Triton XXVI - Session 1
Date: 2023-01-10 00:00:00
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Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVI - Session 1 . 190
BITHYNIA, Kalchedon. Circa 260-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.79 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ΠA monogram in left field, grain ear in exergue. Price 926 (Kallatis); Türkoğlu –; HGC 7, 521. Toned, a couple of minor cuts on obverse, slight die shift on reverse. Good VF. From the GTP Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XLIII.2 (August 2018), no. 488413; José Miguel Márquez del Prado Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 108, 16 May 2018), lot 161; Áureo & Calicó 295 (5 July 2017), lot 23.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVI - Session 1 . 191
MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (8.5mm, 2.72 g). Tunny downward between two tunny heads outwards flanked by pellets / Quadripartite incuse square. Hurter & Liewald III 19.1; cf. Von Fritze I 11 (tunny upward, hemihekte); Greenwell –; Boston MFA –; cf. SNG BN 169 (same); BMC –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Rosen –; Weber –; CNG E-375, lot 360; Numismatik Naumann 80, lot 137 = Numismatik Naumann 77, lot 144; Triton XII, lots 1267–8. Scratch and small area of weak strike on obverse. VF. Very rare with tunny downward. From the Siren Collection.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVI - Session 1 . 192
MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9mm, 2.70 g). Tunny head left above tunny tail right / Quadripartite incuse square. Hurter & Liewald III 12.1; Von Fritze I 6; Greenwell 167; Boston MFA –; SNG BN 165 = Traité I 244, pl. VI, 15; BMC –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; cf. Rosen 416 = SNG von Aulock 7262 (hemihekte); Weber –. VF. Rare early issue. From the Siren Collection.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.29 g). Fox standing left, biting into tail of tunny right below / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 35; Greenwell 142; Boston MFA 1410 = Warren 1571; SNG BN –; SNG von Aulock 1173; BMC –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Rosen –; Weber –. VF. Well centered. Very rare, only three in CoinArchives. From the Siren Collection.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 16.07 g). Head of lion left; to right, tunny upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 39; Greenwell 115; Boston MFA 1414 = Warren 1537; SNG BN 178; BMC 39; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson 1403; Kraay & Hirmer 700; Myrmekion –; cf. Rosen 432 (hekte); Weber 4985. A few light hairlines. VF. Well centered. Ex Siren Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 500, 22 September 2021), lot 257.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (12mm, 2.70 g). Head of tunny left and head of lion right, joined together at the neck / Incuse square punch. CNG 105, lot 151; CNG 96, lot 381; otherwise unpublished, but cf. Hurter & Liewald I 32a = Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 308, no. 22 for the hemihekte of this issue. Minor cleaning marks. VF. Struck on an elongated flan which displays virtually complete types. Possibly the third known. From the Siren Collection.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (21mm, 16.16 g). Facing head of Silenos, protruding tongue; at sides, two tunnies upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze I 77 (unlisted denomination); cf. Boston MFA 1424 = Warren 1465 (hekte); cf. SNG BN 208 (hekte); BMC –; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Weber –; Triton XX, lot 202; CNG 114, lot 208; CNG 103, lot 200; CNG 75, lot 366; Hess-Divo 325, lot 210 = Sincona 10, lot 113 = Vinchon (24 Nov. 1994), lot 61 = M.J. Price, "1. A Field in Western Thrace" in CH II, 2. Toned, edge split and flan crack, some roughness. Good VF. Well centered. From the JTB Collection. Ex Jonathan P. Rosen Collection.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVI - Session 1 . 197
MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.66 g). Facing head of Silenos, protruding tongue; at sides, two tunnies upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 77; Greenwell 45; Boston MFA 1424 = Warren 1465; SNG BN 208; SNG von Aulock 7269; BMC –; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Rosen 455; Weber –. A few minor marks. Near EF. Well struck for issue. Wonderful archaic facing Silenos. From the JTB Collection. Ex Leu Numismatik Web Auction 7 (23 February 2019), lot 313.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (15mm, 16.16 g). Griffin seated left, raising right forepaw, on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 101; Greenwell 144; Boston MFA 1437 = Warren 1573; SNG BN –; BMC –; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Myrmekion –; Rosen 479; Weber –; Triton XX, lot 207. Good VF. Well centered. Rare issue, not to be confused with the more common variety with a griffin standing (von Fritze I 99). Ex Siren Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 118, 13 September 2021), lot 247.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.69 g). Facing gorgoneion, mouth opened and tongue protruding between her teeth, five coiled serpents rising from her head, another two emanating from below her ears; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 129; Greenwell 75; cf. Boston MFA 1445 = Warren 1492 (stater); SNG BN –; cf. SNG von Aulock 7295 (hemihekte); BMC –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson 2192; Rosen –; cf. Weber 4972 (stater). In NGC encapsulation 6157497-005, graded Ch AU, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.67 g). Head of Perseus left, wearing winged helmet; to right, tunny diagonally downward left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 65; Greenwell 73; cf. Boston MFA 1449 = Warren 1490 (stater); cf. SNG BN 193 (stater); SNG von Aulock 1186; BMC –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson 2169; Rosen –; cf. Weber 4973 (stater). Iridescent tone. EF. Exceptional, and rare as a hekte. From the JTB Collection. Ex Tkalec (18 February 2013), lot 54.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Stater (17.5mm, 15.86 g). Hoplite, nude but for Corinthian helmet, shield on left arm, right arm extended forward, standing in a semi-crouched stance right on ground line; to right, tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 119; Greenwell 91; Boston MFA 1497; SNG BN 265 = de Luynes 2452; BMC 78; Gillet –; Gulbenkian 620; Jameson 1404; Myrmekion 17; Rosen –; Weber –. A few minor scuffs on obverse, light scratches on reverse. VF. Well centered. Ex Buxton Collection (Heritage 3098, 18 January 2022), lot 33122; A.F. Collection (Roma XV, 5 April 2018), lot 231.The hoplite is about to begin the foot race in which the runners carried their military equipment (see A. Milavic, "Hoplitodromos: The hoplite race in armor served as a vehicle to train for war" in The Celator 5.8 [August 1991]). Agnes Baldwin Brett, in BMFA, suggests that type here could be a "copy of Kritios' statue erected on the Akropolis at Athens, representing Epicharinos, Athenian hoplite runner victorious in Olympic games."
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVI - Session 1 . 202
MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 16.01 g). Thetis, holding wreath in extended right hand and wearing shield on left arm, riding dolphin left; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 159; Greenwell 48; Boston MFA 1501 = Warren 1467; SNG BN 307; BMC 69; Gillet –; Gulbenkian 634; Jameson –; Myrmekion –: Rosen –; Weber 4994. Lightly toned, trace deposits, compact flan, scratch on reverse. VF. Very rare. This type is traditionally thought to portray a Trojan War-related scene, with Thetis carrying the shield forged by Hephaistos to her son Achilles, for whom her wreath is also intended. However, Greenwell advanced an alternate theory, that it is a naval victory-related scene depicting a nereid, likely in commemoration of the Battle of Kyzikos in 410 BC.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (11mm, 2.53 g). Boy seated facing, head right, legs splayed to left, holding in his right hand a tunny fish by the tail / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze I 169 (unlisted denomination); cf. Greenwell 89 (same); cf. Boston MFA 1511 = Warren 1508 (stater); cf. SNG BN 316 (stater); cf. BMC 77 (stater); Gulbenkian –; Jameson 2201; cf. Rosen 509 (stater); Weber –; Triton XVII, lot 264. Some hairlines, slight die wear on obverse. VF. Very rare as a hekte. From the Siren Collection.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.57 g). Head of Attis right, wearing Phrygian headdress; below, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 142; Greenwell 56; Boston MFA 1523; SNG BN 292–3; BMC –; Gillet –; cf. Gulbenkian 644 (stater); Jameson –; Weber –. Near EF. From the Siren Collection.The portrait on this particular issue is thought to be Attis, the consort of Phrygian Kybele. The androgynous Kybele/Agdistis was castrated by the gods. From the severed parts grew an almond tree from which Attis sprang. Attis appears infrequently in Greek art, but he was raised in status when the Romans adopted the cult of Kybele.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Stater (18.5mm, 15.95 g). Zeus kneeling right, chiton draped from waist, holding scepter in right arm, left arm extended, above which an eagle stands right, with open wings; below, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 145; Greenwell 2; Boston MFA 1530 = Warren 1422; SNG BN 296; BMC 61; cf. FSD SHM 1218 (myshemihekte); Gillet 1060; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Myrmekion –; Rosen –; Weber –. Lightly toned, edge split, minor marks. Good VF. Attractive.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.25 g). Bearded male, nude but for petasos and cloak tied at neck, crouching left on the back of a sacrificial ram lying left, holding its head up with his left hand, exposing its neck that he prepares to strike with a knife held above in his right hand / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze I 156 (unlisted denomination); cf. Greenwell 71 (same); Kovacs XII, lot 82; Leu Numismatik Web Auction 18, lot 1062 = Savoca 40, lot 43 = Savoca 33, lot 149; otherwise, unpublished. Minor hairlines. Good VF. Extremely rare as a hemihekte, only two in CoinArchives. From the Siren Collection.The identification of the male on the obverse has long been debated. M. F. Lenormant first suggested Phrixos sacrificing the ram with the golden fleece, but Greenwell preferred Odysseus slaying the animal Circe provided him before his descent into Hades, in part due to the figure being bearded, which indicated an older individual, which contrasts with the youthful portraits traditionally given to Phrixos.
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MYSIA, Pergamon. Circa 166-67 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.58 g, 12h). Cistophoric standard. Ar–, prytaneis. Struck circa 88-85 BC. Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath / Two serpents entwined around bow and bowcase; above, AP above monogram (=prytaneis); civic monogram to left, serpent-entwined staff to right. Kleiner, Hoard 27; Pinder 104; SNG BN 1729. Toned. EF. Struck with fresh dies. From the GTP Collection. Ex Künker 226 (11 March 2013), lot 436.
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KINGS of PERGAMON. Philetairos. 282-263 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 17.12 g, 12h). Pergamon mint. Struck circa 269/8-263 BC. Diademed head right / ΦIΛETAIPOY, Athena enthroned left, right hand resting on shield set at her feet, left elbow resting on small sphinx seated right; transverse spear in background, ivy leaf above knee, monogram on throne, bow to right. Westermark Group II, obv. die III; SNG BN 1603–5 (Eumenes I); SNG Hunterian 180 (same obv. die); SNG Ashmolean 750; SNG von Aulock 1354; BMC 30; Bement 1391; McClean 7672. EF. Well struck.
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TROAS, Assos. Circa 500-450 BC. AR Drachm (12.5mm, 3.31 g, 9h). Chian standard. Griffin springing left / Head of roaring lion right within incuse square. SNG Arikantürk I –; BMC 1; Boston MFA 1626. Lightly toned, only a hint of the usual granularity. Good VF. Well centered on a broad flan.
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TROAS, Assos. Circa 500-450 BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 3.51 g, 1h). Chian standard. Griffin springing left / Head of roaring lion right within incuse square. SNG Arikantürk I –; BMC 1; Boston MFA 1626. Toned, a few minor flan flaws, a couple short scratches on obverse. Good VF. Well centered on a broad flan.