, Simon was self-employed between 2000 and 2006. He then rejoined Spink where he worked until his retirement in 2010. Between 2000 and 2006 and then again from 2010, he acted as a consultant on late Byzantine coins to museums, auction houses, and private collectors. He regularly participated in international conferences on various numismatic topics.

Simon Bendall was a prolific author and wrote a number of books on Byzantine coins and weights, as well as over 200 articles, not only on ancient coins but also on military history and jewellery. He is best-known as co-author of David R. Sear’s seminal work, Byzantine Coins and Their Values (Second edition, 1987, originally published by B.A. Seaby Ltd.) Other standard references by Simon include: A Private Collection of Palaeologan Coins (Self-published, 1988); Byzantine Weights – An Introduction (Lennox Gallery Ltd., 1996); The Billon Trachea of Michael VIII Palaeologos, 1258-1282 (A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd., 1974); and The Later Palaeologan Coinage (A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd., 1979). The latter two volumes were co-authored

by Peter J. Donald, who also graciously attributed Simon’s coins that are being offered in this auction and future CNG sales.

We should also note that the bulk of Simon’s collection was stolen in February of 2018, and these coins are still missing.

Simon died peacefully on 26 June 2019.

(CNG would like to thank Italo Vecchi for his contributions to the above.)

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W. Toliver Besson CNG is pleased to present a selection of coins from the collection of W. Toliver Besson, a retired litigation partner at Paul Hastings, a 1000-lawyer international law firm, where he continues to work as a senior counsel supporting the firm’s extensive pro bono program. Since his earliest years, Tollie has been fascinated by history. His time as a teenager was split between athletics and reading Toynbee, Gibbon, and Will and Ariel Durant, and his fascination with history and government led to a degree in International Affairs from Princeton, and a law degree and a master’s degree in Political Science from Yale.

His interest in coins also began at an early age. In the 1950’s, his father was a General in the U.S. Army stationed in France, and while visiting the Paris flea market with his mother, he convinced her to buy him a Roman bronze for his 12th birthday. This started his lifelong hobby as an “all around” collector, which included many years of enthusiastic support from his wife, Marjorie. More recently, Tollie has focused on contorniates from the late Roman Empire, and he has decided to sell part of his collection of Greek, Roman, and World coins. Some interesting specimens are offered in this sale, and others will appear in CNG electronic auctions and in Triton XXIV.

Highlights from the El Medina Collection This diverse collection was formed over many years by a distinguished individual who had a passion for history, in particular, the history of his native Malta. Ranging from ancient to modern times, the collection encompasses the coins issued by the many peoples and civilizations that settled on this beautiful island located at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. The collector sought to acquire as many as possible of the coins featured in Emmanuel Azzopardi’s Malta: the History of the Coinage published in 1993. Of particular note in the El Medina collection is the selection of the coins struck by the Knights of St. John during their long occupation of the island.

The remainder of the El Medina Collection will be offered in a special, single vendor electronic auction: E-Sale 479 (Online on 8 October 2020, closing 21 October 2020).

Judy Day Frink How I Got Started with Ancient Coin Collecting My hobby is collecting hobbies. I have always been interested in ancient cultures and how the ancient people did it – from how arrowheads were made to lost wax casting, which is the way early coins were made. Ancient coin collecting is a natural outgrowth of this interest. I went to a coin show at the Dallas Market Hall and enjoyed visiting with the vendors and collectors. I frequently attended other ancient coin shows. I usually bought some of the best coins I liked, really old and unusual from different countries of the ones I already had in my collection. Cast coins and unusual castings, such as sea serpents, especially fascinated me.

I have been a rock hound/collector since I was 3-years-old. I was a professional petroleum geologist and thoroughly enjoyed the puzzle of what was in the ground to see if oil and gas were present — I always enjoyed working puzzles. My husband was also a petroleum geologist and as part of his petroleum exploration related travels, we lived in Tunisia (ancient Carthage), Nicaragua, and Saigon. For our honeymoon, he took me to the Mayan ruins in Yucatan, Mexico.

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Todd Hansen Todd Hansen developed a passion for coins at eleven-years-old after receiving a penny folder from his mother as a Christmas present. At seventeen, after another gift of foreign coins from his father and seeing the movie Becket, he realized the marvelous connection of coins and history with the acquisition of a Henry II denier of Aquitaine.

Todd initially graduated from college with a B.S. in Engineering, then worked in logistics and operations for a couple years in Barrow, Alaska and an austral summer at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. His employers included James W. Dalton, after whom the Alaska Pipeline Highway was later renamed. Later, he worked for a number of years for a construction firm in the San Francisco Bay area as a Contract Administrator and Assistant Project Manager, before returning to graduate school and earning his M.S. in Physics.

He retired in 2012 as a program manager after twenty years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, having administered a seed-money program for a U.S. Department of Energy multi-program unclassified scientific research lab. This gave him an opportunity to enjoy working on behalf of world-class scientists, including Nobel Prize winners.

He has traveled extensively through all fifty states and accumulated over three years in foreign travel to 80+ countries, including trekking to the base of Mt. Everest and standing at both geographic poles. Other passions include historical research, leading to the publication of a book on source documents for the battle of the Alamo titled The Alamo Reader: A Study in History, and some papers on polar exploration – more specifically relating to the Sir John Franklin Expedition – in a peerreviewed research journal The Polar Record.

Another life-long passion has been astronomy, for which eventually Asteroid 30934 was named bakerhansen – co-named with his late wife Lonny Baker for contributions to professional (her) and amateur (him) astronomy. The high point of Todd’s life was having a soul mate and best friend in Lonny, to whom he was married for over 23 wonderful years.

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Session 1 – Wednesday, September 16, 2020 — 9 AM

GREEK COINS

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IBERIA, Punic Iberia. Circa 237-209 BC. AR Quarter Shekel (14mm, 1.73 g, 12h). Male head left / Horse standing right. MHC 186 (dies 126/162); ACIP 605; SNG BM Spain 117 (same dies). Deeply toned, minor porosity, slightly off center.

VF. Rare denomination for issue. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVII (29 September 1993), lot 350.

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APULIA, Venusia. Circa 210-200 BC. Æ Uncia (19mm, 5.93 g, 6h). Half length bust of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress and holding club over shoulder; • (mark of value) to right / Lion seated left, head facing, breaking spear held in its jaws. Burnett 3.3; HN Italy 716. Repatinated earthen brown surfaces, some smoothing and tooling. Good VF. Rare and attractive for issue. ($1000) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Roma XVI (26 September 2018), lot 110 (hammer £2800).

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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 510-500 BC. AR Nomos (23mm, 7.11 g, 12h). Phalanthos riding dolphin right, extending left hand; scallop shell below, dot-and-cable border around / Incuse of obverse, but radiate border around. FischerBossert Group 1, 13 (V7/R7); Vlasto 69 (same dies); HN Italy 826; SNG Lloyd 108 (same dies). Toned, edge split, minor roughness. Good Fine. Rare issue from the first coinage at Tarentum. ($1000) From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Owl Ltd (John Barton).

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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 500-490 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.97 g, 2h). Taras, nude, riding dolphin right, holding cuttlefish, left hand extended / Hippocamp right; cockle shell below. Fischer-Bossert Group 2, 32g (V13/R25 – this coin); Vlasto 129 (same dies); HN Italy 827; Dewing 123 (same dies); McClean 534 (same dies). Attractive iridescent tone.

VF. ($1000) From the Judy Day Frink Collection. Ex “Numismatic Beastiary” Collection (Owl FPL, 1981), no. 7; Spink Numismatic Circular LXXXVI.3 (March 1978), no. 3156.

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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 470-450 BC. AR Half Nomos – Drachm (15.5mm, 3.58 g, 7h). Forepart of hippocamp right; cockle shell below / Head of female (Satyra?) right. Vlasto 158 (this coin); HN Italy 839. Toned, porous, a few light scratches under tone. Near VF. ($500) From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Victor England. Ex Michael Pandely Vlasto Collection; Maddalena Collection (Sambon & Canessa, 7 May 1903), lot 248 (part of; not illustrated); Henry Booth Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 24 July 1900), lot 6 (part of; not illustrated).

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Ex Cahn Collection – Pedigreed to 1910

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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 390-385 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.67 g, 8h). Nude youth, holding rein, riding horse galloping right / Phalanthos, nude, holding akrostolion, riding dolphin left. Fischer-Bossert Group 27, 383c (V169/R297 – this coin, illustrated); Vlasto 362–3 var. (letter on dolphin; same obv. die); HN Italy 870. Old collection tone, some roughness and scratches. VF. ($1000) From the Batory Collection. Ex Heritage 3035 (3 September 2014), lot 29003; Herbert A. Cahn Collection (Numismatica Genevensis SA 7, 27 November 2012), lot 99 (part of); Clerici (3 January 1910), lot 105.

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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 380-325 BC. AR Diobol (13mm, 1.06 g, 3h). Head of Athena right, wearing helmet decorated with hippocamp / Herakles kneeling right, holding club, strangling the Nemean Lion to right; ˚ between legs of Herakles. Vlasto 1299 corr. (description); cf. HN Italy 911. Toned, traces of find patina. Good VF. ($500) From the Grand Haven Collection.

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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 340-335 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 6.79 g, 3h). Nude youth on horse rearing right; to right, nude youth standing before the horse and restraining or comforting it; above, Nike flying right, crowning the rider; z below / Phalanthos, nude, holding vase, riding dolphin left; ˚ to right. Fischer-Bossert Group 53, 715 (V266/R559 – this coin); Vlasto 527 (same dies); HN Italy 892; SNG Lloyd 117 (same dies); de Luynes 296 (same dies). In NGC encapsulation 4862869-002, graded Ch XF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5, Fine Style, overstruck. ($750) Ex Prospero Collection (New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012), lot 26.

Ex Hunt Collection

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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Alexander the Molossian. King of Epeiros, 350-330 BC. AV Obol – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 0.64 g, 6h). Struck circa 333-331/0 BC. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly left / Thunderbolt; Ŭ>E$ in two lines, above and below. Vlasto, Alexander, Type 6A, pl. ix, 10 (same obv. die); Liampi, Ἀλεξάνδρου, pl. 4, 17 (same obv. die); FischerBossert pp. 380–1; Vlasto 1864–5; cf. HN Italy 906; Hunt II 403 (this coin); Hunterian 2 (same obv. die); De Luynes 1892 (same obv. die). A few faint scratches. Near EF. Well centered. ($2000) Ex Künker 262 (13 March 2015), lot 7886 (hammer €4600); Peus 376 (29 October 2003), lot 107; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part II, Sotheby’s New York, 21 June 1990), lot 403.

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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 315-302 BC. AR Nomos (19.5mm, 7.89 g, 8h). Warrior, holding shield and two spears, preparing to cast a third, on horseback right; sÅ below / Phalanthos, holding kantharos and trident, riding dolphin left; 1 above arm, pellet below; below, dolphin left. Fischer-Bossert Group 71, 855c (V337/R664 – this coin); Vlasto 605 (same obv. die); HN Italy 937. Some die rust on obverse, a few scratches and small metal flaw on reverse. EF. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 38 (6 June 1996), lot 34.

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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 280 BC. AR Nomos (22mm, 7.91 g, 5h). Warrior, nude, preparing to cast spear, and holding two others with shield, on horse rearing right; s5 to left, dE5@o˚rÅt˙s below / Phalanthos, holding dolphin, riding dolphin left. Vlasto 692–3; HN Italy 967. Beautiful iridescent tone. EF. Well centered and struck on a broad flan. A fantastic example. ($3000) From the M.J.W. Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 78 (14 May 2008), lot 155.

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LUCANIA, Herakleia. Circa 390-340 BC. AR Nomos (23mm, 7.81 g, 5h). Head of Athena right, wearing triplependant earring, pearl necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla hurling a stone; d>˚>f to right / Herakles standing facing, upper torso turned right, wrestling with the Nemean Lion; club and ˚Ŭ to left, ^˙råk¬˙5W˜ to right; between Herakles’ legs, owl standing right, head facing. Andersen 28.2 and p. 150 (this coin); Work 38 (same dies); Van Keuren 50; HN Italy 1377; SNG ANS 63 = Sartiges 28 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 272 (same obv. die); McClean 824 (same dies); Ward 44 (same dies). Even light tone with underlying luster. Good VF. Well centered on a broad flan. Exceptionally complete for issue. Fine style, and better than the Triton XVII, lot 12 example that hammered at $11,000. ($5000) From the Apollo to Apollo Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 52 (7 October 2009), lot 728.

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LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 225-200(?) BC. Æ (12mm, 1.97 g, 1h). Head of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Two-handled krater; ear of barley to right. Johnston Bronze 70; HN Italy 1706. Dark green patina. EF. Exceptional style. ($300) From the Martinez Collection. Ex David Freedman Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 71.

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LUCANIA, Sybaris. Circa 550-510 BC. AR Nomos (29mm, 7.95 g, 1h). Bull standing left, head right; ¨µ in exergue / Incuse bull standing right, head left. S&S Class B, pl. XLVIII, 4–8; Gorini 2; HN Italy 1729; SNG ANS 828–44; SNG Lloyd 449–50; Basel 168–9; Bement 213; Dewing 406–7; Gillet 215. Minor porosity on reverse. Good VF. Excellent strike for issue. ($3000) Ex CNG inventory 930911 (August 2012); Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 36 (30 May 2012), lot 40; Peter M. Suter Collection (Münzen und Medaillen AG 89, 14 June 2000), lot 14; Münzen und Medaillen AG 75 (4 December 1989), lot 92.

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LUCANIA, Thourioi. Circa 400-350 BC. AR Dinomos (25mm, 15.24 g, 5h). Head of Athena right, wearing helmet decorated with Skylla throwing stone / Bull butting right; EUfÅ above; in exergue, two fish right. Noe, Thurian J14–6 (same obv. die as illustrations); HN Italy 1823. Lightly toned, small area of smoothing on cheek. Good VF. ($2000) From the James Barry Collection. Ex Pegasi XXXVI (23 May 2017), lot 31.

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BRUTTIUM, The Brettii. Circa 216-214 BC.AR Drachm (19mm, 3.97 g, 12h).Attic Standard. Second Punic War issue.

Diademed and draped bust of Nike right; lituus to left / River god standing facing, crowning himself with wreath and holding scepter; π to right. Arslan dies 66/90; Scheu 48; HN Italy 1962. Dark find patina, trace of porosity, small edge chip, light scratches on revesre.

Good VF. ($300) From the James Barry Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 75 (23 May 2007), lot 43.

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BRUTTIUM, Kaulonia. Circa 475-425 BC. AR Nomos (21.5mm, 8.15 g, 1h). Apollo advancing right, holding branch; small daimon running left on Apollo’s extended arm; to right, stag standing right, head reverted / Stag standing right; laurel branch to right. Noe, Caulonia, Group F, 93 (same dies); HN Italy 2046; SNG ANS 180 (same dies); SNG Lockett 586 (same dies); Jameson 411 (same dies). Areas of light porosity. Good VF. Well centered. ($500) From the James Barry Collection, purchased from Steven Damron, March 2007.

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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 500-480 BC. AR Nomos (24mm, 7.84 g, 12h). Tripod, legs terminating in lion’s feet; crab to left / Incuse tripod; lyre in relief to left. Attianese 33 (same obv. die as illustration); HN Italy 2088; SNG ANS –; SNG Lloyd 594; Traité I 2147. Attractively toned, some deposits, light scratches under tone. Good VF. Rare. ($2000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 180 (12 October 2009), lot 24.

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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 480-430 BC. AR Nomos (18.5mm, 7.68 g, 1h). Tripod, legs surmounted by wreaths and terminating in lion’s feet; orJ to right / Incuse eagle flying right, leg in relief. Gorini 27; Attianese 54; HN Italy 2108.

Toned, some porosity. VF. ($1000) Ex Pegasi XXXII (19 May 2015), lot 33.

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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 425-350 BC. AR Nomos (20.5mm, 7.80 g, 7h). Eagle standing left, head right, on stag’s head / Tripod; ivy leaf to left. Attianese 104 (same obv. die as illustration); HN Italy 2146; SNG ANS 352 (same obv. die). Deep cabinet tone. VF. Well centered. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Paul H. Gerrie Collection (Triton XII, 6 January 2009), lot 54.

The Herakliskos Drakonopnigon

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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (19.5mm, 7.44 g, 7h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Herakliskos Drakonopnigon: the Infant Herakles, nude, crouching facing on rock, head left, strangling a serpent in each hand. Attianese 163 (same rev. die as illustration); HN Italy 2157. Toned, light scratches, small cut on reverse. VF. ($2000) From the James Barry Collection. Ex Pegasi XXXV (15 November 2016), lot 36.

From the consignor: The reverse type, the infant Herakles strangling two serpents, is highly artistic and was struck during a time of superbly talented engravers working at the main coin-producing cities of Magna Graecia. This is a rare type and certainly among the best survivors of those coins. The father of Herakles was Zeus, who had impregnated Herakles’s mortal mother, Alkmene. Hera was naturally unhappy with the impending birth and had two serpents placed in the crib of the infant Herakles. Being the son of Zeus, the babe easily strangled them.

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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 400-325 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 7.91 g, 5h). Head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing necklace and stephanos decorated with palmette and two griffin foreparts / Herakles Epitrapezios: young Herakles, nude, holding cup, reclining left on lion’s skin draped over rock; bow and club above. HN Italy 2160; SNG ANS 378 (same dies). Once holed at 12 o’clock on obverse, since expertly repaired. VF. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 294 (16 January 2013), lot 424; G. Hirsch 167 (26 September 1990), lot 140.

Alliance with Temesa

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BRUTTIUM, Kroton. Circa 375-325 BC. Æ (11.5mm, 1.74 g, 11h). Alliance issue with Temesa. Tripod; ˚r-o flanking / Barley grain; t-EÂ (retrograde) flanking. CNG 53, lot 82 var. (legends), otherwise unpublished, but cf. Rutter, South, pl. 33, 11 and HN Italy 2204 for a similar, but earlier, issue. Dark green patina. VF. Extremely rare. ($300) From the Martinez Collection, purchased at the Verona Numismatic Conference, September 2005.

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BRUTTIUM, Terina. Circa 300 BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 2.37 g, 4h). Head of nymph right; triskeles behind / Nike seated left on plinth, holding kerykeion. Holloway & Jenkins 107 (same dies as illustration); HN Italy 2641. Toned. VF. Fine style. Well centered. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Peus 392 (4 May 2007), lot 4274 (hammer €1800).

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SICILY, Agyrion. Circa 420-405 BC. Æ Hemilitron (18.5mm, 6.11 g, 7h). Head of young male (river god Chrysas?) right / Forepart of Acheloös Palagkaios as man-headed bull right. Campana 3; MSP I 9; CNS 7; HGC 2, 56. Green patina, slight roughness, light smoothing. Good VF. ($300) From the Martinez Collection. Ex James Joy Collection (Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 21, 24 May 2007), lot 54; Numismatica Ars Classica Autumn Sale (26 October 1995), lot 98.

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SICILY, Akragas. Circa 495-485 BC. AR Didrachm (19mm, 8.31 g, 11h). Sea eagle standing left / Crab within incuse circle. Westermark, Coinage, Period I, Group II (unlisted dies); HGC 2, 93. Lightly toned, struck from worn dies, some smoothing in fields. Good VF. Well centered. ($1000) From the M.J.W. Collection. Ex Berk BBS 173 (15 March 2011), lot 109.

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SICILY, Akragas. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Pentalitron – Drachm (14.5mm, 3.95 g, 7h). Sea eagle standing left on Ionic capital; πE@ (mark of value) above / Crab. Westermark, Period II, 445 (O1/R2); HGC 2, 112. Toned, porous. VF. Very rare denomination, Westermark records 24 examples, of which 16 are in museum collections. ($500) From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 72 (14 June 2006), lot 173.

This coin may be Westermark 445.7, based on the weight, die axis, and her note on the porous surfaces. Unfortunately, that coin was not previously published.

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SICILY, Akragas. Circa 400-380 BC. Æ Hemilitron (28mm, 16.03 g, 3h). Horned head of young river god Akragas left, wearing tainia / Eagle standing left, head right, on Ionic capital; crab to left, six pellets to right. Westermark, Fifth pl. IV, 8; CNS 89; HGC 2, 139. Glossy green and brown patina. Near EF. ($1000) Ex Astarte XVI (26 November 2004), lot 1026.

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SICILY, Alontion. Circa 210-180 BC. Æ Hexas(?) (14.5mm, 2.49 g, 11h). Bearded head of Herakles right / Bow above club. Campana 16; BAR Issue 5 (Haluntium); CNS 6 mv 1; HGC 2, 219. Dark green patina, off center on reverse. VF. ($200) From the Martinez Collection, purchased 5 June 2004.

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SICILY, Ameselon. After 339/8 BC. Æ (25mm, 16.44 g, 6h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / Filleted tripod. Campana 1; CNS 1OS; HGC 2, 224. Dark green patina. Good VF. Attractive for issue. ($500) From the Martinez Collection, purchased 1 October 2012.

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SICILY, Entella. Punic issues. Circa 345/38-320/15 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 16.97 g, 10h). Wreathed head of Arethusa left / Horse standing left; palm tree in background. Jenkins, Punic 72 (O21/R65); CNP 209; HGC 2, 269; Bement 591 (same dies). Areas of minor roughness. VF. ($1000) From the James Barry Collection, purchased from Jencek Histroical Enterprise, March 2013.

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SICILY, Entella. Punic issues. Circa 320/15-300 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.40 g, 12h). Head of Arethousa left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; four dolphins swimming around / Head of horse left; palm tree to right, [†nJMM` (‘MMḤNT in Punic) below]. Jenkins, Punic, Series 3a, 192 (O56/R169); CNP 267; BAR Issue 4; HGC 2, 286; SNG Lockett 1052 (same dies). Attractively toned, a little off center on reverse. EF. ($4000) From the M.J.W. Collection. Ex Berk BBS 171 (27 October 2010), lot 77.

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SICILY, Entella. Punic issues. Circa 300-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.00 g, 5h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Head of horse left; palm tree to right, MBßJM (Punic MHSBM) below. Jenkins, Punic 383 (O118/R313); CNP 272; HGC 2, 295; Hunterian 15 (same dies). Toned, delamination on obverse, traces of find patina.

Good VF. ($1500) From the James Barry Collection, purchased from Pegasi, January 2016.

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SICILY, Gela. Circa 425-420 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.47 g, 5h). Charioteer, holding kentron and reins, driving slow quadriga left; above, Nike flying left, crowning horses; [in exergue, lizard left, about to catch fly] / Forepart of man-headed bull right. Jenkins, Gela, Group VIII, 471 (O91’/R180); HGC 2, 352; BMC 48 (same dies); Bement 379 (same dies); Jameson 583 (same dies). Attractively toned, typical compact flan, slightly off center on obverse, minor reverse die breaks. Good VF. ($1500) From the Weise Collection, purchased from David Vagi, 7 July 2003.

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SICILY, Himera. Circa 483/2-472/1 BC. AR Didrachm (19.5mm, 8.68 g, 5h). Cock standing left / Crab within shallow incuse circle. Westermark, Himera 39 (O9/R31); HGC 2, 438; SNG ANS 157 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 1012 (same obv. die). Toned, a few scratches. Good VF. ($1500) 18

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SICILY, Himera. Circa 425-409 BC. Æ Tetras (19.5mm, 10.11 g). Gorgoneion / Three pellets (mark of value). Kraay, Bronze 1b; CNS 25; HGC 2, 4167. Two-toned green patina, minor cleaning scratches on reverse. Good VF. ($500) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 100.

Published by Boehringer

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SICILY, Himera. Circa 412-409 BC. Æ Tetras or Trionkion (12mm, 1.17 g, 12h). Head of female facing slightly left, wearing tainia / Shell; three pellets (mark of value) above. Boehringer, Himera, pl. VII, 6 (this coin); CNS 38; HGC 2, 483. Dark green patina. EF. Rare. ($500) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 358 (hammer CHF 1050).

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SICILY, Iaitas (Iaitinoi). 1st century BC. Æ As (23.5mm, 10.34 g, 12h). Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin, club over shoulder / Triskeles with facing gorgoneion at center; grain ears between legs. Campana 8 var. A/a; BAR Issue 4; CNS 7; HGC 2, 501; RPC I 696. Dark green-brown patina, slight roughness. VF. ($300) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Astarte XIV (24 April 2004), lot 102.

HGC Plate Coin

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SICILY, Katane. Circa 450-445 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.18 g, 12h). Charioteer, holding kentron and reins, driving slow quadriga right / Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath. Mirone 30–3; HGC 2, 566 (this coin illustrated); SNG ANS 1245 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 892 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian 177 (same dies); Kraay & Hirmer 35 (same dies); Rizzo pl. X, 3 (same dies). Deep cabinet tone. VF. Fine style. ($2000) Ex M.J.W. Collection; Nomos 6 (8 May 2012), lot 16; Viscount Wimbourne Collection (but not from his “Outstanding Collection” offered in Leu 81).

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SICILY, Katane. Circa 445-435 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.79 g, 3h). Charioteer, holding kentron and reins, driving slow quadriga of horses right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Laureate head of Apollo right. Mirone 44; HGC 2, 567. Toned, flan crack, some porosity and metal flaws. VF. ($1000) From the Judy Day Frink Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 122; Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 122; Dr. J. H. Judd Collection (Leu 15, 4 May 1976), lot 75.

HGC Plate Coin

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SICILY, Katane. Circa 405-403/2 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14.5mm, 2.02 g, 12h). Wreathed head of Silenos left / Bull butting right; in exergue, fish left. Mirone 97; HGC 2, 585 (this coin illustrated). Old collection tone, some granularity.

VF. Very rare, the finer of the two specimens in CoinArchives. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 72 (14 June 2006), lot 185; Kirk Davis FPL 48 (September 2005), no. 13.

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SICILY, Kentoripai. Circa 354/3-344 BC. Æ Drachm (31mm, 31.28 g, 8h). Wreathed head of Persephone left; four dolphins around (only two visible) / Panther standing left, raising forepaw. Castrizio Series I, 1, 5 (D1/R4); CNS 1; HGC 2, 638. Dark green-brown patina, patches of hard green encrustation, slightly off center. Good VF. Overstruck on an uncertain issue. ($1000) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Astarte XIV (24 April 2004), lot 73.

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SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.48 g, 4h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 36 (same rev. die as illustration); HGC 2, 667. Deep iridescent tone, traces of find patina. VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (14 December 2004), lot 68.

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SICILY, “Mamar”. Circa 409-403 BC. Æ Hemilitron (21mm, 7.79 g, 7h). Forepart of man-headed bull left; [ÂÅ]Â-Å-r around / Winged nymph advancing left, holding bandage(?); star to left, five pellets (mark of value) around. Campana 1; MSP I 45 (same dies); CNS –; HGC 2, –; SNG Copenhagen 1072; BMC 1. Glossy dark green patina with spots of red, some light scratches. VF. Very rare. ($500) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Astarte X (12 December 2002), lot 302.

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SICILY, Messana. 412-408 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.36 g, 11h). Charioteer, holding kentron and reins, driving slow biga of mules left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer / Hare springing right; below, grain stalk left.

Caltabiano Series XVA, 614 (D220/R241); HGC 2, 797 (this coin illustrated); SNG Lloyd 1103 (same dies); BMC 46 (same dies); Weber 1428 (same dies). Lightly toned, slightly off center. Good VF. ($2000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Lanz 123 (30 May 2005), lot 62.

Puglisi and HGC Plate Coin – Ex Moretti Collection

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SICILY, Nakone. Circa 200-150 BC. Æ (17mm, 3.12 g, 6h). Laureate head of Poseidon left / Warrior advancing right, holding spear and shield. Campana –; BAR Issue 2; CNS –; Puglisi 237 (this coin illustrated); HGC 2, 958 (this coin illustrated).

Dark green-brown patina, slight roughness. VF. Extremely rare, the only example of this issue in CoinArchives. ($300) From the Martinez Collection. Ex A.D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica Q, 6 April 2006), lot 1220.

Referenced in Jenkins and CNP

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SICILY, Panormos (as Ziz). Circa 360-340 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.23 g, 7h). Charioteer, holding kentron and reins, driving slow quadriga left; above, Nike flying left, crowning horses / Head of Arethousa left, hair in ampyx and flowing upwards; three dolphins around. Jenkins, Punic, 44 (O12/R37 – this coin referenced); CNP 288b (this coin referenced); HGC 2, 1015; Weber 1478 (same dies). Toned. Good VF. ($1500) From the Weise Collection. Ex Gorny and Mosch 156 (6 March 2007), lot 1121; Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 207; Hess-Leu [7] (16 April 1957), lot 137.

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SICILY, Paropos. Circa 200-150 BC. Æ (15.5mm, 2.33 g, 12h). Laureate and bearded head left / Hound at bay right; ∏ÅrW∏ below. Roma E-Sale 69, lot 313 (hammer £1700), otherwise, unpublished in the standard references. Greenbrown patina. VF. Extremely rare, one of two known. ($300) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Astarte XIV (24 April 2004), lot 156.

Paropos was a coastal settlement in northwestern Sicily, located somewhere between Panormos and Thermai Himeraiai. During the First Punic War, a Roman army was ambushed and slaughtered by the Carthaginian forces near the city. Until the appearance of this issue, the coinage of the city consisted of two very rare bronzes in two separate denominations.

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Ex Ward Collection

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SICILY, Segesta. Circa 455/0-445/0 BC. AR Didrachm (23.5mm, 7.52 g, 2h). Hound standing left / Head of the nymph Aigeste right within linear circle. Hurter, Didrachmenprägung, Period II, Series 5, 94t (V29/R51) = Ward 228 (this coin); HGC 2, 1127; SNG ANS 621 (same dies); de Luynes 1111 (same dies); Gillet 506 (same dies); McClean 2543 (same dies); Pozzi 525 (same dies). Old collection tone, flan crack, some porosity, scratches, edge chip on reverse. VF. ($2000) From the Judy Day Frink Collection. Ex Owl BBS 7 (17 October 1987), lot 4; John Ward Collection - Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sotheby’s Zurich, 4 April 1973), lot 182.

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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 450-440 BC. Æ Hexas or Dionkion (14.5mm, 4.01 g, 12h). Facing head of Silenos / Selinon leaf; [two pellets (mark of value) flanking]. CNS 9; HGC 2, 1236. Dark green-bown patina. VF. ($300) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Astarte XIV (24 April 2004), lot 166 (hammer CHF 1050).

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SICILY, Solous (Kefra). Circa 406-397 BC. Æ Onkia (13.5mm, 2.21 g, 5h). Helmeted head of Athena facing slightly right / Archer kneeling right, drawing bow. Campana 12A; CNS 5; HGC 2, 1254. Dark green patina. Good VF. Rare this nice. ($200) From the Martinez Collection, purchased 5 June 2004.

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SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron I. 478-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 17.28 g, 9h). Struck circa 478-475 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron and reins, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Diademed head of Arethousa right; four dolphins around. Boehringer Series VIIIb, 135 (V61/R93); HGC 2, 1306. Toned. VF. ($1500) 53.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron I. 478-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.27 g, 12h). Struck circa 478-475 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron and reins, driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / Head of Arethousa right, wearing tainia; four dolphins swimming around. Boehringer Series XI, 239E (V107E/R162E); HGC 2, 1307. Toned.

Good VF. Rare die combination. Attractive in hand. ($2000) Ex Roma IX (22 March 2015), lot 109; Roma VI (29 September 2013), lot 430.

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SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.00 g, 1h). Struck circa 450 BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses; in exergue, ketos right / Head of Arethousa right, wearing pearl tainia; four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XV, 530 (V273/R368); HGC 2, 1311; Boston MFA 371 (same dies). Toned, some porosity. Good VF. ($2000) 22

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SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Dekadrachm (31mm, 43.31 g, 5h). Unsigned dies in the style of Kimon. Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with laurel wreath held in her extended hands; below heavy exergual line, a shield, greaves, cuirass, and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear; [ÅQ¬Å below] / Head of Arethousa left, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace, hair restrained in an ampyx and open-weave sakkos; sUr Å˚os5W@ behind hair, four swimming dolphins around. Jongkees 8 (dies B/η); Scavino 8 (D2/R7); HGC 2, 1298; SNG Ashmolean 2023 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 517 (same dies); Boston MFA 434 (same dies); Pozzi 611 (same dies). Even gray tone, with light iridescence around the devices, some die rust on obverse, light scuff and die break on reverse. Good VF. ($25,000) Nothing is known about the personal life of the Syracusan master engraver Kimon, other than the approximate years he was active, circa 415390 BC. The legacy of his art, however, is extensive and timeless. He worked in all the metals used for coinage – gold, silver and bronze – and left his distinctive signature (usually KI) on dies for denominations large and small. His unique style, the essence of classical beauty, and his attention to detail are apparent on all of his designs, whether a huge silver dekadrachm or a humble bronze fraction. All are masterpieces, but his most famous designs are his facing-head silver tetradrachm and the several dies he produced for the showcase coins of Syracuse, the immense silver dekadrachms struck circa 405-390 BC. The reverse (”actually the “heads” side) of Kimon’s dekadrachm design features a highly individualized portrait of Arethousa, nymph of the spring of Ortygia, clearly modeled on a contemporary Greco-Sicilian woman. The head displays little of the idealization typical of his contemporary master engraver, Euainetos, and the details vary considerably from die to die. Kimon produced only six signed Arethousa dies for the dekadrachm series; another seven dies are in his distinct style, but without signature.

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SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Dekadrachm (32mm, 43.34 g, 2h). Unsigned dies in the style of Euainetos. Struck circa 405-380/67 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in her extended hands; below heavy exergual line, [military harness, shield], greaves, cuirass, and crested Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear; [ÅQ¬Å below] / Head of Arethousa left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; sU-rÅ-[k-o-s5W@] above, scallop shell behind neck, four dolphins swimming around. Gallatin dies R.XVIII/F.VIII; Scavino 53 (D16/R27); HGC 2, 1299; SNG Copenhagen 693 (same dies); SNG Fitzwilliam 1279 (same rev. die); SNG Lockett 991 (same rev. die); de Luynes 1247 (same rev. die). Toned, compact flan, minor die shift, flan flaws on reverse. NGC photo certified. Lot includes an NGC Photo Certificate, 4684186-001, grading the coin Ch XF, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5, Fine Style, die shift. ($25,000) From the Grand Haven Collection. Ex Pegasi X (5 May 2004), lot 96.

The engraver Euainetos seems to have begun his series of signed dekadrachm dies a few years after Kimon; perhaps he began as an apprentice and “graduated” to master status. His dekadrachm design superseded that of Kimon and became a paradigm for coinage throughout the classical world. His Arethousa is less human and more divine than his predecessor’s vision. The wreath of grain ears woven into her hair symbolizes the agricultural bounty of Sicily. His racing chariot is the essence of action, almost photographically frozen in time, with the charging, rearing horses appearing to levitate above the ground line. The design was widely copied on later coinage of Syracuse, as well as by the Carthaginian forces in Sicily.

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SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.30 g, 7h). Unsigned dies in the style of Eukleidas. Struck circa 400/395-390 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with wreath held in both hands; in exergue, dolphin left, its dorsal fin breaking the exergual line / Head of Arethousa left, hair in broad band and welling upwards in wavy locks, wearing double hoop earring and linear necklace with pendant at the front; sU-rÅ-˚-o-[s5-W-@] and four dolphins around. Fischer-Bossert, Coins 103 (O35/R70); Tudeer 103; HGC 2, 1345; Andersen 29.5 (this coin); Hirsch 613 (same dies); Hunterian 62 (same dies); de Luynes 1231 (same dies); Morgan 149 (same dies). Old cabinet tone, traces of find patina. Good VF. Among the finest of this issue. ($10,000) From the Apollo to Apollo Collection. Ex Vinchon (27 February 1961), lot 98 (ticket included).

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SICILY, Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy. 344-317 BC. Æ Hemidrachm (24mm, 15.97 g, 1h).

Timoleontic Symmachy coinage. 1st series, circa 344-339/8 BC. Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios right / Upright thunderbolt; to right, eagle standing right. Castrizio series I, 1γ; CNS 72; HGC 2, 1440. Dark green-brown patina. Near EF. ($500)

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SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.12 g, 3h). Struck circa 317-310 BC. Head of Arethousa left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; three dolphins around, @5 below neck / Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; counterclockwise triskeles above, sUrÅkos5W@ and [ in exergue. Ierardi 26 (O4/R11); BAR Issue 2; HGC 2, 1348; Dewing 943 (same dies). Light golden tones around the devices, slight die shift on obverse, slightly off center on reverse. Superb EF. Fine Classical style. ($10,000) From the Apollo to Apollo Collection.

The late 5th century BC dekadrachms of Syracuse were so famous in their time, their designs were widely copied throughout the Greek world. Indeed, the Syracusan tyrant Agathokles, nearly a century later, struck tetradrachms that closely imitated the iconic dekadrachm of the engraver Euainetos. Here, the racing chariot formerly on the obverse has been moved to the reverse, but the rest of the design copies the work of Euainetos nearly perfectly.

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Ex Niklovitz Collection

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SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.69 g, 1h). Struck circa 317-310 BC. Head of Arethousa left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; three dolphins around, @˚ below neck / Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; counterclockwise triskeles above, sUrÅkos5W@ and [ in exergue. Ierardi 48g (O9/R26 – this coin); BAR Issue 2; HGC 2, 1348. Toned with some iridescence, a few minor scratches on reverse. Good VF. Well centered. ($2500) Ex Niklovitz Collection (L. Hamburger, 11 June 1930), lot 639.

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SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron II. 275-215 BC. Æ (19.5mm, 6.16 g, 4h). Struck circa 275-269/5 BC. Head of Persephone left, wearing wreath of grain ears / Bull charging left; club and M above, IE in exergue. CNS 192 R1 12; BAR Issue 53; HGC 2, 1469. Dark green-brown patina. EF. Exceptional for issue. ($300) 62.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron II. 275-215 BC. Æ (27mm, 18.37 g, 3h). Struck circa 230-218/5 BC. Diademed head left / Horseman riding right, holding couched spear in right arm; @ below. CNS 195 R1 22; BAR Issue 62; HGC 2, 1548. Dark green-brown patina. EF. An attractive coin in hand. ($300) From the James Barry Collection. Ex CNG inventory 403962 (July 2015).

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SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 13.60 g, 1h).

Struck circa 240-218/5 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; grain ear to right / Nike driving slow quadriga right; crescent above, ˚5% to right, grain ear below. CCO 71 (D17/R48); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1554. Deep iridescent collection tone, hairline flan crack, some die wear and light mark on obverse, small die break on reverse. EF. ($1500) From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XVII.4 (1992 Fourth Quarter), no. 37.

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SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 13.29 g, 12h).

Struck circa 240-218/5 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; grain ear to right / Nike driving slow quadriga right; crescent above, ˚5[%] to right, grain ear below. CCO – (D18/R54 [unlisted combination]); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1554. Small edge split, a few light marks. Choice EF. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 278.

Ex Rockefeller/Mirsky and Sartiges Collections

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SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.00 g, 4h).

Struck circa 240-218/5 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; grain ear with fillet to right / Nike driving slow quadriga right; crescent above, f to right. CCO 143.1 (D2/R3) = Sartiges 153 (this coin); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1554. Attractive old cabinet tone, some porosity, a few light scratches, minor roughness on obverse, edge marks. Near EF. ($1500) From the Batory Collection. Ex Heritage 3024 (19 April 2012), lot 24578 (hammer $3500); Rockefeller University/Dr. Alfred E. Mirsky Collection (Gemini VII, 9 January 2011), lot 188; Vicomte de Sartiges Collection.

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SICILY, Syracuse. Hieronymos. 215-214 BC. AR 10 Litrai (22mm, 8.52 g, 2h). Diademed head left; thunderbolt to right / Winged thunderbolt; dÅ above. Holloway 61 (O29/R50); BAR Issue 79; HGC 2, 1567. Iridescent tone, minor scrape and a few light scratches on obverse. EF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 197; Classical Numismatic Group 37 (20 March 1996), lot 162.

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SICILY, Syracuse. Fifth Democracy. 214-212 BC. AR 12 Litrai (24mm, 10.14 g, 6h). Helmeted head of Athena left / Artemis standing left, drawing bow; below, hound springing left; Â5 to left. Burnett, Enna 11 (dies 3/f); BAR Issue 84; HGC 2, 1412; SNG Copenhagen 877 (same dies). Lightly toned, a few light marks, tiny metal flaws. Good VF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection.

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SICILY, Tyndaris. Circa 200-180 BC. Æ Sextans (15.5mm, 4.22 g, 12h). Helmeted and draped bust of Athena right / Hermes standing left, holding kerykeion. Campana 20; BAR Issue 21; CNS 13; HGC 2, 1644. Dark green-brown patina. VF. Very rare, Campana notes 7 examples, three others in CoinArchives. ($300) From the Martinez Collection, purchased 5 October 2004.

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ISLANDS off SICILY, Gaulos. Roman rule. Mid 3rd-2nd century BC. Æ (16.5mm, 2.84 g, 5h). Bust of Astarte right above large crescent; V below chin / Warrior advancing right, brandishing shield and holding spear; star to right. Perassi 75–83; CNS 1; SNG Copenhagen (Africa) 454. Green-brown patina, roughness. Good Fine. Rare, the sole issue for this mint. ($200) From the El Medina Collection.

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ISLANDS off SICILY, Kossura. 2nd century BC. Æ (21.5mm, 5.88 g, 12h). Bust of Isis left, wearing klaft and hair-dress in the shape of uraei on both sides of solar disc; to left, Nike flying right, crowning her with wreath / MneY` (‘YRNM [in Punic]) in laurel wreath with berries at top. CNS 1; SNG Copenhagen (Vol. 8) 449–50. Brown patina, trace deposits, tiny mark on obverse. VF. Attractive surfaces. ($300) From the El Medina Collection.

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ISLANDS off SICILY, Lipara. Roman rule. After 210 BC. Æ (12mm, 1.42 g, 3h). Pilos / Hephaistos seated right, holding kantharos and hammer. BAR Issue 11; CNS 44; HGC 2, 1796 (this coin illustrated). Dark green patina with spots of red-brown. VF. Very rare. ($300) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Numismatic Ars Classica 64 (17 May 2012), lot 2159; Numismatica Ars Classica P (12 May 2005), lot 1290.

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ISLANDS off SICILY, Melita. 218-175 BC. Æ (29mm, 12.12 g, 10h). Veiled and diademed head of female right / Mummy of Osiris standing facing, head left, between winged figures of Isis and Nephtys; [nn (‘NN [in Punic]) above]. Perassi 5-13; CNS 2; SNG Copenhagen (Vol. 8) 458-9. Brown patina, some roughness, a few scratches. VF. ($300) From the El Medina Collection.

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ISLANDS off SICILY, Uncertain. 2nd century BC. Æ (16mm, 5.13 g, 7h). Crab; M (Punic mem) below / Crab; B (Punic bet) below. Cf. CNS (Lopadusa) 5; CNP 514c var. (extra letter on rev.); SNG Morcom 933 var. (same). Dark green patina, irregular flan. EF. Very rare. ($300) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Friedrich Popken Collection (Künker 133, 11 October 2007), lot 7201; Münzen und Medaillen AG 79 (28 February 1994), lot 136.

Ex Jameson and Evans Collections

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CARTHAGE. Circa 350-320 BC. AV Fifth Stater (11mm, 1.88 g, 8h). Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, single-pendant earring, and necklace / Horse standing right, head left. Jenkins & Lewis Group III, 120–34; CNP 79; MAA 7; SNG Copenhagen 131; Jameson 920 (this coin). Scattered bumps and scratches. Good VF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 40 (4 December 1996), lot 1152; Robert Jameson Collection; Sir Arthur J. Evans Collection.

75. CARTHAGE. Circa 350-320 BC. AV Tenth Stater (8mm, 0.80 g, 12h). Carthage mint. Palm tree with two date clusters / Head of horse right. Jenkins & Lewis Group III, 136–55; CNP 239; MAA 8; SNG Copenhagen 133. Double struck on reverse. Good VF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 40 (4 December 1996), lot 1153.

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CARTHAGE. Circa 310-290 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 7.44 g, 12h). Carthage mint. Wreathed head of Tanit left, wearing necklace with ten pendants; pellet before neck / Horse standing right; [pellet to right of foreleg]. Jenkins & Lewis Group V, 249 (same dies); CNP 2.7d; MAA 10; SNG Copenhagen –. Minor die wear on obverse, a few light scratches. VF. ($1500)

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CARTHAGE, Second Punic War. Circa 220-205 BC. AR Half Shekel (16.5mm, 2.97 g, 12h). Carthage or Sicilian mint. Struck during the expedition to Sicily, circa 213-210 BC. Head of Melkart left, wearing laurel wreath / Elephant advancing right; a (Punic A) in exergue. MAA –; cf. Visonà 55 (shekel); Walker 29; CNP 447; SNG Copenhagen 383; Burnett, Enna 129. Light roughness and scratches on obverse. Near EF. ($2000) These coins were originally attributed to the Punic mint in Spain, but subsequent hoard evidence has established that they were struck either in Carthage or a Carthaginian mint in Sicily during the Second Punic War (see A. Walker, “Some Hoards from Sicily and a Carthaginian Issue of the Second Punic War” in Studies Mildenberg, p. 275, and note 6). Burnett (Enna) argued, based on the fixed die axes of the coins, that this issue was struck in Carthage, but for circulation in Sicily.

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SKYTHIA, Geto-Dacians. Koson. Mid 1st century BC. AV Stater (21mm, 8.31 g, 12h). Roman consul accompanied by two lictors advancing left; monogram to left / Eagle standing left on scepter, holding wreath. Hourmouziadis dies B/d; Iliescu 1; RPC I 1701A; HGC 3, 2049. Lustrous. Superb EF. Well struck on a broad flan. ($1500) Ex Gemini III (9 January 2007), lot 321.

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MOESIA, Istros. 4th-2nd centuries BC. Æ (12.5mm, 2.55 g, 7h). Horned head of river god facing slightly right / Sea eagle standing left on dolphin left; t between. AMNG I 468; HGC 3, 1820. Dark green-brown patina. VF. Fine style and well centered. ($200) From the Martinez Collection, purchased from Ettore Ricci 1 May 2005.

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MOESIA, Istros. Circa 260-253/40 BC. AV Stater (18.5mm, 8.47 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; below left wing, 5s within wreath. Vîlcu & Petac Group 3, 10 (O4/R7); Price 968; HGC 3, 1797; Anadol 484–93; ANS inv. 1944.100.38434 (same dies); BM no.

1927,0504.10 (same dies); Hermitage Sale II 680 (same dies). Underlying luster, a couple of light scratches in fields. Good VF. Very rare, only the coins listed above are published (with the museum pieces likely from the Anadol hoard), none in CoinArchives. ($2000) Vîlcu & Petac associate the rare Alexander type staters struck at Istros with the participation of the city as a Seleucid ally in the Second Syrian War.

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THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 240-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 12.85 g, 1h). Athanaion, magistrate. Wreathed and veiled head of Demeter right, wearing grain ear wreath / Poseidon seated right on rocks, holding trident and aphlaston; monogram to left, civic monogram to right; [Eπ]5 ÅQÅ@Å5W@[o%] in exergue. Marinescu Issue 11; Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1001–2 var. (unlisted dies); HGC 3, 1408. Toned, light roughness, cleaning scratches. VF. ($750) From the Weise Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 275 (22 September 2011), lot 3381.

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THRACE, Byzantion. Alliance coinage with Kalchedon. Late 3rd-2nd centuries BC. Æ (23mm, 5.51 g, 12h).

Diademed head of Poseidon left / Prow left. Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1290-1 var. (V1/R- [unlisted rev. die]); Türkoğlu A4; HGC 3, 1430. Dark green-black patina, a few minor pits. Good VF. Very rare, better than the specimens listed in SchönertGeiss. ($300) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Alexandre de Barros Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 75, 23 May 2007), lot 101; Aufhäuser 13 (7 October 1997), lot 24.

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THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 175-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33.5mm, 16.86 g, 11h). In the name and types of Lysimachos. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; Ã to inner left, ∫U below throne, ornate trident in exergue. Marinescu Issue 131, 424.39 corr. (monogram; O181/R407) = E. Boehringer, “Hellenistischer Münzschatz aus Trapezunt 1970” in SNR 54 (1975), 68 (this coin); Müller 199; HGC 3, 1401. In NGC encapsulation 4282725-002, graded MS, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 5/5. ($1000) Ex Ordu Hoard (CH 8, 442).

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THRACE, Maroneia. Circa 430-400 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.37 g, 6h). Metrodotos, magistrate. Horse prancing left; M-A-PΩN and kantharos above / Grape arbor in linear square; Eπ5 µ-˙tr-od-oto around; all within shallow incuse square. Schönert-Geiss 101 (V11/R15); HGC 3, 1526; SNG Lockett 1191 = Bement 817 (same obv. die); BMC 24 = Traité IV 1448 (same obv. die); Kraay & Hirmer 430 (same dies). Toned, some scratches under tone on reverse. VF. Rare early issue. ($2000) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Friend of a Scholar Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 100, 7 October 2015), lot 1304, purchased from Maison Platt, February 1988. Ex Vinchon (3 December 1984), lot 10.

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ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 90-75 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33.5mm, 16.83 g, 11h). “Imitative” series.

Wreathed head of young Dionysos right / Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club, lion skin draped over left arm; 8 to inner left. Prokopov, Silberprägung, Group XII, 579–86 (obv. die AA6); Le Rider, Thasiennes 52; HGC 6, 359. Minor edge scuff, small flaw on obverse. EF. ($400) 86.

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.62 g, 12h). Lampsakos mint. Struck 297/6-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; herm to outer left, B to inner left. Thompson 50; Müller 91; HGC 3, 1750b. Lightly toned, a few minor marks on obverse. Good VF. Well centered and fine style. ($1000) From the Weise Collection, purchased from Dr. Arnold Saslow, 4 December 1999.

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KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.81 g, 12h). Magnesia on the Maeander mint. Struck circa 297/6-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; Ì to inner left. Thompson 113 var. (monogram); Müller 552 var. (same); HGC 3, 1750e. In NGC encapsulation 2400069-002, graded Ch XF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5. Extremely rare variety, approximately seven published. ($2000) A very distinctive and powerful portrayal of Alexander the Great, quite different from what is routinely seen at Magnesia. This variety incorporates an entire omicron in the control unlike versions listed under Thompson 113.

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KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 17.01 g, 7h). Amphipolis mint. Struck 288/7-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; kerykeion with handle to inner left, m to outer right. Thompson 195; Müller 102; HGC 3, 1750l. Lightly toned, some minor scratches, small scuff on obverse. Good VF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection.

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KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.58 g, 10h). Amphipolis mint.

Struck 288/7-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / ∫Å%5¬EW% 2U%5;ÅcoU, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; kerykeion to inner left, : to outer right. Thompson –; Müller 109 corr. (monogram); HGC 3, 1743 var. (unlisted mint); G. F. Hill, “Greek Coins Acquired by the British Museum in 1927” in NC 1928, 23 = BM no. 1927,0506.6; Anadol 22–3; De Luynes 1809; Mărăşeşti –; Berk BBS 209, 16 (same obv. die); Goldberg 72, lot 4058 = Stack’s Bowers Ponterio 168, lot 20415; Heritage 3033, lot 23021 = Gorny & Mosch 204, lot 1231; Triton XXI, lot 382. Lustrous, a few light scratches. EF. Extremely rare, only eight examples previously published. ($5000) From the Batory Collection. Ex Goldberg 72 (5 February 2013), lot 72.

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KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.98 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Struck 287/6-282 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; crescent to outer left, cult image to inner left, ™ in exergue.

Arnold-Biucchi, Pergamene 16 (O5/R16); Thompson 218; Müller –; HGC 3, 1750m. Lightly toned, a few marks. Good VF. Fine style. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection.

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THRACO-MACEDONIAN REGION, Siris. Circa 525-480 BC. AR Eighth Stater – Trihemiobol (11mm, 0.80 g).

Satyr crouching right; two pellets flanking / Quadripartite incuse square divided diagonally. Smith Group 7; Peykov A0110; HGC 3, 536. Lightly toned, typical porosity. Good VF. ($300) From a London Collection of Greek Coins. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts VI (27 February 1979), lot 121.

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THRACO-MACEDONIAN REGION, Uncertain (Ennea Hodoi?). Circa 500-480 BC. AR Didrachm – Stater (20mm, 7.81 g). Bull standing left, head right; below, calf suckling right / Quadripartite incuse square. HPM pl. 18, 14–6; AMNG III/2, –; HGC 3, –; SNG ANS –; Rosen 159 (same dies). Lightly toned, some roughness, test cut on obverse. VF. Very rare. ($750) This charming agrarian type, the cow suckling a calf, has been variously attributed to different Macedonian cities and tribes. There appear to be four distinct groups of this coinage. All four have on their obverse a bull being suckled by a calf, with each standing either left or right. The first group has an obverse with 1-3 pellets above the bull and an ornamented thick ground line, and a reverse with a diagonally-divided incuse square (HPM pl. XVIII, 3-13 and SNG ANS 923-5). The second group has nothing above the bull on the obverse, and two reverse varieties, a perpendicularly divided incuse square (HPM pl. XVIII, 14-16 and Rosen 159) or a large rosette pattern within an incuse circle (HPM pl.

XVIII, 17-19 and Rosen 160). Both of these reverse types are certainly from the same mint, as there is an obverse die link (HPM pl. XVIII, 14 and 17). The third group of this coinage has an EN inscribed above the bull and no ground line on the obverse, and a perpendicularly divided incuse square on the reverse (HPM pl. XVIII, 21-4). The fourth group has nothing above the bull and no ground line on the obverse, but has a radiate border. There are two reverse varieties to this group, one with a perpendicularly divided incuse square with two of its quarters further divided diagonally into fourths (HPM pl. XVIII, 20), and the other has the facing head of a gorgoneion (SNG ANS 69).

From the time of Svoronos, group 1 has been given to the Bottiaei, but the reasoning is tenuous. Based on the incuse type, weight standard, and obverse iconography, Svoronos established that these coins must originate in the Chalkidian region. While this conclusion is corroborated by the limited number of finds of these coins, his attribution to the Bottiaei is simply based on the fact that it was the sole remaining location to which he had not assigned any other coins. As for the other groups (2-4), they have usually been attributed to either Aineia (HPM and ANS) or an uncertain mint in the Thraco-Macedonian region (Rosen). As an alternative, E.S.G. Robinson has suggested that the issues inscribed EN (group 3) belong to Ennea Hodoi, the later Amphipolis (cf. SNG Ashmolean 2264 = Kraay ACGC 560). Likewise, the presence of the gorgoneion on group 4 coins may indicate an issue of Neapolis. If Neapolis did issue coins of this type, it may also be responsible for the group 3 coins. It seems that there were two locations called Neapolis, one on the coast and one inland, and the legend EN could be read as “Interior Neapolis”, with the E abbreviating some form of Greek ENDON. This theory would place the group 4 coinage at coastal Neapolis and the group 3 coinage at the inland city. At present, while an attribution of all these groups to the Chalkidian region is undisputed, an attribution to any specific tribe or city is uncertain.

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MACEDON, Akanthos. Circa 525-470 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.88 g). Lion right, attacking bull crouching left, biting into its hindquarter; [floral ornament in exergue] / Quadripartite incuse square. Desneux Type B, – (unlisted dies); HGC 3, 381. Lightly toned, minor granularity, slight die shift and small area of smoothing on obverse. VF. ($2500) From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts IX (10 December 1980), lot 152 (erroneous weight and Desneux dies noted).

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MACEDON, Akanthos. Circa 525-470 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.14 g). Lion right, attacking bull crouching left, head right, biting into its hindquarter; Q above; floral ornament in exergue / Quadripartite incuse square. Desneux 69–79 (unlisted dies); AMNG III/2, 5; HGC 3, 383; SNG Copenhagen 2; Boston MFA 520 = Warren 536. Lightly toned, underlying luster, small edge bump. Near EF. ($3000) 33

Ex Lockett and Empedocles Collections

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MACEDON, Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.00 g, 12h). Inebriated Dionysos, wearing chiton draped from his waist, holding in right hand a kantharos propped on his right knee, reclining left, head right, on the back of an ass standing right / [µE@]-dÅ-5-o@ within shallow incuse around quadripartite square in linear border ornamented with dots; all within incuse square. Noe, Mende 83 (this coin referenced); HGC 3, 548 (this coin illustrated); SNG ANS 345 (same dies); SNG Lockett 1352 (this coin); Jameson 1969 (same dies); Kraay & Hirmer 405 = GPCG pl. 10, 14; ACGC 462 = SNG Ashmolean 2303 (same dies). Old collection tone, area of light granularity, small area of flat strike on reverse. Good VF. Fine style. ($15,000) Ex Classical Numismatic Group 88 (14 September 2011), lot 85; Leu 20 (25 April 1978), lot 66; Munzen & Medaillen AG XXV (17 November 1962), lot 435; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part VI [Greek Part II], Glendining, 12 February 1958), lot 1273; G. Empedocles Collection; 1913 Kaliandra Hoard (IGCH 358).

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MACEDON, Mende. Circa 423 BC. AR Tetrobol (14mm, 2.34 g, 9h). Inebriated Dionysos, holding kantharos, reclining left on back of an ass standing right / Kantharos in linear square within incuse square. AMNG III/2, 25; HGC 3, 558.

Deeply toned, rough surfaces. VF. ($500) From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Pegasi Numismatics.

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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander I. 498-454 BC. AR Oktadrachm (34mm, 28.40 g). Aigai mint. Struck circa 492-480/79 BC. Horseman, wearing chlamys and petasos, and holding two spears, standing right behind horse advancing right / Quadripartite incuse square. Raymond pl. II, 4; AMNG III p. 49, 7 (Bisaltai); HPM pl. XII, 2 (Bisaltai; same obv. die); HGC 3, 753; SNG ANS 1; Boston MFA 617 (Bisaltai); Gillet 739; Pozzi 696 = Rhousopoulos 1006 (Bisaltai). Toned, light porosity, minor flan flaws on obverse, light graffito in field on reverse. Good VF. ($7500) 34

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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.58 g, 12h). Pella mint. Struck circa 345/2340/36 BC. Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Charioteer, holding kentron and reins, driving biga right; cicada above. Le Rider Group I C, 56 (D28/R41); SNG ANS 128 = Weber 2040 (same dies). Toned, small edge bruise, light scratches.

Good VF. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Coin Galleries.

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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.43 g, 4h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 355-349/8 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Philip, raising hand, on horseback left; Â below raised foreleg. Le Rider Group IB, 67–8 var. (O32/R– [unlisted rev. die]); SNG ANS 467. Toned, scuff at edge on reverse. EF. Attractive style. ($1500)

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KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Philip II – Alexander III. Circa 340/36-328 BC. AV Quarter Stater (11mm, 2.14 g, 5h). In the name and types of Philip II. Pella mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Bow and club; trident head below. Le Rider Group II, – (D41/R38 [unlisted die combination]); HGC 3, 851. A few light marks. VF. Rare. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear Electronic Auction (22 April 2008), lot G9197.

Attractive Lifetime Tetradrachm

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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 17.19 g, 8h).

Myriandros or Issos mint. Struck under Menes or Philotas, circa 324/3-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ü in left field, m throne. Price 3221 corr. (monogram in left field); Newell, Myriandros 20, obv. die IX; McClean 3426 (same obv. die). Slight die shift on reverse. EF. Very high relief. ($2000) 35

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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.55 g, 12h). Arados mint.

Struck under Menes, circa 325/4-324/3 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; 1 in left field. Price 3423 (Byblos). In NGC encapsulation 4531027-001, graded AU, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5. ($2000)

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KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Alexander III – Philip III. Circa 330/25-320 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.58 g, 1h). In the name of Alexander III. Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; harpa in left field. Price 3136; Troxell, New, Group I, 7 (dies 3/a). Underlying luster, scrape at edge on reverse. Near EF. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear 10 (11 February 2004), lot 117.

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KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Alexander III – Philip III. Circa 325-319 BC. AV Quarter Stater (10.5mm, 2.13 g, 1h). In the name of Alexander III. Amphipolis mint. Struck under Antipater. Helmeted head of Athena right / Bow and club; thunderbolt above. Price 165. Toned, deposits, some light marks and scratches. VF. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Rauch (with Galerie Numismatique, 11 January 2009), lot 18.

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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AV Stater (17.5mm, 8.55 g, 7h). Babylon mint.

Struck under Archon, Dokimos, or Seleukos I, circa 323-318/7 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and triple-crested Corinthian helmet adorned with a griffin springing right / Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling stylis in left arm; wheel in left field, ‰ below left wing, Å below right wing. Price P196 corr. (position of control marks); Waggoner 222b–c (same obv. die); ANS 1967.152.309 (same obv. die); Hunterian 1 (same obv. die). Underlying luster, tiny mark, minor flan flaw, and scuff at edge on obverse. EF. ($3000) Ex Triton XXII (8 January 2019), lot 195; Malter 85 (19 June 2004), lot 18.

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KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC, or king, 306/5-301 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.57 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Lampsakos mint. Struck circa 310-301 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; in left field, Î above mouse right. Price 1430; ADM II Series XIV. Underlying luster, slightly off center on reverse. Near EF. Extremely rare, only two noted in ADM, none in Pella, and one in CoinArchives. ($2000)

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KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.07 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Susa mint. Struck under Aspesias, satrap of Susiana, circa 316-311 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, wreath; below throne, ˚ above strut, Z below. Price 3859 var. (letter not retrograde); ANS 1947.98.312 var. (same; same obv. die). In NGC encapsulation 4283572-002, graded VF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Unique variety of an extremely rare issue (only one example in Pella, none in CoinArchives, none in ANS Photofile). ($500) Ex Colin E. Pitchfork Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 420, 9 May 2018), lot 108, purchased from Spink, February 1994.

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KINGS of MACEDON. Kassander. As regent, 317-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.09 g, 3h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 316-311 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; dolphin in left field, pellet-in-Π below throne. Price 133; Troxell, Studies, Issue L7. Lustrous, light cleaning scratches on reverse. EF. Well centered and struck. ($1000) From the Batory Collection. Ex Heritage 3026 (25 September 2013), lot 23085; Freeman & Sear inventory G11422.

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KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas. 277/6-239 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.84 g, 5h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 274/1-260/55 BC. Horned head of Pan left, lagobolon behind, in the center of a Macedonian shield / Athena Alkidemos advancing left, shield decorated with aegis on arm, preparing to cast thunderbolt; crested Macedonian helmet to inner left, ˚t to inner right. Panagopoulou Period IV, Group 4, – (unlisted dies); Touratsoglou 41–2; SNG Berry 357; SNG Saroglos 926–7. Some porosity and horn silver, light cleaning marks and flan flaw on reverse. Good VF. ($750) 110.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos III Doson. 229-221 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 17.08 g, 11h). Amphipolis mint(?). Struck circa 227-225 BC. Head of Poseidon right, wearing wreath of marine plants / Apollo, testing bow in extended right hand, seated left on prow left inscribed ∫Å%5¬EW% Å@t5˝o@oU; f below. Panagopoulou Period III, Group 37, 166e corr. (O28/R162 – this coin [not same coin as others in pedigree listed; die combination erroneously listed as no. 167 on the plates]); EHC 436; Touratsoglou 52–3; HGC 3, 1051. Toned. VF. ($1500) From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 208; George C. Brauer Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts [XXI], 12 October 1988), lot 209.

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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip V. 221-179 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 16.81 g, 12h). Attic standard. Pella or Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 220-211 BC. Diademed head right / Athena Alkidemos, seen from behind, advancing left, shield decorated with star on arm, preparing to cast thunderbolt; ¯ to inner left, ˘ to inner right. Mamroth, Philip 1; HGC 3, 1055. Toned. Near VF. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 204 (5 March 2012), lot 1311.

Ex Brand & Rhousopoulos Collections

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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip V. 221-179 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.39 g, 12h). Attic standard. Pella or Amphipolis mint; Ar-, magistrate. Struck circa 188/7-184 BC. Diademed head right / Club; 1 (mintmaster’s monogram) above, · and fl below; all within oak-wreath tying to left; kerykeion to outer left. Mamroth, Philip 11 (this coin referenced); HGC 3, 1061; Rhousopoulos 1199 (this coin). Old collection tone. Good VF. Well centered and excellent metal for issue. ($750) From the Apollo to Apollo Collection. Ex Leu 48 (10 May 1989), lot 170; Virgil Brand Collection (Part III, Sotheby’s Zurich, 9 June 1987), lot 66; Athanasios Rhousopoulos Collection (J. Hirsch XIII, 15 May 1905), lot 1199.

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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip V. 221-179 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.70 g, 12h). Attic standard. Pella or Amphipolis mint; Zoilos, mintmaster. Struck circa 184-179 BC. Head of the hero Perseus left, wearing winged helmet surmounted by griffin’s head; harpa in background; all in the center of a Macedonian shield / Club; g (mintmaster’s monogram) and ∫Ås5¬EWs above, f5¬5ππoU below, 6 to lower left, 8 to lower right; all within oak wreath tying to left; tripod to outer left. Mamroth, Philip 16; HGC 3, 1058. Attractively toned. VF. ($1500) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Shirley Hanbery Collection (Goldberg 96, 14 February 2017), lot 1602.

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KINGS of MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 15.20 g, 12h). Reduced Attic standard.

Pella or Amphipolis mint; Au-, mintmaster. Struck circa 173-171 BC. Diademed head right / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt; f above, Q (mintmaster’s monogram) to right, J between legs; all within oak wreath; below, plow left. Mamroth, Perseus 24; HGC 3, 1094. Attractively toned with a hint of iridescence around portrait, minor die wear. Good VF. ($1500) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Pars Coin, 11 April 2012.

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MACEDON (Roman Protectorate), Republican period. First Meris. Circa 167-149 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.82 g, 11h). Amphipolis mint. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder, in the center of a Macedonian shield / Club; π and µÅkEdo@W@ above, ∏rWt˙%, ∂, and ¿ below; all within oak wreath, thunderbolt to left. Prokopov, Silver 523 (O108/R414); HGC 3, 1103. Attractive light tone, minor marks. Good VF. ($300)

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KINGS of PAEONIA. Lykkeios. Circa 358/6-335 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 12.71 g, 7h). Astibos or Damastion mint. Laureate head of Zeus right / Herakles strangling the Nemean Lion; bow and quiver to right. Paeonian Hoard 63 (same obv. die); HGC 3, 142. Lightly toned, typical die wear on obverse. EF. Well centered. ($1000) From the James Barry Collection. Ex CNG inventory 720263 (May 2000).

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KINGS of PAEONIA. Patraos. Circa 335-315 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 12.49 g, 7h). Astibos or Damastion mint. Laureate head of Apollo right / Warrior on horse rearing right, thrusting spear at enemy lying below who defends with shield; kantharos to lower left. Paeonian Hoard 185 (same dies); Peykov E2170; HGC 3, 148 corr. (some with symbols). Some die wear on obverse. Near EF. ($500) From the Grand Haven Collection.

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KINGS of PAEONIA. Patraos. Circa 335-315 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.63 g, 11h). Astibos or Damastion mint. Laureate head of Apollo right / Warrior on horse rearing right, thrusting spear at enemy lying below who defends with shield; @ to left. Paeonian Hoard 237 (same dies); Peykov E2130; HGC 3, 148. Attractive old collection tone. Good VF. Well struck. ($500) From the Weise Collection. Ex RCM Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 294, 16 January 2013), lot 280.

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KINGS of ILLYRIA. Monounios. Circa 305/0-280/75 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 10.17 g, 1h). Dyrrhachion mint.

Cow standing left, looking back at suckling calf standing right below; above, jawbone of boar right / Double stellate pattern, divided by line, in double linear square border; club to right; all within linear circle border. Gjongecaj Emission 2, 169 var. (obv. type right, same rev. die); Paškvan –; Maier 90; HGC 3, 67 (this coin illustrated). Irregular flan, off center on reverse.

Good VF. Extremely rare emission 2 stater. ($500) From the James Barry Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 96 (14 May 2014), lot 100.

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KORKYRA, Korkyra. Circa 270/50-229 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 5.11 g, 7h). Forepart of cow right / Two stellate patterns, each within linear square set vertically, divided by a central line, within larger linear rectangle; grape bunch on vine to upper left, ivy leaf to upper right, s-W across lower field. Fried Group V, dies 9/14; HGC 6, 41; SNG Copenhagen 171; SNG Evelpidis 1895; SNG Fitzwilliam 2643; SNG Lockett 1673 = Pozzi 1309; BMC 195 (all from the same dies). Old collection tone, minor green deposits. VF. Very rare, only eight examples listed by Fried, one additional in CoinArchives. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 41 (19 March 1997), lot 412; Ahlström 54 (16 November 1996), lot 1655.

Ex Lockett Collection

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KORKYRA, Korkyra. Roman rule. Circa 229-48 BC. AR Half Victoriatus (14.5mm, 1.45 g, 1h). Pegasos flying left / Head of Aphrodite left; monogram behind neck. SNG Evelpidis 1938–9; HGC 6, 68; SNG Lockett 2248 (this coin).

Toned, flan crack, some die wear, a little off center on reverse. Near EF. ($500) From the Judy Day Frink Collection. Ex Owl (John Barton) IV.3 (Mail Bid Sale, Fall 1980), lot 17; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Greek Part III, Glendining’s, 27 May 1959), lot 1867 (part of).

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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 365-356 BC. AR Drachm (17.5mm, 6.03 g, 9h). Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, with hair in ampyx / Horse right, preparing to lie down. Lorber, Beginning, Series 8, dies O26/R1; BCD Thessaly II 312–3; HGC 4, 454. Lightly toned. Good VF. ($500) From the James Barry Collection. Ex D. Thomas Collection (Agora 82, 12 February 2019), lot 13.

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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 356-342 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 6.06 g, 6h). Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, with hair in ampyx / Horse right, preparing to lie down. Lorber, Hoard, Phase L-III; BCD Thessaly II 316; HGC 4, 454. Lightly toned, some die rust on obverse, graffiti on reverse. Good VF. ($500)

Ex BCD Collection 124.

THESSALY, Phalanna. Mid 4th century BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 5.22 g, 8h). Head of young male right / Horse prancing right; grape bunch and y on ground line. Papaevangelou-Genakos –; BCD Thessaly II 581 (this coin); HGC 4, 166.

Lightly toned, surfaces smoothed, some scratches and marks. VF. ($500) From the Weise Collection. Ex BCD Collection (Triton XV, 3 January 2012), lot 581; Numismatica Ars Classica F (17 April 1996), lot 1213.

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LOKRIS, Lokri Opuntii. Circa 360-350 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 11.92 g, 8h). Opous mint. Wreathed head of Persephone left / Ajax, nude but for crested Corinthian helmet, holding sword and shield decorated with coiled serpent, advancing right on rocks; below, broken spear and crested Corinthian helmet left. H&D Group 11, 114 (O15/R36); BCD Lokris 43 (same dies); HGC 4, 990 (same dies as illustration). Toned, trace deposits, light marks. Near VF. ($1000) From the Bellwether Collection, purchased from Dr. Arnold Saslow, 23 June 1988.

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LOKRIS, Lokri Opuntii. Circa 360-350 BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 11.98 g, 11h). Opous mint. Wreathed head of Persephone left / Ajax, nude but for crested Corinthian helmet, holding sword and shield decorated with palmette and griffin, advancing right; wreath and bent spear on ground. H&D Group 18, 135 (O15A/R48); BCD Lokris 62 (same dies); HGC 4, 990. Toned, minor doubling on obverse (defect in the die). VF. ($1000) From the James Barry Collection. Ex Spartan Numismatics 65 (2014), lot 53; Agora 17 (30 September 2014), lot 53.

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PHOKIS, Federal Coinage. Circa 485-480 BC. AR Hemidrachm (11.5mm, 2.76 g, 3h). Head of bull facing / Head of Artemis right, hair bound with tainia; f-o-˚-5 clockwise around from lower right; all within incuse square. Williams 26 (O19/R17); BCD Lokris 191 (this coin); HGC 4, 1031 (this coin illustrated); BMC 11 (same rev. die); Boston MFA 963 = Warren 748 (same dies). Lightly toned. Good VF. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Triton XX (10 January 2017), lot 141; BCD Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 55, 8 October 2010), lot 191.

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PHOKIS, Delphi. Early 5th century BC. AR Trihemiobol (11mm, 1.31 g, 3h). Head of ram right; below, dolphin right / Head of goat facing; dolphin upwards to either side; all within incuse square. Svoronos, Delphi –; BCD Lokris 374; HGC 4, 1121. Toned, rough surfaces. Fine. Rare. ($500) From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Ed Waddell.

Ex Rhousopoulos Collection

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BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 425-400 BC. AR Stater (18mm, 12.27 g, 7h). Boeotian shield; club across upper half / Amphora within square incuse. BCD Boiotia 388; HGC 4, 1325; Rhousopoulos 1802 (this coin). Old cabinet tone, minor marks under tone. VF. ($500) Ex Athanasios Rhousopoulos Collection (J. Hirsch XIII, 15 May 1905), lot 1802.

Ex Desneux Collection

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 515-510 BC. AR Drachm (13.5mm, 3.95 g). “Wappenmünzen” type. Hindquarter of horse standing right / Quadripartite incuse square, divided diagonally. Seltman pl. IV, ζ–η; Svoronos, Monnaies, pl. I, 26–8; HGC 4, 1618; BMC Central Greece, p. 136, 1–3; Pozzi 1510. Old cabinet tone, granular and slightly rough surfaces, small spot of smoothing on obverse. VF. Very rare. ($5000) From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Victor England. Ex Jules Desneux Collection (Hess-Leu 49, 27 April 1971), lot 155; Naville V (18 June 1923), lot 1961.

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 515-510 BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.61 g). “Wappenmünzen” type. Facing gorgoneion / Quadripartite incuse square, divided diagonally. Seltman pl. IV, υ; Svoronos, Monnaies, pl. I, 66–7; HGC 4, 1655. Old cabinet tone, oblong flan. Good Fine. ($500) From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Owl, Ltd (John Barton).

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 515-510 BC. AR Hemiobol (6.5mm, 0.42 g). “Wappenmünzen” type. Wheel with four spokes / Quadripartite incuse square, divided diagonally. Seltman pl. IV, αα; Svoronos, Monnaies, –; HGC 4, 1675. Old cabinet tone, light porosity. VF. ($500) From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Owl, Ltd (John Barton).

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 500/490-485/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 17.47 g, 8h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with small spiral on the bowl, and round earring / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig to left, AQ[E] to right; all within incuse square. Seltman Group M; Asyut Group IVa; HGC 4, 1590. Some minor porosity, a little off center on reverse. VF. ($2000)

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 500/490-485/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21.5mm, 17.08 g, 7h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right, head facing; olive spray behind; all within incuse square. Seltman Group Gii; Asyut Group IVi; HGC 4, 1590. Old cabinet tone, some die wear. VF. Well centered. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 339.

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 485/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (19.5mm, 17.17 g, 2h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig to left; all within incuse square. Seltman Group E; Asyut Group VI; HGC 4, 1591. Dark iridescent tone. VF. Well centered on a typically compact flan. ($2000)

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.14 g, 7h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye / Owl standing right, head facing, closed tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent to left; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; Starr pl. XXII, 3’; HGC 4, 1597. Toned. Good VF. Lovely early classical style. ($1000) The certain elements of the style of this tetradrachm, particularly the palmette on Athena’s helmet and the stance of the owl, suggest that this coin was among the earliest issues in the ubiquitous “frontal eye”/classical tetradrachms of the mid-late 5th century at Athens, as these features more closely resemble those found on the later groups of early-mid 5th century issues analyzed by Chester Starr.

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 17.05 g, 7h). Head of Athena right, with frontal eye, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent to left, AQE to right; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597; SNG Copenhagen 31; SNG München 49; Dewing 1611–22; Gulbenkian 519–21. Attractive even light toning.

EF. Well centered strike from fine style dies. ($3000) From the B. G. Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 78 (14 May 2008), lot 612 (hammer $5500).

Two Attractive Compact Heads Showing Full Crest

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 17.17 g, 11h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye / Owl standing right, head facing, closed tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent to left; all within incuse square.

Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597. Toned, underlying luster. EF. Exceptional compact bust, allowing for full crest to appear on the usually compact flans of this period. ($1500)

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.17 g, 1h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye / Owl standing right, head facing, closed tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent to left; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597. Toned, underlying luster, tiny flan flaw on obverse. EF. Exceptional compact bust, allowing for full crest to appear on the usually compact flans of this period. ($1500) 44

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 17.19 g, 10h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye; c/m on cheek: bird standing right within incuse / Owl standing right, head facing, closed tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent to left; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597. Superb EF. Well centered and attractive style. ($1000)

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.22 g, 7h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye / Owl standing right, head facing, closed tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent to left; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597. Lustrous, lightly toned, minor double strike. Superb EF. Well centered from fresh dies, showing nearly full crest. ($1500)

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.20 g, 7h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye / Owl standing right, head facing, closed tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent to left; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597. In NGC encapsulation 2086372-001, graded Ch MS, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. ($1000) 143.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.20 g, 8h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye / Owl standing right, head facing, closed tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent to left; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597. Deeply toned. Good VF. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Superior (2 June 1992), lot 4411.

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Hemidrachm (12mm, 2.04 g, 7h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye / Owl standing facing between olive branches. Kroll 12; HGC 4, 1461. Toned, light granularity. VF. ($500) From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Victor England.

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 280s-220s BC. AR Tetrobol (13.5mm, 2.72 g, 9h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with profile eye / Two owls, standing three-quarters left and right, respectively, both with head facing. Kroll 29; HGC 4, 1637.

Toned, a little die wear, small metal flaw on obverse. VF. Very rare. ($500) From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group.

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.87 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Struck 165-149/8 BC. Helmeted head of Athena Parthenos right / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; Ï and z flanking, rudder to lower left; all within wreath. Thompson 27d = Svoronos, Monnaies, pl. 34, 1 (same dies); HGC 4, 1602. Toned. Good VF. ($750) Ex Berk BBS 208 (5 September 2019), lot 56 (hammer $1600).

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.36 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Roman occupation under Sulla. Struck 86-84 BC. Head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with the foreparts of four horses above the visor, a Pegasos in flight rightward above the raised earpiece, and a curvilinear ornament on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; ⁄ and € flanking, Å on amphora; all within wreath. Thompson 1315 (same obv. die[?]); HGC 4, 1779. Toned. VF. ($500) From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 302.

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ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 480-457 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 12.09 g, 8h). Sea turtle, head in profile, with ‘T-back’ design on shell / Large square incuse with skew pattern. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIIa; Milbank Period III, pl. I, 15; HGC 6, 435. In NGC encapsulation 4165639-032, graded Ch XF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5, countermark, Graffito. ($1500)

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ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 456/45-431 BC. AR Stater (21.5mm, 12.33 g, 2h). Land tortoise with segmented shell / Large square incuse with heavy skew pattern. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIIb; Milbank Period IV, pl. II, 12; HGC 6, 437. Lightly toned, slightly irregular flan. Good VF. Well centered. ($2000) Ex Bolaffi 33 (29 November 2018), lot 241.

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ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 456/45-431 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 12.33 g, 10h). Land tortoise with segmented shell / Large square incuse with heavy skew pattern. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIIb; Milbank Period IV, pl. II, 12; HGC 6, 437.

In NGC encapsulation 4861672-001, graded Ch XF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5, countermark, Graffito. ($1000) 151.

ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 456/45-431 BC. AR Stater (21.5mm, 12.11 g, 8h). Land tortoise with segmented shell / Large square incuse with heavy skew pattern. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIIb; Milbank Period IV, pl. II, 12; HGC 6, 437. Darkly toned, flan crack, a few scratches. VF. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Gemini V, 6 January 2009), lot 576.

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ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 456/45-431 BC. AR Stater (19.5mm, 12.06 g, 12h). Land tortoise with segmented shell / Large square incuse with heavy skew pattern. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIIb; Milbank Period IV, pl. II, 12; HGC 6, 437. Toned, traces of find patina, a few scratches and light cleaning marks, banker’s mark and die break in field on obverse, scrape on edge. VF. ($1000) From the Grand Haven Collection.

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CORINTHIA, Corinth. Circa 350/45-285 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 8.43 g, 11h). Pegasos flying left / Helmeted head of Athena left; shield decorated with trident to left, Å below neck. Ravel Period 5, 1043; Pegasi 405; BCD Corinth 117; HGC 4, 1848. Darkly toned, light scratches on obverse, double strike and cleaning marks on reverse. Good VF. ($500) 154.

CORINTHIA, Corinth. Circa 350/45-285 BC. AR Stater (19.5mm, 8.59 g, 8h). Pegasos flying left / Helmeted head of Athena left; d-5 flanking neck; to right, Artemis Phosphoros running left, holding long torch. Ravel Period 5, 1076; Pegasi 451; BCD Corinth –; HGC 4, 1848. Old collection tone. Good VF. ($500) From the James Barry Collection, purchased from Shanna Schmidt, November 2018.

Ex Weber Collection

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SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 431-400 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 5.86 g, 1h). Dove alighting left; s E flanking / Dove flying left within wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 180–4; HGC 5, 206; Weber 3900 (this coin). Attractive cabinet tone. VF. ($750) From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Victor England. Ex Sir Hermann Weber Collection, purchased from Arthur Sambon, Florence, 1889.

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SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 335-330 BC. AR Stater (23.5mm, 12.24 g, 10h). Chimaera standing left; wreath above, sE below / Dove flying left; @ to left; all within wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 218; HGC 5, 201. Lightly toned. Good VF. Struck from an early die state, with excellent details. ($2000) From the Weise Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 250 (8 May 2007), lot 25; G. Hirsch 247 (21 September 2006), lot 1981; G. Hirsch 244 (15 February 2006), lot 1485; G. Hirsch 240 (2 May 2005), lot 258.

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ELIS, Olympia. 134th-143rd Olympiad. Circa 244-208 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.77 g, 10h). Eagle flying right, tearing at hare held in its talons / Winged thunderbolt; 6 to left, amphora to right. Schwabacher, Hoard Group IV, 32; BCD Olympia 255 (same dies); HGC 5, 510. Slightly off center. Near EF. ($1000) From the James Barry Collection, purchased from Apollo Numismatics, June 2009.

Ex Rosen Collection

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ISLANDS off ELIS, Zakynthos. Circa 500-456 BC. AR Drachm (12mm, 2.84 g). Tripod / Incuse square internally divided by thick and thin lines. SNG Copenhagen –; HGC 6, 219; Rosen 232 (this coin). Toned, some light scratches. VF. Very rare. ($500) From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Owl, Ltd (John Barton). Ex Jonathan P. Rosen Collection (Münzen und Medaillen AG 72, 6 October 1987), lot 409.

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ARGOLIS, Argos. Circa 500/490-470 BC. AR Triobol – Hemidrachm (14mm, 2.54 g, 11h). Forepart of wolf (with curiously engraved shoulder) at bay left, feet on small basis of pellets / Large A; two small incuse squares above, pellet above and below crossbar; all within shallow square incuse. BCD Peloponnesos 1008 (same dies); BCD Peloponnesos II 2392 (same dies); HGC 5, 660. Toned, usual die break on obverse, cleaning scratches on reverse. VF. Very rare. ($500) 160.

ARGOLIS, Argos. Circa 270-260/50 BC. AR Triobol – Hemidrachm (14mm, 2.59 g, 10h). Forepart of wolf at bay left; Q above / Large Å; d-E across upper field; below, eagle standing right on harpa right; all within incuse square. BCD Peloponnesos 1109–10; HGC 5, 670. Lightly toned, slight doubling on reverse. EF. ($500) From a London Collection of Greek coins, purchased from Maison Platt, September 1985.

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CRETE, Knossos. Circa 300-270 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.34 g, 7h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Labyrinth; Å r flanking. Svoronos, Numismatique 73; cf. SNG Copenhagen 375. Toned, area of flat strike in center. Near VF. Rare. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dr. Burkhard Traeger Collection (Künker 136, 10 March 2008), lot 173; Pierre-Carlo Vian Collection (Poindessault, 15 November 1991), lot 392.

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CRETE, Lyttos. Circa 320-270 BC. AR Stater (25.5mm, 11.98 g, 11h). Eagle flying left, wings spread / Head of boar left in linear square within incuse square. Cf. Svoronos, Numismatique 12; Le Rider, Crétoises, pl. XXXIV, 20 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen –. Toned, minor porosity. VF. ($1500) From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 129 (21 December 2005), lot 113; Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 413.

Ex Six Collection – Noted in Traité

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CYCLADES, Keos. Ioulis. Circa 480-470 BC. AR Hemiobol (8mm, 0.46 g). Grape bunch; to left, dolphin upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Sheedy Series II, Group B, 16 var. (dolphin to right); Papageorgiadou-Banis Series III, 17 var. (same); HGC 6, 514 var. (same); Traité I, 1904 (this coin described). Old collection tone, some scratches under tone. VF. Apparently unique variety. ($750) From the Judy Day Frink Collection. Ex Jean Pieter Six Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 42, 29 May 1997), lot 409.

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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.55 g, 1h). Pergamon mint. Dated year 205, month 1 BE (October 93 BC). Diademed head right / Pegasos grazing left; star-in-crescent to left; to right, Es (year) above m; Å (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ p. 10, dies D24/R1, a (this coin, illustrated); HGC 7, 338; DCA 688. Attractively toned, a few minor scratches and marks under tone. VF. ($2000) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Tom Cederlind, 6 April 2011. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular XCIII.6 (July/August 1985), no. 4722.

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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33.5mm, 16.64 g, 11h).

Pergamon mint. Dated year 222, month 10 BE (July 75 BC). Diademed head right / Stag grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent above n; to right, ∫˚s (year) above o; 5 (month) below; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ Supp. dies D38/R9, a (this coin); RG 16; HGC 7, 338; DCA 692. Toned. Good VF. ($3000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 419; Spink Numismatic Circular CV.1 (February 1997), no. 19.

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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (21mm, 8.23 g, 1h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Istros mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left; d5 to inner left, 5% on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 139, dies D1/R1; HGC 3, 1799. Lustrous. EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex CNG inventory 714383 (September 1999).

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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (18.5mm, 8.31 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Kallatis mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left; A monogram to inner left, ˚Åon throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 140, dies D4/R2; HGC 3, 1824. Underlying luster, die wear on obverse.

EF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex CNG inventory 714315 (September 1999).

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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (19.5mm, 8.28 g, 1h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Tomis mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left; QE; to inner left, to on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. De Luca dies D3/R12; Callataÿ p. 141, dies D4/R1; HGC 7, 1931. Underlying luster, trace deposits. EF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex CNG inventory 714185 (September 1999).

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BITHYNIA, Herakleia Pontike. Circa 230-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.98 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, tiny ˚ and c on legs of throne; ∫ in left field; in exergue, club left. Price 1279 var. (letter in field, no letters on throne); HGC 7, 481. In NGC encapsulation 4933936-001, graded AU, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5. Extremely rare, possibly unique variety. ($750)

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BITHYNIA, Kalchedon. Circa 260s BC. AR Drachm (18.5mm, 4.03 g, 1h). In the types of Lysimachos of Thrace.

Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, arm resting on shield, spear in background; ⁄ to inner left, o on throne, grain ear in exergue. Marinescu Issue 4, 6–7 var. (O5/R– [unlisted with letter on throne]); Türkoğlu LO2a; HGC 7, 523. Toned, light porosity, some marks under tone. VF. Unpublished variety of a very rare issue. ($500)

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KINGS of BITHYNIA. Prousias I Cholos. Circa 228-182 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.99 g, 1h). Nikomedeia mint. Struck circa 210/00-182 BC. Diademed head right / Zeus Stephanephoros standing left; to inner left, thunderbolt above / above e. RG 9b; HGC 7, 614. Toned with some iridescence, deposits. VF. ($1000) From the Weise Collection, purchased from Farhan Yaghi, 15 January 2003.

The historical record of Prousias I begins well into his reign, in 220 BC, when he defeated the forces of Byzantion, capturing their territories on the Asian side of the Thracian Bosporos; all the while his enemies, Attalos I of Pergamon and Adaios, the Seleukid general in Thrace, were supporting Prousias’s uncle as a usurper to his kingdom. Subsequently, circa 218 BC, Attalos encouraged the Galatians, who had previously murdered Prousias’s father, Ziaëlas, to invade Bithynia in order to weaken Prousias’s position, but they were decisively defeated. Prousias then allied with Philip V of Macedon during the First Macedonian War (214-205 BC), and attacked the territories of Attalos I, forcing the latter to withdraw his support from the Romans. In the aftermath of that conflict, Philip and Prousias jointly campaigned against Pergamon in the First Cretan War (205-200 BC). During the conflict, the Pergamene-controlled cities of Kios and Myrleia were destroyed, and upon their ruins Prousias founded the cities of Prousias by the Sea and Apameia, respectively. Over the next 12 years, Prousias stayed out of the region’s major conflicts, until a territorial dispute led to renewed conflict between the Attalids and Bithynians (187-183 BC). During this conflict, Prousias gave the famous Carthaginian general, Hannibal, asylum, for which the latter served as a military advisor to the Bithynian king. At the same time, Prousias expanded his kingdom by attacking the territory of Herakleia Pontike, but this venture came to a premature end when Prousias was injured in battle. This injury lead to his epithet, Cholos (“the lame”). In 183 BC, the Attalid king, Eumenes II, decisively defeated the Bithynians, forcing Prousias to give up his territories in Phrygia and turn over Hannibal to the Romans (an event that the Carthaginian escaped by committing suicide). Prousias died the following year.

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KINGS of BITHYNIA. Prousias I Cholos. Circa 228-182 BC. Æ (27mm, 9.07 g, 12h). Nikomedeia mint. Laureate head of Apollo left; c/m: head of Artemis left in incuse circle / Winged Athena-Nike standing left, holding wreath and shield set on ground; s5Å to inner left. RG 16; HGC 7, 615. Dark green patina, scuff in field on obverse. Good VF. ($300) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex David Freedman Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 423.

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KINGS of BITHYNIA. Nikomedes II Epiphanes. 149-127 BC. AR Tetradrachm (39.5mm, 16.63 g, 12h).

Nikomedeia mint. Dated 153 BE (146/5 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Stephanophoros standing left; to inner left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt above Ç above ˝@r monogram (date). RG 40 var. (unlisted date); HGC 7, 642 var. (same); DCA 443 (date “not reported”). Toned, some scratches and marks. Good VF. Well centered on an exceptionally broad flan. Unique with this date. ($1500) From the James Barry Collection.

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KINGS of BITHYNIA. Nikomedes II Epiphanes. 149-127 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.31 g, 11h). Nikomedeia mint. Dated 166 BE (132/1 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Stephanophoros standing left; to inner left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt above ÷ above 4$r (date). RG 40; HGC 7, 642; DCA 443; Hirsch 1439. Toned. Good VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 75 (23 May 2007), lot 332.

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KINGS of BITHYNIA. Nikomedes IV Philopator. 94-74 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.12 g, 12h). Nikomedeia mint. Dated 205 BE (93/2 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Stephanophoros standing left; to inner left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt above U above Es (date). Callataÿ p. 61, dies D152/R5 , a (this coin); HGC 7, 646; DCA 445. Old cabinet tone with underlying blue iridescence, scrapes on obverse. Good VF. ($500) Ex Pegasi BBS 156 (27 August 2019), lot 107; Cahn 71 (14 October 1931), lot 416. Includes old French collection ticket.

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Electrum of Kyzikos The celebrated electrum coinage of Kyzikos began in the first half of the sixth century, and from the beginning the coinage was notable for the variety and inventiveness of its designs. These staters and fractions were regarded as gold coins and circulated throughout a large area along with the gold darics of the Persian Empire. On all of the coins of Kyzikos, large or small, was engraved the tunny-fish (θυννος), which constituted an important product in the Kyzikene economy. The long awaited corpus initiated by the late Friedrich Bodenstedt is now being continued by Maria Kaiser-Raiss. In the meantime, we must rely on the synthesis of material put together by Hans von Fritze in 1914, augmented (and corrected) by the articles by Sylvia Hurter and Hans-Joachim Liewald. Hurter studied the electrum coinage of Kyzikos for some time before her untimely death in 2008. It was her conviction that the arrangement of the coins by Agnes Baldwin Brett in the catalog of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts was the most accurate to date (reflected in the “Editor’s note” at the beginning of the article on the Kyzikene coins in Moscow and St. Petersburg in SNR 2007). Thus, the coinage of Kyzikos below is arranged accordingly.

More controversially, Yuri Pokras (“A New Iconography for the Electrum Coins of Kyzikos,” The Celator November 2000, pp.18-26) has tried to argue that Athens invested Kyzikos with the status of subsidiary mint, and that the presence of specific types parallels each city-state’s inclusion into an alliance with Athens.

The orator Aristotelis, in the second century BC, stated the following in his speech regarding the people of Kyzikos: “It is enough for one just to glance at the location and the nature of this city to immediately understand that the name ‘blissful’ given to it by God was factual, so convenient is its land and its sea. As it is built in front of Asia Minor and since its dominion extends from the Black Sea to the Hellespont, Kyzikos joins the two seas together or rather all the seas that man navigates. Thus, ships continuously pass by or arrive at the harbor or depart from the harbor. Justly it should be called ‘blissful’ just as is Corinth because, as it is built in the mid part of the seas, it joins, as if it was the center of the world, all men who sail the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Kolchis at the far side of the Black Sea.”

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (11mm, 2.70 g). Head of tunny right; above and below, small headless tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Hurter & Liewald III 14.1 (hemihekte); Von Fritze I –; Boston MFA –; SNG BN –; cf. SNG von Aulock 7263 (hemihekte); CNG E-400, lot 121; Triton XIII, lot 1266. Light marks and scuffs. VF. Very rare. ($750)

Extremely Rare Early Stater

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Stater (20.5mm, 15.96 g). Tunny left above tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Triton XX, lot 188; Künker 280, lot 201; otherwise unpublished, but cf. Hurter & Liewald III 36 (= Von Fritze I 15) for similar fractions with subsidiary symbols. Usual edge splits, small die break on obverse. VF. Extremely rare. ($5000) From the Siren Collection.

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.65 g). Tunny left above tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Hurter & Liewald III 36.1–3 var. (with subsidiary symbols); Von Fritze I 15 var. (same); Boston MFA –; SNG BN –; BMC –; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson 2551 var. (same); Weber –; Triton XX, lot 189. Lightly toned, slightly off center with a minor die shift. VF. Extremely rare, only the Triton XX example published. ($1000) From the Siren Collection.

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (19.5mm, 16.00 g). Head of lion left; to right, tunny upward / Quadrapartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 39; Greenwell 115; Boston MFA 1414 = Warren 1537; SNG BN 178; BMC 39; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson 1403; Myrmekion –; cf. Rosen 432 (hekte); Weber 4985; Kraay & Hirmer 700. Lightly toned, slightly off center on obverse. Good VF. Nice surfaces. ($3000) From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection.

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (19mm, 16.07 g). Head of lion left; to right, tunny upward / Quadrapartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 39; Greenwell 115; Boston MFA 1414 = Warren 1537; SNG BN 178; BMC 39; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson 1403; Myrmekion –; cf. Rosen 432 (hekte); Weber 4985; Kraay & Hirmer 700. A perfectly centered example. In NGC encapsulation 4633060-001, graded Ch VF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 5/5. ($3000)

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9.5mm, 2.65 g). Forepart of hound left, head reverted; to right, tunny upwards / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 50; Boston MFA 1418 = Warren 1567; SNG BN 189 = Waddington 685. Compact flan, a couple light scuffs. VF. ($500) From the Siren Collection.

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (19mm, 16.05 g). Forepart of cock left; below, tunny downward to left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 51; Greenwell 155; Boston MFA –; SNG BN –; BMC 49; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Weber –; Triton XX, lot 200; Triton XIX, lot 152; CNG 114, lot 205; CNG E-463, lot 57. VF. Well centered.

Very rare, only six in CoinArchives. ($2000) From the Siren Collection.

Rare Double-Bodied Sphinx Stater

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18.5mm, 16.02 g). Double-bodied sphinx, with one head facing, wearing ouraios, atop a tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze I 128 (unlisted denomination); cf. Greenwell 101 (same); Boston MFA –; cf. SNG BN 280 (hekte); BMC –; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Myrmekion –; Rosen –; Weber –; Triton XX, lot 224; CNG 105, lot 149. Lightly toned. Good VF. Rare as a stater. ($5000) From the Siren Collection.

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (19mm, 15.88 g). Facing head of Silenos, protruding tongue; at sides, two tunnies upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze I 77 (unlisted denomination); cf. Boston MFA 1424 = Warren 1465 (hekte); cf. SNG BN 208 (hekte); BMC –; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Weber –; Triton XX, lot 202; CNG 114, lot 208; CNG 103, lot 200; CNG 75, lot 366; Hess-Divo 325, lot 210 = Sincona 10, lot 113 = Vinchon (24 Nov. 1994), lot 61 = M.J. Price, “1. A Field in Western Thrace” in CH II, 2. Large edge split. VF. Very rare. ($2000) From the Siren Collection.

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (19mm, 16.15 g). Forepart of Sphinx left; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 71; Boston MFA 1427 = Warren 1525; SNG BN 198. Minor edge splits.

VF. ($2000) From the Siren Collection.

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 16.13 g). Helmeted head of Athena left; to right, tunny downward / Quadrapartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 63; Boston MFA 1432 = Warren 1445; SNG BN –. Good VF. ($5000)

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (19mm, 16.08 g). Helmeted head of Athena left; to right, tunny downward / Quadrapartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 63; Boston MFA 1432 = Warren 1445; SNG BN –. Lightly toned, edge split. VF. ($2000) From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection.

188.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18.5mm, 16.06 g). Winged dog squatting left, head reverted, on tunny fish left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 104; Boston MFA 1433 = Warren 1568; SNG BN 245. VF. ($2000) From the Siren Collection.

189.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (11mm, 2.66 g). Winged dog squatting left, head reverted, on tunny fish left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 104; cf. Boston MFA 1433 = Warren 1568 (stater); SNG BN 246–7. Lightly toned. VF. Well centered. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Lanz 155 (10 December 2012), lot 258.

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190

191

190.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 16.03 g). Griffin seated left, raising right forepaw, on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 101; Boston MFA 1437 = Warren 1573; SNG BN –. VF. Well centered. Very rare issue, not to be confused with the more common variety with a griffin standing (von Fritze I 99). ($2000) From the Siren Collection.

191.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18.5mm, 15.97 g). Forepart of winged lion left; to right, tunny upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 96; cf. Boston MFA 1438 (hekte); SNG BN 237. Light roughness, minor edge split. VF. Well centered. ($2000) From the Siren Collection.

192 193 192.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (20mm, 16.04 g). Forepart of winged boar left; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 61; Boston MFA 1440 = Warren 1453; SNG BN 192. Edge splits. VF. ($2000) From the Siren Collection.

193.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (21mm, 16.07 g). Helmeted head of Athena left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 67; Greenwell 25; Boston MFA 1446 = Warren 1443; cf. SNG BN 195 (hemihekte); BMC 19; Gillet 1053 = Kunstfreund 5 = Jameson 2171 = Weber 4971; Gulbenkian 609; Kraay & Hirmer 701; Myrmekion –; Rosen –. Banker’s mark on obverse. VF. ($2000) From the Siren Collection.

194.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 16.21 g). Head of female left, wearing sphendone; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. von Fritze 106 (unlisted denomination); Boston MFA –; SNG BN –; CNG 93, lot 348; Roma XV, lot 229; Roma XIII, lot 276; Roma IX, lot 329; Roma E-38, lot 220. A couple edge splits, slight die shift and a little off center. Good VF. Extremely rare as a stater, unpublished in the standard references, only six in CoinArchives. ($5000) From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Roma XV (5 April 2018), lot 229.

195.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18.5mm, 15.78 g). Half length bust of winged female figure (Harpy?) left, touching her chin with her left hand, and holding tunny in her right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 75; Greenwell 98; Boston MFA 1448 = Warren 1519; SNG BN 205; Gillet –; cf. Gulbenkian 612 (hekte); Jameson –; Myrmekion 2; Rosen 454; Weber –. Toned, a couple edge splits. VF. ($3000) From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection.

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196.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (20mm, 16.02 g). Winged sphinx crouching left; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 72; Greenwell 100; Boston MFA 1450 = Warren 1522; SNG BN 200; BMC –; Jameson 1399; Gillet 1057; Gulbenkian –; Myrmekion 36; Rosen –; Weber –. Minor edge split. Good VF. ($3000) From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Lanz 158 (5 June 2014), lot 215.

197.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.63 g). Griffin seated left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 58; cf. Boston MFA 1453 (stater); SNG BN –. Light marks, struck from worn obverse die. VF. Rare as a hekte. ($500) From the Siren Collection.

198.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18.5mm, 16.13 g). Sow standing left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 45; cf. Boston MFA 1465 (hekte); SNG BN 184. A couple minor edge splits, small die break on obverse. VF. Well centered. ($3000) From the Siren Collection.

199.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.66 g). Wolf at bay left, raising right forepaw, on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 93; Boston MFA 1470 = Warren 1565; SNG BN 231–2.

Lightly toned, minor double strike. VF. Well centered. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Tkalec (27 October 2011), lot 101 (hammer 2200 CHF).

200.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (17mm, 15.98 g). Nude male kneeling left, holding a tunny by the tail in his extended right hand / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 112; Greenwell 86; Boston MFA 1487 = Warren 1502; SNG BN 253; BMC –; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Myrmekion –; cf. Rosen 488 (hekte); Weber –. Good VF. Well centered and struck at an early die state. ($5000) From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection.

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201

202

201.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.73 g). Nude male kneeling left, holding a tunny by the tail in his extended right hand / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 112; Boston MFA 1488 = Warren 1503; SNG BN –. Slightly off center. VF. Rare as a hekte. ($500)

Extremely Rare Fraction 202.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (6.5mm, 0.67 g). Lion standing right, biting into sword (or harpa?), on tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze I 177 (unlisted denomination); Boston MFA 1502 (stater); SNG BN 322 (stater); Gorny & Mosch 261, lot 292 = Leu Numismatik AG Web Auction 2, lot 102 (same obv. die); Heritage 3082, lot 3082; Leu Numismatik AG Web Auction 4, lot 241 = Leu Numismatik AG Web Auction 1, lot 457 = Nomos Obolos 5, lot 303 = Vinchon, 24 November 1994, lot 77 (same obv. die); Roma E-72, lot 452. Light scrape on obverse. Good VF. Extremely rare, the finest of five myshemihektai known for this issue. ($1000) From the Siren Collection.

203.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 16.00 g). Horse prancing left, trailing rein; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 218; Boston MFA 1562 = Warren 1547; SNG BN –. Lightly toned, slightly off center. VF. Very rare, only one in CoinArchives (CNG 96, lot 386). ($3000) From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection.

204 205 204.

AEOLIS, Kyme. Circa 155-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 16.46 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Seuthes, magistrate. Head of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing tainia / Horse prancing right; one-handled cup below raised foreleg; %EUQ˙% below; all within laurel wreath. Oakley obv. die 60; BMC 78 (same obv. die). Minor deposits, spot of weak strike on obverse, area of porosity and a few minor die breaks on reverse. Good VF. ($500) From the Grand Haven Collection.

205.

AEOLIS, Myrina. Circa 160-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.57 g, 1h). Stephanophoric type. Laureate head of Apollo right / Apollo Grynios standing right, holding branch and phiale; ó to left, omphalos and amphora at feet; all within laurel wreath. Sacks Issue 26, obv. die 40; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG von Aulock 1661. Light scratches. Good VF. ($750) From the James Barry Collection, purchased from Flavian Logic Ancient Numismatics, November 2002.

206.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.49 g, 11h). Head of roaring lion right / Incuse head of calf right; rectangular punch to left. Bodenstedt Em. 13; HGC 6, 938. Good VF. Well centered. ($500) 58

208 209 207 207.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 478-455 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.52 g, 2h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Incuse female head right, wearing sphendone. Bodenstedt Em. 31; HGC 6, 958; Boston MFA 1691 = Warren 1603. Toned, thin flan crack. VF. Very rare. ($500) From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 389 (18 January 2017), lot 247.

208.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (11mm, 2.55 g, 9h). Head of young female right / Facing head of lion (or wolf) in linear square within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 48; HGC 6, 974. VF. Very rare. ($500) From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 384 (12 October 2016), lot 208.

209.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (11mm, 2.55 g, 12h). Wreathed and bearded head of Dionysos right / Confronted calf heads; all within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 50; HGC 6, 976 corr. (palmette not always present). Die rust on obverse. VF. Struck on a broad flan. ($500) From the Weise Collection. Ex Kallman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 389, 18 January 2017), lot 274, purchased from Colosseum Coin Exchange; Coin Galleries (6 November 1996), lot 22.

Bodenstedt’s emission 90 encompasses a wide array of reverses. While always depicting a satyr, he sometimes has hair, but usually without, and sometimes there are subsidiary symbols in the margins around the satyr’s head.

210.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.56 g, 7h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / Two confronted female heads, their faces overlapping, within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 55; HGC 6, 981. VF. Very rare. ($2000) From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection, purchased from Ed Waddell (inv. no. 17318).

211 212 213 211.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 412-378 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.54 g, 7h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Head of Artemis-Kybele right, wearing stephane; all in linear frame within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 73; HGC 6, 999.

A few light scratches. Good VF. ($500) 212.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 412-378 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.55 g, 6h). Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing tainia and wreath of ivy in hair, of archaized style / Head of Kalathiskos (dance performer) right in linear square within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 76; HGC 6, 1002. Lightly toned, a few minor edge splits. VF. Well centered. ($500) 213.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 377-326 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.53 g, 12h). Wreathed head of Dionysos right / Head of satyr facing, with no hair, in linear square [within incuse square]. Bodenstedt Em. 90; HGC 6, 1016 corr. (symbols sometimes on rev.). A couple light scratches. Good VF. Well centered. ($500)

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LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 377-326 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.55 g, 9h). Head of Apollo Karneios right, with horn of Ammon / Eagle standing right, head reverted, in linear square within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 104; HGC 6, 1030. A little die rust on obverse, light scratch in field on reverse. Good VF. ($500)

Trite of Phanes

215.

IONIA, Ephesos. Phanes. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (14mm, 4.71 g). Stag grazing right, its dappled coat indicated by indentations on the body; [ß]oenåf above / Two incuse squares flanking central incuse rectangle, each with raised intersecting lines within. Fischer-Bossert, Phanes 11b (O8/R20S&20L – this coin); Weidauer 40; SNG München 14; ACGC 54; GPCG p. 98, 3 = Kraay & Hirmer 585; Zhuyuetang 8. Lightly toned. Good VF. Well struck with a particularly clear inscription and stag. Very rare, with fewer than twenty trites of Phanes known. ($30,000) From the M.J.W. Collection. Ex Berk BBS 159 (28 April 2008), lot 1.

The celebrated coins of Phanes – the first coins on which a legend appears – are known to be among the earliest of Greek coins, as a hemihekte (twelfth stater) of the issue was found in the famous foundation deposit of the temple of Artemis at Ephesos, built circa 550 BC. It is this find spot, along with the design of the grazing stag, that suggests Ephesos as the mint. If indeed a person, the mysterious “Phanes” named on this piece was likely an Ephesian treasury minister or a private individual wealthy enough to strike his own coinage. An alternative reading of the legend as “Phaneos” (light-bringer) has also been proposed, perhaps referring to an aspect of Artemis or her brother, Apollo.

216.

IONIA, Ephesos. Phanes. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (7mm, 0.57 g). Forepart of stag left, head reverted, its dappled coat indicated by indentations on the body / Incuse square with raised intersecting lines within. Fischer-Bossert, Phanes 36 (O23/R36T); Konuk & Lorber Fig. 19; SNG Kayhan 1219 var. (pellets on obv.). Scratches.

VF. Very rare without pellets on obverse, Fischer-Bossert notes only 8 examples. ($750)

Fischer-Bossert Plate Coin

217.

IONIA, Ephesos. Phanes. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (6.5mm, 0.57 g). Forepart of stag left, head reverted, its dappled coat indicated by indentations on the body; three pellets to left / Incuse square with raised intersecting lines within. Fischer-Bossert, Phanes 38a (O16/R38T – this coin, illustrated); SNG Kayhan 1219. Toned.

VF. ($750) From the Judy Day Frink Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 446.

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218 219

218.

IONIA, Ephesos. Circa 405-390 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 15.10 g, 12h). Namertes, magistrate. Bee with curved wings / Forepart of stag right, head left; palm tree to left, [@]ÅÂErt[˙s] to right. Hecatomnus 49b (O11/R44 – this coin); otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Toned, a few scratches, small scrape on reverse. VF. Well centered and struck. Very rare, one of only three known with this magistrate. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 275 (22 September 2011), lot 3775; Gorny & Mosch 60 (5 October 1992), lot 193.

219.

IONIA, Ephesos. Circa 390-325 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.96 g, 12h). Ileos, magistrate. Bee with straight wings / Forepart of stag right, head left; palm tree to left, 5¬EWs to right. Pixodarus Class G, obv. die 120; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; NFA VII, lot 198 (same dies). In NGC encapsulation 4861672-005, graded Ch VF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5. Very rare magistrate. ($750) Ex Spink 221 (2 December 2013), lot 68; Spink 165 (8 October 2003), lot 62.

220.

IONIA, Erythrai. Circa 550-500 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.52 g). Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin / Quadripartite incuse square. SNG Kayhan 737–8; SNG von Aulock 1942; SNG Copenhagen –; Boston MFA 1806–7.

Edge splits. Good VF. ($300)

221 222 221.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.72 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Erasippos, son of Aristeos, “magistrate”. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Apollo Delphios standing left, elbow resting on tall tripod to right, holding branch tied with fillet; ErÅ%5∏∏o% År5%tEoU in two lines to left, meander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Jones obv. die 32; SNG von Aulock 2042; SNG Copenhagen –; Norman Davis 211 (same obv. die). Lustrous, slight die wear. EF. ($1500) From the James Barry Collection. Ex Pegasi XXXI (28 October 2014), lot 164.

222.

IONIA, Miletos. Circa 170-160 BC. AR Tetradrachm (36mm, 16.37 g, 12h). Hybristos, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo right / Lion standing right, head left; star above, Ÿ to right, U∫r5%to% in exergue. D-L 758 var. (V2/R7); Marcellesi Series 46; SNG Copenhagen –. Lightly toned. VF. Very rare. ($1000) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 289 (24 October 2012), lot 114.

223.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.58 g). Ibex recumbent left; above, seal left / Rough incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 19. Light scratches, struck with slightly worn obverse die. VF. ($500) 61

225 224 224.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (6mm, 0.64 g). Head of ram left; below, small seal left / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 20. VF. Perfectly centered. ($300) 225.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC or 521-478 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.62 g). Archaic head of female left / Rough incuse square. Bodenstedt – (but cf. em. 23 and 33 for similar); CNG 108, lot 196 (same die and punch); CNG 106, lot 381 corr. (not Bod. 33; same die and punch); Lanz 151, lot 475 = Gemini VI, 199 (same rev. punch); Leu 45, lot 218 (same rev. punch); Leu 50, lot 166 (same rev. punch); NAC 92, lot 216 (same die and punch); Nomos 15, lot 153 (same die and punch); Prospero 520 (same die and punch); Roma XIV, lot 155 (same rev. punch). Some light marks, slight die shift and tiny pit on obverse. Near EF. Very rare type, unknown to Bodenstedt. ($1500) See also SNG Kayhan 1431 (= CNG 69, lot 437) for a silver issue of Phokaia with the same obverse type, and a quadripartite incuse reverse.

226 227 226.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.57 g). Head of African left, wearing necklace; to right, seal downward / Rough incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 24. Scratches, scrape on obverse. VF. ($1500) 227.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.54 g, 10h). Female head left, wearing helmet or close fitting cap; to right, seal downward / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 31. A little softly struck.

Good VF. ($500)

228.

IONIA, Smyrna. Circa 150-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 16.69 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Menekrates, magistrate. Turreted head of Tyche right / Ethnic and ‚ within laurel wreath. Milne, Autonomous 141; Milne, Silver obv. die A; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 4 (same obv. die). Toned, struck with worn obverse die. Good VF. ($1500) From the James Barry Collection. Ex Pegasi XL (28 May 2019), lot 161.

229.

IONIA, Teos. Late 6th-early 5th century BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 5.76 g). Griffin seated right, raising forepaw; no control marks / Quadripartite incuse square. Matzke Group Bc2; Balcer Group XX, dies A45/P- (unlisted rev. die); SNG Copenhagen 1433; BMC 1 (same obv. die). Light granularity. Good VF. ($500) From the James Barry Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 81 (20 May 2009), lot 533.

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230.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (11mm, 4.74 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Globular surface with cluster of pellets / Incuse rectangle, laterally bisected. Weidauer –; Traité I 3; Elektron –; Rosen 253; SNG Kayhan –; SNG von Aulock 7761; Boston MFA 1749; Pozzi 2350. As made. ($1000) From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection.

Inscribed Plain Hekte

231.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9mm, 2.30 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Plain globular surface; ÂÁË[ÈÍ] (letters of an unknown script) along part of edge / Incuse rectangle with geometric pattern. CNG 114, lot 323 (same dies); CNG 112, lot 264 (same obv. die); Heritage 3054, lot 30097 (same obv. die); Heritage 3020, lot 24985 (same obv. die); otherwise unpublished. As made. Very rare. ($5000) This coin is from part of a recently discovered issue of inscribed hektai with a plain obverse and rectangular incuse on the reverse, the first of which was noted in a private British collection in 2011. The prior analysis of these coins has associated the issue with the ubiquitous plain obverse hektai of Ionia, suggesting that this inscribed version was perhaps a late issue in the production of that coinage, with struck dates suggested in the 660s and 640s BC. Admittedly, the form of this issue, and its metrology, do comport with the uninscribed plain incuse issues of that period. However, the peculiar reverse punch of this issue should not be overlooked. With regard to the complex varieties of early electrum, associations and relative chronologies are often established through reverse die linkages or similarities of idiosyncratic punch forms.

The rectangular punch used for this issue bears little resemblance to the two small punches used on the uninscribed plain hektai of the mid 7th century. The use of two small square punches, in fact, appears to have been a canonical aspect of not only the plain hektai, but also the ubiquitous striated electrum issues also dated to the 7th century, and even the contemporary royal Lydian hektai that circulated throughout the region. These small punches were also plain in appearance, devoid of any designs. These aspects suggest that the inscribed plain hektai are not closely associated to the uninscribed plain issues. Moreover, a small group of these inscribed coins was presented to a researcher, which was accompanied by a known Carian issue that dated to the early 5th century BC. The researcher noted the surfaces and fabric of the issues appeared highly consistent, suggesting they were part of a single hoard. This, in turn, suggested that these electrum coins were struck later than the 7th century, possibly as late as the end of the 6th century.

Turning to the inscription, elements of the letters appear similar to a number of glyphs in the various alphabets that were used along the coast of western Asia Minor. However, as a whole, the letters most closely resemble those found in the Carian alphabet (see Tables I and II in I.J. Adiego, The Carian Language [Brill: Leiden, 2007]), though the exact interpretation of legend remains uncertain. Before the discovery of the CNG 112, lot 263 coin, only the first three letters were visible. That said, the inscription may actually be even longer, as its visibility on the coins is hampered by the low relief of the letters and their position on the edge of the die.

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Three Denominations from the Same Rare Series

232 233 234 232.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (11.5mm, 4.69 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Crude chimaira(?) right on striated background / Two incuse squares. Cf. Linzalone 1043 (stater); cf. Gulbenkian 719 (stater); Triton XIV, lot 299 (same rev. punches); Gorny & Mosch 190, lot 250; otherwise unpublished in the standard references, but cf. cf.

Weidauer 11-3, 18-25, and 177 for similar figural-on-striated obverse trites. VF. Extremely rare. ($3000) See the following two lots for the hekte and hemihekte from this series.

The Gulbenkian coin was the first of this type to be published. Before it appeared in the Gulbenkian catalog, E.S.G. Robinson published it in the ANS Centennial volume (p. 586, no. 2), where it was described as a dolphin. Jenkins, in his catalog description in Gulbenkian, however, countered that it was more likely a depiction of a bird, and, in private correspondence, Weidauer concurred with his interpretation. The debate lay dormant until a denominational set of this issue, from stater to myshemihekte, appeared in Triton XIV (lots 298–302). Although the full details of the type remained unclear, there was a strong consistency to the outline of the form, which suggested that the element protruding from one side of the form was the head of a goat. This discovery makes it quite likely that the type is a chimaira at bay right, with the hind legs and forepart of the lion off the flan. Nonetheless, until an example is found with a large enough flan to encompass the totality of the type, the debate shall continue.

233.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9mm, 2.35 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Crude chimaira(?) right on striated background / Two incuse squares. Cf. Linzalone 1043 (stater); cf. Gulbenkian 719 (stater); cf. Triton XIV, lot 298–302 (for other denominations of this series); cf. Gorny & Mosch 190, lot 250 (trite); otherwise unpublished in the standard references, but cf. cf. Weidauer 11-3, 18-25, and 177 for similar figural-on-striated obverse trites.

VF. Extremely rare, the first hekte known for this series. ($1500) See the previous lot for the trite from this series, and the following lot for the hemihekte.

234.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (6.5mm, 1.15 g). Crude chimaira(?) right on striated background / Two incuse squares. Cf. Linzalone 1043 (stater); cf. Gulbenkian 719 (stater); Triton XIV, lot 301 (same dies); cf. Gorny & Mosch 190, lot 250 (trite); otherwise unpublished in the standard references, but cf. cf. Weidauer 11-3, 18-25, and 177 for similar figural-on-striated obverse trites. VF. Extremely rare, apparently the fifth known hemihekte for this series. ($750) See the previous two lots for the trite and hekte from this series.

235

236

235.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 550-525 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (6.5mm, 0.58 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Bridled forepart of winged horse left / Incuse square. Fischer-Bossert, Horses, Series II, 21–9 var. (unlisted dies); Weidauer 143; SNG von Aulock 1780; SNG Kayhan –. EF. Well centered and exceptional for issue. ($500) 236.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 550-525 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (6mm, 0.59 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Bridled forepart of winged horse left / Incuse square. Fischer-Bossert, Horses, Series II, 22 var. (O21/P22); Weidauer 143; SNG von Aulock 1780; SNG Kayhan –; Rosen 289 (same dies). Near EF. ($500)

237.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Samos. Circa 408/4-380/66 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 15.10 g, 6h). Lochites, magistrate.

Facing lion scalp / Forepart of ox right; branch to left, bee below; ¬oc5t˙s (magistrate) above; all within incuse square.

Barron Class X, 142 var. (A69/P– [unlisted reverse die]); Pixodarus 3 (this coin, illustrated); HGC 6, 1218. Toned. VF. Well centered. ($1500) From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 522; Pixodarus Hoard (CH IX, 421)

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ISLANDS off IONIA, Samos. Circa 408/4-380/66 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.54 g, 1h). Demon, magistrate.

Facing lion scalp / Forepart of ox right; branch to left, bee below; [d˙]ÂW@ (magistrate) above; all within incuse circle.

Barron Class X, unlisted magistrate, but obv. die A78; Pixodarus 13 = Künker 326, lot 858 (same dies); HGC 6, 1218. Toned, off center, some roughness. Good VF. Extremely rare issue, only the Pixodaros piece published. ($1000) From the James Barry Collection, purchased from Tony Chibbaro, October 2009.

Ex Rhousopoulos Collection 239.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Samos. Circa 310-300 BC. AR Didrachm (23.5mm, 6.16 g, 12h). Rhodian standard. Facing lion scalp / Forepart of ox right; Å to lower left, branch to lower right. Barron p. 216, 36 (A110/P133) = Rhousopoulos 3847 (this coin [flaw on rev. in illustration is from a blundered cast made for photograhy]); HGC 6, 1230 (this coin illustrated, taken from Rhosopoulos catalog). Old collection tone, traces of find patina, die shift on obverse. Good VF. ($750) From the Weise Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 190 (11 October 2010), lot 271; Numismatics Fine Arts XXIX (13 August 1992), lot 143; Athanasios Rhousopoulos Collection (J. Hirsch XIII, 15 May 1905), lot 3847.

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ISLANDS off IONIA, Samos. Circa 310-300 BC. AR Hemidrachm (12.5mm, 1.50 g, 12h). Rhodian standard.

Orchamenios, magistrate. Facing lion head / Forepart of bull right; [o]rcŵE@5os above. Barron p. 217, 1 var. (same obv. die, different magistrate); HGC 6, 1232. Light cleaning marks. Good VF. Rare denomination, this magistrate unpublished in the standard references. ($300) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 76 (12 September 2007), lot 733.

241.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 620/10-550/39 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (12.5mm, 4.72 g).

Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right; sun with multiple rays on forehead / Two incuse square punches. Weidauer Group XVI, 89; SNG Ashmolean 749–53. Minor edge splits, a little die rust and tiny flan flaw on obverse. Near EF. ($2000)

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KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 620/10-550/39 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.16 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, “sun” with no rays on forehead / Incuse square. Weidauer Group XVI, 90; SNG Ashmolean 757. Light graze on obverse. Good VF. ($500)

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KINGS of LYDIA. Kroisos. Circa 564/53-550/39 BC. AV Stater (15.5mm, 8.08 g). Light standard. Sardes mint.

Confronted foreparts of lion and bull / Two incuse squares. Berk 3; Le Rider, Naissance, pl. V, 8; Traité I 401–3; SNG von Aulock 2875; BMC 31; Boston MFA 2073; Gulbenkian 757. Lustrous. Near EF. ($10,000) 244.

KINGS of LYDIA. Kroisos. Circa 564/53-550/39 BC. AV Stater (15.5mm, 8.03 g). Light standard. Sardes mint.

Confronted foreparts of lion and bull / Two incuse squares. Berk 3; Le Rider, Naissance, pl. V, 8; Traité I 401–3; SNG von Aulock 2875; BMC 31; Boston MFA 2073; Gulbenkian 757. Lustrous, tiny flan flaw on obverse. Near EF. ($10,000)

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KINGS of LYDIA. Kroisos. Circa 564/53-550/39 BC. AV Twelfth Stater (6mm, 0.66 g). Light standard. Sardes mint. Confronted foreparts of lion and bull / Incuse square. Walburg Group VI; Berk 10–3; SNG Ashmolean –; Gulbenkian 759. Slight die wear. VF. Well centered. ($1000)

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KINGS of LYDIA. Kroisos. Circa 564/53-550/39 BC. AR Stater (18.5mm, 10.57 g). Sardes mint. Confronted foreparts of lion right and bull left / Two incuse squares of unequal size. Berk 20; SNG Ashmolean 760. Toned, a bit granular, a couple light scuffs on reverse. Good VF. Well centered and struck. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 270.

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KINGS of LYDIA. Kroisos. Circa 564/53-550/39 BC. Fourrée Stater (20.5mm, 10.72 g). Sardes mint. Confronted foreparts of lion right and bull left / Two incuse squares of unequal size. For prototype: cf. Berk 20; cf. SNG Ashmolean 760.

Deeply toned, earthen deposits, plating broken in spots. Good VF. ($750) 66

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CARIA, Kaunos. Circa 490-470 BC. AR Hemidrachm (12mm, 2.57 g, 2h). Winged female figure in kneelingrunning stance right, head left / Griffin standing left, raising forepaw, in dotted square within incuse square. Konuk Period I, 35 (O10/R13); HN Online 432. Iridescent tone. VF. Exceptional for issue. ($300) 249.

CARIA, Myndos. Mid 2nd century BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 3.86 g, 12h). Demophon, magistrate. Laureate head of Sarapis right / Headdress of Isis set on two grain ears; d˙Â-ofW@ to right; grape bunch below. Myndos 20 (A6/P17 – this coin); HN Online 737. Attractive light toning, slightly off center. EF. ($300) Ex 1996 ‘Myndos’ Hoard (CH IX, 522).

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SATRAPS of CARIA. Pixodaros. Circa 341/0-336/5 BC. AR Didrachm (21mm, 6.94 g, 12h). Halikarnassos mint.

Laureate head of Apollo facing slightly right, drapery at neck / Zeus Labraundos standing right. Pixodarus 32 (A4/P14); Konuk, Identities 30; HN Online 241. Dark find patina. Good VF. ($1000) From the James Barry Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 238 (11 August 2010), lot 162.

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ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 88/42 BC-AD 14. AR Drachm (21mm, 4.08 g, 8h). Zenon, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose seen from above; z˙@W@ and three stars around; all within wreath. Ashton & Weiss 347 (A115/P338); HGC 6, 1456; HN Online 1979. Dark iridescent tone. EF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 47 (16 September 1998), lot 504.

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LYCIA, Phaselis. 4th century BC. AR Stater (22mm, 10.40 g, 9h). Prow of galley right / Stern of galley left. HeippTamer Series 6, unlisted variety; Triton XIX, lot 262 (same dies); CNG 100, lot 1527 (same dies). Toned, light scrape on reverse. Near EF. ($1000) From the James Barry Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 377 (29 June 2016), lot 139.

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DYNASTS of LYCIA. Uncertain dynast. Circa 490/80-440/30 BC. AR Stater (18.5mm, 9.21 g). Blank (degraded die) / Incuse square containing linear and pelleted interior squares. Cf. Müseler III, 40 (for similar reverse type); SNG von Aulock 4083. Toned. VF. Rare, particularly without the usual test cut. ($300) 67

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DYNASTS of LYCIA. Kherei. Circa 410-390 BC. AR Stater (19.5mm, 8.50 g, 12h). Xanthos (as Arñna) mint.

Helmeted head of Athena right / Head of Kherei right, wearing Persian tiara, within incuse square. Mørkholm & Zahle II 37–9 var. (unlisted dies); Müseler VI 27 = Reuter 74; Falghera 168–9; SNG Copenhagen Supp. 447. Toned, slight granularity. Near EF. Possibly the finest known of this issue. ($1000)

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DYNASTS of LYCIA. Mithrapata. Circa 390-370 BC. AR Stater (23.5mm, 9.76 g, 11h). Facing lion scalp, Â horizontally oriented on right cheek; triskeles below / Head of Mithrapata left; µEtR¡-π¡T¡ (MITHRAPATA in Lycian) around, triskeles to lower right; all within incuse square. Mildenberg, Mithrapata 7 (O4/R5); Podalia 72–4 (A6/P6); SNG von Aulock 4239 (same dies); Falghera –; SNG Copenhagen Supp. –; Kraay & Hirmer 658 (rev., same die). Deeply toned. Good VF. ($2000) From a London Collection of Greek Coins, purchased from Peter Weiss at the NYINC, December 1996.

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PAMPHYLIA, Side. Circa 145-125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.31 g, 12h). Kleuch–, magistrate. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike advancing left, holding wreath and palm frond; pomegranate to left, ˚¬E-Uc across field. Arslan & Lightfoot Group 14, 545–6 (O67/R160); Seyrig, Side 18; SNG BN 697. Light marks, fine scratches, minor doubling on obverse, die break on reverse. Near EF. ($300) From the James Barry Collection, purchased from Pars Coins, February 2006.

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CILICIA, Nagidos. Circa 400-385/4 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 10.72 g, 5h). Aphrodite seated left, holding phiale over altar to left; to right, Eros standing left, crowning her with wreath / Dionysos standing left, holding grape bunch on vine and thyrsos; Å-in-wreath to left. Casabonne Type 4; Lederer 25 (same obv. die); SNG BN –; SNG Levante –; BMC 12 (same obv. die). Lightly toned, slight die wear, with typical die break on obverse. Near EF. ($500)

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CILICIA, Tarsos. Tarkumuwa (Datames). Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia, 384-361/0 BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 10.53 g, 8h). Struck circa 380 BC. Head of Arethousa facing slightly left / Helmeted and bearded male head (Ares?) left.

Casabonne Series 1; Moysey Issue 4; SNG BN –; SNG Levante –; SNG von Aulock 5920–1. In NGC encapsulation 3997113009, graded AU, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Well centered and attractive head of Arethousa on a broad flan. ($750)

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CILICIA, Tarsos. Pharnabazos. Persian military commander, 380-374/3 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 10.73 g, 3h).

Struck circa 380-379 BC. Baal of Tarsos seated left, holding lotus-tipped scepter; zRtL`b (B’LTRZ in Aramaic) to right / Bearded male head (Ares?) left, wearing crested Attic helmet; wzbnRp (FRNBZW in Aramaic) to left, kLh (HLK in Aramaic) to right. Casabonne Series 4; Moysey Issue 2, 1-27; SNG BN 251; SNG Levante 72. Toned, some porosity, a little off center on obverse. Good VF. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 338 (09 May 2018), lot 414.

Kovacs Plate Coin 260.

ISLANDS off CILICIA, Elaioussa Sebaste. Antiochos IV of Commagene. AD 38-72. Æ Tetrachalkon (20mm, 5.73 g, 1h). Diademed and draped bust right / Male figure, nude but for drapery over arm, standing left on prow, holding aphlaston and scepter. Kovacs 280 (this coin illustrated); RPC I 3721; AC 212; SNG Levante 842. Dark green patina. Good VF. Extremely rare, only three cited by RPC, Kovacs estimates fewer than ten. ($500) Ex Classical Numismatic Group 46 (24 June 1998), lot 468; John J. Slocum Collection (Sotheby’s, 6 November 1997), lot 109; Auctiones AG 12 (29 September 1981), lot 159.

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KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes VII Philometor. Circa 107/6-101/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.62 g, 12h). In the name and types of Antiochos VII of Syria. Mint A (Eusebia-Mazaka). Struck circa 107/6-104/3 BC. Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left; : above & to outer left, o to inner left, ¬ to inner right; all within laurel wreath.

Lorber & Houghton Series 1, Issue 3, 107–20 (obv. die A5); SC 2148; HGC 7, 829; HGC 9, 1069 (Antiochos VII). Toned, with light golden hues, area of flat strike at edge. EF. Well centered. ($500) 262.

KINGS of CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes VII Philometor. Circa 107/6-101/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.35 g, 12h). In the name and types of Antiochos VII of Syria. Mint A (Eusebia-Mazaka). Struck circa 107/6-104/3 BC. Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left; : above & to outer left, o to inner left, ¬ to inner right; all within laurel wreath. Lorber & Houghton Series 1, Issue 3, 121-151 (obverse die A6); SC 2148; HGC 7, 829; HGC 9, 1069. Toned, with some light iridescence. EF. ($500) From the Grand Haven Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 244 (13 October 2014), lot 353.

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KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 15.55 g, 1h). Antioch mint.

Struck circa 80-68 BC. Diademed and draped bust right, wearing tiara decorated with star between two eagles / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding laurel branch; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; è to inner right, › on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 3, obv. die A34; Kovacs 71.2; M&D 29; CAA 20; AC 34. Lightly toned, some light porosity.

Good VF. ($1000)

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KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.96 g, 12h). Official imitation struck under Antiochos I of Commagene. Samosata mint(?). Struck circa 69-56 BC. Diademed and draped bust right, wearing tiara decorated with star between two eagles / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding laurel branch; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; p to inner right; all within wreath. SCADA Group 6, dies A48/P6, c (this coin); Kovacs 123; M&D 49; CAA 24–5 and 40–1; AC 35. Dark iridescent tone, area of weak strike, tiny flan flaw in field on obverse. VF. ($1000) From the Weise Collection, purchased from Dr. Arnold Saslow, 16 September 2000. Ex Schoonmaker Collection (Stack’s, 10 June 1997), lot 251; Giessener Münzhandlung 52 (6 November 1990), lot 369.

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CYPRUS, Salamis. Nikokreon. Circa 331-310 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.54 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Struck circa 323-317 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; rudder in left field. Zapiti & Michaelidou –; Price 3149; Newell, Some 11. In NGC encapsulation 4683029-001, graded AU, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 5/5. ($2000)

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CYPRUS, Uncertain. 5th century BC. AR Stater (21.5mm, 11.22 g, 8h). Nude male figure, bearded and with long hair, in kneeling-running stance left, holding object in both hands before his abdomen; unclear legend to right / Archer, wearing long chiton, kneeling left, drawing bow, in dotted square within incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references. Toned, test cut on obverse. VF. Extremely rare, possibly unique. ($3000) 70

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.14 g, 3h). Seleukeia on the Tigris I mint. Struck circa 300-296/5 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; @o in left field. SC 117.6a; ESM 24, dies A27/P83; HGC 9, 12i. Toned, die breaks on reverse. VF. ($500) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Vilmar Numismatics, 27 April 2016.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.01 g, 6h). Seleukeia on the Tigris II (or related) mint(?). Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / Athena, [brandishing spear overhead], shield on arm, in biga of elephants right; anchor above, no control marks. Unpublished, but from the same obverse die as CNG 72, lot 915 (also without controls, but with blundered legends). VF. Struck on a broad flan. Extremely rare. ($1500) From the MNL Collection. Ex CNG inventory 968344 (January 2014); Classical Numismatic Group 94 (18 September 2013), lot 721.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.79 g, 5h). Susa mint.

Struck circa 300-295 BC. Head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / Nike standing right, holding wreath that she places on trophy to right; À to lower left, d5 in lower middle field. SC 173.10; ESMS Tr.48 (A37/P– [unlisted rev. die]); Marest-Caffey Group 1.7, 106 var. (A18/P– [unlisted rev. die]); HGC 9, 20. Toned, a few scratches on obverse. VF. Extremely rare issue, only one noted by ESMS and MarestCaffey (in the ANS). ($2000) From the MNL Collection. Ex Shirley Hanberry Collection (Goldberg 96, 14 February 2017), lot 1763.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14.5mm, 1.99 g, 1h). Susa mint.

Struck circa 305/4-295 BC. Head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / Nike standing right, holding wreath that she places on trophy to right; ˙ to lower left, Åc in lower middle field. SC 175.3; ESMS S-32; Marest-Caffey Group 3.3, 260 (A4/P5); ESM 419; HGC 9, 49. Traces of find patina on reverse, countermark and light cleaning marks at edge of obverse. Good VF. Extremely rare, only seven examples recorded, one additional in CoinArchives. ($750) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs, 4 June 2013.

Exceptional Elephant Biga

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.16 g, 3h). Susa mint.

Struck circa 296/5–281 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Athena, brandishing spear overhead, shield on arm, in biga of elephants right; anchor above; to right, ı above bee. SC 177.6c; ESMS El.38 var. (unlisted dies); ESM 325A; HGC 9, 18c.

EF. Rare this nice. ($3000) From the MNL Collection. Ex CNG Inventory (August 2013).

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.10 g, 6h). Ekbatana mint.

Struck circa 295-281 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, ò above horizontal anchor above forepart of horse grazing left, sW below throne. SC 204.1c corr. (monogram); HGC 9, 12k. Toned, obverse slightly off center. VF. ($750) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Vilmar Numismatics, 11 October 2015. Ex Alexandre Carathéodory Pasha (1833-1906) Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 351, 20 May 2015), lot 357.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.25 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Ekbatana mint. Struck circa 311-300/295 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, horned horse head right and _ above forepart of horse grazing left; below throne, sun (or laurel wreath?) within linear square. Unpublished. Lightly toned, obverse a little off center. Good VF. ($1000) From the MNL Collection. Ex Triton XIV (4 January 2011), lot 357.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.59 g, 6h). Attic standard. Aï Khanoum mint. Struck circa 286 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Athena, brandishing spear overhead, shield on arm, in biga of horned elephants right; Seleukid anchor above. SC –; SMAK S1OA-3 (a–/p3 [unlisted obv. die]); HGC 9, –. Toned. VF. Very rare. ($500) From the MNL collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 400 (28 June 2017), lot 305.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.25 g, 6h). Attic standard.

Aï Khanoum mint. Struck circa 286/5-284 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Athena, holding spear and shield, in quadriga of elephants right; anchor and Ò above. SC 276.2; SMAK S1TA-10–13 var. (A6/P– [unlisted rev. die]); HGC 9, 18e. Toned, some granularity, slightly off center and roughness on reverse. VF. Very rare. ($1000)

Portrait of Fine Style

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.79 g, 11h). Smyrna mint.

Diademed head right / ∫Å%5¬EW% Å@t5ocoU, Apollo Delphios, nude, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand holding tip of bow set on ground to right, seated left on omphalos; to inner left, , above upright anchor. SC 310.2; WSM 1492 (same dies as illustration [Berlin]); HGC 9, 128a (same dies as illustration). Toned. EF. Fine style portrait in high relief. Rare, one of only three in CoinArchives. ($5000) From the MNL Collection. Ex Lanz 156 (2 June 2013), lot 224 (hammer €6500).

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 17.18 g, 9h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; Û to outer left, A to outer right. SC 379.3a; HGC 9, 128g. Toned, some marks, area of light porosity on obverse, minor die wear on reverse. Near EF. ($1500)

Extremely Rare ‘Horned Horse’ Tetradrachm

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.58 g, 6h). Aï Khanoum mint.

Diademed head with idealized features right / ∫Å%5¬EW% Å@t5ocoU, horned and bridled horse head right with horn-like forelock; d5 to right. SC Ad102 (this coin referenced); SMAK A1TH-10 (A4/P8 – this coin, illustrated); HGC 9, 132. Toned, minor roughness. Good VF. Extremely rare, the only published specimen with this control mark. ($7500) From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 99 (13 May 2015), lot 325; New York Sale IV (17 January 2002), lot 240.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 4.14 g, 5h). Aï Khanoum mint. Struck circa 280-271 BC. Diademed head right / Horned and bridled horse’s head right, with braided, flame-like forelock; ò to right of neck. SC 431.3; SMAK A1DH-41–4 var. (a21/p– [unlisted rev. die]); HGC 9, 136. Toned, rough surfaces. VF. ($300) From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 403 (9 August 2017), lot 250.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 BC. Æ (14mm, 2.30 g, 6h). Aï Khanoum mint. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike standing left, holding wreath. Beveled edge. SC 454; SMAK Type 9; HGC 9, 214. Dark green patina, light cleaning marks. VF. Rare. ($300) From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 388 (14 December 2016), lot 157.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.73 g, 1h). Lysimacheia mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; club in exergue. SC 482 var. (unlisted with this control mark, but obv. die linked to 482.4–6); Le Rider, Lysimachie, dies D2/R– (unlisted rev. die with club); HGC 9, 236a. Toned, edge marks and minor chips, struck with worn obverse die.

Good VF. Extremely rare, possibly unique. ($500) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Numismatik Naumann, February 2017.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.15 g, 12h). Skepsis mint.

Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; in exergue, pegasos left. SC 493 (same dies as illustration); HGC 9, 238f. Toned, some light scratches, roughness. VF. Rare. ($500) From the MNL Collection. Ex estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 375, 1 June 2016), lot 431; Cederlind 131 (6 July 2004), lot 92.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.07 g, 12h). Aigai (in Aeolis) mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; ô to outer left, ö to outer right; in exergue, head of goat right. SC 496.2 corr. (left field monogram); Houghton, Aegae 15–6 var. corr. (A5a/R– [unlisted rev. die, left field monogram]); HGC 9, 238g. Lightly toned, some minor marks. VF. Extremely rare, one of three known for this issue, and the only example where the left field monogram is completely clear. ($500) From the MNL Collection. Ex Spink America 325 (21 June 2016), lot 49; Freeman & Sear inventory G9683.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.06 g, 12h). Myrina mint.

Diademed head right / Herakles, holding club set on ground, seated left on rock draped with lion’s skin; amphora to outer left, ÷ to lower right. SC 500.1a; HGC 9, 241b. Toned. VF. Rare mint. ($1000) From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 276 (21 March 2012), lot 209.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 17.11 g, 12h). Magnesia on the Maeander mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; ~ in exergue. SC 540.3b (same obv. die as illustration); HGC 9, 237. Lightly toned, light marks. VF. Extremely rare, one of only seven published of this issue (WSM 1473 records 4 examples, and three others in CoinArchives). ($500) From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 352 (3 June 2015), lot 159.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos II Theos. 261-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.06 g, 12h). Bargyla mint(?).

Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; to outer left, statue of Artemis Kindyas facing; trace of control mark in exergue. SC 549 (same obv. die as illustration); Delrieux, Statue, I var. (D1/R– [unlisted rev. die]); HGC 9, 238l. Lightly toned. Near EF. Extremely rare, only two specimens recorded

by Delrieux (both in museum collections, Berlin and London), and only two others in CoinArchives. ($2000) Ex MNL Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 108, 16 May 2018), lot 304; Gemini XII (11 January 2015), lot 182; Classical Numismatic Group 61 (25 September 2002), lot 809.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.60 g, 12h). Teos mint(?).

Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; to inner left, dove flying left. SC 644 var. (control mark; obv. die used on examples of 644.1–2); HGC 9, 303j. Toned. Good VF. Apparently unique. ($2000) From the MNL Collection. Ex Roma VII (22 March 2014), lot 819.

Illustrated in SC

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.05 g, 12h). Teos or Ephesos mint(?). Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow, standing left, leaning on tripod to right; palm frond(?) to inner left. SC Ad137 (this coin, illustrated); HGC 9, 303j. Toned, minor double strike on reverse. Good VF. Apparently unique. ($2000) From the MNL Collection. Ex Lanz 151 (30 June 2011), lot 528; Lanz 146 (25 May 2009), lot 252; Lanz 138 (26 November 2007), lot 449; Numismatica Ars Classica N (26 June 2003), lot 1378.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.82 g, 12h). Smyrna mint(?). Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow, standing left, leaning on tripod to right; to outer left, , above P. SC 649.3 (this coin referenced); CSE 540 (this coin); HGC 9, 303d. Dark gray tone with slight iridescence, small chip at edge on reverse. Good VF. Rare. ($750) From the MNL Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear inventory KCR056 (January 2010); W.B. and R.E. Montgomery Collection; Arthur Houghton Collection; J. Schulman FPL 207 (October 1976), no. 36.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.75 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow, standing left, leaning on tripod to right; M to inner left, π to outer right. SC 689.1a; Le Rider, Antioche 1–11 var. (A1/P– [unlisted rev. die]); HGC 9, 303p. In NGC encapsulation 4282767-018, graded Ch AU, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. ($1500) Ex MNL Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 108, 16 May 2018), lot 309; John Jencek Inventory T1049 (June 2010).

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 4.19 g, 12h). Uncertain mint 39, in northern Syria or northern Mesopotamia. Diademed head right / ∫Å%5¬EW% %E-¬EU˚oU, Apollo Delphios, nude, standing left, testing arrow in his right hand, leaning on tripod with left elbow to right; ∞ to outer left, / to outer right (almost off flan). Peus 372, lot 539 (same dies), otherwise unpublished, but cf. SC 724.5; Le Rider, Antioche, p. 70, 10–11 for tetradrachms with the same left field control mark, and an obverse portrait engraved by the same hand as this piece. Toned, some minor marks. Good VF. Extremely rare, one of two known. ($500) From the MNL Collection. Ex Elsen FPL 269 (July/September 2014), no. 55; Elsen 110 (10 September 2011), lot 220; Elsen 105 (12 June 2010), lot 111; Elsen 93 (15 September 2007), lot 340; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 531 (1 April 1990), lot 10.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.59 g, 5h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow, standing left, leaning on tripod to right; _ to inner left, Ç to outer right. SC 764.1 corr. (inner left monogram); Miller Series II, Group 4, 39–41 (obv. die A10); HGC 9, 303jj. Toned, a few metal flaws. Good VF. ($750) From the MNL Collection. Ex Berk BBS 175 (7 July 2011), lot 160.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos Hierax. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.95 g, 12h). Arados or barbarous mint. Diademed head right, of “barbarous” style / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos adorned with geometric pattern between horizontal bands; i and eagle standing left in exergue.

SC 844b; Houghton, Lampsacus, Group A, dies A3/P– (unlisted rev. die); HGC 9, 405b. Toned, a few marks. Good VF. Very rare. ($750) From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 100 (7 October 2015), lot 1564.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos Hierax. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.76 g, 11h). Lysimacheia mint. Diademed head of Antiochos I right / ∫Å%5¬EW% Å@t5ocoU, Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; A and , in exergue. SC 857 var. (monograms, but same obv. die as illustration); CSE 675 var. (same; same obv. die); HGC 9, 399d. Toned, light scratches and scrapes under tone, light die rust on obverse. Good VF. Unpublished variety of a very rare issue. ($5000) From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 96 (14 May 2014), lot 540.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos Hierax. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.8mm, 16.69 g, 1h). Uncertain Mint 37, on the coast of eastern Cilicia. Struck circa 227 BC. Diademed and draped bust right, with slight beard / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and placing hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; 3 to outer right, ≤ in exergue. SC 914.1; Mørkholm, Some, dies A8/P– (unlisted rev. die); HGC 9, 404. Small area of weak strike. Good VF. Extremely rare. ($1000) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Ancient Delights, February 2011.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos III Soter (Keraunos). 225/4-222 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.59 g, 10h).

Uncertain Mint 44, probably in Mesopotamia or Commagene. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; 7 to outer left, 8 and wr to outer right. SC Ad197; HGC 9, 413.

Lightly toned, struck from worn obverse die. Near EF. Very rare. ($1000) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Pars Coins, May 2015.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos III Soter (Keraunos). 225/4-222 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.89 g, 11h).

Uncertain Mint 51, in northern Syria or Mesopotamia. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; to outer right, unclear monogram above amphora; ◊ to outer right. Unpublished, but likely from dies by the same engraver as published examples of SC 934/WSM 1182. Toned, . Good VF. ($1500) From the MNL Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 244 (13 October 2014), lot 342.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos IV Philopator. 187-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.95 g, 12h). Uncertain “Wreath” mint, probably Damaskos. Diademed head right; wreath to left / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; [ in exergue. SC 1329.2b; Mørkholm, Monnayage 7, dies A5b/R– (unlisted rev. die); HGC 9, 580g; CSE 906 (same obv. die). Toned, slight die wear. Near EF. Very rare. ($1500) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 28 January 2011.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos IV Philopator. 187-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.58 g, 1h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Struck circa 180-175 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; palm frond to outer left, J to inner left, 5Å in exergue. SC 1331a; Le Rider, Séleucos 85–98 (D1/ R3); HGC 9, 580h. Old collection tone. Near EF. Rare. ($2000) From the G.M.R.H. Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 72 (16 May 2013), lot 931. Purchased from Spink, May 1992.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos IV Philopator. 187-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.92 g, 1h). Ekbatana mint.

Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; Ω to outer left; to outer right, head of horse left. SC 1352; HGC 9, 580m. Toned. Good VF. High relief portrait. Very rare. ($750) From the MNL Collection. Ex Heritage 3021 (6 January 2013), lot 21266.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Drachm (18.5mm, 4.04 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Stuck circa 169 BC. Diademed head right / ∫Å%5¬EW% Å@t5ocoU QEoU E∏5fÅ@oU%, eagle standing right on thunderbolt. SC 1404; Le Rider, Antioche, Series II, 23 (A2/P16) = Mørkholm Series II, 9, dies A2/P7 = Hunterian 48; HGC 9, 627. Lightly toned, trace deposits, some scratches and scrapes, slightly off center on obverse. VF. Extremely rare, apparently the fourth known (the first was the Hunterian coin noted above, the second is the Seyrig coin that now is in the BM and is illustrated in SC and HGC, the third is in CoinArchives [Gemini IV, lot 217]). ($5000)

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 17.03 g, 1h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Struck circa 167-164 BC. Head right, wearing diadem terminating in stars; J to left / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; [palm frond to outer left], µ in exergue. SC 1476.1f; Mørkholm 9 (obv. die A6); HGC 9, 620c. Lightly toned, slightly off center, die wear and small flan flaws on obverse. VF. ($750)

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.75 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Undated issue, struck 162-155/4 BC. Diademed head right, with light beard, within laurel wreath / Tyche, holding scepter and cornucopia, seated left on throne supported by tritoness right; : to outer left. SC 1637c; SMA –; HGC 9, 796. Toned, slight die wear on obverse. Near EF. ($1500) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs, May 2011.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios I Soter. 162-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.74 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 158 (155/4 BC). Diademed head right within wreath / Tyche, holding scepter and cornucopia, seated left on throne supported by tritoness right; to outer left, √ above A; ˙@r (date) in exergue. SC 1641.3b; SMA 104; HGC 9, 798; DCA 109. Lightly toned. Near EF. Excellent portrait. ($500) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Brian Kritt, 13 January 2017.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 16.09 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 164 (149/8 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros enthroned left; î to inner left, d$r (date) and 8 in exergue. SC 1782.3d; SMA 145; HGC 9, 875a; DCA 118. Toned, a couple minor die breaks on obverse. EF. ($750) From the MNL Collection, purchased from D. F. Grotjohann, 23 April 2010.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Drachm (19.5mm, 4.14 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Undated issue, struck 147/6 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on bow, seated left on omphalos; Ú and % in exergue. SC 1785.13a; SMA –; HGC 9, 887a. Lightly toned, slight die wear. Near EF. ($500) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Pars Coins, 31 March 2014.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 13.51 g, 1h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Dated SE 166 (147/6 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow left; palm frond behind; to left, Ÿ above l?$r (date); ∏to to left. SC 1842.4-5 var. (date placement, monogram, and mintmark); cf. HGC 9, 884; DCA 120; CNG 90, lot 674 var. (date form; same obv. die). Toned, porous, a little off center. VF. Extremely rare variety missing from SC, none in CoinArchives. ($1000) 308.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.8mm, 16.41 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 150-145 BC. Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; fragments of erased monogram in exergue. SC 1858.2; HGC 9, 875f. Artificially toned, some light marks and scratches. Near EF. ($500) From the MNL Collection. Ex Heritage 231723 (8 June 2017), lot 62033.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.04 g, 1h).

Mopsos mint. Struck 145-circa 144 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; lit fire altar at feet to left, 5 below legend to left, unclear monogram below legend to right. SC 1898.1b (this coin referenced); HGC 9, 864. Attractively toned. EF. Extremely rare with this form of the monogram for this issue. ($1500) From the MNL Collection. Ex Jencek Historical Enterprise Inventory Y04028 (November 2012); W. K. Raymond Collection.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios II Nikator. First reign, 146-138 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.22 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 168 (145/4 BC). Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; star to outer left, ˜ to inner right, = between legs, ˙$r (date) in exergue. SC 1908.6a; SMA 214; HGC 9, 976d; DCA 156. Lightly toned, struck from worn dies. EF. ($300) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Pars Coins, 19 August 2016.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.76 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Dated SE 169 (144/3 BC). Radiate and diademed head right / The Dioskouroi on horseback riding left, holding couched lances; to right, trU, –, and %tÅ; Ozr (date) below; all within wreath of lily, ivy, and grain ears. SC 2000.2f; HGC 9, 1032.

Small die breaks. Near EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 35 (20 September 1995), lot 355.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.46 g, 1h). Apameia on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 168 (145/4 BC). Radiate and diademed head right / The Dioskouroi riding left, holding couched lances; thyrsos to left; trU to upper right, “ to lower right, ˙$r (date) below; all within wreath of laurel, ivy, and grain ears. SC 2009.2d; HGC 9, 1032 corr. (thyrsos not always present). Toned, with some blue iridescence on the reverse. VF. ($1000) Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 438 (20 February 2019), lot 213 (professionally conserved since, removing horn silver, thus slightly reducing the weight).

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.41 g, 1h). Apameia on the Axios (Orontes) mint. Dated SE 169 (144/3 BC). Radiate and diademed head right; star to left / The Dioskouroi riding left, holding couched lances; thyrsos to left; to right, trU above 5> and f; Q$r (date) below; all within wreath of laurel, ivy, and grain ears. SC 2010.4e; Houghton, Revolt, Group XV, 62 (A10/P29); HGC 9, 1032. Lightly toned, hairline flan crack, reverse a little off center. Near EF. Rare issue with star on obverse. ($1500) From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 84 (5 May 2010), lot 695.

The significance of the star on the obverse, which only appears on issues of Antioch and Apameia dated SE 169, is unknown.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.85 g, 12h). Askelon mint. Dated SE 171 (142/1 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; to left, dove standing left above `%; lÅor (date) to right, B between legs. SC 2026 var. (placement of monogram); HGC 9, 1034 var. (same); DCA 180. Rough find patina, crack at edge on reverse. VF. Apparently unique variety of an extremely rare issue. ($500) From the MNL Collection, purchased March 2015.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Tryphon. Circa 142-138 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 3.95 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint.

Diademed head right / Spiked Macedonian helmet with cheek guards, adorned with wild goat’s horn above visor; % to inner left.

SC 2033b; SMA 265a; HGC 9, 1060. Toned, hairline flan crack, minor pitting, die break on obverse. Good VF. ($500) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Pegasi Numismatics, August 2015.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes). 138-129 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.00 g, 12h). Tarsos mint, Royal Workshop. Diademed head right / Nike advancing left, holding wreath and palm frond; to outer left, ± above ä.

SC 2056.5 var. (lower monogram); HGC 9, 1080a. Deeply toned, minor flan flaw on obverse, minor die break and slightly off center on reverse. EF. ($300) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Pars Coins, October 2015.

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Rare Tetradrachm with Athena Magarsia Referenced in SC

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes). 138-129 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 15.92 g, 12h).

Mallos mint. Diademed head right;  to left / ∫Å%5¬EW% Å@t5ocoU EUEr˝EtoU, Cult statue of Athena Magarsia, wearing aegis, standing facing on basis; 7 below left legend, ‘ below right legend. SC 2059.1a (this coin referenced); Houghton, Mallus –; HGC 9, 1072. Toned, slightly off center on obverse. Good VF. Extremely rare with this monogram. ($3000) From the MNL Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 244 (13 October 2014), lot 351; Gorny & Mosch 159 (8 October 2007), lot 251; Gorny & Mosch 107 (2 April 2001), lot 264.

The Temple of Athena at Magarsos, near Mallos, was an important cult sanctuary in the Hellenistic period. The central statue of Athena Magarsia is known only from the handful of coins that have survived, which show a blending of Greek and eastern motifs. The town of Margasos is thought to have been founded in the Hittite era, and R. Lane Fox has recently analyzed the cult site in his book Travelling Heroes in the Epic Age of Homer (pp. 82ff). He believes that the site was established by Sennacherib, king of Assyria, in the aftermath of a naval victory at the mouth of the Pyramos river that flows through the town, who dedicated the shrine to the goddess Anat or Ishtar. The identification of the statue as Athena is thought to have been made by Alexander the Great, who made a sacrifice at the temple just prior to the Battle of Issos in 333 BC. From the collector: “Particularly noteworthy is the portrayal of Athena Magarsia’s cult image on the reverse. Oriental and Greek influences are intermingled in the cult image, which is hieratic with angled arms. In the conception of ancient Anatolian and Syrian models, only attributes and attire recall the Greek deity, while at the same time the stars to be seen on the side of the head indicate the origin of the cult, the local worship of the ancient fertility godliness of Astarte.”

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes). 138-129 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.79 g, 12h).

Tyre mint. Dated SE 181 (132/1 BC). Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left; to outer left, club surmounted

by Tyre monogram, flanked by 5Er and `%U; Å∏r (date) and { in exergue; all within laurel wreath. SC 2107.4a; HGC 9, 1067q; DCA 195. Toned with some iridescence, areas of flat strike, slightly off center on reverse. Good VF. ($300) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 727.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander II Zabinas. 128-122 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.62 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; % to outer left, @ on boss below throne. SC 2217.1; HGC 9, 1149d. Lightly toned, slightly off center on obverse, fine cleaning marks. Good VF. ($500) From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 321 (26 February 2014), lot 198.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Kleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII. 125-121 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.58 g, 12h).

Uncertain Mint 112, in Cilicia. Struck circa 122-121 BC. Jugate busts right of Kleopatra, wearing diadem, veil, and stephane, and Antiochos VIII, wearing diadem / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; to outer left, 5( above W. SC 2261b; HGC 9, 1182b.

Toned, slight die wear. VF. Very rare, only one other in CoinArchives. ($750) From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 105 (10 May 2017), lot 420.

Well Struck Kleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Kleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII. 125-121 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.67 g, 12h).

Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck circa 122-121 BC. Jugate busts right of Kleopatra, wearing diadem, veil, and stephane, and Antiochos VIII, wearing diadem / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; 5E to outer left, Å below throne. SC 2262.1d; HGC 9, 1182c. Attractively toned, tiny metal flaw on obverse. Good VF. Well struck. A wonderful coin in hand. ($1500) From the MNL Collection. Ex Waddell inventory 49711 (February 2012); Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio 163 (6 January 2012), lot 303.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.24 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Third reign at Antioch, circa 109-96 BC. Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left, pellet on breast; to outer left, monogram above A; Θ below throne; all within laurel wreath. SC 2309.1c; HGC 9, 1200. Deep old collection tone. Near EF. Well centered and attractive. ($500) From the Grand Haven Collection, purchased from Pegasi Numismatics. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts [XVII] (27 June 1986), lot 439.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.63 g, 12h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Struck circa 121/0-113 BC. Diademed head right / Zeus Ouranios standing left, holding star and scepter; D to outer left; all within wreath. SC 2336.2a; LSM 35; HGC 9, 1197h. Toned. EF. ($750) From the MNL Collection. Ex Elvira Elisa Clain-Stefanelli Collection [sold as the Demarete Collection] (Stack’s Bowers Galleries, 12 August 2015), lot 33052.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos). 121/0-97/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.39 g, 12h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Struck circa 121/0-113 BC. Diademed head right / Zeus Ouranios standing left, holding star and scepter; D to outer left; all within wreath. SC 2336.2a; LSM 35; HGC 9, 1197h. Lightly toned, short hairline flan crack. EF. ($500) From the MNL Collection. Ex Waddell inventory 48770 (November 2010).

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IX Eusebes Philopator (Kyzikenos). 114/3-95 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.31 g, 12h). EP mint, in Cilicia, west of Tarsos. Struck circa 114-113 BC. Diademed head right within fillet border / Athena Nikephoros standing left; to outer left, Er above Q; all within laurel wreath. SC 2347 var. (controls reversed); Houghton, Reigns, Series VI, Group 1 var. (same; obv. die A1); HGC 9, 1228b. Lightly toned, a hint of porosity on obverse. Near EF. Apparently unique variety. ($2000) From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 236 (7 July 2010), lot 202.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IX Eusebes Philopator (Kyzikenos). 114/3-95 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.00 g, 12h). Mopsos mint(?). Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left; to outer left, $ above `; tiny ˝ to inner right; all within wreath. SC 2358c; Houghton, Reigns, Series I, Group 2, obv. die A2; HGC 9, 1228i. Light scratches.

Near EF. ($750) From the MNL Collection. Ex Gemini IX (8 January 2012), lot 163.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IX Eusebes Philopator (Kyzikenos). 114/3-95 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.50 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. First reign at Antioch, circa 113-112 BC. Diademed head right / Athena Nikephoros standing left; to outer left, - above Å; tiny Å to inner right; all within wreath. SC 2363a; SMA 382; HGC 9, 1228i. Trace deposits. EF. ($1000) From the Grand Haven Collection, purchased from Pegasi Numismatics.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IX Eusebes Philopator (Kyzikenos). 114/3-95 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.21 g, 12h). Sidon mint. Dated SE 200 (113/2 BC). Diademed head right within fillet border / Athena Nikephoros standing left; to outer left, %5dW above 5Er above `%U above fi; s (date) in exergue; all within laurel wreath. SC 2384; HGC 9, 1228k; DCA 288. Toned, light roughness, minor metal flaws. Near EF. ($1000) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Perseus Ancient Coins, December 2011.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios III Eukairos. 97/6-88/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 15.83 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; to outer left, ¡ above Å; @ below throne. SC 2444a; HGC 9, 1304. Lightly toned. Good VF. Very rare. ($3000) From the MNL Collection, purchased November 2013.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Demetrios III Eukairos. 97/6-88/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.28 g, 12h). Damaskos mint. Dated SE 218 (95/4 BC). Diademed head right / Cult statue of Atargatis standing facing, arms extended, holding flower in left hand, barley stalk rising from each shoulder; @ above û to outer left, [HIε (date) and M in exergue]; all within wreath.

SC 2450.7; HHV 36–40 var. (A6/P– [unlisted rev. die]); LSM 119 (same obv. die as illustration); HGC 9, 1305. Dark toning, a little off center on reverse. EF. Exceptional detail on cult statue. ($2000) From the MNL Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 88 (14 September 2011), lot 493.

331.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos VI Epiphanes Nikator. Circa 96-94 BC. AR Drachm (16.5mm, 3.70 g, 1h).

Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck circa 95/4 BC. Diademed head right, with small horn above temple / Nike advancing left, holding wreath; to outer left, ` above -. SC 2418.2; HGC 9, 1275. Toned, slightly off center. Good VF. ($300) From the MNL Collection, purchased from Musa Numismatics, April 2016. Ex W. K. Raymond Collection.

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332.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Uncertain king. Circa 440-420 BC. AR Third Shekel – Tetrobol (13mm, 3.23 g, 1h). Ba’alArwad right, holding dolphin in each hand / Galley right; below, hippocamp right. E&E-A Group I.1.2; HGC 10, 39. Lightly toned, a little die wear, minor flan flaw on obverse. Good VF. ($300)

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PHOENICIA, Arados. Circa 172/1-111/0 BC. AR Drachm (18.5mm, 3.97 g, 12h). Dated CY 91 (169/8 BC). Bee; _ (date, in monogram form) to left, ∞E to right / Stag standing right; palm tree in background. Duyrat 2677 (obv. die D30); HGC 10, 63; DCA 774. Slightly off center, some die wear on obverse. Near EF. ($300)

334.

PHOENICIA, Byblos (Gebal). ‘Ozba’al. Circa 400-365 BC. AR Shekel (25mm, 13.19 g, 3h). Three hoplites, holding shields, on galley left above waves, prow ending in lion’s head; below, hippocamp left above murex shell, Zo (‘Z in Phoenician) above dorsal fin / Lion attacking bull left; lBG klM loBZo (‘ZB‘L MLK GBL = Ozbaal, king of Gebal in Phoenician) above. E&E-B Series IV.2.1.c, 501–4 (O14/R12); HGC 10, 133 corr. (letters on obv. not noted). Usual obverse die wear, minor die rust. EF. ($1500) From the James Barry Collection. Ex LJH Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 99, 13 May 2015), lot 351; Classical Numismatic Group 78 (14 May 2008), lot 913.

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PHOENICIA, Byblos (Gebal). ‘Ozba’al. Circa 400-365 BC. AR Sixteenth Shekel (11mm, 0.78 g, 6h). Two hoplites, holding shields, on galley left above waves, prow ending in lion’s head; below, hippocamp left, Zo (‘Z in Phoenician) above dorsal fin / Lion attacking bull left; lBG klM loBZo (‘ZB‘L MLK GBL = Ozbaal, king of Gebal in Phoenician) above.

E&E-B Series IV.2.2; HGC 10, 134 corr. (two hoplites and no murex shell on obv.). Lightly toned. Good VF. Exceptional for issue, with clear legends. ($200) 336.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Uncertain king. Circa 425-394 BC. AR Quarter Shekel (14mm, 3.43 g, 5h). Melkart, holding bow in extended left hand and reins in right, riding hippocamp right; below, waves above dolphin right / Owl standing right, head facing; crook and flail diagonally in background. E&E-T Group II.1.1.2; HGC 10, 324. Lightly toned, granular surfaces, flan crack, light scuff on reverse. VF. Well centered and struck. ($500) 89

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PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (28mm, 14.21 g, 12h). Dated CY 18 (109/8 BC). Laureate head of Melkart right, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, ˙5 (date) above club; # to right, b (Phoenician B) between legs. DCA Tyre 47; HGC 10, 357; DCA 921. Toned, slightly off center on reverse. Good VF. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 47 (16 September 1998), lot 601.

338.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (26.5mm, 14.28 g, 1h). Dated CY 24 (103/2 BC). Laureate head of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, d˚ (date) above club; Ê to right; b (Phoenician B) between legs. DCA-Tyre 74; HGC 10, 357; DCA 919. Toned, minor obverse die wear, small metal flaw at edge on obverse. Near EF. ($1000) Ex Parsy - Bisman (28 October 2017), lot 126.

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PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (23.5mm, 14.44 g, 1h). Dated CY 172 (AD 46/7). Laureate head of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, ro∫ (date) above club; to right, ˚r above E˘; b (Phoenician B) between legs. DCA-Tyre 645; RPC I 4672; HGC 10, 357; DCA 920.

Typical compact flan, minor deposits, slightly off center on obverse. Good VF. ($500) From the James Barry Collection, purchased from Jonathan Kern, March 2007.

340.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (21mm, 12.08 g, 12h). Contemporary imitation. Struck early-mid 1st century AD. Laureate bust of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; [to left, date above club]; to right, ˚r above illegible monogram(?); uncertain Phoenician letter between legs. For prototype, cf.

HGC 10, 358; cf. DCA 921. In NGC encapsulation 4241491-006, graded Ch VF. High quality imitation. ($500)

341.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Half Shekel (19mm, 6.25 g, 1h). Uncertain date (possibly 130).

Laureate head of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, [date (r¬?)] above club; unclear control mark to right; [Phoenician letter between legs]. Cf. HGC 10, 358; cf. DCA 921. Metal flaws, edge chips. VF. ($500)

342.

LEVANTINE REGION, Uncertain. 4th-3rd centuries BC. AR Obol (8.5mm, 0.53 g, 11h). Imitating Athens reverse. Facing gorgoneion / Owl standing right, head facing; olive spray to left; all within incuse square. Cf. CNG 82, lot 740; cf. CNG E-174, lot 73, otherwise, unpublished in the standard references. Lightly toned, slight roughness. EF. Excellent metal. Extremely rare. ($2000) 90

343.

JUDAEA, Achaemenid Province (Yehud). Anonymous. Circa 375-332 BCE. AR Half Gerah (7mm, 0.46 g, 3h).

Lily / Falcon flying upward, wings spread. Meshorer 15; Hendin 1060; HGC 10, 442 corr. (denomination); CNG 106, lot 497 (same dies). Toned, some porosity. VF. ($300) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 69 (8 June 2005), lot 640.

344.

JUDAEA, Jewish War. 66-70 CE. AR Shekel (22.5mm, 14.21 g, 1h). Jerusalem mint. Dated year 2 (67/8 CE).

Omer cup; @c (“Y[ear] 2” in Hebrew = date) above, L!Rc¥ LQc (“Shekel of Israel” in Hebrew) around / Sprig of three pomegranates; YcurQY 2¥Lcur¥ (“Jerusalem the holy” in Hebrew) around. Deutsch 15 (O3/R13); Meshorer 193; Kadman 8; Hendin 1358; Bromberg II 376; Shoshana I 20202–3; Sofaer 7–8; Spaer 167–8. Minor metal flaw on reverse. EF. Well centered and struck. Excellent metal. ($7500)

Deutsch Plate Coin

345.

JUDAEA, Jewish War. 66-70 CE. AR Shekel (24mm, 14.11 g, 11h). Jerusalem mint. Dated year 2 (67/8 CE).

Omer cup; @c (“Y[ear] 2” in Hebrew = date) above, L!Rc¥ LQc (“Shekel of Israel” in Hebrew) around / Sprig of three pomegranates; YcurQY 2¥Lcur¥ (“Jerusalem the holy” in Hebrew) around. Deutsch 60 (O5/R57 – this coin, illustrated); Meshorer 193; Kadman 8; Hendin 1358; Bromberg I 64 (same obv. die); Shoshana I 20202–3; Sofaer 7–8; Spaer 167–8. Toned with traces of find patina. Near EF. ($5000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 67 (22 September 2004), lot 919.

346.

JUDAEA, Jewish War. 66-70 CE. AR Shekel (22.5mm, 14.17 g, 11h). Jerusalem mint. Dated year 2 (67/8 CE).

Omer cup; @c (“Y[ear] 2” in Hebrew = date) above, L!Rc¥ LQc (“Shekel of Israel” in Hebrew) around / Sprig of three pomegranates; YcurQY 2¥Lcur¥ (“Jerusalem the holy” in Hebrew) around. Deutsch 196 (O14’/R186); Meshorer 193; Kadman 8; Hendin 1358; Bromberg II 376; Shoshana I 20202–3; Sofaer 7–8; Spaer 167–8. Lightly toned. EF. Well struck.

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JUDAEA, Jewish War. 66-70 CE. AR Shekel (22mm, 14.16 g, 11h). Jerusalem mint. Dated year 3 (68/9 CE). Omer cup; Gc (“Y[ear] 3” in Hebrew = date) above, L!Rc¥ LQc (“Shekel of Israel” in Hebrew) around / Sprig of three pomegranates; YcurQY 2¥Lcur¥ (“Jerusalem the holy” in Hebrew) around. Deutsch 25 (O3/R23); Meshorer 202; Kadman 20; Hendin 1361; Bromberg I 69; Shoshana I 20207–9; Sofaer 29; Spaer 174. EF. Well centered and struck. Excellent metal. ($10,000) From the Batory Collection. Ex “A Connoisseur’s Collection of Ancient Jewish Coins” (Goldberg 100, 5 September 2017), lot 2704 (hammer $16,500).

348.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.72 g, 1h). Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). Façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; showbread table within, star above, 3„o 2c (“Shim‘on” in Hebrew) around / Bundle of lulav; etrog to left, 2lc∑R ¥ ¡∑Rjl (“for the freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 62 (O14/R62); Meshorer 267; Hendin 1411. Good VF. Overstruck on a tetradrachm of Vespasian and Titus. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 64 (24 September 2003), lot 451.

349.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. Æ (25mm, 12.28 g, 6h). Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE).

Grape leaf on vine / Palm tree with two bunches of dates. Mildenberg 108 (O9/R72); Hendin 1437; SNG ANS 575 (same dies).

Dark green-brown surfaces, minor smoothing. Near EF. An exceptionally detailed and complete specimen. ($500) From the Batory Collection, purchased from Shick Coins, 2014.

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PHILISTIA (PALESTINE), Gaza (‘Azah). Mid 5th century-333 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21mm, 17.43 g, 9h).

Imitating Athens. Head of Athena right, with frontal eye, wearing earring, necklace with pendants, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing facing, wings folded; olive sprigs in upper corners, W o (‘AZ in Phoenician) across lower field; all within incuse square. Gitler & Tal V.5Ta = SNG ANS 1 = SNG Berry 701 = Van Alfen, Two, p. 65, 9 = Mildenberg, Gaza, pl. 4, 1 (same dies); HGC 10, 532 (same dies as illustration); BMC Palestine pl. 42, 1 = Mildenberg, Money, pl. 1, 5 (same obv. die); Boston MFA 2203 = ACGC 207 = Svoronos, Monnaies pl. 110, 49 (same obv. die); Heritage 3075, lot 32034 (same dies); Künker 280, lot 264 (same dies); NAC 64, lot 1528 (same dies); Triton XXII, lot 388 (same obv. die). Slight die wear, minor marks, slight weakness at center of reverse. VF. Extremely rare. Apparently the eighth known, with only five examples recorded, three of which are in museum collections (ANS, Boston, and Berlin [the latter illustrated in Mildenberg, Money, and BMC]). ($10,000)

Exceptional Gaza Obol

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PHILISTIA (PALESTINE), Gaza (‘Azah). Mid 5th century-333 BC. AR Obol (9.5mm, 0.66 g, 12h). Bearded male head right / Forepart of horse right; Zo (‘a in Phoenician) to upper left; all in dotted square within incuse square. Gitler & Tal VI.5O; HGC 10, 563. Toned, minor die break on reverse. Good VF. Very rare and exceptional for issue; finer than the two illustrated by Gitler & Tal. ($2000)

352.

PHILISTIA (PALESTINE), Uncertain mint. Mid 5th century-333 BC. AR Drachm (12mm, 3.31 g, 3h). Bearded head left / Paradise flower/Phoenician palmette in dotted square within incuse square. Gitler & Tal XVII.1D; HGC 10, 604.

Toned, typical roughness. VF. Very rare, particularly without test cut. ($750)

353.

NABATAEA. Malichos I. 60-30 BC. Æ (16mm, 2.99 g, 12h). Petra mint. Dated RY 28 (33/2 BC). Diademed head right / Palm of hand; “28” (date, in Aramaic) across central field. Meshorer, Nabataea 19; HGC 10, 685; DCA 966. Earthen dark green patina, cleaning scratches. VF. ($750)

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NABATAEA. Aretas IV, with Shuqailat. 9 BC-AD 40. AR Drachm (15.5mm, 4.26 g, 12h). Petra mint. Dated RY 2 (8/7 BC). Laureate head of Aretas right / Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqailat left; “Year 2” (date, in Aramaic) at end of legend to left. Unpublished. Deeply toned, light earthen deposits, slightly off center. VF. Apparently unique. ($1000) The engraver of the obverse appears to have misjudged his placement of the legend, as the final letter of the last word, “Nabataeans,” could not fit behind the neck of Aretas. Instead, the final letter had to be placed before the first letter of Aretas’s name below his chin, where it appears that the engraver had left ample room.

355.

ARABIA, Northwestern. Lihyan. 2nd–1st centuries BC. Æ Tetradrachm (21mm, 13.42 g, 9h). Imitating Athens.

Schematic head right, two upward crescents on cheek / Schematic owl standing right, head facing; olive spray to left. Huth, Athenian, fig. 5, d; Huth 40 var. (single crescent on cheek). Brown patina with an earthen dusting. VF. ($500)

356.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Darios I. Circa 520-505 BC. AR Siglos (14mm, 5.30 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Half-length bust of Persian king or hero right, wearing kidaris and kandys, holding bow in left hand, arrows in right / Incuse punch. Carradice Type I (pl. XI, 10); Meadows, Administration 318; BMC Arabia pl. XXVII, 25; Sunrise 17. Toned, typical granularity. VF. Well centered and struck. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection.

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PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Xerxes I to Darios II. Circa 485-420 BC. AV Daric (14.5mm, 8.31 g). LydoMilesian standard. Sardes mint. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear and bow / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb, Group A/B (pl. XIII, 27); Meadows, Administration 321; BMC Arabia pl. XXIV, 26; Sunrise 24. Lustrous. Good VF. Well centered. ($1500) 358.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Xerxes I to Darios II. Circa 485-420 BC. AV Daric (14.5mm, 8.30 g). LydoMilesian standard. Sardes mint. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear and bow / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb, Group A/B (pl. XIII, 27); Meadows, Administration 321; BMC Arabia pl. XXIV, 26; Sunrise 24. Lustrous. Good VF. Well centered. ($1500) 94

359.

PERSIA, Alexandrine Empire. temp. Stamenes – Seleukos. Satraps of Babylon, circa 328/3-311 BC. AR Stater (23.5mm, 16.03 g, 2h). Babylon mint. Baal seated left, holding scepter propped on knee / Lion advancing left; Γ above. NicoletPierre 7. Attractive iridescent cabinet tone, a couple faint scratches under tone in field on obverse. Good VF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 162 (27 March 2003), lot 56.

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360.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.80 g, 11h). Attic standard. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 323/2317/1 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, ram’s head right wearing crown of Isis (Khnum), Ô below throne. Svoronos 6; Zervos Issue 3, dies 221/g; Price 3964b (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 9. Toned, slightly off center, some porosity and scattered marks. VF. Rare. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 41 (19 March 1997), lot 1050.

361.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC or king, 305/4-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.59 g, 12h). Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 306-300 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin, aegis around neck with tiny d in scales / Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear in right hand and wearing shield on extended left arm; to right, helmet, (, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. CPE 69; Svoronos 162; Zervos Issue 28, dies 511/d (rev. die unlisted in corpus, present in later photofile); SNG Copenhagen 29. Toned, minor graffiti on the reverse. Good VF. ($1000) From the James Barry Collection. Ex Volteia Collection (CNG inventory 421953, October 2016).

362.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC or king, 305/4-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.34 g, 1h). First reduced Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Uncertain mint in Egypt (Pelusium?). Struck circa 306-305 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin, aegis around neck with [tiny d in scales] / Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear in right hand and wearing shield on extended left arm; to right, À above eagle standing right on thunderbolt. CPE 77; Svoronos 107; Zervos Issue 55, dies 597/a; SNG Copenhagen –. In NGC encapsulation 4625082-010, graded Ch XF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5, graffiti. ($1000)

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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305/4-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.19 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 294-282 BC. Diademed head right, wearing aegis around neck; tiny d behind ear / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; to left, r above s. CPE 132; Svoronos 252; SNG Copenhagen 69. Attractive cabinet tone. EF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CII.8 (October 1994), no. 6283.

364.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305/4-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.19 g, 12h).

Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 294-282 BC. Diademed head right, wearing aegis around neck; tiny d behind ear / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; to left, r above ‹. CPE 170; Svoronos 254; SNG Copenhagen 74. Toned, light marks and scratches, graffito in field on reverse. Good VF. ($1000) From the Bellwether Collection, purchased from Aegean Numismatics, September 2006.

365.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Berenike II, wife of Ptolemy III. Circa 244/3-221 BC. Æ Trihemiobol (25mm, 16.69 g, 12h). Herakleia ad Mare or Seleukeia in Pieria mint. Diademed and draped bust right / Cornucopia bound with diadem. CPE B452; Svoronos 1050; SNG Copenhagen 517. Green-brown patina with patches of light green and red, a few minor cleaning marks. Good VF. Very rare and exceptional for issue. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Gomez Family Collection (Kovacs XVI, 29 September 2004), lot 169.

366.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 204-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.87 g, 12h).

Sidon mint. Struck circa 202-200 BC. Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; %5 between legs.

Svoronos 1294; Carlen & Lorber dies A18/P4, 6 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen –. Dark find patina, light cleaning scratches.

Near EF. Rare. ($1000) From the James Barry Collection, purchased from Jencek Historical Enterprise, August 2012. Ex Freeman & Sear 13 (25 August 2006), lot 762; Bonham’s 6 (13 September 1981), lot 229.

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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. Second sole reign, 163-145 BC. Æ (29mm, 15.58 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Series 7B. Head of Isis right, wearing wreath of grain ears, and her hair in long curls / Eagle with open wings standing left on thunderbolt; * to left. Svoronos 1384 (Ptolemy VI and Kleopatra I as Regent); Lorber & Faucher Series 7B; SNG Copenhagen 279-87 (Ptolemy VI and Kleopatra I as Regent). Earthen dark green-brown patina, flan crack.

Near EF. ($300) 368.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Kleopatra III & Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros). 117/6-108/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.77 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Dated RY 8 (AD 110/09 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; l˙ (date) to left, ∏Å to right. Svoronos 1669; Olivier 5527–9 (obv. die D352); SNG Copenhagen 352; DCA 60. Iridescent cabinet tone. Good VF. ($300) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 41 (19 March 1997), lot 1086; Numismatic Fine Arts VII (6 December 1979), lot 352.

369.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Kleopatra VII Thea Neotera. 51-30 BC. Æ Diobol – 80 Drachmai (25.5mm, 17.62 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left, ∏ (mark of value) to right. Svoronos 1871; SNG Copenhagen 419–21. Earthen dark green patina, some metal flaws, numerous scratches on reverse. Near VF. ($1500)

370.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Kleopatra VII Thea Neotera. 51-30 BC. Æ Obol – 40 Drachmai (20.5mm, 8.16 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left, Â (mark of value) to right. Svoronos 1872; SNG Copenhagen 422–4. Brown surfaces. Near VF. ($1000) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Gregory Conlin Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 185, 2 April 2008), lot 142 (hammer $1801).

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KYRENAICA, Kyrene. temp. Ophellas. Ptolemaic governor, second reign, 312-308 BC. AR Didrachm (20mm, 8.28 g, 3h). [...]lian, magistrate. Head of Zeus Karneios left; [...]¬5Å@ to right / Silphion plant. Mørkholm, Cyrene –; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 171 = Bunbury 734 (same obv. die). Toned, slightly off center. Near VF. Very rare. ($1500) 97

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KYRENAICA, Kyrene. temp. Magas. As Ptolemaic governor, first reign, circa 300-282/75 BC. AR Didrachm (21mm, 7.60 g, 6h). Head of Zeus Karneios left / Silphion plant; ä to upper left. SNG Copenhagen 1240; BMC 249. Toned, area of minor roughness on reverse. Good VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex CNG inventory 752232 (January 2005).

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KYRENAICA, Kyrene. temp. Magas. As Ptolemaic governor, first reign, circa 300-282/75 BC. AR Didrachm (20.5mm, 7.67 g, 12h). Head of Zeus Karneios right / Silphion plant; 0 to upper left, crab to upper right. Cf. SNG Copenhagen 1243; BMC 255 (same dies). Lightly toned, a few minor scratches, minor double strike and a little die wear on obverse. VF. ($1000) From the James Barry Collection, purchased from Harlan Berk, July 2005.

CELTIC COINAGE

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EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Philip II of Macedon. Circa 3rd-2nd centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.13 g, 4h). Zigzag Group (Zickzackgruppe). Mint in the middle Danube region (Hungary). Stylized laureate head of Zeus left / Stylized rider, devolved to curved lines, on horseback left; zigzag line (in form of a series of Λs) above, ornaments around. OTA 460; Flesche 568; KMW 1386. Lightly toned, spots of green encrustation. Good VF. ($2000) Ex Hirsch 336 (7 February 2018), lot 2009.

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GAUL, Southern. Cadurci. Circa 200-118 BC. AR Pentobol (16mm, 3.59 g, 1h). Head left; two dolphins to left / Cross; solid lozenge in 1st, 2nd, and 4th quarters, ax in 3rd. Depeyrot, NC II, 98; CCCBM II S110–1; LT 3104. Attractive deep tone. EF. ($300) Ex Elsen 51 (13 September 1997), lot 3.

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GAUL, Northwest. Carnutes. Circa 50-30 BC. Potin (18mm, 2.82 g, 9h). Stylized head left, with flowing hair / Highly stylized horse consisting of three crosses with curved lines between and above; all on hashed ground line; trefoil of pellets above. Depeyrot, NC V, 117; D&T 2508; LT –; Muret & Chabouillet 7937–8. Earthen dark brown patina. EF. ($300) Ex Classical Numismatic Group 49 (17 March 1999), lot 11.

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GAUL, Northeast. Ambiani. Late 3rd century BC. AV Stater (22mm, 7.32 g, 10h). Stylized bust of Apollo left, wearing broad wreath and drapery with linear designs / Stylized and devolved Nike driving quadriga left; pellets and ornaments in fields, rosette-like device below. Depeyrot, NC VI, 129; D&T 65; Sills Gallo-Belgic Ab, Class 6, dies 37r/46; Van Arsdell 12-1; ABC 4; SCBC 2. Scrapes and scratches. Fine. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 43 (11 October 2005), lot 2235 (hammer £480).

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GAUL, Northeast. Ambiani. 2nd century BC. AV Stater (18mm, 6.49 g, 11h). Stylized and devolved bust of Apollo right, wearing broad wreath and drapery with linear designs / Stylized and devolved Nike driving quadriga right; pellets and ornaments in fields. Depeyrot NC VI, 137; D&T 158; Sills Gallo-Belgic Ca, Class 4; Van Arsdell 44-1; ABC 13; SCBC 5. CCI 05.0084 (this coin). VF. Better obverse than usual for this crude issue. ($400) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Rudd FPL 80 (March 2005), no. 13.

379.

GAUL, Northeast. Ambiani. Circa 100-50 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 6.16 g). Gallic War issue, class 4. Plain bulge / Large disjointed horse right; above, pellets and ornament; below crescent above pellet; lozenge ornaments to left [and right]; radiate disc to right; in exergue, grained ground line with horizontal S-pattern below. J. Sills, “Identifying Gallic War uniface staters” in Chris Rudd List 83 (September 2005), fig. 4a = CCI 04.0394 (this coin); Depeyrot NC VI, 161; D&T 241; cf. Van Arsdell 56-1; ABC 16; SCBC 11. Much original luster. EF. ($1000) Ex CNG inventory 956284 (August 2013). Found in Braughing, East Hertfordshire, 2003.

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380.

GAUL, Northeast. Nervii. Circa 100-50 BC. Base AV Stater (16mm, 5.63 g, 11h). Degraded bust right; uirO[Í] to left / Horse leaping left; uirOÍ above, crescent and ornament below. Depeyrot, NC VII, 3; D&T 623; LT 8766. Toned, minor metal flaws, a few light scratches. VF. ($1000) Ex Elsen 52 (13 December 1997), lot 1172.

381.

GAUL, Northeast. Suessiones. Circa 50-30 BC. Potin Unit (20mm, 4.93 g, 12h). Stylized head right, with annuletstyle hair, wearing torc; zigzag line before / Horse left; pellet-in-annulet above, cross below. Depeyrot, NC VI, 120; D&T 216; LT 7870. Brown patina. EF. Rare and attractive for issue. ($300) Ex Potin Collection (Nomos Obolos 6, 20 November 2016), lot 17.

382.

GAUL, Northeast. Suessiones. Circa 50-30 BC. Potin Unit (21mm, 4.82 g). Spiral ornament; pellets in angles / Celticized horse advancing left; pellet-in-crescents above and to right, pellet cross below. Depeyrot, NC VI, 122; D&T 214; LT 7873. Dark green patina. Near EF. ($300) Ex Classical Numismatic Group 49 (17 March 1999), lot 26.

ORIENTAL GREEK COINAGE

383.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos I (Arsakes II). 211-185 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 4.28 g, 12h). RhagaiArsakeia(?) mint. 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, 12-13 (same obv. die); cf. Sunrise 243 (for type); Shore 4. Darkly toned with traces of iridescence. Near EF. ($400) From the Richard Schweers Collection. Ex Scotsman Midwest Winter Sale (9 February 2007), lot 1252; purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, iii, 8 October 1968.

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384 385 384.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates I. 165-132 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.25 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated 173 SE (140/39 BC). Diademed bust right / Young Herakles standing left, holding skyphos and club; n to outer left; ˝or (date) in exergue. Sellwood 13.3; Sunrise 261; Shore 36. Toned, trace of smoothing on obverse, some weakness on reverse. VF. Very rare. ($1000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Peus 371 (25 April 2002), lot 244; Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 737.

385.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates II. 132-127 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.14 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 129 BC. Diademed bust right / Male deity seated left, holding Nike, who crowns him with wreath, in extended right hand, cradling cornucopia in left arm; p to outer left, o in exergue. Sellwood 17.1 var. (placement of monograms); Sunrise 267; Shore –. Light iridescence, minor porosity, cleaning scratches. Good VF. Very rare. ($750) From the Weise Collection. Ex Triton V (15 January 2002), lot 1562.

386 387 386.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos II. 127-126 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.18 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Diademed head right / Demeter seated left, holding cornucopia and Nike, who crowns her with wreath; winged tritoness supporting throne. Sellwood 18.1 (Bagasis); Sunrise 273; Shore –. Light iridescence, areas of minor roughness. VF. ($750) From the Weise Collection. Ex Triton V (15 January 2002), lot 1573.

387.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Artabanos III. 126-122 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.78 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Dated 188 SE (125 BC). Diademed bust right / Demeter seated left, holding cornucopia and Nike, who crowns her with wreath; winged tritoness supporting throne; \ to outer left; œ to inner left; ˙∏r (date) in exergue. Sellwood 21.2; Sunrise –; Shore –. Toned, minor metal flaws, cleaning marks on obverse, trace of double strike on reverse . Good VF. ($750) From the Weise Collection. Ex Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 503; Gorny & Mosch 104 (9 October 2000), lot 484.

388.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Mithradates II. 121-91 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 15.87 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 120/19-109 BC. Diademed bust left / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on omphalos, holding bow; t¨ in exergue. Sellwood 24.4 var. (additional palm); Sunrise 284 var. (same); Shore 67 var. (same). Iridescent toning, deposits, cleaning marks. Good VF. ($500) From the James Barry Collection, purchased from Lodge Antiquities, April 2010.

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389.

KINGS of PARTHIA. Phraates III. Circa 70/69-58/7 BC. AR Drachm (21mm, 4.07 g, 12h). Mithradatkart mint.

Struck circa 62 BC. Diademed facing bust, wearing necklace with medallion / Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow; % below bow; [œ]5o∏Åt*ro% (sic) in legend. Sellwood 35.5. (Darius?) var. (ΘEOΠATOPOΣ) Sunrise –; Shore 166 var. (same). Lightly toned, minor granularity. Good VF. ($750) From the Grand Haven Collection, purchased from Pars Coins.

A Unique Variety

390.

KINGS of CHARACENE. Hyspaosines. Circa 129/8-124 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.22 g, 12h). CharaxSpasinu mint. Dated SE 184 (129/8 BC). Diademed head right / Herakles seated left on rock, holding club on knee; 6 to lower right; d∏r (date) in exergue. Assar fig. 13 var. (placement of monogram); Alram –; De Morgan –; BMC –; Sunrise –: DCA 479; CNG E-452, lot 566 var. (placement of monogram). Traces of iridescence, cleaning marks, areas of porosity and die wear.

VF. A unique variety with the monogram to the lower right. Only this coin in CoinArchives. ($1500) From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 55 (13 September 2000), lot 782.

van’t Haaff Plate Coin

391.

KINGS of ELYMAIS. Kamnaskires III, with Anzaze. Circa 82/1-73/2 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.13 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Hedyphon mint. Dated SE 233 (80/79 BC). Conjoined draped busts left of Kamnaskires III, diademed, and Anzaze, wearing stephane and necklace; anchor symbol to right / Zeus-Belos enthroned left, holding Nike, standing right and holding palm fronds, in outstretched right hand and scepter in left; 4G˚Ed@ to inner left to inner left; ˝G[%] (date) in exergue. van’t Haaff Type 7.1.1-4a (this coin illustrated); cf. Alram 454; DCA 518. Lightly toned, deposits, some cleaning/ tooling marks. Good VF. Very rare. ($750) From the Weise Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 147 (7 March 2006), lot 1550; Gorny & Mosch 138 (7 March 2005), lot 157.

392.

KINGS of ELYMAIS. Kamnaskires V. Circa 54/3-33/2 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.48 g, 12h). Seleukeia on the Hedyphon mint. Dated SE [2]66 (47/6 BC). Diademed and draped bust left; to right, star above anchor symbol / Diademed and draped bust left; [%]$? (date) in exergue. van’t Haaff Type 9.1.1-3; Alram 463; Sunrise 479. Hint of porosity, minor weakness of strike at periphery. EF. ($500) 102

393.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Euthydemos I Theos Megas. Circa 225-200/195 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.29 g, 12h). Mint A (near Aï Khanoum). Struck circa 225-220/215 BC. Diademed middle-aged head right / Herakles seated left on rock, holding club set on rocks; d below rock. Kritt A9; Bopearachchi 5; HGC 12, –. Light iridescent toning.

Good VF. An exceptional portrait. ($1500)

394.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34.5mm, 16.86 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin / Herakles standing facing, crowning himself, holding club and lion skin; } to inner left. Bopearachchi 1D; HGC 12, 63. Lightly toned, a few light scratches, short scrape and flan flaw on obverse. Good VF. Fine style dies. ($1500)

395.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.84 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin / Herakles standing facing, crowning himself, holding club and lion skin; D to inner left. Bopearachchi 1F; HGC 12, 63. Light iridescent toning, a few minor scratches, hint of deposits. Good VF. ($1500)

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396.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (36mm, 17.01 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin / Herakles standing facing, crowning himself, holding club and lion skin; D to inner left. Bopearachchi 1F; HGC 12, 63. Lightly toned, trace of deposit, scratch and minor double strike on obverse. Good VF. ($1500) From the Weise Collection, purchased from Sidney Mygind, 4 December 1999.

397.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. Æ Trichalkon (29mm, 12.31 g, 12h). Head of elephant right, bell around neck / Kerykeion (caduceus); D to inner left. Bopearachchi 5E; HGC 12, 67. Brown patina, hard green deposits. Near EF. ($500) From the Martinez Collection of Greek Bronze Coins. Ex Cayon (11 December 2006), lot 9.

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Extremely Rare Pantaleon

398.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Pantaleon Soter. Circa 185-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.88 g, 11h). Diademed and draped bust right / ∫å%5GE∑% to right, ∏Å@tŬEo@to% to left, Zeus enthroned left, holding in right hand statue of Hekate, who holds torch in each hand, and scepter; D to inner left. Bopearachchi 1A = MIG Type 157a = HGC 12, 100 (same dies as illustration); Bopearachchi & Rahman 168 (same obv. die); SNG ANS –; Zeno –; NAC 77, lot 107 (same dies). In NGC encapsulation 5768164-002, graded Ch AU★, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5, Fine Style. With an attractive, highrelief portrait. Extremely rare and among the finest known. ($50,000) Known only from his coins, the identity of this Greco-Bactrian king has long been a subject of debate. Some nineteenth century scholars, who were working with a more limited selection of coins, believed that Pantaleon, along with Agathokles, was a son of Diodotos I. But as more numismatic evidence came to light it was clear that kings such as Agathokles, Antimachos, and Pantaleon could not be part of the Diodotids who ruled in the early period of Bactrian independence from the Seleucids.The coinages of Pantaleon and Agathokles are similar in many respects, leading some authorities to suspect that they were relatives. The portrait on this tetradrachm, for example, is closely linked to those of Agathokles, suggesting there was an effort to demonstrate unity or solidarity. Pantaleon’s well-modeled image is somewhat older and heavier than that of Agathocles, and has a less pronounced chin.A further indication that Pantaleon and Agathokles were closely associated is the fact that Agatholes struck pedigree tetradrachms for Pantaleon (as saviour). This would suggest that Pantaleon was either a predecessor or a contemporary who died before Agathokles, whose coinage demonstrates that his reign was significantly longer than that of Pantaleon.

The five examples of this issue are known from one obverse and three reverse dies: 1. A/a a. London, British Museum, inv. 1888,1208.108 [Bopearachchi 1A (illustration); MIG Type 157a; HGC 12, 100] b. NAC 77, lot 107 c. CNG 115, lot 390 (the present example) 2. A/b

a. Triton I, lot 594

3. A/c

a. Bopearachchi & Rahman 168

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399 400 399.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Agathokles Dikaios. Circa 185-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.77 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Zeus standing facing, holding figure of Hekate and scepter; Hekate holds torch in each hand; } to inner left. Bopearachchi 1C; HGC 12, 81. Lightly toned, minor porosity, scratches on reverse. VF. ($1500) From the Weise Collection. Ex Triton III (30 November 1999), lot 691.

400.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Agathokles Dikaios. Circa 185-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.77 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Zeus standing facing, holding figure of Hekate and scepter; Hekate holds torch in each hand; D to inner left. Bopearachchi 1D; HGC 12, 81. Toned, minor die break and small patch of roughness on obverse, slight double strike on reverse. VF. ($1500)

402 401 401.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.96 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / The Dioskouroi, holding palm fronds and spears, on horses rearing right; } to inner right. Bopearachchi 1B; HGC 12, 130. Attractive find patina, slightly wavy flan, light marks, minor divot under patina. Near EF. ($750) From the Summer Haven Collection, purchased from Palladium Numismatics.

402.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.86 g, 12h). Helmeted, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / The Dioskouroi, holding palm fronds and spears, on horses rearing right; Í in lower right field. Bopearachchi 6E; HGC 12, 131. Iridescent toning, minor porosity on reverse. EF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 35 (20 September 1995), lot 442.

403.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.81 g, 12h). Helmeted, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / The Dioskouroi, holding palm fronds and spears, on horses rearing right; é in lower right field. Bopearachchi 6W; HGC 12, 131. Light iridescent toning, some marks and scratches. Near EF. Struck on a broad flan. ($1000) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Kirk Davis, 2 June 2011.

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404.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.98 g, 12h). Helmeted, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / The Dioskouroi, holding palm fronds and spears, on horses rearing right; é in lower right field. Bopearachchi 6W; HGC 12, 131. Lightly toned, traces of underlying luster, minor porosity. EF. ($1000)

Dynastic Pedigree Issue

405.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.89 g, 12h). ∫å%5GEU% ÂE˝Å% around, EUkrÅt5d˙% in exergue, bust of Eukratides right, wearing helmet adorned with bull’s horn and ear; all within bead-and-reel border / ˙G5okGEoU% above, kÅ5 GÅod5k˙% in exergue, conjoined draped busts of Heliokles and Laodike, wearing tainia, right; D to left; all within bead-and-reel border. Bopearachchi 13A; HGC 12, 133.

Lightly toned, minor marks, metal flaw on reverse. VF. ($3000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 871.

406 407 406.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Heliokles Dikaios. Circa 145-130 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 10.39 g, 12h). Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, wearing crested helmet covered with pelt of scales and adorned with head of Gorgon and wing; all within bead-and-reel border / Zeus Nikepohoros enthroned left; ; to inner left. Bopearachchi 3A; HGC 12, 170. Areas of find patina, light porosity, reverse slightly off center. Good VF. ($2000) From the Weise Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs, 8 December 2000.

407.

BAKTRIA, Indo-Greek Kingdom. Menander I Soter. Circa 155-130 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 9.58 g, 12h).

Helmeted, diademed, and draped bust right / Athena Alkidemos advancing left; % and ™ flanking. Bopearachchi 15B; HGC 12, 182. Attractively toned, tiny die break on obverse, a few minor scratches. Good VF. Possibly overstruck on uncertain undertype. ($750) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Heritage 3046 (14 April 2016), lot 29166.

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408.

BAKTRIA, Indo-Greek Kingdom. Menander I Soter. Circa 155-130 BC. Æ Sixteen Unit (31x35mm, 42.71 g, 12h). Helmeted and draped bust of Athena right / Horse rearing right; ª below. Bopearachchi Série 24 (monogram unlisted); Bopearachchi & Rahman – SNG ANS –; MIG –; Zeno –; cf. HGC 14, 199 (for type). Dark brown patina, some green and red, die rust, slight double strike on reverse. VF. Apparently unique variety with this monogram, none in CoinArchives. ($750)

409

410

409.

BAKTRIA, Indo-Greek Kingdom. Diomedes Soter. Circa 115-105 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 9.57 g, 12h).

Diademed and draped bust right / The Dioskouroi, holding palm fronds and spears, on horses rearing right; á to lower right. Bopearachchi 3A; HGC 12, 279. Lightly toned, minor scratches and deposits, areas of roughness at reverse edge.

VF. Rare. ($1000) From the Weise Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs, 8 December 2000. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 45 (18 March 1998), lot 782.

410.

BAKTRIA, Indo-Greek Kingdom. Hermaios Soter, with Kalliope. Circa 105 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 9.66 g, 11h). Conjoined draped busts right of Hermaios, diademed, and Kalliope, wearing stephane / Hermaios on horse rearing right, bow in bow case and spear attached to saddle; G to lower right . Bopearachchi 1C; HGC 12, 287. Lightly toned, areas of porosity, a few minor scratches. Near EF. ($1500)

411 412 411.

BAKTRIA, Indo-Greek Kingdom. Strato I. Circa 105-85/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 9. 68 g, 12h). Helmeted, diademed, and draped bust right / Athena Alkidemos standing right, brandishing thunderbolt and shield decorated with aegis; G to lower left. Bopearachchi 28A; HGC 12, 335. Lightly toned, rough in areas, cleaning scratches. Good VF. ($1000) 412.

BAKTRIA, Indo-Greek Kingdom. Artemidoros Aniketos. Circa 100-80 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 8.70 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Artemis standing left, drawing bow; § to left. Bopearachchi 2A; HGC 12, 352. Toned, roughness, cleaning marks. VF. Very rare monogram. ($1000) From the Weise Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs, 8 December 2000.

413.

BAKTRIA, Indo-Greek Kingdom. Heliokles II Dikaios. Circa 90-75 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 9.83 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Zeus standing left, brandishing thunderbolt and holding scepter; h to inner left.

Bopearachchi 1A; HGC 12, 37. Light iridescent toning, a few scratches. EF. ($1000) 108

CENTRAL ASIAN COINAGE

414.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Huvishka. Circa AD 151-190. AV Dinar (21mm, 7.93 g, 12h). Main mint in Baktria (Balkh?). Early phase. sao˜a˜osao o oIs˚i ˚Osa˜O, diademed and crowned half-length bust left on clouds, holding mace-scepter and goad / c˚a˜Do/Åro ˚o M bizago, Skando-Komaro and Bizago, both nimbate, standing facing, heads vis-à-vis; Skando-Komaro holding spear in right hand, left hand on hilt; Bizago with right hand on hip, holding spear in left hand; 8 between. MK 156 (O1/R1); cf. ANS Kushan 723 (for type); Donum Burns –; CNG 100, lot 1673 (same dies). Lightly toned, trace of deposits, light scratches, some smoothing and tooling, ex jewelry. Good VF. Extremely rare. ($7500)

Rare Huvishka Elephant Dinar

415.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Huvishka. Circa AD 151-190. AV Dinar (21mm, 7.94 g, 12h). Subsidiary mint in Gandhara (Peshawar?). Early phase. saO˜a˜OsaO OOIskO kOsa˜O, Huvishka, diademed and crowned, and holding spear in right hand and goad in left, on caparisoned elephant right / OIsO down right, Siva standing left, holding goad and pouring water from flask on extended right hand, holding vajra (thunderbolt) in raised right hand, trident in raised left, and he-goat in lowered left; 9 to left. Cf. MK 305A/308 (for obv./rev.); ANS Kushan 753 = Adams III, lot 2143 (same obv. die); Donum Burns –; CNG 72, lot 1089 (same dies); Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 544 (same dies). Lightly toned with underlying luster, minor double strike on obverse, hint of deposits on reverse. EF. Extremely rare, the finest example we have handled (including the Adams coin). ($15,000)

416.

INDIA, Gupta Empire. Magadha. Narasimhagupta Baladitya. Circa AD ?-530. AV Dinar (21mm, 9.51 g, 11h).

Archer type. Narasimhagupta, nimbate, standing left, sword at side, holding arrow in right hand, left hand holding bow at top; behind to left, Garuda standard; õ (gre in Brahmi) between legs; Nr (nara in Brahmi) to inner right / Lakshmī, nimbate, seated facing in Padmāsana pose on lotus, holding diadem in her right hand, left hand outstretched, holding lotus; + to left; (vālādityaḥ in Brahmi) to right. Kumar Class I, Variety A (second example – same rev. die); BKB 227; BMC Guptas 567; Altekar Class II; Bayana 5. Hint of deposits, reverse double struck. EF. Rare. ($2000) 109

417.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Drachm (27mm, 4.20 g, 3h). Uncertain mint. Phase 2, circa AD 260-272. Bust right, wearing diadem (type 2) and mural crown with korymbos / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants wearing mural crowns, fravahr to left of flames. SNS type IIc/1b, style R; Sunrise –. Iridescent toning. EF. ($300) From the M.J.W. Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 90 (2 May 2012), lot 891.

418.

SASANIAN KINGS. Pērōz (Fīrūz) I. AD 457/9-484. AV Dinar (21mm, 4.37 g, 3h). Type 3. Local imitative issue.

BBA (Court) mint. Struck circa AD 477-484. Bust right, wearing crown with two wings, frontal crescent, and korymbos set on crescent, ribbon over each shoulder / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants, star and crescent flanking flames, two pellets in outer margin. SNS type I/1a and pl. 85, A23; cf. Sunrise 939 (for official type); CNG E-452, lot 607 (same obv. die).

Hint of deposits, slightly wavy flan, small patch of roughness on reverse, ex jewelry. Good VF. ($2000)

419.

HUNNIC TRIBES, Kidarites. Kidara. Circa 350-390. AV Dinar (35mm, 7.28 g, 12h). Boxlo (Balkh) mint. Struck circa 365-390. King standing facing, head left, wearing lotus crown with ribbons and surmounted by pomegranate with ribbons, flames at shoulders, sacrificing at altar and holding trident; to left, trident standard above altar, middle prong surmounted by crescent; to right, ) above square / Siva standing facing, holding diadem and trident; behind, the bull Nandi standing left.

Cribb, Kidarites 6D; MK 738; ANS Kushan –; Vondrovec [Göbl, Hunnen] Type 84. Toned. Near EF. ($750)

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ROMAN PROVINCIAL COINAGE

420.

GAUL, Cabellio. Lepidus. 44-42 BC. AR Obol (9.48mm, 0.36 g, 6h). CABE, head of Apollo right / LE PI, cornucopia; all within laurel wreath. RPC I 528; De la Tour 2544-9; SNG Copenhagen 684. Deeply toned, reverse struck slightly off center. VF. Rare. ($500) Ex Leu Numismatik Web Auction 8 (29 June 2019), lot 611.

Extremely Rare Adlocutio Scene

421.

THRACE, Bizya. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ (34mm, 25.52 g, 6h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / BI ZV HNΩN, Adlocutio scene: Philip I and Philip II on horses trotting right, raising hands toward ranks of acclaiming legionaries to right. Jurukova –; Varbanov 1560 (this coin cited). Brown patina, deep centering hole on obverse. VF. Extremely rare. ($2000) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 361 (14 October 2015), lot 791 (hammer $3500); Classical Numismatic Group 67 (22 September 2004), lot 1086.

A most remarkable and probably unique display of Roman military tradition—the emperor and his son are addressing their troops, not as a handful of soldiers, but in the disciplined formation of the Roman legion. This coin undoubtedly records a specific event in the area of Bizya.

It is known that Philip spent at least a year early in his reign subduing Germanic tribes that were infiltrating along the Danube frontier, while a more shadowy event took place in 248, the supposed usurpation of Marinus in Moesia. This coin may represent the Danube legions reaffirming their loyalty to Philip and his son.

422.

THRACE, Perinthus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (34.5mm, 23.86 g, 6h). Laureate head right / Dionysus, holding reins with his cloak billowing behind him, driving biga right, with a Maenad standing beside him, holding a veil over her head.

Schönert-Geiss, Perinthos 568 (same dies); Mouchmov 4572; Varbanov 258. Dark brown and tan patina with some earthen highlights/deposits, a few light scratches and minor roughness. VF. ($300) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Stoecklin Collection (Nomos Obolos 9, 25 March 2018), lot 353, purchased prior to 1981.

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THRACE, Philippopolis. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (31mm, 18.31 g, 12h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, aegis on breastplate / Athena standing facing, head left, holding phiale with her right hand over a lit altar and spear with her left; shield leaning against spear. Moushmov, Philippopolis –; Varbanov 1228 (this coin cited and illustrated). Attractive brown and tan surfaces. Near EF. Extremely rare, only one specimen, this coin, in CoinArchives. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 50 (23 June 1999), lot 1063.

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ISLANDS off THRACE, Lemnus. Hephaestia. Circa AD 100. Æ (21mm, 4.69 g, 6h). Bearded bust of Hephaestus right, wearing pileus and slight drapery on left shoulder / HΦAIC TIЄΩN, long torch. BMC 12; SNG Copenhagen –. Dark green and reddish-brown patina, edge split, light roughness. VF. Extremely rare, one of only two specimens in CoinArchives (the other: Roma 68, lot 365 [hammer £440]). ($300) From the Martinez Collection of Greek Bronze Coins. Ex James H. Joy Collection (Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 21, 24 May 2007), lot 271; Kovacs MBS XII (30 November 1995), lot 170 (where Frank noted: “The only example of this coin I have seen in 30 years.”).

425.

CRETE, Cnossus. Gaius (Caligula), with Germanicus. AD 37-41. Æ (22mm, 5.43 g, 6h). Pulcher III Varius, duovir. Laureate head of Gaius (Caligula) right / Laureate head of Germanicus right. RPC I 996; Svoronos, Numismatique 204.

Dark green patina with areas of red, earthen highlights/deposits. Near VF. ($300) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 1072.

426.

CRETE, Cnossus(?). Circa 37-36 BC. Æ (26.5mm, 11.32 g, 12h). Crocodile standing right / Prow right; CRAS above. RPC I 914; Svoronos, Numismatique 1903 . Dark green patina with traces of reddish-brown, obverse metal flaw. VF. Excellent for the issue. ($750) From the Collection of a Texas Wine Doctor. Ex J. S. Wagner Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 76, 12 September 2007), lot 1050.

The Crassus that issued this coin is uncertain. Two possible candidates are P. Canidius Crassus, “but there is no evidence linking him either with Crete or Cyrenaica,” and M. Licinius Crassus “whose career under Antony is known and who went over to Octavian in c. 31 and was consul in 30 BC.” The latter is the likely issuer of this coin.

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PAPHLAGONIA, Amastris. Julia Maesa. Augusta, AD 218-224/5. Æ (30mm, 13.51 g, 12h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane, holding poppy flower / AMACT PIANΩN, Hera and Zeus standing facing, looking at each other, both holding scepters; H in exergue; all within a wheel of the twelve signs of the Zodiac. RPC VI Online 3627; SNG BN 145 = RG 157; BMC 34. Dark green and brown patina, light roughness. VF. Extremely rare, the authors of RPC cite only four specimens, one of which is described as a cast, and only one specimen, this coin, in CoinArchives. ($3000) From the Bellwether Collection, purchased from Ponterio & Associates, 18 June 2002. Ex Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 357.

428.

BITHYNIA, Nicomedia. Pupienus. AD 238. Æ (31mm, 20.62 g, 1h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche seated left, holding hexastyle temple in each hand. RG –; SNG Von Aulock 807-8; SNG Copenhagen –. Dark brown patina, rough in areas, a couple tiny spots of verdigris. VF. Extremely rare, only two specimens, including this coin, in CoinArchives. ($500) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex London Coin Galleries 3 (10 November 2016 = VAuctions 321), lot 112.

429.

MYSIA, Pergamum. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ Medallion (42.5mm, 49.20 g, 6h). Homonoia with Ephesus. P. Aelius Pius, strategus. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Pergamus (or the Demos), holding statue of Asclepius and scepter, standing right, vis-à-vis Androclus (or Ephesus), holding statue of Artemis Ephesia and scepter, standing left. RPC IV.2 11336/10 (this coin cited and illustrated); Franke & Nollé Type XIV, 1566 corr. (VI/R29–unlisted die combination); Kampmann, Homonoia 29 (V11/R29); SNG BN 2185 var. (obv. legend and bust type; same reverse die). Dark green and brown patina, some light porosity, some minor smoothing. VF. Very rare type, and this particular obverse variety is extremely rare. The authors of RPC cite only two specimens, this coin and the Berlin coin. Kampmann and Franke & Nollé both cite only the Berlin example. (Cataloguer’s note: The listing for this coin on the RPC Online website states: “both sides with traces of tooling.” I do not see any signs of tooling, just the aforementioned minor smoothing.). ($2000) Ex Heidelberger Münzhandlung 71 (16 May 2017), lot 1581.

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TROAS, Abydus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Medallion (36.5mm, 24.89 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Artemis of Abydus standing facing, holding laurel branches, between the Dioscuri, both standing facing, heads turned inward and looking at Artemis, stars above their heads. Sternberg XXXV, lot 603 (same dies); Marti Hervera and Soler y Llach 64, lot 342 (possibly dubious); otherwise, unpublished in the standard references. Dark brown surfaces with touches of green, light roughness, slight doubling on reverse. VF. Extremely rare, none in CoinArchives; the Sternberg specimen realized 4250 CHF in 2000. ($500) 431.

IONIA, Miletus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (36.5mm, 23.88 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Apollo and Artemis both standing facing, their heads left, laurel(?) tree between them; Apollo holding bow and uncertain figure; Diana holding bow and arrow with a stag standing left at her feet. Unpublished in the standard references. Reddishbrown patina, slight doubling on obverse, reverse encrusted. VF. Very rare. ($300) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Edward J. Waddell at NYINC, 12 January 2017.

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IONIA, Smyrna. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (36mm, 24.36 g, 6h). Tiberius Claudius Kretarios, strategus. Struck circa AD 212-215. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Galley under full sail to right. Klose 16 (V4/R16); SNG Von Aulock 2221 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 412 (same dies). Dark brown patina with touches of green and red, smoothing. Good VF. Rare. ($750) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Ralph DeMarco, at NYINC, 12 January 2017.

433.

LYDIA, Hierocaesarea. Pseudo-autonomous issue. temp. Commodus, AD 180-192. Æ (32mm, 16.04 g, 6h).

Diademed head of youthful Demos right / Artemis, drawing arrow from quiver and holding bow, standing right in biga of stags galloping right; two flowers or tufts of grass on ground line. Martin, Demos1; SNG Hunterian 1377. Brown and green surfaces, area of roughness on cheek. VF. Extremely rare, Martin cites two specimens (in Glasgow and Berlin). ($500) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 108 (16 May 2018), lot 454; Triskeles 15/VAuctions 318 (15 December 2015), lot 199.

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LYDIA, Sala. Pseudo-autonomous issue. temp. Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-180. Æ (35mm, 30.00 g, 6h). Dama(s), archon for the first time. ΔHMOC, laureate head of youthful Demos right / ЄΠI ΔAMA A PXONTOC A CAΛHNΩN, Zeus Labraundos on horseback right, holding reins and labrys over shoulder. Martin, Demos 7 var. (obverse legend includes ethnic), otherwise unpublished. Dark green and brown surfaces, minor cleaning marks, hint of smoothing in fields.

Good VF. ($1500) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Triton XXI (9 January 2018), lot 495.

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LYDIA, Thyateira. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Medallion (45mm, 40.88 g, 6h). Homonoia with Pergamum. Moschus, strategos for the second time. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / Asclepius, holding serpententwined staff and Apollo Tyrimnaios, holding laurel branch and labrys, standing vis-à-vis. Franke & Nollé Type I, 2297 (VA/ R1) = Kampmann, Homonoia 155 (V781/R133 – this coin referenced and illustrated). Dark brown patina, traces of deposits, minor pitting, flan crack. Near VF. Very rare. ($1000) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Künker 295 (25 September 2017), lot 936; Karl Hollschek Collection (†1941).

436.

PHRYGIA, Hierapolis. Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. Æ Medallion (41mm, 29.29 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 139-146. Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / River-god Chrysorrhoas reclining left on upturned urn from which water flows, holding grain ears and poppies; XPVCOPOAC below; to left, Athena standing right, holding spear and Nike; to right, Hermes standing left, holding purse and caduceus. RPC IV.1 Online 2004; SNG von Aulock 3655. Dark green patina, minor pitting, a couple of scratches on reverse, hint of smoothing in fields. VF. Extremely rare, RPC cites only two examples, both in public collections. ($1500) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Frank L. Kovacs, 24 November 2018.

Not to be confused with the Syrian river of the same name, Weber (NC XIII [1913], p. 16), notes: “The Chrysoroas (sic) was probably a mountain stream flowing to the north of Hierapolis. As the name shows, its sands must have contained gold.”

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PISIDIA, Conana. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ Enneassarion (35mm, 19.09 g, 6h). Laureate head right / Zeus standing left, holding phiale and scepter; œ (mark of value) to left. von Aulock, Pisidiens 841-60; SNG BN 1463 (same dies); SNG von Aulock 5073 (same obv. die). Earthen green surfaces, light roughness. VF. ($300) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Numismatik Naumann 47 (9 October 2016), lot 363.

438.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (39mm, 26.60 g, 6h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Radiate figure of Gordian on horseback right, spearing lion below. SNG Levante 1133 (this coin); cf. SNG BN 1698 (for type).

Brown and green patina, obverse roughness. VF. ($750) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 392 (1 March 2017), lot 407; Triton VII (13 January 2004), lot 807; Edoardo Levante Collection.

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CILICIA, Tarsus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (39mm, 25.17 g, 6h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Veiled and draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown. SNG Levante 1145 var. (bust type), but cf. 1124 (obv. die); SNG BN 1700 (same dies). Green and brown patina, light roughness. VF. ($300) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Tom Cederlind, 23 September 2010.

440.

GALATIA, Ancyra. Caracalla. Caesar, AD 196-198. Æ (28.5mm, 16.71 g, 1h). Bareheaded and draped bust right / She-wolf right, head left, suckling the twins Remus and Romulus; in exergue, anchor left. Arslan – (but same obv. die as 73); SNG BN –; SNG von Aulock 6187 corr. (listed tentatively under Elagabalus; same dies). Dark brown patina, thin flan crack, some minor smoothing. Good VF. Rare. ($500) Ex R. H. Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 100, 7 October 2015), lot 1738; Classical Numismatic Group 70 (21 September 2005), lot 588.

441.

CYPRUS, Koinon of Cyprus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (33mm, 17.56 g, 6h). Laureate head right / Temple of Paphian Aphrodite. Parks 25; SNG Copenhagen 92. Brown patina, some pitting. Good Fine. ($300) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Tom Cederlind, 2 June 2011.

442.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Nero. AD 54-68. AR Drachm (16.5mm, 3.34 g, 12h). Dated RY 3 and year 105 of the Caesarean Era (AD 56/7). Laureate head right / ΔPA-XMH, tripod with serpent entwined around central leg; above, EP and Γ (dates). McAlee 278a; Prieur 78 var. (arrangement of reverse legend); RPC I 4179. Lightly toned, some porosity, a few light marks and scratches. VF. Rare. ($500)

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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Nero. AD 54-68. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.88 g, 11h). Dated RY 10 and year 112 of the Caesarean Era (AD 64). Laureate bust right, wearing aegis; • below bust / ETOYΣ BIP • I (dates), eagle standing right on thunderbolt, with wings spread; • and palm frond to right. McAlee 264; Prieur 90; RPC I 4190. EF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 39 (18 September 1996), lot 975.

444.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Nero, with Divus Claudius. AD 54-68. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.68 g, 12h).

Struck circa AD 63-68. Laureate head of Nero right; ivy leaf above wreath tie / Laureate head of Divus Claudius right. McAlee 269; Prieur 47A corr. (“no ivy leaf” listed in obv. description, but illustrated example shows ivy leaf); RPC I –. Lightly toned, a few minor scratches and marks. Near EF. ($1000)

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COELESYRIA, Chalcis ad Libanum. Mark Antony & Cleopatra. 32-31 BC. Æ (23.5mm, 9.64 g, 12h). Duallydated RY 21 (Egyptian) and 6 (Phoenician) of Cleopatra (32/1 BC). Diademed and draped bust of Cleopatra right / Bare head of Mark Antony right. RPC I 4771; HGC 9, 1451; DCA 476. Dark green patina with some reddish earthen deposits in the devices, traces of bare metal on some of the highpoints. VF. ($500) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 211 (3 June 2009), lot 333; J.S. Wagner Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 196, 1 October 2008), lot 142.

446.

JUDAEA, Herodians. Herod III Antipas. 4 BCE-39 CE. Æ Quarter Unit (13.5mm, 3.17 g, 12h). Tiberias mint.

Dated RY 43 (39/40 CE). ΓΑΙ/Ω ΚΑ[Ι]/CΑΡ in three lines within wreath / Bunch of dates; L MΓ (date) across field.

Meshorer 93; Hendin 1217; RPC I 4936. Dark green patina with light earthen highlights/deposits. Good VF. Excellent state of preservation for the issue. ($750)

447.

JUDAEA, Herodians. Herod IV Philip. 4 BCE-34 CE. Æ (18mm, 4.41 g, 12h). Caesarea Philippi (Panias) mint.

Dated RY 5 (1/2 CE). Bare head of Philip right; L E (date) across lower field / Tetrastyle temple (the Augusteum of Panias) set on podium with two steps. Meshorer 96; Hendin 1220; Sofaer –; RPC I 4939. Earthen green-brown patina, cleaning marks.

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JUDAEA, Herodians. Agrippa I. 37-43 CE. Æ (19.5mm, 6.80 g, 8h). Caesarea Maritima mint. Dated RY 8 (43/4 CE). Diademed and draped bust right; countermark: male head right within circular incuse / Tyche standing left, holding rudder and palm frond; L H (date) to right. Meshorer 126; Hendin 1250; RPC I 4986; for c/m: Howgego 118. Dark green and brown patina with some light earthen highlights/deposits. Coin Near VF. C/m Fine. ($1500) 449.

JUDAEA, Neapolis. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ (32.5mm, 21.15 g, 11h). Dated RY 88 (159/60 CE). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Asclepius standing facing, head right, holding staff and serpent, vis-à-vis Hygieia standing facing, head left, holding serpent and patera; ЄT ΠΗ (date) in exergue. Meshorer 128; Sofaer 27; RPC IV.3 Online 6325. Dark green to black patina with earthen deposits, some light smoothing. VF. Extremely rare, only this example in CoinArchives, and the authors of RPC cite only one specimen – the British Museum example. ($1500) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from David Hendin, at NYINC, 6 January 2012. Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection (Gemini VI, 10 January 2010), lot 719 .

450.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Diobol – 80 Drachmai (26.5mm, 12.83 g, 12h). Second(?) series, struck circa 19-3/2 BC. Bare head right / [K]AI CAP, temple of Mars Ultor with signum in center. Köln 5-6 ; Dattari (Savio) 14; K&G 2.3; RPC I 5003; Emmett 3. Dark brown surfaces, porous. VF. Rare. ($1000) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 318 (15 January 2014), lot 472 (hammer $1710); Philip DeVicci Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 53, 15 March 2000), lot 1191.

451.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Tiberius, with Divus Augustus. AD 14-37. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.13 g, 12h). Dated RY 7 (AD 20/21). Laureate head of Tiberius right; L Z (date) below chin / Radiate head of Divus Augustus right. Köln 48; Dattari (Savio) 78; K&G 5.10; RPC I 5089; Emmett 60.7. Deeply toned, some minor deposits. Good VF. Attractive. ($500) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

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EGYPT, Alexandria. Claudius, with Antonia. AD 41-54. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.51 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 41/42). Laureate head of Claudius right; L B (date) below chin / ΑΝΤΩΝΙΑ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ, draped bust of Antonia right. Köln 62-3; Dattari (Savio) 114; K&G 12.3; RPC I 5117; Emmett 73.2. Deeply toned. VF. Nice metal for the issue. ($500) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

453.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Claudius. AD 41-54. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.73 g, 12h). Dated RY 3 (AD 42/43).

Laureate head of Claudius right; L Γ (date) to right / ΜΕΣΣΑΛΙ ΝΑ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑΣ, Messalina standing facing, head left, holding two small figures and grain ears, and leaning upon column to right. Köln 75; Dattari 123; K&G 12.22; RPC I 5131; Emmett 74.3. Deeply toned, minor porosity. VF. Exceptional reverse for the issue. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

The reverse type depicts Valeria Messalina, Claudius’ third wife, in the guise of Demeter. The two small figures in her right hand are identified as Britannicus and Claudia Octavia, her two children by Claudius.

454.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Agrippina Junior. Augusta, AD 50-59. Æ Diobol (25mm, 9.48 g, 12h). Dated RY 12 of Claudius (AD 51/52). Draped bust of Agrippina Junior right, wearing grain wreath / ΕΥΘH NIA, Draped bust of Euthenia right, wearing grain wreath; L IB (date) across field, two grain ears to lower right. Köln 109; Dattari (Savio) 178; K&G 13.1; RPC I 5188; Emmett 103.12. Dark brown and tan patina with traces of red. VF. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

455.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Nero, with Claudia. AD 54-68. BI Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 11.78 g, 12h). Dated RY 4 (AD 57/58). Laureate head of Nero right / OKTAO[VIA] ΣEBAΣTOV, draped bust of Claudia Octavia right; L ∆ (date) in lower right field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 191; K&G 14.26 corr. (obv. legend); RPC I 5222; Emmett 127.4. Toned with areas of find patina, some light scratches and a few spots of verdigris. VF. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

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EGYPT, Alexandria. Nero, with Poppaea. AD 54-68. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.69 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 (AD 63/64). Radiate head of Nero right / ΠOΠΠAIA ΣEBAΣTH, draped bust right of Poppaea; L I (date) before. Köln 157-9; Dattari (Savio) 196; K&G 14.78; RPC I 5275; Emmett 128.10. Deeply toned, areas of find patina. Good VF. Attractive. ($300) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 73 (13 September 2006), lot 752; Spink 135 (6 October 1999), lot 139.

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458

457.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Galba. AD 68-69. Æ Diobol (24.5mm, 13.25 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 68/69). Laureate head right / Draped bust of Isis right, wearing taenia and crowned with disk and horns; L B (date) to right. Köln 241-2 & 3451; Dattari (Savio) 320-1; K&G 17.26 (this coin illustrated); RPC I 5351; Emmett 179.2. Dark brown surfaces with touches of green and traces of red, minor roughness, flan flaw on reverse. VF. Rare. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

458.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Otho. AD 69. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.67 g, 12h). Dated RY 1 (AD 69). Laureate head right; L A (date) below chin / Kratesis standing facing, head left, holding Nike and trophy. Köln 249; Dattari (Savio) 328; K&G 18.7; RPC I 5361; Emmett 185.1. Toned, some porosity, spot of verdigris on obverse. VF. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

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EGYPT, Alexandria. Vitellius. AD 69. BI Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 13.97 g, 12h). Dated RY 1 (AD 69). Laureate head right / Nike advancing left, holding wreath and palm frond; L A (date) to left. Köln 260-2; Dattari (Savio) 340; K&G 19.1; RPC I 5372; Emmett 196.1. Toned, some minor porosity, reverse struck off center. VF. Nice portrait of this short-lived emperor whose reign only lasted two months in Egypt. ($300) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Gemini IV (8 January 2008), lot 403.

460.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Obol (21mm, 7.21 g, 12h). Dated RY 5 (AD 72/73). Laureate head right / Hawk standing right, wearing skhent; L E (date) to left. Köln 295; Dattari (Savio) 415-6; K&G 20.41; RPC II 2440; Emmett 222.5. Dark brown patina with touches of green, a few old cleaning scratches on the obverse. VF. Rare. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian. Ex Pegasi XXXVI (23 May 2017), lot 356.

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EGYPT, Alexandria. Titus. AD 79-81. BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 12.48 g, 12h). Dated RY 3 (AD 80/81). Laureate head right / Homonoia seated left, holding olive branch; L Γ (date) to left. Köln 322; Dattari (Savio) 423; K&G 22.8; RPC II 2467; Emmett 233.3. Toned, compact flan. VF. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

462.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Domitian. AD 81-96. Æ Diobol (24mm, 7.41 g, 12h). Dated RY 3 (AD 84/85). Laureate head right / Draped bust right of Alexandria, wearing elephant-skin cap; ETOVΣ TPITOV (date) around. Köln 334; RPC I 2491; Dattari (Savio) 465; K&G 24.18; Emmett 278.3. Dark green to black patina. EF. Bold portraits on both sides. As close to an as-struck Alexandrian bronze as one can ever expect to see. ($1000) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 81 (20 May 2009), lot 868 (hammer $1500).

463.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Domitian. AD 81-96. Æ Obol (17.5mm, 3.40 g, 12h). Dated RY 11 (AD 91/92). Laureate head right / Andro-Sphinx seated right; L IA (date) in exergue. Köln 395 var. (position of date); Dattari (Savio) 570-1 var. (same); K&G 24.181 var. (same); RPC II 2645; Emmett 326.11. Dark brown patina with some light porosity, a couple light scratches. VF. Rare. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian, purchased from Willian M. Rosenblum.

464.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Drachm (36.5mm, 25.81 g, 12h). Dated RY 11 (AD 107/108). Laureate and draped bust right / Nike standing left, holding palm frond with her left hand, crowning trophy with a wreath in her right hand; trophy flanked by shields and spears; L IA (date) in exergue. Köln 475; Dattari (Savio) 7095 (this coin); K&G 27.102; RPC III 4229.1/6 (this coin); Emmett 543.11 (R3); Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 53 (this coin). Dark brown patina with touches of green. Good VF. Very rare. Exceptional condition and portrait. ($2000) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian. Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection (Triton XXI, 9 January 2018), lot 47, purchased from Renzo Canavesi, Sagno, 1996; Renzo Canavesi Collection (Sagno); Dr. Piero Beretta Collection (Milan); Giovanni Dattari Collection, no. 7095.

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EGYPT, Alexandria. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Drachm (33.5mm, 22.47 g, 12h). Dated RY 14 (AD 110/111). Laureate and draped bust right / Trajan, raising hand and holding scepter and reins, driving biga of centaurs right; each of the centaurs holds a Nike and scepter; L IΔ (date) in exergue. Köln -; Dattari (Savio) 736 (this coin); K&G 27.333; RPC III 4512.1/1 (this coin; Emmett 464.14 (R4 = Dattari 736). Dark green patina with touches of reddish-brown and olive green, minor roughness.

VF. Extremely rare type, only one specimen, this coin, cited in CoinArchives, and only two specimens, including this coin, cited by the authors of RPC. ($750) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Greenpoint Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 91, 19 September 2012), lot 717; Künker 124 (16 March 2007), lot 8131; Giovanni Dattari Collection, no. 736.

466.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Drachm (32.5mm, 17.12 g, 12h). Dated RY 16 (AD 112/113). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Serapis standing left, hand over Kerberos to left and holding scepter; all within distyle temple with two Nikae holding a globe in the pediment; L I ς (date) across field. Köln 624 var. (stele instead of Kerberos); Dattari (Savio) 1148 var. (same); K&G 27.498 var. (same); RPC III 4694.1 (this coin cited) = Kellner p. 103, pl. 4, Abb. 10 (this coin); Emmett 581.16 var. (same). Brown and tan surfaces, some porosity, natural flan flaw. VF. Rare variety with Kerberos. ($300) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 997438 (February 2015); A.K. Collection (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 977 (E009).

This type is normally encountered with a stele next to Serapis on the reverse, but on this coin the stele looks more like a stylized Kerberos.

When one compares the photos for RPC III 4694.3 (stele) and 4694.4 (Kerberos), it is the opinion of this cataloguer that on this coin it is Kerberos being depicted.

467 468 467.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Drachm (32.5mm, 12.36 g, 12h). Dated RY 17 (AD 113/114). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, wearing aegis / Eirene standing right, holding grain ears, clasping hands with Homonoia standing left, holding double cornucopia; L IZ (date) in lower field between them. Köln 641-2 var. (arrangement of rev. legend); Dattari (Savio) 868-9 var. (same); K&G 27.529; RPC III 4792.2-3; Emmett 450.17. Dark green to black patina with traces of red, some light earthen highlights/deposits. Good VF. ($300) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 291 (21 November 2012), lot 291.

468.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (33.5mm, 23.90 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 (AD 125/126).

Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Serapis standing facing, head left, holding a scepter with his left hand, placing his right hand on a stele; all within a distyle temple with two Nikae holding a globe in the pediment; L ∆EK ATOV (date) around.

Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 1964 var. (arrangement of date); K&G 32.366; RPC III 5602; Emmett 1037.10 (R5). Brown surfaces with touches of green and red, some light porosity and minor smoothing. VF. Extremely rare type for this regnal year, none in CoinArchives. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian. Ex Rosenblum MBS 34E (11 November 2004), lot 252.

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469 470 469.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Obol (19mm, 5.69 g, 12h). Dated RY 11 (AD 126/127). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Panther standing right, head left; L IA (date) above. Köln 974; Dattari (Savio) 2040; K&G 32.443; RPC III 5691; Emmett 1167.11. Dark brown patina with light earthen highlights/deposits. VF. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian, purchased from Willian M. Rosenblum.

470.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Obol (19.5mm, 5.49 g, 12h). Hermopolites Nome. Dated RY 11 (AD 126/127). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Draped bust of Hermes-Thoth right, wearing taenia and hem-hem crown; to right, L IA (date) above Ibis standing right; EPMO to left. Köln 3399; Dattari (Savio) 6269; K&G N18.6; RPC III 6286; Emmett 1275.11. Dark green patina with touches of red. EF. ($500) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Jacquier 38 (13 September 2013), lot 275.

471.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Obol (19mm, 5.76 g, 12h). Arsinoites Nome. Dated RY 11 (AD 126/127). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Head of Egyptian pharaoh right; APCI to left, L IA (date) to right. Köln 3381-2; Dattari (Savio) 6210, 10876-80; cf. K&G N6.6; RPC III 6296/41 (this coin cited); Emmett 1221.11. Reddish-brown patina with touches of green on the reverse, some minor roughness. EF. ($500) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Group CEM (Classical Numismatic Group 88, 14 September 2011), lot 1093; Waddell II (12 September 1987), lot 434.

472 473 472.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Obol (19mm, 5.18 g, 12h). Oxyrhynchites Nome. Dated RY 11 (AD 126/127). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Athena-Thoeris standing facing, head left, holding bipennis and Nike; OΞ VP, L IA (date) around. Köln 3413-4; Dattari (Savio) 6337-8; K&G N38.4; RPC III 6357; Emmett 1218.11. Reddish-brown patina with touches of green, minor roughness. Good VF. Rare. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

473.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Obol (20.5mm, 5.25 g, 12h). Memphites Nome. Dated RY 11 (AD 126/127). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Isis standing facing, head left, holding Uraeus with her right hand and small figure (Ptah?) in her left; MEM ΦI to left, L IA (date) to lower right. Köln 3411; Dattari (Savio) 6299; K&G N29.8; RPC III 6390; Emmett 1246.11. Dark green to black patina with earthen highlights/deposits, some light cleaning marks, holed and plugged in antiquity behind Hadrian’s head. Near VF. Rare. ($300) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection, purchased from Hussam Zurgieh, Dubai, April 2010.

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474 475 474.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Obol (19.5mm, 5.44 g, 12h). Xoites Nome. Dated RY 11 (AD 126/127). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Herakles (Khonsou-Harakhte) standing facing, head left, holding ram and club; ΞO [IT], L IA (date) around. Köln 3431; Dattari (Savio) 6401; K&G N52.7; RPC III 6435; Emmett 1270.11. Dark green to black patina with reddish earthen highlights/deposits, light cleaning/smoothing scratches. Near VF. Rare. ($300) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection.

475.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Obol (19mm, 4.84 g, 12h). Metelites Nome. Dated RY 11 (AD 126/127). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Isis standing facing, head left, holding grain ears and hawk; MЄ TH ΛI, L IA (date) around. Köln 3412; Dattari (Savio) 6320; K&G N32.1; RPC III 6440; Emmett 1248.11. Olive green and reddish brown patina. Good VF. Rare. ($300) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection, purchased from Jencek Historical Enterprise.

476.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Dichalkon (13mm, 1.83 g, 12h). Xoites Nome. Dated RY 11 (AD 126/127). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Ram, wearing solar disk, standing right; ΞOIT above, L IA (date) to either side. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 6402; K&G N52.8; RPC III 6436; Emmett 1328.11. Brown patina with touches of green.

EF. Rare. ($400) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Jacquier 38 (13 September 2013), lot 278.

477.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Dichalkon (13mm, 1.82 g, 12h). Tanites Nome. Dated RY 11 (AD 126/127). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Hawk standing right, wearing skhent; TANI, L IA (date) around. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 6392; K&G N49.3; RPC III 6515; Emmett 1310.11 (R3). Dark brown to black patina with some light earthen highlights/deposits. Near VF. Very rare. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian, purchased from Willian M. Rosenblum.

478.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (35mm, 25.26 g, 12h). Dated RY 12 (AD 127/128).

Laureate and draped bust right / Nilus reclining left, holding reed and cornucopia from which emerges a Genius; Iς (for 16 cubits) above, crocodile below, L ∆ω∆EK (date) in exergue. Köln 990 var. (date spelled ∆ω∆EKA); Dattari (Savio) 1807; K&G 32.460; RPC III 5716; Emmett 1014.12. Attractive dark brown patina. VF. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

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479.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian, with Sabina. AD 117-138. BI Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 13.12 g, 12h). Dated RY 16 (AD 131/132). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right of Hadrian / CABЄINA CЄBACTH, draped bust right of Sabina, wearing stephane (or perhaps her hair is pulled into a braid, almost like a diadem), her hair pulled into a queue down her neck; L Iς (date) across field. Köln 1041; Dattari (Savio) 1252; K&G 32.515; RPC III 5788; Emmett 886.16. Toned, light porosity and a few spots of verdigris. Good VF. Very rare bust type of Sabina on a Hadrian tetradrachm. ($500) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

This particular bust style for Sabina is very rare on tetradrachms issued by Hadrian, with his portrait on the obverse and Sabina’s on the reverse, but it is similar to the portrait on the issues that depict Sabina on the obverse with her enthroned on the reverse in the guise of Demeter (regnal year 15 of Hadrian).

480.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (34mm, 23.89 g, 12h). Dated RY 16 (AD 131/132). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Nilus seated left on pile of rocks, holding reed and cornucopia; crocodile below; L Iς (date) in left field. Köln 1056 var. (placement of date); Dattari (Savio) 1794; K&G 32.519; RPC III 5791; Emmett 1016.16. Attractive dark brown and tan patina, minor deposits in the devices, traces of bare metal on the reverse highpoints. Good VF. ($750) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, at CICF, 16 April 2016. Ex Künker 273 (14 March 2016), lot 746. Reportedly ex Oldenburg 22 (Kiel, 1988), lot 63.

The Pantheon of Sarapis, Isis, and Harpokrates

481.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (35mm, 27.45 g, 12h). Dated RY 18 (AD 133/134).

Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Draped busts of Sarapis, wearing modius, and Isis, wearing crown of disk and horns, vis-à-vis; between them, a figure of Harpokrates standing left, holding hand to mouth; all set on eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings displayed; L IH (date) across lower field. Köln 1129 (same dies); Dattari (Savio) 1843 = Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 73 (same obv. die); K&G 32.594; RPC III 5902; Emmett 1041.18 (R4). Dark brown patina with areas of red and touches of green, minor roughness. Good VF. Extremely rare, probably one the finest examples known. A wonderful depiction of the pantheon of Sarapis, Isis, and Harpokrates, and in better overall condition than the Staffieri specimen that realized $5000 hammer in our Triton XXI auction (lot 78). ($2000) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Künker 182 (14 March 2011), lot 667.

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482 483 482.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (35mm, 27.15 g, 12h). Dated RY 19 (AD 134/135).

Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Artemis advancing right, wearing chiton and peplos, holding a bow with her left hand, and grasping the forelegs of a stag with her right hand; L ЄN NЄAKΔ (date) around. Köln 1163; Dattari (Savio) 1615 (this coin – reverse illustrated on pl. IX of 1901 catalogue); K&G 32.634; RPC III 5955/18 (this coin – illustrated on pl. 296); Emmett 916.19 (R5); Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 75 (this coin). Thick reddish brown and green patina. VF. Very rare, only four specimens in CoinArchives, including this coin. ($2000) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection (Triton XXI, 9 January 2018), lot 82, purchased from Renzo Canavesi, Sagno, 1996; Renzo Canavesi Collection (Sagno); Dr. Piero Beretta Collection (Milan); Giovanni Dattari Collection, no. 1615.

483.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (33mm, 22.78 g, 12h). Dated RY 19 (AD 134/135).

Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Elpis standing left, holding lotus blossom and raising a fold of her skirt; L ЄN NЄAKΔ (date) around. Köln 1173-4; Dattari (Savio) 1688; K&G 32.648; RPC III 5987; Emmett 956.19. Dark brown patina with touches of red and green. Good VF. ($500) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

484.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (34mm, 27.28 g, 12h). Dated RY 19 (AD 134/135).

Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Canopic jar of Osiris right, ornamented and wearing Atef crown; L ЄNNЄ AKΔ (date) around. Köln 1172 var. (obv. bust type & jar not ornamented); Dattari (Savio) 1652-3, 1655, 7585-7; K&G 32.663; RPC III 5974; Emmett 932.19. Dark green and reddish-brown patina, some light roughness. VF. ($500) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

Canopic jars were used to store the organs that were removed from the body during the mummification process, specifically the lungs, liver, stomach, and intestines. The term “canopic” to describe such vessels is a misnomer, being derived from the port city of Canopus, where the god Osiris was worshipped in the form of a jar.

485 486 485.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. BI Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 13.72 g, 12h). Dated RY 21 (AD 136/137).

Laureate bust left, slight drapery / Triptolemus driving biga of serpents right; L to left, KA (date) to upper right. Köln 1212; Dattari (Savio) 1484-6 & 7475-6; K&G 32.723; RPC III 6135; Emmett 900.21. Attractive dark find patina. Good VF. ($500) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian, purchased from Edward J. Waddell, Ltd. Ex Peus 409 (25 April 2013), lot 890.

486.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.58 g, 12h). Dated RY 22 (AD 137/138).

Laureate bust left, slight drapery / Nilus seated left, holding reed and cornucopia; below, crocodile to right; L KB (date) in upper left field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 7454; K&G 32.769 (cross referenced to DS 1440 in error); RPC III 6251; Emmett 879.22. Attractive dark find patina with some light deposits in the devices. Good VF. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian, purchased from Nilus Coins.

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487.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antinoüs. Died AD 130. Æ Diobol (23mm, 7.64 g, 12h). Struck RY 19 of Hadrian (AD 134/135). ANTINOOV [HPωOC], draped bust right, wearing hem–hem crown / Antinoüs, cloaked and holding caduceus with his right arm, on horseback right; L [I]Θ (date) to right and below. Köln 1277 var. (placement of date); Dattari (Savio) 8012; K&G 34a.3; Blum 5; RPC III 6082; Emmett 1348.19 (R3). Dark brown patina with areas of olive green, minor roughness.

Near VF. Rare. ($1500) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Elsen 103 (12 December 2009), lot 507 (incorrectly catalogued as a hemidrachm).

488.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Aelius. Caesar, AD 136-138. Æ Drachm (34mm, 25.15 g, 12h). Struck AD 137. Bareheaded and draped bust right / Homonoia enthroned left, holding phiale with her extended right hand, her left arm resting on throne’s armrest; cornucopia at side of throne; [OM]ONO[IA] in exergue. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 2076 & 7990-1; K&G 34.4; RPC III 6226; Emmett 1351. Dark green to black patina with touches of red, some minor smoothing. Good VF. Attractive portrait. ($750) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

Extremely Rare Drachm Depicting Harpokrates

489.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33mm, 23.25 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 138/139).

Bareheaded bust right, slight drapery / Harpokrates standing facing, his head left and wearing skhent, leaning on column with his right elbow and pointing his finger to his mouth, holding cornucopia with his left hand; L B (date) across field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 8456 (this coin); K&G –; RPC IV.4 Online 15939/3 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1526.2 (R5 = Dattari 8456; misdescribed by Emmett, no altar). Attractive dark brown patina. Good VF. Extremely rare, the authors of RPC cite five specimens, including this coin. ($2000) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 81 (20 May 2009), lot 872 (hammer $3250); Bayerische Vereinsbank FPL (April 1976), no. 150; Giovanni Dattari Collection, no. 8456.

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490.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.63 g, 12h). Dated RY 5 (AD 141/142). Laureate head right / Draped bust of Isis right, wearing taenia and crowned with disk, horns, and lotus; L Є (date) across field. Köln 1371; Dattari (Savio) 2252; K&G 35.118; RPC IV.4 Online 14249; Emmett 1401.5 (R2). Toned. Good VF. Rare, only four specimens cited by the authors of RPC, and one (with Pius’ bust to left) in CoinArchives. ($500) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection.

The Constellation Boötes?

491.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33.5mm, 25.11 g, 12h). Dated RY 5 (AD 141/142).

Laureate head right / Plowman (constellation Boötes?), wearing pileus, driving team of oxen left; L Є (date) in exergue.

Köln 1407 (same dies); Dattari (Savio) 2985 (same dies); BMC 1091 (rev. only illustrated; same die); K&G 35.153; RPC IV.4 Online 14832/6 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1639.5 (R4). Smooth brown patina with traces of green. Near VF. Extremely rare, the authors of RPC Online cite only ten specimens, including this coin, with five of those in museum collections. ($2000) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Collection CR (Classical Numismatic Group 85, 15 September 2010), lot 714.

The Great Sothic Cycle was a calendrical cycle based on the heliacal rising in July of the star Sirius (known to the Greeks as Sothis) and lasting approximately 1460 years. According to ancient Egyptian mythology, in a Golden Age, the beginning of the flooding of the Nile coincided exactly with the rising of Sirius, which was reckoned as the New Year. Only once every 1460 years did Sirius rise at exactly the same time.

Thus, the coincidence of this along with the concurrent beginning of the flooding of the Nile gave the event major cosmological significance by heralding not just the beginning of a new year, but the beginning of a new eon. This event also was thought to herald the appearance of the phoenix, a mythological bird which was reborn every 500 to 1000 years out of its own ashes. According to one version of the myth, each new phoenix embalmed its old ashes in an egg of myrrh, which it then deposited in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis. So important was the advent of the new Great Sothic Cycle, both to the realignment of the heavens and its signaling of the annual flooding of the Nile, that the Egyptians celebrated it in a five-day festival, which emphasized the important cosmological significance.

In the third year of the reign of Antoninus Pius (AD 139/140), a new Great Sothic Cycle began. To mark this event, the mint of Alexandria struck an extensive series of coinage, especially in large bronze drachms, each related in some astrological way to the reordering of the heavens during the advent of the new Great Sothic Cycle. By the time that these coins were issued, the Egyptian names for the various constellations had been replaced by those more familiar to the Greeks and Romans. Among the issues struck during this time was this extremely rare type depicting a plowman, which may refer to the constellation Boötes, the mythological figure who invented the plow. Since the appearance of Sirius heralded the beginning of the Nile’s flooding, which deposited a rich alluvial layer of mud on the fields, necessary for the growing of grain, the inclusion of the constellation associated with the originator of the plow would have made perfect sense, given the agricultural significance of the Great Sothic Cycle and the importance of Egypt in providing grain to the rest of the empire.

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The Eighth Labor – Herakles and the Mares of Diomedes

492.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (34.5mm, 22.46 g, 12h). Labors of Herakles series.

Dated RY 6 (AD 142/143). Laureate head right / Herakles and the Mares of Diomedes – Herakles standing right, nude but for lion’s skin over his left shoulder and billowing out behind him, holding the mane of one of Diomedes’ mares with his left hand and preparing to strike it with his club held with his right hand; a fallen mare behind him to the left; Diomedes laying prostrate to the right before him on the ground; [L ς] (date) in exergue. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 8505 (this coin); K&G –; RPC IV.4 Online 15223/2 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1553.6 (this regnal year not listed in his chart in error, as the reverse of this type is illustrated on p. 74B). Dark brown patina with touches of green, a few pits. Near VF. Extremely rare.

Emmett lists this type as being struck for just one of Pius’ regnal years, 10, but as noted above, he should have listed it for RY 6 also. Another variant exists with the scene reversed, with Herakles standing left (Emmett 1552), which is known for years 5 and 6. ($750) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Group CEM (Classical Numismatic Group 88, 14 September 2011), lot 1096; Münzen und Medaillen AG 46 (28 April 1972), lot 209; Giovanni Dattari Collection, no. 8505.

The four mares of the giant Diomedes, king of the Bistones in Thrace, had a nightmarish taste for human flesh. It was Herakles’ task to steal them, and he set about doing so with a cortege including the Lokrian youth Abderos, a beloved of the hero, who in the midst of the story is eaten by the horses. Herakles, according to some renderings, was so distraught that he fed Diomedes to his own mares in revenge. The Thracian town of Abdera was founded nearby Abderos’ grave.

493.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33mm, 20.66 g, 12h). Dated RY 8 (AD 144/145).

Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche, head left, holding rudder and cornucopia, standing facing within distyle temple; disk within pediment; L H (date) across field. Köln 1487-8 var. (obv. bust type); Dattari (Savio) 8912; K&G 35.255-6 var. (same); RPC IV.4 Online 16361/2 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1688.8 (R3). Reddish brown and dark green patina, light roughness. Good VF. Very rare type for this regnal year. ($300) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Elsen 113 (16 June 2012), lot 520.

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Very Rare Zodiac Wheel

494.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (34.5mm, 24.04 g, 12h). Zodiac series. Dated RY 8 (AD 144/145). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Two concentric circles: the outer one being the “Zodiac wheel” counterclockwise with “Aries” at the top; the inner circle contains conjoined busts of Helios and Selene left; H/L (date) before their busts. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 2983 var. (obv. bust type); K&G –; RPC IV.4 Online 15476; Emmett 1705.8 (R5). Dark green to black patina with traces of red, roughness, two edge splits. VF. Very rare and elusive type, missing from most of the major collections. The authors of RPC list only two specimens for this variety. ($3000) In the third year of the reign of Antoninus Pius (AD 139/40), a new Great Sothic Cycle began. To mark this event, the mint of Alexandria struck an extensive series of coinage, especially in large bronze drachms, each related in some astrological way to the reordering of the heavens during the advent of the new Great Sothic Cycle. This celebration would continue throughout Pius’s reign, with an immense output of coinage during the eighth year of his reign in Egypt, which included this coin type, part of the Zodiac series.

Jupiter in Pisces

495.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (34mm, 22.15 g, 12h). Zodiac series. Dated RY 8 (AD 144/145). Laureate head right / Jupiter in Pisces – Bust right of Zeus (Jupiter), wearing taenia and draped on left shoulder, transverse scepter across right shoulder; star of eight rays before; fish right and fish left below; L H (date) across field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 2981; K&G 35.260; RPC IV.4 Online 13555/33 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1692.8. Green patina with traces of red, light roughness. Near VF. Rare, one of the better types in the Alexandrian Zodiac series. ($1500) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection (Gemini VI, 10 January 2010), lot 827; gift of Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule, 1985.

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Venus in Taurus

496.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (34mm, 22.34 g, 12h). Zodiac series. Dated RY 8 (AD 144/145). Laureate head right / Venus in Taurus (night house) – Diademed and draped bust of Aphrodite (Venus) left; star of six rays before her; below, bull butting left; [L H] (date) in exergue. Köln 1492; Dattari (Savio) 2960; K&G 35.280; RPC IV.4 Online 13541; Emmett 1450.8. Dark green patina with traces of earthen highlights/deposits in the devices, some roughness. VF. Rare. ($1000) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection, purchased from Nilus Coins, June 2008.

497.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (34mm, 28.76 g, 12h). Heliopolites Nome. Dated RY 8 (AD 144/145). Laureate head right / Η[Λ]ΙΟ ΠΟ ΛEIT around, Helios (Ra-Atum-Harakhte ) standing facing, head left, holding statuette of Mnevis bull standing right in his outstretched right hand, cradling scepter with his left arm; L H (date) across lower field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 6248 & 10935–8; K&G N14.3; RPC IV.4 Online 15676/2 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1820.8 (R4). Dark green to black patina with touches of red, small pit in left field of reverse. Near VF. Extremely rare, the authors of RPC Online cite only seven specimens, including this coin. ($1000) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Triton XI (8 Janaury 2008), lot 533.

498.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33.5mm, 25.01 g, 12h). Menelaites Nome. Dated RY 8 (AD 144/145). Laureate head right / MЄNЄ ΛAЄITH[C], Harpokrates of Canopus: as a youth, nude from the waist up with the lower body of a crocodile, holding cornucopia with his left arm, right hand raised to his mouth, wearing skhent and standing left; lit altar to left; L H (date) in exergue. Köln 3435-8; Dattari (Savio) 6315-9; K&G N31.8; RPC IV.4 Online 13971/44 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1819.8. Dark brown patina with touches of green. VF. ($1000) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Collection CR (Classical Numismatic Group 85, 15 September 2010), lot 717.

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499 500 499.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33mm, 17.42 g, 12h). Menelaites Nome. Dated RY 8 (AD 144/145). Laureate head right / [M]ЄNЄ ΛAЄI[THC], Harpokrates of Canopus: as a youth, nude from the waist up with the lower body of a crocodile, holding cornucopia with his left arm, right hand raised to his mouth, wearing skhent and standing left; [lit altar] to left; L H (date) in exergue. Köln 3435-8; Dattari (Savio) 6315-9; K&G N31.8; RPC IV.4 Online 13971/46 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1819.8. Brown patina with traces of red. Fine. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica P (12 May 2005), lot 2061.

500.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33.5mm, 24.62 g, 12h). Dated RY 9 (AD 145/146).

Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Nilus reclining left, holding reed and cornucopia from which emerges a Genius; Iς (for 16 cubits) to left, crocodile below, L ЄNATOV (date) around. Köln 1522 var. (placement of Iς); Dattari (Savio) 2750 var. (obv. bust type); Dattari (Savio) Supplement Pl. 17, no. 87 var. (same); K&G 35.317; RPC IV.4 Online 14880; Emmett 1621.9. Dark green to black patina, minor roughness. VF. ($500) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

501 502 501.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (34mm, 24.40 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 (AD 146/147).

Laureate head right / Zeus, holding patera and scepter, reclining left on eagle standing left with wings spread; L ΔЄKA TOV (date) around. Köln 1560; Dattari (Savio) 2933; K&G 35.367; RPC IV.4 Online 13589; Emmett 1699.10. Attractive dark brown patina with traces of green. VF. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

502.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33.5mm, 22.60 g, 12h). Dated RY 11 (AD 147/148). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Elpis standing left, holding lotus blossom and raising a fold of her skirt; L ЄNΔ Є KATOV (date) around. Köln 1578; Dattari (Savio) 2543; K&G 35.404; RPC IV.4 Online 13617/31 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1501.11. Attractive dark green and brown patina with some light earthen highlights/deposits. Good VF. ($300) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 90 (23 May 2012), lot 1266.

503.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33.5mm, 24.52 g, 12h). Dated RY 12 (AD 148/149). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Serapis seated left on throne, holding scepter and resting hand on head of Kerberos; all within distyle temple, pediment decorated with disk and [uraei]; L ΔωΔЄ KATO (date) around. Köln 16178; Dattari (Savio) 8904-5; K&G 35.444; RPC IV.4 Online 13643/49 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1668.12. Dark brown patina with traces of green, some light scratches and marks. VF. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian. Ex Künker 89 (8 March 2004), lot 1796.

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EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (32mm, 22.21 g, 12h). Dated RY 15 (AD 151/152).

Laureate and draped bust left / Tyche reclining left on lectisternium (couch), holding rudder, resting elbow on pile of pillows and propping head on hand; L IЄ (date) above. Köln 1678; Dattari (Savio) 8767; K&G 35.541; RPC IV.4 Online 13739/7 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1687.15. Attractive brown surfaces with touches of green. VF. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian, purchased from Willian M. Rosenblum. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 102 (18 May 2016), lot 770.

505.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (35mm, 18.63 g, 12h). Dated RY 17 (AD 153/154).

Laureate bust left, slight drapery / Jugate, draped busts of Serapis and Isis right; [L I]Z (date) across field. Köln 1715 var. (obv. bust draped); cf. Dattari (Savio) 2854 & 8718 (both heavily worn with uncertain dates); K&G 35.616; RPC IV.4 Online 15567/9 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1656.17 (R2) . Reddish brown and dark green patina, heavily tooled and smoothed. VF. Rare. ($300) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 46 (2 April 2008), lot 1074 (hammer 1000 CHF).

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EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (32mm, 23.55 g, 12h). Dated RY 18 (AD 154/155).

Laureate and draped bust right / Bust of Zeus-Ammon right, with slight drapery and wearing solar disk and horn; L IH (date) across field. Köln 1735; Dattari (Savio) 2944; K&G 35.647 (this coin illustrated); RPC IV.4 Online 13843/4 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1700.18. Attractive dark brown patina. Near VF. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 1012; Kerry K. Wetterstrom Collection (Classical Numismatic Auctions XII, 26 September 1990), lot 232.

507.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. Æ Drachm (34mm, 23.49 g, 12h). Dated RY 14 of Antoninus Pius (AD 150/151). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Griffin seated right, resting forepaw on wheel; L IΔ (date) around. Köln 1919 var. (placement of date); Dattari (Savio) 3224; K&G 37.43; RPC IV.4 Online 13719/19 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 1886.14 (R3). Dark brown patina with traces of red, obverse slightly rough. VF. ($300) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 278 (25 April 2012), lot 247 (hammer $750).

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EGYPT, Alexandria. Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ Drachm (33.5mm, 27.25 g, 12h). Dated RY 3 (AD 162/163). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Draped and conjoined busts right of Helios, radiate, and Selene, wearing crescent crown; L Γ (date) across field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 3465 corr. (regnal year 3 not 6); Dattari (Savio) Supplement Pl. 22, no. 18 (same dies?); K&G 37.268 corr. (same); RPC IV.4 Online 13803/3 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmet 2134 var. (regnal years 5 & 6). Dark green and brown patina with touches of red, and some light earthen highlights/deposits, minor edge splits. VF. Extremely rare, only one specimen in CoinArchives, this coin, and three specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin. ($1500) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Triton XVIII (6 January 2015), lot 913.

509.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ Drachm (31mm, 20.69 g, 12h). Dated RY 12 (AD 171/172).

Laureate head right / Draped bust of Serapis-Ammon(?) right, wearing kalathos and ram’s horn, above ram standing right; [L] IB (date) across upper field. Köln 2076; Dattari (Savio) 3553 & 3555; K&G 37.360; RPC IV.4 Online 14696; Emmett 2201.12 (R5). Black patina with some light earthen highlights/deposits, light roughness. Near VF. Extremely rare, the authors of RPC cite only three specimens, and none in CoinArchives. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

There are two distinct varieties of this rare type. One with Ammon wearing his traditional solar disk, and a second, like this coin, where Ammon is wearing a distinct kalathos. This could be an attempt to merge the two deities, or just a mistake by the celator.

510.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ Drachm (32mm, 22.19 g, 12h). Dated RY 6 of Marcus Aurelius (AD 165/6). Draped bust right / Statuette of Harpokrates-Herakles standing facing, head left, his right hand raised to his mouth, cradling hawk-tipped club with his left arm, which also has a lion’s skin draped over it; to either side of Harpokrates, a canopic jar of Osiris vis-a-vis, both crowned with different headdresses and decorations on the jars; all set on eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings displayed; L ς (date) across lower field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 3623 (this coin); K&G 38.25; RPC IV.4 Online 14468/6 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 2291.6 (R5). Dark brown patina with traces of green. Near VF. Extremely rare, the authors of RPC Online cite only eight specimens, including this coin. ($500) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 81 (20 May 2009), lot 881 (realized $1000 hammer); Giovanni Dattari Collection, no. 3623.

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511.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ Drachm (33mm, 28.76 g, 12h). Dated RY 15 of Antoninus Pius (AD 151/152). Draped bust right / Altar of Agathodaimon: tetrastyle façade with garlanded entablature set on two-tiered base; above, aphlasta on either end; pyre of burning pinecones in center; statue standing within; I Є (date) to either side, L below. Köln 1961; Dattari (Savio) 3305-6; RPC IV.4 Online 14749/23 (this coin cited and illustrated); K&G 38.69; Emmett 1971.15 (R3). Dark brown patina with touches of green and red, some light roughness. VF. Rare. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian, purchased from Willian M. Rosenblum. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXI (9 September 1994), lot 1396.

512.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Lucius Verus. AD 161-169. Æ Drachm (33mm, 23.53 g, 12h). Dated RY 6 (AD 165/166).

Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Semasia on horseback riding left, wearing elephant skin headdress and holding palm frond and reins; CHMA/CIA in two lines below; L ς (date) to either side. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 3780; K&G 39.163; RPC IV.4 Online 14613/18 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 2433.6. Dark green and brown patina, chipped in one spot on reverse, patch of obverse roughness. Near VF. ($500) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Jacquier Auction 38 (13 September 2013), lot 250. Σημείον means ‘signal,’ as σημεία is a military standard, which signals the location of an army. Semasia, therefore, is the herald that brings news of a military triumph – in this case the news that the Parthians had been routed by the Roman army, losing Seleuceia and Ctesiphon in the wake of the Armenian War. This very rare and interesting depiction of Semasia also occurs on Alexandrian drachms of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina Junior, further recounting the military exploits during the reign of Marcus Aurelius.

513.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Commodus. AD 177-192. BI Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 11.32 g, 12h). Dated RY 29 of Marcus Aurelius (AD 188/189). Laureate head right / Pharos of Alexandria, on left, and corbita under sail right; [L] KΘ (date) in exergue. Köln 2242-3; Dattari (Savio) 3903; K&G 41.113; Emmett 2542.29. Dark green to black patina with lighter green highlights. Good VF. Struck on a larger flan than usually encountered for this popular issue. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Alexandre de Barros Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 75, 23 May 2007), lot 883; Classical Numismatic Group 41 (19 March 1997), lot 1200.

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514.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Commodus. AD 177-192. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 10.30 g, 12h). Dated RY 29 of Marcus Aurelius (AD 188/189). Laureate head right / Pharos of Alexandria, on left, and corbita under sail right; [L] KΘ (date) in exergue. Köln 2242-3; Dattari (Savio) 3903; K&G 41.113; Emmett 2542.29. Dark gray-brown patina with traces of green, old scratch beneath patina on obverse. VF. ($500) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Elsen 98 (13 December 2008), lot 605.

515 516 517 515.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Commodus. AD 177-192. BI Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 13.16 g, 12h). Dated RY 29 of Marcus Aurelius (AD 188/189). Laureate head right / Pharos of Alexandria, on left, and corbita under sail right; [L] KΘ (date) in exergue.

Köln 2242-3; Dattari (Savio) 3903; K&G 41.113; Emmett 2542.29. Dark brown patina, a couple minor pits. VF. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian. Ex George Fisher Collection, with his 2x2 holder/ticket included.

516.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 10.76 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 193/194). Laureate head right / Dikaiosyne standing facing, head left, holding scales with her right hand, cradling cornucopia with her left arm; L B (date) to upper left. Köln 2266; Dattari 3989; K&G 49.2; Emmett 2664.2. Dark brown patina with traces of red, a bit of porosity. VF. Rare. ($500) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian.

517.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.27 g, 12h). Dated RY 4 (195/196). Laureate head right / Tyche enthroned left, holding rudder and cornucopia; L ∆ (date) to upper left. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 9704; K&G 49.17; Emmett 2689.4 (R5). Dark brown surfaces. VF. Nice metal quality. Very rare. ($500) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian. Ex Hermanubis Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 105, 10 May 2017), lot 614.

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EGYPT, Alexandria. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Drachm (34mm, 21.60 g, 12h). Dated RY 22 (AD 213/214).

Laureate head right / Serapis standing facing, his right hand raised, and holding scepter with his left; to left, [L] KB (date) above lit altar. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 4072; K&G –; Emmett 2849.22 (R5). Dark brown patina with touches of green and red, light overall roughness and pitting. VF. Extremely rare. ($500) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 79 (17 September 2008), lot 732.

519.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ Drachm (33.5mm, 28.39 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 (AD 230/231). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Draped bust of Serapis right, wearing ornate kalathos; L I (date) to left, palm frond to right. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 4439 & 10008; K&G 62.148; Emmett 3174.10 (R3 – citing Milne 3043). Dark green patina with patches of red, minor roughness, irregular flan. Good VF. Very rare, only two in CoinArchives. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian, purchased from Willian M. Rosenblum.

The palm frond on Severus Alexander’s regnal year 10 coinage alludes to the decennalia ludi, public games celebrating the completion of a ten-year reign. He would continue to use the palm frond on his coinage through his year 14 coinage.

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EGYPT, Alexandria. Julia Mamaea. Augusta, AD 222-235. Æ Drachm (33mm, 28.87 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 of Severus Alexander (AD 230/231). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Eagle standing right, head left, with wings folded, holding wreath in beak; palm frond to left, L I (date) to right. Köln 2514; Dattari (Savio) 4560 (this coin); K&G 64.38; RPC VI Online 10480/1 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 3243.10 (R5). Mottled dark green, brown, and red patina, minor roughness. VF. Extremely rare, this is the only specimen cited by the authors of RPC Online. ($750) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 85 (15 September 2010), lot 730 (hammer $1300); Giovanni Dattari Collection, no. 4560.

521.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Philip I. AD 244-249. Potin Tetradrachm (24mm, 11.59 g, 12h). Dated RY 4 (AD 246/247).

Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Radiate and draped bust of Sarapis-Pantheos right, wearing kalathos with a horn to either side, and the horn of Ammon; before, cornucopia of Nilus; over his right shoulder, trident of Poseidon entwined with serpent of Asklepios; L ∆ (date) across field. Köln 2732; Dattari (Savio) 4916; K&G 74.73; RPC VIII Online 2808/21 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 3510.4. Dark brown surfaces with some bare metal on the highpoints. VF. ($300) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 79 (17 September 2008), lot 746 (hammer $1200).

Sarapis was a syncretic god, combining Hellenistic Greek and Egyptian religious beliefs. His name is of Egyptian origin and derives from a synthesis of Ausar (Greek, Osiris), the Egyptian god of the Underworld, and Hapi (Greek, Apis), a manifestation of the god Ptah. Under the Ptolemies, Sarapis became the chief tutelary god and the subject of a royally-sponsored cult, whose emphasis on an afterlife made the worship of Sarapis one of the more popular mystery cults. His immense popularity soon extended to his creation as Sarapis-Pantheos, a hybrid deity incorporating other divine elements. In the case of the present specimen, he is depicted with the radiate crown of Helios, his own kalathos, the ram’s horn of Ammon, the cornucopia of Nilus, and the trident of Poseidon entwined with the serpent of Asklepios.

522

523

522.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Philip II. AD 247-249. Æ Drachm (30.5mm, 19.75 g, 11h). Dated RY 6 of Philip I (AD 248/249). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Horned bust of Ammon right, slight drapery, wearing crown of Isis; L ς (date) across field, palm frond below chin. Köln 2806; Dattari (Savio) 5070; K&G 76.69; RPC VIII Online 2702/6 (this coin cited and illustrated); Emmett 3629.6 (R4). Dark brown patina with touches of green encrustation, minor roughness. VF. Extremely rare, the authors of RPC Online cite only ten specimens, including this coin. ($500) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Collection CR (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 237, 21 July 2010), lot 252.

523.

ZEUGITANA, Utica. Tiberius. AD 14-37. Æ Dupondius (31mm, 17.36 g, 6h). Vibius Marsus, proconsul for the second year; L. Caecilius Pius, duovir. Struck AD 28/9. Bare head left / Livia, veiled, seated right, holding scepter and phiale; M M/I V across field. RPC I 736; MAA 114a; SNG Copenhagen 440. Dark brown patina. Good VF. Exceptional. ($300) From the Rocky Mountain Collection.

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ROMAN REPUBLICAN COINAGE

524. Anonymous. Circa 300/280-276 BC. AR (Fourrée?) Didrachm (19mm, 7.22 g, 10h). Uncertain (Neapolis?) mint.

Helmeted head of Mars left; oak spray to right / Horse’s head right, wearing bridle, on base inscribed rOÂANO; stalk of grain to left. Crawford 13/1; Burnett 25 (Ox/Rx); Sydenham 1; RSC 4; cf. RBW 3 (for type). Toned, porosity, a couple marks and light scratches. VF. ($1000) From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXIII (13 October 1992), lot 287.

In his article, Andrew Burnett classifies the dies for this variety as being a part of a group of “ancient plated coins.” He states “The silver plating is often relatively thick, and to the eye the coins may well appear quite normal. It is necessary, wherever possible, to ascertain the specific gravity as this is the only sure criterion.”

525. Anonymous. Circa 225-214 BC. AR Didrachm – Quadrigatus (23.5mm, 6.70 g, 7h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Janus; curved truncation / Jupiter, hurling thunderbolt and holding scepter, in galloping quadriga right driven by Victory; incuse ROMA in raised tablet below. Crawford 28/3; Sydenham 64a; RSC 23; RBW 65-6. Lightly toned with a bit of find patina on the edge, some light scratches and marks. EF. Well centered. ($1500)

526. Anonymous. Circa 225-217 BC. Æ Aes Grave As (60mm, 275.5 g, 12h). Prow right, libral cast series. Rome mint.

Head of bearded Janus; – (mark of value) below; all on a raised disk / Prow of galley right; i (mark of value) above; all on a raised disk. Crawford 35/1; Sydenham 71; ICC 74; Thurlow-Vecchi 51; HN Italy 337; RBW 83; Andersen 21.4 (this coin).

Dark green patina with touches of reddish brown, light roughness. VF. ($2000) From the Apollo to Apollo Collection. Ex David Heuer Collection (Baldwin’s Argentum Auction (4 June 2011), lot 12.

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527.

Anonymous. Circa 225-217 BC. Æ Aes Grave Triens (46.5mm, 102.10 g, 12h). Prow right, libral cast series. Rome mint. Helmeted head of Minerva left; •••• (mark of value) below; all on a raised disk / Prow of galley right; •••• (mark of value) below; all on a raised disk. Crawford 35/3a; ICC 78; HN Italy 339; RBW 87. Dark green patina with some light earthen highlights/deposits, minor roughness. VF. ($750)

528. Anonymous. Circa 217-215 BC. Æ Semuncia (20mm, 7.20 g, 12h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Mercury right, wearing winged petasus / Prow of galley right. Crawford 38/7; Sydenham 87; RBW 100-2. Lovely emerald green patina, a few light scratches and metal flaws. Good VF. ($500)

Lovely 60 Asses

529.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC. AV 60 Asses (14.5mm, 3.36 g, 1h). Rome mint. Bearded head of Mars right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; çc (mark of value) to left / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt, with wings spread; rOÂA below. Crawford 44/2; Sydenham 226; Bahrfeldt 4a; Biaggi 3; RBW 160–1. Lustrous, some light hairlines. EF. Well centered. ($5000) Ex Gemini I (11 January 2005), lot 272.

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530. Anonymous. 211-208 BC. AR Victoriatus (17mm, 3.53 g, 4h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Jupiter right / Victory standing right, crowning trophy. Crawford 90/2 = Crawford, Early 190; Schaefer & Friedman Fig. 24; Sydenham 83; RSC –; RBW –. Hint of toning with underlying luster, small die break on reverse, weakly struck in areas. Good VF. Very rare, only nine correctly attributed in CoinArchives (ranging from $550 to $6000). ($750)

531. Anonymous. 179-170 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.85 g, 5h). Fly series. Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) to left / Diana driving biga right; fly below horses. Crawford 159/2; Sydenham 322; RSC 22b; RBW 694. Toned. Good VF. ($200) Ex Andrew McCabe Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 432, 14 November 2018), lot 226, purchased from Germania Inferior, 2015.

532.

C. Scribonius. 154 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 4.13 g, 5h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) behind / The Dioscuri, each holding spear, on horseback right. Crawford 201/1; Sydenham 380; Scribonia 1; RBW 864. Lovely iridescent toning. In NGC encapsulation, 4933921-001, graded Ch AU. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Scarce in this condition. ($400) From the Richard Basler Collection.

533.

L. Iteius. 149 BC. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.36 g, 12h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; X behind / The Dioscuri, each holding spear, on horseback right. Crawford 209/1; Sydenham 394; Itia 1; RBW 892. Attractive cabinet toning with some blue iridescence, a couple light scratches. Good VF. Rare moneyer. ($300) 140

534.

Sex. Pompeius Fostlus. 137 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.95 g, 1h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; capis to left, X (mark of value) below chin / She-wolf standing right, head left, suckling the twins (Remus and Romulus); to left, shepherd Faustulus standing right; in background, birds on fig tree. Crawford 235/1c; Sydenham 461a; Pompeia 1a; RBW 972.

EF. ($500)

535.

M. Baebius Q.f. Tampilus. 137 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.97 g, 12h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma left; X (mark of value) below chin; TAMPIL behind / Apollo driving quadriga right, holding bow and arrow. Crawford 236/1a; Sydenham 489; Baebia 12; RBW 975. Light iridescent toning. EF. ($500)

536.

Cn. Lucretius Trio. 136 BC. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.92 g, 9h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; TRIO downward behind head, X (mark of value) below chin / The Dioscuri, each holding spear, on horseback riding right. Crawford 237/1a; Sydenham 450; Lucretia 1; RBW 978. Lustrous, minor deposit on obverse. Superb EF. Exceptional, virtually as struck. ($500)

537.

Cn. Lucretius Trio. 136 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.93 g, 1h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; x (mark of value) below chin, TriO behind / The Dioscuri, each holding spear, on horseback right. Crawford 237/1a; Sydenham 450; Lucretia 1; RBW 978. Deeply toned. In NGC encapsulation, 4862671-003, graded Ch AU. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. ($500) Ex Dr. Erik Miller Collection (Spink 19004, 27 March 2019), lot 171.

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538.

C. Aburius Geminus. 134 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.94 g, 10h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; mark of value below chin / Mars driving galloping quadriga right, holding trophy, shield, reins, and spear. Crawford 244/1; Sydenham 490; Aburia 1; RBW 1006. Lustrous with a hint of toning. EF. ($750)

539.

M. Marcius Mn.f. 134 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.88 g, 11h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; modius to left, mark of value below chin / Victory, holding whip in right hand and reins in left, driving biga right; below, two grain ears. Crawford 245/1; Sydenham 500; Marcia 8; RBW 1009. Lustrous, minor roughness on obverse. EF. ($400)

540.

P. Maenius Antiaticus M.f. 132 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.99 g, 6h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; mark of value to left / Victory driving quadriga right, holding goad, reins, and wreath. Crawford 249/1; Sydenham 492; Maenia 7; RBW 1023. Attractive light iridescent toning with underlying luster, a few minor marks. EF. ($400)

541.

P. Maenius Antiaticus M.f. 132 BC. Æ (18.5mm, 3.95 g, 1h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; mark of value to left / Victory driving quadriga right, holding goad, reins, and wreath. Crawford 249/1; Sydenham 492; Maenia 7; RBW 1023.

Beautiful iridescent toning. In NGC encapsulation, 4631299-007, graded Ch AU★. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 5/5. ($400)

542.

M. Aburius M.f. Geminus. 132 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.05 g, 10h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; mark of value below chin / Sol driving galloping quadriga right, holding reins and whip. Crawford 250/1; Sydenham 487; Aburia 6; RBW 1027. Lustrous with a hint of toning, a bit of striking weakness on the horses. EF. ($500) 142

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M. Cipius M.f. 115-114 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.87 g, 3h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) to left / Victory driving galloping biga right, holding reins and palm frond; rudder below. Crawford 289/1; Sydenham 546; Cipia 1; RBW 1118. Lightly toned, some minor porosity. EF. ($300) 544.

P. Nerva. 113-112 BC. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.95 g, 12h). Rome mint. Helmeted bust of Roma left, holding shield and spear; crescent above, mark of value to left / Three citizens voting on comitium: one voter receives ballot from attendant below, another voter places ballot in cista; P on tablet above bar. Crawford 292/1; Sydenham 548; Licinia 7; RBW 1125.

Lightly toned with some find patina on the edge, a few faint scratches. Good VF. ($300) From the Raintree Collection.

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546

545.

L. Philippus. 113-112 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.82 g, 3h). Rome mint. Head of Philip V of Macedon right, wearing diademed royal Macedonian helmet with goat horns; Roma monogram to left, Φ below chin / Equestrian statue right on inscribed tablet, holding laurel branch; flower below horse; mark of value in exergue. Crawford 293/1; Sydenham 551; Marcia 12; RBW 1132. Some light marks and scratches. Near EF. ($300) From the Raintree Collection.

546.

Cn. Blasio Cn.f. 112-111 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.02 g, 9h). Rome mint. Helmeted male head right (of Mars, Scipio Africanus, or Blasio?); star behind / Jupiter standing slightly left between Juno and Minerva, the latter crowning Jupiter with wreath; crescent between Jupiter and Minerva. Crawford 296/1e; Sydenham 561b; Cornelia 19; RBW 1136 var. (control symbol and letter). A hint of toning, light scratch on obverse, some die rust on both sides. EF. ($300) From the Raintree Collection.

547.

C. Fabius C.f. Hadrianus. 102 BC. Æ As (33mm, 22.05 g, 10h). Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; to right, bird (stork, heron, or flamingo) standing right on rostrum. Crawford 322/2; Sydenham 591; RBW 1178. Dark brown patina with traces of red and green, some minor deposits in the devices. Good VF. ($500) From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Goodman Collection (Triton I, 2 December 1997), lot 1138; Dr. E. P. Nicolas Collection (Kampmann, 9 March 1982), lot 34; Rev. Edward A. Sydenham Collection (Glendining, 24 November 1948), lot 159 (part of); Joseph Martini Collection (R. Ratto, 24 February 1930), lot 612.

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L. Titurius L.f. Sabinus. 89 BC. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.41 g, 4h). Rome mint. Bareheaded, bearded head of King Tatius right; palm frond below chin / Tarpeia facing, buried to her waist in shields, with raised hands she tries to thrust off two soldiers who are about to cast their shields at her; star in crescent above. Crawford 344/2b; Sydenham 699; Tituria 4; RBW 1301. Deep iridescent toning. In NGC encapsulation, 4933921-002, graded Ch AU. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. A fine example of this type. ($400) From the Richard Basler Collection.

549.

Gargilius, Ogulnius, and Vergilius. 86 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.65 g, 5h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; thunderbolt below / Jupiter, holding thunderbolt in right hand and reins in left, driving galloping quadriga right.

Crawford 350A/2; Sydenham 723; RSC 226; RBW 1333. Toned. In NGC encapsulation, 4862671-005, graded AU★. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. ($500) Ex Dr. Erik Miller Collection (Spink 19004, 27 March 2019), lot 188.

550.

Gargilius, Ogulnius, and Vergilius. 86 BC. Æ As (26.5mm, 10.75 g, 5h). Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley left. Crawford 350A/3b; Sydenham 722a; RBW 1336. Rough brown surfaces.

VF. ($200) Ex Fallani Collection (Vecchi 3, 13 September 1996), lot 578 (since cleaned).

551.

Mn. Fonteius C.f. 85 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 4.00 g, 7h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Vejovis (or Apollo) right; thunderbolt below / Infant winged Genius (or Cupid) seated on goat, which is standing right; pilei of the Dioscuri above; thyrsus with fillet in exergue; all within laurel wreath. Crawford 353/1c; Sydenham 724a; Fonteia 10; RBW 1351. Lovely iridescent toning with underlying luster, a few light scratches. EF. ($500) From the Collection of a Texas Wine Doctor, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, 26 March 1988 (lot includes Wolfe’s envelope and a Spink ticket).

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C. Norbanus. 83 BC. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.78 g, 5h). Rome mint. Diademed head of Venus right; XIII behind / Fasces between grain ear on left and caduceus on right. Crawford 357/1b; Sydenham 739; Norbana 2; RBW 1363 var. (control number). Light iridescent toning. In NGC encapsulation, 4374105-001, graded AU. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. ($300) From the Richard Basler Collection.

553.

Q. Antonius Balbus. 83-82 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (19mm, 4.65 g, 4h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Jupiter right / Victory driving quadriga right, holding reins, palm frond, and wreath; L below horses. Crawford 364/1d; Sydenham 742b; Antonia 1; RBW 1374 var. (reverse control letter). Lightly toned, minor deposits in the devices. Near EF. An exceptionally overweight example at 4.65 grams. ($400)

554.

C. Mamilius Limetanus. 82 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (19mm, 4.05 g, 8h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Mercury right, wearing winged petasus; to left, A above caduceus / Ulysses walking right, holding staff and extending hand toward his dog, Argus. Crawford 362/1; Sydenham 741; Mamilia 6; RBW 1370 var. (obv. control letter). Lightly toned. In NGC encapsulation, 4681749-008, graded AU. Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5. ($400) From the Richard Basler Collection.

555.

L. Censorinus. 82 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.00 g, 6h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right / Marsyas standing left, raising hand and holding wineskin over shoulder; to right, column surmounted by statue of Minerva(?) standing right. Crawford 363/1d; Sydenham 737; Marcia 24; RBW 1372. Deep iridescent toning. Superb EF. Well struck, with excellent detail on the figure of Marsyas. ($500) Ex Alan J. Harlan Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 111, 29 May 2019), lot 613, purchased from Edward J. Waddell, Ltd.

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C. Valerius Flaccus. 82 BC. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.96 g, 7h). Massalia mint. Winged and draped bust of Victory right; winged caduceus before / Aquila between two signa inscribed H (hastati) and P (principes), respectively. Crawford 365/1c; Sydenham 747; Valeria 12a; RBW –. Lovely cabinet toning. In NGC encapsulation, 4862671-006, graded AU★.

Strike: 4/5, Surface: 5/5. ($750) Ex Dr. Erik Miller Collection (Spink 19004, 27 March 2019), lot 195.

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557.

M. Caecilius Q.f. Q.n. Metellus. Restored issue, 82-80 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.96 g, 6h). Rome mint. Head of Apollo right, wearing taenia; mark of value below chin / Macedonian shield with elephant’s head on central boss; all within laurel wreath. Crawford 369/1; Sydenham 719; Caecilia 30; RBW 1389. Lightly toned, two tiny flan cracks, small pit on obverse. EF. ($500) From the Raintree Collection. Ex Claude Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 864.

558.

A. Postumius A.f. Sp.n. Albinus. 81 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (18.5mm, 3.80 g, 7h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Diana right, with bow and quiver over shoulder; bucranium above / Togate figure standing left on rock, holding aspergillum over head of ox standing right; lighted altar between them. Crawford 372/1; Sydenham 745; Postumia 7; RBW 1392. Deeply toned with some iridescence. In NGC encapsulation, 4933921-005, graded AU★. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 5/5. ($300) From the Richard Basler Collection.

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A. Postumius A.f. Sp.n. Albinus. 81 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (19mm, 3.74 g, 9h). Rome mint. Veiled head of Hispania right / Togate figure standing left, raising hand, between aquila and fasces. Crawford 372/2; Sydenham 746; Postumia 8; RBW 1393. Attractive iridescent toning, reverse struck slightly off center. EF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection.

560.

Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius. 81 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.67 g, 6h). North Italian mint. Diademed head of Pietas right; before, stork right / Elephant walking left. Crawford 374/1; Sydenham 750; Caecilia 43; RBW 1396. Attractive toning with light iridescence, a few light scratches, minor die breaks. Near EF. ($300) 146

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C. Poblicius Q.f. 80 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (18mm, 3.88 g, 10h). Rome mint. Helmeted and draped bust of Roma right; E above / Hercules standing left, strangling Nemean Lion; club at his feet, E above bow and arrows to left. Crawford 380/1; Sydenham 768; Poblicia 9; RBW 1408 var. (control letter). Deep iridescent toning, some obverse die rust. Near EF. ($300) From the Raintree Collection. Ex Mayflower (Sukenik) Collection (Heritage 3019, 25 April 2012), lot 23272; Empire Coins Auction 10 (6 May 1989), lot 166.

562.

L. Papius. 79 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (18mm, 3.94 g, 5h). Rome mint. Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat-skin headdress; chisel to left / Griffin springing right; hammer below. Crawford 384/1 (symbols 30); Sydenham 773; Papia 1; CNR Papia 1/86 (symbols scalpello/martelletto); RBW 1412-3 var. (symbols). Lightly toned. In NGC encapsulation, 4681749-001, graded AU. Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5. ($300) From the Richard Basler Collection.

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C. Postumius. 73 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.92 g, 6h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Diana right, with bow and quiver over shoulder / Hound running right; spear below. Crawford 394/1a; Sydenham 785; Postumia 9; RBW 1434. Lightly toned, a few light scratches and marks. Near EF. ($300) 564.

Mn. Aquillius Mn.f. Mn.n. 65 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (19mm, 3.94 g, 6h). Rome mint. Helmeted and draped bust of Virtus right / Mn. Aquillius standing right, holding shield and raising up kneeling figure of Sicily. Crawford 401/1; Sydenham 798; Aquillia 2; RBW 1443. Lustrous with some faint hairlines, reverse struck slightly off center. EF. ($500) From the Collection of a Texas Wine Doctor.

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C. Hosidius C.f. Geta. 64 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (18.5mm, 3.85 g, 6h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Diana right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Calydonian boar standing right, pierced by spear and attacked by dog. Crawford 407/1; Sydenham 904; Hosidia 2; RBW 1455. Lightly toned, traces of die rust, some minor porosity, light cleaning scratches. EF. ($300) From the Raintree Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 79 (17 September 2008), lot 932.

566.

C. Hosidius C.f. Geta. 64 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 4.03 g, 6h). Rome mint. Diademed and draped bust of Diana right, with bow and quiver over shoulder / Calydonian Boar standing right, pierced by spear and harried by hound below.

Crawford 407/2; Sydenham 903; Hosidia 1; RBW 1456. A hint of toning, a bit of obverse die rust, some light hairlines. Near EF. ($400) 147

567.

L. Furius Cn.f. Brocchus. 63 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.93 g, 6h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain ears; stalk of grain to left, barley grain to right / Curule chair between two fasces. Crawford 414/1; Sydenham 902; Furia 23; RBW 1495. Lightly toned with underlying luster. EF. ($500) Ex Classical Numismatic Group 106 (13 September 2017), lot 659.

569 568 568.

L. Scribonius Libo. 62 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.91 g, 7h). Rome mint. Diademed head of Bonus Eventus right / Puteal Scribonianum (Scribonian wellhead), decorated with garland and two lyres; hammer at base. Crawford 416/1a; Sydenham 928; Scribonia 8a; RBW 1500. Beautiful iridescent toning. In NGC encapsulation, 4681749-006, graded AU. Strike: 4/5, Surface: 3/5, scuff. ($300) From the Richard Basler Collection.

569.

L. Scribonius Libo. 62 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.91 g, 5h). Rome mint. Diademed head of Bonus Eventus right / Puteal Scribonianum (Scribonian wellhead), decorated with garland and two lyres; hammer at base. Crawford 416/1a; Sydenham 928; Scribonia 8a; RBW 1500. Lustrous with some faint hairlines, struck slightly off center. Choice EF. ($300) From the Collection of a Texas Wine Doctor, purchased from Rob Golan, 5 October 1998.

570.

C. Piso L.f. Frugi. 61 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.91 g, 6h). Rome mint. Head of Apollo right, wearing taenia; flower (or plant) to left / Horseman, holding palm frond, galloping right; staff (or rod) below. Crawford 408/1b (O49/R–); Hersh, Piso – (O314/R2036 [unlisted die combination]); Sydenham 851h; Calpurnia 24; RBW –. Deep iridescent toning. In NGC encapsulation, 4681749-007, graded Ch AU. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5. ($300) From the Richard Basler Collection.

571.

L. Roscius Fabatus. 59 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (17.5mm, 3.99 g, 8h). Rome mint. Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat skin headdress; helmet to left / Female standing right, feeding serpent to right; satyr’s mask (or head) to left.

Crawford 412/1 (symbol pair 44); Sydenham 915; Roscia 3; RBW 1491-2 var. (control symbols). Deep iridescent toning, a couple of scratches on the obverse. In NGC encapsulation, 4374105-005, graded MS. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. ($400) From the Richard Basler Collection.

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L. Marcius Philippus. 57 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.67 g, 6h). Rome mint. Diademed head of Ancus Marcius right; lituus to left / Equestrian statue right on aqueduct; flower below horse. Crawford 425/1; Sydenham 919; Marcia 28; RBW 1524.

Lustrous with a hint of toning, obverse struck slightly off center, a few light marks and scratches. EF. ($300) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 47 (16 September 1998), lot 1279.

Euterpe – Muse of Lyric Poetry

573.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.88 g, 6h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; two crossed tibiae behind / Euterpe, the Muse of Music and Lyric Poetry, wearing long flowing tunic and peplum, standing right, leaning head on hand and holding two tibiae. Crawford 410/5; Sydenham 815; Pomponia 13; RBW 1487. A few faint marks.

Good VF. Well centered on both sides. ($750) From the Raintree Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 85 (15 September 2010), lot 814.

The ‘Other’ Erato

574.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.97 g, 7h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; handle of plectrum to left / Erato, the Muse of Erotic Poetry, standing right, holding plectrum at side with right hand and lyre with left.

Crawford 410/7d corr. (obv. symbol and rev. type); Sydenham 820a corr. (same); Pomponia 17a corr. (same); RBW –; see P. Davis, “Erato or Terpsichore: A Reassessment” in FIDES, for the identification of the muse as Erato. Lightly toned, hairline scratches. Good VF. ($1500) This type is called “Terpsichore” by Crawford and most other authors, but Phil Davis has recently identified this coin type as Erato. A complete discussion of this subject can be found in the article Phil wrote for the festschrift created for the late Rick Witschonke (FIDES, pp. 393-401).

Phil’s logic is very sound and will make completing a set of Muses much easier as the previously rare, known from a single die, Erato is now shown to be a die variety. (Davis identifies the obverse turtle symbol as being for Terpsichore.)

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Urania – Muse of Astronomy

575.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 4.03 g, 6h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; star of eight rays to left / Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, wearing long flowing tunic and peplum, standing left, touching globe set on base with a wand held in her right hand. Crawford 410/8; Sydenham 823; Pomponia 22; RBW 1488. Attractive light iridescent toning with some faint hairlines, obverse struck off center. EF. ($2000) From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex JD Collection (Part II, Numismatica Ars Classica 72, 16 May 2013), lot 472 (hammer 5500 CHF); Claude Collection (Triton VIII, 10 January 2005), lot 900.

Although the moneyer Q. Pomponius Musa is unknown to history, his choice of Hercules Musagetes and the nine Muses as coin types is remarkable and clearly connected to his cognomen.

The reverses of this series – Hercules playing the lyre and the Muses, can be none other than the celebrated statue group by an unknown Greek artist, taken from Ambracia and placed in the Aedes Herculis Musarum, which was erected by M. Fulvius Nobilior in 187 BC after the capture of Ambracia in 189 BC (Plin. NH xxxv.66; Ov. Fast. vi.812). By the second century BC, Rome had overrun most of Greece and was captivated by Hellenic art and culture, not the least of which was its sculpture. Fulvius is said to have taken the statues to Rome because he learned in Greece that Hercules was a musagetes (leader of the Muses). Remains of this temple have been found in the area of the Circus Flaminius close to the southwest part of the circus itself, and northwest of the porticus Octaviae. An inscription found nearby, ‘M. Fulvius M. f. Ser. n. Nobilior cos. Ambracia cepit’ may have been on the pedestal of one of the statues. The official name of the temple was Herculis Musarum Aedes, which Servius and Plutarch called Herculis et Musarum Aedes.

576.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 4.06 g, 3h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; star of seven rays to left / Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, wearing long flowing tunic and peplum, standing left, touching globe set on base with a wand held in her right hand. Crawford 410/8; Sydenham 823; Pomponia 22; RBW 1488. Attractive light toning, a few light scratches and marks, small metal flaw on obverse. EF. A lovely coin in hand. ($1500)

Thalia – Muse of Comedy

577.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 4.12 g, 5h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; sandal to left / Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, wearing long flowing tunic and peplum, standing left and leaning left arm on column, holding persona (comic mask) in outstretched right hand. Crawford 410/9b; Sydenham 821; Pomponia 19; RBW –. Lovely iridescent toning. In NGC encapsulation, 4933921-006, graded AU. Strike: 4/5, Surface: 5/5. ($750) From the Richard Basler Collection.

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Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 4.06 g, 7h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Diana right, wearing diadem with crescent; lituus to left / Sulla seated left on raised seat; before him, Bocchus, king of Mauretania, kneels, offering an olive branch; behind, Jugurtha, king of Numidia, also kneeling, his hands tied behind him. Crawford 426/1; Sydenham 879; Cornelia 59; RBW 1525. Lightly toned with a hint of iridescence. Near EF. ($1000) Ex Jack A. Frazer Collection (Triton XXIII, 14 January 2020), lot 598; Numismatica Ars Classica 21 (17 May 2001), lot 258.

579 580 579.

C. Memmius C.f. 56 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.96 g, 9h). Rome mint. Laureate and bearded head of Quirinus right / Ceres seated right, holding torch and three stalks of grain; erect serpent to right. Crawford 427/2; Sydenham 921; Memmia 9; RBW 1532. Lightly toned, some minor deposits in the devices, faint hairlines. EF. Nice style portrait of Quirinus.

Well centered. ($750) 580.

P. Fonteius P.f. Capito. 55 BC. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.86 g, 6h). Rome mint. Veiled head of Concordia right, wearing stephane / The Villa Publica: building consisting of two stories, each with a row of columns; the lower columns are surmounted by arches, the upper ones by a sloping roof. Crawford 429/2a; Sydenham 901; Fonteia 18 and Didia 1; RBW 1537.

Light iridescent toning. EF. ($500)

581.

Q. Cassius Longinus. 55 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.99 g, 5h). Rome mint. Young male head of Bonus Eventus (or Genius Populi Romani?) right; scepter to left / Eagle with wings spread standing right on winged thunderbolt; lituus to left, capis to right. Crawford 428/3; Sydenham 916; Cassia 7; RBW 1535. Deep iridescent toning. In NGC encapsulation, 4374105003, graded AU. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 5/5. Exceptional. ($500) From the Richard Basler Collection.

582.

Q. Servilius Caepio (M. Junius) Brutus. 54 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.10 g, 4h). Rome mint. Bare head of L. Junius Brutus right / Bare head of C. Servilius Ahala right. Crawford 433/2; Sydenham 907; Junia 30; RBW 1543. Light iridescent toning, a few light scratches and marks, small edge test cut and minor porosity. Near EF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Dr. Frank J. Novak Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXXI, Boston, 9 September 1994), lot 791, purchased by him from Edward Gans in 1963 for $30.

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Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. Q. Sicinius. Early 49 BC. AR Denarius (16.5mm, 3.96 g, 12h). Rome mint.

Diademed head of Fortuna Populi Romani right / Palm frond and winged caduceus, bound with fillet, in saltire; wreath with fillet above. Crawford 440/1; CRI 1; Sydenham 938; Sicinia 5; RBW 1555. Attractive toning with some iridescence, a couple light marks. EF. ($300) From the Raintree Collection.

584.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. Man. Acilius Glabrio. 49 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.97 g, 7h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Salus right / Valetudo (Salus) standing left, holding serpent in right hand and resting left arm on column to right. Crawford 442/1a; CRI 16; Sydenham 922; Acilia 8; RBW 1556. Attractive iridescent toning. In NGC encapsulation, 4681749-004, graded Ch AU. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. ($300) From the Richard Basler Collection.

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585.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. L. Hostilius Saserna. 48 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.82 g, 12h). Rome mint. Bare head of Gallia right; carnyx (Gallic trumpet) to left / Diana (Artemis) of Ephesus standing facing, placing hand on head of stag leaping left and holding spear. Crawford 448/3; CRI 19; Sydenham 953; Hostilia 4; RBW 1570. Iridescently toned, slight obverse die shift, a few scratches and marks. Near EF. ($750) 586.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. L. Plautius Plancus. 47 BC. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 4.04 g, 5h). Rome mint. Facing mask of Medusa with disheveled hair; coiled serpents flanking / Aurora flying right, conducting four horses of the sun and holding palm frond. Crawford 453/1a; CRI 29; Sydenham 959; Plautia 15; RBW 1583. Wonderful iridescent toning, spot of encrustation on the reverse. Good VF. ($500) From the Raintree Collection. Ex Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 767.

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Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. T. Carisius. 46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.80 g, 5h). Rome mint. Head of Sibyl Herophile right, hair elaborately decorated with jewels and enclosed in a sling and tied with bands / Sphinx seated right.

Crawford 464/1; CRI 69; Sydenham 983b; Carisia 11a; RBW 1613. Attractively toned with areas of find patina, reverse struck slightly off center. Good VF. ($300) 588.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. T. Carisius. 46 BC. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.71 g, 6h). Rome mint. Head of Juno Moneta right / Implements for coining money: anvil die with garlanded punch die above, tongs and hammer on either side; all within laurel wreath. Crawford 464/2; CRI 70; Sydenham 982a; Carisia 1a; RBW 1614. Toned with some iridescence, a few light scratches and marks, area of roughness and flan flaw on reverse. EF. ($300)

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Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. C. Vibius Varus. 42 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.96 g, 12h). Rome mint.

Head of Bacchus right, wearing wreath of ivy and grapes / Panther springing left; to left, garlanded altar surmounted by mask and thyrsus. Crawford 494/36; CRI 192; Sydenham 1138; Vibia 24; RBW 1739. Beautiful iridescent toning. EF. Exceptional depiction of Bacchus. ($1000)

590.

Special issues. L. Cestius and C. Norbanus. May-August 43 BC. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 8.08 g, 9h). Emergency issue of the Roman Senate. Rome mint. Draped bust of Africa right, wearing elephant skin headdress / Curule chair on which lies a Corinthian helmet, front legs ornamented with eagles flying, facing half-right; L • CeÍTiuÍ above, Í • C to left, pr to right, C • NOrBA in exergue. Crawford 491/1a; CRI 195; Sydenham 1153; Calicó 3; Biaggi 24; RBW 1716-7. Lustrous, some light marks. EF. ($10,000) Ex Tkalec (26 October 2007), lot 131.

591.

The Pompeians. Cnaeus Pompey Jr. Summer 46-Spring 45 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.92 g, 6h). Corduba mint; Marcus Poblicius, legatus pro praetore. Helmeted head of Roma right within bead and reel border / Hispania standing right, shield on her back, holding two spears over shoulder and presenting palm frond to Pompeian soldier standing left on prow, armed with sword. Crawford 469/1a; CRI 48; Sydenham 1035; RSC 1 (Pompey the Great); RBW –. Deeply toned, a few light marks. Near EF. ($750) From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XVII.4 (1992 Fourth Quarter), no. 207.

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The Pompeians. Cnaeus Pompey Jr. Summer 46-Spring 45 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.90 g, 6h). Corduba mint; Marcus Poblicius, legatus pro praetore. Helmeted head of Roma right within bead and reel border / Hispania standing right, shield on her back, holding two spears over shoulder and presenting palm frond to Pompeian soldier standing left on prow, armed with sword. Crawford 469/1a; CRI 48; Sydenham 1035; RSC 1 (Pompey the Great); RBW –. Attractively toned with some light iridescence, struck slightly off center, minor die break on reverse. EF. ($500)

593.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. April-August 49 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.82 g, 2h). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Elephant advancing right, trampling on horned serpent / Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis, and apex. Crawford 443/1; CRI 9; Sydenham 1006; RSC 49; RBW 1557. Traces of find patina. EF. Well centered and struck. ($2000)

594.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. April-August 49 BC. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.80 g, 3h). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Elephant advancing right, trampling on horned serpent / Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis, and apex. Crawford 443/1; CRI 9; Sydenham 1006; RSC 49; RBW 1557. Lovely toning with some iridescence, small edge flaw at 2 o’clock. EF. ($1500) From the Raintree Collection.

595.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. Late spring-early summer 48 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.92 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Diademed female head (Clementia?) right, wearing oak wreath; LII (= 52, Caesar’s age) behind / Gallic trophy, holding oval shield and carnyx; securis surmounted by wolf’s head to right. Crawford 452/2; CRI 11; Sydenham 1009; RSC 18; DCA 937; RBW –. Some minor porosity and light marks. Good VF. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 79 (17 September 2008), lot 990.

596.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. Late 48-47 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.91 g, 6h). Military mint traveling with Caesar in North Africa. Diademed head of Venus right / Aeneas advancing left, holding palladium and bearing Anchises on his shoulder. Crawford 458/1; CRI 55; Sydenham 1013; RSC 12; RBW 1600. A hint of toning. In NGC encapsulation, 4374105007, graded Ch XF. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. ($500) From the Richard Basler Collection.

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597.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. Late 48-47 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.89 g, 6h). Military mint traveling with Caesar in North Africa. Diademed head of Venus right / Aeneas advancing left, holding palladium and bearing Anchises on his shoulder. Crawford 458/1; CRI 55; Sydenham 1013; RSC 12; RBW 1600. Lightly toned, light hairlines. Near EF. ($500) From the Collection of a Texas Wine Doctor, purchased from Marshall Fields (Dept. Store), Chicago, 20 June 1987.

598.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. Early 46 BC. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.93 g, 11h). Rome mint; A. Hirtius, praetor.

Veiled female head (Vesta or Pietas?) right; C • CAeÍAr COÍ • Ter around / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: lituus, capis, and securis; A hirTiuÍ pr around from lower left. Crawford 466/1; Molinari 536-7 (D111/R322); CRI 56; Calicó 37; Sydenham 1018; RBW 1634. Some minor marks, a few light scratches, lamination flaw on obverse edge. VF. ($5000) From the El Medina Collection, purchased from Spink, early 1990’s (with ticket).

599.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. February-March 44 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.58 g, 4h). Rome mint. P. Sepullius Macer, moneyer. Wreathed head of Caesar right; CAeÍAr downward to right, DiCT perpeTuO upward to left / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory in outstretched right hand and with left, resting on vertical scepter set on shield; [p] ÍepuLLiuÍ downward to right, ÂACer downward to left. Crawford 480/10; Alföldi Type VIII, 47 (dies A10/R1); CRI 107a; Sydenham 1073; RSC 38; RBW –. Toned, a few minor deposits and light marks, reverse struck slightly off center and metal flaw at 6 o’clock. VF. ($1500) From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 1338.

600.

The Caesarians. Divus Julius Caesar. 40 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.73 g, 11h). Rome mint; Q. Voconius Vitulus, moneyer. Laureate head right; lituus to left / Bull-calf walking left. Crawford 526/2; CRI 329; Sydenham 1132; RSC 46; RBW –. Lightly toned, a few light scratches and marks, clashed reverse die. VF. ($1500) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Stack’s (8 December 1988), lot 2181.

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601.

The Republicans. Brutus. Spring-early summer 42 BC. AR Quinarius (12.5mm, 1.97 g, 1h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece. Diademed head of Libertas right / Stem of prow and anchor in saltire. Crawford 506/3; King 79; CRI 210; Sydenham 1288; RSC 5a; RBW 1779. Toned with touches of find patina, some light porosity. VF. ($750) From the Grand Haven Collection, purchased privately from Shanna Schmidt.

602.

The Republicans. Brutus. Spring-early summer 42 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.79 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus in southwestern Asia Minor; L Sestius, proquaestor. Veiled and draped bust of Libertas right / Tripod; securis to left, simpulum to right. Crawford 502/2; CRI 201; Sydenham 1290; RSC 11; RBW 1768. Light iridescent toning. EF. Well centered and an attractive specimen for this type. ($1500) From the Grand Haven Collection.

603.

The Republicans. Brutus. Late summer-autumn 42 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.89 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece; P. Servilius Casca Longus, moneyer. Laureate and bearded head of Neptune right; trident below / Victory advancing right on broken scepter, holding palm frond over shoulder and broken diadem bound with fillet with both hands. Crawford 507/2; CRI 212; Sydenham 1298; RSC 3; RBW 1780. Toned.

Good VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection (Triton XVI, 8 January 2013), lot 924; Triton XI (8 January 2008), lot 618; Classical Numismatic Group XXXIII (15 March 1995), lot 676; Gilbert Steinberg Collection (16 November 1994), lot 103.

Plated EID MAR Denarius

604.

The Republicans. Brutus. Late summer-autumn 42 BC. Fourrée Denarius (19mm, 2.49 g, 9h). Mint moving with Brutus in northern Greece; L. Plaetorius Cestianus, magistrate. Bare head of Brutus right / Pileus between two daggers pointing downward; ei‰•ÂAr below. Cf. Crawford 508/3; cf. CRI 216; cf. Sydenham 1301; cf. RSC 15; RBW –; Campana, Eid Mar P1-8 (dies OP1/RP1). Toned, large area of broken plating on reverse, some scratches and scrapes. Fine. Very rare, only two specimens in CoinArchives, both plated in Campana’s reference. ($2000) From the Bellwether Collection, purchased from CNG Inventory 91549, 20 May 1996. Ex Dix and Webb (27 March 1996), lot 43.

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605.

The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. Early summer 40 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.71 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Antony in Greece; L. Munatius Plancus, moneyer. Lituus and capis / Sacrificial jug flanked by thunderbolt and caduceus.

Crawford 522/2; CRI 253; Sydenham 1190; RSC 24; RBW1806. Toned, porosity, bankers’ marks. VF. Very rare. ($500) Ex Spink 230 (15 July 2015), lot 69; Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin 704 (April 1977), lot C289 (£365).

Caesar or Octavian?

Enigmatic Crawford 482/1

606.

The Triumvirs. Octavian. Spring 43 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.62 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Octavian in Italy or Cisalpine Gaul. Head of Venus (with features of Apollo) right, wearing fillet, her hair collected into a knot behind / Trophy of Gallic arms, chariot at base on left, a shield, two spears and carnyx on right; CAeÍAr upward on left, [i]Âp downward on right. Crawford 482/1; CRI 130; Sydenham 1016; RSC 15 (Caesar); RBW 1696. Lovely old cabinet toning, reverse struck slightly off center with some deposits in the devices. EF. Very rare and among the finest known. ($30,000) Ex Gemini V (6 January 2009), lot 783; Naville X (15 June 1925), lot 1737.

Considered by Crawford as the last denarius minted by Julius Caesar, David Sear considers it the first military issue of Octavian. For further discussion on this enigmatic type, see the commentary by Andrew McCabe for his specimen that we sold in CNG E-Auction 432 (November 2018), lot 271.

607.

The Triumvirs. Octavian. Autumn 30-summer 29 BC. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.94 g, 6h). Italian (Rome?) mint.

Laureate head of Apollo of Actium right, with features resembling Octavian / Octavian, as city founder, veiled and wearing priestly robes, plowing right with yoke of oxen, holding whip in outstretched left hand and plow-handle in right. CRI 424; RIC I 272; RSC 117; FFC 92 (this coin). Light iridescent toning, hairline scratches. Good VF. ($500) Ex Alba Longa (Jose Fernandez Molina) Collection.

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ROMAN IMPERIAL COINAGE

608. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.82 g, 6h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Patricia?). Struck circa 19 BC. Bare head right / Round shield inscribed CL • V; aquila and signum flanking. RIC I 86a; RSC 265. In NGC encapsulation 4862671-011, graded AU, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5, lt. scratches. ($500) Ex Dr. Erik Miller Collection (Spink 19004, 27 March 2019), lot 267.

A Lovely Augustus Denarius

609. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.74 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 15 BC. Bare head right / IMP • X in exergue, bull butting right, left forefoot raised, lashing his tail. RIC I 167a; Lyon 19; RSC 137. Lightly toned, minor scratches, banker’s mark on obverse. EF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 50 (23 June 1999), lot 1404.

610.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.65 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 2 BC-AD 12. Laureate head right / Caius and Lucius Caesars standing facing, two shields and two spears between them; above, on left, simpulum right, and on right, lituus left. RIC I 207; Lyon 82; RSC 43. Toned, minor flan flaw on obverse. Good VF. ($300) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 50 (23 June 1999), lot 1413.

611. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.76 g, 2h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 2 BC-AD 12. Laureate head right / Caius and Lucius Caesars standing facing, two shields and two spears between them; above, on left, simpulum right, and on right, lituus left. RIC I 207; Lyon 82; RSC 43. Lightly toned, minor die rust and small die break on obverse, faint hairlines. Good VF. ($300) 158

612. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.74 g, 8h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 2 BC-AD 12. Laureate head right / Caius and Lucius Caesars standing facing, two shields and two spears between them; above, on left, simpulum right, and on right, lituus left. RIC I 207; Lyon 82; RSC 43. Some faint hairlines. Superb EF. Full legends. A wonderful example of the type. ($1500)

613. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.01 g, 9h). Rome mint; P. Petronius Turpilianus, moneyer. Struck 19-18 BC. Bare head right / Pegasus walking right. RIC I 297; RSC 491. Attractive cabinet tone, some contact marks under tone. Good VF. ($750) Ex Gemini XIV (18 April 2018), lot 449; Berk BBS 151 (1 November 2006), lot 333.

614. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (27.5mm, 11.82 g, 12h). Ephesus mint. Struck 25-20 BC. Bare head right / Altar decorated with fillets, garlands, and stags standing vis-à-vis. RIC I 482; Sutherland Group VIγ, 365 (O123/R21); RPC I 2215; RSC 33; BMCRE 694; BN 922-926. Toned. VF. ($2000) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Roma X (27 September 2015), lot 727; Triton XIII (5 January 2010), lot 306; Patrick A. Doheny Colletion (Sotheby’s, 20 June 1979), lot 202; Prof. Angelo Signorelli Collection (Part II, Santamaria, 4 June 1952), lot 926.

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Gaius (Caligula), with Agrippina Senior. AD 37-41. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.76 g, 11h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint.

2nd emission, 2nd phase, AD 37-38. Laureate head of Gaius (Caligula) right / Draped bust of Agrippina right. RIC I 14 (Rome mint); Lyon 169; RSC 2. Toned, a few scratches and marks, test cut on edge. VF. ($2000) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Davissons 14 (15 November 2000), lot 223; Schweizerischer Bankverein FPL 67 (Summer 1996), no. 993.

616.

Gaius (Caligula), with Germanicus. AD 37-41. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.63 g, 11h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 40. Laureate head of Gaius (Caligula) right / Bare head of Germanicus right. RIC I 26; Lyon 181; RSC 5. Toned, porosity.

Good VF. ($2000) From the Weise Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 719966 (May 2000).

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Final Adlocutio Issue

617.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 27.75 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 40-41. Laureate head left / Gaius standing left on daïs, extending right hand in gesture of address; behind him a sella castrensis (camp stool); in front of him stand five soldiers right, all helmeted, holding shields, and parazonia; four aquilae behind them; no S C in legend. RIC I 48. Brown surfaces, some minor smoothing, minor roughness on obverse, light scratches on reverse. Near VF. Good portrait coin. Very rare TR P IIII issue. ($2000) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 87 (18 May 2011), lot 964.

Before a battle or on parade, the emperor would address his troops in an event known as an adlocutio cohortium (address to the cohorts). This was an important opportunity for the emperor to be present among his troops to inspire morale. This sestertius was issued on the occasion of a donative for the Praetorian Guard and was the first to employ the adlocutio as a reverse type.

618. Claudius. AD 41-54. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.67 g, 3h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 41-42. TI • CLAVD • CAESAR • AVG • GERM • P M • TR • P, laureate head right / CONSTANTIAE AVGVSTI, Constantia, draped, seated left on curule chair, feet on footstool, raising right hand in front of face and resting left arm in her lap. RIC I 13; von Kaenel Type 9 (unlisted dies); Lyon 18/1 (D65/R70); Calicó 338; BMCRE 11-2; BN 27 (same dies); Biaggi 199; Mazzini 5. Small scuff at edge on obverse. Near VF. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Russell C. Hollingsworth Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXXIV, 6 May 1995), lot 295.

619.

Claudius, with Agrippina Junior. AD 41-54. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.50 g, 5h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 50-51. Laureate head of Claudius right / Draped bust of Agrippina right, wearing wreath of grain ears. RIC I 80; von Kaenel Type 50, – (unlisted dies); Lyon 82; Calicó 396b. Some graffiti on obverse, scratches, marks, deposits, and edge marks. Near VF. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 162 (27 March 2003), lot 63; Spink Zurich 11 (27 October 1983), lot 701.

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621

620. Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 25.01 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 41-42. Laureate head right / Spes advancing left, holding up flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC I 99; von Kaenel Type 55. Brown patina with dark deposits, minor smoothing, a few edge marks. VF. ($750) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex ANS Collection–Estate of Dr. John F. Lhotka, Jr. (Gemini VII, 9 January 2011), lot 737.

621. Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 20.34 g, 6h). Contemporary imitation of a Rome mint issue of AD 41-42.

Laureate head right / Spes advancing left, holding up flower and raising hem of skirt. Cf. RIC I 99; cf. von Kaenel Type 55.

Brown-green patina, some red, heavily tooled. VF. ($300) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Gasvoda Collection (Part II, Numismatica Ars Classica 94, 6 October 2016), lot 109, purchased at an Ancient Coin Collectors Guild Benefit Auction.

One of the most often imitated bronze coins of the early empire is this issue from Claudius. The imitation type is relatively common and found with a wide degree of artistic styles. These coins were clearly accepted in commerce and traded freely. The wear on the example here is a testament to that fact.

622.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ As (30.5mm, 9.57 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 41-42. Bare head left / Libertas standing right, holding pileus and extending left hand. RIC I 97; von Kaenel Type 62. Even brown patina, lightly smoothed. EF. ($1500)

623

624

623. Claudius. AD 41-54. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.15 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 46-47. Laureate head right / DE BRITANN on architrave of triumphal arch surmounted by equestrian statue left between two trophies. RIC I 34; von Kaenel Type 27; RSC 18. Toned, contact marks, shallow scratches, edge marks, slight bend in flan. Near VF. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dix Noonan Webb 146 (25 April 2018), lot 20; G. R. Arnold Collection (Glendining, 17 June 1969), lot 187.

624.

Claudius, with Agrippina Junior. AD 41-54. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.58 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 51. Laureate head of Claudius right / Draped bust of Agrippina right, wearing wreath of grain ears. RIC I 81; von Kaenel Type 50 (unlisted dies); RSC 4. Toned, some porosity, minor scrape on edge. VF. ($1500) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 93617 (August 1996).

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Nero’s Parthian Arch

625. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (37.5mm, 24.98 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 65. Laureate head right, globe at point of neck / Triumphal arch surmounted by statue of emperor in quadriga accompanied by Pax and Victory, flanked by two soldiers (torch bearers?), a nude, helmeted statue of Mars in side niche of arch, otherwise decorated with friezes of battle scenes. RIC I 432; WCN 422; Lyon 113. Dark brown and green patina, some red, area of double strike on obverse, smoothed. Good VF. ($2000) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 296 (13 February 2013), lot 250.

This monumental triumphal arch was erected by Nero to commemorate Roman military campaigns against the Parthians in Mesopotamia and Armenia. Although not particularly successful in a military sense, with Paetus losing almost his entire army at Randeia in Armenia, the war did end with a peace treaty favorable to Rome that was upheld for nearly fifty years. This coin type is vitally important for architectural historians, for the arch was dismantled after Nero’s ignominious end in 68 and is only known through its depiction on the coins.

Ex Sir Arthur J. Evans Collection

626. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (35.5mm, 22.22 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 65. Laureate head right, globe at point of neck / Annona standing right, holding cornucopia, facing Ceres seated left, holding grain ears and torch; between them, modius on garlanded altar, ship’s stern in background. RIC I 430; WCN 416; Lyon 106. Glossy green patina, some smoothing, patina chipped in areas. Good VF. ($2000) Ex Dix Noonan Webb 139 (15 February 2017), lot 25 (hammer £5000); Sir Arthur J. Evans Collection (Ars Classica XVII, 3 October 1934), lot 1271, purchased in 1911.

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The Macellum Magnum

627. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ As (29mm, 12.58 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 65. Laureate head left, small globe at point of neck / Façade of the Macellum Magnum: statue standing facing on base within cylindrical tetrastyle entrance set on tiered base, upper tristyle story surmounted by ornate conical dome; two-story tristyle porch on either side. RIC I 402; WCN 507; Lyon 85. Green patina, light roughness. Near VF. ($1000) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 311 (25 September 2013), lot 960.

The Macellum Magnum was Nero’s great provision-market, probably dating from AD 59. This magnificent structure, originally occupying the middle of a square lined with porticoes and shops, was located on the Caelian Hill. It survived in its original state until the late 4th century, when its dilapidated condition necessitated a major reconstruction. During the turbulent 5th century the building again fell into partial ruin and in the latter part of the century it was transformed under Pope Simplicius (468-482) into the church of S. Stefano Rotondo.

628. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 23.98 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 66. Laureate head left, globe at point of neck / Nero on horseback riding right, holding spear; behind him, soldier on horseback riding right, holding vexillum. RIC I 508; WCN 448; Lyon 187. Dark green patina, earthen deposits, a hint of smoothing. Good VF. Reverse struck in high relief. ($2500) Ex Classical Numismatic Group 94 (18 September 2013), lot 1146; Classical Numismatic Group 90 (23 May 2012), lot 1467; Numismatica Ars Classica N (26 June 2003), lot 1788.

629.

Nero, with Agrippina Junior. AD 54-68. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.56 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 55. Jugate busts right of Nero, bareheaded, slight drapery, and Agrippina Junior bareheaded and draped / Divi Augustus and Claudius driving quadriga of elephants left; above elephants, EX S C to left. RIC I 7; RSC 4. Attractive toning, some porosity. Good VF. Very rare. ($1500)

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Colossus of Nero

630. Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.28 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 64-65. NERO CAESAR, laureate head right / AVGVSTVS GERMANICVS, Nero, radiate and togate, standing facing, left knee slightly bent, holding branch in right hand and Victory on globe in left. RIC I 46; WCN 22; Calicó 402a; BMCRE 56-9; BN 202-5; Biaggi 221; Jameson 50; Mazzini 44; CNG 97, lot 621 (same dies). Lustrous, a few minor die breaks on reverse. EF. Wonderful portrait. A finely detailed example. ($10,000) Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 21 (17 May 2001), lot 388.

The reverse depicts Nero’s Colossus, a roughly 120-foot tall bronze statue of the emperor as Sol that was created by Zenodorus for the vestibule of the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, the massive palace constructed by Nero after the fire of AD 64. Its memory was retained in the popular name of the amphitheater constructed by the Flavians close to the site – the Colosseum.

631. Galba. AD 68-69. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 26.47 g, 6h). Rome mint, 2nd officina. Struck circa October AD 68. Laureate and draped bust right / Roma, helmeted and in military dress, standing left, holding Victory on globe and vertical spear. RIC I 358; ACG 96 (A8/P12). Attractive brown patina, some smoothing. Good VF. Bold portrait. ($1500) Ex Dix Noonan Webb 139 (15 February 2017), lot 33 (hammer £4000), purchased from Baldwin’s, 2 March 1937 (with original ticket).

632. Galba. AD 68-69. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.43 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa July AD 68-January AD 69. Laureate head right / Diva Julia Augusta (Livia) standing left, holding patera and scepter. RIC I 186; RSC 55. Lightly iridescent tone, faint hairlines, traces of deposits. Near EF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Spink 121 (7 October 1997), lot 346; Monetarium 61 (Spring 1994), no. 115; Monetarium 60 (Autumn 1993), no. 98; ; Aus dem Monetarium (December 1992), no. 3; Monetarium 57 (Spring 1992), no. 143.

633. Galba. AD 68-69. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.48 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck circa July AD 68-January 69. Laureate head right / Livia standing left, holding patera and scepter. RIC I 224; RSC 58. Toned, light scratches. VF. Well centered on a round flan. ($300) 164

634. Vitellius. AD 69. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.29 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa late April-20 December. Laureate head right / Tripod-lebes surmounted by dolphin right; below, raven perched right. RIC I 109; RSC 111. Toned. In NGC encapsulation 4371742-011, graded Ch AU, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5, Fine Style. ($1000)

Very Rare Vitellius Sestertius – Pedigreed to 1906

635. Vitellius. AD 69. Æ Sestertius (35.5mm, 28.98 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa late April-20 December. A VITELLIVS GERM • IMP AVG P M TR P, laureate head right / PAX AVGVSTI, S C across field, Pax, draped, standing left, holding olive branch in right hand and cornucopia in left. Cf. RIC I 169 (same obv. die as illustration)/157 (for obv./rev. types); cf. BMCRE 61 (same obv. die)/54 (for obv./rev. types); BN –. Attractive green and brown patina, areas of minor smoothing on reverse. EF. Impressive and very rare. ($10,000) Ex Dix Noonan Webb 139 (15 February 2017), lot 38 (hammer £16,000); Spink Numismatic Circular XLVIII.3 (May 1940), no. 934; M. Georges Gallet Collection (Florange & Ciani, 28 May 1924), lot 49; F. Gnecchi Collection; Lord Sidmouth Collection; C. E. Mackerell Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 16 May 1906), lot 60.

636.

Divus Vespasian. Died AD 79. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 26.73 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Titus, AD 80-81.

Deified Vespasian seated right, holding scepter and Victory, in cart drawn right by a quadriga of elephants with riders / Legend around large S • C. RIC II.1 258 (Titus). Natural green and brown patina with traces of red. VF. An attractive, untouched coin.

Rare. ($1000) Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 431 (24 October 2018), lot 388; AMP Collection of Roman Numismatic Portraiture (Numismatica Ars Classica 98, 12 December 2016), lot 1113.

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637.

Titus. AD 79-81. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.29 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck 1 January-30 June AD 80. Laureate head right / Dolphin coiled around anchor. RIC II.1 112; RSC 309. Lightly toned, faint hairlines, clashed reverse die. Near EF. ($500)

Very Rare Cistophoric Issue

638. Titus. AD 79-81. AR Cistophorus (26mm, 10.77 g, 6h). Ephesus mint (or Rome for circulation in Asia). Struck AD 80-81. Laureate head right / Tetrastyle Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, enclosing figures of Juno, Jupiter seated, and Minerva. RIC II.1 515; RPC II 860; RSC –. Toned. Near VF. Very Rare. ($1500) From the Stein A. Evensen Collection. Ex Sierra Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 88, 14 September 2011), lot 1298; Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 125 (26 October 2005), lot 222.

The Capitoline Temple of Jupiter was damaged in the great fire of AD 80. Titus advertises here his beginning of its reconstruction. The construction was completed during the reign of Domitian, who continued this coin type.

639. Domitian. As Caesar, AD 69-81. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.31 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Vespasian, to 24 June AD 79. Laureate head right / Clasped right hands holding aquila set on prow. RIC II.1 1081 (Vespasian); RSC 393.

Lightly toned, underlying luster, with some iridescence. Near EF. Excellent portrait. ($750)

640. Domitian. As Caesar, AD 69-81. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.43 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Titus, AD 80-81.

Laureate head right / Garlanded and lighted altar. RIC II.1 266 (Titus); RSC 397a. Toned. EF. ($300)

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641 642 641. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 28.90 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 104/5-107. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Victory standing right, left foot set on helmet, holding stylus in right hand and resting left on shield inscribed VIC/ DAC in two lines set on palm tree trunk. RIC II 528; Woytek 204cA; Banti 168. Brown patina, light smoothing. Good VF. ($750) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Heritage 3046 (14 April 2016), lot 29292.

642. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Dupondius (27mm, 11.88 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 104/5-107. Radiate bust right, wearing aegis / Pax standing left, holding cornucopia and setting fire to pile of arms with torch. RIC II 507 var. (bust type); Woytek 201cB. Green patina, smoothed. EF. ($750)

Very Rare Plotina Denarius

643. Plotina. Augusta, AD 105-123. AR Denarius (20mm, 2.80 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Trajan, AD 112-summer 114. PLOTINA AVG IMP TRAIANI•, draped bust right, her hair is bunched high in front and held in place by a double metal stephane, upright: it is elaborately waved at back and falls down at the neck in a queue / CAES AVG GERMA DAC COS VI P P, ARA PVDIC in exergue, rectangular altar set on five steps, on which is raised surface, with horns left and right; on face of altar, Pudicitia, veiled, draped, and standing front on curule chair. RIC II 733 (Trajan); Woytek 7072 (same obv. die); Strack 182; RSC 7; BMCRE 529 (Trajan); BN 682 (Trajan). Toned, hairlines, small edge mark. Near EF. Struck on a broad flan. Very rare. ($5000) Ex Roma IX (22 March 2015), lot 664 (hammer £7000).

Liberalitas Issue

644.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (33.5mm, 26.76 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 118. Laureate bust right with bare chest, slight drapery / LIBERALITAS AVG/ S C in two lines in exergue, Hadrian seated left on sella castrensis set on daïs, extending his right hand, attending to the distribution made by an officer, who is seated, to a citizen mounting steps up to it; Liberalitas standing left, holding tessera. RIC II.3 163; Banti 488. Brown patina, minor marks and scratches. VF. ($1000) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Heritage in San Francisco, 11 May 2012.

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645. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.14 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 119-circa mid 120. IMP CAESAR TRA IAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / P M TR P COS III, Jupiter, naked, standing facing, knee slightly bent, holding thunderbolt downward in right hand and vertical scepter in left. RIC II.3 213; Strack 921/β; Calicó 1303; BMCRE 106 corr. (bust type); Biaggi 628. A few light marks. Good VF. Rare with bust left. ($5000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Russell C. Hollingsworth Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXXIV, 6 May 1995), lot 319.

646 647 646. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 22.27 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 125-126/7. Bare head right / Emperor standing left on the Rostra in the Forum, addressing citizens with hands raised in acclamation; tetrastyle temple to right. RIC II.3 827 (R2); Banti 201. Brown surfaces, some porosity. Fine. Very rare. ($750) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 361 (14 October 2015), lot 935; Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 67, 22 September 2004), lot 1461.

647. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 24.05 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 125-126/7. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Aequitas standing left, holding scales and pertica. RIC II.3 834; Banti 200. Dark brown and tan surfaces.

VF. ($500) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 102 (18 May 2016), lot 950.

648. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ As (25mm, 9.95 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 125-126/7. Laureate and draped bust right / Galley right with five rowers; gubernator at stern. RIC II.3 821. Brown surfaces. VF. Attractive, well centered strike. ($300) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 109 (12 September 2018), lot 660; Clarence & Helen Zaar Maritime Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 87, 18 May 2011), lot 999.

649. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Hadrian (18mm, 3.48 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 126-127. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Seven stars within crescent. RIC II.3 852; RSC 466. Near EF. ($300) 168

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650. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.19 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 126-127. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Star above and within crescent moon. RIC II.3 864; RSC 460. A couple of hairline flan cracks, a few light scratches, small flan/lamination flaws on reverse. Near EF. ($300) 651. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 26.74 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 129-130. Bareheaded and draped bust right / Clementia standing left, holding patera and scepter. RIC II.3 1181; Banti 123. Tan patina, scrape on reverse.

VF. Rare. ($500) From the Toliver Besson Collection, puchased from John Jencek in San Francisco, 8 November 2012.

Ex Earl Fitzwilliam Collection – New RIC II.3 Plate Coin

652.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32.5mm, 27.00 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 129-130. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate and draped bust right / FELICITATI/ AVG COS III/ P P in three lines above, S C across field, galley left with six rowers and hortator; vexillum and signum at stern. RIC II –; RIC II.3 1282 (this coin referenced and illustrated); Strack –; Banti –. Brown patina, some shallow scratches on obverse, areas of pitting and corrosion on reverse. Good VF. Wonderful portrait. Very rare and unlisted in the old edition of RIC II with reverse legend in three lines above galley. ($750) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Jon Jencek (14 December 2012). Ex Goldberg 5.3 (7 June 2000), lot 3582; Earl Fitzwilliam’s Wentworth Estates Company Collection (Christie’s, 30 May 1949), lot 124 (part of).

This very rare Hadrian Sestertius was part of the highly important collection of Roman Brass Coins and Medallions originally formed in the mid-eighteenth century, and sold by order of The Earl Fitzwilliam’s Wentworth Estates Company. Spring notes that the coins came from the collections of the Museo del Padri Corsini acquired in Italy in 1748, and the Abbé Visconti, President of the Society of Antiquaries in Rome, purchased about 1774.

653. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32.5mm, 24.14 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 129-130. Bareheaded and draped bust right / Galley right with four rowers and hortator; vexillum at prow. RIC II.3 1315; cf. Banti 382/386 (for obv./rev. type). Brown patina, with patches of red and green, some areas of fill in patina. Good VF. ($2000) From the Grand Haven Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 90 (23 May 2012), lot 1540.

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654. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.25 g, 6h). “Travel series” issue (“Provinces cycle”) – Restitutor type. Rome mint. Struck circa AD 130-133. Laureate head right / RESTITVTORI HISPANIAE, Hadrian standing right, about to raise Hispania who is kneeling left, holding a branch; a rabbit between them. RIC II.3 1584; RSC 1270. Small flan flaw on obverse, a few faint hairlines. Near EF. ($300)

ADVENTVI AVG IVDAEAE

655. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32.5mm, 26.60 g, 12h). “Travel series” issue (“Provinces cycle”) – Adventus type. Rome mint. Struck circa AD 130-133. Bareheaded and draped bust right / ADVENTVI AVG IVDAEAE, S C in exergue, Hadrian standing right, raising right hand and holding volumen in left, facing Judaea standing left, holding patera in right hand and acerrum in left; at her feet, one small child stands to her left and right; between them, lighted altar; victim (bull) at foot of altar. RIC II.3 1769; Banti 37; Hendin 1604a. Brown-green patina, rough surfaces, smoothing, scratches, flan crack. VF. Rare. ($1500) Hadrian made a brief visit to Judaea circa AD 130, during his second great provincial tour of AD 129-132. Prior to his arrival, rumors spread among the Jews that he intended to rebuild Jerusalem and the great Temple, destroyed during the Jewish War of AD 66-73, so he was at first warmly welcomed. However, Hadrian decided to rebuild the city as the Roman veteran colony of Aelia Capitolina, with a temple to Jupiter replacing the one once dedicated to Jehovah. This ultimately sparked the bloody Bar Kokhba Revolt of AD 132-135, which devastated the province and darkened Hadrian’s final years. The rare coinage issued to mark his visit, with the legend ADVENTVS AVG IVDAEA (”the Emperor Enters Judaea”) depicts Hadrian being greeted by a female personification of the province and two children. Judaea was renamed Syria Palaestina in response to the Bar Kochba conflict, though precisely when this occurred is not known.

656. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.22 g, 6h). Eastern mint. Struck AD 128-circa 130. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Concordia seated left, holding patera and resting arm on statuette of Spes on column at side of throne.

RIC II.3 3036; RSC 328. Attractively toned, traces of die rust on obverse, hairline flan crack. EF. ($400)

657. Sabina. Augusta, AD 128-136/7. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.35 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Hadrian, circa AD 130-133. Draped bust right, with queue and stephane / Concordia seated left, holding patera and resting arm on statuette of Spes set on low base; cornucopia below throne. RIC II.3 2501; RSC 12. A few faint hairlines. Near EF. ($300) 170

658. Aelius. Caesar, AD 136-138. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.10 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Hadrian, AD 137. L • AELIVS CAESAR, bare head left / TRIB POT COS II, CONCORD in exergue, Concordia seated left, feet on footstool, holding patera in extended right hand, leaning left arm on cornucopia set on seat. RIC II.3 2707; Strack 3981/δo; Calicó 1445; BMCRE 999 (Hadrian–same obv. die); Biaggi 689 (same obv. die); Jameson 112; Mazzini 12 (same dies). Toned, some edge marks. Near VF. ($4000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 162 (27 March 2003), lot 70.

659.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.03 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 139. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, laureate head left / TR P OT COS II, Pietas, draped, standing left, holding acerrum and sacrificing with right hand over lighted and garlanded altar to left. RIC III 53c; Strack 561/δ; Calicó 1645; BMCRE p. 19, note 111; Biaggi 759; Künker 204, lot 659 (same dies). Toned, a few shallow scratches. Good VF. ($3000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 1460.

660 661 660.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 25.40 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 141-143. Laureate head right / Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius seated left on sella castrensis on raised daïs, extending hand; to left and right, lictor standing, holding rod. RIC III 628; Banti 374. Red-brown and dark green patina, some smoothing, a few small pits on reverse. Near VF. ($500) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Ancient Roman Coins, February 2011.

661.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (30.5mm, 23.82 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 141-143. Laureate head right / BRITANNIA in exergue, Britannia seated left on heap of rocks, holding signum and spear, resting left elbow on shield set on cuirass. RIC III 745; Banti 48. Dark green-gray surfaces, some roughness. Near VF. Rare. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dix Noonan Webb A11 (27 September 2011), lot 2292.

662.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (18mm, 6.62 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 142. ANTONINVS AVG PI VS P P TR P COS III, bare head right / LI BE RA LITAS, AVG III in exergue, Antoninus Pius, togate, seated left on chair, set on low platform on right, extending right hand; to left on platform, Liberalitas, draped, standing left, holding abacus in right hand and cornucopia in left; on ground to left, citizen, togate, standing right, holding out fold of toga with both hands.

RIC III 75a; Strack 93δo; Calicó 1563 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 217; Biaggi 735 var. (bust type); Mazzini 485 var. (same); Heritage 3056, lot 30031 (same dies). A few scratches and marks, flat spot on edge. VF. Rare. ($3000) 171

663.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. AV Aureus (20.5mm, 7.26 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 146-161. DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust right, wearing hair bound in pearls on top of her head / AVG V STA, Venus, draped, standing front, head left, holding apple on right hand and resting left on large round shield to right. RIC III 366a (Pius); Beckman dies df12/AZ4; Strack 472; Calicó 1756; cf. BMCRE p. 61, note 432 (Pius); Biaggi –; Mazzini 72 (same obv. die).

Lustrous, a few light scratches. Near EF. Rare with this reverse type. ($5000) Ex Heritage 3056 (3 August 2017), lot 30115.

664.

Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 25.40 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 145. Bare head right / Mars standing right, holding spear and resting hand on shield set on ground. RIC III 1245 (Pius); Banti 289. Brown patina, roughness on reverse. Near EF. Appealing portrait. ($1500) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Heritage in Long Beach, 12 February 2012.

665.

Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 26.57 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 147. AVRELIVS CAE SAR AVG P II F, bare head right / TR POT COS II, S C across field, Minerva, helmeted and draped, standing right, holding reversed spear in right hand and resting left hand on shield set on ground. RIC III 1248 (Pius); Banti 299; BMCRE 1803-5 (Pius). Green-brown patina, minor smoothing, traces of earthen deposits. EF. Wonderful portrait in high relief. ($3000)

666.

Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 24.33 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 159-160. Bareheaded bust right, slight drapery / Mars advancing right, holding spear and trophy over shoulder. RIC III 1352Aa (Pius); Banti 383. Brown patina, minor roughness, some shallow cleaning marks. Good VF. ($1000) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Gemini VIII (14 April 2011), lot 350.

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Banti Plate Coin – Pedigreed to 1973

667.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 26.91 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 164. M ΛVREL ΛNTONINVS ΛVG ΛRMENIΛCVS P M, laureate head right / TR P XVIII IMP II COS III, S C across field, Mars standing right, holding spear and resting hand on shield set on ground. RIC III 861; MIR 18, 87-6/30; Banti 449 (this coin illustrated).

Attractive two-tone brown patina. Good VF. ($2000) From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XX.2 (Summer 1995), no. 339 (obverse illustrated on back cover); Giessener Münzhandlung 48 (2 April 1990), lot 868; Leu 36 (7 May 1985), lot 275; Leu 7 (9 May 1973), lot 387.

668.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.22 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 165. ΛNTONINVS ΛVG ΛRMENIΛCVS, laureate and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P XIX • IMP II COS III, Victory standing right, holding stylus in right hand, placing left on shield inscribed VIC/AVG and set on palm tree. RIC III 128; MIR 18, 106-2/35; Calicó 1890; BMCRE 364 note; Biaggi –; Mazzini d. 475 (same dies); Naville VIII, lot 1026 (same dies). Some marks, light scratches.

Good VF. ($3000) From the El Medina Collection.

669.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.16 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 169. M ΛNTONINVS ΛVG TR P XXIII, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / FELICITΛS ΛVG COS III, Felicitas, draped, standing left, holding caduceus in right hand and vertical scepter in left. RIC III 201; MIR 18, 180-2/37; Calicó 1850a; BMCRE 489; Biaggi 847; Mazzini 177; Stack’s Bowers Galleries (August 2017 ANA Auction), lot 20102 (same dies). Lustrous, a few minor marks.

Choice EF. ($10,000) Ex Provence Collection.

670.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.16 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 152-153. Draped bust right / Concordia, draped, standing right, raising hem of skirt with right hand and cornucopia in left. RIC III 500a (Pius); Calicó 2041; BMCRE 1084 (same obv. die); Biaggi 917 (same obv. die); Mazzini 41 (same obv. die). Some light scratches and marks. VF. ($2500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Byron Reed Collection (Spink, 10 October 1996), lot 2513.

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Ex Mazzini Collection – Calicó Plate Coin

671.

Lucilla. Augusta, AD 164-182. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.30 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AD 161-162. LVCILLΛE ΛVG ΛNTONINI ΛVG F, draped bust right, hair waved and drawn into small chignon at nape of neck / PIE TΛS, Pietas, veiled, draped, standing left, holding acerrum (incense box) in left hand, extending right hand over lighted altar to left. RIC III 774 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 11-2a; Calicó 2214a (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 316 (Aurelius and Verus); Biaggi 976; Mazzini 49 (this coin). Lustrous, tiny die breaks on reverse. EF. Wonderful portrait. ($7500) Ex Gemini III (9 January 2007), lot 414 (hammer $11,000); Giuseppe Mazzini Collection, 49.

672. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 20.70 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 183. Laureate head right / Jupiter standing left, holding Victory on globe and scepter; to left, eagle standing left, head right. RIC III 366 (this coin referenced); MIR 18, 586-6/30; Banti 453; BMCRE 508 note (this coin referenced). Dark green patina, surfaces smoothed.

VF. Rare variety. ($300) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 50 (23 June 1999), lot 222; Henry Platt Hall Collection (Part II, Glendining, 16 November 1950), lot 1685 (part of), with ticket stating purchased from Rollin & Feuardent, 26 October 1897.

673.

Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 32.55 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 185. M COMMODVS ANT ON AVG PIVS BRIT, bareheaded and draped bust right / VIRT AVG P M TR P X IMP VII COS IIII P P, S C below, Commodus on horseback galloping right, striking panther with spear, which is already wounded by spear in its chest. RIC III 453b; MIR 18, 667-6/13; Banti 491. Dark green-brown surfaces, roughness on obverse, light earthen deposits. VF. Very rare. ($2000) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 99 (13 May 2015), lot 663.

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674. Pertinax. AD 193. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.48 g, 5h). Rome mint. Laureate head right / LIBERATI S CIVIBVS, Liberalitas standing left, holding abacus and cornucopia. RIC IV 5; RSC 28. Lightly toned, small flan flaw on reverse. VF. Very rare. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Stack’s (4 May 1995), lot 2148.

675. Pertinax. AD 193. AR Denarius (18mm, 2.74 g, 6h). Alexandria mint. Laureate head right / Providentia standing left, raising right hand toward star, left hand on breast. Cf. RIC IV 11a; Bickford-Smith p. 54, note 8; cf. RSC 43; cf. Berk BBS 203, lot 260. Lightly toned, flan crack. VF. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Michael Kelly Collection (Spink 123, 18 November 1997), lot 1053; Gorny & Mosch 69 (18 November 1994), lot 632.

676.

Didius Julianus. AD 193. Æ Sestertius (26mm, 17.76 g, 11h). Rome mint. Laureate head right / Fortuna standing left, holding rudder set on globe and cornucopia. RIC IV 15; Woodward, Didius, dies 6/N, pl. VII, 6; Banti 5. Dark green patina, light smoothing. VF. Strong portrait. ($1500)

677.

Manlia Scantilla. Augusta, AD 193. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.35 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Didius Julianus.

Draped bust right / Juno standing left, holding patera and vertical scepter; at feet to left, peacock standing left, head right. RIC IV 7a (Julianus); RSC 2. Toned, small deposit on obverse, a couple of minor flan flaws. VF. ($1500) Ex Rauch 87 (8 December 2010), lor 533.

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Manlia Scantilla. Augusta, AD 193. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 18.60 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Didius Julianus.

Draped bust right, wearing hair in waved, nearly vertical lines, and fastened in large bun on back of head / Juno, wearing stephane, draped, standing left, holding patera in extended right hand and vertical scepter in left; at feet to left, peacock standing left, head turned back to catch drops from patera. RIC IV 18a; Woodward, Didius, dies 16/F, pl. IX, 7; Banti 2A. Dark green and brown patina, minor smoothing. VF. Wonderful portrait. ($1000)

Very Rare Caesarea Issue for Niger

679.

Pescennius Niger. AD 193-194. AR Denarius/Drachm (18mm, 2.90 g, 6h). Caesarea mint. IMP CΛES • C PESC • NIGER IVST • ΛVC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMΛPXI EΞO • VΠΛTOC, calathus containing three grain ears; CT Λ (date) in exergue. Cf. T.V. Buttrey, “The Denarii of Pescennius Niger” in NC 152 (1992), p. xix, fig. 6; cf.

CNG E-320, lot 457. Some porosity, small edge chip. Good VF. Pleasing portrait and in a good state of preservation for these.

Very rare. ($3000)

Exceptional Pescennius Niger

680.

Pescennius Niger. AD 193-194. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.08 g, 6h). Antioch mint. IMP CΛES C PESC NIGER IVS AVG COS II, laureate head right / BONI E V ENTVS, Bonus Eventus standing left, holding plate of fruit in right hand and two grain ears in left. RIC IV 5c note; RSC 10a; BMCRE p. 72, *. A few faint hailines. EF. Excellent silver quality. ($3000)

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Pescennius Niger. AD 193-194. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 1.94 g, 5h). Antioch mint. Laureate head right / Justitia standing left, holding scales and cornucopia. RIC IV 45c; RSC 43a. Porosity and scratches. VF. Rare. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Berk BBS 106 (20 January 1999), lot 501.

682.

Pescennius Niger. AD 193-194. AR Denarius (16.5mm, 2.98 g, 6h). Antioch mint. Laureate head right / Minerva standing left, holding Victory on outstretched right hand and spear in left. Cf. RIC IV 61A; cf. RSC 53b. Areas of flat strike, a couple of short, hairline flan cracks, reverse off center. Good VF. ($1500)

Powerful Portrait of Clodius Albinus

683.

Clodius Albinus. As Caesar, AD 193-195. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 2.97 g, 6h). Rome mint. Bare head right / Roma seated left on round shield with central boss and beaded border, holding palladium in right hand and vertical scepter in left.

RIC IV 11a; RSC 61. Lightly toned. EF. Wonderful portrait. ($1000) Ex a Gentleman’s Collection (Triton XII, 6 January 2009), lot 659.

684.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.57 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 201. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / RESTITVTOR VRBIS, Roma, helmeted, draped to feet, seated left on small, round shield, holding palladium on extended right hand and scepter, nearly vertical, in left, resting feet on stool. RIC IV 288; Calicó 2529a; BMCRE 358; Biaggi 1101; Jameson –; Mazzini –; Heritage 3071, lot 34107 (same dies). A couple of small flat spots on edge. Good VF. Artistic reverse composition. ($7500) Ex Weise Collection (Triton XXIII, 14 January 2020), lot 786 (hammer $7000, but not paid); Numismatica Ars Classica 24 (5 December 2002), lot 134; Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 612.

685.

Septimius Severus, with Caracalla. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (19mm, 6.84 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 202210. IMPP INVICTI P II AVGG, jugate busts right, of Septimius Severus, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Caracalla, laureate and draped / VICTORIA PARTHICA MAXIMA, Victory, winged and draped, advancing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and palm frond over left shoulder in left hand. RIC IV 311 (Septimius) var. (Caracalla bust type); Calicó 2597 (same rev. die as illustration); BMCRE 265 var. (same); Biaggi 1127; Mazzini 8. Marks and scratches near and on edge, ex jewelry. VF. ($5000) From the Weise Collection. Ex Künker 94 (27 September 2004), lot 1979.

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686.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.05 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 205. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / P • M • TR P XIII COS III P P, Jupiter, naked, except for cloak over arm, standing front, head left, holding thunderbolt in right hand and scepter, nearly vertical, in left; at feet to left, eagle standing left, head right. RIC IV 196; Calicó 2508; BMCRE 469-70; Biaggi 1090-1; Jameson –; Mazzini 468. Lustrous. EF. ($10,000)

British Victory Sestertius

687.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Sestertius (33.5mm, 28.70 g, 11h). British victory issue. Rome mint. Struck AD 210. Laureate head right / VICTORIAE BRITTANICAE, S C in exergue, two Victories hanging round shield on palm tree; at base, two captives seated left and right . RIC IV 818; Banti 167. Porous brown surfaces, flan crack. Near VF. ($500) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Harlan J. Berk in Chicago, 5 April 2011.

In AD 208, Septimius Severus together with the entire imperial family (his wife Julia Domna and their sons Caracalla and Geta) set out for Britain where the situation on the northern frontier demanded urgent attention. He was to spend the last two and a half years of his life in the island province and was destined never to return to Rome. Together with his elder son, the co-emperor Caracalla, he campaigned vigorously beyond the imperial frontier, penetrating far into Scotland. The line of their marching-camps can still be detected today by aerial photography.

Severus also restored Hadrian’s Wall, the northern frontier of the province, which was in serious need of renovation now that more than eighty years had elapsed since its original construction. Little is known of the success of these military operations, though they were to bring peace to the area for the remainder of the third century and an extensive issue of coinage in all metals was produced to commemorate the British victory.

688.

Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.27 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Septimius Severus, circa AD 193-196. IVLIA • DO MNA • AVG, draped bust right / VENER I • V ICTR, Venus Victrix, with drapery falling below hips, standing with back turned, head right, resting left arm on low column, holding apple in extended right hand and in left, palm frond sloped upward to left; drapery falls over column. RIC IV 536 (Septimius); Calicó 2641 (same obv. die as illustration); BMCRE 48 (Wars of Succession); Biaggi 1155; Jameson 173; Mazzini 193; Künker 216, lot 1113 (same dies).

Lightly toned, underlying luster. Near EF. ($10,000)

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Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.79 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck under Caracalla, AD 215-217. Draped bust right / LVNA LVCIFERA, Luna Lucifera, with fold of drapery floating around and above head, driving biga of horses left. RIC IV 379c (Caracalla); RSC 105. Toned, granular surfaces. Near EF. ($300) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 61 (25 September 2002), lot 1937; Classical Numismatic Auctions XVIII (3 December 1991), lot 777.

691 690 690. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.22 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 213. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P XVI IMP II COS IIII P P, Caracalla, laureate and draped, standing in triumphal quadriga right, holding reins in right hand and eagle-tipped scepter in left. RIC IV 210 corr. (rev. legend); Calicó 2711 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 55; Biaggi –. Some scratches, a couple of edge scrapes, slight wave to flan. VF. Very rare. ($3000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CV.2 (March 1997), no. 715 (“Extremely rare variety”).

691. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AV Aureus (20mm, 6.95 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 213. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA GER MANICA, Victory advancing right, holding trophy in left hand over left shoulder and wreath in extended right hand. RIC IV 237 var. (bust type); Calicó 2833; NAC 97, lot 188 (same dies); Hess-Divo 327, lot 131 (same dies). Toned, wavy flan, some deposits and hairlines, a few scratches. Near VF. Rare. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 110 (4 October 1995), lot 114.

RSC Plate Coin

692. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.26 g, 6h). Rome mint, 2nd officina. 2nd emission, AD 217-218.

Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Fides standing right, foot on helmet, holding aquila in right hand and signum in left. RIC IV 22A; Clay Issue 2; RSC 60 (this coin illustrated). Toned. Good VF. ($300) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Michael Kelly Collection (Spink 123, 18 November 1997), lot 1323.

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693.

Macrinus. AD 217-218. Æ As (26mm, 11.18 g, 4h). Rome mint. 2nd emission, AD 217-218. IMP CAES M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / PONTIF MAX TR P II COS II P P, S C across field, Jupiter, naked, except for cloak over arm, standing facing, head left, holding thunderbolt with right hand and scepter, nearly vertical, with left. RIC IV 154; Clay Issue 2; BMCRE 131. Attractive green patina, a few light cleaning and smoothing marks. Near EF. ($750) From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 84741 (December 1994); Gilbert Steinberg Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica & Spink Taisei, 16 November 1994), lot 630.

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695

694. Orbiana. Augusta, AD 225-227. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.79 g, 6h). Rome mint. Special marriage emission of Severus Alexander, AD 225. Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopia. RIC IV 319 (Alexander); BMCRE 287-9 (Alexander); RSC 1. Toned. EF. Rare. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex James Fox Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 40, 4 December 1996), lot 1613.

695.

Diva Paulina. Died before AD 235. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.60 g, 12h). Consecration issue. Rome mint. 2nd emission of Maximinus I, AD 236. Veiled and draped bust right / Peacock standing facing, head left, tail spread. RIC IV 1 (Maximinus); BMCRE 135 (Maximinus); RSC 1. Lightly toned. Good VF. ($500) Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 216 (12 August 2009), lot 457 (hammer $1100).

696.

Gordian I. AD 238. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.45 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck 1-22 April. IMP M ANT GORDIANVS AFR AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M T R P COS P P, Gordian I, togate, standing left, holding up branch in right hand and wearing parazonium. RIC IV 1; BMCRE 1-3; RSC 2. Toned, a few shallow scratches under tone, traces of deposits. Good VF. Well centered on a broad flan. ($3000) From the Weise Collection. Ex collection of Philip DeVicci (Triton IV, 5 December 2000), lot 639; Leu 28 (5 May 1981), lot 529; Münzen & Medaillen AG XVII (2 December 1957), lot 537.

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697.

Gordian I. AD 238. AR Denarius (20mm, 2.78 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck 1-22 April. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Securitas, draped, seated left on throne, holding scepter in right hand, fold of drapery over left arm. RIC IV 5; BMCRE 11; RSC 10. Toned, porosity. Good VF. Rare. ($2000) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Berk BBS 91 (25 June 1996), lot 398; Giessener Münzhandlung 76 (22 April 1996), lot 521.

698.

Gordian II. AD 238. AR Denarius (20mm, 2.93 g, 12h). Rome minte. Struck 1-22 April. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm frond. RIC IV 2; BMCRE 28; RSC 12. Lightly toned, porous surfaces. VF. ($1500) From the Weise Collection.

699.

Gordian II. AD 238. AR Denarius (21mm, 2.71 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck 1-22 April. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Virtus standing left, holding shield set on ground and reversed spear. RIC IV 3; BMCRE 30; RSC 14.

Lightly toned, some cleaning marks, traces of verdigris. Good VF. ($2000) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Tom Cederlind, December 1996; Pegasi II (8 June 1996), lot 405.

700. Balbinus. AD 238. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.19 g, 6h). Rome mint. 1st emission. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Balbinus standing left, holding branch and parazonium. RIC IV 5; BMCRE 26-7 var. (break in rev. legend); RSC 20.

EF. Wonderful portrait. ($1000)

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701. Balbinus. AD 238. AR Denarius (20mm, 2.90 g, 12h). Rome mint. 1st emission. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory standing left, holding wreath and palm frond. RIC IV 8; BMCRE 37; RSC 27. Lightly toned, a few faint hairlines on reverse, traces of deposits. Near EF. ($500) 702. Balbinus. AD 238. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.06 g, 12h). Rome mint. 1st emission. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory standing left, holding wreath and palm frond. RIC IV 8; BMCRE 37; RSC 27. Lightly toned. Near EF. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Superior (3 December 1999), lot 1795; Lanz 92 (4 June 1999), lot 981.

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703. Pupienus. AD 238. AR Denarius (21mm, 2.67 g, 6h). Rome mint. 1st emission. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Pupienus standing left, holding branch and parazonium. RIC IV 5; BMCRE 50; RSC 29. Bright surfaces, a few faint hairlines, area of slightly flat strike. Near EF. ($750)

704. Pupienus. AD 238. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 23.05 g, 12h). Rome mint. 1st emission. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Pupienus standing left, holding branch and parazonium. RIC IV 15; BMCRE 51; Banti 9. Green and red-brown patina, cleaning scratches on reverse. EF. Wonderful portrait. ($1500) Ex Dix Noonan Webb 139 (15 February 2017), lot 173 (hammer £3400); Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin M228 (July 1934), no. 17530 (with their ticket).

705. Hostilian. As Caesar, AD 250-251. Æ Sestertius (31.5mm, 22.54 g, 6h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 5th emission of Trajan Decius, AD 251. Bareheaded and draped bust right / Apollo seated left, holding branch and leaning arm on lyre. RIC IV 215 (Decius); Banti 3. Green and brown patina, some porosity, a few shallow scratches on reverse. Good VF. Pleasing portrait. ($500) From the Bellwether Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs, November 1996.

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Extremely Rare Gallienus AV Binio

706. Gallienus. AD 253-268. AV Binio (22mm, 5.58 g, 6h). Rome mint. 7th emission, AD 262. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / FID MILITVM, Fides standing left, holding signum in each hand. RIC V 39; MIR 36, 526f; Calicó 3485; Biaggi 1453. Lustrous, die break on obverse, a few faint scratches, a couple of minor edge marks. Superb EF. Extremely rare. ($10,000)

Calicó Plate Coin – Ex Biaggi de Blasys Collection – Pedigreed to 1970

707. Aurelian. AD 270-275. AV Aureus (21.5mm, 4.57 g, 6h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. 1st emission, end AD 270.

IMP C AVREL IANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / MAR T I PACI, Mars, helmeted and in military attire, standing left, holding up olive branch in right hand and transverse spear in left; –|–//P. RIC V Online 1359 (this coin illustrated); BN –; Lava 188 (D4/R8 – this coin); MIR 47, 13d (this coin illustrated); Toffanin 360; Calicó 4013 (this coin illustrated); Biaggi 1592 (this coin). Light marks, traces of deposits. Good VF. Extremely rare. ($3000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 162 (27 March 2003), lot 76 (obverse illustrated on back cover); Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesmann Collection (Part I, Spink, 13 April 2000), lot 51; Numismatic Fine Arts XVI (2 December 1985), lot 526; Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 1592; Munzen & Medaillen AG 43 (12 November 1970), lot 433.

Vabalathus, Usurper

708. Vabalathus. Usurper, AD 268-272. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.23 g, 11h). Antioch mint, 7th officina. 2nd emission, March-May AD 272. IM C VHABALATHVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORI A AVG, Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm; star to left. RIC V 6; Bland, Coinage 27e (dies 40/Vic iii); BN 1267. Brown surfaces, roughness. Good VF. Rare. ($1000)

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Very Rare Dated Consular Issue

709. Tacitus. AD 275-276. Antoninianus (22mm, 4.03 g, 6h). Dated consular issue. Ticinum mint, 3rd officina. 2nd emission, early-June AD 276. IMP C M CL TACITVS P AVG P M TR P COS III, radiate bust left, wearing imperial mantle, holding eagle-tipped scepter / SALVS PVBLI, Salus standing right, feeding serpent held in right hand from patera held in left hand; T. RIC V Online 3425; RIC V 121 (same dies as illustration); BN pl. 91, 364 (same dies); Hauck & Aufhäuser 18, lot 553 (same dies; hammer €650). Dark gray patina, minor deposits, cleaning/smoothing marks, light roughness. Near EF. Very rare. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CII.8 (October 1994), no. 6323 (“Very rare”).

710.

Probus. AD 276-282. AV “Heavy” Aureus (22.5mm, 6.54 g, 12h). Cyzicus or Antioch mint. Struck circa AD 281. IMP C M AVR P ROBVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CONS ERVAT AVG, Sol standing facing, head left, raising right hand and holding globe in left. RIC V 307, 891, and 915 (Ticinum, Cyzicus, and Antioch); Pink VI/1, p. 40 (Antioch); Calicó 4149; Biaggi 1614; Mazzini 175. Lustrous, a few light marks on reverse and edge. Good VF. Rare. ($5000)

711. Carus. AD 282-283. AV Aureus (20.5mm, 4.64 g, 6h). Cyzicus mint. 2nd emission, early December AD 282. IMP C M AVR CARVS P F AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS CARI INVICTI AVG, Hercules, naked, standing right, leaning on club with lion’s skin on rock; K. RIC V 117; Pink VI/2, p. 53; Calicó 4294; Biaggi 1652 var. (crescent in exergue); Mazzini 118. Surface marks and scratches, slight wave to flan. VF. ($3000)

712.

Carinus. As Caesar, AD 282-283. AV Aureus (20mm, 4.71 g, 6h). Cyzicus mint. 1st emission, mid November AD 282.

M AVR CARINVS NOB CAES, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PRINCIPIS IVV ENTVTI, Carinus standing right, holding transverse spear in right hand and globe in left; (crescent). RIC V 199 var. (no mention of cuirass); Pink VI/2, p. 52; Calicó 4355 (same dies as illustration); Biaggi 1671 (same dies). Lustrous, a few small marks. Good VF. Rare. ($7500) 184

713

714 713.

Divus Nigrinian. Died circa AD 284. Antoninianus (22mm, 4.10 g, 11h). Consecration issue. Rome mint, 1st officina. 5th emission of Carinus, November AD 284. DIVO NIGRINIANO, radiate half-length bust right / CONSECRATIO, eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread; KAA. RIC V 472; Pink VI/2, p. 38. Toned silvering, die break on obverse.

Near EF. Very rare. ($2000) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 1425; Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 1028.

714.

Julian of Pannonia. Usurper, AD 284-285. Antoninianus (21.5mm, 3.91 g, 12h). Siscia mint, 1st officina. Struck 2nd half of December, AD 284. IMP C M AVR IVLIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICT O R IA AVG, Victory standing left, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond in left; S|A//XXI. RIC V 5; Venèra 4397. Traces of toned silvering, hairline flan crack. EF. Rare. ($3000) From the Maxwell Collection.

715. Diocletian. AD 284-305. AR Argenteus (19mm, 2.61 g, 6h). Ticinum mint. 1st emission, AD 294. Laureate head right / Four tetrarchs sacrificing over tripod before city enclosure with six turrets. RIC VI 12a; Jeločnik 25; RSC 488d.

Attractively toned, small area of flat strike on reverse. Superb EF. Excellent silver quality. ($750) From the Weise Collection. Ex CNG inventory 710183 (17 June 1999).

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Constantius I. As Caesar, AD 293-305. Æ Follis (26.5mm, 10.37 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint, 1st officina.

Struck AD 300-302. Laureate bust left, wearing imperial mantle, holding eagle-tipped scepter / Genius standing left, holding patera and cornucopia; (lighted altar)|A//PLG. RIC VI 146a; Lyon 167. Dark brown surfaces, die break on obverse, partial silvering. EF. ($300)

Martinian, Usurper

717. Martinian. Usurper, AD 324. Æ Follis (20mm, 2.99 g, 5h). Nicomedia mint, 1st officina. D N M MARTINIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / IOVI CONS ERVATORI, Jupiter, naked except for cloak over left shoulder, standing left, holding Victory on globe in right hand and eagle-tipped scepter in left; to left, eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in its beak; to right, bound captive seated right, head left; –|X/IIΓ//SMNA. RIC VII 45; Hunter 1 var. (officina).

Dark brown surfaces, light roughness. Good VF. Very rare. ($3000) Proof that history does repeat itself can be found in the sad tale of Martinian, a puppet ruler installed by the Eastern Roman Emperor Licinius in the midst of his second civil war against Constantine I “the Great.” Martinian was of obscure origins, but by the mid AD 320s he had risen to become the chief minister of Licinius, just as it became apparent that a final clash with Constantine was imminent. Though Licinius had a bigger army, Constantine was much the better general and inflicted a heavy defeat on his rival in Thrace on July 3, AD 324. Crossing to Chalcedon, Licinius declared Constantine deposed and raised Martinian to the office of Augustus, with instructions to prevent Constantine from crossing into Asia Minor. Constantine easily evaded Martinian’s blocking force, landed in Asia and cornered Licinius at Nicomedia.

Having no choice, Licinius surrendered on terms brokered by his wife (and Constantine’s sister) Constantia. Martinian went into exile in Cappadocia, but was executed a few months later when Licinius was detected plotting a return to power. Seven years before, under virtually identical circumstances, Licinius had appointed Valerius Valens to a similar role, with almost identical results.

Like those of Valerius Valens, coins of Martinian are quite rare and limited to a single issue from the mint of Nicomedia. Surviving examples tend to be heavily worn or damaged, but this specimen is in an exceptional state of preservation. The reverse evokes “Jupiter the Protector,” Licinius’ patron deity, who notably failed to protect him and Martinian from the wrath of Constantine and his Christian god.

VICTOR OMNIVM GENTIVM

718.

Constantine I. AD 307/310-337. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.47 g, 6h). Treveri (Trier) mint. Struck AD 313. CONSTANTI NVS P F AVG, laureate head right / VICTOR OMN IVM GENTIVM, Constantine I standing left, holding signum in right hand and shield in left set on ground to right; to left, two suppliants kneeling right, raising hands; to right, a captive seated facing, head left; PTR. RIC VII 27; Alföldi 655; Depeyrot 19/1; Biaggi –; Mazzini 574. In NGC encapsulation 4278590-003, graded AU, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. ($10,000) Following his defeat of Maxentius in AD 312, Constantine I was not only consolidating his position as emperor of the western portion of the Roman Empire, but also preparing to deal with his eastern imperial rival, Licinius I. Moving north from Arelate in AD 313, Constantine campaigned along the Rhine frontier until the autumn of AD 314, when he wintered in his capital at Trier to celebrate his victories and await his anticipated decennalia. Thus, the more immediate reference marked by this reverse was to the emperor’s success against omnium gentium (i.e. barbarum). Eusebius (Laus Constantini IX), while using this same phrase in praising the emperor, applied the term in a broader context.

No longer did the omnium gentium apply only to those Germanic tribes against whom Constantine had been fighting - now the implied concept of barbarum could be extended to include those “enemies of the state” (hostium) who sought to undermine the social, political, or religious structure and harmony of the empire.

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719

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719.

Constantine I. AD 307/310-337. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.50 g, 6h). Nicomedia mint. Struck AD 326. Head right, wearing plain diadem, eyes to God / CONSTANTINVS AVG, two interlaced wreaths; star above; N. RIC VII 109; Alföldi 41; Depeyrot 38/2; Biaggi –; Mazzini –. A few faint scratches and marks, tiny obverse die break. EF. Very rare. Exceptional portrait. ($15,000) Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 102 (24 October 2017), lot 582 (24,000 CHF); Roma I (15 October 2010), lot 517; Hess-Leu 36 (17 April 1968), lot 556.

Like the emperor Augustus before him, Constantine I adjusted his public image to meet the changing status of his political career. With Constantine’s defeat of Licinius I at Chrysopolis in AD 324, the empire was once again a unified state under a single emperor, a situation that had not existed since the accession of Diocletian some forty years earlier. As Constantine worked to re-establish peace and stability within a restored empire over the next several years – first, by establishing a new imperial capital at the Greek city of Byzantium (dedicated in AD 330 as Constantinople); second, by convening and overseeing an ecumenical council of Christian bishops in AD 325 at Nicaea to address trouble produced by the Arian controversy in the eastern portion of the empire; and third, by enacting a number of reforms aimed at civil administration – a new imperial visage began to emerge on the coinage. This new portrait depicted Constantine wearing a diadem, a feature that was adopted in AD 324 in place of the laurel wreath that previous emperors wore in their role as commanders-in-chief. It also showed the emperor looking slightly upward, as if in the attitude of prayer. This new depiction, which seems to have been intentionally ambiguous, could be viewed by various groups within the empire in the context of their own hopes and aspirations (For a discussion of Constantine’s use of deliberately ambiguous language and imagery, see T.G. Elliot, “The Language of Constantine’s Propaganda,” TAPA 120 [1990], pp. 349-353 and H.A. Drake, Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance [Johns Hopkins, 2000], passim).

For the Christians within the Roman Empire, who had suffered under a series of persecutions during the early fourth century AD, this new image could be interpreted as the culmination of God’s plan to defeat the pagans and create a new Christian Roman Empire. Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea and biographer of the emperor, in his Vita Constantini (IV.15), specifically mentions these coins as an indication of Constantine’s piety: “The great strength of the divinely inspired faith fixed in his soul might be deduced by considering also the fact that he had his own portrait so depicted on the gold coinage that he appeared to look upwards in the manner of one reaching out to God in prayer. Impressions of this type were circulated throughout the entire Roman world.” This new imagery was also replicated on statues erected throughout the empire, a fact also mentioned by Eusebius: “His portrait also at full length was placed over the entrance gates of the palaces in some cities, the eyes upraised to heaven, and the hands outspread as if in prayer.” For contemporary Christians, this portrait was a clearly visible sign of imperial support for them.

Likewise for Eusebius, whose imperial biography was intended in part to present Constantine as the paradigm of the new Christian emperor and is the source for this interpretation of the coins, this new image served to validate his argument that Constantine was truly a Christian prince.

For non-Christians too, this new image could be interpreted in the context of their own viewpoints. The diademed portrait without the accompanying obverse legend recalls those royal Hellenistic portraits seen on the silver coinage of the successors of Alexander the Great and subsequent eastern monarchs (R.R.R. Smith, “The Public Image of Licinius I: Portrait Sculpture and Imperial Ideology in the Early Fourth Century,” JRS 87 [1997], p. 187 and note 99). Symbolizing royal authority, it appeared not only on the coinage of various Greek monarchies, but also on Roman Republican coinage where the mythical early Roman kings were depicted (cf. Marcia 28, showing Ancus Marcius).

The use of the diadem, which appeared in an array of designs – from a simple plain band to ones which were more detailed and complex, eventually becoming an elaborate and jewel-encrusted construction – served to refigure Constantine in his role now as a Greek βασιλεύς, rather than a purely Roman princeps. Like Alexander the Great before him, Constantine also tried to balance the various and seemingly disparate elements of his new empire. Given that Constantine ruled over both Christian and non-Christian populations - neither of which he wished to alienate - his new portrait on these coins could appeal to the viewpoints of both.

720.

Constantine I. AD 307/310-337. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.31 g, 11h). Nicomedia mint, 1st officina. Struck AD 335.

Rosette-diademed head right, eyes to God / VICTORIA CONSTANTINI AVG, Victory, winged and draped, seated right on cuirass, holding shield with left hand, inscribing VOT/ XXX on shield in two lines with stylus in right hand; to right, Genius, winged, standing left, supporting shield with both hands; SMNP. RIC VII 177; Alföldi 616; Depeyrot 44/1; Biaggi 2025 var. (officina); cf. Mazzini 617. Lustrous, light scratches, minor flan flaw on obverse. EF. ($10,000) 187

721. Crispus. Caesar, AD 316-326. Æ Follis (19mm, 2.47 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 321. Helmeted and cuirassed bust left, holding spear over shoulder / Globe, surmounted by three stars, set on altar inscribed V.O/TIS/ XX in three lines; C|R//PLG. RIC VII 139; Lyon 87. Toned partial silvering and brown. Choice EF. Elegant bust. Very rare. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 82 (16 September 2009), lot 1068.

722.

Constantine II. AD 337-340. AV Solidus (23mm, 4.47 g, 5h). Antioch mint, 5th officina. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory seated right on cuirass, behind which is a shield, holding shield inscribed VOT/ XXX in two lines; to right, a small winged genius standing left, supporting shield with both hands; SMANЄ•. RIC VIII 14; Depeyrot 4/5.

Scrape on obverse. Good VF. ($1000)

723.

Constantine II. AD 337-340. AV Solidus (21.5mm, 4.31 g, 6h). Vicennalia issue. Antioch mint, 7th officina. Pearldiademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory seated right on cuirass, behind which is a shield, holding shield inscribed VOT/ XX/ MVLT/ XXX in four lines; to right, a small winged genius standing left, supporting shield with both hands; SMANZ. RIC VIII 23; Depeyrot 5/1. Lustrous, some faint hairlines, shallow scrape on edge. EF. ($1500)

724. Constans. AD 337-350. AV Solidus (21.5mm, 4.30 g, 6h). Treveri (Trier) mint. Struck AD 345. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Two Victories standing facing each other, holding between wreath inscribed VOT/ X/ MVLT/ XX in four lines; TR. RIC VIII 134; Depeyrot 6/3. A few minor flan flaws. EF. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 38 (6 June 1996), lot 1165.

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725 726 725. Constans. AD 337-350. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.45 g, 12h). Siscia mint. Struck AD 340-350. Laurel and rosettediademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Two Victories standing facing each other, holding between them wreath inscribed VOT/ X/ MVL/ XX in four lines; *SIS*. RIC VIII 125; Depeyrot 11/2. Toned. EF. Rare. ($2000) Ex Triton X (9 January 2007), lot 793.

726. Constans. AD 337-350. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.25 g, 5h). Quinquennalia issue. Antioch mint, 10th officina. Struck AD 337-347. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory seated right on cuirass, behind which is a shield, holding shield inscribed VOT/ V/ MVLT/ X in four lines; to right, Genius standing left, supporting shield with both hands; SMANI. RIC VIII 29; Depeyrot 5/7. Lustrous, some faint hairlines and a few minor marks. Near EF. ($1000)

727.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.40 g, 6h). Tricennalia issue. Constantinople mint. Struck AD 351-355. FL IVL CONSTAN TIVS PERP AVGV, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder in right hand and shield decorated with horseman motif in left / GLORIA REI PVBLICAE, Roma, holding spear and head facing, and Constantinopolis, head left, holding scepter and foot on prow, seated on thrones facing one another, holding between them wreath inscribed VOT/ XXX/ MVLT/ XXXX in four lines; CONS. RIC VIII 96; Depeyrot 3/4; Biaggi 2141. Lustrous, light marks. EF. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 36 (5 December 1995), lot 2494.

728.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.42 g, 12h). Tricennalia issue. Nicomedia mint, 3rd officina.

Struck AD 351-355. FL IVL CONSTAN TIVS PER AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with horseman motif / GLORIA REI PVBLICAE, Roma, holding spear and head facing, and Constantinopolis, head left, holding scepter and foot on prow, seated on thrones facing one another, holding between them wreath inscribed VOT/ XXX/ MVLT/ XXXX in four lines; SMNT. RIC VIII 74; Depeyrot 5/2; Biaggi 2139-40 var. (officina). Lustrous, some scratches and hairlines, traces of deposits. EF. ($2000)

729.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.52 g, 12h). Vicennalia issue. Antioch mint, 3rd officina. Struck AD 347-355. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Roma seated facing and Constantinopolis seated left on double throne, with right foot on prow, each holding scepter and supporting shield between them inscribed VOT/ XX/ MVLT/ XXX in four lines; SMANΓ. RIC VIII 83; Depeyrot 6/3. Lustrous. EF. ($1000) 189

730.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.48 g, 12h). Vicennalia issue. Antioch mint, 8th officina. Struck AD 347-355. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Roma seated facing and Constantinopolis seated left on double throne, with right foot on prow, each holding scepter and supporting shield between them inscribed VOT/ XX/ MVLT/ XXX in four lines; SMANH. RIC VIII 81; Depeyrot 6/3. Lustrous, a few light scratches. Near EF. ($750)

731. Vetranio. AD 350. Æ Centenionalis (23mm, 5.05 g, 12h). Thessalonica mint, 4th officina. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Vetranio standing left, holding labarum in each hand; star above; A|B//•TSΔ•. RIC VIII 132; LRBC 1658.

Toned silvering, a few minor flan flaws, areas of light roughness. EF. ($300)

733

732

732.

Julian II. As Caesar, AD 355-360. AV Solidus (20.5mm, 4.41 g, 12h). Antioch mint, 6th officina. Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Roma and Constantinopolis, with right foot on prow, enthroned, each holding scepter and supporting shield with eight-pointed star between them; SMANς. RIC VIII 166; Depeyrot 10/2. A few marks and scratches, edge scrape on reverse. VF. Rare. ($1500) From the Weise Collection. Ex collection of Marian A. Sinton (Classical Numismatic Group 53, 15 March 2000), lot 1747.

733.

Julian II. AD 360-363. AV Solidus (20.5mm, 4.47 g, 6h). Sirmium mint. Struck AD 361-363. FL CL IVLIA NVS P P AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS EXERCI TVS ROMANORVM, soldier, helmeted and in military dress, standing facing, head left, placing right hand on head of kneeling captive to left, holding trophy over left shoulder; SIRM(wreath). RIC VIII 94; Depeyrot 20/1; Biaggi 2219 var. (mintmark); Jameson 380 var. (same); Mazzini 78/a var. (same); Elsen 97, lot 304 (same obv. die). Some hairlines and light scratches, smoothed in obverse field. Good VF. ($2000)

734.

Julian II. AD 360-363. AV Solidus (21.5mm, 4.40 g, 6h). Antioch mint, 4th officina. Struck AD 361-363. FL CL IVLIA NVS P P AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS EXERCI TVS ROMANORVM, soldier advancing right, head left, holding trophy in left hand and dragging bound captive with right; ANTΔ. RIC VIII 195; Depeyrot 15/1; Biaggi 2221; Hunterian 49; Mazzini 79 var. (officina). A few minor die breaks on obverse, a couple of small edge marks, die rust in legend. Good VF. Rare. ($3000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXII (7 December 1994), lot 462; Leu 57 (25 May 1993), lot 319; Leu 7 (9 May 1973), lot 443.

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735. Gratian. AD 367-383. AR Siliqua (16mm, 1.42 g, 12h). Treveri (Trier) mint. Struck AD 378-383. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Phoenix standing left on globe; TRPS. RIC IX 56a; RSC 27†; Hoxne no. 419. Toned, light porosity, a few scratches under tone, hairline flan crack. VF. Very rare. Only one example was in the Hoxne Hoard, which was the largest hoard of Roman gold and silver from the late Roman period. ($500)

736. Gratian. AD 367-383. AV Solidus (21.5mm, 4.48 g, 6h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Struck AD 388-389. Pearldiademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Valentinian I and Gratian, nimbate, enthroned facing, holding a globe between them; Victory facing above throne with wings spread; palm between; COM. RIC IX 5d; Depeyrot 1/1 (North Italian min); Toffanin 437. Lustrous, a few light marks. EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Triton III (1 December 1999), lot 1236.

737. Gratian. AD 367-383. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.51 g, 5h). Thessalonica mint. Struck AD 379. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Gratian and a smaller Valentinian II seated facing on double throne, the one on the right holding mappa, the two together holding globe between them; behind and between them, Victory facing with outspread wings; palm frond below; TESOB. RIC IX 34d; Depeyrot 34/4. Lustrous, faint hairlines. Superb EF. The rarer variety of this reverse type with the diminutive Valentinian II on the right. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Byron Reed Collection (Spink [116], 10 October 1996), lot 2514.

Gratian was the son of Valentinian I. At the age of seven he was given the rank of Augustus in AD 367. After his father’s death in AD 375 he became the sole emperor of the Western division of the Roman Empire, though his little half-brother, Valentinian II, was also elevated to the rank of Augustus at the same time at the age of four. Thus, the reverse of this coin depicting Valentinian II as smaller in stature.

738.

Theodosius I. AD 379-395. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.43 g, 11h). Sirmium mint. Struck AD 393-395. Rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Theodosius standing right, left foot on bound captive, holding labarum and Victory on globe; S|M//COMOB. RIC IX 12b.1; Depeyrot 31/4. A few minor scratches, traces of deposits. Superb EF. ($2000) Ex Tkalec (8 September 2008), lot 318.

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739. Eugenius. AD 392-394. AR Siliqua (17mm, 1.68 g, 6h). Treveri (Trier) mint. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory on globe and reversed spear; TRPS. RIC IX 106d; RSC 14†a. Toned, some minor marks under tone. VF. ($750)

Extremely Rare Eugenius Solidus

740. Eugenius. AD 392-394. AV Solidus (20.5mm, 4.45 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 392 or 393. D N EVGENI VS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTOR IA AVGG, Theodosius I and Valentinian II enthroned facing, holding a globe between them; Victory facing above throne with wings spread; palm frond between; L|D// COM. RIC IX 45; Lyon 229; Depeyrot 18/1; Biaggi –; Mazzini 6 v. A couple of faint scratches, traces of deposits, small flan flaw on reverse. Near EF. Extremely rare. ($15,000) Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 52 (7 October 2009), lot 642; Numismatica Ars Classica 38 (21 March 2007), lot 283 (hammer 32,000 CHF).

741. Eugenius. AD 392-394. AR Siliqua (18.5mm, 2.14 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory on globe and reversed spear; LVGPS. RIC IX 46; Lyon 230; RSC 18A. Toned, small flan flaw on obverse, some shallow cleaning scratches under tone. EF. ($750) From a private English Collection. Ex Leu 22 (8 May 1979), lot 405.

742. Honorius. AD 393-423. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.47 g, 12h). Constantinople mint, 1st officina. Struck AD 403-408.

Pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear and shield / Constantinopolis seated facing, head right, with right foot on prow, holding scepter and Victory on globe; star to left; A//CONOB. RIC X 30; Depeyrot 57/2.

Lustrous. Choice EF. ($2500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex James Fox Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 40, 4 December 1996), lot 1815.

192

Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection

743. Honorius. AD 393-423. AV Tremissis (14.5mm, 1.49 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 403-408. Pearldiademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory advancing front, head left, holding wreath and globus cruciger; –|*// CONOB. RIC X 35; Depeyrot 58/2; Biaggi 2323 (this coin). Small dig on obverse, minor marks. Near EF. ($500) Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 49, 21 October 2008), lot 524; Hess-Leu 11 (24 March 1959), lot 390.

Very Rare Constantine III Solidus – Pedigreed to 1924

744.

Constantine III. AD 407-411. AV Solidus (21.5mm, 4.44 g, 6h). Arelate (Arles) mint. D N CONSTAN TINVSP F AVG, rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORI A AAVGGG, Constantine III, laureate and in military attire, standing right, holding vexillum in right hand and Victory on globe in left hand, with his left foot he treads down a seated captive; A|R//CONOB. RIC X 1519; Ferrando p. 343, 1701 (this coin illustrated); Depeyrot –; Biaggi –. Lustrous, traces of earthen deposits. EF. Very rare. ($15,000) Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 52 (7 October 2009), lot 653 (hammer 18,000 CHF); Property of an European Nobleman (Numismatica Ars Classica 24, 5 December 2002), lot 334; Superior (11 December 1992), lot 2553; Clarence S. Bement Collection (Ars Classica VIII, 25 June 1924), lot 1581.

745.

Basiliscus & Marcus. AD 475-476. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.46 g, 7h). Constantinople mint, 1st officina. Pearldiademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with horseman spearing an enemy below / Basiliscus and Marcus seated facing on double throne, each nimbate, each holding mappa and globus; in field between, star above cross; A//CONOB. RIC X 1022; Depeyrot 104/1. In NGC encapsulation 4632507-014, graded AU, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5. Rare. ($2000) 193

ROMANO-BYZANTINE WEIGHTS Massive Commercial Weight

746.

5th-7th centuries AD. Æ Half Pound – Six Ounce Square Commercial Weight (50x48mm, 162.50 g). Γ° S flanking cross; all within finely decorated distyle arch. Letters and cross with silver inlay, copper inlay in the arch / Blank. Bendall, Weights 56; Geneva 315. Brown and subdued brassy surfaces with silver and copper inlays on obverse, rough red-brown and green patina on reverse. Well-preserved silver and copper inlay. ($500)

BYZANTINE COINAGE

747.

Anastasius I. 491-518. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.41 g, 5h). Constantinople mint, 6th officina. Struck 492-507.

Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and shield / Victory standing left, holding long, jeweled cross; star to right; ς//CONOB. DOC 3f; MIBE 4a; SB 3. A hint of die rust on obverse, a few minor edge marks.

Choice EF. ($750) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates.

748.

Anastasius I. 491-518. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.46 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 10th officina. Struck 507-518.

Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and shield / Victory standing left, holding staff surmounted by reversed staurogram; star to left; I//CONOB. DOC 7j; MIBE 7; SB 5. In NGC encapsulation 3938214-005, graded MS, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. ($750) 194

749.

Justin I. 518-527. AV Solidus (19.5mm, 4.42 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 6th officina. Struck 522-527. Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and shield / Angel standing facing, holding long cross and globus cruciger; star to right; ς//CONOB. DOC 2f; MIBE 3; SB 56. Some shallow scratches. Choice EF. ($750) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates.

750

751

750.

Justinian I. 527-565. Æ Half Follis (32mm, 8.94 g, 7h). Constantinople mint, 3rd officina. Dated RY 12 (538/9).

Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger and shield; cross to right / Large K; A/N/N/O|XII (date) across field; cross above, Γ below. DOC 62 var. (unlisted officina); MIBE 96; SB 165. Attractive glossy brown patina, some cleaning/ smoothing marks. EF. ($300) From the Grand Haven Collection, purchased from Pars Coins.

751.

Maurice Tiberius. 582-602. Æ Follis (27.5mm, 11.87 g, 12h). Theoupolis (Antioch) mint, 5th officina. Dated RY 17 (598/9). Crowned bust facing, wearing consular robes, holding mappa and eagle-tipped scepter / Large M; cross above, date across field; Є//tHЄUP’. DOC 169c; MIBE 96C; SB 533. Red-brown patina, flan flaw on obverse. EF. ($300) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates.

752. Phocas. 602-610. AR Light Siliqua (16mm, 1.60 g, 4h). Constantinople mint. Struck 602-607. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Cross potent between two palm fronds. DOC –; MIBE 54; SB 638A. Toned, flan crack, some porosity. VF. Rare. ($300) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates.

753. Heraclius. 610-641. AV Solidus (21.5mm, 4.48 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 5th officina. Struck 610-613. Draped and cuirassed bust facing, wearing plumed helmet and holding cross / Cross potent set on three steps; Є//CONOB. DOC 3b; MIB 5; SB 731. Traces of die rust on obverse. EF. ($750) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates.

195

754.

Heraclius, with Heraclius Constantine and Heraclonas. 610-641. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.46 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 1st officina. Dated IY 10 (636/7). Heraclonas, Heraclius, and Heraclius Constantine standing facing, each holding globus cruciger; all but Heraclonas crowned; cross to upper left / Cross potent set on three steps; monogram to left, I (date) to right; A//CONOB. DOC 36a; MIB 42; SB 761. Lustrous, minor deposits on obverse. EF. Well struck. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 35 (20 September 1995), lot 1291.

756

755

755.

Constans II, with Constantine IV. 641-668. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.38 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 7th officina. Struck 654-659. Crowned and draped busts of Constans and Constantine facing; cross above / Cross potent set on three steps; Z// CONOB. DOC 25g; MIB 26; SB 959. Lustrous, traces of die rust on obverse, faint hairlines, minor edge shave. EF. ($500) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates.

756.

Constans II. 641-668. AV Solidus (11mm, 4.40 g, 6h). Carthage mint. Dated IY 2 (643/4). Crowned and draped bust facing, holding globus cruciger / Cross potent set on three steps; IB//CONOB. DOC 107.2 var. (number of steps); MIB 56; SB 1029. Near EF. ($300)

Justinian II First Reign Christ Portrait

757.

Justinian II. First reign, 685-695. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.46 g, 7h). Constantinople mint, 4th officina. Struck 692695. IҺS CRISτ[OS RЄ]X RЄςNAR†IsM, bust of Christ Pantokrator facing / D IЧSτINI AN ЧS SЄRЧ CҺRISτI, Justinian standing facing, holding cross potent on steps in right hand and akakia in left; Δ//[CONO P]. DOC 7d.3; MIB 8a; SB 1248. In NGC encapsulation 4938331-166, graded Ch AU, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 5/5. ($3000)

758.

Justinian II. First reign, 685-695. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.46 g, 7h). Constantinople mint, 7th officina. Struck 692695. [IҺS CRISτOS R]ЄX RЄςNAN†IsM, bust of Christ Pantokrator facing / [D IЧSτINI] AN ЧS SЄRЧ CҺRISτI, Justinian standing facing, holding cross potent on steps in right hand and akakia in left; Z//[CONO P]. DOC 7 var. (unlisted officina); MIB 8a; SB 1248. In NGC encapsulation 4938331-087, graded MS, Strike: 3/5, Surface: 4/5. ($4000) 196

759

760

759.

Tiberius III (Apsimar). 698-705. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.39 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 7th officina. Crowned and cuirassed bust facing, holding spear and shield / Cross potent set on three steps; Z//CONOB. DOC 1f; MIB 1; SB 1360. A few minor marks. EF. ($1000) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates.

760.

Tiberius III (Apsimar). 698-705. AV Solidus (19.5mm, 4.30 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 7th officina. Crowned and cuirassed bust facing, holding spear and shield / Cross potent set on three steps; Z//CONOB. DOC 1f; MIB 1; SB 1360.

Lustrous, some hairlines and a few shallow scratches, areas of flatness of strike, clipped. EF. ($750) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates.

761.

Constantine V Copronymus, with Leo IV and Leo III. 741-775. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.38 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 764-773. Crowned and draped busts of Constantine V and Leo IV facing; cross above, • between / Crowned bust of Leo III facing, wearing loros, holding cross potent. DOC 2f.3; Füeg 6.B.8; SB 1551. EF. ($1000)

762.

Constantine VI, with Leo III, Constantine V, and Leo IV. 780-797. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.41 g, 6h). Constantinopole mint. Struck 780-787. Leo IV and Constantine VI seated facing on lyre-backed throne, each wearing crown and chlamys and holding akakia; cross above / Crowned busts of Leo III and Constantine V facing, each wearing loros; cross above, • between.

DOC 2; Füeg 1.B.1; SB 1584. Near EF. ($750) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates.

763.

Constantine VI & Irene. 780-797. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 793-797. HRHnI AVΓЧτH, bust of Irene facing, wearing crown with cross, pinnacles, pendilia, and loros / CONSτAn τInOS bAS’, crowned bust of Constantine facing, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger in right hand and akakia in left. DOC 3c.2; Füeg 5.D; SB 1594. A few minor scratches and marks, traces of earthen deposits. Good VF. ($3000) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates.

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764

765

764.

Nicephorus I, with Stauracius. 802-811. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.40 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 803-811.

Crowned bust of Nicephorus facing, wearing chlamys, holding cross potent and akakia / Crowned bust of Stauracius facing, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger and akakia; Є at end of legend. DOC 2a; Füeg 2.B.2; SB 1604. Lustrous, a small edge mark. EF. Attractive. ($1000) 765. Theophilus. 829-842. AV Solidus (15.5mm, 3.72 g, 5h). Syracuse mint. Struck 830-831. Crowned bust of Theophilus facing, wearing loros, holding cross potent / Crowned bust of Theophilus facing, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger.

DOC 24; Anastasi 530; SB 1670. Minor deposits, small die break on reverse. EF. ($300) From the El Medina Collection.

766.

Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine. 867-886. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.44 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 871-886. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing / Crowned busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys facing, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC 2c; Füeg 3.C.2; SB 1704. A few minor marks and scratches. Choice EF. Sharply struck in high relief. A wonderful example. ($1000) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates.

767.

Leo VI the Wise, with Constantine VII. 886-912. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.36 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 908912. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing / Leo and Constantine standing facing, both crowned and wearing loros decorated with a cross at end, holding globus cruciger and patriarchal cross between them. DOC 2; Füeg 3.B.5; SB 1725. A few minor scratches and edge marks. Good VF. Well centered. ($2000)

768.

Nicephorus II Phocas, with Basil II. 963-969. AV Histamenon Nomisma (21mm, 4.41 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 967-969. Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing / The Theotokos and Nicephorus, crowned and wearing loros, facing, holding patriarchal cross between. DOC 4; Füeg 3.C.2; SB 1778. A couple of light cleaning scratches. EF. ($500) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates. Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 1797.

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769.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AR Miliaresion (30mm, 2.93 g, 12h). Constantinople mint.

Struck 989-1025. Ornamented cross set on four steps; to left, crowned bust of Basil facing, wearing loros, to right, crowned and draped bust of Constantine facing / +ЬASIL’/ C CωҺSτAҺ’/ ΠORFVROς’/ ΠISτVbAS’/ RωMAIω’ in five lines; ornament –Θ– above and below. DOC 20c; SB 1812. Attractively toned. Near EF. Well centered on a broad flan. ($1000) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection (Heritage 3035, 3 September 2014), lot 29621, purchased from Spink & Sons, London, July 1997.

770.

Romanus III Argyrus. 1028-1034. AV Histamenon Nomisma (24mm, 4.41 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing / Romanus, placing hand on breast and holding globus cruciger, standing facing, being crowned and blessed by the Theotokos; five pellets in loros end; M Θ, each with macron above, in upper field. DOC 1c.2; Füeg II 1.D.5.y; SB 1819. Small scrape on obverse. EF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 121 (9 October 1997), lot 553.

771. Theodora. 1055-1056. AV Histamenon Nomisma (25mm, 4.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. + IҺXIҺS REX RЄINANITIm, Christ Pantokrator standing facing on dais / + ӨЄOΔωPA AVΓOVCTA, Theodora and the Theotokos standing facing, holding between them a labarum with pellet on shaft; barred M Ө flanking Virgin’s head. DOC 1c; Füeg II 1.C2; SB 1837. Some faint hairlines on obverse. EF. ($3000) Ex Gasvoda Collection Duplicates.

772.

Constantine X Ducas. 1059-1067. AV Histamenon Nomisma (27.5mm, 4.31 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1062-1065. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing / Constantine standing facing, holding labarum with X on shaft and globus cruciger. DOC 1 var. (no X on shaft); Füeg II 1.D; SB 1847 var. (same). Toned, minor flan flaw on obverse, a few minor marks.

Good VF. Rare with X on shaft. ($750) 199

773.

Eudocia, with Michael VII and Constantius. 1067. AV Histamenon Nomisma (25mm, 4.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing / Eudocia, holding jeweled scepter in right hand, standing facing on footstool, flanked by her sons Michael and Constantius, each holding globus cruciger and akakia. DOC 1; Füeg II 1.x; SB 1857. A few shallow marks, minor die break on reverse. Good VF. ($750)

774

775

774.

Michael VII Ducas, with Maria. 1071-1078. EL Tetarteron Nomisma (18.5mm, 4.04 g, 6h). Constantinople mint.

Bust of the Theotokos facing, holding nimbate head of the infant Christ / Crowned busts of Michael and Maria facing, both holding between them long cross. DOC 3; SB 1870. A few scratches, edge split, clipped. Good VF. ($1000) 775.

Michael VII Ducas, with Maria. 1071-1078. EL Tetarteron Nomisma (18.5mm, 4.06 g, 6h). Constantinople mint.

Bust of the Theotokos facing, holding nimbate head of the infant Christ / Crowned busts of Michael and Maria facing, both holding between them long cross, shaft ornamented with X above pellet within crescent. DOC 5a; SB 1872. Minor die break on obverse, edge clipped. Good VF. ($750)

776.

Michael VII Ducas, with Maria. 1071-1078. EL Tetarteron Nomisma (18.5mm, 3.98 g, 6h). Constantinople mint.

Bust of the Theotokos facing, holding nimbate head of the infant Christ / Crowned busts of Michael and Maria facing, both holding between them long cross, shaft ornamented with X above pellet within crescent. DOC 5a; SB 1872. Areas of slightly flat strike, die break and die rust on reverse, edge clipped. Good VF. ($500)

Seal of Nicephorus III Botaniates Prior to Becoming Emperor

777.

Nicephorus III Botaniates. as proedros and doux, end 1061-1068. PB Seal (28mm, 21.63 g, 12h). (O with central pellet)/ΔH/M, to left, T/PI/OC to right, St. Demetrios facing, in military attire, standing facing, holding spear and shield set on ground / + КЄ (macron above) RΘ/Tω Cω Δ(OY)[Λω]/NHKHΦOP/П(crescent above)ЄΔPO KAI/Δ(OY)Ξ O ROT,/ NIΛTЄIC in six lines. BLS I 2687. Earthen gray patina, light cleaning marks on reverse. VF. ($500) 200

778. Uncertain. 11th century. PB Seal (26mm, 19.38 g, 12h). (O with central pellet)/ΘЄ/O/Δω/P to left, O/CT/PA/TH/ ΛA to right, facing bust of St. Theodore Stratelates, wearing ornate paludamentum and holding spear and shield / Uncertain six-line legend; ornaments above and below. Cf. Dumbarton Oaks online collection Inventory BZS.1955.1.1913 (for obv.).

Gray patina, earthen deposits. VF. Attractive portrait of a rare saint. ($300)

Published by Bendall

779.

Theodore Gabras. Ruler of Trebizond, circa 1075-1098. Æ Follis (23mm, 4.81 g, 6h). Trebizond mint. Struck circa 1075-1085. Patriarchal cross set on step / Patriarchal cross set on step. S. Bendall, “The mint of Trebizond under Alexius I and the Gabrades,” NC 1977, issue 9, pl. 6, 9 (this coin illustrated); DOC 9; SB –. Green patina. VF. Very rare. ($200) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

The region of Trebizond had been captured by the Turks following the disastrous battle of Manzikert. In 1075, soldier and nobleman Theodore Gabras defeated the occupiers and returned the region to Christian hands. Gabras afterwards ruled over the region, regarding it as his own private domain, while still maintaining at least nominal allegiance to the emperor. Accordingly, Constantinople kept close watch over him and held his son Gregory hostage. In 1091, after requesting in Constantinople to have his son returned to him, Theodore, in a remarkably bold move, implemented a plan to sneak himself and Gregory back to Trebizond by merchant ship. This open act of rebellion against Alexius I was followed by swift action and the two were tracked down on their return journey. Under the circumstances, Theodore had no choice but to send Gregory back to Constantinople. He himself was allowed to return to Trebizond.re, was similarly a portrait of Theodore Gabras, at least in popular belief.”

780.

John II Comnenus. 1118-1143. AV Hyperpyron (33mm, 4.39 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1118-1122. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing, raising right hand in benediction and holding the book of the gospels in left; barred IC – XC across upper field / Half-length figures of John and the Virgin Mary facing, holding patriarchal cross between them; manus Dei to upper left. DOC 1a; SB 1938. Richly toned, a few faint scratches. EF. ($750) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Hunter Collection (Goldberg 72, 5 February 2013), lot 4263.

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781.

Isaac Comnenus. Usurper in Cyprus, 1185-1191. BI Aspron Trachy (27mm, 3.75 g, 6h). Nicosia mint(?). Struck 1187-1191(?). Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator / Isaac standing facing, holding cruciform scepter and akakia; manus Dei to upper right. DOC 3; CLBC 6.2.2; SB 1992. Dark brown patina, flan crack, light scratch on reverse. Good VF. Rare and attractive for issue. ($500) From the collection of Simon Bendall. Ex Numismatic Ars Classica 56 (8 October 2010), lot 833 (hammer $1600); John J. Slocum Collection (Sotheby’s, 14 October 1999), lot 180.

782.

Isaac Comnenus. Usurper in Cyprus, 1185-1191. BI Aspron Trachy (28mm, 3.43 g, 6h). Nicosia mint(?). Struck 1187-1191(?). Christ Pantokrator standing facing on dais, holding gospel and raising hand in benediction; four small crosses in fields / Half-length bust of Isaac facing, holding cruciform scepter and akakia, being crowned by the Theotokos. S. Bendall, “Two Rare Byzantine Coins of the Comnenian Dynasty” in NumCirc CIX.5 (October 2005), 2 (this coin); DOC – (but cf. 8 for similar tetarteron); CLBC 6.2.3 (this coin cited); SB –. Green-brown patina. VF. Very rare. ($200) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

783.

Isaac Comnenus. Usurper in Cyprus, 1185-1191. Æ Tetarteron (19mm, 3.00 g, 6h). Nicosia mint(?). Struck 11871191(?). Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, holding gospel and raising hand in benediction / Bust of Isaac facing, holding cross-tipped scepter and akakia. DOC 7; CLBC 6.3.3; SB 1994. Dark brown patina. VF. ($200) From the collection of Simon Bendall, purchased from Baldwin’s.

Published by Bendall

784.

Isaac Comnenus. Usurper in Cyprus, 1185-1191. Æ Tetarteron (16mm, 1.86 g, 7h). Nicosia mint(?). Struck 1187-1191(?). Crowned bust of Isaac facing, holding cross-tipped scepter and globus cruciger / Monogram. S. Bendall, “An Unpublished Tetarteron of Isaac Comnenus of Cyprus (A.D. 1184-1191),” in NumCirc CXIII.6 (December 2005), fig. 1 (this coin); DOC –; CLBC 6.3.5 (this coin cited); SB –. Earthen green patina. VF. Extremely rare. ($300) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

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785. temp. Isaac II Angelus. First reign, 1185-1195. Æ (17mm, 0.72 g). Trebizond mint. Jeweled cross / Jeweled cross. DOC – (but cf. 13 and 14 for similar issues); CLBC –; SB –; CNG E-473, lot 410. Rough brown surfaces. VF. Rare. ($200) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

786.

Theodore Comnenus-Ducas. As emperor of Thessalonica, 1225/7-1230. AR Trachy (24.5mm, 1.79 g, 6h).

Thessalonica mint. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing / Theodore and St. Demetrius standing facing, holding staff with triangle and cross in circle between them. DOC 1a; SB 2158; CLBC 12.1.1 (R3). Flan crack and bend in edge, some deposits.

VF. Very rare. ($400)

Published by Bendall

787.

Michael II Comnenus-Ducas, with John III Ducas (Vatatzes). Despot of Epiros, 1237-1271. BI Aspron Trachy (27mm, 2.90 g, 5h). Thessalonica mint. Struck 1248. Facing bust of the Archangel Michael / John standing facing, holding labarum and akakia, being crowned by Archangel Michael standing left. S. Bendall, “The Coinage of Michael II, Angelos of Epirus, 1231-1265,” in NumCirc CIV.1 (February 1996), 5 (this coin); DOC 2; CLBC 15.5.1; SB 2235. Dark brown patina, flan crack. Good VF. ($500) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

DOC Plate Coin and Published by Bendall

788.

Michael II Comnenus-Ducas, with John III Ducas (Vatatzes). Despot of Epiros, 1237-1271. BI Aspron Trachy (25mm, 2.40 g, 6h). Arta mint. Struck 1248(?). Two-towered city gate with central archway; behind, large central tower / Michael standing facing. holding akakia and being crowned by John. S. Bendall, “The Coinage of Michael II, Angelos of Epirus, 1231-1265,” in NumCirc CIV.1 (February 1996), 7; DOC 3b (this coin); CLBC 16.2.2 (Uncertain Rulers; this coin cited); SB 2237. Brown and green patina, minor edge splits. VF. Very rare. Exceptionally well struck obverse. ($300) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

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789.

Michael II Comnenus-Ducas, with John III Ducas (Vatatzes). Despot of Epiros, 1237-1271. BI Aspron Trachy (25mm, 2.20 g, 6h). Arta mint. Struck 1248(?). Two-towered city gate with central archway; behind, large central tower / Michael standing facing. holding akakia and being crowned by John. S. Bendall, “The Coinage of Michael II, Angelos of Epirus, 1231-1265,” in NumCirc CIV.1 (February 1996), 7; DOC 3; CLBC 16.2.2 (Uncertain Rulers); SB 2237. Rough brown surfaces. VF. Very rare. ($300) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

790.

John Comnenus-Ducas. As emperor of Thessalonica, 1237-1242. BI Aspron Trachy (23mm, 1.15 g, 6h). Series II. Thessalonica mint. St. Demetrius enthroned facing on backless throne, sword across lap / John and the Theotokos standing facing and holding between them staff topped by cross-in-circle and triangular decoration. S. Bendall, “Notes on the Coinage in the name of John Comnenus-Ducas of Thessalonica (AD 1237-44),” in NC 162 (2002), 1; DOC 1 var. (module); CLBC 14.1.2; LBC –; SB 2187. Dark green patina, scratches, some weakness on obverse. Good VF. Very rare and with clear legend. ($750) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

Published by Bendall

791.

John Comnenus-Ducas. As emperor of Thessalonica, 1237-1242. BI Aspron Trachy (20mm, 1.41 g, 6h). Series III. Thessalonica mint. The Theotokos enthroned facing, holding infant Christ on lap / John standing facing, holding labarum and akakia. S. Bendall, “Notes on the Coinage in the name of John Comnenus-Ducas of Thessalonica (AD 1237-44),” in NC 162 (2002), 6; DOC 28; CLBC 14.18.3 (this coin illustrated, p. 514); LBC 411; SB 2214. Brown patina. Good VF. Exceptional for issue and likely the finest known. ($500) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Numismatic Ars Classica 56 (8 October 2010), lot 829; LHS 97 (10 May 2006), lot 185 (hammer 5000 CHF).

792.

John Comnenus-Ducas. As emperor of Thessalonica, 1237-1242. BI Aspron Trachy (23mm, 1.86 g, 6h). Series II. Thessalonica mint. Wing / Winged half-length figure of John facing, holding anexikakia, over city walls. S. Bendall, “Notes on the Coinage in the name of John Comnenus-Ducas of Thessalonica (AD 1237-44),” in NC 162 (2002), –; DOC 35 var. (module); CLBC 14.26.3 var. (same); LBC 424-7 var. (same); SB 2220 var. (same). Green-brown patina. Fine/VF. Rare. ($100) From the collection of Simon Bendall. Ex Helios 6 (9 March 2011), lot 1161.

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793.

John Comnenus-Ducas. As emperor of Thessalonica, 1237-1242. BI Aspron Trachy (23mm, 1.73 g). Series II. Thessalonica mint. Flower or eight-pointed star with pellets between petals / Half-length figure of John facing, holding labarum and akakia, beneath pelleted arch. S. Bendall, “Notes on the Coinage in the name of John Comnenus-Ducas of Thessalonica (AD 1237-44),” in NC 162 (2002), 27; cf. DOC 36 (for rev. type); CLBC 14.27.3 Hybrid (this coin illustrated); LBC –; cf. SB 2221 (for rev. type). Attractive green-brown patina. Good VF. ($300) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

794.

Theodore I Comnenus-Lascaris. Emperor of Nicaea, 1208-1222. AR Aspron Trachy (34mm, 4.19 g, 6h). Nicaea mint. Struck 1208-1212(?). Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing / Theodore and St. Theodore standing facing, each holding sheathed sword and supporting between them a staff topped by eight-pointed star. DOC 2; LBC 132-6; SB 2064 (Magnesia mint). Toned, edge chip. EF. ($500) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

Published by Bendall

795.

Michael VIII Palaeologus, with Andronicus II. 1261-1282. Æ Trachy (26mm, 2.75 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint.

Struck 1272-1282. Half-length bust of St. Theodore facing, holding spear and shield decorated with star / Half-length busts of Andronicus and Michael facing, each holding labarum and sword between them; above, half-length bust of Archangel Michael. DOC 212-5; LPC p. 140, 2; PCPC 86.1 (this coin illustrated); LBC 621-3 (S. Demetrius; stamenon); SB 2323.

Green-brown patina, minor edge splits. VF. Rare. ($500) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

796.

Andronicus II Palaeologus. 1282-1328. BI Tornese (19.5mm, 0.74 g, 5h). Constantinople mint. Half-length bust of St. Theodore facing, holding sword / Andronicus II and St. Demetrius standing facing, holding labarum between them.

S. Bendall, “Palaeologan Billon Tornese,” in NumCirc CXVI.5 (October 2008), 3 = S. Bendall, “Some Unpublished Late Byzantine Billon Coins,” in NumCirc XCVIII.9 (November 1990), 1; DOC –; LPC –; PCPC –; LBC –; SCBC –. Toned. VF. Extremely rare, perhaps the second known. ($500) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

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797.

Andronicus II Palaeologus, with Andronicus III. 1282-1328. Lot of thirteen (13) AV Hyperpyra. Constantinople mint. Struck 1325-1328. All coins: Half-length figure of the Theotokos, orans, within city walls with four towers; sigla: Γ | M with various arrangements of pellets / Christ standing facing, crowning Andronicus II and III kneeling to left and right. DOC 493-503 var. (sigla); LPC p. 108, 1; PCPC 185, sigla 25-6; LBC 817-8 var. (same); SB 2461. Typical poor strikes. Average VF. Thirteen (13) coins in lot. ($2000) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

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798 799 798.

Andronicus II Palaeologus, with Michael IX. 1282-1328. AR Basilikon (20mm, 2.03 g, 6h). Constantinople mint.

Struck 1294-1320. Christ enthroned facing, raising right hand in benediction and holding book of the gospels / Andronicus II and Michael standing facing, holding between them a labarum on base, with circle beneath the plaque. DOC 510; LPC 66; PCPC 134; SB 2402. Toned, areas of slightly flat strike. Good VF. ($400) Ex Elsen 113 (16 June 2012), lot 741.

The Hetoimasia – Prepared Throne of the Second Coming 799.

Andronicus II Palaeologus. 1282-1328. Æ Trachy (22mm, 1.18 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Half-length bust of Archangel Michael facing, holding scepter / Half-length busts of Andronicus and St. Demetrius; between them, the Hetoimasia (= Prepared Throne of the Second Coming), topped with large patriarchal cross. Bendall, “A Second Palaeologan Numismatic Representation of the Hetoimasia” in NumCirc CXIII.4 (August 2005), no. 1 (this coin); DOC –; LPC –; PCPC –; LBC –; SB –. Brown patina, edge split, a few light scratches. VF. Extremely rare and attractive for issue. ($200) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

800 801 800.

Andronicus III Palaeologus. 1328-1341. Æ Trachy (22mm, 1.32 g, 7h). Thessalonica mint. Palaeologan monogram / Half-length busts of Andronicus and St. Demetrius, holding between them staff surmounted by large lis. DOC 936-40; LPC –; PCPC –; LBC 843-4; SB –. Green-brown patina, reverse double struck. Near VF. Rare. ($200) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

Peter Donald suggests that the obverse may read NB, however there appears to be at least one additional letter below the N on this specimen.

Additionally, an example in CNG E-109, lot 283 appears to show a monogram, rather than a date.

801.

John V Palaeologus, with John VI. 1341-1391. AV Hyperpyron (21mm, 3.50 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Phase II, struck 1347-1354. Half-length figure of the Theotokos, orans, within city walls with four towers; sigla: Λ | Π / Christ standing facing, crowning John V and VI kneeling to either side. DOC 1193 var. (sigla); LPC p. 138, 1; PCPC 285, unlisted sigla; LBC 848-9 var. (same); SB 2526. Toned, edge a bit ragged. VF. ($300) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

802.

Anonymous Palaeologan issues. Circa 1280-1350. Æ Trachy (25mm, 1.42 g). Constantinople mint. Struck early 14th century(?). Flower with six petals (or star?) / Theotokos standing facing, orans; stars flanking. DOC –; LPC p. 196, 8; PCPC –; LBC –; SB 2589; CNG 473, lot 472; CNG 53, lot 1959. Brown patina, small striking perforation, slightly ragged edge. Good VF. ($300) From the collection of Simon Bendall.

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803.

Andronicus I Gidon. Emperor of Trebizond, 1222-1235. AR Aspron Trachy (26mm, 3.07 g, 6h). Trebizond mint.

The Theotokos standing facing, raising hand in benediction and placing other on chest / Christ Chalkites: Christ standing facing, holding Gospels and placing hand hand on chest. S. Bendall, “A Hoard of Coins of Andronicus I Gidon of Trebizond(?),” in NumCirc CXV.1 (February 2007), 3 (this coin); Bendall, Trebizond 2.2; Retowski–; DOC IV p. 537, 1 (Uncertain Nicaean; electrum); SB 2148 (Uncertain Nicaean). Toned, void in flan. EF. ($750) From the Martinez Collection. Ex Numismatic Ars Classica 56 (8 October 2010), lot 856; Freeman & Sear 14 (21 June 2007), lot 538.

EARLY MEDIEVAL & ISLAMIC COINAGE

804.

VANDALS. Hilderic. 523-530. AR AR 500 Nummi – 50 Denarii (14.5mm, 1.21 g, 10h). Carthage mint. D N HILDI RIX REX, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / FELIX KARTG, Karthago standing facing, holding three grain ears in each raised hand. Hahn, Wertsystem –; BMC Vandals 3-6; MEC 1, 21-2. In NGC encapsulation 4936620-028, graded XF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5, marks. ($500)

805.

OSTROGOTHS. Theoderic. 493-526. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.35 g, 6h). In the name of Anastasius I. Rome mint, 1st officina. Struck circa 491-518. D N ANASTA SIVS P F AVG, helmeted, diademed, and cuirassed bust right, holding spear and shield decorated with horseman motif / VICTORI A AVCCC, Victory standing left on ground line with pellet at each end, holding jeweled cross; star to right; A//COMOB. COI 8; MIB 9; MEC 1, 112. Reddish toning, minor marks. Good VF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Giamba Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 82, 16 September 2009), lot 1114.

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806.

OSTROGOTHS. Athalaric. 526-534. Æ Decanummium (18mm, 3.52 g, 5h). Rome mint. INVICT Λ ROMΛ, helmeted and draped bust of Roma right / DN/ATHAL/ARICVS/REX in four lines within wreath with large central jewel. COI 86; MIB 78; MEC 1, 133-4. Dark brown surfaces, some roughness. VF. ($300) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Michael Weller Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 67,22 September 2004), lot 1838.

807.

VISIGOTHS, Gaul. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. 417-507. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.35 g, 6h). In the name of Valentinian III. Uncertain mint in northern Gaul. Struck circa 430-440. Rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; wreath above head / Valentinian standing facing, holding long cross and Victory on globe, foot on head of human-headed serpent; R|V// COMOB. RIC X 3715; MEC 1, 168. Lightly toned, a couple of light scratches, obverse die break. Good VF. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 84 (5 May 2010), lot 1652.

808.

VISIGOTHS, Spain. Sisebut. 612-621. AV Tremissis (20mm, 1.45 g, 6h). Ispalia (Seville) mint. ๘ ⌽Ʃ⌽⍟BV˶V⌽ ʽ⍟ •, facing bust / ๘ Ʃ⌽ʊ©⌦Ʃ ʊƩV⌽, facing bust. CNV 219.12; Pliego 274g; Miles, Visigoths –; Chaves –; cf. MEC 1, 232; ME 220. Toned with underlying luster. Superb EF. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Triton XVI (8 January 2013), lot 1311.

809.

MEROVINGIANS, Blois. Circa 620-640. AV Tremissis (11mm, 1.09 g, 11h). Audovaldus, moneyer. แ BǮ[e]˞⌴, diademed head right / ©VĎ⌴V©ǮĎV⌽, cross ancrée set on globe. NM 2 var = Belfort 878 var. (rev. legend); MEC 1 –. Minor deposit and slight double strike on obverse. Good VF. Extremely rare. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dix Noonan Webb (17 March 2004), lot 904; Spink 154 (12 July 2001), lot 236.

810.

MEROVINGIANS, Uncertain. Circa 725-750. AR Denier (12mm, 1.42 g). [...]Ǯ⌴ǮVe[...], schematized head right; ˝ to right / Cross gammée courbe; illegible legend in outer margin. Cf. NM 3 (Paris [region] for obv.) and 8 (Paris [region] for rev.); cf. Belfort 3448 (Paris [region] for obv.) and 3548 (Paris [region] for rev.); MEC 1 –. Toned, some minor porosity. VF. Rare. ($300) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dix Noonan Webb (17 March 2004), lot 905.

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Iconic Crusader Deniers of Antioch In 1095, Pope Urban III issued a call for knights throughout Christendom to attack the powerful Islamic Caliphate and reclaim Jerusalem, launching the era of the Crusades. Over the next four centuries, great armies of Islam and Christianity would engage in a titanic struggle for control of vast stretches of the Mediterranean world, including the Holy Land, Egypt, and Spain. While these deadly cultural clashes caused untold suffering and destruction, they also helped to expand the horizons of the formerly cloistered medieval world, created new heroes and mythologies, and ultimately helped to forge the national identities we still live with today.

Following the First Crusade (1096-1099), the knightly armies of the Latin west formed four autonomous Crusader States on the Levantine lands seized from the Islamic Caliphate: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Counties of Edessa and Tripoli, and the Principality of Antioch.

At their 12th century peak, these kingdoms were an exotic blend of East and West, Christian and Muslim, and a host of ethnicities, creating a sparkling polyglot culture unlike anything seen before or since. This world disappeared forever with the fall of Acre to the reconquering Mamluk armies in 1291.

Naturally the Crusader Kingdoms struck their own coinage, patterned on the Medieval Latin silver denier, but with designs reflecting the conflicts and concerns of the region. The deniers of Bohémond III, ruler of the Principality of Antioch, are among the most iconic. The obverse depicts the bust of a contemporary Crusader knight, wearing the distinctive Norman-style chain mail coif and helmet with nasal. The reverse bears the cross pattée with equidistant, flaring arms, within a circle, a motif often found in Crusader architecture. No medieval or Crusader collection is complete without an example of this attractive type.

The Principality of Antioch was ruled by an Italo-Norman dynasty descended from the Norman conquerors of Sicily. Among these rulers, Bohémond III (circa 1148-1201), surnamed ‘the Child’ or the ‘Stammerer’, succeeded his father as Prince while still a child. In 1163, when he attained his majority, Bohémond exiled his mother, who until then had acted as regent.

Among the Crusader elite his career was typically convoluted, one might even say “Byzantine” – indeed Byzantium played a major role in his stewardship of Antioch. In 1164, Bohémond waged an ill-advised war on the Seljuq governor of Syria, Nur ad-Din, leading to his capture and that of the Crusader leaders of Tripoli and Edessa. The Byzantines negotiated his release, after which Bohémond travelled to Constantinople and paid homage to the emperor Manuel I Comnenus. Bohémond remained a Byzantine vassal until Manuel’s death in 1180; once freed of this he catapulted himself into a number of internal disputes among the Crusader kingdoms and the allied Kingdom of Cilician Armenia. These squabbles preoccupied the Crusaders and wasted their energies while the Muslims found a champion in one of the great military geniuses of the age, al-Nasir I Salah al-Din Yusuf, better known as Saladin. Following Saladin’s smashing victory over the Kingdom of Jerusalem at the Battle of Hattin in 1187, all the Crusader states were put on the defensive. Nevertheless, through astute diplomacy and the timely arrival of the Third Crusade in 1189 to distract Saladin, Bohémond managed to maintain Antioch’s independence. Bohémond’s rule lasted until his death in 1201, while the Principality of Antioch finally fell to Islam in 1268.

811.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. BI Denier (18mm, 0.98 g, 9h). Class A. Antioch mint. Struck circa 1163-1188. แ B⌴A⍵ዮɃēዮ⌽, bust right, wearing Norman helmet decorated with ๘, chainmail coif and beard; crescent to left, star to right; double barred A with pellet at each end; ⌽ with pellets / แ An˶Ʃ⌴⌐nƩA (sic), cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; double barred A with annulet at each end; ornamented ⌐. Metcalf, Crusades –; cf. CCS 50d. Hint of deposits, minor weakness at periphery, underlying luster. EF. ($300)

812 813 812.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. BI Denier (18mm, 0.99 g, 11h). Class A. Antioch mint. Struck circa 1163-1188. แ B⌴AɃዮēnዮ⌽ (sic), bust right, wearing Norman helmet decorated with ๘ and chainmail coif; star to left, crescent to right; double barred A with pellet at each end; ⌽ with pellets / แ An˶Ʃ⌴⌐ƊƩA, cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; double barred A with annulet at each end; ornamented ⌐. Unpublished in the standard references. Hint of deposit on reverse, light even roughness. Good VF. Apparently unique for this class with crescent and star transposed. ($200) 813.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. BI Denier (18.5mm, 0.94 g, 1h). Class B. Antioch mint.

Struck circa 1163-1188. แ B⌴A[Ƀ]ዮɃēዮ⌽ (sic), bust left, wearing Norman helmet decorated with ๘ and chainmail coif; crescent to left, six-rayed star to right; double barred A with pellet at each end; ⌽ with pellets / แ An˶Ʃ⌴⌐ƊƩA, cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; double barred A with annulet at each end; [ornamented ⌐]. Metcalf, Crusades 368 var. (five rayed star); cf. CCS 66d (same). Light deposits. Good VF. Very rare variety with six rayed star. ($300) 210

814 815 814.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. BI Denier (18mm, 1.03 g, 10h). Class B. Antioch mint. Struck circa 1163-1188. แ B⌴AȵዮɃēዮ⌽(sic), bust left, wearing Norman helmet decorated with ๘ and chainmail coif; star to left, crescent to right; double barred A with pellet at each end; ⌽ with pellets / แ AɃ˶Ʃ⌴⌐nƩA (sic), cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; double barred A with annulet at each end; ornamented ⌐. Metcalf, Crusades –; cf. CCS 65 (for type); Alistair Lilburn Collection (Baldwin’s 49), lot 1769 var. (star to left only). Lightly toned. EF. Apparently unique for this class with the star and crescent transposed. ($300) 815.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. BI Denier (18mm, 1.04 g, 11h). Class B. Antioch mint. Struck circa 1163-1188. แ B⌴AɃዮɃēዮ⌽ (sic), bust left, wearing Norman helmet decorated with ๘ and chainmail coif; crescent to left, to right, star above pellet; double barred A with annulet at each end; ⌽ with pellets / แ An˶Ʃ⌴⌐ƊƩიA, cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; double barred A with annulet at each end; ornamented ⌐. Metcalf, Crusades 371 var. (no additional annulet on rev.); CCS 66a. Lightly toned. Near EF. Well struck and good metal for issue. ($200)

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816.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. BI Denier (18.5mm, 1.03 g, 11h). Class C. Antioch mint.

Struck circa 1163-1188. แ B⌴AɃዮɃēዮ⌽ (sic), bust left, wearing Norman helmet decorated with ๘ and chainmail coif; crescent to left, to right, star above pellet; double barred A with annulet at each end; ⌽ with pellets / แ An˶Ʃ⌴⌐ƊƩიA, cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; double barred A with annulet at each end. Metcalf, Crusades –; CCS 66c; cf. CNG E-309, lot 431 (for obv.). Lightly toned. Good VF. Extremely rare variety with pellet below star. ($300) 817.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. BI Denier (19mm, 0.94 g, 5h). Class C. Antioch mint. Struck circa 1163-1188. แ B⌴AɃዮɃēዮ⌽ (sic), bust left, wearing Norman helmet decorated with ๘ and chainmail coif; star to right; double barred A with annulet at each end; ⌽ with pellets / แ • AɃ˶Ʃ⌴⌐ɃƩA (sic), cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; double barred A with annulet at each end. Metcalf, Crusades 386; cf. CCS 67c (for type). Lightly toned. Good VF. Extremely rare variety with no crescent on the obverse. ($300)

818 819 818.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. BI Denier (18.5mm, 0.92 g, 2h). Class E. Antioch mint.

Struck circa 1163-1188. แ B⌴AnዮƊēዮ⌽ (sic), bust left, wearing Norman helmet decorated with ๘ and chainmail coif; double barred A with pellet at each end and on each bar; double barred n with pellet on each bar; three bar ⌽ with pellets / แ An˶Ʃ⌴⌐ƊƩიA, cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; double barred A with pellet at each end and on each bar; ⌴ with pellet.

Metcalf, Crusades –; cf. CCS 69 (for type). Lightly toned, hint of ghosting. Good VF. Apparently unique for this class with no symbols flanking head. ($300) 819.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. BI Denier (18mm, 0.97 g, 12h). Class B. Antioch mint. Struck circa 1163-1188. แ B⌴Aȵዮnēዮ⌽, bust left, wearing Norman helmet decorated with ๘ and chainmail coif; crescent to left, star to right; double barred A with pellet at each end; ȵ and n, each with pellet / แ An˶Ʃ⌴⌐ƊƩA, cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; double barred A with pellet at each end; ornamented ⌐. Metcalf, Crusades 370; CCS 66a. Traces of deposits in devices. Good VF. Well struck for issue. ($200) 211

820

821

822

820.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. BI Denier (19mm, 0.85 g, 11h). Class J. Antioch mint. Struck circa 1163-1188, or later. แ B⌴AƩƩዮƩƩēዮ⌽ (sic), bust left, wearing Norman helmet decorated with ๘ and chainmail coif; filled crescent to left, pellet to right; double barred A with pellet at each end; three bar ⌽ with pellets / แ AƩƩƩƩ⌴⌐ƩƩƩA (sic), cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; double barred A with pellet at each end. Metcalf, Crusades 425; cf. CCS 78a (Bohémond IV). Deposit on reverse, crudely struck, minor ghosting. VF. ($200) 821.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. BI Denier (19mm, 0.87 g, 2h). Class J. Antioch mint. Struck circa 1163-1188, or later. แ B⌴AƩƩዮƩƩēዮ⌽ (sic), bust left, wearing Norman helmet decorated with ๘ and chainmail coif; crescent to left, pellet to right; double barred A with pellet at each end; three bar ⌽ with pellets / แ A˶˶Ʃ⌴⌐nƩA (sic), cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; double barred A with pellet at each end. Metcalf, Crusades 427; cf. CCS 78a (Bohémond IV). Deposit on reverse. Good VF. Very rare with pellet instead of star. ($300) 822.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Bohémond III. 1163-1201. BI Denier (19mm, 1.01 g, 9h). Class J. Antioch mint. Struck circa 1163-1188, or later. แ B⌴AnዮƩƩēዮ⌽ (sic), bust left, wearing Norman helmet decorated with ๘ and chainmail coif; double barred A with pellet at each end; three bar ⌽ with pellets / แ An˶Ʃ⌴⌐nƩA (sic), cross pattée; crescent in second quarter. Metcalf, Crusades –; cf. CCS 78a (Bohémond IV; for type). Spotty toning, areas of weak strike at periphery. Good VF. Apparently unique for this class with no symbols flanking head. ($300)

Extremely Rare Armenian Issue Struck for Antioch

823.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Levon I of Armenia. 1198-1219. BI Denier (19mm, 1.02 g, 12h). Sis mint, but struck for use in Antioch. แ Ǯģɦ ēģƩ Ż⎁˶Ʃ² (sic), cross pattée / แ ⎁ģX ²⎁ȵģɃƩɦ⎁, crowned facing head; crown with pendilia. AC 281 var. (obv. legend); CCA 9 var. (same); MAC 33 var. (same); CCS 133a var. (same); CNG 85, lot 100. Areas of minor weakness at periphery. Good VF. Extremely rare and better than the CNG 85 specimen that hammered for $4100 on a $1250 estimate. ($5000) When Levon was granted the title of king of Armenia, he took the assumption that this entitled him to the crusader principality of Antioch as well. Despite two assaults on the city in 1203 and 1208, Levon was never able to capture it and enforce his claim against Bohémond IV. These rare western-style deniers were most likely struck at Sis for circulation in the Antiochene territory which Levon did hold.

824.

CRUSADERS, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Imitation Bezants. 11th-12th centuries. AV Bezant (22mm, 3.96 g, 3h).

Imitating a dinar of the Fatimid caliph al-Amir. Uncertain (Tyre?) mint. Second phase, struck 1148/59-1187. Beginning of caliphal titles in two lines, continuation of name and titles in inner margin; mint formula [Misr] and immobilized AH date (AH 515 [AD 1121/20]) in outer margin / al/ghaya in two lines across field, Kalima in inner margin, “Second Symbol” (Quran 9: 33) in outer margin. Cf. Balog & Yvon 22; Metcalf, Crusades –; CCS 9a. Hint of deposits, minor roughness. Good VF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection, purchased from Emmanuel Azzopardi, September 1992.

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825 826 825.

CRUSADERS, Christian Arabic Dirhams. Mid to late 13th century. AR Dirham (21.5mm, 2.36 g, 10h). Akka (Acre) mint. Dated 1[251] (in Arabic). allāh wāhid hu/wa al-īmān/wāhid/al-ma‘mūdiyya wāhid (one God, one faith, one baptism in Arabic) across field around central large cross pattée within linear circular border; all within linear and pelleted quadrate border; in outer margin, [duriba bi-‘Akka/ sana alf wa/[mi’atayn wa ahad/wa khamsīn li-tajassud] (Struck in Acre year one [thousand and two hundred and one and fifty of the Incarnation] in Arabic) / al-āb wa’l-ibn/wa’l-rīh al-qudus/ ilāh wāhid (The Father, the Son,/and the Holy Spirit:/One Divinity in Arabic) across field within linear and pelleted quadrate border; in outer margin, [[lahu al-majd]/ilā abad/ al-abadīn/[amīn/amīn] ([His is the glory]/forever/and ever/amen[amen] in Arabic). Balog & Yvon 42; Metcalf, Crusades 227-8; CCS 13. Toned, test cut on reverse. VF. ($750) 826.

CRUSADERS, Christian Arabic Dirhams. Mid to late 13th century. AR Dirham (21mm, 2.73 g, 12h). [Akka (Acre) mint]. [Dated AD 1251 (in Arabic)]. allāh wāhid hu/wa al-īmān/wāhid/al-ma‘mūdiyya wāhid (one God, one faith, one baptism in Arabic) across field; lis above allah, nūn of īmān, and above ḥā of wāhid; all within linear and pelleted quadrate border; [marginal Arabic legend: Struck in Acre in the year one thousand two hundred, one and fifty from the incarnation of the Messiah] / al-āb wa’l-ibn/wa’l-rīh al-qudus/ilāh wāhid (The Father, the Son,/and the Holy Spirit:/One Divinity in Arabic) across field; lis above hā’ of ilāh; all within linear and pelleted quadrate border; [marginal Arabic legend: His is the glory for ever and ever, amen, amen]. Balog & Yvon 47 var. (no lis); Metcalf, Crusades–; CCS 17 var. (same); cf. Baldwin’s 52, lot 1443. Areas of weak strike at periphery, hairline flan crack. VF. ($750)

827 828 827.

CRUSADERS, Knights of Rhodes (Knights Hospitaller). Peter of Aubusson. 1476-1503. AV Ducato (23mm, 3.50 g, 10h). s/Ʃ/ɦ/ƌ/⍒/N/N/Ʃ down left, ș/P/• ō • PĿ • ĕ⍒мBмs sɦN around right, St. John standing right, presenting banner to kneeling Grandmaster / • sƩ˶ • ˶ • XPĿ • ē© ˶м • • ʽĿŷƩs • Ʃs˶Ŀ • ē •, Christ standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels, surrounded by mandorla containing nine stars. Schlumberger pp. 259-60 and pl. XI, 1 var. (legends); Metcalf, Crusades 1226 var. (same); CCS 428 var. (same). Lightly toned, obverse struck with worn die. Good VF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection, purchased May 1994.

828.

CRUSADERS, Knights of Rhodes (Knights Hospitaller). Fabrizio del Carretto. 1513-1521. AV Ducato (22mm, 3.52 g, 12h). s/Ʃ/ɦ/©/N/N/Ʃ/s down left, ș/ō/X/ō • ō©BʽƩ⌐ƩƩ • ĕ ⌐© around right, St. John standing right, presenting banner to kneeling Grandmaster / • sƩ˶ • ˶ • XPĿ • ē© ˶V • • ˶ • ʽĿŷƩs Ʃs˶Ŀ ē, Christ standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels, surrounded by mandorla containing ten stars. Schlumberger pp. 264-5 and pl. XI, 14 var. (legends); Metcalf, Crusades –; CCS 58 var. (rev. legend). Toned. Good VF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 36 (5 December 1995), lot 932.

829.

ISLAMIC, ‘Abbasid Caliphate. al-Muqtadir. Second reign, AH 296-317 / AD 908-929. AV Dinar (23mm, 3.85 g, 8h). Citing Abu al-’Abbas as heir. Dimashq (Damascus) mint. Dated AH 311 (AD 923/4). AGC I 242Ge; SICA 4 –; Album 245.2; ICV 427. Slightly wavy flan, a couple of edge bumps. VF. ($1000) Ex Classical Numismatic Group 112 (11 September 2019), lot 715.

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830.

ISLAMIC, al-Maghreb (North Africa). Marinids. temp. Abu Ya’qub Yusuf. AH 685-706 / AD 1286-1306. AV Dinar (32mm, 4.65 g, 12h). Madinat Sabtah mint. Undated issue. Hazard 715-6; Album 524. Traces of deposits. VF. ($750) From the El Medina Collection.

Genghis Khan with Clear Mint Name and Date

831.

ISLAMIC, Mongols. Great Khans. Chingiz (Genghis). AH 602-624 / AD 1206-1227. AV Dinar (26mm, 4.00 g, 6h). Ghazna (Ghazni) mint. Dated AH 618 (AD 1221/2). Kalima and name of Abbasid caliph in four lines, floral ornament above and to left; Umayyad “Second Symbol” (al-Quran Sura 9:33) in outer margin / Name and titles of Chingiz Khan in four lines, floral ornament to left and right; mint formula and AH date in outer margin. Spengler 16-18; CNR XXI, 1 (Spring 1996), 245-30-35; Album 1964; ICV 1940; CNG 111, lot 910 (same dies). Lightly toned, minor weakness at periphery that does not affect the reading of the mint or AH date. Good VF. Well struck for issue. ($3000)

832.

ISLAMIC, Ottoman Empire. ‘Abd al-Majid I. AH 1255-1277 / AD 1839-1861. AV İkiyüzellilik – 250 Kurush (27.5mm, 17.98 g, 12h). Qustantiniya (Constantinople) mint. Dated AH 1255 and RY 18 (AD 1857). Damalı 31-K-A6-18; Ölçer, Abdîulmecid 31 031; Sultan –; Pere 879; KM 680; Friedberg 17. Lightly toned, traces of deposits, circulation marks.

VF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Turath Collection (Part II, Spink 138, 13 October 1999), lot 163.

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WORLD COINAGE

833.

ALBANIA. Amet Zogu. As President, 1925-1928. AV Franga Ari – 100 Francs (35mm, 32.24 g, 6h). Rome mint.

Dated 1927 R. Bare head left; two stars below / Nude charioteer driving biga right. KM 11a.3; Friedberg 1. Light bag marks and hairlines, some spotting. EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection, purchased from Spink.

Extremely Rare Australian Token

834.

AUSTRALIA, Private Token Issues. Melbourne. Edward de Carle & Co., auctioneers. Pattern CU Penny Token (34mm, 13.91 g, 12h). Dies by W.J. Taylor(?). Dated 1855. EDWDD DE’CARLE & CO AUCTIONEERS &c MELLBOURNE, bare head of FitzRoy Somerset, first Baron Raglan left; RAGLAN below / TASMANIA ANNO 1855, Britannia seated left on Union shield, holding scales. Andrews – (but cf. 105 for reverse); Renniks 117; KM Tn56; Noble 109, lot 1166 (hammer 39000 AUD); Noble 3, lot 175. Damage and dings on both sides and rims. VF. Extremely rare – the third known example. ($5000) Edward de Carle, a native of Bury St. Edmunds, arrived in Melbourne in 1849 at the young age of only 22. He would find his first commercial success in the grocery business. In 1853, he orders a batch of tokens for his grocery, the first of several issues of tokens he would eventually have struck (Andrews 104). Two years later, de Carle partnered in the creation of the Queens Arcade, where the offices of his auctioneer company would be established. This venture would be highlighted on two tokens of 1855 (Andrews 103 and 105). By 1857, the grocery business had evolved into the partnership of Hide & de Carle, which issued a large series of tokens in 1857 and 1858 (Andrews 227-247).

He evidently tired of Australia, and soon moved to New Zealand, where he issued a further token in 1862 (Andrews 101 and 102). Edward de Carle’s bustling merchant life would come to an abrupt end on 15 May 1872, when he fell overboard while traveling by steamer down the swollen Buller River. For more information see: O’Riley, John. “Edward DeCarle,” in Australian Numismatist (2007), p. 46-54.

De Carle’s numismatic legacy is highlighted by this extremely rare token, of which only two other examples are known. The obverse die – unknown from any other issue – bears a portrait of FitzRoy Somerset, first Baron Raglan and recently deceased general in the Crimean War, while the ‘TASMANIA’ reverse die was used on another of de Carle’s issues (Andrews 105).

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835.

AUSTRALIA, Commonwealth. George V. 1910-1936. AV Half Sovereign (19mm, 3.99 g, 12h). Perth mint. Dated 1918 P. Bare head left / St. George slaying the Dragon. Marsh 534; SCBC 4008. Lightly toned, hairline scratches and marks.

EF. Very rare date. ($2000)

1484 – Early Dated Issue

836.

AUSTRIA, Erzherzogtum Österreich (Archduchy of Austria). Sigismund. 1446-1490. AR Halbguldiner (34mm, 15.36 g, 3h). Hall mint. Dated 1484. Crowned, draped, and armored half-length bust right, holding scepter and sword pommel / Armored knight on horseback riding right, holding banner and reins; all within a circle of fourteen coats of arms. Levinson IV-45a; Moser & Tursky 60. Toned, possibly once mounted, a few minor marks along edge. Near VF. One of the earliest largedenomination silver coins with a full AD date in eastern Arabic numerals ($2500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Rye Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 90, 23 May 2012), lot 2089.

Brazilian Gold From the Douro Cargo

837 838 837.

BRAZIL, Colonial. Joao V. King of Portugal, 1706-1750. AV 6400 Réis – Peça (32mm, 14.15 g, 12h). Rio de Janeiro mint. Dated 1750 R. Laureate head right / Crowned coat-of-arms. Gomez 56.31; KM 149; Friedberg 46. Matte surfaces, a few light marks. Good VF. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Douro Cargo (Spink 118, 21 November 1996), lot 3.

838.

BRAZIL, Colonial. Jose I. King of Portugal, 1750-1777. AV 4000 Réis (27mm, 8.27 g, 12h). Lisboa (Lisbon) mint.

Dated 1764. Crowned coat-of-arms / Voided cross within quadrilobe; arches ending in trefoils; additional trefoils in spandrels.

Gomez 65.11; KM 171.2; Friedberg 73. Some luster, very minor marks. EF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Douro Cargo (Spink 118, 21 November 1996), lot 32.

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839 840 839.

BRAZIL, Colonial. Jose I. King of Portugal, 1750-1777. AV 6400 Réis – Peça (32mm, 14.181 g, 12h). Rio de Janeiro mint. Dated 1769 R. Laureate head right / Crowned coat-of-arms. Gomez 43.19; KM 172.2; Friedberg 65. Slightly matte surfaces, traces of luster. Near EF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Douro Cargo (Spink 118, 21 November 1996), lot 12 (incorrect illustration in catalog).

840.

BRAZIL, Colonial. Maria I y Pedro III. Queen & King of Portugal, 1777-1786. AV 2000 Réis (23mm, 4.02 g, 12h). Lisbao (Lisbon) or Rio de Janiero mint. Dated 1778. Crowned coat-of-arms / Voided cross within quadrilobe; arches ending in trefoils; additional trefoils in spandrels. Gomez 17.02; KM 209; Friedberg 83. Some luster. Near EF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Douro Cargo (Spink 118, 21 November 1996), lot 67.

841 842 841.

BRAZIL, Colonial. Maria I y Pedro III. Queen & King of Portugal, 1777-1786. AV 6400 Réis – Peça (32mm, 14.32 g, 12h). Bahia mint. Dated 1784 B. Jugate laureate busts of Maria and Pedro right / Crowned coat-of-arms. Gomez 24.09a; KM 199.1; Friedberg 77. Minor die rust, some light adjustment marks, hints of luster. Near EF. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Douro Cargo (Spink 118, 21 November 1996), lot 51.

842.

BRAZIL, Colonial. Maria I. Queen of Portugal, 1786-1816. AV 6400 Réis – Peça (32mm, 14.30 g, 12h). Rio de Janeiro mint. Dated 1787 B. Bust right, wearing veil / Crowned coat-of-arms. Gomez 22.02; KM 218.1; Friedberg 85.

Lustrous, minor hairlines. Near EF. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Douro Cargo (Spink 118, 21 November 1996), lot 68.

843 844 843.

BRAZIL, Empire. Pedro II. 1831-1889. AV 6400 Réis – Peça (32mm, 14.33 g, 12h). Rio de Janeiro mint. Dated 1832 B. Bare head right / Crowned coat-of-arms within wreath. KM 387.1; Friedberg 115. Lustrous, a few light hairlines.

EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Douro Cargo (Spink 118, 21 November 1996), lot 150.

844.

BRAZIL, Empire. Pedro II. 1831-1889. AV 20000 Réis (30mm, 17.93 g, 6h). Rio de Janeiro mint. Dated 1851.

Bust left, wearing ruff / Crowned coat-of-arms within wreath. KM 461; Friedberg 119. A few light marks. VF. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 110 (4 October 1995), lot 438.

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845 846 845.

BRAZIL, Empire. Pedro II. 1831-1889. AV 20000 Réis (30mm, 18.02 g, 6h). Rio de Janeiro mint. Dated 1851.

Bare head left / Crowned coat-of-arms within wreath. KM 463; Friedberg 121. Light marks. EF. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 110 (4 October 1995), lot 439.

846.

BRAZIL, Empire. Pedro II. 1831-1889. AV 20000 Réis (30mm, 17.93 g, 6h). Rio de Janeiro mint. Dated 1857/6. Bare head left / Crowned coat-of-arms within wreath. KM 168; Friedberg 121a. Some luster, a few light contact marks. EF. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Douro Cargo (Spink 118, 21 November 1996), lot 160.

847.

CARRIBEAN TERRITORIES, Dominica. British. AR Moco – 1½ Bitts (15mm, 3.18 g). Struck 1798. Large D with star at center; all within petal-shaped ornamental border / Blank. Struck on crenelated flan cut from a Spanish-American 8 Reales. Pridmore 22; KM 1. Toned. Good VF. ($500) From the Collection of an English Queen’s Counsel. Ex J. Eric Engstrom Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 105, 10 May 2017), lot 1096, purchased from B.A. Seaby, September 1963.

848.

COLOMBIA, Colonial. Carlos IV. King of Spain, 1788-1808. AV 8 Escudos (37mm, 27.00 g, 12h). Nuevo Reino (Santa Fé de Bogotá) mint. Dated 1791 NR JJ. Armored and draped bust right / Crowned coat-of-arms within Collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Calicó 1266; KM 62.1; Friedberg 51. Minor flaw in field, light marks. Good VF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 110 (4 October 1995), lot 443.

849.

DENMARK. Harald Blåtand (Bluetooth). Circa 958/9-986. AR Halvbrakteat (17mm, 0.23 g). Imitating class 2 deniers of Charlemagne from Dorestadt. Haithabu (Hedeby) mint. Struck circa 960s-970s. Four parallel vertical lines; double crescent above / Incuse of obverse. Malmer, Nordiska, Group KG 9b-c; Hauberg 1; De Wit Group 2. Lightly toned. Good VF. Rare. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection.

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850 851 850.

DENMARK. Hardeknud (Knud III, the Hardy). 1035-1042. AR Penny (17mm, 1.09 g, 9h). East Danish standard.

Lund mint; Outhinkarl, monyer. Struck circa 1040-1042. Radiate and draped bust left / ∂Tዝ ዞnü ʼ∂n ⌦⎍ዝ, quadrilateral, with pellet in center and trefoils at angles, over voided long cross with pellet at center and triple-crescent end. Becker, Coinages H23/163; Hauberg 23; Hede III 31 (same rev. die); Becker Collection 27 (same dies). Toned, slightly wavy flan, a few peck marks. Good VF. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s.

851.

DENMARK. Stridsperioden (Civil War). 1044-1047. AR Penny (18mm, 1.00 g, 12h). East Danish standard. Lund mint; ‘Ardln,’ moneyer. Diademed bust left; to left, open lozenge with pellets and ends / ม ©Ḧ ʼዝǮ nɭ Ǯዮዝዢ, voided long cross with triple-crescent ends; circle and pellet at center. Becker, Coinages MX28/37a; Hauberg –; Hede –; Becker Collection 77 (same dies). Peck marks. Good VF. ($500)

852

853

852.

DENMARK. Svend II Estridsen. 1047-1075. AR Penny (17mm, 0.96 g). East Danish standard. Lund mint.

Nimbate figure standing facing, holding long cross and globus cruciger; cross pattée to right / Voided long cross with triplecrescent ends and pellet at center; face in one quarter, S in another. Hauberg 9 var. (legends); cf. Hede II 45 (for similar); Becker Collection 90. Toned, a few light scratches, peck mark on reverse. Near EF. Very rare. ($1000) 853.

DENMARK. Svend II Estridsen. 1047-1075. AR Penny (17mm, 0.84 g). West Danish standard. Viborg mint.

Draped bust left; lis-tipped scepter before / Voided long cross with triple-crescent ends and pellet at center; trefoils and crescents in alternating quarters. Hauberg 57 var. (no cross); Hede I, 57; Becker Collection 112 var. (same). Good VF. ($300)

854.

FRANCE, Royal. Jean II le Bon (the Good). 1350-1364. AV Mouton d’or (30mm, 4.72 g, 3h). Paris mint.

Authorized 17 January 1355. Agnus Dei standing left, head upturned right; behind, banner flying from ornate cruciform staff; all within tressure of fourteen arcs / Cross tréflée and feuillue, and fleurdelisée; in center of cross, cinqefoil within angled quadrilobe; lis in quarters; all within angled quadrilobe; in spandrels, lis flanking angles. Duplessy 291; Ciani 354; Friedberg 280. EF. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Ponterio 106 (7 April 2000), lot 670.

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855 856 855.

FRANCE, Royal. Charles V le Sage (the Wise). 1364-1380. AV Franc (28mm, 3.77 g, 8h). Paris mint. Authorized 20 April 1365. Charles standing facing within Gothic arch; semé of seven lis to left and right, holding sword with annulet pommel, and main de Justice / Cross tréflée; in center of cross, pellet within angled quadrilobe; lis in first and fourth quarters, crown in second and third; all within angled quadrilobe; lis in spandrels. Duplessy 360; Ciani 457; Friedberg 284. Crimped.

Good VF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 84287 (November 1994).

856.

FRANCE, Second Empire. Napoléon III. 1852-1870. AV 50 Francs à la tête neu (28mm, 16.06 g, 6h). Paris mint; différents: hand/anchor. Dated 1858 A. Bare head right / Crowned and mantled coat-of-arms. VG 1111; KM 785.1; Friedberg 571. Toned. VF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CII.10 (December 1994), no. 8307.

857 858 857.

FRANCE, Troisième République. 1870-1940. AV 100 Francs (35mm, 32.27 g, 6h). Paris mint; différents: cornucopia & fasces. Dated 1886 A. Winged Genius standing right, inscribing tablet set on plinth; to left, bundle of rods surmounted by Hand of Justice; to right, cock standing left / Denomination and date within wreath. VG 1137; KM 832; Friedberg 590. A few light bag marks. AU. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Superior (31 May 1999), lot 26.

858.

FRANCE, Troisième République. 1870-1940. AV 100 Francs (35mm, 32.28 g, 6h). Paris mint; différents: cornucopia & torc. Dated 1904 A. Winged Genius standing right, inscribing tablet set on plinth; to left, bundle of rods surmounted by Hand of Justice; to right, cock standing left / Denomination and date within wreath. VG 1137; KM 832; Friedberg 590. Attractive orange toning. EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CII.10 (December 1994), no. 8309.

859.

FRANCE, Troisième République. 1870-1940. AV 100 Francs (35mm, 32.23 g, 6h). Paris mint; différents: cornucopia & torc. Dated 1904 A. Winged Genius standing right, inscribing tablet set on plinth; to left, bundle of rods surmounted by Hand of Justice; to right, cock standing left / Denomination and date within wreath. VG 1137a; KM 858; Friedberg 590. A few bag marks. EF. ($1500) Ex John H. McWhinney Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 87, 18 May 2011), lot 1653.

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860.

GERMANY, Brunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (Herzogtum). Auguste der Jüngere (the Younger). 1635-1666. AR Taler (41mm, 28.40 g, 11h). Zellerfeld mint; mm: crossed keys. Dated 1639 HS. Crowned coat-of-arms surmounted by five elaborately plumed helmets / Wildman standing facing, holding tree; two trees in background to left and right. Welter 819; KM 393.1; Davenport 6337. Toned. VF. ($300) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Karl Stephens, 2009.

Choice Falkenstein Bracteate

861.

GERMANY, Falkenstein (Grafschaft). Burkhard II. 1142-1174. AR Bracteate (29mm, 0.81 g). Ermsleben mint. eagle standing left on rock / Incuse of obverse. Kestner 1445; Bonhoff –; Löbbecke 231.

Wonderful cabinet toning. Choice EF. Very rare. ($10,000) ĕዮ˃H©˃Ϳ / Ŋ© / / ǧn⎄nዢዮ©ዢæ,

From the Dr. William J. Conte Collection of Bracteates. Ex Dr. Helmut Hahn Collection (Künker 301, 1 February 2018), lot 545.

862.

GERMANY, Sachsen-Albertinische Linie (Kurfürstentum und Herzogtum). Johann Georg I. 1611-1656. AR Doppeltaler Klippe (42x42mm, 58.16 g, 12h). Commemorating the baptism of his son August. Dated 1615 in chronogram.

Armored half-length bust right, holding baton; plumed helmet to right; rosettes in margins / Crowned crossed swords in stylized tree; angels in margins. Clauss & Kahnt 81; Schnee 804; Davenport 7586; KM 84. Attractive iridescent toning with underlying luster. Good VF. ($1500) 221

Very Rare Ten Bits

863.

GIBRALTAR. temp. George III. King of Great Britain, 1760-1820. AR Ten Bits (39mm, 22.28 g, 12h). Struck circa 1760. Peruvian 8 Real, dated 1757 (LIMA) JM, with bordered heart shape cut from center. Lyall, “Gibraltar Hearts,” in NumCirc XCV.6 (December 2007), type IV; Pridmore 16 (Dominca); KM 20 (Martinique). Toned. Good VF. Very rare. ($3000) From the Collection of an English Queen’s Counsel, purchased from Baldwin’s, May 2016. Ex Peus 394 (31 October 2007), lot 1447.

Bob Lyall (“Gibraltar Hearts” in NumCirc XCV.6 [December 2007], pp. 306-308) reattributes the Type I and II heart-shaped cut coins, previously assigned to Dominica or Martinique, to the British possession of Gibraltar. Two particular pieces of textual evidence inform this reattribution – a 1748 first-hand account of circulating silver coins with a heart shaped bit removed, and a 1749 order prohibiting the circulation of cut or damaged Spanish coins. Lyall also notes that the dates appearing on the Type III and IV issues are too late for the same attribution to Gibraltar, and the author initially confirmed their attribution to Dominica. Private communication with the author indicates that newly uncovered documentary evidence suggests these later types were also struck in Gibraltar circa 1760.

865

864

864.

INDIA, Medieval. Chalukyas of Kalyana. Uncertain ruler. Circa 973-1068. AV Pagoda (13mm, 3.67 g, 1h).

Boar standing right; double crescent above / Elaborately decorated triple-tiered parasol (or temple) surmounted by globein-crescent; on either side, pellet-in-annulet and swastika set on streamers; uncertain legend in Kannada script below(?). Cf. Mitchiner, South I, 268-9; cf. G&G 4; Adams –. Minor scrape on rim. EF. Very rare. ($4000) 865.

INDIA, Medieval (Central Deccan). Chalukyas of Kalyana (Restored). Somesvara IV Chalukya(?). 1181/4-circa 1189. AV Pagoda (15mm, 3.52 g). Garuda (or Hanuman) running right / Floral design(?). Cf. Mitchiner, South I, 282-5; cf.

G&G 44-5; Adams –. Good VF. Very rare. ($1500) This obverse type was utilized by Somesvara IV, while the reverse is known from several earlier, smaller denominations.

866.

INDIA, Islamic Sultanates. Delhi. ‘Ala al-Din Muhammad. AH 695-715 / AD 1296-1316. AV Tanka (25mm, 11.03 g, 5h). Dar al-Islam mint. Dated AH 709 (AD 1309/10). CIS D220; Friedberg 427. In NGC encapsulation 5893812-001, graded MS 65. ($1000) 222

Class A Zodiac Rupee – Leo

867.

INDIA, Mughal Empire. Nur al-Din Muhammad Jahangir. 1605-1627. AR Rupee (21mm, 11.40 g, 6h). Zodiac type, Class A. Ahmedabad mint. Dually dated RY 13 and AH 1027 (AD 1618/9). Constellation of Sher/Singha (Leo the Lion): lion, with forepaw raised, standing left; pellets on back; radiate sun behind / Persian couplet citing Jahangir and his father Akbar, and mint; AH date to lower left. Liddle Type S-189; Wright –; Hull 1477 var. (direction of lion); KM 150.11. Toned.

Good VF. ($2000)

868.

INDIA, Mughal Empire. Shihab al-Din Muhammad Shah Jahan. AH 1014-1037 / AD 1627-1658. AV Mohur (23mm, 10.91 g, 9h). Surat mint. Dated Ilahi month Azar of RY 2 (AD 1628). Wright –; Hull –; KM 255.6. Faint red deposits.

Choice EF. ($2000) Ex Akola Hoard.

869.

INDIA, Independent States. Mysore. Tipu Sultan. AH 1197-1202 / AD 1787-1799. AR Haidari – Double Rupee (35mm, 22.80 g, 12h). Patan (Seringapatan) mint. Triply dated RY 4, cyclic year 40, and AH 1200 (AD 1785). Henderson 44; Moin Type 1; KM 127. EF. ($3000)

223

870.

INDIA, Colonial. British India. Victoria. 1837-1901. AV Mohur (26mm, 11.67 g, 12h). Calcutta mint. Dated 1841 (though struck 1850/1). Young head left, hair tied in fillet; serif on crossbar of 4 / Lion advancing left; palm tree behind; value in English and Persian in exergue. UCI 3.1; Pridmore 22(2); KM 462.2; Friedberg 1595a. Toned, faint hairlines.

Good VF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CII.10 (December 1994), no. 8313.

871.

INDIA, Colonial. British India. George VI. 1936-1952. Æ Pattern Pie (10.5mm, 0.67 g, 12h). Calcutta mint. Dated 1945. Crown; INDIA below / 1943/ 1/ PIE; lotus to left, rose to right. Edge: plain. UCI 9.264; Pridmore 1092; KM Pn122.

Red-brown surfaces. EF. Very rare – only three on CoinArchives. ($1000)

872.

ITALY, Firenze. Repubblica. 1189-1532. AV Fiorino d’oro (20mm, 3.53 g, 7h). Segno: barrel. Tano di Baroncello, maestro d’oro, 2nd semester 1313. Ornate lily of Florence / Saint John the Baptist standing facing, holding cross-tipped scepter and raising right hand in benediction. Bernocchi 1117; MIR 6/5; Biaggi 787; Friedberg 275. Slightly wavy flan, short scrape in field. EF. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Triton XX (10 January 2017), lot 1253; Giessener Münzhandlung 103 (24 May 2000), lot 1998.

873.

ITALY, Governo Provvisorio di Lombardia. 1848. AR 5 Lire (37mm, 25.01 g, 6h). Milano (Milan) mint. Dated 1848 M. Denomination in three lines; all within wreath / Italia standing facing, head right, wearing mural crown, raising hand, and holding spear; star above. MIR 527/1; Crippa 3/A; Pagani 213; KM (C) 22.1. Attractive mirror proof-like surfaces, a few light hairlines. UNC. ($1000) Ex Classical Numismatic Group 88 (14 September 2011), lot 1893 (there described as proof).

224

874.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Alfonso I il Magnanimo (the Magnanimous) d’Aragona. 1442-1458. AV Sesquiducato – Alfonsino (29mm, 5.23 g, 12h). Gaeta or Napoli mint. Coat-of-arms / Knight right on caparisoned horse, holding sword. MIR 53; Pannuti-Riccio 2; MEC 14, 848 var. (legends); Friedberg 816. Some light edge marks. VF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CII.10 (December 1994), no. 8011.

875.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Carlo I di Spagna (Carlo V, Sacro Romano Impero). 1516-1554. AR Tarì (29mm, 5.65 g, 9h). Napoli (Naples) mint). Struck 1528-1546. Crowned and cuirassed bust right; R to left / Double-headed eagle facing, with wings displayed, crowned coat-of-arms on breast; crown above. MIR 138/2; Pannuti-Riccio 19a. Toned. VF. Rare variety with symbol after CAROLVS. ($300) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Triton XVII (7 January 2014), lot 1181; Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.9438).

876.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Ferdinando IV. 1759-1799. AV 6 Ducati (26mm, 8.81 g, 6h). Napoli mint. Dated 1768 BP CC R. Mantled bust right / Crowned coat-of-arms over palm and olive branch. MIR 356; Pannuti-Riccio 15; KM (C) 76.

Lightly toned, adjustment marks, small deposits. VF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection.

877.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Ferdinando IV. 1759-1799. AR 120 Grani (40mm, 27.25 g, 5h). Napoli mint. Dated 1786 P M AP. Cuirassed bust right / Crowned coat-of-arms over palm and olive branch. MIR 37/14; Pannuti-Riccio 57; KM (C) 66a. Lightly toned with some underlying luster, a few faint adjustment marks. EF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection.

225

878.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). John XXIII. Antipope, 1410-1419. AR Grosso (26mm, 2.46 g, 1h). Rome mint.

John standing facing, wearing Papal tiara and mantum, holding long cross and raising hand in benediction / Crossed keys. MIR 267/3; Muntoni 4; Berman 257. Toned, minor edge chip. VF. Very rare. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CII.10 (December 1994), no. 8012.

879.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Alexander VI. 1492-1503. AV Doppio fiorino di camera (25mm, 6.74 g, 10h).

Rome mint. Crossed keys surmounted by papal tiara over coat-of-arms; all within quadrilobe / St. Peter in boat left, raising fishing net; rosette with six petals to left. MIR 516/2; Muntoni 4.1; Berman 527; Friedberg 30. Lightly toned, minor edge marks. VF. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 40 (4 December 1996), lot 207.

880.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Sixtus V. 1585-1590. AR Piastra (42mm, 31.88 g, 12h). Rome mint. Dually dated RY 4 and 1588. Bust left, wearing zucchetto and mantum / Christ kneeling left, receiving rays from dove to upper left; tree to right, city in background to left. Muntoni 7; Berman 1313 . Toned. VF. Rare. ($750) Ex Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 484 (September 1958), no. C933.

881.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Urban VIII. 1623-1644. AR Piastra (42mm, 31.55 g, 6h). Rome mint. Dated RY 12 (AD 1634). Bust right, wearing zucchetto and mantum / St. Michael flying right, holding sword and shield, fighting demon to right. Muntoni 37; Berman 1713; KM 182. Toned. Near VF. ($300) 226

882

883

884

882.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Urban VIII. 1623-1644. AR Piastra (43mm, 31.27 g, 6h). Rome mint. Dually dated RY 20 and 1643. Bust right, wearing zucchetto and mantum / Half-length busts of St. Peter, holding keys, and St. Paul, holding sword; above, radiant dove; coat-of-arms in exergue; all within wreath. Muntoni 28; Berman 1709; KM 205. Toned, flan flaws. Good Fine. ($300) Ex Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 476 (January 1958), no. PC2.

883.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Clement IX. 1667-1669. AR Piastra (43mm, 31.98 g, 12h). Rome mint. Coat-ofarms surmounted by crossed keys and Papal tiara / Throne with four seraphim around; radiant dove above. Muntoni 4; Berman 1969; KM 311. Good VF. ($300) 884.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Clement X. 1670-1676. AR Piastra (44mm, 31.99 g, 12h). Holy Year issue.

Rome mint. Dated 1675 in Roman numerals. Bust right, wearng zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / Holy Door flanked by St Peter, holding keys, and St. Paul, holding sword. Muntoni 12; Berman 2003; KM 369. Toned. Good VF. ($300) Ex G. Hirsch 14 (19 September 1957), lot 140.

885.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Innocent XI. 1676-1689. AR Piastra (44mm, 31.90 g, 12h). Rome mint. Dated RY 2 (AD 1677). Coat-of-arms surmounted by crossed keys and Papal tiara / Façade of St. Peter’s Basilica. Muntoni 39; Berman 2090; KM 399. Toned, metal flaws. VF. ($500) Ex Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 507 (August 1960), no. 672.

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886.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Innocent XI. 1676-1689. AR Piastra (44mm, 31.74 g, 12h). Rome mint. Dated RY 7 (AD 1682). Bust right, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / Legend in four lines within ornate frame. Muntoni 34; Berman 2087; KM 426. Toned. VF. ($300) Ex Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 504 (May 1960), no. C225.

887

888

889

887.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Innocent XI. 1676-1689. AR Piastra (44mm, 31.55 g, 12h). Rome mint. Dated RY 8 (AD 1684). Bust right, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / Legend in four lines within wreath. Muntoni 26; Berman 2084; KM 451.3. Toned. VF. ($300) Ex Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 507 (August 1960), no. 677.

888.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Innocent XI. 1676-1689. AR Piastra (45mm, 31.50 g, 12h). Rome mint. Dually dated RY 8 and 1684. Bust right, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / Legend and date in five lines within wreath.

Muntoni 29; Berman 2084; KM 452.1. Toned. VF. ($300) Ex Coin Galleries (15 October 1955), lot 1217.

889.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Innocent XI. 1676-1689. AR Piastra (44mm, 31.72 g, 12h). Rome mint. Dually dated RY 2 and 1692. Bust right, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / St. Michael vanquishing fallen Lucifer. Muntoni 16; Berman 2225; KM 558. Toned. VF. ($300) Ex Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 507 (August 1960), no. 686.

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890.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Innocent XII. 1691-1700. AR Piastra (45mm, 31.71 g, 12h). Rome mint.

Dated RY 5 (AD 1696). Bust right, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / Innocent enthroned right in consistory; nine cardinals on benches around, audience to right; dove emerging from clouds above. Muntoni 22; Berman 2230; KM 599.

Toned. VF. ($300) Ex Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 507 (August 1960), no. 690.

The reverse depicts Innocent mediating negotiations between France and the Grand Alliance during the Nine Years’ War.

891.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Sede Vacante. 1700. AR Piastra (45mm, 31.92 g, 12h). Rome mint. Dated 1700 in Roman numerals. Crossed keys surmounted by tasseled gallero and canopy / Radiant dove in clouds. Muntoni 2; Berman 2330; KM 651. Toned. Good VF. Scarce. ($500) Ex Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 507 (August 1960), no. 699.

892.

ITALY, Papale (Stato della Città del Vaticano). Pius XI. 1922-1939. AV 100 Lire (24mm, 8.80 g, 6h). Holy Year issue. Rome mint. Dually dated 1933 and 1934. Bust right, wearing zucchetto and mantum / Christ standing facing, holding scepter and globus cruciger; at feet, child kneeling facing, holding crown. Muntoni 2; Berman 3362; KM 19; Friedberg 284.

Spot of toning on obverse. UNC. ($400) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 40 (4 December 1996), lot 308.

229

Impressive Oncia

893.

ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Ferdinando III. 1759-1816. AR Oncia da 30 Tarì (58mm, 68.22 g, 5h). Palermo mint. Dated 1791 GL CI. Cuirassed bust right / Phoenix rising from flames; head left, wings spread; radiant sun above. MIR 597; Spahr 2; KM (C) 37a; Davenport 1420. Rich cabinet toning, a few minor marks, scratch, flan flaw by rim. Near EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CV.5 (June 1997), no. 3061.

894.

ITALY, Toscana (Granducato). Cosimo III de Medici. 1670-1723. AR Pezza della rosa (44mm, 25.83 g, 6h).

Livorno mint. Dated 1699. COSIMVS III · D · G · M · DVX · ETRVRIAE · 1699 ·, crowned coat-of-arms / GRATIA OBVIA VLTO QVAESITA, rose bush; · LIBVRNI · in exergue. MIR 66/10; Davenport 1501; KM 15.4. Toned, hairline die break on reverse. EF. ($2000)

895

896

895.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Michele Steno. 1400-1413. AV Ducato (21mm, 3.55 g, 12h). St. Mark standing right and Doge kneeling left, holding banner between them / Christ standing facing within mandorla containing nine stars. Paolucci 1; Friedberg 1230. Some deposits. Good VF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 79 (17 September 2008), lot 1521.

896.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Tommaso Mocenigo. 1413-1423. AV Ducato (20mm, 3.54 g, 8h). St. Mark standing right and Doge kneeling left, holding banner between them / Christ standing facing within mandorla containing nine stars. Paolucci 1; Friedberg 1231. Traces of deposits. EF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 79 (17 September 2008), lot 1522.

230

897 898 897.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Tommaso Mocenigo. 1413-1423. AV Ducato (20mm, 3.54 g, 8h). St. Mark standing right and Doge kneeling left, holding banner between them / Christ standing facing within mandorla containing nine stars. Paolucci 1; Friedberg 1231. Small die break on obverse. Near EF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection.

898.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Andrea Gritti. 1523-1538. AV Scudo d’oro (25mm, 11h). Cross fleurée; pinecone at end of each bar / Coat-of-arms. Paolucci 3; Friedberg 1448. In PCGS encapsulation 21169364 graded AU58. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 79 (17 September 2008), lot 1523.

899 900 899.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Alvise I Mocenigo. 1570-1577. AR Osella (35mm, 9.31 g, 7h). Commemorating the Battle of Lepanto. Dually dated RY 2 and 1571 (in Roman numerals). ALOY * MOCEN * ANNO II * S · M · VENETVS, St. Mark seated right, presenting banner to Doge kneeling left; D/V/X above / M · D · LXXI/ ANNO MAGNÆ/ NAVALIS/ VICTORIÆ DEI/ GRA · CONTRA/ TVRCAS in six lines; rosettes above and below. Paolucci, Zecca 52; Werdnig 50. Toned, scratch. Good Fine. Rare. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Luma Collection (Spink 136, 7 October 1999), lot 414 (part of).

900.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Marino Grimani. 1595-1606. AR Osella (37mm, 9.66 g, 12h). Andrea Morosini, maestra di zecca. Dually dated RY 4 and 1598 AM. · BENED · AIA · MEA · DNO · MARIN : GRI · DV ·, St. Mark seated right, presenting banner to Doge kneeling left; in exergue, · ANNO IIII · / · SYDERA · CORDIS ·, lion of St. Mark rampant left, holding cross; in exergue, 1598 · A · M. Paolucci, Zecca 81; Werdnig 77. Attractive old cabinet toning, minor edge splits. VF. Rare. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Luma Collection (Spink 136, 7 October 1999), lot 424 (part of).

901.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Bertuccio Valiero. 1656-1658. AR Osella (36mm, 9.61 g, 7h). Commemorating the Battle of the Dardanelles. Bernardin Vizzamano, maestro di zecca. Dated RY 2 BV (AD 1657). · S · M · VEN · BERTVCCIVS · VALERIO · D, St. Mark seated right, presenting banner to Doge kneeling left; in exergue, (star) B · V (star) / * RESISTIT · IMP · AVIDA *, eagle alighting right, driving off dragon right, head reverted; * ANNO */ · II ·. Paolucci, Zecca 140; Werdnig 137. Dark iridescent toning. VF. Rare. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Luma Collection (Spink 136, 7 October 1999), lot 457.

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902.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Francesco Morosini. 1688-1694. AR Ducato (41mm, 22.62 g, 4h). Struck 1688. St. mark enthroned right, blessing Doge, kneeling left, both holding banner; * A · G * in exergue / Nimbate Lion of St. Mark standing left, head facing, forepaw supporting open Gospel; tower to left; in exergue, three rosettes. Paolucci 12; KM (DAV) 4280 = Davenport 4280. Toned. VF. ($300) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex European Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 93, 22 May 2013), lot 1759.

903.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Francesco Loredano. 1752-1762. AV Osella d’oro – 4 Zecchini (39mm, 14.70 g, 12h).

Francesco Trevisan, maestra di zecca. Dually dated RY 5 and 1756 FT. * S · M · V : FRANC L LAVRED : * DVX *, virgin holding infant Christ atop urn flanked by cherubs and angels blowing trumpets; below, S. Marco reclining right on lion, presenting corno Ducale to Doge kneeling left; in exergue, * F · T * / */ FRANCIS/ LAVREDANI/ PRINCIPIS/ MVNVS/ ANNO · V/ 1756 in seven lines within cartouche; corno Ducale at top. Paolucci, Zecca 438; Werdnig 237. In mount, some light marks. VF. Rare. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Luma Collection (Spink 136, 7 October 1999), lot 566.

904.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Francesco Loredano. 1752-1762. AV Osella d’oro – 4 Zecchini (37mm, 13.54 g, 12h).

Commemorating the presentation of the Rosa d’oro to Venice by Pope Clement XIII. Pietro Passo, maestra di zecca. Dually dated RY 8 and 1759 PP (in Roman numerals). * S · M · V : FRANC L LAVRED · PRINC · MVNVS · A · VIII · , Religion, holding chalice and cross, seated slightly left on ornate pedestal; around, St. Mark standing right, foot on base, and Doge kneeling left / ROSA · SUPER · RI VOS · AQUARUM (star), Rosa d’oro set in ornate vase set on base; in exergue, MDCCLIX. Paolucci, Zecca 444; Werdnig 240. Several surface and edge marks, slightly wavy flan. VF. Rare. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Luma Collection (Spink 136, 7 October 1999), lot 572.

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905.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Alvise IV Giovanni Mocenigo. 1763-1779. AR Osella (34mm, 9.74 g, 12h).

Commemorating the breaking of a treaty by Adriatic pirates. Mario Soranzo, maestra di zecca. Dually dated RY 3 and 1765.

BINIS IMMOTA MANEBO, galley at sea left; fortifications to left and right; in exergue, · M : : S / ALOYSII/ MOCENICO/ PRINC : VENE :/ MUNUS AN 3/ 1765 five lines within cartouche; corno Ducale at top. Paolucci, Zecca 248; Werdnig 246.

Toned, traces of underlying luster, area of weak strike, adjustment marks. Near EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Luma Collection (Spink 136, 7 October 1999), lot 584 (part of).

906.

ITALY, Regno d’Italia. Vittorio Emanuele III. 1900-1946. Matte Proof AV 100 Lire (35mm, 7h). Commemorating the first anniversary of the fascist march on Rome. Rome mint. Dually dated October 1922 and 1923 R. Bare head left / Fasces.

Pagani 644b; KM 65; Friedberg 30. In PCGS encapsulation 5358260 graded PR64. Rare in this grade. ($3000) From the El Medina Collection.

907.

LOW COUNTRIES, Habsburgse Nederlanden (Habsburg Netherlands). Keizer Karel V. 1506-1555. AV Real d’or (28mm, 5.30 g, 4h). Antwerpen (Antwerp) mint in Brabant; im: hand. Struck 1546-1556. Crowned and armored bust slightly right, holding sword and globus cruciger / Crowned double-headed eagle; coat-of-arms on breast. G&H 183-1b; Delmonte, Or 97; Friedberg 56. Toned, minor ghosting. EF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Eric Fulton Dadson Collection (Spink 110, 4 October 1995), lot 706.

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908.

LOW COUNTRIES, Vlaanderen (Flanders). Lodewijk II van Male. 1346-1384. AV Goouden lam – Mouton d’or (30mm, 4.54 g, 3h). Gand (Ghent) and Mechelen (Mechlin) mint. Struck 1356-1364. Agnus Dei standing left, head upturned right; behind, banner flying from ornate cruciform staff / Cross fleurée and feuillue; in center of cross, cinquefoil within angled quadrilobe; eagles in quarters; all within angled quadrilobe; trefoils flanking angles. Elsen 38; Delmonte, Or 457; cf. De Mey, Flanders 182 (for type); Friedberg 155. Areas of weakness in legends. Good VF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection.

909.

LOW COUNTRIES, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden (Dutch Republic). Holland. 1581-1795. AV Dubbele dukaat – 2 Ducats (29mm, 6.98 g, 12h). Dated 1760. Armored knight standing right, holding sword and bundle of arrows / Legend in five lines in cartouche. P&W 2.28.52; CNM Ho14; KM 47; Friedberg 248. Mount removed, faint hairlines.

Near EF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection.

910.

LOW COUNTRIES, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden (Dutch Republic). Overijssel. 1581-1795.

AV Ducat (24mm, 3.39 g, 5h). Overijssel mint; mm: hook. Struck in the name of Filips II van Spanje, 1590-1593. Crowned confronted busts Fernando V & Isabel I of Spain / Crowned coat-of-arms. P&W 2.38.35; CNM Ov22; Delmonte, Or 1048; Friedberg 262. Good VF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XIX.4 (Fourth Quarter 1994), no. 488.

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Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem From the El Medina Collection The Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller, the Knights of Rhodes, or the Knights of Malta, was a medieval and early modern Roman Catholic military order. Headquartered in Jerusalem from its foundation in 1099 until the collapse of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1291. The order was then headquartered on the island of Rhodes from 1310 to 1522. From 1530, the Order was headquartered in Malta, until it was expelled from the island in 1798 by the French. As with its previous incarnation as the Knights of Rhodes, the Knights of Malta were grouped into eight langues, the eight main languages the knights spoke. Each of these langues included priories, balliwicks, and commanderies, reflecting the order’s medieval religious and chivalric origins. The Grand Master governed with the assistance of a Council. Through pontifical charters, and their internationally recognized right to deploy as a military force on behalf of Christendom, the Knights became one of the most powerful and wealthiest of the crusading Orders.

In 1530, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V granted the islands of Malta and Gozo, as well as the city of Tripoli, to the Knights. In return, the Knights were required to provide an annual tribute of a single falcon. Known as the Tribute of the Maltese Falcon, it was to be paid each All Saints Day (1 November). This event so impressed the later American writer Dashiell Hammett that he used the falcon tribute as the subject of his 1930 mystery, The Maltese Falcon.

CNG is pleased to present an offering of coinage of the Knights of Malta from the El Medina Collection. Due to the wealth and virtual sovereignty of the order, they struck their own coinage, as well as employing issues from other nations, to fund their numerous building projects and military expeditions. During the late Middle Ages and until the 18th century, the Order patrolled the Mediterranean against the Ottoman Empire.

Juan de Homedes y Coscón (1536-1553)

911.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Juan de Homedes y Coscón. Grandmaster, 1536-1553. AR Tarì (22mm, 2.82 g, 10h). Fort St. Angelo (Birgu) mint. Coat-of-arms / Agnus Dei standing left, head reverted, holding banner. Gatt 04-1T-16X21; Restelli & Sammut 24; Schembri 1. Rich cabinet toning. EF. Rare. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CVII.1 (February 1999), no. 419.

Little is known about Homedes’ early life, other than he came from Aragon, joined the Order while it was still in Rhodes, and participated in the defense of the Siege of Rhodes (1522). His career as Grandmaster is controversial. In 1551, the Ottomans attacked Gozo, which then was poorly fortified, capturing nearly all of the population there and enslaving them. The Order also lost Tripoli, which Homedes blamed on its military commander, Gaspard de Vallier (Vallier’s reputation was later rehabilitated under Jean Parisot de Valette). Nevertheless, Homedes recognized the necessity for fortifying Malta; he began the construction of Fort St. Michael and Fort St. Elmo.

912.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Juan de Homedes y Coscón. Grandmaster, 1536-1553. AR Tarì (22mm, 2.41 g, 6h). Fort St. Angelo (Birgu) mint. Coat-of-arms / Agnus De standing left, head reverted, holding banner. Gatt 04-1T-26X08; Restelli & Sammut 25; Schembri 1. Toned. Near VF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection.

235

Jean Parisot de Valette (1557-1568)

913.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Jean Parisot de Valette. Grandmaster, 1557-1568. AV Zecchino (22mm, 3.45 g, 7h). Fort St. Angelo (Birgu) mint. St. Mark standing right and Grandmaster kneeling left, holding banner between them / Christ standing facing within mandorla containing nine stars. Gatt 06-1Z-01X04; Restelli & Sammut 4; Schembri 3; Friedberg 5. Areas of weak strike. Good VF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection.

Jean Parisot de Valette, after whom the capital of the Knights of Malta was named, served the Order both on Rhodes, when he was a young man, and was the 6th Grandmaster of the Knights of Malta. He was a man of considerable military skill and daring. From his appointment in 1537 as Governor of Tripoli to his time as a galley slave to the Barbary pirates, Valette demonstrated his abilities and, in 1557, was appointed Captain General of the Order’s galleys, a prestigious post. In this office, he earned a reputation as one of the great Christian commanders of the age. Described as a “very handsome man, speaking several languages fluently including Italian, Spanish, Greek, Arabic and Turkish,” Vallette’s reign was spent in almost continuous warfare with the Ottomans. During the Great Siege of Malta (1565), he ordered the defense of the city, holding out successfully against the Ottomans (including the Janissaries) until relief arrived. This victory increased the renown of the Order in Europe (thereby gaining new recruits), but Vallette refused to accept a cardinalship from the Pope, preferring to retain the Order’s sovereignty. The following year, Vallette began the construction of his new capital on the site of the former Fort St. Elmo. He died, however, before the work was completed.

914.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Jean Parisot de Valette. Grandmaster, 1557-1568. AV Zecchino (22mm, 3.46 g, 4h). Fort St. Angelo (Birgu) mint. St. Mark standing right and Grandmaster kneeling left, holding banner between them / Christ standing facing within mandorla containing nine stars. Gatt 06-1Z-01X01; Restelli & Sammut 8; Schembri 1; Friedberg 5. Lustrous. EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 2150.

915.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Jean Parisot de Valette. Grandmaster, 1557-1568. AV Zecchino (22mm, 3.46 g, 10h). Fort St. Angelo (Birgu) mint. St. Mark standing right and Grandmaster kneeling left, holding banner between them / Christ standing facing within mandorla containing nine stars.

Gatt 06-1Z-01X01; Restelli & Sammut 8; Schembri 1; Friedberg 5. Tiny edge split. Good VF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection.

236

916.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Jean Parisot de Valette.

Grandmaster, 1557-1568. AR 4 Tarì (33mm, 11.84 g, 4h). Fort St. Angelo (Birgu) mint. Crowned coat-of-arms; small cross above / Head of John the Baptist on platter. Gatt 06-4T-144X79; Restelli & Sammut 37; Schembri 11. Edge splits, minor green deposits. Near EF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection.

Pietro del Monte (1568-1572)

917.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Pietro del Monte.

Grandmaster, 1568-1572. AV Zecchino (22mm, 3.38 g, 5h). Fort St. Angelo (Birgu) mint. St. Mark standing right and Grandmaster kneeling left, holding banner between them / Christ standing facing within mandorla containing nine stars. Gatt 07-1Z-01X01; Restelli & Sammut 1; Schembri 1; Friedberg 6 . Lightly toned, underlying luster, faint wave in flan. Near EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 36 (5 December 1995), lot 999.

Pietro del Monte was an Italian noble, and a nephew of Pope Julius III (1550-1555). Prior to his election, del Monte was a friar in Capua and a soldier at the Siege of Rhodes (1522). During the Great Siege of Malta (1565), de Monte was the commander of Fort St. Michael in Senglea.

Cut off from the majority of the Knights’ forces, he held out for 55 days until relief finally arrived. After he was elected Grandmaster, de Monte oversaw the construction of the new capital at Valletta, which became the Knights’ headquarters in March 1571. At the same time, del Monte ordered the strengthening of the Maltese fleet, which participated in the victory over the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto later that year.

Jean l’Evesque de la Cassière (1572-1581)

918.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Jean l’Evesque de la Cassière. Grandmaster, 1572-1581. AV Zecchino (21mm, 3.41 g, 4h). Valletta mint. St. Mark standing right and Grandmaster kneeling left, holding banner between them / Christ standing facing within mandorla containing nine stars. Gatt 08-1Z-01X01; Restelli & Sammut 1; Schembri 1; Friedberg 7. Toned, edge scuff. Good VF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 36 (5 December 1995), lot 1001.

Recognized for his personal bravery at the Battle of Zoara, the reign of Jean l’Evesque de la Cassière was beset with numerous disputes that humiliated the Order and created resentment among the Knights toward him. An argument with the Bishop of Malta over ecclesiastical jurisdiction resulted in an appeal to Pope Gregory XIII and the appointment of a Grand Inquisitor. This final action created deep resentment among the Knights, since the emperor Charles V had granted them virtual sovereignty when they took possession of the island. In 1575, the second conflict involved the seizure of a Venetian ship carrying Jewish goods. Outraged, Venice threatened to retaliate by confiscating all the Order’s property that was on Venetian property. The Pope was again asked to intervene and la Cassière was forced to make full restitution.

Again the Knights resented this outcome, especially in favor of non-Christians. Finally, when Spain’s Philip II used his influence to appoint his 17-year-old nephew to the Grand Priory of Castile and Leon. The Castilian knights openly rebelled, but as with the previous two conflicts, the Order was humiliated. Seeing la Cassière as the source of all the problems, a mutiny broke out. He was removed and the former Grand Prior of Toulouse, Mathurin Romegas was appoint in his place. Both men were summoned to Rome to appeal to the Pope. Although la Cassière was eventually acquitted, he died a broken man.

237

919.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Jean l’Evesque de la Cassière. Grandmaster, 1572-1581. AR 4 Tarì (31mm, 9.79 g, 3h). Valletta mint. Crowned coat-of-arms; small cross above / Head of John the Baptist on platter. Gatt 08-4T-01X06; Restelli & Sammut 10; Schembri 1. Rounded edges, flan split. Near VF. Rare. ($400) From the El Medina Collection.

Two Extremely Rare Countermarked Issues

920

921 920.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Jean l’Evesque de la Cassière. Grandmaster, 1572-1581. AR (42mm, 32.58 g). Coat-of-arms depicting lion rampant left within beaded border in an oval countermark on a 1561 Philipsdaalder of the Spanish Netherlands. For countermark: Azzopardi 665A; Gatt –; Restelli & Sammut – (but cf. pl. LXXXIX, 1 for a similar countermark of lion within beaded border); Schembri –. For host: Vanhoudt I 94. Host: Some areas of light corrosion. Near VF. Countermark: VF. Extremely rare. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection.

Although no edicts survive authorizing them, a handful of extremely rare countermarks are known of the arms of de la Cassiere.

921.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Jean l’Evesque de la Cassière. Grandmaster, 1572-1581. AR (30mm, 6.62 g). Coat-of-arms depicting lion rampant left within beaded border in an oval countermark on a 1567 1/5 Philipsdaalder of the Spanish Netherlands. For countermark: Azzopardi 665A (this coin illustrated); Gatt –; Restelli & Sammut – (but cf. pl. LXXXIX, 1 for a similar countermark of lion within beaded border); Schembri –. For host: Vanhoudt I 114. Host: Toned, areas of weak strike. Near VF. Countermark: Good VF. Extremely rare. ($750) From the El Medina Collection.

238

Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle (1581-1595)

922.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle. Grandmaster, 1581-1595. AV Zecchino (21.5mm, 3.41 g, 5h). Valletta mint. St. Mark standing right and Grandmaster kneeling left, holding banner between them / Christ standing facing within mandorla containing nine stars. Gatt 09-1Z-02X02; Restelli & Sammut 2; Schembri 2; Friedberg 8. Lustrous. Choice EF. Rare. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CVII.1 (February 1999), no. 431.

A Gascon, Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle was beset by numerous unrest among members of the Knights, due to the conflicts between their respective home countries. This prompted Verdalle to travel to Rome to seek a papal intervention. While there, Pope Sixtus V, who held Verdalle in high regard, appointed him as Cardinal Deacon of the Church of Santa Maria in Portico Octaviae. Verdalle, however, is best remembered for the reconstruction of the hunting lodge at Boschetto, which was renamed Verdaia Palace in his honor.

Martín Garzés (1595-1601)

923.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Martín Garzés.

Grandmaster, 1595-1601. AV Zecchino (21mm, 3.37 g, 12h). Valletta mint. St. Mark standing right and Grandmaster kneeling left, holding banner between them / Christ standing facing within mandorla containing nine stars. Gatt 10-1Z-01X01; Restelli & Sammut 6; Schembri 3; Friedberg 9. Some luster. EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection, purchased from Spink, 1988.

The successor of Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle, Martín Garzés was a Spanish knight of Aragon. His election was of great pleasure to Philip II of Spain, who increased the grain supply to Malta and provided large amounts of money to assist in the fortification of the island of Gozo. A largely peaceful reign, due to Garzés’ abilities, in 1597 an Ottoman fleet, on its way to Algiers, was roundly defeated following an impromptu attack on Gozo.

239

Alof de Wignacourt (1601-1622)

924.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Alof de Wignacourt.

Grandmaster, 1601-1622. AR (40mm, 26.83 g). Coat-of-arms depicting three lis within shield-shaped countermarked on a 1606 Gelderland Daalder of the Dutch Republic. Gatt p. XX; Restelli & Sammut pl. LXXXIX, 3; Schembri –; KM –. Once cleaned, now retoning. Countermark double struck. Host and countermark: VF. Rare. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection.

A French nobleman, Alof de Wignacourt was one of the few Grandmasters who was popular with the Maltese people. To ensure this popularity and continually celebrate his accession, he declared his accession day – 10 February – was the same day that the shipwreck of St. Paul on Malta occurred over 1500 years earlier. Known for the construction of the Wigancourt Aqueduct, as well as a number of coastal defense towers, he oversaw the defeat of the Ottomans in their final attempt to conquer Malta.

Due to a large number of counterfeit trade coins entering Malta, the grandmasters Alof de Wignacourt, Antoine de Paule, and Jean-Paul Lascaris Castellar each ordered foreign coins to be countermarked with their respective coats-of-arms.

Giovanni Paolo Lascaris di Ventimiglia e Castellar (1636-1657)

925.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Giovanni Paolo Lascaris di Ventimiglia e Castellar. Grandmaster, 1636-1657. AR 4 Tarì (32mm, 10.26 g, 6h). Valletta mint. Dated 1649.

Crowned coat-of-arms / Head of John the Baptist on platter. Gatt 14-4T-192X192; Restelli & Sammut 23; Schembri 13; KM 69. Toned, light file marks on edge. VF. Rare. ($500) From the El Medina Collection.

An Italian nobleman who was related to the Byzantine Lascaris emperors, Giovanni Paolo Lascaris di Ventimiglia e Castellar, was elected Grandmaster over two other candidates. Having spent much of his early life among the Knights in a priory and being responsible for a wide range of monastic functions, Lascaris, as Grandmaster, ran afoul of the Maltese population when he imposed a ban on women wearing masks, or attending masked balls during carnivale. He is also remembered for the Knights’ brief attempt to establish overseas colonies in the Caribbean.

240

Antonio Manoel de Vilhena (1722-1736)

926.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Antonio Manoel de Vilhena. Grandmaster, 1722-1736. AV Zecchino (21.5mm, 3.44 g, 12h). Valletta mint. Dated 1725. Crowned coat-of-arms over two palm branches / St. Mark standing right and Grandmaster kneeling left, holding banner between them. Gatt 23-1Z-16X15; Restelli & Sammut 42; Schembri 4; KM 189; Friedberg 28. Toned, edge bump. Good VF. Rare. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection.

A Portuguese nobleman, Antonio Manoel de Vilhena was a benevolent and popular Grandmaster. During his reign, he renovated the city of Mdina, including its fortifications. He also ordered the construction of Fort Manoel, located on the Isolotto (now known as Manoel Island), as well as other improvements, including the foundation of the city of Floriana. Vilhena attempted to end the continuous warfare between the Knights and the Ottoman Empire, but was unsuccessful. He was however to maintain the neutrality of the Knights during the War of the Polish Succession (1733-1735).

Ramón Despuig y Martínez de Marcilla (1736-1741)

927.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Ramón Despuig y Martínez de Marcilla. Grandmaster, 1736-1741. AR 2 Scudi (38mm, 24.61 g, 6h). Valletta mint. Dated 1738. Cuirassed bust right / Crowned coat-of-arms. Gatt 24-2S-15N10; Restelli & Sammut 9; Schembri 6; KM 204.1. Toned, minor edge knock.

VF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CVII.1 (February 1999), no. 458.

Ramón Despuig y Martínez de Marcilla was a Spanish knight from Aragon. During his brief reign, the navy of the Knights of Malta captured several Algerian ships, and Despuig Bastion, part of the fortifications of Mdina, was named for him.

928.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Ramón Despuig y Martínez de Marcilla. Grandmaster, 1736-1741. AR 4 Tarì (25mm, 4.18 g, 12h). Valletta mint. Dated 1737. Cuirassed bust right / Crowned coat-of-arms. Gatt 24-4T-01N01; Restelli & Sammut 19; Schembri p. 147; KM 202. Toned. Good VF. ($300) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 38 (6 June 1996), lot 1694.

241

Manuel Pinto da Fonseca (1741-1773)

929.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Manuel Pinto da Fonseca. Grandmaster, 1741-1773. AV 4 Zecchini (30mm, 13.74 g, 6h). First coinage. Valletta mint. Struck 1741-1756.

Armored bust left / Crowned coat-of-arms. Gatt 25-4Z-10N10; Restelli & Sammut 4; Schembri 4; KM 238; Friedberg 31a.

Light orange toning with some underlying luster. EF. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 136 (7 October 1999), lot 1424.

A Portuguese noble, Manuel Pinto da Fonseca instituted the subsequent bankruptcy of the Knights through his maintenance of an elaborate court and his numerous Baroque building projects. A more liberal Grandmaster, he agreed to the reunification with the Protestant Prussian branch of the Knights, as well as the the expulsion of the Jesuits from Malta. Ruling for 32 years, he was one of the oldest of the Grandmasters.

930

931

930.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Manuel Pinto da Fonseca. Grandmaster, 1741-1773. AV 4 Zecchini (29mm, 13.06 g, 6h). First coinage. Valletta mint. Struck 1741-1756.

Armored bust left / Crowned coat-of-arms. Gatt 25-4Z-10N10; Restelli & Sammut 4; Schembri 4; KM 238; Friedberg 31a.

Orange toning, a few light marks. EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 196 (24 September 2008), lot 683.

931.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Manuel Pinto da Fonseca. Grandmaster, 1741-1773. AV 4 Zecchini (29mm, 13.81 g, 6h). First coinage. Valletta mint. Struck 1741-1756.

Armored bust left / Crowned coat-of-arms. Gatt 25-4Z-16N12; Restelli & Sammut 6; Schembri 5; KM 238; Friedberg 31a.

Lightly toned with some underlying luster, a few light marks. EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection.

932

933

932.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Manuel Pinto da Fonseca.

Grandmaster, 1741-1773. AV 10 Scudi (23mm, 7.83 g, 6h). Second coinage. Valletta mint. Dated 1762. Crowned coat-of-arms within wreath / St. John standing facing, holding banner; at feet, agnus Dei standing right, head left. Gatt 25-10S-21N21; Restelli & Sammut 45; Schembri 5; KM 270; Friedberg 36. Traces of mount, lightly polished. VF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection, purchased from Spink.

933.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Manuel Pinto da Fonseca.

Grandmaster, 1741-1773. AV 10 Scudi (23mm, 7.86 g, 6h). Second coinage. Valletta mint. Dated 1762. Crowned coat-of-arms within wreath / St. John standing facing, holding banner; at feet, agnus Dei standing right, head left. Gatt 25-10S-21N21; Restelli & Sammut 45; Schembri 5; KM 270; Friedberg 36. Traces of mount, lightly polished. VF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Ponterio 138 (1 April 2006), lot 958.

242

934.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Manuel Pinto da Fonseca. Grandmaster, 1741-1773. AV 5 Scudi (20mm, 3.94 g, 12h). Second coinage. Valletta mint. Dated 1756. Crowned coat-of-arms / St. John standing facing, holding banner; at feet, agnus Dei left, head right. Gatt 25-5S-06N01; Restelli & Sammut 52; Schembri 1; KM 254; Friedberg 37. Toned, some underlying luster. Near EF. ($750) From the El Medina Collection.

Francisco Ximénez de Tejada (1773-1774)

935.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Francisco Ximénez de Tejada. Grandmaster, 1773-1774. AV 20 Scudi (30mm, 16.74 g, 6h). Valletta mint. Dated 1774. Armored and draped bust right / Crowned Star of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Gatt 26-20S-12S12; Restelli & Sammut 5; Schembri 2; KM 294; Friedberg 41. Lightly toned, lustrous. EF. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection.

A short-lived Grandmaster, who was chosen over the other potential candidate, Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc, Francisco Ximénez de Tejada became unpopular due to the bankruptcy of the Order brought on by his predecessor’s lifestyle. Under his rule occurred the Rising of the Priests (1775), an abortive rebellion by the Maltese priests against the Order. Suppressed by the Order within a few hours, the rebels were then captured and some were executed, exiled, or imprisoned.

936.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Francisco Ximénez de Tejada. Grandmaster, 1773-1774. AV 20 Scudi (30mm, 16.68 g, 6h). Valletta mint. Dated 1774. Armored and draped bust right / Crowned Star of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Gatt 26-20S-12S13; Restelli & Sammut 5; Schembri 2; KM 294; Friedberg 41. Toned, hairline flan crack, some adjustment marks at rim. Near EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection, purchased from E. Azzopardi, May 1993.

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Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc (1775-1797)

937.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Emmanuel de RohanPolduc. Grandmaster, 1775-1797. AV 20 Scudi (30mm, 16.42 g, 6h). Valletta mint. Dated 1778. Armored and draped bust right / Two coats-of-arms; crown above. Gatt 27-20S-05N05; Restelli & Sammut 3; Schembri 1-2; KM 311; Friedberg 43. Toned, some underlying luster. EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 36 (5 December 1995), lot 1004.

The penultimate Grandmaster, Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc, was a member of a wealthy and influential French family. Having served the Holy Roman Emperor Franz I and several other positions within the Knights, Rohan was considered as a potential successor to the Grandmaster Manuel Pinto da Fonseca (1741-1773), but lost to the short-lived Francisco Ximénez de Tejada (1773-1775). A popular Grandmaster, Rohan elevated the village of Żebbuġ to city status, naming it Città Rohan. He was also the author of the Code de Rohan, a two-volume book on constitutional law. Instituting the Anglo-Bavarian langue within the Order, in 1797, Rohan established the Russian Grand Priory, which eventually became the Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller. Rohan’s final years were beset with difficulties due to the French Revolution. Suffering a fatal stroke, he uttered the prescient last words, “I, at any rate, am the last [G]randmaster, at least of an order illustrious and independent.”

938.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Emmanuel de RohanPolduc. Grandmaster, 1775-1797. AV 20 Scudi (30mm, 16.43 g, 6h). Valletta mint. Dated 1778. Armored and draped bust right / Two coats-of-arms; crown above. Gatt 27-20S-05N05; Restelli & Sammut 3; Schembri 1-2; KM 311; Friedberg 43. Toned, a few light contact marks, faint hairlines, once cleaned. EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection.

939.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Emmanuel de RohanPolduc. Grandmaster, 1775-1797. AR 2 Scudi (38mm, 24.02 g, 6h). Valletta mint. Dated 1796. Mantled bust right / Crowned Star of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta within wreath. Gatt 27-2S-03R40; Restelli & Sammut 34; Schembri p. 176; KM 343. Toned, minor flan flaw on reverse. EF. ($300) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 2874.

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The Final Grandmaster – Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim (1797-1798)

940.

MALTA, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta). Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim. Grandmaster, 1797-1798. AR 30 Tarì (42mm, 29.59 g, 6h). Valletta mint. Dated 1798. Mantled and cuirassed bust left / Crowned double-headed eagle with coat-of-arms on breast. Gatt 28-30T-12R02; Restelli & Sammut 5; Schembri 1; KM 345.4. Uneven toning. Good VF. ($300) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 47 (16 September 1998), lot 2322.

A long-standing official of the Knights of Malta, Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim had the double distinction of being the first Grandmaster of German origin and the 71st and final Grandmaster of the Knights of Malta. After surrendering the island of Malta to the French in 1798, thereby effectively surrendering their sovereignty over an independent state, Hompesch spent his final years (he died in 1806) challenging the validity of his 1799 formal abdication.

Further coins of the Knights of St. John will be offered with the rest of the El Medina Collection in Electronic Auction 479, running from 8 – 21 October 2020.

941 942 941.

MEXICO, Segunda República. 1867-1905. AV 10 Pesos (28mm, 16.95 g, 6h). Zacatecas mint. Dated 1872 ZS H. Eagle standing facing on cactus, wings spread, grasping snake in beak and right talon; all atop laurel and oak wreath / Small radiant liberty cap; below, a crossed sword and balance scale; scroll between the scale pans. B&W 261.10; KM 413.9; Friedberg 138. Lustrous, minor rim flaw, faint hairlines. Good VF. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Ponterio 101 (5 June 1999), lot 294.

942.

MEXICO, Segunda República. 1867-1905. AV 5 Pesos (22mm, 8.43 g, 6h). Ciudad de México (Mexico City) mint. Dated 1903 Mo M. Eagle standing facing on cactus, wings spread, grasping snake in beak and right talon; all atop laurel and oak wreath / Small radiant liberty cap; below, a crossed sword and balance scale; scroll between the scale pans. B&W 260.7; KM 412.6; Friedberg 139. Toned, underlying luster, faint hairlines. Good VF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Ponterio 101 (5 June 1999), lot 295.

The November Uprising

943.

POLAND, November Uprising. 1830-1831. AV Ducat (21mm, 3.49 g, 7h). In the types of the Netherlands trade coinage. Warszawa (Warsaw) mint; privy marks: torch and Polish eagle. Dated 1831. Soldier standing right, holding sword and bundle of arrows / Legend in four lines within ornate tablet. Parchimowicz 1059; KM (C) 125; Friedberg 114. Lustrous.

EF. ($1000) Ex Jack A. Frazer Collection.

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944.

PORTUGAL, Kingdom. João II o Príncipe Perfeito (the Perfect prince). 1481-1495. AR Real – Vintém (20mm, 1.93 g, 7h). Lisboa (Lisbon) mint. Struck 1489-1495. Crowned У; annulet to left, L to right / Crowned coat-of-arms; annulets flanking. Gomes 15.01; MEC 6, 1078. Iridescent toning. Near EF. ($300) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 738188 (June 2004).

945.

RUSSIA, Tsardom of Rus. Ivan V & Pyotr I, with Sophia Alekseyevna as Regent. 1682-1696. AV Chervonetz – 3/4 Ducat (19mm, 2.77 g, 1h). Novodel issue. 18th century restrike. Crowned facing busts of Ivan and Pyotr; above, doubleheaded eagle with wings spread, holding scepter and globus cruciger / Crowned bust of Sophia facing slightly right, head left, holding scepter. Diakov N4; Kaim 1858 (2/3 Chervotez); KM –; Friedberg 59. VF. ($1000) Ex Richard L. Lissner Collection (Triton VIII, 10 January 2005), lot 1723.

Kaim lists two varieties of 2/3 chervonetz pieces, which Friedberg splits into 3/4 and 2/3 denominations. Sophia was regent for her younger half-brothers Pyotr and the disabled Ivan until a palace revolution replaced her with the 17-year-old Pyotr. During the regency Pyotr’s formal education was neglected, allowing him to follow his own course, exploring, sailing and shipbuilding, military training, and a practicing of western ways (not to mention carousing). All this contributed to the great revolutions of Pyotr’s reign.

946.

RUSSIA, Empire. Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich. 1881-1894. AV 10 Roubles (24.5mm, 12.82 g, 12h). SanktPeterburg (St. Petersburg) mint. Dated 1894 AГ. Bare head right / Crowned double-headed eagle facing, wings spread, head left, holding scepter and globus cruciger; coats-of-arms on breast and wings. Bitkin 23; Uzdenikov 311; KM (Y) A42; Friedberg 167. Ex jewelry, sweated surfaces. Near VF. Lowest mintage of the series. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection.

947.

RUSSIA, Empire. Nikolai II Aleksandrovich. 1894-1917. AR Rouble (34mm, 12h). Commemorating the centennial of the defeat of Napoléon. Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint. Dually dated 1812 and 1912 ЗБ. Crowned double-headed eagle with collared coat-of-arms on breast, holding scepter and globus cruciger, set on crowned orb with six crowned coats-of-arms around / Legend in seven lines. Bitkin 334; KM (Y) 68. In NGC encapsulation 5848454-003, graded MS 63. ($1500) 246

948.

RUSSIA, Empire. Nikolai II Aleksandrovich. 1894-1917. AR Rouble (33mm, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint. Dated 1915 BC. Bare head left / Crowned double-headed eagle with collared coat-of-arms on breast and coats-of-arms on wings, holding scepter and globus cruciger. Bitkin 70; Uzdenikov 2213; KM (Y) 59.3. In NGC encapsulation 5848454-005, graded MS 62. ($750)

949

950

949.

SERBIA. Stefan Uros II Milutin. King, 1282-1321. AR Denar (20mm, 1.40 g, 11h). STCFAN STCFAN, Stefan and St. Stefan standing facing, holding banner between them; RV+ (R inverted) along banner / Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing. Jovanovic –; Ivanisevic –; D&D –. Areas of weak strike. EF. Extremely rare variety. ($400) This rare variety may have been struck by Stefan II Dragutin from 1282-1316, during his retirement and tenure as ruler of Srem.

950.

SERBIA. Stefan Uros II Milutin. King, 1282-1321. AR Denar (19mm, 1.40 g, 12h). STCFV STCFANVA, Stefan and St. Stefan standing facing, holding banner between them; RV+ along banner / Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing.

Jovanovic –; Ivanisevic –; D&D –. Attractively toned, areas of weak strike. Near EF. Extremely rare variety. ($250) This rare variety may have been struck by Stefan II Dragutin from 1282-1316, during his retirement and tenure as ruler of Srem.

951 952 951.

SERBIA. Stefan Uros III Decanski. King, 1321-1331. AR Denar (21mm, 1.55 g, 1h). Stefan and St. Stefan standing facing, holding banner between them / Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing; T to left, ◊ to right. Jovanovic 10.8; Ivanisevic 6 (Stefan Uros IV Dusan); D&D 6.1.1 (Stefan Uros IV Dusan). Toned, area of weakness mostly obscuring R in R/Є/X. VF. ($500) 952.

SERBIA. Stefan Vladislav II. Usurper, 1322-1324. AR Denar (21mm, 1.91 g, 6h). Stefan standing facing, holding cross-tipped scepter / Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing. Jovanovic 9.1.2; cf. Ivanisevic 4.1-.2 (for type; cf. D&D 4.1.1-2 (for type). Double struck, minor marks and roughness. VF. ($750)

953.

SPAIN, Castile & León. Fernando V & Isabel I (Los Reyes Católicos - the Catholic royals). 1474-1504. AV Double Excellente (27mm, 7.03 g, 11h). Sevilla (Seville) mint. Struck 1497-1537. Crowned and draped bust of Ferdinand right and crowned and draped bust of Isabel left, vis-à-vis; cross above, S between / Nimbate eagle facing, head left, with wings displayed, bearing crowned coat-of-arms. Cf. MEC 6, 772 (for type); ME 2928; Friedberg 129. Lightly toned. EF. A crisp, well struck specimen. ($3000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Superior (31 May 1999), lot 145.

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954.

SPAIN, Castile & León. Fernando V & Isabel I (Los Reyes Católicos - the Catholic royals). 1474-1504. AV Excelente – Ducado (24mm, 3.45 g, 10h). Valencia mint. Struck 1497-1537. Crowned confronted busts of Fernando and Isabel; crown between; S | S below exergue line / Crowned coat-of-arms; combination of annulets and flowers below in legend.

ME 2890; cf. MEC 6, 774 (for type); Friedberg 169. Lightly toned, flan slightly wavy. VF. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 96 (14 May 2014), lot 1383.

955

956

955.

SPAIN, Castile & León. Juana & Carlos I. 1516-1555. AV Escudo (23mm, 3.41 g, 2h). Sevilla (Seville) mint.

Struck 1535-1555. Crowned coat-of-arms; quadrate D and S flanking / Cross potent within quadrilobe; each arc ending in annulet surmounted by parsley leaf. ME 3148; Friedberg 153. Areas of weak strike. Good VF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection.

956.

SPAIN, Reino de España. Felipe II el Prudente. 1556-1598. AV 2 Escudos (25mm, 6.78 g, 10h). Sevilla (Seville) mint. Undated issue. Crowned coat of arms; to left, S over quadrate D; II (mark of value) to right / Jerusalem cross within quatrelobe; annulets in spandrels and lis in cusps. ME 4098; Friedberg 169. Some weakness in legend. Near EF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 99 (13 May 2015), lot 1122.

957.

SPAIN, Reino de España. Carlos II el Hechizado. 1665-1700. AV 8 Escudos (33mm, 26.92 g). Cob type. Sevilla (Seville) mint. Struck 1676-1685. Crowned coat-of-arms / Jerusalem cross within quatrelobe; rosettes in spandrels and lis in cusps. Cf. ME 7892 (for type); KM 61.2; Friedberg 217. Date off flan, crude, areas of weak strike. VF. ($3000) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Daniel Frank Sedwick.

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958. SWEDEN. temp. Olof Skötkonung (the Treasurer). 995–1022. AR Penny (21mm, 1.66 g, 6h). Imitation of an Æthelred II Long Cross type. Sigtuna mint. Period II, circa 1000/5-1020. Draped bust left / Voided long cross, with triplecrescent ends. Malmer chain 141, dies 224/1278; Malmer, Sigtuna pl. 25, dies V/4; Malmer, Svenska 222 (same dies). Toned, peck marks. Good VF. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Alan Williams Collection (Part II, Spink 253, 3 July 2018), lot 295; William J. Conte Collection (Baldwin’s 13, 28 May 1997), 1404.

959. SWEDEN. temp. Olof Skötkonung (the Treasurer). 995–1022. AR Penny (21mm, 1.98 g). Imitation of an Æthelred II Long Cross type. Sigtuna mint. Period II, circa 1000/5-1020. Draped bust right / Voided long cross, with pellet at center and triple-crescent end. Malmer chain 11, dies 417/4.728; Malmer, Svenska 391 (same dies). Lightly toned, minor peck mark, slightly wavy flan. VF. ($2000)

A

B

C D E 960.

TURKEY, Republic. 1923-present. Type set of five (5) gold issues. Includes: 500 Kurush. Dated 1926. KM 839; Friedberg 79 // 250 Kurush. Dated 1927. KM 843; Friedberg 80 // 100 Kurush. Dated 1927. KM 842; Friedberg 81 // 50 Kurush. Dated 1928. KM 841; Friedberg 82 // 25 Kurush. Dated 1927. KM 840; Friedberg 83. Lustrous, some hairlines and light marks. AU. In custom plastic frame. Five (5) coins in lot. ($2500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Turath Collection (Part II, Spink 138, 13 October 1999), lot 290.

249

Moffat & Co. Private Issue

961.

UNITED STATES, Private & Territorial gold issues. San Francisco. Moffat & Co. AV Five Dollars (21mm, 8.03 g, 12h). Dated 1849. Head of Liberty left, wearing coronet reading MOFFET & CO; thirteen stars around, 1849 below / S • M • V • CALIFORNIA GOLD, Eagle facing with wings spread, head left, shield on breast, clutching olive branch and three arrows in claws; FIVE DOL • below. Kagin 4; Adams 9; Breen 7784. Scratches. Fine. ($2500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Heritage 382 (27 July 2005), lot 7966.

John Little Moffat, a skilled assayer with experience in the earlier American gold rushes in Georgia and North Carolina, arrived in San Francisco in the summer of 1849. His four-man firm was established with the ultimate goal of establishing a mint, to turn prospector’s raw gold into a refined, processed, and reliable product. Moffat & Co wasted little time. Following a brief issue of stamped ingots, the first properly struck coins produced by the firm, $10 gold pieces, appeared in July or August 1849. Engraved by the Bavarian immigrant Albert Küner, the coins mimicked the contemporary Federal issues being produced back east. Küner replaced the word LIBERTY in coronet with the name of the firm, and altered the reverse legend to read S M V (= Standard Mint Value) CALIFORNIA GOLD. Moffat & Co enjoyed a good reputation and their coins were widely accepted by the public. Between September 1850 and December 1853, the firm functioned as a United States Assay office, issuing official $50 gold ingots. These official pieces traded at a higher value than the numerous private issues of 1849, leading to much of the then circulating smaller denominations to be restruck. This led to a shortage of $5 and $10 coins, which was regretfully ignored by the Treasury Department. In response, in early 1852, Moffat struck a number of $10 pieces.

Official authorization soon arrived, and additional small denominations were issued under the auspices of the Assay Office. The office ceased operations in December 1853 to make way for the official Federal mint in San Francisco, which opened its doors in April 1854.

WORLD MEDALS

962.

ANCIENT THEMES. Priam, King of Troy. Cast Æ Medal (39mm, 38.77 g, 12h). By Alessandro Cesati ‘Il Grechetto’ (fl. 1538-1564). ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ · ΠΡΙΑΜΟΣ ·, diademed and draped bust of Priam right, wearing long beard / TROIA, view of the walled city Troy, showing numerous temples and buildings; the citadel in upper center with wall inscribed ΙΛΙΟΝ; shore with Greek soldiers and galleys in water. Attwood 941. Kress 539 = NG 420. Brown patina, double strike on obverse (in die), some roughness on reverse, edge marks. Good VF. ($500) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 449 (31 July 2019), lot 726.

250

Rare Original Strike

963.

ANCIENT THEMES. Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Struck ‘Sestertius’ (38mm, 23.72 g, 6h). Paduan type. By Giovanni da Cavino, 1500-1570. Laureate head right / NERO CLAVDIVS DRVSVS GERMAN IMP, triumphal arch surmounted by equestrian statue right, spearing downward between two trophies. Basel I.31a; Johnson & Martini 1360 (struck example); Klawans 1. Orichalcum surfaces, light scratches. Good VF. Rare original strike. ($750) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Jonathan K. Kern, 5 April 2017.

964.

ANCIENT THEMES. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Cast ‘Sestertius’ (34mm, 25.48 g, 6h). Paduan type. Later cast after Giovanni da Cavino, 1500-1570. Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Galley right under full sail; FELI CITATI/A VC inscribed in two lines across sail. Basel I.57b; Johnson & Martini 1660-8; cf. Klawans 1 (issue in silver). Brown surfaces, hint of smoothing in fields. VF. ($500) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Session B, Stack’s Bowers Galleries 174, 11 January 2013), lot 5308.

965.

FRANCE, Premier Empire. Napoléon I. 1804-1814. AR Medal (42mm, 35.68 g, 12h). The Napoleonic Code. By Brenet. Denon, director. Dated L’An 12 (AD 1804). NAPOLEON EMPEREUR, Napoléon standing left, holding scroll / EN L’AN XII • LE CODE CIVIL EST DECRETÉ, Minerva standing right, holding long scepter and scroll. Bramsen 291. Toned, faint hairlines. EF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Luma Collection (Spink 126, 7 October 1999), lot 915.

251

966.

FRANCE, Premier Empire. Napoléon I, with Marie. 1804-1814. AR Medal (48mm, 35.10 g, 12h). The Birth of the King of Rome (Napoléon II). By Stuckhardt. Dated 20 March 1811. NAPOLEON I GALL : IMP : ITAL : REX · ET M : LVDOVICA ARCHI : AVST :, two medallions containing confronted busts of Napoléon, laureate, draped and cuirassed right, and Marie, diademed and draped left; toch between; all within crowned wreath set on eagle standing facing, wings spread, head left, on thunderbolt within cloud / NOVAM ACCIPE SPEM ORBINS, Italia seated right on throne decorated with eagle, receiving infant Napoléon II from winged Genius standing left; in exergue; REX ROMAE NATVS/ DIE XX MARTII/ MDCCCXI ·.

Bramsen 1107. Attractive old cabinet toning with underlying luster, a few faint hairlines. EF. Rare. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Luma Collection (Spink 126, 7 October 1999), lot 915.

967.

FRANCE, Troisième République. 1870-1940. AV Medal (51mm, 83.83 g, 12h). Exposition universelle de 1878 – First Prize. Awarded to Vandewynkèle Frères & Alsberg. By J.C. Chaplain. Dated 1878. REPUBLIQUE ★ FRANÇAISE, laureate and draped bust of Marianne left, wearing pearl necklace; J.C. CHAPLAIN below / EXPOSITION UNIVERSELL E INTERNATIONALE DE 1878, Victory, veil billowing, behind left above the exposition, head right, holding wreath in raised right hand and clarion in left; radiate star above; below, cherub alighting right, head left, holding aloft tablet inscribed VANDEWYNKÈLE/ FRÈRES & ALSBERG in two lines. Edge: (bee) OR. Maier 65; PBE 48; BDM I, 402; Jones, Art of the Medal, 313. EF. ($3000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Van Trappen Collection (Spink 120, 9 July 1997), lot 873.

252

968.

GERMANY, Hamburg (Freie und Hansestadt). AV Medal (22mm, 3.45 g, 12h). Struck 18th century. Tablets of the Fourth Commandment / WOL DEM DER FREUDE AN SEINEN KINDERN ERLEBT, three trees in urns, the center one taller; below, DAS HILF HERR/ ZEBAOTH. Gaedechens II 135. Toned, rim marks. Near EF. ($300) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Ponterio 106 (7 April 2000), lot 685.

969.

GERMANY, Kaiserreich. Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin, general and airship manufacturer. 1838-1917. AR Medal (46mm, 34.86 g, 12h). Flight of the Sachsen (LZ 17) from Baden to Vienna. By Karl Goetz. Dated 9 June 1913. * GRAF * FERDINAND * VON * ZEPPELIN, bust of von Zeppelin facing slightly right / 9 * JVNI * 1913 ERINNERVNG * AN DEN * BESVCH * IN * WIEN, the Sachsen (LZ 17) over Vienna. Kienast 52; Kaiser 389.1. Toned. EF. ($500) From the Toliver Besson Collection, purchased from Karl Stephens, January 2014.

253

254

970.

GERMANY, Kaiserreich. Bayern (Königreich). Ludwig III. 1913-1918. Silvered Tin Schraubtaler – Box Medal (52mm, 32.30 g). By R. Klein. Dually dated 1914 and 1916. LUDWIG III KOENIG VON BAYERN, uniformed bust left / crowned coat-of-arms with crowned leonine supporters. Inside are twenty-nine conjoined medallions, twenty-eight illustrating an Imperial German leader and scenes from the beginning of World War I to Verdun; end medallion for adding remembered casualties; backs of each medallion and endpapers in Bavarian arms. Zetzmann 7001. Porous surfaces. VF. Paper inserts in good condition. ($300)

255

971.

IRAN, Qajars. Nasir al-Din Shah. AH 1264-1313 / AD 1848-1896. AV 5 Tomans Medal (36mm, 14.18 g, 12h).

Tehran mint. Dated AH 1300 (AD 1882/3). Lion standing left on ornate entablature, head facing, holding scimitar in right forepaw; behind, anthropomorphized rising sun; all within laurel-and-oak wreath / Legend in Persian. Rabino pl. 43, 45; KM (X) MV20. Scratches, removed from mount. Good VF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Turarth Collection (Part II, Spink 138, 13 October 1999), lot 373.

972. ISRAEL. 1948-pres. Proof AV ‘100 Shekels’ Medal (30mm, 11.95 g, 12h). Issued by the Numismatic Center of Mexico. Dually dated JE 5722 and AD 1962. crowned bust of Solomon right; Hebrew legend above, SOLOMON KING OF ISRAEL below / Menorah; 100/SHEKEL above, Hebrew legend below; all within wreath bearing symbols of the Twelve Tribes. KM (X) 7. Proof. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 38 (6 June 1996), lot 1840.

973.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Pius VII. 1800-1823. AR Medal (66mm, 124.7 g, 12h). Restoration of the Tempietto at San Pietro in Montorio. By Mercandetti. Dated 1807 in Roman numerals. PIVS SEPTIMVS PONTIFEX MAX, bust right, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / DIVO PIETRO AD IANICVLVM RESTITVIT A. D. CICICCCCIV, façade of the Tempietto; in exergue, BRAMANTES · LAZZARI F · MDII·/ T·MERCANDETTI S · ROMAE/ · MDCCCVII ·.

Cf. Lincoln 2035 (for type). Toned, scattered marks. EF. ($500) Ex G. Hirsch 22 (25 June 1959), lot 222.

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974.

ITALY, Papale (prigioniero del Vaticano). Pius X. 1903-1914. AR Medal (60mm, 97.11 g, 12h). Election as Pope.

By Wilhelm Mayer. Dated 4 August 1903 in Roman numerals. PIUS · X · · PONT · MAX ·, bust facing slightly right, wearing zucchetto, within arched border; around, busts and names of the members of the College of Cardinals / PAPA · ELECTVS · DIE · QVARTO · MENSIS · AVGVSTI · ANNO · DOMINI · MCMIII *”IGNIS ARDENS”*, radiant Papal tiara over crossed keys and palm fronds; christogram below: all within polylobe. Toned. EF. ($300)

975.

ITALY, Papale (Stato della Città del Vaticano). Pius XII. 1939-1958. AV Medal (35mm, 32.25 g, 6h).

25h Anniversary of Catholic Radio & Television. Dually dated 1928 and 1953. ASSOCIATION CATHOLIQUE INTERNATIONALE DE RADIO & TELEVISION, Angel standing left, raising hand; below, ANGELVS/ NVNTIAVIT. Spotting and tarnish. AU. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 112 (5 March 1996), lot 489 (part of).

976.

ITALY, Papale (Stato della Città del Vaticano). Pius XII. 1939-1958. AV Medal (36mm, 25.15 g, 12h). “Aureus Magnus” series. Struck for Werner Graul by the Vienna and Hamburg mints. Dually dated 1876 and 1958. PIUS XII • PONTIFEX MAXIMUS, bust left, wearing zucchetto; on shoulder; coat-of-arms surmounted by Papal tiara, crossed keys in background / AVORUM NON MORITURA VIRTUS, six-pointed cross fleurée with rosette at center, tridents in angles; AUREUS MAGNUS below. KM (X) –. A few light contact marks, proof-like surfaces. AU. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 112 (5 March 1996), lot 489 (part of).

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A B 977.

ITALY, Papale (Stato della Città del Vaticano). temp. Pius XII. 1939-1958. Lot of two (2) AV Medals. Includes: (29mm, 24.71 g, 12h). Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica. Dually dated 948 and 1948 // (27mm, 19.99 g, 12h). Holy Year. Dated 1950. AU. Two (2) medals in lot. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 112 (5 March 1996), lot 489 (part of).

A

B

C

978.

ITALY, Papale (Stato della Città del Vaticano). John XXIII and Paul VI. 1958-1963 and 1963-1978. Lot of three (3) AV Medals. Includes: (20mm, 4.92 g, 6h). Second Vatican Council // (23mm, 6.90 g, 12h). Jubilee Year. Dated 1966 // (27mm, 9.82 g, 12h). Second Ecumenical Council. Prooflike surfaes. UNC. Struck in .750 gold. Three (3) medals in lot. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 40 (with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 341.

Detail of Lot 979

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A Souvenir of the Grand Tour

Photos reduced.

979.

ITALY, Roma. Set of 200 Grand Tour Plaster of Paris Intaglio Positives in Original Case. By Pietro Bracci (17001773). 200 oval and circular plaster of Paris intaglio positives of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan themes and portraits, attached to four indigo paper-lined stackable birch trays, with each intaglio numbered on their respective gilt setting; each tray numbered in front in India ink. Interior of lid containing contemporary printed paper label indicating manufacture. Overall dimensions: 209.55mm x 336.55mm x 107.55mm. See Waddington’s (24 October 2019), lot 27 (for another four-tray example). Minor damage and cracks present on intaglio numbers 21, 134, 135, 154, and 175. As made. ($2000) 259

980.

RUSSIA, Empire. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. AV Medal (33mm, 25.74 g, 12h). Prize Medal to Pupils. by M. Sizorsky and V. Baranov. Struck 1835. Crowned double-headed eagle with collared coat-of-arms on breast and coats-of-arms on wings, holding scepter and globus cruciger / ПРЕСПБВАЮЩЕМУ, Minerva standing slightly left, holding wreath and lamp of knowledge; owl, scrolls, and globe at feet. Diakov 523.1. Light marks and minor edge bumps. Near EF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Superior (31 May 1999), lot 136.

981.

SWITZERLAND, Kanton Zürich. Zürich. AV Medallic Dukat (21mm, 3.47 g, 12h). The 300th Anniversary of Zwingli’s First Preaching in Zürich. Dated 1819. Mantled bust of Ulrich Zwingli right, wearing minister’s cap / Legend in ten lines. HMZ 2-1171b; KM (X) M2; Friedberg 490. Toned, proof-like surfaces. Choice EF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CIV.1 (February 1996), no. 304.

982

983

982.

SWITZERLAND, Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft. 1848-present. AV Schützentaler – 100 Franken (27mm, 17.47 g, 6h). Federal Shooting Festival in Luzern. By E. Wiederkehr. Dated 1939. EIDGENÖSSISCHES SCHÜTZENFEST IN LUZERN; , man firing rifle from kneeling position to right / EINlÖSNAR + BIS + 31. + AUGUST + 1939 ; 100 FR, EINER/ FÜR ALLE/ ALLE FÜR/ EINEN over coat-of-arms. Richter 908; HMZ 2-1334b. AU. In original case of issue. ($750) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CIV.1 (February 1996), no. 305.

983.

VENEZUELA, Republic. 1830-pres. AV 60 Bolivares Medal (30mm, 15.02 g, 6h). Banco Italo-Venazolana – Chiefs in the Second War series. Struck by the Karlsruhe mint (Baden, West Germany). Dated 1939, 1945, and 1959. JEFES EN LA SEGUNDA GUERRA/ CHIEFS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 1945, bust of Benito Mussolini slightly right; ITALIA ITALY flanking, MUSSOLINI below / JEFES EN LA SEGUNDA GUERRA/ CHIEFS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, eagle standing facing, wings spread, head left on sword; 1939 1945 flanking; below, VENEZUALA 1959/ BANCO ITALO-VENEZOLANO. KM (X) MB28. Proof-like surfaces. AU. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Baron di Portanova Collection (Spink 172, 31 March 2005), lot 606.

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Session 4 – Thursday, September 17, 2020 — 2 PM

BRITISH COINAGE

984 985 984.

CELTIC, Atrebates & Regni. Commius. Circa 45-30 BC. AV Stater (15.5mm, 5.48 g, 9h). Commios Muzzles (Atrebatic C) type. Southern mint. Struck circa 30-25 BC. Devolved head of Apollo right, with two ‘hidden face’ motifs / Celtic horse right; remains of charioteer’s arms above, wheel below; [COÂ]-ÂiOÍ along right edge from below. Bean COM13; Van Arsdell 350-1; ABC 1022; SCBC 65. CCI 99.1695 (this coin). Slightly compact flan. Good VF. The earliest inscribed British coin. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s. Found in Winchester, Hampshire, by 1999.

985.

CELTIC, Cantii. Dubnovellaunus. Circa 20 BC-20 AD. AV Stater (18mm, 5.50 g). Serpent (Cantian K) type. Plain field with slight banding / Horse leaping right; bucranium above, serpent below. Van Arsdell 169-1; ABC 303; SCBC 177. A few light marks on obverse, die break on reverse. EF. Rare. ($1000) Ex Vosper inventory; N. Pearson Collection; P. Savage Collection.

986

987

986.

CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Uninscribed. Circa 60-20 BC. AV Stater (16.5mm, 5.62 g). Late Whaddon Chase (Trinovantian F) type. Traces of crossed wreaths / Horse leaping right; “wing” and pellets above, rosette to right, spiralrayed star below. Van Arsdell 1500-1; ABC 2341; SCBC 33. Good VF. Very rare, none in CoinArchives. ($750) 987.

CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Addedomaros. Circa 40-30 BC. AV Quarter Stater (14mm, 1.24 g). X Box (Trinovantian K) type. Back-to-back crescent with internal pyramids and small crescents at each tip / Horse right; three-branch motif above, saltire-in-square below. Van Arsdell 1638-1; ABC 2520; SCBC 205. Toned, hairline flan crack, light marks. VF. Nearly complete name. Rare. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Spink 231 (22 September 2015), lot 364.

988.

CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Tasciovanus. Circa 25 BC-AD 10. AV Stater (16.5mm, 5.41 g). Warrior (Trinovantian N) type. Two crossed wreaths, one curved, with two back-to-back crescents at center; stylized faces in angles / Warrior, holding carnyx, on horseback right; wheels in fields. Kretz, Second, Series A, Type A1/I; Van Arsdell 1730-5; ABC 2565; SCBC 217. Good VF. ($1000) From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 99053 (May 1991).

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989.

CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Tasciovanus. Circa 25 BC-AD 10. AV Stater (19mm, 5.33 g). Warrior (Trinovantian N) type. Two crossed wreaths, one curved, with two back-to-back crescents at center; stylized faces in angles / Warrior, holding carnyx, on horseback right; wheels in fields. Kretz, Second, Series A, Type C3/IVB, dies J14; Van Arsdell 1732-1; ABC 2565; SCBC 217; Hobbs 1611 (same dies). CCI 07.0537 (this coin). Good VF. Struck on an unusually broad flan showing much of obverse design and carnyx on reverse. ($1000) Ex Rudd FPL 95 (September 2007), no. 41.

990 991 990.

CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Cunobelin. Circa AD 8-41. AV Stater (16.5mm, 5.42 g, 8h). Wild Heart (Trinovantian V) type. Camulodunum (Colchester) mint. Grain ear; CA Âu flanking / Horse leaping right; [branch] and star above, CuNO below. Allen, Cunobelin, Classic Series A, unlisted dies; Van Arsdell 1931-3; ABC 2780; SCBC 284. A few minor pits and flan flaws. VF. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dix Noonan Webb 65 (16 March 2005), lot 84.

991.

CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Cunobelin. Circa AD 10-43. AV Quarter Stater (11.5mm, 1.31 g, 2h).

Linear (Trinovantian U) type. Camulodunum (Colchester) mint. Grain ear; CA Â[u] flanking / Horse leaping right; branch above, CuN below. Allen, Cunobelin, Linear series, unlisted dies; Van Arsdell 1927-1; ABC 2810; SCBC 292. Softly struck on obverse. Good VF. Well centered for issue, rare thus. ($500)

992.

CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Epaticcus. Circa AD 20-40. AR Unit (12.5mm, 1.29 g, 12h). Victory (Atrebatic A) type. Victory seated right, holding wreath / Boar standing right; branch above. Van Arsdell 581-1; ABC 1349; SCBC 357. Light iridescent tone. EF. Well centred. ($400) Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions XII (26 September 1990), lot 1417.

Ex André Breton Collection – ABC Plate Coin

993.

CELTIC, Durotriges. Uninscribed. Circa 80-50 BC. Pale AV Stater (19mm, 6.16 g, 5h). Yarmouth (Durotrigan B) type. Highly devolved head of Apollo right, with three-pronged spike at lower edge / Highly devolved horse right; pellets and ornaments in fields; zigzag line with pellets in exergue. Van Arsdell 1220-1; ABC 518 (this coin referenced and illustrated); SCBC 23. L. Lengyel, Le secret des Celtes (Robert Morel, 1969), p. 148 = CCI 03.0440 (this coin). Good VF. Extremely rare, approximately 14 recorded, of which 9 are in museums and 1 is fourrée, thus only 4 are known in private hands. ($2500) Ex Rudd FPL 124 (July 2012), no. 12 (one of three lots sold by phone bid); C. Hamblyn; Rudd FPL 75 (May 2004), no. 28; André Breton (Camel Cohen [Paris], 14 April 2003), lot 3003.

In the Chris Rudd list, this coin was one of three that were auctioned by phone bid, rather than offered at straight sale. Rudd noted that “this is the only one we’ve ever had and it is arguably the most famous and best documented specimen.” André Breton (1896-1966) was a French poet, essayist, and art collector, who is best known as the co-founder and principal theorist of the post-WWI European cultural movement of Surrealism. He was a friend of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali. Breton’s coin collecting began circa 1950, and continued until his death in 1966.

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994.

CELTIC, North-Eastern series (‘Corieltauvi’). Uninscribed. Circa 60-50 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 6.14 g, 7h).

North East Coast - Reduced weight (Corieltauvian B) type. Devolved head of Apollo right / Disjointed horse left; pellet below, pellets and ornaments around, zig-zag line with pellets in exergue. Van Arsdell 804-1; ABC 1722; SCBC 29.

Some luster. vGood VF. ($1000)

995.

CELTIC, North-Eastern series (‘Corieltauvi’). Volisios Dumnovellaunos. Circa AD 30-60. AV Stater (19.5mm, 5.27 g, 4h). Corieltauvian Q type. Vertical wreath perpendicularly over three lines, between which is inscribed [u]O-Li/[Í] i-OÍ; ring of pellets and three-armed spiral ring in opposite quarters / Lunate horse left; three pellets below head, DuÂ-NO&[LLAuNOÍ] around. Van Arsdell 988-1; ABC 1995; SCBC 419. Toned, struck from worn obverse die, a couple minor scratches. Good VF. ($750)

996.

ANGLO-SAXON, Substantive Gold Phase. Circa 620-645. AV Thrymsa – Shilling (11.5mm, 1.41 g). Witmenderived I type. Mint in Kent(?). Head right with three diadem ends and two-banded collar with pellets; to right, trident with split base / Cross fourchée; blundered legend around. Sutherland Class IVT.ii, unlisted dies; A&W Type V.xiii; MEC 8 table 3, 11; SCBI –; North 25; SCBC 753. Hairline surface crack and edge scuff on obverse. VF. Rare. ($3000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dix Noonan Webb 61 (17 March 2004), lot 521.

997.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 715-800/20. AR Sceatt (12mm, 0.92 g, 12h). Series X, type 31.

Ribe mint. ‘Wodan’ head facing; pellet above, short cross pommée to left and right; single pellet above / Fantastic creature left, head right, with tail coiled leftward; two pellets joined by bar at center. Sceatta List 103-10; MEC 8 Series Xa; North 116; SCBC 797. Toned. Near EF. ($750)

998.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 710/5-725/35. AR Sceatt (12.5mm, 1.03 g, 6h). Series U, type 23d.

Mint in Kent. Figure standing facing, head right, in crescent-shaped boat, holding two long crosses / Bird standing right, pecking berries below; branch above. Beowulf 100 (this coin); Sceatta List 45-50; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; SCBC 793.

Edge split. Toned. Good VF. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Beowulf (Classical Numismatic Group 75, 23 May 2007), lot 1395 (hammer $1100).

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ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 730-750/5. AR Sceatt (11.5mm, 0.89 g, 12h). Series L, type 12. Mint in Essex or Kent. Crude diademed and draped bust right; @@oo@4 above / Figure standing facing, head right, in crescentshaped boat, holding two long cross pommées. Beowulf 62 (this coin); Sceatta List 23-20; MEC 8 Series La; North 63; SCBC 818. Dark find patina. Good VF. Rare. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Beowulf (Classical Numismatic Group 75, 23 May 2007), lot 1432; William L. Subjack (Vecchi 14, 5 February 1999), lot 1694.

1000. ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 730-750. AR Sceatt (11.5mm, 0.97 g, 5h). Series QIIIA, type 64.

Mint in East Anglia (West Norfolk?). Quadruped standing left, head right, raising forepaw; triquetra above, pellets around / Bird standing right; triquetra above, pellets around. Sceatta List 65-20; MEC 8 Series Qc; North –; SCBC 810. Toned. Near EF. Rare. ($750)

1001 1002 1001. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Eadberht. 737-758. AR Sceatt (12mm, 0.95 g, 8h). Class Bi. York mint. h around central cross pattée / Heraldic quadruped standing left, raising foreleg. Booth, Sceattas, Class Bi, 6 var. (dies D/– [unlisted rev. die]); Pirie, Guide 2.1i; North 178; SCBC 847. Toned. Near EF. ($500) 1002. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Eadberht. 737-758. AR Sceatt (13mm, 1.02 g, 11h). Class D. York mint. h around central cross pattée / Heraldic quadruped standing left, raising foreleg; cross pattée above, triquetra below. Booth, Sceattas, Class D, unlisted dies; Pirie, Guide 2.1k; North 178; SCBC 847. Toned. VF. ($300) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 45 (18 March 1998), lot 2757; D. B. Feather (Sotheby’s, 6 November 1997), lot 410. Found at Newbald, East Yorkshire, 1986.

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1003. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Eadberht, with Archbishop Ecgberht. 737-758. AR Sceatt (14mm, 0.91 g, 9h). York mint. h around central cross pattée / Ҁh , mitred figure standing facing, head right, holding long cross and crozier. Booth, Sceattas, variety i, unlisted dies; Pirie, Guide 2.2b-c; North 192; SCBC 852.

Toned. Good VF. Rare. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dix Noonan Webb 61 (17 March 2004), lot 529.

1004. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Eadberht, with Archbishop Ecgberht. 737-758. AR Sceatt (13mm, 1.07 g, 12h). York mint. h around central cross pattée / Ҁh , mitred figure standing facing, head right, holding long cross and crozier. Booth, Sceattas, variety iii, 9a (dies –/z [unlisted obv. die]); Pirie, Guide 2.2b-c; North 192; SCBC 852. Toned, small flaw in field on obverse. Near EF. ($750) 264

Finest Known Eardwulf Sceatt

1005. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Eardwulf. First reign, 796-806. AR Sceatt (13mm, 0.99 g, 3h). York mint; Cuthheard, moneyer.   , cross pattée in dotted circle /  , cross pattée in dotted circle. Pirie, Guide 3.2a var. = E.J.E. Pirie, “Earduulf: a significant addition to the coinage of Northumbria” in BNJ 65 (1995), pl. 2, 12 var. (no circle on rev.; same obv. die as illustration); Sceatta List 86-10 (same dies as illustration); North –; SCBC 858. Near EF. Stuck on a full flan in unusually good metal. The finest known example of this great Northumbrian rarity. ($10,000) Eardwulf acceded to the Northumbrian throne in the tumultuous period following the assassination of Aethelred I in 796. Eardwulf had helped organize the murder of Aethelred in revenge for Aethelred’s earlier, nearly successful, attempt on Eardwulf’s life. Eardwulf’s reign was characterized by conflict with Coenwulf of Mercia who gave asylum to his enemies. In the late eighth century, close ties existed between the Northumbrian and Frankish courts and it may have been that Eardwulf married an illegitimate daughter of Charlemagne. Eardwulf was deposed in 806 by the shadowy Aelfwald II and went on pilgrimage to Rome and visited the Emperor’s court in Nijmegen. Frankish sources suggest he may have reclaimed his kingdom in circa 808 before being succeeded by his son Eanred, possibly around 810. No coins were known of Eardwulf before the Burton Fleming find in 1994 (EMC 1995.6001; Pirie, BNJ 1995, pp. 20-31). This is the only second coin of Eardwulf to be offered for sale in a public auction (the first was in CNG 114, lot 1245 [hammer $9500]).

1006. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Kent. Eadberht Praen. Circa 796-798. AR Penny (19mm, 1.17 g, 11h). Canterbury mint; Æsne, moneyer. Struck 769-7. Ḩ ⌓¥ĕ Ḫ/B⌓⎀HͿ/Ḫ ⎀⌓ҟ Ḩ in three lines / Ḩ ¥⌓ Ḫ/Ḫ ⌽n⌓ Ḩ in two lines divided by bone-shaped ornament with central pelleted line; extra pellets in field. Naismith C1a (this coin, used to illustrate the type on p. 37); SCBI –; cf. North 29; SCBC 875. Toned, minor porosity. VF. Very rare. ($4000) From the James & Martha Robertson Collection. Ex A. Williams (Part I, Spink 252, 27 March 2018), lot 2, purchased from Baldwin & Sons, July 1994. Found at Worksop, Lincolnshire, 1993.

1007. ANGLO-SAXON, Archbishops of Canterbury. Æthelheard. 792/3-805. AR Penny (18.5mm, 1.25 g, 9h). With Offa as overlord. Canterbury mint. Struck circa 792/3-796. ⍒⌓ዝ⌦H⍒⎀ዝ Pɭ⎴˶ !, cross pattée within circle / ɭዓዓ⍒ ⎀⌓ҟ m⌓P !, cross pattée within circle. Chick 242b = EMC 2000.0304 (this coin); cf. North 227/1; SCBC 884. Toned. VF. Extremely rare. ($3000) From the Allan Williams Collection, purchased from Spink, June 1995. Found near Louth, Lincolnshire, 1990.

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1008. ANGLO-SAXON, Archbishops of Canterbury. Æthelheard. 792/3-805. AR Penny (19mm, 1.28 g, 6h).

With Coenwulf as overlord. Canterbury mint. Struck circa 797/8-805. ม /¥/⌓ዝƗ⌦H⌓¥⎀ዝ ⍒/⎀/, barred ⌓P in linear circle / ม ùɭ⌓H⎍/⎍⌦;⌘ ⎀/⌓/ҟ, M in linear circle. Naismith C22.1j = EMC.2001.0976 (this coin); North 232; SCBC 886A. Toned, two tiny rim perforations expertly filled, light marks on obverse. Good VF. Very rare. ($1500) From the Allan Williams Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular XC.10 (December 1991), no. 7953; D. Chick Collection, purchased from Spink, October 1988. Found near Dunmow, Essex, 1988.

1009. ANGLO-SAXON, Archbishops of Canterbury. Wulfred. 805-832. AR Penny (20mm, 1.29 g, 6h). Canterbury mint; Swefheard, moneyer. Struck circa 828-832. ม ⎍⎍⌦ዓʼዒዝ © ʼüHዢዞዩዢ, tonsured bust facing, extending to edge of flan; three pellets flanking neck / ม Ӳ⎍⎍ዒዓHዒʼዝ ዦɭ⎴ዞͿ©, monogram of Dorobernia civitas within plain circle. Naismith C47.2; North 240/1; SCBC 889. Toned, small bend and chip at edge, a little porous. VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dix Noonan Webb 90 (9 December 2010), lot 406. Lot includes an old British collection ticket.

1010. ANGLO-SAXON, Archbishops of Canterbury. Ceolnoth. 833-870. AR Penny (21.5mm, 1.21 g, 7h). Group II. Canterbury mint; Leofing, moneyer. Struck circa 854-864. ม ü⌓ɭünɭT ⍒ያüHƗ⌓P, tonsured bust facing, extending to edge of flan; trefoils flanking neck / ม ⌦ዢ¥ዛዢ⎴ ;/;üŭ ዦɭ ⎴ ⌓ Ϳ ⍒ arranged on limbs of, and around, beaded cross. Naismith C157; North 245; SCBC 894. Toned, minor edge loss. Good VF. Rare. ($1500) From the Allan Williams Collection, purchased from M. R. Roberts, 20 May 1991.

1011.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (15.5mm, 1.21 g). Light coinage, non-portrait type.

Canterbury mint; Eoba, moneyer. Struck circa 785-792/3. ∂ Ŗ (the former barred, the later underlined as contraction) in central dotted square with diagonal lines projecting from corners; cross between ornaments above, floral ornaments at sides, R m below / ģ ∂ B A in angles of a cross fleury with pelleted cross in central annulet. Naismith & Naylor 12 = PAS NCL-AF9BE4 (this coin); Chick 106 var. (unlisted variety with round round ∂ on both sides); North 271; SCBC 904. Toned, small edge chip (after illustration in references above). Good VF. A unique variety of a very rare issue. ($1000) Found at Bardney, Lincolnshire, August 2011.

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1013

1012. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Offa. 757-796. AR Penny (17mm, 1.11 g, 6h). Light coinage, portrait type.

London mint; Udd, moneyer. Struck circa 785-792/3. ม ∂ዟዟ⍒ ʼዒҟ ม, head right / ม ⎍ ዝ ዝ divided by four large pellet encircled bosses; the inner circle contains a cross pattée, with wedge in each quarter. Chick 136c (this coin, used to illustrate the type on p. 121); North 315; SCBC 905. Find patina, flan a little ragged, small snick. VF. Very rare. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 18 (12 October 1998), lot 1638.

1013. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Coenwulf. 796-821. AR Penny (18.5mm, 1.28 g, 11h). Three-line type.

London mint; Wilhun, moneyer. Struck 796-797/8. /Ḧ M Ḧ/ /ü⎶ዧ⎍⎍ዥዟ/ያḦ⎶ҏ/ in three lines; two beaded bars with opposed hooks dividing center legend / ⎍⎍ዢዥዟ/ዡ⎍ዧ in two lines within lunate cartouche with indented sides, beaded bar with hooked and bifurcated finials dividing legend, pellets around. Naismith L6b = PAS ESS-462014 (this coin); North 341; SCBC 912A. Toned, light porosity, tiny edge split. VF. Rare. ($1500) From the Allan Williams Collection. Ex Triton XVII (7 January 2014), lot 1421. Found at Mistley, Essex, November 2003.

1014. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Coenwulf. 796-821. AR Penny (20mm, 1.28 g, 6h). Large portrait type.

Canterbury mint; Oba, moneyer. Struck circa 810-821. ม üɭዒn⎍⎍⌦ዓ ⎀ዒҟ M, diademed bust right / ม ɭB¥ ม mɭn ม ዒͿ±, cross pattée; leaf-shaped wedges in angles. Naismith C41.4; North 355; SCBC 916. Minor metal flaws on portrait. Attractive blue-grey tone. VF. Very rare. ($1500) From the Allan Williams Collection. Ex A. Stein (Stack’s, 9 December 1991), lot 1034.

SCBI American Plate Coin

1015. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Coenwulf. 796-821. AR Penny (20mm, 1.35 g, 11h). Large portrait type.

Canterbury mint; Tidbeorht, moneyer. Struck circa 810-821. ม üɭዒn⎍⎍⌦ዓ ⎀ዒҟ M, diademed bust right / ม ͿƗĕB⌓¥⎀h mɭɉͿ¥, double pincer-shaped cross superimposed on cross pommée; wedges in angles. Naismith C44.2h = SCBI 30 (American), 191 = EMC 1030.0191 (this coin); North 347; SCBC 916. Some very minor edge loss. Toned. Good VF. A pleasing, well pedigreed coin. ($2000) From the Allan Williams Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions XV (5 Jun 1991), lot 382; H. J. Bareford (Stack’s, 22 October 1981) lot 438; G.C. Drabble (Part I, Glendining, 4 July 1939), lot 328. Reportedly ex Coles Collection (per Drabble catalog).

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Illustrated in 1845 – Probably Ex Cotton Collection, 1606

1016. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Æthelweard. Circa 845-855. AR Penny (19mm, 1.24 g, 2h). Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Twicga, moneyer. ዞîዞዥVVዞ¥ያዝ ያዞҢ, ‘Omega cross’ in beaded circle / ม ͿʍƗüŲ/¥ ⍫ɭዧ, cross pattée with pellets in angles; all within beaded circle. Naismith E53.1e = Pagan, Coinage p. 70, III.1 = D. H. Haigh, Essay on the Numismatic History of the Ancient Kingdom of the East Angles (Leeds & London, 1845), pl. III, 9 (this coin); North 454; SCBC 953. Toned, small chip and surface cracks. VF. Very rare and with an extraordinary provenance. ($2000) Ex James & Martha Robertson Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 114, 13 May 2020), lot 1261 (sold, but unpaid); David Sellwood (Baldwin’s 96, 24 September 2015), lot 3482; Spink Numismatic Circular XCIX.3 (April 1991), no. 1793; Spink Numismatic Circular XCVIII.8 (October 1990), no. 5925; David Dupree, purchased by Spink, 1989; A. E. Bagnall, purchased by Spink, 1964; V. J. E. Ryan (Part II, Gendining, 22 January 1952), lot 655; P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton (Part III, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 November 1913), lot 1625; E.W. Rashleigh (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 21 June 1909), lot 115; Rev. W. F. Dymock (Sotheby & Wilkinson, 1 June 1858), lot 53; Duke of Devonshire (Christie & Manson, 28 March 1844), lot 8. Probably ex Sir Robert Cotton (†1631, collection inventoried in 1606; see M. Archibald, BNJ 76 [2006], p. 192, 64).

1017 1018 1019 1017.

ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish East Anglia). Imitations of Alfred the Great. Circa 885-915. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.24 g, 3h). Imitating Oxford mint/Orsnaforda type (BMC xviii) of Alfred. Beornweald, moneyer. Struck circa 895-900/05. ዒዥዟያዒዝ across central field; ɭያ⎄n⍒/ዟɭያዝ⍒ in two lines above and below / ዛዒያዢዢќ/⍒ዥዒዝዢ in two lines; three crosses pattée between. SCBI 1 (Fitwilliam), 561 var. (rev. legend; same obv. die); SCBI 9 (Ashmolean), 283 var. (same; same obv. die); North 472; SCBC 971. Old collection tone, double struck. Near VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex J. Hall (Dix, Noonan & Webb 71, 28 September 2006), lot 31; Spink Numismatic Circular CVIII (December 2000), no. HS0004.

1018. ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish East Anglia). St. Edmund memorial coinage. Circa 895-918.

AR Penny (18.5mm, 1.32 g, 7h). Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Onnonea(?), moneyer. ˝⌐ ⌓ዑ⍒ĕዦѝnĕ ያ⌓ҟ, large A / ม ɭዢዢዢዢɭ⎴ዒ©ዢዢ©ҟ, short cross pattée. SCBI 42 (Southeastern), 694 (same dies); North 483; SCBC 961. Reverse slight off center. Toned. Near EF. ($400) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 625 (September 1970), no. H3007.

1019. ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish Northumbria). Cnut. Circa 900-905. AR Penny (19mm, 1.34 g, 8h).

Class Is, Ebraice Civitas type. York mint. ⌐ Ƀ ќ ͻ ያḪ ዒḶ ḪX Ḷ arranged around inverted patriarchal cross with pellets in upper angles / ๘ ዒዛ Ḷ Ɵ©Ɵ Ḷ æዒæ Ḷ Ɵќ Ḷ, short cross pattée with pellets in second and third quarters. Cf. SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 218 (same rev. die); North 497; SCBC 991. Slight wave to flan. Toned. Good VF. ($400) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Wolfshead Gallery, May 2010.

1020. ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish Northumbria). St. Peter coinage. Circa 905-919. AR Penny (19mm, 1.40 g, 5h). Swordless type, heavy issue. York mint. Struck circa 905-circa 910. ⌽⍛Ʃዩዒ/˶ʼƩ⍵⍛ in two lines; pellets above and below, pellet between two crosses between / ๘ ዒዛɭʼ©æዒ æƟ, small cross pattée. SCBI 29 (Merceyside), 419; North 553; SCBC 1006. Toned. Good VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Wolfshead Gallery.

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Attractive Sword & Hammer Penny

1021. ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Hiberno-Norse Northumbria). St. Peter coinage. Circa 921-927. AR Penny (20mm, 1.23 g, 3h). Sword/Cross type (BMC 1). York mint. Struck under Sihtric II Caech. ⌽⍛Ʃዩዒ/˶ʼ ⍵ɭ in two lines, voided sword and trefoil between, cross flanked by pellets above, voided hammer separating legend below / ๘ ዒዛℽʼ/¬/æዒ æƟќ, small cross pattée; pellets in quarters. Stewart & Lyon dies 11/– (unlisted rev. die); EMC 2018.0435 (this coin); North 555; SCBC 1014. Some light earthen deposits. Toned. Good VF. A pleasing specimen. Rare. ($5000) Found near Newark, 2018.

1022.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Ecgberht. 802-839. AR Penny (20mm, 1.13 g, 3h). Portrait type. Canterbury mint; Osmund, moneyer. Struck circa 828-839. ม ⌓üŭB⌓©⎀ H˶ ⎀⌓ҟ, diademed bust right, breaking inner circle / ม ɭӲዦѝHዝ ዦɭ⎳˶©, Dorob(ernia) C(ivitas) monogram. Naismith C86d = EMC 1992.0261 = Coin Register 1992, 261 (this coin); SCBI 67 (BM), 1017 (same dies); North 573; SCBC 1035. Minor edge loss and bend to flan. Find patina. VF. Rare. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXIV (9 December 1992), lot 599. Found at Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, 1992.

Two Very Rare Wessex Mint Issues of Ecgberht

1023. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Ecgberht. 802-839. AR Penny (20mm, 1.37 g, 6h). West Saxon mint (Southampton or Winchester?); Tideman, moneyer. ม ⌓üŭB⌓ɭ⎀H˶ ⎀⌓ҟ, ⌽aҟɭ⎴ in monogram form / ม ˶Ɨĕ⌓ዦ⍒⎴ ዦɭH⌓, cross pattée. Naismith W9; North 589; SCBC 1041. Toned. Good VF. Excellent metal. Very rare. ($5000) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from A.H. Baldwin & Sons, May 2000.

1024.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Ecgberht. 802-839. AR Penny (20mm, 1.19 g, 7h). West Saxon mint (Southampton or Winchester?); Ifa, moneyer. ม ⌓üŭB⌓ɭ⎀H˶ ⎀⌓ҟ, ⌽aҟɭ⎴ in monogram form / ม Ɨዓ⍒ ዦɭ⎴⌓˶⍒, cross pattée.

Naismith W8.1e (this coin); North 589; SCBC 1041. Toned, slightly wavy, some edge chips. VF. Very rare. ($3000) Ex Goldberg 85 (2 June 2015), lot 3773.

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1025. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelwulf. 839-858. AR Penny (20.5mm, 1.26 g, 3h). First portrait type.

Canterbury mint. Leofa, moneyer. Struck 844-849. ม ⌓T⌓⌦єє⌦ዓ ʽĺҟ, diademed bust right / ຝ ⌦ዢ©B© ዦɯɉ˶©, crosscrosslet. Naismith C114.1e (this coin); North 610; SCBC 1047. Slight ghosting. Toned. Good VF. Excellent metal and on a full flan. Very rare. ($3000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex T. Dailey (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 2235.

1026. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelberht. 858-865/6. AR Penny (21mm, 1.05 g, 3h). Inscribed Cross type (BMC i). Canterbury mint; Heremund, moneyer. Struck circa 858-864. ม aዒTዒ⌦ዛዒaያh ያዒҟ, diademed and draped bust right / ม ⎳ያዒ⍵ќ/⎴ዝ ⍵ɭ/⎴ ዞ ˶ a in and around arms of beaded cross. Naismith C190d (this coin); North 620; SCBC 1053.

Toned. Good VF. Rare. ($3000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Property of a Gentleman - Canterbury Mint (Spink 211, 13 December 2011), lot 16, purchased from Spink, 2009; Bruun Rasmussen 674 (11 December 2006), lot 5431.

1027. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelred I. 865/6-871. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.17 g, 4h). Lunettes (A) type (BMC i). Canterbury mint; Dunn, moneyer. Struck circa 867-871. ม ⍒ዒTዒ⌦ያዒዝ ያዒҟ, diademed bust right / ม ዝ⎍⎴⎴ across central field; ዦℽ⎴ ዒͿ⍒ in lunettes above and below. Lyons & MacKay Group 2, unlisted dies; North 622; SCBC 1055. Minor deposit on reverse. Lightly toned with underlying luster. Good VF. Very rare. ($3000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Baldwin’s FPL (Winter 2012-2013), no. AS013; Spink Numismatic Circular L.6 (June 1942), no. 14782 (for £3/10/-).

1028. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelred I. 865/6-871. AR Penny (20mm, 1.23 g, 9h). Lunettes (A) type (BMC i). Canterbury mint; Elbere, moneyer. Struck circa 867-871. ม ⍒ዒTዒ⌦ያዒዝ ያዒҟ, diademed bust right / ዒ⌦Bዒያዒ across central field; ዦℽ⎴ ዒͿ⍒ in lunettes above and below. Lyons & MacKay Group 2, dies F/f, Ae2.51 (this coin); North 622; SCBC 1055. Hairline surface crack on reverse. Toned. VF. Rare. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from A.H. Baldwin & Sons, April 1986. Ex G. C. Drabble (Part I, Glendining, 4 July 1939), lot 379.

270

Alfred the Great Londonia Type

1029.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Alfred the Great. 871-899. AR Penny (19mm, 1.55 g, 3h). London monogram type (BMC vi). London mint. Struck circa 880-885. ⍣ዥዟያ ዞዝ ያዞᛸ, diademed bust right / Londonia monogram; small cross pattée above, quatrefoil of pellets below. MacKay, London, Type A1, 4.3 (O3/R4 – this coin); North 644; SCBC 1061. Surface marks. Toned. VF. Rare and iconic. ($7500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dix Noonan Webb 64 (14 December 2004), lot 32; T. E. Nield (Glendining, 8 September 1993), lot 4184.

1030 1031 1030. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Alfred the Great. 871-899. AR Penny (20mm, 1.44 g, 12h). Two-line (’Guthram’) type (BMC xiv). London mint; Cuthbeorht, moneyer. Struck circa 880-899. ม ®ዥ ዟያ ዞዝ ያዞ, small cross pattée / ù⎍ዝዛ/ዞያዡይ in two lines; between, pellet between two crosses. SCBI 1 (Fitzwilliam), 552; North 636; SCBC 1066.

Attractively toned. Good VF. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from B. A. Seaby, May 1984 (includes the Seaby stock ticket in the hand of Frank Purvey (cf.

Eaglen D22C 1–2) [c. 1950-84]).

1031. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (22mm, 1.60 g, 3h). Bust Diademed (BD) type (BMC iii). London mint; Deorweald, moneyer. ฾ ዒ±ዝќќዒ±ያዝ ያዞዱ, diademed bust left / ዝዒɭያќ/ќ±ዥዝ ⍵ɭ in two lines; three crosses pattée between, cross between trefoils above, trefoil below. CTCE 12i; SCBI 2 (Glasgow), 595; North 651; SCBC 1084. Struck from a worn obverse die. Toned. Good VF. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex St. James’s 4 (8 May 2006), lot 33.

1032

1033

1032. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (22.5mm, 1.37 g, 1h). Horizontal-CrossAnnulet 1 (HCA 1) type (BMC i). Dryhtweald, moneyer. ®Tዞ⌦ӲͿ©n ያዞҟ, small cross pattée / ዝያӅHͿ/⎍©ዥዝ ⍵∂ in two lines; three crosses pattée between, cross above, ∂ below. Blunt, Aethelstan 43 corr. (pellet-in-annulet not annulet on rev.); EMC –; North 668(6) corr. (same); SCBC 1089. Toned. VF. Rare with pellet in annulet in place of cross below moneyer’s name. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Historical Coin Review XI.3 (April 1986), no. 387.

Although the references all call the lower mark an annulet, a close inspection of the examples they reference all show a pellet-in-annulet.

1033. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (23mm, 1.46 g, 6h). Circumscription Cross type (BMC v). Chester mint; Eadwulf, moneyer. ม ®îዞዥӲ˸©⎴ ያዞม ˸ɭ ዛያ˸, small cross pattée / ม ዞ©ዝዥዟዞ ዦɭ⎴ ዥዞŭ⌐, small cross pattée; ˟ above. Blunt, Aethelstan 144; cf. SCBI 34 (BM), 54; North 672; SCBC 1093. Minor edge loss.

Toned. Good VF. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dix Noonan Webb 97 (7 December 2011), lot 227 (hammer £1500).

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1034.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (23.5mm, 1.52 g, 12h). Circumscription Cross type (BMC v). Stafford mint; Wihtmund, moneyer. ม ዞTዞዥӲ˸©⎴ ያዞҟ ˸ɭ ዛያƗ˸, small cross pattée / ม ќќዢH˸ዦќ⎴ዝ ዦɭ Ӳ˸ዞዟ, small cross pattée. Blunt, Aethelstan 216; North 672; SCBC 1093. Edge a little frayed. Toned. Good VF. Very rare mint for type. ($2000) Ex Dix Noonan Webb 78 (19 June 2008), lot 250.

1035. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (22.5mm, 1.34 g, 12h). Circumscription Cross type (BMC v). Warwick(?) mint; Manthegn, moneyer. ม ®îዞዥӲ˸©⎴ ያዞม ˸ɭ ዛያ/, small cross pattée / ม ዦɭ⎴îዢዞ⎴ ዦɭ ዢ⎴ ќያ, small cross pattée. Blunt, Aethelstan 221 = Naismith, Forum 442 = Forum Hoard 276 var. (legends); SCBI –; EMC –; North 672; SCBC 1093. Some light marks. Dark iridescent tone. Good VF. Very rare, only the Forum coin published with this mint and moneyer. ($1500)

1036 1037 1036.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Eadmund. 939-946. AR Penny (22.5mm, 1.39 g, 10h). Horizontal-Rosette 1 (HR 1) type (BMC ic). Chester style; Boga (or Boia), moneyer. ม ዞ©ዝዦ⎍ኋዝ ⎀ዞม, small cross pattée / ዛɭŭ©/ዦɭ ዢͿ in two lines; three crosses pattée between, trefoil above and below. CTCE 179; North 691; SCBC 1105. Toned. Good VF. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from A. H. Baldwin & Sons, June 1992.

1037. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Eadred. 946-955. AR Penny (22mm, 1.36 g, 6h). Horizontal-Rosette 1 (HR 1) type (BMC i). North Western mint; Amundr, moneyer. ม ዞ©ዝʼዞዝ ʼዞ, small cross pattée / ©ዦќH/ዝዞZ ⍵∂ in two lines; three crosses pattée between, rosettes above and below. CTCE 113; North 707; SCBC 1113. Toned. VF. Rare. ($750) Reportedly ex A Briggs (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 22 March 1893), lot 203 (part of).

Amundr struck mint signed coins at Stafford.

1038. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Eadred. 946-955. AR Penny (22mm, 1.24 g, 6h). Horizontal-Rosette 1 (HR 1) type (BMC i). North Western mint; Nordgar, moneyer. ม ዞ©ዝʼዞዝ ʼዞҟ, small cross pattée / ⎴ɭʼT/ŭ©ʼ ⍵ in two lines; three crosses pattée between, rosettes above and below. CTCE 151; North 707; SCBC 1113. Small deposit on reverse. Toned.

Good VF. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from A. H. Baldwin & Sons, July 1973. Reportedly ex 1950 Chester Hoard (per the Baldwin ticket, but this issue not recorded in Blunt & Dolley’s inventory in BNJ 1953, nor Archibald’s addenda in BNJ 1967).

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1039. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Eadred. 946-955. AR Penny (21mm, 1.16 g, 7h). Bust Crowned (BC) type (BMC v). Uncertain mint; Bruning, moneyer. ม ዞ©ዝʼዞዝ ʼዞ, crowned bust right / ม ዛʼ©ƗኋƗü (horizontal ü) ƗƗɭƗƗü, small cross pattée. CTCE 237; SCBI 34 (BM), 696 var. (obv. legend; same rev. die)); North 713; SCBC 1115. Lamination on obverse. Toned. VF. Rare. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex M. J. Grover (Dix Noonan Webb 79, 24 September 2008), lot 3417.

Two Very Rare Issues of Eadwig

1040 1041 1040.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Eadwig. 955-959. AR Penny (22.5mm, 1.34 g, 6h). Horizontal-Rosette 3 (HR 3) type (BMC ii). Chester style; Ælfsige, moneyer. ม ⌓¥ĕќќƩŭ ʽ⌓, small cross pattée / ®ዥዟZ/Ʃŭ ⍵ɭ in two lines; ɭ⍶ ⌓ɭ flanking cross pattée between, rosettes above and below. CTCE 124; SCBI 64 (Grosvenor - Chester), 460; North 730; SCBC 1123. Double struck on obverse, minor surface crack on reverse. VF. Very rare. ($1500) Ex St. James’s 24 (23 September 2013), lot 17.

1041.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Eadwig. 955-959. AR Penny (22.5mm, 1.17 g, 12h). Horizontal-Trefoil 3 (HT 3) type (BMC ii). Northampton mint; Warin, moneyer. ม ⌓¥ĕќќƩŭ ʽ⌓/ҟ, small cross pattée / ќќ®ʽ/Ʃn ⍵ɭḨ in two lines; H⍒ ⍵ within three crosses pattée between, trefoils above and below. CTCE 85; SCBI 2 (Hunterian), 667 (same dies); North 727; SCBC 1123. Some porosity. Deeply toned. VF. Very rare. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Baldwin’s FPL (Winter 2012-2013), no. AS019.

1042. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Eadgar. 959-975. AR Penny (23mm, 1.54 g, 12h). Circumscription Rosette (CR) type (BMC iv). Chester style; Thormothr, moneyer. Struck circa 959-961. ม ⌓©⍷ű©ያ ያ⌓ҟ, rosette / ๘ Tќያዦɭዝ ዦɭ⍶˶, small cross pattée. CTCE 341; SCBI 64 (Grosvenor - Chester), 642 (same dies); North 758; SCBC 1136. A few very minor surface flaws. Good VF. Rare. ($1500) Ex M. Lessen (Part I, Dix Noonan Webb 146, 25 April 2018), lot 245; Malter 1 (9 November 1973), lot 505.

1043. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Eadgar. 959-975. AR Penny (21mm, 1.57 g, 12h). Reform small cross type (BMC vi). London mint; Æthelweald, moneyer. Struck 973-975. Diademed and draped bust left / ม ®†ዞ⌦ዩ¥⌦ዝ ⍵!ɭ ($3000) ⌦ѝn, small cross pattée. SCBI 34 (BM), 716-7; North 752; SCBC 1141. Peck marks. Toned. VF. Rare.

From the James & Martha Robertson Collection. Ex A. Wayne (Classical Numismatic Group 102, 18 May 2016), lot 1439; Baldwin’s 38 (4 October 2004), lot 537; R. C. Lockett (Part IV, Glendining’s, 26 April 1960), lot 3584.

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1044.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Martyr. 975-978. AR Penny (21mm, 1.41 g, 2h). Sole type (BMC i). York mint; Beolan, moneyer. Diademed and draped bust left / ม Bዒɭዥ©n ዦ!ɭ ዒዓዒያʍ, small cross pattée. SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 513 (same dies); North 763; SCBC 1142. Some weakness. Toned. Near VF. Rare. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from A.H. Baldwin & Sons, July 1993.

1045 1046 1045. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Æthelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (20mm, 1.49 g, 9h). First Hand type (BMC iia, Hild. B1). Canterbury mint; Leofric, moneyer. Struck circa 979-985. Diademed and draped bust right / ม ⌦ዞɭዟያዢü ዦ!ɭ ü®n˶ʍ©, manus Dei descending from clouds; barred © ѽ flanking. SCBI 7 (Copenhagen), 77 var. (rev. legend); North 766; SCBC 1144. Deeply toned. VF. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Davissons 6 (29 February 1996), lot 248.

1046. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Æthelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (21mm, 1.39 g, 5h). First Hand type (BMC iia, Hild. B1). York mint; Ælfstan, moneyer. Struck circa 979-985. Diademed and draped bust right / ฾ ©⌦ŊZ˶©n ⍵!ɭ ĩɭŖ, manus Dei descending from clouds; barred © ѽ flanking. SCBI 26 (East Anglia), 1149 (same dies); North 766; SCBC 1144. Some luster. Good VF. ($750) From the Allan Williams Collection, purchased from Colonial Rare Coins, 27 August 1992. Reportedly ex “First Hand Hoard,” apparently found near York, circa March/April 1992.

1048 1047 1047. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Æthelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (20mm, 1.67 g, 12h). Long Cross type (BMC iva, Hild. D). Canterbury mint; Eadweald, moneyer. Struck circa 997-1003. Draped bust left; pellet behind head / ม ዞ⍒ዝ ዩɭዥዝ ȵ/ቸ/ɭ ü®n˶, voided long cross, with pellet at center and triple-crescent ends. SCBI 7 (Copenhagen), 58 (same dies); North 774; SCBC 1151. A few light marks on reverse. Bold portrait. Toned. Good VF. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection.

1048. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Æthelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (18.5mm, 1.10 g, 4h). Helmet type (BMC viii, Hild. E). Norwich mint; Ælfric, moneyer. Struck 1003-1009. Helmeted bust left / ม ⌓ዥ⌘= ⎀Ʊüჵ ȵ⍇/∂ ⎴∂⎀, voided long cross with triple-crescent ends and pellet at center; in each quarter, trefoil on pile. SCBI 20 (Mack), 995 (same dies); North 775; SCBC 1152. Toned, minor pecks, slight crimp. Near EF. ($400) Ex Captain “Peter” Arnot (Buckland, Dix, and Wood, 21 March 1995), lot 165.

274

Struck from a Hiberno-Norse Obverse Die

1049.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Æthelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.40 g, 5h). Helmet type (BMC viii, Hild. E). York mint; Kolgrimr, moneyer. Struck 1003-1009. Helmeted bust left / ม üɭዥ ŭ⎀Ʊ⃉ ȵ ȵข ɭ ⌓ɭ⌘, voided long cross with triple-crescent ends and pellet at center; in each quarter, trefoil on pile. Blackburn, Hiberno C1, dies A’/a’; SCBI 8 (BM), pl.

F, 46B (same dies); North 775; cf. SCBC 6116; SCBC 1152. Small peck. Attractively toned. Near EF. Very rare. ($2000) Struck from a distinctive obverse die produced in Hiberno-Norse Dublin but removed to York.

1050. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Æthelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.15 g, 3h). Last Small Cross type (BMC i, Hild. A). Stamford mint; Godric, moneyer. Struck circa 1009-1017. Diademed bust left / ฾ ŭɠĕ⎀Ʊü ȵฆɠ S˶©Ḧ, short cross pattée; cross pattée in 4th quarter. SCBI 27 (Lincolnshire), 1209 (same rev. die); North 777; SCBC 1154.

Lightly toned, weak on bust. Good VF. Rare with additional cross on reverse. ($400) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Andy Gillis, March 1998.

1051

1052

1051. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.42 g, 3h). Quatrefoil type (BMC viii, Hild. E). Lincoln mint; Leofric, moneyer. Struck circa 1016-1023. Crowned and draped bust left / ๘ Ǯ⌓ɭ ŖʽƩü ⍵ჵɭ Ǯ Ʃnüɭ, voided long cross with triple-crescent ends and pellet at center; all over quatrefoil. Mossop 25 (dies B/a); BMC 307 (same dies); North 781; SCBC 1157. Slight crimp, peck on obverse. Good VF. ($300) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 17 (6 May 1998), lot 267.

1052. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.07 g, 11h). Quatrefoil type (BMC viii, Hild. E). Thetford mint; Sprunt, moneyer. Struck circa 1016-1023. Crowned and draped bust left / ๘ әያ ያќnͿ ɭn ዝ ⌓ɭዝ, voided long cross with triple-crescent ends and pellet at center; all over quatrefoil. Carson –; SCBI 66 (Norwegian), 2391 var. (slightly different legend); North 781; SCBC 1157. Lightly toned. Good VF. ($300) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 45 (18 March 1998), lot 2766.

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1053.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Cnut. 1016-1035. AR Penny (19mm, 1.02 g, 10h). Pointed Helmet type (BMC xiv, Hild. G). York mint; Witherwine, moneyer. Struck circa 1024-1030. Bust left, wearing pointed helmet; trefoiltipped scepter before / ม / PዢTʽዢn ⍵ຖɭ eɭōʽ /, voided short cross, limbs united at base by two concentric circles with pellet in center; in each angle, broken annulet enclosing pellet. SCBI 13 (Copenhagen), 901 (same dies); North 787; SCBC 1158.

Richly toned. Near EF. Rare moneyer. ($400) Ex Captain “Peter” Arnot (Buckland, Dix, and Wood, 21 March 1995), lot 224.

1054. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harold I Harefoot. 1035-1040. AR Penny (17.5mm, 1.03 g, 5h). Jewel Cross type (BMC i, Hild. A). London mint; Godwine, moneyer. Struck 1035–circa 1038. Diademed bust left / ม űɭዝዩዢn⌓ ɭn ⌦єnĕ⌓Ḧ, cross composed of four ovals united at base by two concentric circles enclosing a pellet. SCBI 40 (Stockholm), 427 (same dies); North 802; SCBC 1163. Some light porosity. Dark find patina. Good VF. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Spink.

1055. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harold I Harefoot. 1035-1040. AR Penny (18mm, 1.13 g, 9h). Jewel Cross type (BMC i, Hild. A). York mint; Crucan, moneyer. Struck 1035–circa 1038. Diademed bust left / ม üʽєü©n ɭn ⌓ɭŖ⌓Ḧ, cross composed of four ovals united at base by two concentric circles enclosing a pellet. SCBI 40 (Stockholm), 646 (same dies); North 802; SCBC 1163. Much as struck. EF. ($1500)

1056.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harold I Harefoot. 1035-1040. AR Penny (18mm, 0.84 g, 9h). Fleur-delis type (BMC vc, Hild. B). Hertford mint; Godman, moneyer. Struck circa 1038-1040. Diademed bust left; shield and scepter before / ม ŭɭĕዦ©n ɭn Hዞɭ, voided long cross; pellet in circle in center, fleur-de-lis (flanked by pellets) in angles. SCBI 40 (Stockholm), 880 (same rev. die); North 803; SCBC 1165. Small edge crack. VF. Very rare of this mint. ($750)

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Four English Mint Harthacnuts

1057

1058

1059

1060

1057. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harthacnut. 1035-1042. AR Penny (19mm, 1.14 g, 12h). Arm and Scepter type (BMC ii, Hild. B). Southwark mint; Æthelwine, moneyer. Struck 1040-1042. Diademed bust left, holding scepter / ๘ ®ŭ⌓⌦єƩn⌓ ɭn SєT, quadrilateral, with pellet in center and angles, over voided short cross. SCBI 40 (Stockholm), 1708 (same dies); North 811; SCBC 1168. Good VF. Very rare. ($3000) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 17 (6 May 1998), lot 282.

1058. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harthacnut. 1035-1042. AR Penny (18mm, 1.00 g, 6h). Arm and Scepter type (BMC ii, Hild. B). Stamford mint; Thorsteinn, moneyer. Struck 1040-1042. Diademed bust left, holding scepter / ๘ TєʼS˶²n ɭn S˶², quadrilateral, with pellet in center and angles, over voided short cross. SCBI 18 (Copenhagen), 706 (same dies); North 811; SCBC 1168. Toned, slight wave, small mark on reverse. VF. Very rare. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from A.H. Baldwin & Sons.

1059.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harthacnut. 1035-1042. AR Penny (18mm, 1.00 g, 9h). Arm and Scepter type (BMC [Cnut] xvii, Hild. [Cnut] I). Wilton mint; Leofing, moneyer. Struck in the name of Cnut, 1040-1042. Diademed bust left, holding scepter / ๘ ⌦ƩዓƩHü ɭn ዩዢ⌦Ϳєnn⌓, quadrilateral, pellet in center, over voided short cross. SCBI –; North 799; SCBC 1169. Toned, peck marks, crimped. Good VF. Very rare, unrecorded moneyer for issue at Wilton. ($1500) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 17 (6 May 1998), lot 285.

1060. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harthacnut. 1035-1042. AR Penny (18.5mm, 1.24 g, 9h). Arm and Scepter type (BMC [Cnut] xvii, Hild. [Cnut] I). York mint; Skuli, moneyer. Struck in the name of Cnut, 1040-1042. Diademed bust left, holding scepter / ๘ Süє⌦© ⍵ɭHH ⌓ɭዓዑ⎀PƩ, quadrilateral, pellet in center, over voided short cross. SCBI 40 (Stockholm), 2025 (same dies); North 799; SCBC 1169. EF. A well made coin. ($3000) 277

1061. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (17mm, 1.00 g, 12h).

Pacx type (BMC iva, Hild. Da). Wareham mint; Wulfric, moneyer. Struck 1042-circa 1044. Diademed bust left; quatrefoiltipped scepter before / ม ዩ⎍⌦ዟያዢù ɭn ዩዞያ, voided short cross with pellet at center; ዩ ² ù ҟ in quarters. Pagan, Pacx 469a (dies A/a) = Freeman 31 = Hild 751 = SCBI 54 (Stockholm), 294 (same dies); North 814; SCBC 1172. Slightly double struck on reverse. Near EF. Extremely rare – Pagan notes only one specimen of this moneyer and mint. ($1000)

1062. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (20mm, 1.71 g, 9h).

Expanding cross type, heavy issue (BMC v, Hild. E). Lincolne (Lincoln) mint; Asleikr, moneyer. Struck circa 1052-1053.

Diademed bust left; scepter before / ๘ ɭS⌦¥ü ɭn ⌦ዢnüɭ⌦ɉ, voided short cross with expanding limbs and circle around pellet-in-circle in center. Freeman 215; Mossop 27 (dies A/b); North 823; SCBC 1177. Deeply toned. VF. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Finn FPL 16 (1999), no. 97.

1063 1064 1063. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (18.5mm, 1.13 g, 9h).

Hammer Cross type (BMC xia, Hild. G). Stafford mint; Coling, moneyer. Struck circa 1059-1062. Crowned bust right, scepter before / ฾ üє⌦⌦Ʃnü ɭn ˞˶±ዓዓɭ, voided cross, arms terminating in inward-facing crescents; straight line across lower limb. Freeman 18; SCBI 17 (Midlands), 456–7 (same dies); North 828; SCBC 1182. Minor metal flaw on obverse. Toned. VF. Extremely rare. ($750) Ex F. Elmore-Jones (Glendining’s, 12 May 1971), lot 778; P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 17 November 1913), lot 631.

1064. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (20mm, 1.36 g, 4h).

Hammer Cross type (BMC xia, Hild. G). Winchester mint; Brihtmær, moneyer. Struck circa 1059-1062. Crowned bust right, scepter before / ฾ BʽƩH˶⍵®ʽ ɭn PƩnü⌓, voided cross, arms terminating in inward-facing crescents; straight line across lower limb. Harvey 1760b (dies A/a – this coin); Freeman 78; North 828; SCBC 1182. Richly toned. Near EF. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex L. R. Stack (Sotheby’s, 22 April 1999), lot 598.

1065. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (19mm, 1.38 g, 9h).

Pyramids (BMC xva, Hild. I) type. Shrewsbury mint; Earnwig, moneyer. Struck circa 1065-1066. Crowned bust right; scepter before / ฾ ⌓©ʽዩƩ ɭɞ SያɭBB⌓, voided cross with annulet in center; pyramid in quarters. Freeman 40; SCBI –; EMC –; North 831; SCBC 1184. Glossy tone with some light earthen deposits. Good VF. ($500) 278

1066. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066. AR Penny (17.5mm, 1.29 g, 8h).

Pyramids (BMC xva, Hild. I) type. Stafford mint; Godwine, moneyer. Struck circa 1065-1066. Crowned bust right; scepter before / ฾ ŭɭĕዩƩɞ⌓ ɭɞ S˶Ʃ⌓, voided cross with annulet in center; pyramid in quarters. Freeman 30; SCBI 42 (SouthEastern), 1667 (same dies); North 831; SCBC 1184. Some doubling on obverse. Toned. Good VF. Rare. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Coin Galleries, August 1969.

1067. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harold II. 1066. AR Penny (18.5mm, 1.34 g, 3h). PAX type (BMC i, Hild. A). Lewes mint; Oswold, moneyer. Crowned head left; scepter before / ม ɭәዩɭ⌦ዝ ɭn ⌦ዞዩዞዞዢ, ዩ¨ҟ across central field. King 278, pl. XXX, 35 (same dies); SCBI 20 (Mack), 1338 (same dies); North 836; SCBC 1186. Slight weakness of strike behind portrait as usual for this die. Richly toned. Good VF. Rare. ($3000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 789 (May 1984), no. E147.

1068.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harold II. 1066. AR Penny (19mm, 1.38 g, 3h). PAX type (BMC i, Hild.

A). London mint; Wulfgar, moneyer. Crowned head left; scepter before / ม ዩዢዢ⌦gዢዢʽ ɭn ⌦ዢዢ⎴ĕ, ዩ¨ҟ across central field.

SCBI –; North 836; SCBC 1186. Minor die flaw on obverse. Toned. VF. Rare. ($2000) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Stack’s FPL (Fall 1992), no. 131.

Ex Boyd & Montagu Collections

1069. ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harold II. 1066. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.14 g, 12h). PAX type (BMC i, Hild. A). Romney mint; Wulfmær, moneyer. Crowned head left; scepter before / ม ዩє⌦⍵®ʽ ɭn ʽє⍵⌓Ʃ, ዩ¨ҟ across central field. SCBI 1 (Fitzwilliam), 977 (same dies); North 836; SCBC 1186. Double struck on reverse. Deeply toned. Near VF. Very rare. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex W. C. Boyd (Baldwin’s 42, 26 September 2005), lot 880; H. Montagu (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 16 November 1897), lot 58.

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1071 1070 1070. NORMAN. William I ‘the Conqueror’. 1066-1087. AR Penny (20mm, 1.40 g, 12h). Profile/Cross Fleurée type (BMC i). Canterbury mint; Wulfræd, moneyer. Struck 1066-1068. Crowned bust left; scepter to left / ม ዩ⎍ዟʼዞዝ ɭn ù©n˶, cross fleurée, with pellet-in-annulet at center. SCBI 20 (Mack), 1345 var. (rev. legend); BMC 9 var. (same); North 839; SCBC 1250. Toned. Good VF. ($1500) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Spink.

1071. NORMAN. William I ‘the Conqueror’. 1066-1087. AR Penny (19mm, 1.25 g, 6h). Profile/Cross Fleurée type (BMC i). Romney mint; Wulfmær, moneyer. Struck 1066-1068. Crowned bust left; scepter to left / ม ዩ⎍⌦ዟʼ®ʼ ɭn ʼዢዢ, cross fleurée, with pellet-in-annulet at center. SCBI –; BMC 39; North 839; SCBC 1250. Toned. Good VF. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from A. H. Baldwin’s, July 1993.

1072

1073

1072. NORMAN. William I ‘the Conqueror’. 1066-1087. AR Penny (20mm, 1.38 g, 12h). Bonnet type (BMC ii).

Lincoln mint; Agmundr, moneyer. Struck circa 1068-1070. Crowned facing bust / ม aŻዞዦዢዢnዝ ɭn ⌦ዢn, voided cross with annulet in center, pellet between crescents at end of limbs; pile in angles. Mossop pl. LXXXI, 5 (dies A/b) = SCBI 27 (Lincolnshire), 812 (same dies); BMC 93 var. (legends); North 842; SCBC 1251. Old iridescent toning, slightly double struck.

Good VF. ($750) 1073.

NORMAN. William I ‘the Conqueror’. 1066-1087. AR Penny (20mm, 1.29 g, 12h). Bonnet type (BMC ii). York mint; Authbjorn, moneyer. Struck circa 1068-1070. Crowned facing bust / ม ɭዢዢîዛዞɭʼn ɭn ዞɭ, voided cross with annulet in center, pellet between crescents at end of limbs; pile in angles. SCBI 21 (Yorkshire), 720-1 (same dies); BMC 173; North 842; SCBC 1251. Double struck, small green deposits, slightly wavy flan. Toned. Good VF. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Glendining’s (15 March 1989), lot 238.

1074

1075

1074. NORMAN. William I ‘the Conqueror’. 1066-1087. AR Penny (20mm, 1.21 g, 1h). Bonnet type (BMC iii).

London mint; Godric, moneyer. Struck circa 1070-1072. Crowned facing bust within canopy of two columns / ม Żɭዝʼዢù ɭn ⌦⎍nዝዝ, double quadrilateral, with incurved sides, annulet at center, and fleur at each limb. SCBI 18 (Copenhagen), 1326 var. (legends); BMC 198 var. (rev. legend); North 834; SCBC 1252. Cracked, some light marks. Toned. VF. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Glen Schinke. Ex Sir Charles Oman (Part III, Christie’s, 31 October 1972), lot 89 (part of).

1075. NORMAN. William I ‘the Conqueror’. 1066-1087. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.30 g, 6h). Two Scepters type (BMC iv). Wilton mint; Sæfari, moneyer. Struck circa 1072-1074. Crowned facing bust; cross-tipped scepter to left, trefoil-tipped scepter to right / ม ˨ዢዞዢዢዢዢʼዢዢ ɭn ዩዢ⌦˶, cross fleurée, with annulet at center; all over cross botonnée in saltire. SCBI –; BMC –; North 844; SCBC 1253. Toned. VF. Rare. ($1000) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Spink.

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1076 1077 1076. NORMAN. William I ‘the Conqueror’. 1066-1087. AR Penny (19mm, 1.28 g, 9h). Two Stars type (BMC v).

London mint; Godric, moneyer. Struck circa 1074-1077. Crowned facing bust; stars flanking / ม Żɭዝዩዢ ɭn ⌦ዢዢnዝዞ, cross botonnée with central annulet over quadrilateral with incurved sides. SCBI 12 (Ashmolean), 83-4 var. (legends); BMC 344-54 var. (same); North 845; SCBC 1254. Lightly toned. Bold VF. ($1000) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from C.J. Martin, June 1987.

1077.

NORMAN. William I ‘the Conqueror’. 1066-1087. AR Penny (19mm, 1.21 g, 6h). Sword type (BMC vi). London mint; Eadwine, moneyer. Struck circa 1077-1080. Crowned facing bust, holding sword over right shoulder / ม ዞዝዩዢ ɭn ⌦ዢዢnዝn, cross pattée; all over quadrilateral, with incurved sides and fleur in each quarter. SCBI –; BMC 417; North 846; SCBC 1255. Toned, thin edge crack, some light porosity. VF. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Patrick Finn FPL 6 (Winter 1996), no. 104.

1078. NORMAN. William I ‘the Conqueror’. 1066-1087. AR Penny (20mm, 1.23 g, 1h). Profile Right (BMC vii).

London mint; Wulfwine, moneyer. Struck circa 1080-1083. Crowned bust right, holding scepter / ม ዩዢዢ⌦ዟዩዢnዞ ɭn ⌦ዢዢዢ, cross pattée, with annulet at center and voided trefoil in each quarter. SCBI 11 (Reading), 55-6; BMC 465 var. (rev. legend); North 847; SCBC 1256. Legends weak in part. Toned. VF. Rare. ($1500) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Davissons (25 July 1995), lot 256; Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 780 (August 1983), no. E503.

1079 1080 1079. NORMAN. William I ‘the Conqueror’. 1066-1087. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.34 g, 9h). Paxs type (BMC viii).

Chichester mint; Burnman, moneyer. Struck circa 1083-1086. Crowned facing bust, holding lis-tipped scepter in right hand; trefoil on shoulder / ม ዛʼɃዦዢዢn ɭn ùዢù˨Ϳ, cross pattée; letters of ዩ ¨ ҟ ˨ in annulets within quarters. SCBI 42 (South Eastern), 1785-6 (same dies); BMC 609; North 848; SCBC 2147. Toned. VF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection.

1080. NORMAN. William I ‘the Conqueror’. 1066-1087. AR Penny (20mm, 1.39 g, 2h). Paxs type (BMC viii).

Colchester mint; Wulfric, moneyer. Struck circa 1083-1086. Crowned facing bust, holding lis-tipped scepter in right hand; trefoil on shoulder / ม ዩ⎍⌦ዟʼዢù ɭn ùɭ⌦ù, cross pattée; letters of ዩ ¨ ҟ ˨ in annulets within quarters. SCBI 20 (Mack), 1414 (this coin); BMC 620; North 848; SCBC 2147. Area of weak strike. Toned. Good VF. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex R. P. Mack (not in Glendining’s sale); W. J. Lawson (Glendining’s, 19 July 1954), lot 152.

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1081. NORMAN. William II Rufus. 1087-1100. AR Penny (20mm, 1.36 g, 10h). Profile type (BMC i). London mint; Ælfræd, moneyer. Struck circa 1086-1089. Crowned bust right, holding sword / ม ዢዞ⌦ዟʼዢዞዝ ɭn ⌦ዢዢnዢ, cross pattée, with annulet at center; all over cross fleurée in saltire. SCBI 11 (Reading), 654-7; BMC 23-4 var. (rev. legend); North 851; SCBC 1258. Hairline edge split. Weak in part. Lightly toned. Good VF. Rare. ($1500) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Ross King, January 1998.

1082. NORMAN. William II Rufus. 1087-1100. AR Penny (20mm, 1.44 g, 10h). Cross in Quatrefoil type (BMC ii).

London mint; Godwine, moneyer. Struck circa 1089-1092. Crowned facing bust, holding sword / ม Żɭዝዩዢnዞ ɭn ⌦ዢዢn, cross pattée within quatrefoil with pellets in angles. SCBI 11 (Reading), 703 var. (legends); BMC 112 var. (obv. legend); North 852; SCBC 1259. Toned. VF. Good Portrait. Rare. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (17 July 1996), lot 2401.

1083.

NORMAN. William II Rufus. 1087-1100. AR Penny (22mm, 1.41 g, 12h). Cross Voided type (BMC iii). Canterbury mint; Ealdræd, moneyer. Struck circa 1092-1095. Crowned facing bust; stars flanking / ม ዢዢ⌦ዝʼዢዞዝ ɭn ùn˶, voided cross pattée, with annulet at center; all over cross annulettée. SCBI 48 (Northern), 1135; BMC 176; North 853; SCBC 1260. Worn dies. Richly toned. VF. Rare. ($2000) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex R.C. Lockett (English Part I, Glendining’s, 6 June 1955), lot 1021.

1084. NORMAN. William II Rufus. 1087-1100. AR Penny (21mm, 1.37 g, 12h). Cross Pattée and Fleury (BMC iv).

London mint; Ælfwine, moneyer. Struck circa 1095-1098. Crowned facing bust, holding sword / [ม ዢ]⌦ዟዩዢnዞ ɭn [⌦⎍nዝ], cross pattée over cross fleurée in saltire. SCBI 20 (Mack), 1488 (this coin); BMC 241; North 855; SCBC 1261. Some weakness in legends. Richly toned. Good VF. Rare. ($2000) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Lawrence R. Stack (Sotheby’s, 22 April 1999), lot 649; R. P. Mack (not in Glendining’s sale).

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1085

1086

1085. NORMAN. Henry I. 1100-1135. AR Penny (17mm, 1.22 g, 4h). Profile/Cross Fleury type (BMC ii). London mint; Godric, moneyer. Struck circa 1102. Crowned bust left; trefoil-tipped scepter to left / ม Żɭዝʼዢ ɭn ⌦ዢnù, cross fleurée, annulet at center. Mossop pl. LXXXV, 11 (dies A/a); SCBI –; BMC –; North 858; SCBC 1263A. Hairline flan crack, some porosity. VF. Rare. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Andy Gillis, March 1998.

1086. NORMAN. Henry I. 1100-1135. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.32 g, 6h). Full Face/Cross Fleurée type (BMC X).

Noriwch(?) mint; Eadstan, moneyer. Struck circa 1117. Crowned facing bust / ม ዞͿ˨Ϳ [ɭn nɭʼ], cross fleurée, with annulet at center. SCBI –; BMC 68; North 866; SCBC 1271. Toned, edge snick, crimped. Near VF. Rare. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Lawrence R. Stack (Sotheby’s, 22 April 1999), lot 652.

1088 1087 1087.

NORMAN. Henry I. 1100-1135. AR Penny (21mm, 1.19 g, 7h). Pellets in quatrefoil type (BMC xiv). Shaftesbury mint; Særic, moneyer. Struck circa 1123. Crowned facing bust, holding scepter; star to right / [ม] ˨¥ʼዢù Ḧ ɭ[n Ḧ ˨]¥ዟ[Ϳዞ], quatrefoil with central star and three pellets in each limb; lis in each quarter. SCBI –; BMC 168; North 870; SCBC 1275. Some weakness in legend. Toned. VF. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection.

1088.

NORMAN. Henry I. 1100-1135. AR Penny (21mm, 1.39 g, 10h). Pellets in quatrefoil type (BMC xiv). Southwark mint; Algar, moneyer. Struck circa 1123. Crowned facing bust, holding scepter; star to right / ม ²⌦Ż²ʼ Ḧ ɭn Ḧ ˨⎍ዝዩዞʼ /, quatrefoil with central star and three pellets in each limb; lis in each quarter. SCBI –; EMC 2014.0065 (same rev. die); BMC 170; North 870; SCBC 1275. Small edge split, slightly off center. Toned. Good VF. ($750) From the Allan Williams Collection, purchased from M.R. Roberts, May 1991.

1089. NORMAN. Henry I. 1100-1135. AR Penny (19mm, 1.18 g, 9h). Quadrilateral on Cross Fleury type (BMC xv).

Exeter mint; uncertain moneyer. Struck 1125-1135. Crowned bust facing slightly left, holding lis-tipped scepter in right hand / [... ɭ]n Ḧ ዞҟùዞ˨[...], quadrilateral with incurved sides and fleurs at limbs; all over cross fleurée. North 871; SCBC 1276. VF. Bold portrait. ($500) Bought A.H. Baldwin; ex Pimprez Hoard.

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Henry I Round Halfpenny

1090.

NORMAN. Henry I. 1100-1135. Round AR Halfpenny (14mm, 0.55 g, 4h). Sandwich mint; Æthelbeald, moneyer.

Facing bust / ม ¥ዝ¥⌦ዛ Ḧ ɭn Ḧ S, small cross potent, with quatrefoil in each quarter. SCBI –; EMC 1992.0287 = Coin Register 1992, 287 (this coin); BMC –; North 872; SCBC 1300. Lightly toned, edge snick and associated cracks, small edge chip, areas of weak strike. VF. Extremely rare. ($1500) From the Allan Williams Collection. Ex St. James’s 5 (27 September 2006), lot 123; W.J. Conte Collection. Found Little Mongeham, Kent, 5 September 1992.

1092 1091 1091.

NORMAN. Stephen. 1135-1154. AR Penny (21mm, 1.40 g, 7h). Cross moline (Watford) type (BMC i). Winchester mint; Stephen, moneyer. Struck circa 1136-1145. Crowned bust right, holding lis-tipped scepter / [ม ˨]Ϳዢዞዟnዞ Ḧ ɭn Ḧ ዩዢ[nù Ḧ], cross moline. Harvey 2361a (dies F/f); Mack 40h; SCBI 21 (Yorkshire), 1249 (same dies); North 873; SCBC 1278. Some ghosting. Richly toned. Near VF. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from C.J. Martin, August 1987.

1092.

NORMAN. Stephen. 1135-1154. AR Penny (19mm, 1.37 g, 7h). Voided Cross and Mullets type (BMC ii). London mint; Terri D, moneyer. Struck circa 1145-1150. Crowned bust facing slightly left, holding scepter / ม Ϳዞʼʼ[ዢ Ḧ] ዝ [Ḧ ɭn Ḧ ⌦]⎍n, voided cross; mullets in quarters. Mack 61f; SCBI –; North 878; SCBC 1280. Obverse off center. Toned. VF. ($400) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Ross King, January 1998.

1093. NORMAN. Stephen. 1135-1154. AR Penny (19mm, 1.36 g, 4h). Cross Pommée (Awbridge) type (BMC vii).

London mint; Alisandre, moneyer. Struck circa 1154-1158. Crowned bust facing slightly left, holding scepter / ม ¥⌦ዢ˨¥n[... Ḧ] ɭn Ḧ ⌦⎍n, voided cross within quatrefoil, with inward-facing fleur in each quarter. Allen, English 125 (dies LON:10/10); Mack 117b; SCBI –; North 881; SCBC 1282. Toned, minor edge ding. VF. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Mike Vosper, April 1998.

Very Rare Stephen Penny

1094. NORMAN. Stephen. 1135-1154. AR Penny (19mm, 1.00 g, 10h). Midland variant, Cross and Fleurs type (BMC iii). Northampton mint; Willelm, moneyer. Crowned facing bust / ม ዩዢ⌦⌦ዞ⌦ȵ Ḧ ɭn Ḧ nɭʼ, cross pattée with central annulet; lis, arising from inner circular border, in quarters. Mack 69 (same dies as illustration); SCBI –; EMC 2009.0374 (same dies); BMC 176 (same dies); North 896; SCBC 1300. Some porosity, off center. VF. Bold portrait. Very rare. ($2000) From the Allan Williams Collection. Ex St. James’s 35 (9 February 2016), lot 23.

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From the 1684 Catal Hoard Ex Archbishop Sharp

1095. NORMAN, Civil War. Stephen and Queen Matilda. Circa 1150-1153/4. AR Penny (19mm, 0.89 g). Two-Figure type, ‘York Group’ (Mack 5). York mint. [ม ˨Ϳዢ]ዞ ዞn[ዞˆ], Stephen and Matilda standing facing one another, holding between them long scepter fleurée / Cross fleurée over cross pommée in saltire; various ornaments around. Allen, York 85 (dies B/c, not examined) = Mack 220q = R. Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis or, the Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes, and Parts Adjacent in the West-Riding of the County of York (London. 1715), p. 351, no. 130 (this coin); SCBI 12 (Ashmolean), 282-4 (same obv. die); North 922; SCBC 1315. Chipped. Toned. VF. Very rare. ($2500) Ex Morton & Eden 91 (7 December 2017), lot 201; Ralph Thoresby (1658-1724); Archbishop Sharp (1644-1714); 1684 Catal (Cattal, near Knaresborough) Hoard.

Dr. John Sharp (1644-1714) was a clergyman who rose through the offices of the Church of England to become Archbishop of York in 1691.

Sharp started collecting coins in 1687 and focused his energies primarily on the issues of the British Isles, acquiring many highly important rarities. Sharp was in contact with several other leading numismatists of his age, including Ralph Thoresby, to whom he addressed his manuscript, Observations on the Coinage of England, published in 1785. The great 19th Century numismatist, Roger Ruding, regarded this work as, “the first systematic treatise ever composed on the subject.” On Sharp’s death, the collection was left to his son and was kept together for some 250 years by his descendants. In the words of the late Harry Manville, ‘Sharp pedigrees are among the oldest available in British numismatics.’

The discovery in the Gloucester archives of manuscripts written by both Archbishop Sharp and his son, Thomas Sharp, detailing an inventory of the Archbishop’s coins, has allowed some of them to be confidently pedigreed to this famous collection. The manuscript of Thomas Sharp further notes that this coin, with the legend “[...]E EN[...],” is “evidently the same described by Mr Thoresby n. 130” in his 1715 Ducatus Leodiensis, where it was noted as originating from the 1684 Catal Hoard.

1096

1097

1098

1096.

PLANTAGENET. Henry II. 1154-1189. AR Penny (20mm, 1.46 g, 6h). Cross-and-crosslets (‘Tealby’) coinage, class A2. Canterbury mint; Wiulf, moneyer. Struck 1158-circa 1163. Crowned facing bust, holding scepter / ม Ѿ[ዢ⎍⌦ዟ Ḧ ]ɭn Ḧ ù¥΋ɭ, cross pattée, with crosslet in angles. BMC 186-186a (same dies); North 952/2; SCBC 1337. Toned. VF. ($300) From the Maxwell Collection.

1097. PLANTAGENET. Henry II. 1154-1189. AR Penny (19mm, 1.37 g, 2h). Cross-and-crosslets (‘Tealby’) coinage, class A2. London mint; John, moneyer. Struck 1158-circa 1163. Crowned facing bust, holding scepter / [ม ዢɭH]¥n Ḧ ɭn Ḧ ⌦⎍n, cross pattée, with crosslet in angles. BMC 498-501; North 952/2; SCBC 1337. Toned, some weakness in legends. Good VF. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s. Ex R.C. Lockett (English Part I, 6 June 1955), lot 1186 (part of).

1098. PLANTAGENET. Henry II. 1154-1189. AR Penny (20mm, 1.33 g, 10h). Cross-and-crosslets (‘Tealby’) coinage, class C1. Oxford(?) mint; Adam, moneyer. Struck circa 1163-1167. Crowned facing bust, holding scepter / [ม ¥]ዝ¥ȓ Ḧ ɭn Ḧ [...], cross pattée, with crosslet in angles. Cf. BMC 686-691 (for moneyer); North 956; SCBC 1339. Slight ghosting. Good VF. Excellent portrait. ($750) Ex Spink 251 (27 March 2018), lot 342.

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1099 1100 1099.

PLANTAGENET. Henry II. 1154-1189. AR Penny (18mm, 1.23 g, 3h). Short Cross type, class Ia4. London mint; Randul, moneyer. Struck 1180. Crowned bust facing, holding scepter / Voided short cross; quatrefoil in each angle. Mass, Dies 124 (dies 23/68); SCBI 56 (Mass), 81 (same dies); North 962; SCBC 1343A. Toned, touch of porosity. Good VF. ($400) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 46 (24 June 1998), lot 1871.

1100.

PLANTAGENET. Richard I. 1189-1199. AR Penny (19mm, 1.43 g, 1h). Short Cross type, class IIIab1. London mint; Aimer, moneyer. In the name and types of Henry II, circa 1190-1194. Crowned bust facing, holding scepter / Voided short cross; quatrefoil in each angle. SCBI 56 (Mass), 771-3; North 967; SCBC 1347. VF. ($300) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 46 (24 June 1998), lot 1881.

1101.

PLANTAGENET. Edward I. 1272-1307. AR Groat (29mm, 5.37 g, 5h). New coinage, variety a.5. London (Tower) mint. Struck circa 1279. Crowned facing bust within double (plain and beaded) quadrilobe, cinquefoils flanking; flowers in spandrels / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. SCBI 39 (North), 2; North 1003; SCBC 1379F. Pierced and plugged with details re-engraved. Marks. Toned. Near VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Alexander Mann (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 29 October 1917), lot 203 (hammer £4/5/-).

1102. PLANTAGENET. Edward III. 1327-1377. AV Noble (34mm, 7.62 g, 4h). Fourth coinage, Treaty B period, Group b. Tower (London) mint. Struck 1361-1369. Edward standing facing in ship with bowsprit, holding sword and shield; ornaments –11–11, ropes 3/2, quatrefoils 4/4, lis 1-2-1 / Voided short cross potent over cross fleurée; in each angle, crown over lion passant over trefoil; at center, Ě within angled quadrilobe; all within polylobe, with trefoils in spandrels. Potter, Gold b; Lawrence 2/1 (for obv./rev.); Schneider 86; North 1232; SCBC 1503. Double struck on obverse. Toned. VF. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 737627 (August 2004).

1103.

PLANTAGENET. Edward III. 1327-1377. AR Groat (28mm, 4.70 g, 7h). Fourth coinage, Pre-treaty period, series E. London (Tower) mint. Struck 1354-1355. Crowned facing bust, with trefoil on breast; all within tressure of arches with trefoils at cusps / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. Lawrence 10 var. (legend variety not noted); North 1163; SCBC 1567.

Toned. VF. Rare variety with ED over retrograde ED in obverse legend. ($300) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from C.J. Martin, June 1988. Ex Gordon V. Doubleday (7 June 1972), lot 424 (part of); C.A. Whitton Collection.

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1104.

PLANTAGENET. Richard II. 1377-1399. AV Noble (34mm, 7.65 g, 2h). Type IB. Tower (London) mint. Richard standing facing in ship, holding sword and shield; annulet by sail; ornaments 1-1-1-1, ropes 3/1, quatrefoils 5/4 / Voided short cross potent over cross fleurée; in each angle, crown over lion passant over trefoil; at center, ˆ within quadrilobe; all within polylobe, with trefoils in spandrels. Schneider 128 (same dies); North 1302; SCBC 1654. Creased, lightly clipped, slightly granular surfaces. Bold portrait. VF. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 43 (11 October 2005), lot 2263.

1105.

PLANTAGENET. Richard II. 1377-1399. AR Groat (26mm, 4.38 g, 8h). Type II. London (Tower) mint. Crowned facing bust within tressure of arches with trefoils at cusps / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. North 1320b; SCBC 1679.

Some light edge smoothing. Good portrait and full name. Toned. Near VF. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Pegasi BBS 94 (7 August 1995), lot 350.

Henry IV Quarter Noble

1106.

LANCASTER. Henry IV. 1399-1413. AV Quarter Noble (21mm, 1.68 g, 4h). Light coinage. Tower (London) mint.

Struck 1412-1413. Coat-of-arms; lis above, slipped trefoil above annulet to either side / Cross fleurée; lis at center within angled quadrilobe and end of each crossbar; in each quarter, lion passant left over trefoil; all within tressure of arches. Cf. Schneider 212 (for type); North 1357; SCBC 1717. Slightly irregular flan. Toned. VF. Rare. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex St. James’s 16 (7 December 2010), lot 30 (hammer £2400).

1107. LANCASTER. Henry IV. 1399-1413. AR Penny (20mm, 1.01 g, 9h). Heavy coinage. York mint. Struck 13991412. Crowned facing bust; bust with broad face and round chin / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters, quatrefoil at center.

Harris, Dies p. 216 and pl. 19, Y1; Potter –; North 1351; SCBC 1722. Slight bend, a few field marks. Fine. Struck with a reworked obverse die of Richard II. Rare. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 81 (20 May 2009), lot 1393.

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1108.

LANCASTER. Henry IV. 1399-1413. AR Halfpenny (14mm, 0.54 g, 2h). Heavy coinage. London (Tower) mint.

Struck 1399-1412. Crowned facing bust / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. Withers III 1; Potter p. 126; North 1352; SCBC 1723. Find patina. Good portrait. Near VF. ($400) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Seaby.

While North and SCBC both refer to this as the “early small bust,” Withers notes that both the small and larger punches were in use during the reign of Richardv II.

1109. LANCASTER. Henry V. 1413-1422. AV Noble (32mm, 6.86 g, 10h). Class C. Tower (London) mint. Henry standing facing in ship, holding sword and shield; cinquefoil by arm; ornaments -11-11, ropes 3/2, quatrefoils 3/3, broken annulet on side of ship / Voided short cross potent over cross fleurée, pellets flanking top and bottom lis; in each angle, crown over lion passant over trefoil; quatrefoil in second quarter; at center, pellet and ƌ within quadrilobe; all within polylobe, with trefoils in spandrels. Cf. Schneider 228-9 (for type); North 1371; SCBC 1742. Lightly clipped. Near VF. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s. Ex 1966 Fishpool Hoard (Glendining’s, 17 October 1968), lot 25.

1110 1111 1110.

LANCASTER. Henry V. 1413-1422. AR Groat (26mm, 3.72 g, 8h). Class C. London (Tower) mint; im: pierced cross. Crowned bust facing within tressure of arches; lis at cusps, mullet on right shoulder / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. Potter type VIIc; North 1387b; SCBC 1765. Toned. Near VF. Struck on a broad flan. ($400) From the Maxwell Collection.

1111.

LANCASTER. Henry V. 1413-1422. AR Farthing (10mm, 0.22 g, 9h). London (Tower) mint. Crowned bust facing with neck / ýƩ⎍Ʃ ͿaS ǭɨN ĕ⎍N, long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. Withers III 2a var. (rev. legend); Potter p.

148; North 1413; SCBC 1798. Find patina. Some minor porosity. VF. Rare. An unusual engraver’s error with ǭɨN ĕ⎍N for ǭɨN ĕɨN. ($600) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (14 July 1999), lot 687.

1112.

LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AV Half Noble (28.5mm, 3.46 g, 1h). Annulet issue. Tower (London) mint. Struck 1422-circa 1430. Henry standing facing in ship, holding sword and shield; annulet to left of hand; ornaments: 1-11; quatrefoils: 3/3; f type 1 and N type 1 / Voided short cross potent over cross fleurée; in each angle, crown over lion passant over trefoil; at center, ƌ within angled quadrilobe; all within polylobe, with annulet and trefoils in spandrels. Whitton, Heavy 3b; Schneider 293 var. (rev. n type 1); North 1417; SCBC 1805. A few marks in field. Underlying luster. Good VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dix, Noonan, & Webb 79 (24 September 2008), lot 3869.

288

1113.

LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AR Penny (18mm, 0.94 g, 7h). Annulet/Rosette-mascle mule.

Calais mintl im: cross V. Struck 1430. Crowned facing bust; annulets flanking / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters, rosette in legend. Whitton, Heavy 3c; North 1432/1450 (for obv./rev.); SCBC 1845/1865 (same). Toned, slightly wavy flan. Near EF. Well struck. Rare. ($300)

1114 1115 1114.

LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AR Halfgroat (21mm, 1.90 g, 4h). Rosette-mascle issue. Calais mint; im: cross V. Struck 1430-1431. Crowned bust facing within tressure of arches; trefoils at cusps / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. Whitton, Heavy 18; MHG 5/2; North 1448; SCBC 1862. Toned. Good VF. Well struck on a full flan. ($300) Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 866825 (March 2010).

1115.

LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AR Halfgroat (23mm, 1.85 g, 4h). Rosette-mascle issue. Calais mint; im: cross IIIb/cross V. Struck 1430-1431. Crowned bust facing within tressure of arches; trefoils at cusps / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. Whitton, Heavy 23; MHG 10/2; North 1448; SCBC 1862. Toned. Good VF. Well struck on a broad flan. ($300)

1116 1117 1116.

LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AR Penny (19mm, 0.93 g, 10h). Rosette-mascle issue. Calais mint; im: cross IIIa. Struck 1430-1431. Crowned facing bust / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters, rosette in legend. Whitton, Heavy 7; North 1450; SCBC 1865. Toned. Good VF. ($300) 1117.

LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AR Penny (19mm, 0.93 g, 5h). Rosette-mascle issue. Calais mint; im: cross V. Struck 1430-1431. Crowned facing bust / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters, rosette in legend. Whitton, Heavy 6; North 1450; SCBC 1865. Thin edge crack. Toned. EF. ($400) Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 858325 (November 2009).

1118.

LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AR Penny (18mm, 0.90 g, 9h). Rosette-mascle issue. Durham mint; im: cross V; Thomas Langley, bishop. Struck 1430-1431. Crowned facing bust; star to upper left / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters; mascle in legend. Whitton, Heavy 1b; North 1467; SCBC 1869. Toned. VF. ($300) 289

1119.

LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AR Groat (26mm, 3.88 g, 1h). Pinecone-mascle issue. Calais mint; im: cross IIIb/cross V. Struck 1431-1432/3. Crowned bust facing within tressure of arches; trefoils at cusps / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. Whitton, Heavy 30a; North 1461; SCBC 1875. Lightly toned. Good VF. Well struck on a broad flan. ($400) Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 830511 (December 2008).

1120

1121

1120.

LANCASTER. Henry VI. First reign, 1422-1461. AR Halfgroat (22mm, 1.88 g, 5h). Pinecone-mascle issue. Calais mint; im: cross IIIb/cross V. Struck 1431-1432/3. Crowned bust facing within tressure of arches; trefoils at cusps / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. Whitton, Heavy –; MHG 3/1; North 1463; SCBC 1877. Good VF. Well struck on a broad flan. ($300) 1121. YORK. Edward IV. First reign, 1461-1470. AR Groat (27mm, 3.69 g, 2h). Heavy coinage, group III. Tower (London) mint; im: rose. Struck 1464. Crowned facing bust within tressure of arches with trefoils at cusps; quatrefoils at neck, trefoil on breast / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters; eye in inner legend. Blunt & Whitton type IIId; North 1532; SCBC 1972. Slightly double struck in parts. Toned. Good VF. ($400) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 46 (24 June 1998), lot 1948.

1122.

LANCASTER (Restored). Henry VI. Second reign, 1470-1471. AR Groat (25mm, 2.91 g, 3h). Tower (London) mint; im: Restoration cross. Crowned facing bust within tressure of arches with trefoils at cusps / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters.

Blunt & Whitton obv. type 6 / rev. type 6; North 1617; SCBC 2082. Some light marks. Toned. VF. Rare. ($1000) Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 867352 (April 2010); Spink 194 (26 March 2008), lot 647.

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1123.

YORK (Restored). Edward IV. Second reign, 1471-1483. AV Angel (27mm, 5.12 g, 5h). Tower (London) mint; im: pierced cross/pierced cross & pellet. Struck 1477-1480. Archangel Michael slaying dragon with spear topped by crosscrosslet / Ship bearing shield and cross; Ě and rose flanking cross. Blunt & Whitton mule XVIIIa/XVIIIb; cf. Schneider 464-5 (for type); North 1626; SCBC 2091. Minor edge mark. Toned. VF. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s.

1124.

YORK (Restored). Edward IV. Second reign, 1471-1483. AR Groat (26mm, 2.84 g, 10h). Tower (London) mint; im: pierced cross & pellet. Struck 1477-1480. Crowned facing bust within tressure of arches with trefoils at cusps / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. Blunt & Whitton type XVIIIb.4/6; North 1631; SCBC 2098. Richly toned. VF. ($250) From the Maxwell Collection.

Rare Edward IV / V Groat

1125.

YORK (Restored). Edward IV or V. 1483. AR Groat (25mm, 3.10 g, 10h). Tower (London) mint; im: halved sun & rose. Crowned facing bust within tressure of arches with trefoils at cusps; pellet below / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters.

Stewart, “The Dies of Edward V’s Silver Coins” in BNJ L (1980), die C; “The Groats of Edward V” in BNJ 53 (1983), die 7, no. 1 (this coin cited); North 1631 (Edward IV); SCBC 2146. Toned, light scratch on face, a few other light marks. VF. Very rare. ($2500) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 36 (5 December 1995), lot 1483; Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 649 (September 1972), no. H3230; Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 641 (January 1972), no. H2427 (rev. image swapped with H2418).

Edward V’s brief reign lasted from 9 April, when his father Edward IV died, to 26 June 1483, when he was deposed and replaced by his uncle, Richard III. The articles in British Numismatic Journal cited above attest that this groat type, with the halved sun and rose mintmark and a pellet below the bust, were struck during these 11 weeks and should thus be considered coins of Edward V. The 12-year old Edward and his younger brother, Richard, became the famous lost “Princes of the Tower” whose fate has never been firmly established, although they were most likely murdered on their uncle’s orders.

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1126. YORK (Restored). Richard III. 1483-1485. AR Groat (25mm, 2.93 g, 7h). Type 2b. Tower (London) mint; im: halved sun & rose 1. Struck 20 July 1483–June 1484. Crowned facing bust within tressure of arches / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. Winstanley 2.1 (this coin cited); MEG type 2b; North 1679; SCBC 2156. Toned, double struck on reverse, faint porosity, traces of red wax. VF. Rare obv. legend variety with DЄI. ($1500) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex R.C. Lockett (English Part III, 4 November 1958), lot 3181.

1127.

YORK (Restored). Richard III. 1483-1485. AR Groat (26mm, 2.83 g, 12h). Type 2b. Tower (London) mint; im: boar’s head 2. Struck 20 July 1483–June 1484. Crowned facing bust within tressure of arches / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters. Winstanley 6; MEG type 2b; North 1679; SCBC 2156. Slight double strike on reverse. Toned. Good Fine. Clear mintmark. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Coin Galleries.

1128. YORK (Restored). Richard III. 1483-1485. AR Penny (15mm, 0.58 g, 2h). York mint; im: rose; Archbishop Thomas Rotherman. Crowned facing bust; ˶ to left, key to right / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters; quatrefoil at center.

North 1686; SCBC 2167. Some weakness in portrait. Full flan. Toned. Good Fine. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (21 July 2004), lot 327.

1129. YORK (Restored). Richard III. 1483-1485. AR Penny (15mm, 0.72 g, 9h). Durham mint; im: lis; Bishop John Sherwood. Struck 1484-1485. Crowned facing bust; S on breast / Long cross pattée; trefoils in quarters; ĕ at center. North 1687; SCBC 2169. Toned. Good VF. Rare. An exceptional specimen struck on a broad flan. ($1500) Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CXVII.3 (July 2009), no. SP18, purchased from Spink 24, June 1977.

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1130.

TUDOR. Henry VII. 1485-1509. AV Angel (27mm, 5.14 g, 2h). Type IV. Tower (London) mint; im: greyhound head. Struck 1502-1504. Archangel Michael slaying dragon with spear topped by cross-crosslet / Ship bearing shield and cross; Һ and rose flanking cross. SCBI 23 (Ashmolean) 35/36 (same obv./rev. dies); Schneider 531 - same obv. die; North 1697; SCBC 2185. Weak on Angel’s legs and dragon. Some light marks. Otherwise toned. VF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CII.10 (December 1994), no. 6401.

1131.

TUDOR. Henry VII. 1485-1509. AV Half Angel (20mm, 2.58 g, 7h). Type V. Tower (London) mint; im: pheon.

Struck 1505-1509. Archangel Michael slaying dragon with spear topped by cross-crosslet / Ship bearing shield and cross; Һ and rose flanking cross. SCBI 23 (Ashmolean), 76/75 (same obv./rev. dies); Schneider 547/546 (same obv./rev. dies); North 1792; SCBC 2192. Weak in part. VF. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Andrew Wayne Collection (Triton IX, 11 January 2006), lot 2271; D.C. Baker (Spink 161, 14 November 2002), lot 36; Spink Numismatic Circular CVIII.2 (April 2000), no. 1435.

1132.

TUDOR. Henry VIII. 1509-1547. AV Angel (29mm, 5.15 g, 12h). First coinage. Tower (London) mint; im: crowned portcullis with chains. Struck 1509-1526. Archangel Michael slaying dragon with spear topped by cross-crosslet / Ship bearing shield and cross; Һ and rose flanking cross. Whitton p. 187, variant 2; Schneider 561-3 var. (legend stops); North 1760; SCBC 2265. Toned. VF. ($1500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Superior (31 May 1999), lot 49.

1133.

TUDOR. Henry VIII. 1509-1547. AV Half Sovereign (30mm, 6.20 g, 9h). Third coinage. Tower (London) mint; im: pellet in annulet. Struck 1544-1547. Henry enthroned facing, holding scepter and globus cruciger; rose below / Crowned coat-of-arms with dragon and lion supporters standing on crown. Whitton IIb, 2; Schneider 614; North 1827; SCBC 2294. A little weak on portrait. Toned. VF. Struck on a broad flan. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection.

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1134.

TUDOR. Henry VIII. 1509-1547. AR Testoon (31mm, 8.12 g, 5h). Third coinage. Southwark mint; im: S. Struck 1544-1547. Crowned and mantled facing bust / Crowned rose; crowned ƌ and ˊ flanking. Jacob dies O.8/R.7; Whitton 2; North 1842; SCBC 2367. Toned, traces of luster, softness on nose and in legend. VF. Rare. ($3000) Ex Mark Rasmussen FPL 27 (Spring 2015), no. C35; Spink Numismatic Circular C.10 (December 1992), no. 7477.

1135. TUDOR. Henry VIII. 1509-1547. AR Testoon (32mm, 7.04 g, 11h). Third coinage. Bristol mint; im: WS monogram (William Sharrington). Struck 1544-1547. Crowned and mantled facing bust / Crowned rose; crowned Һ R flanking. Whitton p. 320, 2; North 1843; SCBC 2368. Quadruple struck! Otherwise in unusually good metal. Toned.

Good VF. Rare. ($2000)

1136. TUDOR. Henry VIII. 1509-1547. AR Groat (27mm, 2.51 g, 6h). Third coinage. Tower (London) mint; im: lis.

Struck 1544-1547. Crowned and mantled first bust (Laker A) facing slightly right / Coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée with annulet in forks. Whitton p. 309, A.2; North 1844; SCBC 2369. Toned. VF. Attractive portrait. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Abbeygate Coins, December 1999.

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1137.

TUDOR. Henry VIII. 1509-1547. Cast AR Medal (40mm, 28.88 g, 7h). Head of the Church. 18th century casting after a post-1542 original. (lis) HENRICVS·’ 8 DEI · GRACIA ·· ANGLIE : FRANCI Z ·HIBERN · REX ·, crowned and mantled half-length bust facing slightly right, holding sword and globus cruciger / (lis) ANGLICE * Z · HIBERNICE : ECCLESIE : SVPREMVM CAPVT, coat-of-arms with lion and dragon supporters holding crown; HR below. MI 46/42; Eimer –. Cast. Near VF. Rare. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Dr. Bruno Mantegazza Collection (Spink 113, 5 March 1996), lot 1.

Greatly prized by collectors in the past who assumed it to be a silver Crown.

Ex Lockett & Clarke-Thornhill

1138.

TUDOR. Edward VI. 1547-1553. AV Half Sovereign (32mm, 6.11 g, 4h). First issue. Tower (London) mint; im: –/K. Struck in the name of Henry VIII, 1547-1551. HENRIC◊’ 8 ◊ DEI ◊ GRA’ AGL’ FRA◊’ Z ◊ HIB◊’ REX, Edward enthroned facing, holding scepter in left hand, globus cruciger in right; rose below / K IHS ◊ AVTEM ◊ TRANSIENS ◊ PER ◊ MEDIV◊’ ILLO’ IBAT ◊, crowned coat-of-arms with dragon and lion supporters standing on crown, K below. Whitton p. 88, 5; Schneider 656 (same obv. die); North 1865; SCBC 2392. Toned. VF. Well struck on a broad flan. A pleasing coin. ($4000) Ex J. Schuman 233 (28 March 1960), lot 1549; R.C. Lockett (English Part III, 4 November 1958), lot 3242; T. B. Clarke-Thornhill (Sotheby & Co., 24 May 1937), lot 62.

1139.

TUDOR. Edward VI. 1547-1553. AV Half Sovereign (31mm, 6.32 g, 5h). Third coinage. Southwark mint; im: E/E. Struck in the name of Henry VIII, 1547-1551. Edward enthroned facing, holding scepter and globus cruciger; rose below / Crowned coat-of-arms with dragon and lion supporters standing on crown; E below. Whitton p. 88, standard type; Schneider –; North 1827; SCBC 2394. Some edge marks. Lightly toned. VF. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Spink 196 (24 September 2008), lot 843.

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1140. TUDOR. Edward VI. 1547-1553. AR Groat (26mm, 2.51 g, 10h). Mule with a reverse of Henry VIII. Tower (London) mint; im: lis. Struck in the name of Henry VIII, 1547-1551. Crowned and mantled fourth bust (Laker F) facing slightly right / Coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée with annulets-in-pellets in forks. Whitton p. 309, mule 2; North 1871; SCBC 2403. Minor porosity. Bold portrait. Toned. VF. Very rare mule. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex R.A. Shuttlewood (Spink 151, 15 March 2001), lot 187; H. Webb (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 25 July 1895), lot 123 (part of).

1141 1142 1141.

TUDOR. Edward VI. 1547-1553. AV Half Sovereign (29.5mm, 4.85 g, 4h). Second period. Tower (London) mint; im: arrow. Struck 1549. Crowned and armored bust right / Crowned coat-of-arms; E R flanking. Potter, Coinage 2a; Schneider 672 var. (legend stops); North 1911; SCBC 2438. Creased. Some edge marks. Good Fine. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 69 (8 June 2005), lot 2142.

1142. TUDOR. Edward VI. 1547-1553. Base AR Shilling (30mm, 4.93 g, 12h). Second period, base silver issue.

Southwark mint; im: У. Dated 1550. Crowned and mantled fifth bust right / Coat-of-arms; E R flanking. Potter, Coinage 2a; North 1919/2; SCBC 2466B. Good metal. Toned. VF. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Stack’s (7 December 1989), lot 2668.

1143.

TUDOR. Edward VI. 1547-1553. AR Crown (41mm, 30.79 g, 3h). Third period, fine silver issue. Tower (London) mint; im: У. Dated 1551. Edward on horseback riding right / Coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée. Woodbridge A-7; North 1933; SCBC 2478. Toned. Near VF. Well struck. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Davissons 4 (18 November 1994), lot 236.

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1144.

TUDOR. Edward VI. 1547-1553. AR Shilling (33mm, 6.14 g, 9h). Third period, fine silver issue. Tower (London) mint; im: tun. Struck 1551-1553. Crowned and mantled bust facing slightly left; rose to left, XII to right / Coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée. North 1937; SCBC 2482. Small striking split and a few marks under rich old tone. Good VF. A handsome portrait piece. ($1000) Ex Succession Bernard (Poindessault & Burgan, 25 May 2018), lot 333.

1145.

TUDOR. Edward VI. 1547-1553. AR Shilling (33mm, 6.56 g, 9h). Third period, fine silver issue. Tower (London) mint; im: tun. Struck 1551-1553. Crowned and mantled bust facing slightly left; rose to left, XII to right / Coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée. North 1937; SCBC 2482. Toned. Good VF. Struck on a broad flan. ($1000)

1146.

TUDOR. Mary. 1554-1558. AR Groat (24mm, 1.92 g, 2h). Tower (London) mint; im: pomegranate. Crowned bust left / Crowned coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée. North 1960; SCBC 2492. Toned, some light marks. VF. Neatly struck on a round flan. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Abbeygate Coins, December 1999.

297

1147.

TUDOR. Philip & Mary. 1554-1558. AR Shilling (30mm, 6.05 g, 2h). Tower (London) mint. Confronted busts of Philip, armored, and Mary, veiled; crown above / Crowned coat-of-arms; X II (mark of value) flanking crown. North 1967; SCBC 2498. Full flan. Toned. Near VF. Variety with full titles. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection.

1148.

TUDOR. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. AV Halfcrown (17mm, 1.40 g, 2h). Second issue. Tower (London) mint; im: cross-crosslet. Struck 1560-1561. Crowned bust left, wearing ruff / Crowned coat-of-arms; E R flanking. Brown & Comber J5; Schneider 753; North 1996; SCBC 2524. Slightly double struck in parts, some marks. Toned. Good Fine. Rare. ($750) From the El Medina Collection.

1149 1150 1149.

TUDOR. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. AR Shilling (33mm, 6.06 g, 7h). Second issue. Tower (London) mint; im: crosscrosslet. Struck 1560-1561. Crowned bust 3C left, wearing ruff / Coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée. BCW CC-5Ai/CCb4; North 1985; SCBC 2555. Toned. VF. Excellent portrait on struck on a broad, round flan. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from J. P. Linzalone.

With old ticket in the hand of A.H. Baldwin (Eaglen D01B-1)

1150. TUDOR. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. AR Shilling (30mm, 6.16 g, 5h). Milled coinage, intermediate size. Tower (London) mint; im: star. Struck 1560-1561. Crowned bust left, wearing ruff / Coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée. Borden & Brown 16, dies O1/R2; North 2023; SCBC 2591. Toned. VF. ($1000) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from C.J. Martin, June 1987.

1151.

TUDOR. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. AR Sixpence (26mm, 3.11 g, 6h). Milled coinage. Tower (London) mint; im: star.

Dated 1564/3. Crowned bust left, wearing ruff; rose to right / Coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée. Borden & Brown 33 (dies O2/R2); North 2029; SCBC 2598. Toned. VF. Rare. ($500)

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1152.

STUART. James I. 1603-1625. AV Unite (37mm, 9.84 g, 3h). Second coinage, crown gold. Tower (London) mint; im: lis. Struck 1604-1605. Crowned and armored half-length second bust right, holding scepter and globus cruciger / Crowned coat-of-arms; I R flanking. Schneider 22; North 2083; SCBC 2618. Possibly ex mount. VF. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex St. James’s 6 (8 June 2007), lot 116.

1153. STUART. James I. 1603-1625. AV Unite (37mm, 10.07 g, 10h). Second coinage, crown gold. Tower (London) mint; im: lis. Struck 1604-1605. Crowned and armored half-length second bust right, holding scepter and globus cruciger / Crowned coat-of-arms; I R flanking. Schneider 22 (same dies); North 2083; SCBC 2618. Lustrous, small metal flaw by face.

Good VF. ($3000)

1154.

STUART. James I. 1603-1625. AV Laurel (35mm, 8.99 g, 2h). Third coinage, crown gold. Tower (London) mint; im: spur rowel. Struck 1619-1620. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed first bust left / Crowned coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée. Cf. Schneider 82 (for type); North 2111; SCBC 2637. Some weakness in portrait, edge marks at 12h, possibly exjewelry. VF. ($2000) From the James & Martha Robertson Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, 2011.

1155.

STUART. James I. 1603-1625. AV Laurel (35mm, 9.00 g, 2h). Third coinage, crown gold. Tower (London) mint; im: lis. Struck 1623-1624. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left (fourth head variety) / Crowned coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée. Schneider 86; North 2114; SCBC 2638C. Attractively toned with underlying luster, a few very light hairlines.

Good VF. ($3000) 299

1156 1157 1156.

STUART. James I. 1603-1625. AR Shilling (32mm, 6.07 g, 4h). First coinage. Tower (London) mint; im: thistle.

Struck 1603-1604. Crowned first bust right / Coat-of-arms. North 2072; SCBC 2645. Weak in parts. Toned. VF. Struck on a broad flan. ($400) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased December 1996.

1157. STUART. James I. 1603-1625. AR Shilling (30mm, 5.85 g, 6h). Second coinage. Tower (London) mint; im: coronet. Struck 1607-1609. Crowned fifth bust right with single-arch to crown / Coat-of-arms. North 2101; SCBC 2656.

Minor edge split, usual weakness in legends. Richly toned. Good VF. Pleasant surfaces and portrait. ($750)

1158.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AV Unite (34mm, 9.04 g, 4h). Group D. Tower (London) mint; im: anchor. Struck 1638-1639. Crowned and mantled 5th bust left; XX (mark of value) to right / Crowned coat-of-arms; crowned C R flanking.

Schneider, Tower Group D, Class 2a, 7; Brooker 100A (same obv. die); Schneider 157 (same obv. die); North 2153; SCBC 2692. A few stress marks in metal, edge clipped. VF. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s.

1159.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AV Unite (33mm, 8.78 g, 12h). Group G. Tower (London) mint; im: sun. Struck under Parliament, 1645-1646. Crowned and mantled seventh bust left; XX (mark of value) to right / Crowned coat-of-arms; crowned C R flanking. Schneider, Tower Group G, Class I; Brooker 123 (same dies); Schneider 170-1; North 2157; SCBC 2696. Mount removed. Good Fine. Very rare Parliamentary issue. ($2000)

1161 1160 1160. STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AV Crown (19.5mm, 2.21 g, 2h). Group B. Tower (London) mint; im: cross calvary. Struck 1625-1626. Crowned and mantled 2nd bust left; V (mark of value) to right / Crowned coat-of-arms. Schneider, Tower Group B, Class I; Brooker 188-9; Schneider 225; North 2181; SCBC 2711. Some earthen deposits, light scratches. Near VF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection.

1161.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AV Crown (19mm, 2.24 g, 9h). Group B. Tower (London) mint; im: anchor with small B. Struck 1638-1639. Crowned and mantled 3rd bust left; V (mark of value) to right / Crowned coat-of-arms. Schneider, Tower Group B, Class II; Brooker 195 var. (obv. legend); Schneider 231/232 (obv./rev.); North 2182; SCBC 2712. Slight double strike. VF. ($400) From the El Medina Collection.

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1162 1163 1162.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Shilling (31mm, 5.29 g, 2h). Group A. Tower (London) mint; im: lis. Struck 1625. Crowned 2nd bust left; XII (mark of value) to right / Coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée. Brooker 387/385 (same obv./ rev. dies); North 2216; SCBC 2782. A few very light scratches under tone. VF. Evenly struck on a broad flan. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection.

1163.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Shilling (31mm, 5.80 g, 2h). Group D. Tower (London) mint; im: portcullis.

Struck 1633-1634. Crowned and mantled fourth bust left; XII (mark of value) to right / Coat-of-arms; C R flanking. Brooker 479-83; North 2223; SCBC 2789. Toned, area of minor porosity. Good VF. ($400) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from C.J. Martin, June 1996. Ex B. R. Osborne (Glendining’s, 23 April 1991), lot 213; R. C. Lockett (English Part V, 17 October 1961), lot 4499 (part of).

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1164.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Shilling (31mm, 5.83 g, 7h). Group G. Tower (London) mint; im: sun. Struck under Parliament, 1645-1646. Crowned 7th bust left / Coat-of-arms over long cross moline. Brooker 564; North 2233; SCBC 2802. Minor double strike in reverse legend. Deep purple toning. VF. Struck on a broad flan. ($400) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from C.J. Martin, June 1996.

1165. STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Shilling (30mm, 6.04 g, 12h). Second milled (Nicholas Briot’s) issue.

Tower (London) mint; im: anchor. Struck 1638-1639. Crowned bust left; XII (mark of value) to right / Coat-of-arms over long cross moline. Brooker 727 (same dies); North 2305; SCBC 2859. Usual light adjustment marks. Rich cabinet toning.

Good VF. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Spink, December 1996.

1166 1167 1166. STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Halfcrown (35mm, 14.68 g, 12h). Type IV. York mint; im: lion passant.

Struck 1642-1644. Charles on horseback left, holding sword and reigns; EBOR below / Crowned coat-of-arms; crowned C R flanking. Brooker 1081 (same dies); North 2313; SCBC 2867. Slightly worn dies. Toned with some underlying luster. Near EF. ($1500) 1167.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Shilling (31mm, 6.20 g, 12h). Type IV. York mint; im: lion passant. Struck 1643-1644. Crowned bust left / Crowned coat-of-arms; EBOR below. Brooker 1094-5; North 2319; SCBC 2873. Toned, some deposits in legends, slightly off center. Good VF. ($600) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Spink, December 1996.

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1168. STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Halfcrown (34mm, 14.63 g, 6h). Aberystwyth mint; im: book. Struck 1638/9-1642. Charles on horseback left, holding sword and reigns; plume to right / Coat-of-arms surmounted by plume.

Morrieson, Aberystwyth A/1; Brooker 742 (this coin); North 2325; SCBC 2878. Toned. Near VF. A pleasant, well-made coin.

Rare. ($2500) Ex John Brooker Collection; Lord Smith of Marlow [Rodney Smith] Collection.

1169.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Crown (43mm, 30.29 g, 2h). Declaration type. Shrewsbury mint . Dated 1642.

Charles on horseback left, holding sword and reigns; plume to right / Declaration in two lines between two parallel lines; above, three plumes above ·V·; I642 below. Morrieson, Shrewsbury B/5; Brooker 809 (same dies); North 2370; SCBC 2926.

Toned. Near VF. Struck on a broad flan. ($2000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Warwick Collection (Dix, Noonan, & Webb 67, 28 September 2005), lot 331.

1170. STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Shilling (32mm, 6.18 g, 5h). Declaration type. Bristol mint. Dated 1644.

Crowned bust left; plume to left, XII (mark of value) to right / Declaration in three lines across field and within two parallel lines; three plumes above; 1644/BR below. Morrieson, Bristol C/4; Brooker 997 (same obv. die); North 2500; SCBC 3016.

Weakly struck at center of reverse. Toned. VF. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Spink, December 1996.

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High Grade Worcester Halfcrown

1171.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR Halfcrown (35mm, 14.91 g, 2h). Worcester mint; im: castle/–. Struck 16441645. (castle) CAROLVS : D’ G : MAG : BRIT : FRAN : ET : HIB REX, Charles on horseback left, holding sword and reigns; W below / CHRISTO : AVSPICE : REGNO :·, crowned coat-of-arms. Allen, Mints dies B/7; Brooker 1142 (same dies); North 2587; SCBC 3096. Lightly toned, minor edge mark. Near EF. The king and W mint mark particularly well struck. Very rare and with an excellent provenance. ($5000) Ex B. Dawson (Dix, Noonan, & Webb 157, 21 March 2019), lot 93, purchased from G. Hearn, 1969; Dr. E. Burstal (Glendining’s, 15 May 1968), lot 470; H.P. Hall (Part III, Glendining’s, intended for 26 May 1950), lot 213.

1172.

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. Pattern Æ Shilling or Medal (29mm, 7.80 g, 5h). By Briot. Struck 1628. Radiate and draped bust right / Lis-tipped scepter and trident crossed in saltire with ties as quadrelobe in angles; rose below, crowned C R flanking. MI 250/26; Eimer –; North 2675. Attractive brown surfaces. Good VF. Rare. ($500)

1173 1174 1173.

STUART, Siege money. Scarborough. 1644-1645. Forgery of an AR One Shilling Twopence (29mm, 7.70 g). Type III. Castle; S I D II below; all stamped on heptagonal piece of silver / Blank. Brooker –; cf. North 2652; cf. SCBC 3173 (for authentic piece). Toned. Good VF. A rarely encountered forgery of this desirable issue. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. ($500) Ex B. Reed; Seaby Forgery Cabinet; R.C. Carlyon-Britton (purchased en bloc by Seaby, circa 1958).

1174.

STUART, Siege money. Pontefract. 1648-1649. AR Shilling (29mm, 3.47 g, 12h). Type I. In the name of Charles I. Dated 1648. DVM : SPIRO : SPERO, crowned C·R / Castle gateway with flag; OBS to left, P C above, hand holding sword to right, I648 below. Brooker 1231 (same dies); North 2646; SCBC 3148. A few scratches. Fine. ($1500) From the Todd Hansen Collection; Ex Davissons 6 (29 February 1996), lot 306.

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Well Struck Pontefract Shilling

1175.

STUART, Siege money. Pontefract. 1648-1649. AR Shilling (30mm, 4.67 g, 12h). Type I. In the name of Charles II. Dated 1648. DVM : SPIRO : SPERO, crowned C·R / CAROLVS : SECVNDVS : 1648, castle gateway with flag; OBS to left, P C above, hand to right. Brooker 1234 (same dies); North 2648; SCBC 3150. Toned. Good VF. The reverse particularly well struck. ($6000) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (19 February 1998), lot 1264.

1176. COMMONWEALTH. Oliver Cromwell. Lord Protector, 1653-1658. AR Crown (39mm, 30.02 g, 6h). Dies by Simon. Blondeau’s mint, Drury House, London. Dated 1658/7. Laureate and draped bust left / Crowned garnished coat-ofarms. Lessen E12; ESC 10; North 2745; SCBC 3226. Toned, flan flaw, light scratch. VF. ($2500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XIX.3 (Third Quarter 1994), no. 728.

1177. COMMONWEALTH. Oliver Cromwell. Lord Protector, 1653-1658. AR Shilling (28mm, 5.98 g, 6h). Dies by Simon. Blondeau’s mint, Drury House, London. Dated 1658. Laureate and draped bust left / Crowned garnished coat-of-arms.

Lessen J28; ESC 1005; North 2745; SCBC 3228. Toned. Near VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Ross King.

1178. COMMONWEALTH. Oliver Cromwell. Lord Protector, 1653-1658. AR Shilling (28mm, 6.00 g, 6h). Dies by Simon. Blondeau’s mint, Drury House, London. Dated 1658. Laureate and draped bust left / Crowned garnished coat-of-arms.

Lessen J28; ESC 1005; North 2745; SCBC 3228. Some very light cabinet friction. Richly toned. EF. ($3000) From the Maxwell Collection.

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1179.

STUART. Charles II. 1660-1685. AR Shilling (31mm, 6.00 g, 10h). Hammered coinage, first issue. Tower (London) mint; im: crown. Struck 1660-1662. Crowned bust left / Coat-of-arms over long cross fleurée. North 2672; ESC 1009; SCBC 3308. Slight weakness on king’s shoulder. A few light marks under attractive old tone. Traces of luster. Near EF. ($2000) From the Maxwell Collection, purchased from Spink, December 1996.

1180.

STUART. Charles II. 1660-1685. AV 5 Guineas (36mm, 41.40 g, 6h). Tower (London) mint. Dually dated 1676 and RY vicesimo octavo. Laureate head right / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms with scepters in quarters; interlocked C monograms at center. MCE 13; SCBC 3328. A few small flan flaws. Fine. ($3000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Spink 171 (25 November 2004), lot 25.

1181.

STUART. Charles II. 1660-1685. AR Crown (40mm, 29.78 g, 12h). Tower (London) mint. Dated 1662. Laureate and draped bust right; rose below / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms with interlocking Cs in quarters; rayed Garter star at center. Broad tie-type CC.2; ESC 15; SCBC 3350A. Toned. VF. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 2990.

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1182.

STUART. James II. 1685-1688. AV Guinea (25mm, 8.23 g, 6h). Tower (London) mint. Dated 1687. Laureate head left / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms with scepters in angles. MCE 128; SCBC 3402. Toned. VF. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 107 (22 November 1994), lot 245.

1184 1183 1183.

STUART. James II. 1685-1688. AV Guinea (25mm, 7.97 g, 6h). Tower (London) mint. Dated 1688. Laureate head left / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms with scepters in angles. MCE 128; SCBC 3402. Toned. Fine. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Paul Davies.

1184.

STUART (ORANGE). William III & Mary. 1688-1694. AV Guinea (26mm, 8.30 g, 6h). Tower (London) mint.

Dated 1693. Jugate heads of William, laureate, and Mary right / Crowned coat-of-arms. MCE 157; SCBC 3426. Ex jewelry, sweated. Good Fine. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex St. James’s 3 (3 October 2005), lot 338.

1185 1186 1185.

STUART (ORANGE). William III & Mary. 1688-1694. AR Shilling (25mm, 5.97 g, 6h). Tower (London) mint.

Dated 1693. Jugate draped busts of William, laureate, and Mary right / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms with interlocking WMs in angles; arms of Nassau at center. ESC 1076; SCBC 3437. Toned. VF. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection.

1186. STUART (ORANGE). William III. 1694-1702. AV Guinea (25mm, 8.30 g, 5h). Tower (London) mint. Dated 1697. Laureate second bust right / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms with scepters in angles; arms of Nassau at center. MCE 178; SCBC 3460. Minor marks, areas of weak strike. VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s.

1187.

STUART (ORANGE). William III. 1694-1702. AR Halfcrown (34mm, 14.95 g, 6h). Tower (London) mint. Dually dated 1696 and RY octavo. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed first bust right / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms; arms of Nassau at center. ESC 534; SCBC 3475. Toned, faint adjustment marks. Near EF. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s.

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1188. STUART (ORANGE). William III. 1694-1702. AR Shilling (26mm, 5.97 g, 5h). Tower (London) mint. Dated 1700. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed fifth bust right / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms; arms of Nassau at center. ESC 1121; SCBC 3516. Lightly toned with underlying luster. AU. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection.

1189.

STUART. Anne. 1702-1714. AV Guinea (25mm, 7.98 g, 7h). Post-Union issue. Tower (London) mint. Dated 1713.

Draped bust left, with hair tied in fillet / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms with scepters in angles; rayed Garter star at center.

MCE 225; SCBC 3574. A few minor edge marks. Toned. VF. ($1000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 107 ( 22 November 1994), lot 270.

1190 1191 1190.

STUART. Anne. 1702-1714. AV Half Guinea (21mm, 4.20 g, 6h). Post-Union issue. Tower (London) mint. Dated 1714. Draped bust left, with hair tied in fillet / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms with scepters in angles; rayed Garter star at center. MCE 237; SCBC 3575. Attractive ruby toning, small area of weak strike. VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Spink 171 (25 November 2004), lot 54.

1191.

STUART. Anne. 1702-1714. AR Shilling (25mm, 5.95 g, 6h). Post-Union issue. Tower (London) mint. Dated 1708.

Draped third bust left, with hair tied in fillet / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms; rayed Garter star at center. ESC 1147; SCBC 3610. Toned. EF. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection.

1192.

HANOVER. George I. 1714-1727. AV Guinea (25mm, 8.35 g, 5h). Tower (London) mint. Dated 1720. Laureate fourth head right / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms with scepters in angles; rayed Garter star at center. MCE 252; SCBC 3631. Underlying luster, weak strike, edge knock. VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 40 (3 May 2005), lot 274.

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1193.

HANOVER. George I. 1714-1727. AR Crown (39mm, 29.93 g, 5h). South Seas Company issue. Tower (London) mint. Dually dated 1723 and RY decimo. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms with SS C in alternating angles; rayed Garter star at center. ESC 114; SCBC 3640. Contact marks. VF. ($750) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Wolfshead Gallery.

1194. HANOVER. George II. 1727-1760. AV Two Guineas (31mm, 16.54 g, 6h). Tower (London) mint. Dated 1739.

Laureate bust left / Crowned coat-of-arms. MCE 293; SCBC 3668. Toned, contact marks. Near VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection, purchased from Arnold Saslow.

1195. HANOVER. George III. 1760-1820. AR Shilling (25mm, 6.05 g, 6h). Early coinage. ‘Northumberland’ type.

Tower (London) mint. Dated 1763. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Crowned cruciform coats-of-arms around rayed Garter star. ESC 1214; SCBC 3742. Toned, a few light marks. Near EF. ($1000) From the Maxwell Collection.

1196.

HANOVER. George III. 1760-1820. AR Dollar (40mm, 26.92 g). Emergency issue. Struck 1804. Bust of George right in octagonal cartouche countermarked on a Mexican 8 Reales dated 1801 Mo FM. ESC 138; SCBC 3766. For host: BW 28.10; KM 109. Toned, old scratches. Good VF. ($750) From the Collection of an English Queen’s Counsel. Ex Baldwin’s FPL (Winter 2015-2016), no. BM067. Gift of Arthur H. Jellings of Owen & Jellings Ltd of Leeds to Rev. Moull, Golcar Parish Church, Huddserfield, Christmas 1965.

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1197.

HANOVER. George IV. 1820-1830. AV Two Pounds (28mm, 15.87 g, 6h). London mint. Dated 1823. Bare head left / St. George on horseback rearing right, holding reins and sword and slaying dragon to lower right. SCBC 3798. A few bag marks. Good VF. ($1000) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Dix, Noonan, & Webb 63 (7 October 2004), lot 533.

1198.

HANOVER. George IV. 1820-1830. AV Sovereign (22mm, 7.93 g, 6h). London mint. Dated 1826. Bare head left / Crowned coat-of-arms. Marsh 11; SCBC 3801. A few light marks. VF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection.

1199.

HANOVER. William IV. 1830-1837. AV Half Sovereign (19.5mm, 3.98 g, 5h). London mint. Dated 1837. Bare head right / Crowned coat-of-arms. Marsh 413; SCBC 3831. VF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection.

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HANOVER. William IV. 1830-1837. Proof AR Maundy Set. London mint. Dated 1831. All coins: Bare head right / Crowned denomination within wreath. ESC 2437; SCBC 3840. Toned, light deposits on fourpence and threepence. Proof.

Rare as a proof issue. ($1000) Ex G. W. K. Roberts Collection.

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1201. HANOVER. Victoria. 1837-1901. AV Sovereign (23mm, 7.98 g, 6h). Young head coinage. London mint. Dated 1854. Head left, hair tied in fillet; WW incuse / Crowned coat-of-arms within wreath. Marsh 37; SCBC 3852D. Some luster, a few light bag marks. EF. ($500) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Douro Cargo (Spink 118, 21 November 1996), lot 295.

1202. HANOVER. Victoria. 1837-1901. AV Five Pounds (36mm, 39.93 g, 12h). Jubilee coinage. London mint. Dated 1887. Crowned bust left / St. George on horseback rearing right, holding reins and sword and slaying dragon to lower right.

SCBC 3864. A few hairlines. EF. ($2000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 107 (22 November 1994), lot 333.

1203. HANOVER. Victoria. 1837-1901. Proof AR Crown (39.5mm, 27.40 g, 12h). Young head coinage, Gothic type.

London mint. Dually dated RY undecimo and mdcccxlvii (1847). Crowned Gothic bust left / Crowned cruciform coats-ofarms around central Garter Star; rose, thistle and shamrock in quarters composed of arches ending in lis. Edge: plain. ESC 291; Linecar & Stone 58; SCBC 3884. Toned, obverse field wiped, some light marks. EF. Rare. ($3000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Dr. B. Mantegazza (Spink 113, 5 March 1996), lot 123.

1204. HANOVER. Victoria. 1837-1901. AR Shilling (24mm, 5.67 g, 6h). Young head coinage. London mint. Dated 1839. Head left, with hair tied in fillet / Crowned denomination within wreath. ESC 1280; SCBC 3902. Lightly toned, lustrous.

UNC. ($750) From the Maxwell Collection.

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1205. SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA. Edward VII. 1901-1910. Matt Proof Set. London mint. Dated 1902. Includes: AV 5 Pounds // AV Sovereign // AV Half Sovereign // AR Crown // AR Halfcrown // AR Shilling // AR Sixpence // AR Groat // AR Threepence // AR Twopence // AR Penny. SCBC PS9. Light hairlines, sovereign lightly polished on obverse, some of the silver with uneven tone. Proof. In original case of issue. Thirteen (13) coins in lot. ($3000) From the El Medina Collection. Ex Spink 111 (21 November 1995), lot 263.

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1206. WINDSOR. George VI. 1936-1952. Proof AV Half Sovereign (19mm, 4.01 g, 12h). London mint. Dated 1937.

Bare head left / St. George on horseback rearing right, holding reins and sword and slaying dragon to lower right. W&R 442; Marsh 543A; SCBC 4077. A few minor marks. Proof. ($500) From the Todd Hansen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 1918.

The First Scottish Coin

1207.

SCOTLAND. David I. 1124-1153. AR Penny (21mm, 1.35 g, 1h). Quadrilateral on Cross Fleurée type of Henry I. Phase A. Carlisle mint; Erebald, moneyer. Struck 1136-early 1140s. ม ዝ²⎍ዢ[˸ ʼዞҟ], crowned bust left; lis-tipped scepter to left / ม ዞʼዞዛ²⌦ዝ[ Ḧ ɭn Ḧ ù²ʼ]ʼዝ Ḧ, quadrilateral with incurved sides and fleurs at limbs; all over cross fleurée. Mattinson & Cherry group A, fig. 3 (same dies); PAS SWYOR-A6B618 = EMC 2012.0162 (this coin); Burns –; SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) –; SCBC 5001. Crease, some porosity. Fine. Extremely rare. The first Scottish coin. ($3000) From the James & Martha Robertson Collection. Ex Spink 213 (27 June 2012), lot 489. Found near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, 2009.

1208. SCOTLAND. David II. 1329-1371. AR Halfpenny (16mm, 0.61 g, 7h). First coinage. Berwick(?) mint. Struck early 1350s(?). Crowned bust left; lis-tipped scepter to left / Long cross pattée; mullets in first and third quarters. H& dies D/a(? [unlisted combination]); Burns –; SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), –; SCBC 5081. A few light marks. VF. Rare. ($1000)

1209. SCOTLAND. Charles I. 1625-1649. AR 12 Shillings (32mm, 6.00 g, 6h). Third coinage, Falconer’s (first) issue, type IV. Edinburgh mint; im: F and thistle. Struck 1637-1642. Crowned, armored, and draped bust left; XII (mark of value) behind / Crowned coat-of-arms; crowned C R above pellets flanking shield; horizontal F and pellet above crown. Murray 4; Burns 44 (fig. 1020); cf. SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian) 1502-12 (for type); SCBC 5563. Toned, some light adjustment marks on reverse. VF. ($500) From the Maxwell Collection. Ex Glendining’s (9 April 1987), lot 198.

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1210. SCOTLAND. Charles II. 1649-1685. AR Four Merks (40mm, 26.33 g, 12h). First coinage, Type III, Falconer’s issue. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1675. Laureate, draped, and armored bust right; F and thistle below bust / Cruciform coats-ofarms around LIII/4 (mark of value); crowned monogram in quarters. Murray, Scottish 6; Burns p. 495; SCBC 5606. Toned, minor edge nick. Near VF. Very rare. The finest of only four examples of this date in CoinArchives. ($2500) Ex Dix, Noonan, & Webb 122 (2 April 2014), lot 582.

1211. SCOTLAND. Charles II. 1649-1685. AR Eighth Dollar (22mm, 3.23 g, 6h). Second coinage, Falconer’s issue.

Edinburgh mint. Dated 1677. Laureate and draped bust left; small F below bust / Cruciform coats-of-arms around interlocking Cs; thistles in quarters. Murray, Scottish 51; Burns 1 (fig. 1058); SCBC 5622. Richly toned, minor laminations below truncation. EF, rare thus. ($500)

1212.

SCOTLAND. William II (III of England). 1694-1702. AR 40 Shillings (35mm, 18.37 g, 6h). Edinburgh mint.

Dually dated 1697 and RY nono. Laureate and draped bust left / Crowned coat-of-arms. Burns 6; SCBC 5682. Toned with traces of underlying luster, minor marks and die flaws. Good VF. ($1000) Ex Morton & Eden 64 (5 June 2013), lot 562.

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1213. SCOTLAND, Countermarked coinage. Renfrewshire, Greenock. J. McK(elvie?) & Son. AR Four Shillings Sixpence (39mm, 27.01 g). Struck early 1820s-1827/8. J·MK & Son/ GREENOCK around 4/6, all within dentilled border on a Mexican 8 Reales dated 1821 Zs RG. For countermark: Manville p. 114, 58; For host: KM 111.5. Host Coin Fine, toned.

Countermark VF. ($1000) From the Collection of an English Queen’s Counsel. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XLI.1 (Summer 2016), no. 433581.

1214.

IRELAND, Hiberno-Norse. Sihtric III Olafsson. Circa 995-1036. AR Penny (19mm, 1.30 g, 7h). Phase I coinage, Long Cross type. Dublin mint; Faeremin, moneyer. Struck circa 1000-1010. Draped bust left; pellet behind / ม ዟ/®ʼዞዦዢ n ዦ∂ ዝӎዟ⌦, voided long cross, with triple crescent ends. Cf. O’S 6; SCBI 8 (BM), 21 (same rev. die); SCBC 6103. Deeply toned, hairline crack in center, some peck marks. Near EF. ($1000) From the Allan Williams Collection. Ex Davissons 8 (10 April 1997), lot 518.

1215. IRELAND, Hiberno-Norse. Phase IV. Circa 1055/60-1065. AR Penny (18mm, 0.63 g). ‘Scratched-Die’ coinage.

Helmeted facing bust with triple-strand moustache; trefoil of pellets on chin / Voided long cross, with triple crescent ends; double pellets, quatrefoil of pellets, ‘hand’ and ‘+’ in quarters. O’S 47 var. (symbols in rev. field); SCBI 8 (BM), 152/145 (same obv./rev. dies); SCBC 6136. Toned. VF. Rare. ($1500)

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1216. ANGLO-GALLIC. Edward the Black Prince. As Prince of Aquitaine, 1362-1372. AR Demi gros (24mm, 2.23 g, 7h). La Rochelle mint. Half-length figure of Edward right, wearing floral wreath, holding sword and raising hand in benediction; all within tressure of arches / Long cross pattée, trefoils in quarters. AGC 200 1/h-i; Elias 181a; SCBC 8131.

Toned. VF. ($300) From the Maxwell Collection.

1217. TOKENS, Sussex. Chichester. Dally & Son. AR Halfpenny Token (30mm, 11.75 g, 6h). Dated 1794. QUEEN ELIZABETH, crowned bust of Elizabeth I facing slightly right, wearing elaborate ruff and holding scepter / CHICHESTER HALFPENNY, Chichester Cross. Edge: PAYABLE AT DALLYS CHICHESTER. D&H 15. Toned with underlying luster.

Near EF. Rare. ($750) From the Colllection of an English Queen’s Counsel, purchased from Baldwin’s, January 2016. Ex Noble 100 (24 July 2012), lot 2199.

BRITISH MEDALS The Final Direct Male Descendent in the Jacobite Succession

1218. temp. HANOVER. Henry Benedict Stuart (Cardinal Duke of York). As King of Great Britain and Ireland in pretence, 1788-1807. AR Medal (53mm, 75.75 g, 12h). The Death of ‘Prince’ Charles. By G. Hamerani. Dated 1788 in Roman numerals. HEN · IX · MAG · BRIT · FR · ET · HIB · REX · FID · DEF · CARD · EP · TVSC ·, bust right, wearing zucchetto and mozzetta / NON · DESIDERIIS · HOMINVM · SED · VOLVNTATE · DEI (not by desire of mankind but rather by the will of God), Religion standing facing, head lowered right, holding Gospel book and long cross; to left, lion seated left, head lowered right in attitude of mourning; cardinal’s hat and crown to right; in background, view of St. Peter’s in Rome; AN · MDCCLXXXVIII in exergue. BHM 282; Eimer 823; Woolf 73:1c (dies O3/R1). Attractively toned with underlying luster, a few minor metal flaws. EF. ($500)

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Complete Mudie’s National Medal Set In Original Case 1219. HANOVER. temp. George IV. 1820-1830. Complete Set of 40 CU Medals in Original Case. Mudie’s National Medals Series. Edward Thomason manufactory, Birmingham. A complete set of 40 medals, housed in two removable blue velvet covered trays, each numbered with gilt tooled maroon leather rosette; all within a gilt tooled maroon leather library case (dimensions: 240mm x 300mm x 38mm), decorated with the Royal Cypher of George III and title, NATIONAL MEDALS, on front lid; ornate spine with title, SERIES OF MEDALS OF BRITISH VICTORIES. Also includes a specially bound reproduction of the 1820 original catalogue of the series, which was dedicated to George IV. Medals included are: 1. George III Dedication 1817.

21. Battle of Salamanca. British Army enters Madrid, 1812.

2. Settlement of the British at Bombay 1602; East India Co.’s Victory over the French 1804.

22. Battle of Vitoria, 1813.

3. Naval Victory of the 1st of June 1794.

4. Battle of Cape St. Vincent, 1791.

5. Battle of Camperdown, 1797.

6. Horatio Nelson Memorial, 1805.

7. Defence of Acre 1799.

8. Arrival of the English Army in Egypt, 1801.

9. Egypt Delivered, 1801.

10. Victory Honours of Scottish Regiments, 1815.

11. Royal Military College. Presentation of Colours, 1813.

23. Battle of the Pyrenees, 1813.

24. Battle of San Sebastian, 1813.

25. Surrender of Pamplona, 1813.

26. Battle of Toulouse, 1814.

27. Peace in Europe, 1814.

28. England gives Peace to the World, 1814.

29. Treaties of Paris, 1814.

30. Visit of the Allied Sovereigns to England, 1814.

31. English Army Re-Enters Hanover, 1814.

12. English Army Arrives in the Penninsula, 1808.

32. Flight of Napoleon from Elba; Declaration of the Congress of Vienna, 1815.

13. Battle of Vimiera. English Army enters Lisbon, 1808.

33. British Army in The Netherlands, 1815.

14. Death of Sir John Moore, 1809.

34. Charge of the British at Waterloo, 1815.

15. Passage of the Douro, 1809.

35. Battle of Waterloo, 1815.

16. Battle of Talavera, 1809.

36. British Army enters Paris, 1815.

17. English Army on the Tagus, 1810-1811.

37. Surrender of Napoleon, 1815.

18. Battle of Albuera, 1811.

38. Napoleon on St. Helena, 1815.

19. Capture of Badajoz, 1812.

39. Admiral Lord Exmouth, 1816.

20. Battle of Almarez, 1812.

40. Constitution given to the Ionian Islands, 1817.

BHM 1057; Eimer 1136. Typical wear with age, slight separation of library case. Medals EF to AU. An impressive early set of this important series of medals. ($4000) Ex Spink USA 340 (17 April 2018), lot 64.

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1220. WINDSOR. temp. Elizabeth II. 1952-present. AV Medal (57mm, 127.2Â g, 12h). The 900th Anniversary of Westminster Abbey. London mint. Dually dated 1065 and 1965. Busts of monarchs, churchmen, architects, and others related to Westminster Abbey: Edward the Confessor, Henry III, Elizabeth I, Henry Yevele (master mason), John Islip (abbot), Henry Purcell (organist and composer), Richard Busby (headmaster of Westminster School), Nicholas Hawksmoor (surveyor and architect), Arthur Stanley (Dean), and Eric Symes Abbott (Dean) / View of Westminster Abbey; to upper left, 900/ YEARS; in exergue, WESTMINSTER/ ABBEY. Edge; 1065-1965, no 565, and hallmarks. Eimer 2107. Lightly toned in parts. EF. Struck in 22 karat gold. In original case of issue. ($5000) From the El Medina Colletion, purchased from Spink.

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1221.

A Collection of Replica Wax Seals. One-hundred-eighty-three (183) pieces. Made by the Museum Casts Co., from originals in the Public Records Office, London. Includes seals from every English monarch from William the Conquerer to Victoria, as well as personal seals of several famous Englishman, Scottish monarchs, and American colonies and states. Two or more of each type included. All as made and intact, with replica string where appropriate. Most in individual canvas bags with tickets carrying a brief description. One-hundred-eighty-three (183) pieces in lot. ($2000) Seals of English Monarchs Edward the Confessor. 1042-1066 (2) William the Conqueror. 1066-1087 (5) William II Rufus. 1087-1100 (2) Henry I. 1100-1135 (2) Stephen. 1135-1154 (2) Matilda. 1141-1143 (2) Henry II. 1154-1189 (2) Richard I. 1189-1199 (12) John. 1199-1216 (2) Henry III. 1216-1272 (2) Edward I. 1272-1307 (2) Edward II. 1307-1327 (2) Edward III. 1327-1377 (4) Richard II. 1377-1399 (2) Henry IV. 1399-1413 (2) Henry V. 1413-1422 (2) Henry VI. 1422-1461 and 1470-1471 (2) Edward IV. 1471-1483 (2) Richard III. 1483-1485 (2) Henry VII. 1485-1509 (2) Henry VIII. 1509-1547 (6) Edward VI. 1547-1553 (2) Philip & Mary. 1553-1558 (2) Elizabeth I. 1558-1603 (12) James I. 1603-1625 (2) Charles I. 1625-1649 (4) Commonwealth of England. 1649-1660 (2) Oliver Cromwell. 1653-1658 (2) Charles II. 1660-1685 (2) James II. 1685-1688 (2) William & Mary. 1689-1694 (2) William III. 1694-1702 (2) Anne. 1702-1714 (2) George I. 1714-1727 (2) George II. 1727-1760 (2) George III. 1760-1820 (9) George IV. 1820-1830 (2) William IV. 1830-1837 (2) Victoria. 1837-1901 (2) Edward VII. 1901-1910 (2)

English Public & Personal Seals Thomas Becket. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1162-1170 (2) John de Warenne. Earl of Surrey, 1231-1304 (2) Geoffrey Chaucer. Circa 1340-1400 (2) Thomas de Beauchamp. Earl of Warwick, 1369-1401 (2) Richard II (Signet). King of England, 1377-1399 (2) Thomas Wolsey. Archbishop of York, 1514-1530 (2) Thomas Cranmer. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1533-1555 (2) Sir Robert Walpole. Prime Minister, 1721-1742 (2) Seal of the Admiralty. (2) Seal of the Mayoralty. (2) Scottish Seals Robert the Bruce. 1286-1292 (2) Mary. 1306-1329 (2) The Guardians of Scotland. 1542-1567 (2) Seals of the American Colonies Virginia. Early seal (2) Virginia. Under Anne, 1702-1714 (2) Carolina. Original 1653 (2) New Jersey. Original 1657 (2) Connecticut. Original 1746 (2) Florida. Under George III, 1760-1820 (2) Seals of the United States John Adams, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin. 1783 (2) Benjamin Franklin. 1783 (2) United States. 1783 (2) United States. 1828 (12) State of Maryland. 1798 (2) General Court of Virginia. 1787 (2)

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ELECTROTYPES & REPRODUCTIONS “Dekadrachm” by Carl Wilhelm Becker

1222. GREEK, Sicily. Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. 19th century AR “Dekadrachm” (36mm, 39.50 g, 6h).

Unsigned, but in the style of Kimon. After dies by Carl Wilhelm Becker, 1772-1830. Charioteer driving fast quadriga left, holding kentron and reins; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer; in exergue, a military harness, shield, greaves, cuirass, and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear / Head of Arethusa left, with hair in sakkos; four dolphins around.

Hill, Becker 25. Toned, numerous marks. Good VF. ($500) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Classical Numisamtic Group Electronic Auction 340 (3 December 2014), lot 587.

1223.

ROMAN IMPERIAL. Constantius I, as Caesar. 20th century Cast WM Medal – Multiple (40mm, 20.15 g, 12h).

Liberation of London. Electrotype of the now lost medal from the Arras Hoard, discovered in 1922. After original electrotype made by Étienne Bourgey in Paris, circa 1929. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Constantius on horseback right, holding spear, approaching London kneeling in supplication before city gate; below, galley sailing right. Cf. P. Bastien, Le Tresor de Beaurains (dit d’Arras), 218 (for original). With brass plating to represent original gold now toned, field marks, plating worn at places. Good VF. ($500) From the Toliver Besson Collection. Reportedly ex Roma E-Sale 43 (3 February 2018), lot 946.

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ANTIQUITIES Impressive Group of Luristan Æ Disc-Headed Pins

Details of Lot 1224 1224. Lot of seven (7) Luristan bronze disc-headed pins. 1000-650 BC. (17.9cm, 17.2cm, 16.8cm, 16.6cm, 15.8cm, 14.9cm, 13.9cm long). Various animal motifs and hunting scenes. Reverses incuse of obverse designs. Earthen green patinas to brown surfaces, some edge chips, otherwise intact. ($3000) 322

1225. Judaean bronze rectangular 20-gerah shekel weight. 8th-6th centuries BC. (15.5mm long x 9.5 wide, 12.15g).

Drill point on one face to left. The piece has a second face with an inscription in three lines in Hebrew, with the first line showing the symbol for gerah. Cf. Hendin Weights, 205 (for half weight in Gerah). Dark brown patina, some green, reddish earthen deposits. Minor chips, otherwise intact. ($2000)

1226 1227 1226.

Jewish bronze ring fragment. 4th-5th centuries CE. (oval ring head: 15x13.5mm, ring fragment: 22mm diameter, 5.47g). Menorah flanked by branch and shofar. Green patina, traces of red, some earthen encrustation. ($750) 1227.

Roman-Egyptian serpentine intaglio with two sides engraved. Gnostic Period, AD 1st-2nd centuries. (17x21mm, 2.00g). Thoth, Set, and Horus standing together, holding hands; Thoth facing right, the other two figures facing left. All set on a background matrix of Greek letters / Pseudo-inscription in four lines. Traces of earthen deposits. A few miniscule edge chips, otherwise well preserved. ($2000)

1228.

Roman-Egyptian serpentine amuletic intaglio with two faces. Gnostic Period, AD 1st-2nd centuries. (33.5x29mm, 13.53g). Greek legend encircles central figure of Anubis? standing facing, head left, right hand on hip, right hand extended; Greek letters around / KPIO/ KEΌA/ΛHC in three lines across field. Light roughness. A couple of edge chips, otherwise intact. ($500)

1229

1230

1229. Roman translucent brown chalcedony intaglio. Circa AD 1st-2nd centuries. (13x10mm, 0.55g). Diademed head of a woman left / Blank reverse. Artistically engraved with fine details. Well preserved. ($1000) 1230.

Roman carnelian intaglio. Circa AD 2nd-3rd centuries. (18x13mm, 1.15g). Laureate man, wearing military attire, standing facing, head right, holding vertical spear in right hand and shield set on ground in left / Blank reverse. Well-preserved with exceptional engraving. ($750) 323

1231.

Roman silver ring inset. Circa AD 4th century. (10x11.5mm, 2.01g). (retrograde P AETER NE), incuse confronted busts (of Helena and Constantine I?) / Blank reverse. Toned, scratch under tone, minor porosity, otherwise well preserved.

($500)

1232.

Roman silver appliqué. AD 2nd-3rd centuries. (14.5x14mm, 4.01g). Theater mask with grotesque smiling features / Blank reverse. Toned, traces of green deposits, and some shallow scratches. About as made. ($750)

1233.

Roman silver figure of Serapis. AD 2nd-3rd centuries. (39x27mm, 33.69g). Serapis facing, wearing modius atop his head and draped robes on squared base. Attractively toned, a few surface fissures, flaws, and fresh chips at base. ($5000)

1234. Byzantine gold oval amulet. Circa 6th-7th centuries. (26.5x15mm, 2.58g). Engraved with the incuse image of the archangel Michael, nimbate, holding spear in right hand and globe in left, painted black wings outstretched; + KEBOH ΘI ΓOv ΘOvH painted in black around (“Lord, Protect this wearer”). Suspension loop at top. Some scratches and marks, slightly wavy, earthen deposits, loop flattened. ($5000)

1235. Umayyad bronze cachet. 661-750 CE. (27mm high, 11x12mm at base, 9.33g). Rectangular, tapered body, terminating in a spherical finial, pierced for suspension, with loop attached. On face, one line of text in Kufic Arabic. Even dark brown patina with reddish earthen deposits. A scratch on tapered body, otherwise nicely preserved. ($750)

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The El Medina Collection

Electronic Auction 479 8th to 21st October 2020

A special, single vendor e-sale This diverse collection was formed over many years by a distinguished individual who had a passion for history, in particular, the history of his native Malta. Ranging from ancient to modern times, the collection encompasses the coins issued by the many peoples and civilizations that settled this beautiful island located at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. The collector sought to acquire as many as possible of the coins featured in Emmanuel Azzopardi’s Malta: the History of the Coinage published in 1993. Of particular note in the El Medina collection is the selection of the coins struck by the Knights of St. John during their long occupation of the island.

Including: Issues of Magna Graecia & Carthage Roman Republican, Imperial & Byzantine Coins of the Fatimid Caliphate & other Islamic Dynasties An extensive offering of gold Tari issues of Sicily A good selection of Italian States Gold Sovereigns from the Douro Cargo An array of coins of the Knights of St. John Various World Gold

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