Electronic Auction 346
Date: 2015-03-11 00:00:00
Lots: 712
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SICILY, Tyrrhenoi. 354/3-344 BC. Æ Litra (30.5mm, 31.00 g, 11h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Athena standing left, holding spear and shield; M to right. Castrizio series I, 1; Campana 1; CNS 1; HGC 2, 1657. Good VF, dark green-brown patina, some smoothing and tooling. Rare.
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CARTHAGE. Circa 300-264 BC. Æ Dishekel (28mm, 15.53 g, 4h). Wreathed head of Tanit left, wearing triple-pendant earring / Head of horse right; star to upper right, kerykeion to lower right. MAA 58h; Müller, Afrique 299; SNG Copenhagen 198 var. (two kerykeia). Near VF, brown patina with light green earthen highlights, minor flat strike on reverse. Rare.
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SKYTHIA, Geto-Dacians. Koson. Mid 1st century BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.38 g, 11h). Roman consul accompanied by two lictors advancing left; monogram to left / Eagle standing left on sceptre, holding wreath. Iliescu 1; RPC I 1701A; BMC Thrace p. 208, 1. VF, bent flan.
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SKYTHIA, Geto-Dacians. Koson. Mid 1st century BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.42 g, 12h). Roman consul accompanied by two lictors advancing left / Eagle standing left on sceptre, holding wreath. Iliescu 2; RPC I 1701B; BMC Thrace p. 208, 2. VF, typical crude strike. off center.
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SKYTHIA, Olbia. Circa 400-380 BC. Cast Æ (36.5mm, 21.72 g, 12h). Facing gorgoneion / Sea eagle flying left, wings raised, holding in its talons a dolphin left. Frolova & Abramzon 195; Anokhin 185; SNG BM Black Sea 398; SNG Stancomb 346. VF, brown surfaces.
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SKYTHIA, Olbia. Circa 160-150 BC. Æ (14.5mm, 3.00 g, 12h). Head of Artemis right; c/m: helmeted head right within incuse circle / Quiver; EI (PH monogram) BA below. Frolova & Abramzon 1994–2002; Anokhin 497; SNG BM Black Sea 639. VF, dark brown surfaces.
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SKYTHIA, Olbia. Mid 1st century AD. Æ (19mm, 4.73 g, 1h). Laureate head of Zeus right; scepter to left, [thunderbolt to right]; c/m: winged kerykeion within rectangular incuse / Eagle standing left, wings spread; ΠA monogram to left. Frolova & Abramzon 2224 (with c/m); Anokhin 521; RPC I 1946. VF, dark brown surfaces.
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THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Late 5th-4th centuries BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 2.85 g, 6h). Facing gorgoneion; spiral ornament / Upright anchor; A to left, crayfish to right. Topalov, Apollonia 45; SNG BM Black Sea 160-1. Good VF.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 (10.5mm, 1.23 g, 7h). 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, Chersonesos. Circa 386-338 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 2.54 g). Forepart of lion right, head reverted / Quadripartite incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters; pellets in opposite sunken quarters. BMC 8-9; McClean 4056; Dewing 1301; SNG Copenhagen 824-6. Good VF, three small edge cuts.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, Chersonesos. Circa 386-338 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 2.42 g). Forepart of lion right, head reverted / Quadripartite incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters; pellet and wreath in opposite sunken quarters. BMC 14; McClean 4076-7; SNG Copenhagen 843. Good VF, small edge cut.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, Chersonesos. Circa 386-338 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 2.32 g). Forepart of lion right, head reverted / Quadripartite incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters; pellet to left of E and grain ear in opposite sunken quarters. BMC –; McClean 4101; Weber 2429; SNG Copenhagen –. Good VF, small test cut on edge.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, Chersonesos. Circa 386-338 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 2.24 g). Forepart of lion right, head reverted / Quadripartite incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters; ΘE (or shield and E?) and bunch of grapes in opposite sunken quarters. Apparently unpublished variety, but cf. Weber 2425 and SNG Fitzilliam 464 for a similar symbol described as a shield. Good VF, small edge cut.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, Chersonesos. Circa 386-338 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14mm, 2.20 g). Forepart of lion right, head reverted / Quadripartite incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters; pellet to left of VE monogram and lizard in opposite sunken quarters. BMC –; McClean 4117; Weber 2415; SNG Copenhagen 830. Good VF, small edge cut.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, Odessos. Circa 225-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.87 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Eupro–, magistrate. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ' below throne, EU∏ro in exergue. Topalov, Odesos 59 var. (monogram below throne); AMNG I 2140 var. (same); Price 1174 var. (same); CNG 78, lot 366 (same dies). EF, slight die shift on obverse.
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THRACE, Odessos. Circa 280-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.74 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, AΣ above monogram. Topalov, Odesos 23; Price 1158 var. (additional control below throne); SNG Saroglos 484. VF, toned.
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KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.75 g, 2h). Uncertain mint. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; to inner left, large forepart of lion left. Cf. Thompson 23 and 40 (for type); cf. Müller 37 (for type). Near VF, minor double strike on reverse. Rare.Both Thompson 23 (Sestos) and 40 (Lampsakos) have this same control mark on their reverse, but the lions there are depicted quite small, and the obverse style is markedly different from the present issue. In the ANS photofile, Seyrig had one example, from the same dies as this coin, which he placed under an uncertain mint.
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KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.94 g, 2h). Pella mint. Struck 286/5-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; monogram to inner left, K in exergue. Thompson 252; Müller 473. VF, lightly toned, a hint of porosity, light cleaning scratches.
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THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Odrysai. Circa 187-72 BC. Æ (18mm, 4.51 g, 12h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Bull standing left on club; [O]ΔPOΣ[ΩN] above. Peykov A5050; Youroukova 105; SNG BMC Black Sea 333. VF, green patina.
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THRACO-MACEDONIAN REGION, Uncertain. 6th-5th centuries BC. AR Drachm(?) (11mm, 3.61 g). Three tunnies(?) / Quadripartite incuse square. Schwabacher, Contribution 3; CH VIII, Hoard 37, pl. IV, 5; A. Tsintsifos, Perix Pangaion Epeiros, The dawn of coinage, Part I, p. 110, 12 (this coin; Galepsos). VF, toned, a few deposits and some roughness. Extremely rare.Ex Hauck & Aufhäuser 19 (21 March 2006), lot 25.
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THRACO-MACEDONIAN REGION, Uncertain. 5th century BC. AR Tetartemorion (5mm, 0.24 g). Primate crouching left / Pellet or shield within incuse square with slightly rounded corners. Tzamalis 67. Good VF, a hint of porosity. A rare and popular type.