Electronic Auction 359
Date: 2015-09-09 00:00:00
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IBERIA, Titiakos. Early 1st century BC. Æ Unit (22.5mm, 8.66 g, 11h). Bare male head right; Iberian ti below / Warrior, holding spear, on horseback right. ACIP 1897; SNG BM Spain 1074–5. EF, glossy dark green patina.
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CAMPANIA, Suessa Aurunca. Circa 265-240 BC. Æ (19mm, 7.17 g, 1h). Head of Mercury left, wearing petasos / Herakles strangling the Nemean Lion; club between Herakles' legs. Sambon 870; HN Italy 448. VF, dark green patina, minor roughness, a couple small pits. Rare.
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ISLANDS off SICILY, Kossura. 2nd century BC. Æ (20mm, 4.76 g, 11h). 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 / Punic 'YRNM in laurel wreath with berries at top. CNS 1; SNG Copenhagen 449–50. Fine, brown patina with dark green hues in the fields.
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ISLANDS off SICILY, Melita. 218-175 BC. Æ (17.5mm, 2.96 g, 5h). Veiled head of female right, wearing stephanos / Head of ram right; Punic 'NN below. CNS 4; SNG Copenhagen 460. Near VF, rough red-brown patina, slightly off center.
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ISLANDS off SICILY, Melita. 150-146 BC. Æ (20mm, 4.90 g, 11h). Veiled head of female left / Tripod. CNS 12; SNG Copenhagen 467–8. Near VF, rough red, brown, and green patina, light mark on obverse.
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ISLANDS off SICILY, Melita. 150-146 BC. Æ (15mm, 2.92 g, 8h). Veiled head of female right / Kithara. CNS 13; SNG Copenhagen 469–70. Near VF, brown patina.
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CARTHAGE, Second Punic War. Circa 220-215 BC. Æ Trishekel (30mm, 17.26 g, 1h). 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. Good VF, dark gray-brown surfaces with touches of red, some surface roughness on the reverse.
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CARTHAGE, Second Punic War. Circa 220-215 BC. Æ Trishekel (31mm, 21.24 g, 1h). 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, dark gray-brown surfaces, some scattered pitting.
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CARTHAGE, Second Punic War. Circa 220-215 BC. Æ Trishekel (31mm, 18.76 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, dark gray-brown surfaces, scratches and some scattered pitting.
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THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Late 5th-4th centuries BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 2.83 g, 12h). Facing gorgoneion / 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, Byzantion. Circa 387/6-340 BC. AR Drachm (15.5mm, 3.68 g). Bull standing left on dolphin left; retrograde B to lower left / Quadripartite incuse square with stippled quarters. Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion, Period II.2, Obv. Group VI; SNG BM Black Sea 8–11 var. (obv. control mark). Good VF, find patina.
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THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 387/6-340 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 3.72 g). Bull standing left on dolphin left; monogram to lower left / Quadripartite incuse square with stippled quarters. Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion, Period II.2, Obv. Group VII; SNG BM Black Sea 8–11 var. (obv. control mark). VF, find patina.
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THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 387/6-340 BC. AR Hemidrachm (12mm, 1.77 g, 7h). Forepart of bull standing left [on dolphin left]; [monogram to lower left?] / Ornate trident head within circular incuse. Cf. Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion, Period II.3, Obv. Groups I–II and IV–XXII ; cf. SNG BM Black Sea 12 and 15–20. VF, find patina, obverse off center.
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THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 340-320 BC. AR Fifth Siglos (13mm, 2.52 g). Bull standing left [on dolphin left] / Quadripartite incuse square of mill sail pattern. Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion, Period I.2; SNG BM Black Sea 36–41. VF, toned.
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THRACE, Chersonesos. Circa 386-338 BC. AR Hemidrachm (12.5mm, 2.18 g). Forepart of lion right, head reverted / Quadripartite incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters; pellet over AΓ monogram and [uncertain control] in opposite sunken quarters. Cf. McClean 4089–95; cf. SNG Copenhagen 826–7 and 832. VF, toned, some porosity.
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ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 140-110 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33.5mm, 16.92 g, 12h). Wreathed head of young Dionysos right / Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club, lion skin draped over left arm; M to inner left. Prokopov, Silberprägung, Group X, unlisted dies; Le Rider, Thasiennes 51; HGC 6, 358. Good VF, toned, a few marks on reverse.
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MACEDON, Akanthos. Circa 470-390 BC. AR Tetrobol (15mm, 2.29 g). Forepart of bull left, head reverted / Quadripartite incuse square with granulated recesses. SNG ANS 30-2. Good VF.
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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.44 g, 1h). In the name of Alexander III. Miletos mint. Struck under Asandros, circa 323-319 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; monogram in left field, labrys below right wing. Price 2114; ADM I Series VII. Fine, heavy circulation marks.
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KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21.5mm, 17.05 g, 2h). In the name and types of Alexander III. 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 in left field; below throne, AI monogram, above strut, ΠP monogram below. Price 3857. Near EF, lightly toned, compact flan.
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MACEDON (Roman Protectorate), Republican period. First Meris. Circa 167-149 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 16.89 g, 12h). Amphipolis mint. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder, in the center of a Macedonian shield / Club; monogram and MAKEΔONΩN above, ΠPΩTHΣ and two monograms below; all within oak wreath, thunderbolt to left. Prokopov, Silver 489 (O98/R382); SNG Copenhagen 1314. Good VF, toned, die break on obverse.
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ISLANDS off ILLYRIA, Issa. Circa 330-320 BC. Æ (25mm, 15.51 g, 5h). Youthful head of the Hero Ionios left; IONIOΣ to left, along forehead (barely visible) / Head of lion right. J. Brunšmid, Die Inschriften und Münzen der griechischen Städte Dalmatiens (Vienna, 1898), p. 61, 6; F. Imhoof-Blumer, "Griechische Münzen aus dem Museum in Klagenfurt und anderen Sammlungen" in NZ 16 (1884), 69; otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Near VF, dark brown patina, overstruck on issue of Pharos, of head of Zeus/standing goat type (portions of each visible). Rare, but of the 30 pieces known to P. Visonà, only two are not in a public collection.For another example from this series, but with a slightly different obverse type, see P. Visonà, "Monete greche d'Illiria nella collezione del civico museo di storia ed arte di Trieste" in RIN 111 (2010), 6. This article also contains details on the current state of research on the coinage of Issa, which has been slightly modified in P. Visonà, "Škudljivac Redux. New Data on IGCH 418-420" in Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu 45.1 (2013). [Our thanks to P. Visonà for identifying the undertype, providing the dates of issue, and the rarity.]