Electronic Auction 362
Date: 2015-10-28 00:00:00
Lots: 519
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APULIA, Venusia. Circa 210-200 BC. Æ Uncia (18mm, 5.02 g, 5h). 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. VF, dark green-brown patina, some roughness, cleaning marks.Ex Classical Numismatic Group 60 (22 May 2002), lot 45.
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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 325-280 BC. AR Hemilitron (8mm, 0.38 g, 12h). Cockle shell / Dolphin right; uncertain symbol or monogram below. HN Italy 980. VF, toned, some porosity.
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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 280-272 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 6.55 g, 3h). The Dioskouroi riding left; monogram above, ΣΩΔ-A-M-O-Σ below / Phalanthos, holding two spears, shield, and Nike, who crowns him with wreath, riding dolphin left; ΠY to left, waves below. Vlasto 773 (same dies); HN Italy 1011. Near EF, darkly toned.Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions XVIII (3 December 1991), lot 13.
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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 280-272 BC. AR Nomos (19.5mm, 6.60 g, 6h). Youth on horseback right, crowning self; ΣΩ to left, ΞAΛO and Ionic capital below / Phalanthos riding dolphin left, holding aphlaston and distaff; ANO to right. Vlasto 803; HN Italy 1014. Good VF, toned, flan flaw on obverse.
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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 272-240 BC. AR Nomos (20.5mm, 6.34 g, 4h). Nude youth crowning horse he rides left; ΣY to right, ΛYKI/NOΣ below / Phalanthos, preparing to throw trident left, astride dolphin left; to right, owl standing left, head facing. Vlasto 836–41; HN Italy 1025. Good VF, toned, a little die wear.
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CALABRIA, Tarentum. Circa 272-240 BC. AR Nomos (19mm, 6.38 g, 10h). Warrior on horseback right, holding shield and spear; ΔI behind, [AΠOΛ/ΛΩNIOΣ below] / Phalanthos, holding spear over shoulder, drapery around left arm, astride dolphin left; [to left, Nike flying right, crowning him with wreath]; waves below. Vlasto 894; HN Italy 1038. VF, toned, off center.
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LUCANIA, Herakleia. Circa 432-420 BC. AR Diobol (11mm, 1.02 g, 12h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Lion standing right. Van Keuren 25; HN Italy 1358. VF, toned, some roughness.
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SICILY, Akragas. Circa 450/46-439 BC. AR Litra (10mm, 0.64 g, 6h). Eagle standing left on Ionic capital / Crab; ΛI (mark of value) below. HGC 2, 121; SNG ANS 990 (same rev. die). Good VF, darkly toned, some find patina remaining.From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Tkalec (19 February 2001), lot 23; Schweizerische Kreditanstalt FPL 31 (1980), no. 11; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 406 (November/December 1978), no. 16.
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SICILY, Entella. Punic issues. Circa 320/15-300 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.27 g, 11h). Head of Arethousa left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace; four dolphins around / Head of horse left; palm tree to right, 'MMḤNT (in Punic) below. Jenkins, Punic 155; HGC 2, 284. VF, toned, some die wear, area of weak strike, scuffs and nicks on obverse.
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SICILY, Naxos. Circa 415-403 BC. AR Litra (12mm, 0.56 g, 1h). Wreathed head of Dionysos right / Grape bunch on vine. Cahn 144 (V87/R115); Campana 29; HGC 2, 976. Near VF, toned, roughness, irregular flan.From the Continental Collection.
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SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Litra (13mm, 0.62 g, 3h). Struck circa 466-460 BC. Head of Arethousa right, wearing pearl tainia / Octopus. Boehringer Series XIIIa; HGC 2, 1375. Good VF, flan broken with some loss, porous.
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SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.29 g, 7h). Struck circa 450 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath held in both hands; in exergue, ketos right / Head of Arethusa right, hair in thin band, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace; four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XV, 508 (V268/R360); HGC 2, 1311; SNG ANS 161 (same dies); BMC 81 (same dies); Jameson 764 (same dies). VF, toned, minor die flaw on reverse.Ex Stack's (24 April 2008), lot 2046; Classical Numismatic Group 25 (24 March 1993), lot 110.
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SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.11 g, 1h). Struck circa 430-420 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in both, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning charioteer with open wreath / Head of Arethusa right, wearing necklace, hair bound by four bands; four dolphins around. Boehringer Series XXII, 673 (V338/R460); HGC 2, 1320; Boston MFA 393 = Warren 347 (same dies). Good VF, lightly toned, usual irregular flan for issue, graffito (Σ) in field on reverse.
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SICILY, Syracuse. Second Democracy. 466-405 BC. Æ Hemilitron (14.5mm, 3.72 g, 5h). Struck circa 405 BC. Head of Arethousa left, hair in sphendone; grain ear(?) to right / Wheel of four spokes; dolphins in lower quarters. Holloway, Further, Series 3; CNS 21; HGC 2, 1479. Near VF, dark brown surfaces, some green encrustation, irregular flan.
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SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. Æ Drachm (31mm, 32.06 g, 12h). Struck circa 405-367 BC. Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet decorated with wreath / Sea-star between two dolphins. CNS 62; HGC 2, 1436. Good VF, dark green patina, some smoothing and light tooling.
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SICILY, Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy. 344-317 BC. Æ (14mm, 3.02 g, 1h). Head of Arethousa facing slightly left / Forepart of Pegasos right. CNS 92; HGC 2, 1506. Near VF, rough dark green patina.
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SICILY, Syracuse. Hiketas II. 287-278 BC. Æ (23.5mm, 11.52 g, 12h). Wreathed head of Kore left; grain ear to right / Nike driving biga right; star above. BAR Issue 38; CNS 123; HGC 2, 1446. Near VF, brown surfaces.
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SICILY, Syracuse. temp. Hieron II. 216-215/4 BC. AR 1 1/2 Litrai – Quarter Drachm (12mm, 1.05 g, 12h). Struck in the name of the Syrakosioi. Officina K. Head of Artemis right; bow and quiver over shoulder / Owl standing right, head facing; K to left. CCO 308 (D2/R2); BAR Issue 70; HGC 2, 1424. VF, toned. Very rare.
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THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Late 5th-4th centuries BC. AR Drachm (13mm, 2.85 g, 1h). Facing gorgoneion / Upright anchor; A to left, crayfish to right. Topalov, Apollonia 45; SNG BM Black Sea 160-1; SNG Copenhagen 457. 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 175-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (37.5mm, 16.80 g, 12h). 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; monogram to inner left, BY on throne. Marinescu Issue 117, 323 (O139/R311); cf. Müller 172 (stater). VF, dark iridescent tone, polished.
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THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 225-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.58 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Dioskourida(s), magistrate. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Corinthian helmet right; ΔIOΣKOYPIΔA in exergue. Karayotov I 109 (O39/R105); Topalov, Messambria 13; Price 1004. VF, lightly toned, die shift on obverse, area of flat strike on reverse.