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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Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XIX Sessions 1 - 2 - Session 1, 484
Agrippa.
Died 12 BC. Æ As (28mm, 10.74 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Gaius (Caligula), AD 37-41. M • AGRIPPA • L • F • COS • III, head left, wearing rostral crown / S C across field, Neptune standing left, naked except for cloak hanging over right arm, behind back and over left shoulder and upper arm, holding small dolphin in outstretched right hand, vertical trident in left. RIC I 58 (Gaius); BMCRE 161-8 (Tiberius); BN 77-97 (Caligula). Near EF, dark green patina, traces of porosity and shallow cleaning marks on obverse.
From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex James Fox Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 40, 4 December 1996), lot 1337.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XIX Sessions 1 - 2 - Session 2, 503
Galba.
AD 68-69. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.32 g, 1h). Rome mint. Struck circa July AD 68-January AD 69. IMP SER GΛLBΛ ΛVG, bare head right / S P Q R/ O • B/ C S in three lines within oak wreath. RIC I 167; RSC 287; BMCRE 34 corr. (head described as laureate); BN 76-7. Near EF, toned, some minor green deposits. Artistic portrait.
Ex Aufhäuser 12 (1 October 1996), lot 494.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XIX Sessions 1 - 2 - Session 2, 603
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.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XIX Sessions 1 - 2 - Session 1, 468
Augustus.
27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.95 g, 12h). Rome mint; M. Durmius, moneyer. Struck 19/8 BC. CAESAR AV[GVSTVS], bare head right / M • DVRMIVS above, III • VIR in exergue, wild boar standing right, pierced through by a spear, its front legs thrust forward. RIC I 317; RSC 430; BMCRE 61-2 = BMCRR Rome 4567-8; BN 207-11. EF, toned. Amazing details on the wild boar.
From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Leu 54 (28 April 1992), lot 214; Numismatic Fine Arts 16 (2 December 1985), lot 329.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XIX Sessions 1 - 2 - Session 2, 626
Constantine II.
As Caesar, AD 316-337. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.29 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Struck AD 335/6. CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PRINCIPI IVVE NTVTIS, Constantine, diademed and in military attire, standing left, holding vexillum in right hand and scepter in left; two military signa to right; SMAN. RIC VIII 94; Depeyrot 45/2; Biaggi –. EF, traces of underlying luster, die rust.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XIX Sessions 1 - 2 - Session 2, 588
Lucilla.
Augusta, AD 164-182. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 21.65 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Aurelius and Verus, circa AD 164-169. LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F, draped bust right / PIETAS SC, Pietas standing left, holding accerum and sacrificing over lighted and garlanded altar to left. RIC III 1755 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 11-2(a); Banti 35; BMCRE 1209. Choice EF, dark green patina, great surfaces. Beautiful and sympathetic portrait. First class bronze.
Ex Tradart (18 December 2014), lot 347.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XIX Sessions 1 - 2 - Session 2, 541
Hadrian.
AD 117-138. Æ Medallion (40mm, 41.69 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 128-132. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, laureate bust right, slight drapery / IOVI/ OPTIMO/ MAXIMO/ S P Q R in four lines within oak wreath; [COS III] in exergue. Gnecchi III 80, pl. 145, 4; Banti 459; RIC II 971c; Strack 452α2; BMCRE p. 447, note *. Good VF, brown and dark gray patina, some roughness in spots, edge splits. Of the greatest rarity and interest.
Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XVIII (1 April 1987), lot 478.
All the references cited are quoting the Paris specimen, which seems to share an obverse die with this medallion. The reverse die appears to be the same as Gnecchi pl. 145, 5. The NFA catalog notes:
Of this type Harold Mattingly writes in the Introduction to the British Museum Catalogue (p. clxix) ‘The oak-wreath dedicated to Jupiter Optimus Maximus may be connected with the bestowal of the title of P P on Hadrian. To the Greek world Hadrian appeared as a
Zeus Olympios...
The dediction may be one of thankfulness to the god who, for the blessing of Rome, had bestowed his scepter on Hadrian.”