Triton XIX Sessions 1 - 2
Date: 2016-01-05 00:00:00
Lots: 235
Total starting: $ 1,188,180.00
Total realized: $ 2,225,425.00 (+87.30%)
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Diocletian.
AD 284-305. AV Aureus (19mm, 5.83 g, 6h). Rome mint, 1st officina. Struck AD 294. DIOCLETI ANVS AVG, laureate head right / IOVI CO NSE R VAT AVGG, Jupiter standing facing, head left, holding thunderbolt in right hand and scepter in left; PROM. RIC VI –; Calicó 4473; Depeyrot 9/1; Biaggi –. Near EF, lustrous.
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Probus.
AD 276-282. AV Aureus (20mm, 5.21 g, 6h). Rome mint. 6th emission, AD 281/2. IMP PROB VS P F AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left / VICTORIOS O SEMPER, Probus standing left, in military dress, holding scepter, between four captives. RIC V 143; Pink VI/1, p. 59, 42; Bastien,
Monnaie
, p. 59, i; Calicó 4237 (no illustration); Biaggi –. Superb EF, full mint luster. Extremely rare, only one example in CoinArchives of this reverse type - see CNG 58 (19 September 2001), lot 1313.
Probus spent the first several years of his reign fighting off invaders from the north and east, and suppressing internal revolts from several of his field commanders. The most pressing concern at the time of Probus' accession was the invasions of the Franks in the north and Germanic tribes (including the Vandals and Burgundians) in the center and south. It took Probus two years (277-278) to defeat these tribes and restore the Roman frontier on the Rhine and Upper Danube. In 279, he turned his attention eastward, defeating the Getae on the Lower Danube, and then crossed into Asia Minor to suppress a band of robbers led by Lydius the Isaurian. Next came the suppression of a revolt in upper Egypt led by a Nubian tribe, the Blemmyae. Lastly, came the revolts of Bonosus, Proculus, and Saturninus, each of whom either died in battle or was betrayed by his troops. Finally, in 281 Probus returned to Rome to celebrate his many victories with a triumph held toward the end of the year. Accompanying this triumph were lavish games and gladiatorial contests, as well as a large donative. This aureus, celebrating the "Always Victorius" Probus, was part of that donative.
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Claudius II Gothicus.
AD 268-270. Æ Medallion (37mm, 32.04 g, 6h). Rome mint. IMP CAES CLAVDIVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / MONETA AVG, the three Monetae standing facing, heads left, each holding cornucopia in their left hand, scale in their right above a stack of coins at their feet. Gnecchi II 3, pl. CXVII, 2 (same obv. die); Grueber 237; Froehner p. 234; Tocci 108, pl. LII, 73 (same rev. die); Dressel –; Toynbee pl. XLVII, 1 (same rev. die). Good VF, brown patina, traces of original gilding, light smoothing in fields. Very rare.
Ex Triton XI (8 January 2008), lot 981; Lanz 121 (22 November 2004), lot 581.
The reverse of this medallion depicts the
tres Monetae
, female personifications of the three metals of gold, silver, and bronze, and commemorates the attempt of Claudius II to reform Roman currency. When Claudius II took the throne on the death of Gallienus in 268 AD, the Roman Empire had reached a low point. In addition to the numerous internal and external rebellions, the economy was in a state of near-collapse. While gold aurei still continued to be struck in order to pay the army, silver denarii and antoniniani, as well as the earlier large bronze denominations, had disappeared completely. In their place, near-billon antoniniani had become the medium of daily exchange. These too, however, were being reduced in size and silver content. Claudius II seems to have planned a reform of the currency, and he also began minting a wide variety of reverse types which emphasized traditional divine protection and renewal of Roman power. Unfortunately, the early death of Claudius delayed the anticipated monetary reformation, which his successor, Aurelian, would carry through.
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Postumus.
Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Æ Double Sestertius (29mm, 19.30 g, 6h). Treveri (Trier) mint. 3rd bronze emission, AD 261. IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / FIDES M-ILITVM, Fides, draped, standing facing, head left, holding signum with each hand. RIC V 123; Mairat 189; Bastien,
Postume
77; Banti 12. Good VF, dark brown patina with touches of green and red.
Ex Peus 403 (27 April 2011), lot 978.
The weight for this issue varies considerably. Bastien lists specimens that range from 15.35 to 34.05 grams.
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Gallienus.
AD 253-268. Æ Medallion (34.5mm, 27.99 g, 7h). Rome mint. 6th–11th emissions, AD 261-268. GALLIENVS PIVS FEL AVG, bearded head right, wearing lion skin headdress / MONETA AVG, the
Tres Monetae
, each standing left on ground line, holding scales in right hand and cradling cornucopia in left arm; at feet of each to left, a heap of coins. Gnecchi 20; MIR 36, 754k; Banti 36 (this coin illustrated); Cohen 645; Mazzini 645 (this coin). VF, dark green-brown patina, areas of roughness, traces of prior gilding. Very rare.
Ex Erich von Schulthess-Rechberg Collection (Hess-Leu 17, 23 March 1961), lot 355; Giuseppe Mazzini Collection, 645.
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Trebonianus Gallus.
AD 251-253. AV Binio (23mm, 4.81 g, 12h). Rome mint, 6th officina. 1st emission, struck late AD 251. IMP CAE C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PAX AVGG, Pax, draped, standing facing, head left, holding branch with her right hand and transverse scepter with her left. RIC IV –; Calicó 3338a (illustrating Münzen und Medaillen AG 44, lot 104); cf. Biaggi 1408 (same obv. die). EF, lustrous, light scratch on reverse. Very rare.
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Trajan Decius.
AD 249-251. AV Aureus in contemporary mount (23mm, 7.68 g, 1h). Rome mint. Struck AD 249-251. IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PANNONIAE, the two Pannoniae standing facing, heads left and right, clasping inner hands, both holding signa with their outer hands. RIC IV 22; Calicó 3297 corr. (Pannonia on right does hold a transverse signum); Biaggi 1396. For comparable pieces as ancient jewelry, see Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Inv. 36.9.1; Benaki Museum, Athens, Inv. 1640. EF, some minor obverse die rust, underlying luster. Very rare.
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Otacilia Severa.
Augusta, AD 244-249. AV Aureus (21mm, 4.55 g, 6h). Rome mint. 2nd emission, AD 245. MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane / PVDICITIA AVG, Pudicitia seated left, drawing veil with right hand, holding scepter in left. RIC IV 1231; Bland,
Gold
, 18i var. (OS 4/ – [unlisted rev. die]); Calicó 3268 (same obv. die as illustration); Biaggi –. EF, light scuff on neck. Lustrous surfaces. Rare issue, only 10 cited by Bland in his recent die study.
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Philip I.
AD 244-249. AV Aureus (20mm, 4.26 g, 11h). Rome mint. 1st emission, AD 244. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS PIVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / LAET FVNDATA, Laetitia standing left, holding wreath in right hand, rudder in left. RIC IV 35a; Bland,
Gold
, 3 var. (dies PI 07/– [obv. die for issue 4, rev. die unlisted]); Calicó 3249 (R4); Biaggi 1379. Near EF, tiny flaw below eye. Very rare issue, only six examples cited in Bland’s recent die study.
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Gordian III.
AD 238-244. AV Aureus (20mm, 5.15 g, 6h). Rome mint, 5th officina. Special emission, AD 241. IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P IIII COS II P P, Apollo, naked to waist, seated left, holding olive branch in right hand and resting left elbow on lyre set on seat. RIC IV 102; Calicó 3221a; Hunter –; Biaggi 1366. Good VF, lightly toned, very minor obverse marks.
Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 67, 17 October 2012), lot 363 (HSA 1001.1.22111).
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Balbinus.
AD 238. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 18.11 g, 1h). Rome mint. Special inaugural emission. IMP CAES D CAEL BALBINVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / LIBERALITAS AVGVSTORVM, S C across field, Liberalitas, draped, standing facing, head left, holding abacus in right hand and cradling cornucopia with left arm, fold of drapery over left arm. RIC IV 15; BMCRE 2-3; Banti 2. EF, natural dark green patina with touches of red. Nice sharp edges on this sestertius. Wonderful portrait.
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Gordian II.
AD 238. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.84 g, 11h). Rome mint. IMP M ANT GORDIANVS AFR AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTO-RIA AVGG, Victory advancing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling palm frond with left arm. RIC IV 2; BMCRE 28; RSC 12. EF, toned, small flan crack.
From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Stack’s (9 December 1992), lot 3329; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s New York, 21 June 1990), lot 793.
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Gordian I.
AD 238. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.57 g, 7h). Rome mint. IMP M ANT GORDIANVS AFR AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SECVRITAS AVGG, Securitas, draped, seated left on throne, holding transverse scepter in right hand, fold of drapery over left arm. RIC IV 5; BMCRE 11; RSC 10. EF, lightly toned, underlying luster.
From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Christie’s (18 February 1992), lot 54; Auctiones 5 (2 December 1975), lot 696.
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Severus Alexander.
AD 222-235. AV Aureus (21mm, 6.73 g, 12h). Rome mint. Special emission, AD 224. IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / LIBE-RALITAS AVG II, Liberalitas standing facing, head left, holding abacus with her right hand, cradling cornucopia with her left arm. RIC IV 152d; Calicó 3068; BMCRE 211; Biaggi –. EF, lustrous. Rare.
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temp.
Severans.
Early 3rd century AD. AV Imitation “Quinarius” (15mm, 2.91 g, 5h). Barbarous imitation. AИOVD (retrograde C)ΛVOИI, laureate head right / OXPΩMEN, lion advancing left; EVTVXV (
Good Luck
in Greek) in exergue. Apparently unpublished. EF, obverse and reverse die flaws.
For similar imitative types used as jewelry, see King,
Elagabalus
1 = Göbl,
Antike
2615, and Göbl, Antike 2616
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Elagabalus.
AD 218-222. AV Aureus in contemporary mount (32mm, 10.81 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 218-219. IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTOR ANTONINI • AVG, Victory advancing right, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling palm frond with left arm. RIC III 154; Thirion 59; Calicó 3038; BMCRE 30-1; Biaggi 1295. EF, scuff on the reverse of the mount at 8h that does not affect the coin.
Ex Sternberg FPL 6 (July 1994), lot 117.
For a similar Elagabalus aureus in an ancient mount from the Beaurains–or Arras–hoard, see NFA Auction IX (New York City, 10 December 1980), lot 573 (illustrated on the front cover of the catalogue). That piece was one of eight known gold pendants of the necklace “originating from the famous Beaurains hoard,” and a “reconstruction of the necklace is illustrated on plate xi....of
Le tresor de Beaurains (dit d’Arras)
.” The other seven pendants from the Beaurains necklace consisted of aurei of Hadrian (two pieces), Faustina Junior, Commodus, Caracalla, Julia Domna, and Postumus. The Postumus piece, once owned by Edward T. Newell, is today part of the American Numismatic Society’s collection.
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Caracalla.
AD 198-217. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.48 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 199. IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PONTI FEX TR P II, Caracalla, laureate, in military dress, cloak hanging over left shoulder, standing left, holding Victory on globe in extended right hand and reversed, vertical spear in left; to left, captive, wearing peaked cap and long robe, seated left on ground, propping head on right hand; to far left, quiver of arrows. RIC IV 27b; Calicó 2773 (same obv. die); BMCRE 152 (Septimius and Caracalla–same obv. die); Biaggi (same obv. die). Superb EF, lustrous. Portrait of artistic merit.
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Julia Domna.
Augusta, AD 193-217. AV Aureus (19mm, 6.94 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Septimius Severus, circa AD 193-196. IVLIA • DO MNA AVG, draped bust right, / VENERI • VI CTR, 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; BMCRE 47 (Wars of Succession); Biaggi 1155 (same obv. die). EF, underlying luster.
Ex UBS 78 (9 September 2008), lot 1752.
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Septimius Severus.
AD 193-211. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.10 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 210-211. SEVERVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate head right / VICT OR IAE BRIT, Victory, winged and draped, advancing left, holding up wreath in right hand and palm frond upright in left. RIC IV 334; Calicó 2564; BMCRE 60 (same dies); Biaggi –; SCBC 649 (same dies). EF, toned, underlying luster. Very rare.
Struck to celebrate the success of the Roman military campaigns in Scotland from AD 209 through early AD 211.
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Septimius Severus, with Caracalla.
AD 193-211. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.16 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 202-210. IMP P • INVICTI • P II • AVGG, jugate busts of Septimius Severus and Caracalla, both laureate, draped, and cuirassed right / VICTORIA PARTHICA MAXIMA, Victory, winged and draped, advancing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and palm frond upward in left. RIC IV 311 (Septimius); Calicó 2597; BMCRE 266; Biaggi 1127. VF, some light marks, slight wave to flan. Very rare.
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Septimius Severus.
AD 193-211. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.28 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 197. L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP VIIII, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PROFEC TIO AVG, Septimius Severus, in military dress, on horse prancing right, holding transverse spear, pointing upward in right hand. RIC IV ; Calicó 2521 (same obv. die); BMCRE –; Biaggi –. Superb EF, lustrous. Extremely rare. Exceptional.
IMP VIIII marks the victory of Septimius Severus over Clodius Albinus in early AD 197. PROFECTIO AVG marks the departure of Septimius Severus for the Parthian War.