Triton XXVI - Session 1
Date: 2023-01-10 00:00:00
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Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVI - Session 1 . 64
SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 13.37 g, 8h). Struck circa 240-218/5 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; star to right / BAΣIΛIΣΣAΣ ΦIΛIΣTIΔOΣ, Nike, holding reins in both hands, driving fast quadriga right; crescent above, KIΣ to right, grain ear below. CCO 69–74 and 82–4 var. (unlisted dies); Burnett, Enna 44; BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1554. Deeply toned, some minor chips around edge, a couple of small delaminations, scuff at edge on reverse. Near EF. From the S & S Collection. Ex Virginia Ruzicka Collection (Malter XXVIII, 8 December 1984), lot 1.
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SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.27 g, 10h). Struck circa 218/7-215 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; filleted thyrsos to right / BAΣIΛIΣΣAΣ ΦIΛIΣTIΔOΣ, Nike, holding reins in both hands, driving slow quadriga right; A to right. CCO – (D18/R15 – unlisted die combination); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1556; BMC 553 (same dies); de Nanteuil 395 (same dies); Winterthur 989 (same dies). Toned, a few marks, light cleaning scratches in field on obverse. Near EF. Well centered. Ex Triton XII (6 January 2009), lot 115; Sternberg XX (20 April 1988), lot 448.This coin is referenced in CCO, erroneously as no. 10 under die combination 203, which has a different obverse die (D15).
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SICILY, Syracuse. Gelon, son of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 8 Litrai – Didrachm (20mm, 6.71 g, 10h). Struck circa 218/7-214 BC BC. Diademed head left / ΣYPAKOΣIO[I] [Γ]EΛΩNOΣ, Nike, holding reins in both hands, driving slow right; BA above, A to right. CCO 279.2 (D5/R7 – this coin); BAR Issue 66; HGC 2, 1562; Boston MFA 481 (same dies); Hermitage Sale II 400 (same dies); Weber 1703 (same dies). Attractive collection tone, a few minor marks, a little off center, reverse die berak. Near EF. Ex Christie's (3 March 1970), lot 701; Ciani (with Vinchon, 6 May 1956), lot 279.
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CARTHAGE. Circa 350-320 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 9.22 g, 10h). Carthage mint. Wreathed head of Tanit left, wearing triple-pendant earring, and necklace with eleven pendants / Horse standing right; three pellets to right of foreleg. Jenkins & Lewis Group IIIf, 31 (same dies); MAA 4; CNP 1.5f. Lustrous, slight die wear, some scratches. EF. Fine style. By the third century BC, the Punic goddess Tanit and the horse had become the standard types of Carthaginian coinage and remained so for the balance of the city's existence. Tanit was the primary deity of Carthage. A celestial divinity with some fertility aspects, she was the North African equivalent of Astarte. She is always depicted on the coinage wearing a wreath of grain, which may have been borrowed from Demeter and Persephone as the Carthaginians assimilated the Sicilian culture into their own during the various Punic excursions to the island. The use of the horse on the reverse is usually considered part of the foundation myth of Carthage. According to Virgil's Aeneid, the Phoenician colonists who founded Carthage were told by Juno (or Tanit) to establish the new colony at the place where they discovered a horse's head in the ground. Another theory is that the obverse head is actually Demeter or Persephone, whose worship was introduced to Carthage in 396 BC to make amends for the destruction of the goddesses' temples outside Syracuse by the Carthaginian army.
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CARTHAGE. Circa 350-320 BC. AV Stater (19.5mm, 9.33 g, 4h). Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with nine pendants / Horse standing right on exergual line; three pellets in triangle to lower right. Jenkins & Lewis Group IIIg, 59 and 61; CNP 1.5m; MAA 4. Lustrous, minor die flaws. EF.
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CARTHAGE. Circa 350-320 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 9.41 g, 9h). Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with nine pendants / Horse standing right; three pellets to right of forelegs. Jenkins & Lewis Group IIIh, 92 (same obv. die); CNP 1.5h; MAA 4. Fully lustrous, minor die wear. EF. By the third century BC, the Punic goddess Tanit and the horse had become the standard types of Carthaginian coinage and remained so for the balance of the city's existence. Tanit was the primary deity of Carthage. A celestial divinity with some fertility aspects, she was the North African equivalent of Astarte. She is always depicted on the coinage wearing a wreath of grain, which may have been borrowed from Demeter and Persephone as the Carthaginians assimilated the Sicilian culture into their own during the various Punic excursions to the island. The use of the horse on the reverse is usually considered part of the foundation myth of Carthage. According to Virgil's Aeneid, the Phoenician colonists who founded Carthage were told by Juno (or Tanit) to establish the new colony at the place where they discovered a horse's head in the ground. Another theory is that the obverse head is actually Demeter or Persephone, whose worship was introduced to Carthage in 396 BC to make amends for the destruction of the goddesses' temples outside Syracuse by the Carthaginian army.
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CARTHAGE. Circa 350-320 BC. AV Tenth Stater (7.5mm, 0.95 g, 3h). Carthage mint. Palm tree with two date clusters / Head of horse right. Jenkins & Lewis Group III, 136–55; CNP 239; MAA 8; SNG Copenhagen 133. Trace deposits, light scratches. Near EF. From the S & S Collection. Ex Malter XXXI (9 June 1985), lot 3755.
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SKYTHIA, Tyra. Circa 330-310 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 5.79 g, 5h). Head of Demeter facing slightly left, veiled and wearing grain ear wreath and necklace / Bull butting left; TYPANON above. Zograph, Tyra 2; Anokhin 10; HGC 3, 1953; Prospero 215 (this coin). Old cabinet tone. Good VF. Very rare. Lovely head of Demeter. Ex Prospero Collection (New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012), lot 215.
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THRACE, Abdera. Circa 450-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.85 g, 7h). Artemon, magistrate. Griffin springing left / Kantharos in linear square; AP-TE-MΩN and ivy leaf around; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera, Period IV, Group LXIX, 187 (A151/P157) = Hunterian 5 (same dies); AMNG II 71; HGC 3, 1140 (same dies as illustration). A few light marks. EF. Extremely rare, only the Hunterian piece published, none in CoinArchives.
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THRACE, Ainos. Circa 357-342/1 BC. AR Drachm (16.5mm, 3.72 g, 12h). Head of Hermes facing slightly right, wearing petasos / Cult statue of Hermes Perpheraios on throne; kantharos to left, AIN[ION] to right. May, Ainos 436–9 var. (unlisted dies); AMNG II 365; HGC 3, 1280; BMC 23; Pozzi 1040. Find patina, a few minor scratches on reverse. Good VF. Choice for issue. From the Pythagoras Collection, purchased from Leu Numismatik AG.
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THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 90-80 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 15.99 g, 12h). In the name and types of Lysimachos. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; monogram to inner left, BY below throne, ornate trident in exergue. Callataÿ Group 3, obv. die D5; Müller 208. Minor die wear, small deposit, and die break at edge on obverse. EF.
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THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 90-80 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.34 g, 11h). In the name and types of Lysimachos. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; monogram to inner left, BY below throne, ornate trident in exergue. Callataÿ Group 3, obv. die D53; Müller 157. Light mark on obverse. EF.
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THRACE, Maroneia. Circa 400-377 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 12.91 g, 1h). Aeginetic standard. Metrodotos, magistrate. Horse rearing left / Grape arbor in linear square; MHT-PO-ΔOT-OΣ around, ivy leaf to upper left; all within shallow incuse square. Schönert-Geiss Period VI, –; AMNG II –; HGC 3, 1528; Lorber Appendix 3, p. 180, a = M&M AG 73, lot 50 (same rev. die); Lanz 135, lot 111 var. (no leaf). Toned, slight die wear on obverse. EF. Extremely rare, one of three known for this magistrate in Period VI. From the JTB Collection. Ex Father & Son Collection; Nomos 19 (17 November 2019), lot 61; Londinium Collection (Triton XXII, 8 January 2019), lot 164.
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THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 275/50-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.75 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; helmet in outer left field, monogram below throne. Karayotov I 3 (O2/R3); Topalov, Messambria, Issue 13; Price 985 corr. (monogram); HGC 3, 1567 (same dies as illustration). EF. Fine early style. From the GTP Collection. Ex Triton XVI (8 January 2013), lot 254.
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THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 275/50-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.94 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in inner left field, crested Corinthian helmet right above monogram. Karayotov I 12 (O7/R11); Topalov, Messambria 13; Price 992; HGC 3, 1567; ANS inv. 1955.26.2 (same dies). Even medium gray tone, some light hairlines and marks. EF. Struck from artistic dies.
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THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 250-225 BC. AV Stater (18.5mm, 8.40 g, 12h). In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; to inner left, Corinthian helmet right; ΔI monogram in exergue. Petac, From, pl. 1, 4; Karayotov I 17 = A. Rogalski, "Les statères d'or de Mesambria" [in Bulgarian] in Bulletin du Musée National de Varna 18 (1982), 17; Topalov, Messambria 15; Müller 263; HGC 3, –; Gorny & Mosch 261, lot 154 (same dies). Underlying luster, a few light marks, trace deposits on reverse. EF. Well centered. Extremely rare, only one published (previously in The Hermitage [referred to by all references above, missing since WWII]), and only one additional in CoinArchives (the Gorny & Mosch coin).
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THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 225-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.66 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; to inner left, helmet right; below throne, EΠI below throne. Karayotov I 82 (O23/R92); Topalov, Messambria 13; Price 1020; HGC 3, 1567. Toned. Good VF. From the GTP Collection. Ex CNG inventory 940284 (December 2012); Elvira Elisa Clain-Stefanelli ("Demarete") Collection (Stack's Bowers and Ponterio 172, 13 November 2012), lot 11569; Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack's, 10 June 1970), lot 187.
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THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 125-100 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31.5mm, 16.17 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedonia. Obverse die signed by ANT–. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin; ANT on neck of skin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in inner left field, helmet above HP monogram; monogram below throne. Karayotov I 255 corr. (monogram below throne; O74/R251); Callataÿ p. 102, dies D29/R1 corr. (letters on obv. not noted); Topalov, Messambria 18; Price 1095 corr. (letters on neck of lion, monogram below throne); ANS inv. 1044.100.35792 (same dies). Beautiful deep iridescent tone, minor roughness at part of edge. EF. Very rare obverse signed issue. From the D.K. Collection. Ex Album 35 (12 September 2019), lot 440.Karayotov remarks that the obverse die by this engraver, ANT–, is of the finest style among the late Alexander-type tetradrachms of Mesembria.
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THRACE, Odessos. Circa 120-90 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 16.61 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ΔH in left field, civic monogram below throne. Callataÿ Group 1, dies D2/R3; Topalov, Odesos, Series 31, Issue 67; Price 1180; HGC 3, 1587; McClean 3477 (same dies). Lightly toned, minor doubling on obverse, die break on reverse. EF. From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex New York Sale IV (17 January 2002), lot 133.
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THRACE, Orthagoreia. Circa 340s-330s BC. AR Stater (24mm, 10.37 g, 12h). Bust of Artemis right, wearing triple-pendant earring and pearl necklace; quiver over shoulder / Chalkidian helmet facing; star above, OPΘAΓO-PEΩN at sides, monogram below. AMNG III/2, 2; HGC 3, 599; SNG ANS 562; Jameson 958; Weber 1857 (all cataloged to Macedonia). Toned, slight die wear. Good VF. Ex Shirley Hanberry Collection (Goldberg 96, 14 February 2017), lot 1572.The conventional placement of Orthagoreia in Macedon is perplexing. Both of the only ancient literary sources, Strabo 7a.1.48 and Pliny, HN 4.42–3, place the city in Thrace, and all of the recorded find spots of its coinage are in Thrace (see Psoma, Maroneia, pp. 193–4). While the city was likely founded by Philip II, some of whose rare silver fractions mimic the obverse types of Orthagoreia's silver, and the reverse type is of a Chalkidian helmet, these Macedonian connections provide insufficient evidence to place the city in Macedonia. The traditional attribution dates back to Eckhel (ii.76), who cited a late source that (erroneously) identified Orthagoreia with Stageira in Macedonia. B.V. Head and others reiterated this attribution, while P. Gardner (History of Ancient Coinage, p. 325) and H. Gaebler (AMNG III/2, p. 92) accurately challenged this evidence, and insisted the city was in Thrace. Interestingly, though, Gaebler still listed these coins in his volume of AMNG on Macedon, which likely perpetuated the incorrect notion of the city's location. Among the standard references, apparently only the catalogers of SNG Copenhagen and SNG Fitzwilliam recognized the attribution to Thrace. With a large quantity of bronze issues of Orthagoreia appearing in the excavations at Maroneia, S. Psoma devoted a chapter of her work on the coin finds of Maroneia to review the totality of evidence on the city (Psoma, Maroneia, pp. 193–204). She convincingly argues that Orthagoreia was founded in the vicinity of cape Serrhion by Philip II, in connection with his campaigns in Thrace in the 340s BC. Evidence suggests that the city was originally populated with Macedonian settlers and was later synoecized with Maroneia near the end of the 4th century BC. No evidence of the city exists from the Hellenistic period, so it appears that Orthagoreia did not flourish after the time of Alexander, and was eventually abandoned or destroyed.
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ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 500-480 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 10.12 g). Ithyphallic satyr advancing right, carrying off protesting nymph / Quadripartite incuse square. Le Rider, Thasiennes 2; HPM pl. X, 3–5; HGC 6, 331; SNG Ashmolean 3643 = ACGC 519; Asyut 104; Boston MFA 851; Kraay & Hirmer 435. Deeply toned. In NGC encapsulation 6290604-014, graded AU★, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Ex Mark & Lottie Salton Collection.