Auction 123 - Session 1
Date: 2023-05-23 00:00:00
Lots: 293
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Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 123 - Session 1 . 107
PONTOS, Kamos. Mid-late 1st century BC. Æ (19mm, 4.17 g, 11h). Dated year 258 of an uncertain era. Laureate head of Apollo right / Stag grazing left; KAMOH-NON above and to left in exergue, monogram below, HN[Σ] (date) to right in exergue. Unpublished, but cf. HGC 7, 276–7 for other bronzes of Kamos of the same year. Dark green patina, flan crack, a few tiny pits. Good VF. Apparently unique.
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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.35 g, 12h). First Mithradatic War issue. In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Istros mint. Struck circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left; ΔΙ to inner left, IΣ on throne; in exergue, ornate trident left. Callataÿ p. 139, dies D1/R1; AMNG I 482; HGC 3, 1799. Underlying luster, slight doubling, a little die wear. EF. From the S & S Collection. Ex CNG inventory 714408 (July 1999).
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BITHYNIA, Kalchedon. Circa 260-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.91 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; HP monogram in left field, Θ below throne; grain ear in exergue. Price 936 (Callatis); Türkoğlu –; HGC 7, 521. Iridescent tone, a little die wear on obverse, slight doubling on reverse. EF. From the D.K. Collection. Ex Goldberg 55 (29 October 2009), lot 36.
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KINGS of BITHYNIA. Nikomedes IV Philopator. 94-74 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31.5mm, 16.24 g, 12h). Nikomedeia mint. Dated 208 BE (91/0 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Stephanophoros standing left; to inner left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt above monogram above HΣ (date). Callataÿ p. 63, dies D203/R8 (unlisted die combination); RG 40; HGC 6, 646; DCA 445; Jameson 1390 (same obv. die). Iridescent tone, underlying luster, minor die wear on obverse. Near EF.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.70 g). Head of tunny left, with tunny upward in its mouth / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Hurter & Liewald 24.1 (hemihekte); Von Fritze I –; Boston MFA –; SNG BN –; Numismatik Naumann 71, lot 138; Obolos 5, lot 294 = Helios 2, lot 140; Pecunem 39, lot 269. Good VF. Well centered. Extremely rare as a hekte, apparently the fourth, and finest, known. The celebrated electrum coinage of Kyzikos began in the first half of the sixth century BC, and from the beginning the coinage was notable for the variety and inventiveness of its designs. These staters and fractions were regarded as gold coins and circulated throughout a large area along with the gold darics of the Persian Empire. On all of the coins of Kyzikos, large or small, was engraved the tunny-fish (θυννος), which constituted an important product in the Kyzikene economy. This intriguing electrum hekte depicting two tunnies, one in the mouth of another, is among the earliest struck.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hemihekte (9.5mm, 1.32 g). Bull standing left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze I 88 (unlisted denomination); cf. Boston MFA 1466 = Warren 1544 (stater); cf. SNG BN 222–3 (stater); Hurter & Liewald II –. Toned, traces of find patina, light scratches on obverse. Good VF. Extremely rare, and unpublished, as a hemihekte; none in CoinArchives.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 15.93 g). Nude youth kneeling left, holding tunny in each hand / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 70; Boston MFA 1478 = Warren 1505; SNG BN –. Edge split, scrape on obverse. Good VF. Ex Sheikh Saud Al-Thani Collection (Part IV, Numismatica Ars Classica 126, 17 November 2021), lot 198; Prospero Collection (New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012), lot 440, purchased from G. Müller, June 1988; Peus 321 (27 April 1988), lot 286.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.63 g). Kekrops left, holding branch; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 158; cf. Boston MFA 1499 = Warren 1450 (stater); SNG BN 306. A little off center. VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 123 - Session 1 . 115
MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Stater (17mm, 15.84 g). Thessalian cavalryman, wearing kausia, on horse rearing right; below, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 168; Boston MFA –; SNG BN 315. Lightly toned. Near VF. Well centered. Very rare. Ex Numismatik Naumann 113 (6 February 2022), lot 367 (hammer €4500).This very rare type has been hypothesized to depict the mythological ancient Thessalian founders of Kyzikos. The horseman appears to be wearing the petasos and chlamys, commonly worn by Thessalian cavalrymen during antiquity. There is also conjecture that the issue depicts Philip II of Macedon. Philip had been declared the head of the Thessalian League and before his death had begun an invasion of Asia Minor ostensibly to free the Greek cities there from Persian rule. Many Greek cities in Asia Minor revolted, this issue may coincide with that revolt and depict Kyzikene support for Philip's campaign.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Stater (17.5mm, 15.94 g). Bridled horse standing right, being restrained by male standing right, in background, who holds bridle with his right hand; below, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 213; Greenwell, Some 2; Boston MFA 1556–7; SNG BN –; BMC –; FSD SHM 1229 = Hermitage (Exhibition) 118; Gulbenkian 666 (same dies); Jameson 2211. Light scratches in field on obverse. VF. Well centered. Extremely rare, one of only two in CoinArchives (the other: Triton XXIV, lot 643 [hammer $15,000] = Triton XXII, lot 235). Ex Roma XXIII (24 March 2022), lot 290; Roma XXII (7 October 2021), lot 334.
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (7mm, 0.67 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); Boston MFA –; BN –. Minor marks, die rust on obverse. VF. Extremely rare, Hurter & Liewald record a single example in a private collection; only one in CoinArchives (Roma XIX, lot 514). 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 (28.5mm, 12.68 g, 12h). Cistophoric standard. Struck circa 123-104 BC. Cista mystica within ivy wreath / Two serpents entwined around bow and bowcase; monogram above, civic monogram to left, serpent-entwined thyrsos to right. Kleiner, Hoard 7; Pinder 101; SNG BN –. Lightly toned. Good VF.
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TROAS, Ilion. Circa 185-50 BC. AR Tetradrachm (37.5mm, 15.43 g, 12h). Antiphanes, president of the aonothetai. Helmeted head of Athena right / The Palladion: Athena Ilias standing right, holding distaff and filleted spear; to inner right, owl standing left, head facing. Ellis-Evans dies O2/R– (unlisted rev. die); Bellinger T37 (same obv. die as illustration); SNG Ashmolean 1159 = SNG Lockett 2738 = Pozzi 2275 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian 962 = Jameson 2231 (same obv. die). Toned, light roughness, numerous scratches. Near VF. Very rare, only three examples of this issue noted by Ellis-Evans, all in museum collections; one in CoinArchives.
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AEOLIS, Aigai. Circa 151-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34.5mm, 16.69 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Wreathed head of Apollo Smintheos right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Zeus standing left, holding eagle and scepter; monogram to left; all within oak wreath. SNG Ashmolean 1252 (same obv. die); SNG von Aulock 1594 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 6. Lightly toned, a little die wear and minor double strike on obverse. Good VF. Ex Lanz 22 (10 May 1982), lot 349.
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AEOLIS, Kyme. Circa 151/0-143/2 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34.5mm, 16.87 g, 11h). Stephanophoric type. Herakleides, magistrate. Struck circa 151/0 BC. Head of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing tainia / Horse prancing right; below raised foreleg, eagle standing right on thunderbolt; all within laurel wreath. E-E&E-Ö, Phase I, 5; Oakley dies 65/b; SNG Copenhagen 105. Iridescent tone, minor die shift on obverse, light scratch under tone at edge on reverse. Near EF.
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AEOLIS, Myrina. Circa 155-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.52 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Laureate head of Apollo right / Apollo Grynios standing right, holding branch and phiale; monogram to left, omphalos and amphora at feet; all within laurel wreath. Sacks Issue 22, obv. die 19; SNG Salting 32 (same obv. die). Toned. In NGC encapsulation 5770046-002, graded Ch AU, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 2/5, brushed.
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AEOLIS, Myrina. Circa 155-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.21 g, 1h). Stephanophoric type. Laureate head of Apollo right / Apollo Grynios standing right, holding branch and phiale; monogram to left, omphalos and amphora at feet; all within laurel wreath. Sacks Issue 24, obv. die 32; Hermitage Sale II 1212; de Luynes 2532. Light scratches on obverse, light scrapes on reverse. VF. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 101 (10 November 2004), lot 37.
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AEOLIS, Myrina. Circa 155-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 16.72 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Laureate head of Apollo right / Apollo Grynios standing right, holding phiale and laurel branch; monogram to left, omphalos and amphora at feet; all within laurel wreath. Sacks Issue 25, obv. die 39. Iridescent tone, minor porosity, some die wear. Near EF.
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AEOLIS, Myrina. Circa 155-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.42 g, 11h). Stephanophoric type. Laureate head of Apollo right / Apollo Grynios standing right, holding phiale and laurel branch; monogram to left, omphalos and amphora at feet; all within laurel wreath. Sacks Issue 34, obv. die 59 (unlisted for issue). Light golden tone, underlying luster, die breaks on reverse. EF. Very rare issue, only two examples recorded by Sacks, five in CoinArchives.
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LESBOS, Methymna. Circa 188-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (39mm, 16.59 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Arion, holding kithara, on dolphin right above prow left; in exergue, [...]ΩTI and APTE flanking vertical kerykeion. Price 1695A corr. (legend on left in exergue); HGC 6, 910. In NGC encapsulation 4284684-003, graded Ch VF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Extremely rare, only one example published: the Giessener Münzhandlung 52, lot 192 coin cited by Price (struck from the same obverse die as the present coin); none in Pella, the ANS photofile, nor CoinArchives. From the D.K. Collection.
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LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (10.5mm, 2.43 g, 4h). Gorgoneion / Incuse head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress; rectangular punch to left. Bodenstedt Em. 19.1, HGC 6, 944. Some marks, die rust and tiny deposit on obverse. VF.