Electronic Auction 345

Date: 2015-02-25 00:00:00

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CARTHAGE. Circa 290-270 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 7.24 g, 12h). Wreathed head of Tanit left / Horse standing right. Jenkins & Lewis Group VI; MAA 13. Near VF, toned, ex-jewelry.From Group SGF.
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CARTHAGE, Second Punic War. Circa 220-215 BC. Æ Trishekel (31mm, 18.53 g, 12h). Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears and single-pendant earring / Horse standing right; palm tree in background to left. MAA 84; Müller, Afrique 147; SNG Copenhagen 344. Good VF, gray-brown patina, rough patch on obverse.
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CARTHAGE, Second Punic War. Circa 220-215 BC. Æ Trishekel (30mm, 17.05 g, 12h). Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears and single-pendant earring / Horse standing right; palm tree in background to left, Punic B to right. MAA 84a; Müller, Afrique 150; SNG Copenhagen 340. Good VF, gray-brown patina, reverse die scratches.
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CARTHAGE, Second Punic War. Circa 220-215 BC. Æ Trishekel (30mm, 19.15 g, 12h). Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears and single-pendant earring / Horse standing right; palm tree in background to left, ligate Punic Ṭ and Š below. MAA 84b; Müller, Afrique 154; SNG Copenhagen 341–3. VF, gray-brown patina, minor pitting.
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SKYTHIA, Geto-Dacians. Koson. Mid 1st century BC. AV Stater (19.5mm, 8.39 g, 12h). Roman consul accompanied by two lictors; monogram to left / Eagle standing left on sceptre, holding wreath. Iliescu 1; RPC I 1701; BMC Thrace p. 208, 2. EF, lustrous.From the LJH Collection, purchased from Robert Rutherford, July 2003.
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SKYTHIA, Geto-Dacians. Koson. Mid 1st century BC. AV Stater (18.5mm, 8.54 g, 12h). Roman consul accompanied by two lictors; monogram to left / Eagle standing left on sceptre, holding wreath. Iliescu 1; RPC I 1701; BMC Thrace p. 208, 2. Near EF, minor edge split.From Group SGF.
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MOESIA, Istros. 4th century BC. AR Drachm (19.5mm, 5.79 g). Facing male heads, the right inverted / Sea eagle left, grasping dolphin with talons; monogram below. AMNG I 417; SNG BM Black Sea 246. VF, toned.From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 15 (30 October 2000), lot 60729.
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MOESIA, Istros. 4th century BC. AR Drachm (18.5mm, 5.26 g). Facing male heads, the left inverted / Sea eagle left, grasping dolphin with talons; monogram below. AMNG I 421; SNG BM Black Sea 254–5. EF, toned, underlying luster.From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 718230 (February 2000).
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MOESIA, Kallatis. 3rd-2nd centuries BC. Æ (16.5mm, 3.23 g, 12h). Laureate head of Zeus right / Club and bow in bowcase. AMNG I 276; SNG BM Black Sea –; SNG Copenhagen 180. VF, attractive green patina. Rare.Ex Freeman & Sear 5 (14 May 1999), lot 84.
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THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Late 5th-4th centuries BC. AR Drachm (13mm, 4.22 g). Anchor; crayfish to right / Swastika within incuse. Topalov, Apollonia 9; SNG BM Black Sea 148. VF, uneven tone.Ex Daniel Koppersmith Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 311, 25 September 2013), lot 460; Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 268 (16 November 2011), lot 4.Around 610 BC, Ionian Greeks from Miletos established an important outpost on the western Black Sea coast. Originally called Antheia, and located on a natural peninsula and three nearby islands, the city quickly became a prosperous trading post by exporting copper, honey, grain, and timber, while importing wine, salt, textiles, and pottery for resale to the inland Thracians. The city's key trading partners at the time included fellow-commercial centers Miletos, Athens, Lesbos, Chios, and Rhodes.Prosperity soon enabled Antheia to expand and develop as an important cultural metropolis. An important temple to Apollo was constructed within the city in the late 5th century BC. For 500 talents, it commissioned the Greek sculptor Kalamis (of Boeotia) to cast a 13 ton, 10 meter high, bronze statue of Apollo for the new temple (Strabo VII.6.1). So popular was this temple of Apollo, that the city was now renamed Apollonia in its honor. In 72 BC, during his war against the Thracian Bessi, the proconsul of Macedon, Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (cos. 73 BC), sacked the city and had the statue transported to Rome, where it was displayed on the Capitol (Pliny, NH XXXIV.18; Strabo VII.6.1).The 5th and 4th century BC coinage of Apollonia Pontika reflects that city's origins: commercial wealth and maritime power. The gorgon was a popular apotropaic device, seen as warding off evil; thus a number of ancient Greek cities adopted it as a coin design. The anchor and the crayfish attest to the city's reliance on maritime commerce for its economy, and the anchor depicted on these coins is actually one of the first anchors of modern design rendered in Greek art.
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THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Late 5th-4th centuries BC. AR Hemiobol (6mm, 0.39 g). Anchor; A to left, four pellets below lower crossbar / Swastika within incuse. Cf. Topalov, Apollonia 17 and 19; SNG BM Black Sea –. VF, toned. Very rare.From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 249 (part of).Around 610 BC, Ionian Greeks from Miletos established an important outpost on the western Black Sea coast. Originally called Antheia, and located on a natural peninsula and three nearby islands, the city quickly became a prosperous trading post by exporting copper, honey, grain, and timber, while importing wine, salt, textiles, and pottery for resale to the inland Thracians. The city's key trading partners at the time included fellow-commercial centers Miletos, Athens, Lesbos, Chios, and Rhodes.Prosperity soon enabled Antheia to expand and develop as an important cultural metropolis. An important temple to Apollo was constructed within the city in the late 5th century BC. For 500 talents, it commissioned the Greek sculptor Kalamis (of Boeotia) to cast a 13 ton, 10 meter high, bronze statue of Apollo for the new temple (Strabo VII.6.1). So popular was this temple of Apollo, that the city was now renamed Apollonia in its honor. In 72 BC, during his war against the Thracian Bessi, the proconsul of Macedon, Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (cos. 73 BC), sacked the city and had the statue transported to Rome, where it was displayed on the Capitol (Pliny, NH XXXIV.18; Strabo VII.6.1).The 5th and 4th century BC coinage of Apollonia Pontika reflects that city's origins: commercial wealth and maritime power. The gorgon was a popular apotropaic device, seen as warding off evil; thus a number of ancient Greek cities adopted it as a coin design. The anchor and the crayfish attest to the city's reliance on maritime commerce for its economy, and the anchor depicted on these coins is actually one of the first anchors of modern design rendered in Greek art.
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THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Late 5th-4th centuries BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 3.34 g, 6h). Anchor; crawfish to right / Gorgoneion. Topalov, Apollonia 38; SNG BM Black Sea 150–1. Good VF, toned, minor porosity.From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 249 (part of).Around 610 BC, Ionian Greeks from Miletos established an important outpost on the western Black Sea coast. Originally called Antheia, and located on a natural peninsula and three nearby islands, the city quickly became a prosperous trading post by exporting copper, honey, grain, and timber, while importing wine, salt, textiles, and pottery for resale to the inland Thracians. The city's key trading partners at the time included fellow-commercial centers Miletos, Athens, Lesbos, Chios, and Rhodes.Prosperity soon enabled Antheia to expand and develop as an important cultural metropolis. An important temple to Apollo was constructed within the city in the late 5th century BC. For 500 talents, it commissioned the Greek sculptor Kalamis (of Boeotia) to cast a 13 ton, 10 meter high, bronze statue of Apollo for the new temple (Strabo VII.6.1). So popular was this temple of Apollo, that the city was now renamed Apollonia in its honor. In 72 BC, during his war against the Thracian Bessi, the proconsul of Macedon, Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (cos. 73 BC), sacked the city and had the statue transported to Rome, where it was displayed on the Capitol (Pliny, NH XXXIV.18; Strabo VII.6.1).The 5th and 4th century BC coinage of Apollonia Pontika reflects that city's origins: commercial wealth and maritime power. The gorgon was a popular apotropaic device, seen as warding off evil; thus a number of ancient Greek cities adopted it as a coin design. The anchor and the crayfish attest to the city's reliance on maritime commerce for its economy, and the anchor depicted on these coins is actually one of the first anchors of modern design rendered in Greek art.
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THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Late 5th-4th centuries BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 2.80 g, 5h). Facing gorgoneion / Upright anchor; crayfish to left, A to right. Topalov, Apollonia 45; SNG BM Black Sea 160-1 var. (symbols reversed). Good VF, some marks on obverse, a few light scratches.Around 610 BC, Ionian Greeks from Miletos established an important outpost on the western Black Sea coast. Originally called Antheia, and located on a natural peninsula and three nearby islands, the city quickly became a prosperous trading post by exporting copper, honey, grain, and timber, while importing wine, salt, textiles, and pottery for resale to the inland Thracians. The city's key trading partners at the time included fellow-commercial centers Miletos, Athens, Lesbos, Chios, and Rhodes.Prosperity soon enabled Antheia to expand and develop as an important cultural metropolis. An important temple to Apollo was constructed within the city in the late 5th century BC. For 500 talents, it commissioned the Greek sculptor Kalamis (of Boeotia) to cast a 13 ton, 10 meter high, bronze statue of Apollo for the new temple (Strabo VII.6.1). So popular was this temple of Apollo, that the city was now renamed Apollonia in its honor. In 72 BC, during his war against the Thracian Bessi, the proconsul of Macedon, Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (cos. 73 BC), sacked the city and had the statue transported to Rome, where it was displayed on the Capitol (Pliny, NH XXXIV.18; Strabo VII.6.1).The 5th and 4th century BC coinage of Apollonia Pontika reflects that city's origins: commercial wealth and maritime power. The gorgon was a popular apotropaic device, seen as warding off evil; thus a number of ancient Greek cities adopted it as a coin design. The anchor and the crayfish attest to the city's reliance on maritime commerce for its economy, and the anchor depicted on these coins is actually one of the first anchors of modern design rendered in Greek art.
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THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Late 5th-4th centuries BC. AR Diobol (11mm, 1.25 g, 12h). Laureate head of Apollo facing / Upright anchor; A to left, crayfish to right. Topalov, Apollonia 56; SNG BM Black Sea 167 corr. (obv. type). EF, lightly toned.
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THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 340-320 BC. AR Siglos (17mm, 5.26 g). Heifer standing left on dolphin left / Incuse punch of mill-sail pattern. SNG BM Black Sea 21–8. Good VF, lightly toned.From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 751099 (April 2007).
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THRACE, Chersonesos. Circa 386-338 BC. AR Hemidrachm (12mm, 2.34 g, 9h). Forepart of lion right, head left / Quadripartite incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters; VE monogram to right of pellet and lizard in opposite sunken quarters. BMC –; McClean 4117; Weber 2415; SNG Copenhagen 830. VF, toned.Like many other Greek city-states, the city of Chersonesos was built on a site from which it could exploit the military or economic advantages of its location. Located on a peninsula extending from Europe into the Aegean on the west and the Dardanelles on the east, its name derives from the ancient Greek word for peninsula. Little is known about this city, apart from its coinage. Two cities grew up nearby. Of the one, Agora (Malagra?), little is known. The other, called Kallipolis, or "Beautiful City," was made famous, first as the first foothold of the Ottoman advance into Europe, and later as Gallipoli, the site of the famous ANZAC invasion of 1916.Both these issues and the roughly contemporary hemidrachms of Parion in Mysia are routinely found with small test cuts on the edge, placed by merchants to ensure that the coin was not plated.
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THRACE, Mesambria. 4th century BC. AR Diobol (11mm, 1.22 g). Helmet facing / Ethnic within spokes of wheel; radiating lines around. Karayotov I 39–140; Topalov, Messambria 9; SNG BM Black Sea 268–71. EF, toned, some die wear on obverse.
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THRACE, Mesambria. 4th century BC. AR Diobol (10mm, 1.24 g). Helmet facing / Ethnic within spokes of wheel; radiating lines around. Karayotov I 39–140; Topalov, Messambria 9; SNG BM Black Sea 268–71. VF, toned, some granularity.From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 287 (26 September 2012), lot 59.
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ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 480-463 BC. AR Stater (20.5mm, 8.54 g). Satyr advancing right, carrying off protesting nymph / Quadripartite incuse square. Le Rider, Thasiennes 5; HGC 6, 331. Good VF, toned, light porosity.From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 711729 (March 1999).
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KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. As Satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetrobol (14mm, 2.37 g, 11h). In the name and types of Philip II of Macedon. Amphipolis mint. Struck under Kassander, circa 315-305 BC. Head of Apollo right, wearing tainia / Rider on horseback right; below, ΛY above forepart of lion right; in exergue, spearhead right. Thompson 1 = SNG ANS 829 (Philip II) = Price P5A; Müller –; AMNG –. Good VF, toned, minor die shift on reverse. Very rare.From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 88 (14 September 2011), lot 63; Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 270.
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KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. Æ Unit (20.5mm, 5.47 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Thrace or Macedon. Helmeted head of Athena right / Lion running right; spear head below. Müller 61; SNG Copenhagen 1149. Good VF, dark green patina with some light earthen deposits.From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 269 (30 November 2011), lot 23.