Triton XXVII - Session 1
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SICILY, Lilybaion (as 'Cape of Melkart'). Circa 330-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.14 g, 3h). Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with open wreath held in both hands; RŠMLQ[RT] ("Raš Melqart" in Punic) in exergue / Head of Arethousa right, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; three dolphins swimming around. Jenkins, Punic 69 (O24/R52); CNP 344; HGC 2, 743; BMC 4 (same dies); Hirsch 821 (same dies); de Luynes 925 (same dies). Find patina, some deposits. VF. Ex Bertolami Fine Arts E-Auction 105 (21 October 2021), lot 688.
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SICILY, Motya. Circa 410-405 BC. AR Didrachm (20mm, 7.70 g, 10h). Hound standing right / Head of female right; ivy leaf to left, [mṭv' (in Punic) to right]. Jenkins, Punic 27 (O13/R16); Campana 8 var. B/a; HGC 2, 927; SNG Ashmolean 1858 = SNG Lockett 2503 (same dies). Deeply toned, minor roughness. VF. Rare. From the L.H. Collection.The Punic didrachm series was minted during a period of strife in Sicilian politics. The Athenians had somewhat recently been thrown off the island by the victorious Syracusans in 413 BC, but the true purpose of the Athenian expedition had supposedly been to help the Segestans against their bitter enemies in Selinos. After the Athenian defeat, Selinos attacked again in 410 BC and the Elymian city of Segesta now called on Carthage for aid. Carthage proceeded to effectively vassalize Segesta and then capture and destroy both Selinos and Himera. This shocked much of the rest of Greek Sicily, but after the hard fought effort to expel the Athenians they did not immediately interfere. It was a Syracusan exile named Hermocrates leading mercenaries and citizens of the destroyed city of Himera that sparked the next phase of the war. He raided Punic territory in western Sicily in 407 BC, then headed back east and died in an attempt to take power in Syracuse. His raids precipitated a Punic invasion of western Sicily that would lead to the destruction of numerous cities in the years of war that followed, most prominently Akragas and Motya. Considering the previously discussed historical context, the didrachm series, minted for use by the Siculo-Punic cities of Motya and Panormos, was most likely used to help pay for the massive armies and fleets that Carthage raised to fight in their long Sicilian conflict. It is also likely, given Segestan experience minting didrachms and the evidence for die sharing between Segesta, Motya, and Panormos, that Segesta, in its role as a new Punic dependency, was tasked with helping the Carthaginians with their didrachm production. The existence of a number of hybrids mixing the dies of Segesta, Motya, and Panormos points to the existence of a central mint, but which city housed that central mint is not agreed on by scholars. Jenkins and Hurter argue that the central mint's location was Panormos, while Rutter argues convincingly that the likely location was Carthage's new dependency Segesta. Considering the historical context of the didrachm series, it seems likely that the central mint was in fact Segesta.
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SICILY, Panormos (as Ziz). Circa 360-340 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.55 g, 6h). Charioteer, holding reins in both hands, driving slow quadriga left; above, Nike flying left, crowning horses with wreath she holds in her extended hands; Punic ṢYṢ in exergue / Head of female right, hair in ampyx, wearing triple-pendant earring and pearl necklace; four dolphins around. Jenkins, Punic 47 (O12/R38); CNP 289 (this coin illustrated); HGC 2, 1016; McClean 3054 (same dies). Deeply toned, minor marks and scrapes, die break on reverse. Good VF. Very rare issue, and only one example from these dies known to Jenkins, with one additional in CoinArchives. From the L.H. Collection. Ex Spink Taisei Numismatics 52 (Part 2, with Numismatica Ars Classica, 26 October 1994), lot 1816.Founded by the Phoenicians in the eighth century BC, Panormos was established along the northern coast of Sicily as a trading post with the indigenous Sicani of the region. The people of Panormos, although active traders like the other Phoenician settlers in Sicily, felt little need for striking their own coinage; instead, they relied upon the regional Greek coinages for their transactions. By the late fifth century, however, as Carthage and its Punic allies were expanding control of the western Mediterranean, it became necessary to begin striking coins in order the pay the mercenaries used to assert Punic power. As a result, cities like Panormos began striking coins which could be integrated into the existing monetary system, and which derived their types for the most part from the Greek city-states in Sicily. This coin copies Syracusan coins of the late Eukleidas style with a Punic twist added to the design.
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CARTHAGE. Circa 350-320 BC. AV Stater (19.5mm, 8.82 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 above ground line to right of forelegs. Jenkins & Lewis Group IIIe, 24; CNP 1.5c; MAA 4. Minor marks on obverse. Near EF. Rare issue. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 736; Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 317.
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CARTHAGE. Circa 310-290 BC. EL Stater (19mm, 7.51 g, 12h). Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with ten pendants; pellet to left of neck / Horse standing right; three pellets in exergue. Jenkins & Lewis Group V, 272 (same dies); CNP 2.10a; MAA 12. Lightly toned, light die rust on obverse, scratch in field on reverse. Good VF. Ex CNG inventory 521108 (September 2019).
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CARTHAGE. Circa 310-290 BC. EL Stater (19mm, 7.32 g, 12h). Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with ten pendants; pellet before neck / Horse standing right; three pellets in exergue. Jenkins & Lewis Group V, 284 (same dies); CNP 2.10f; MAA 10. Toned with underlying luster, thin flan crack, minor marks, tiny die flaw in reverse field. VF. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 120 (11 May 2022), lot 75.
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CARTHAGE, First Punic War. Circa 264-241 BC. EL 1½ Shekels – Tridrachm (21mm, 10.34 g, 12h). Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears with pellet on its leaf, triple-pendant earring, and necklace with nine pendants / Horse standing right, head left; ouraios above; pellet behind forward hind hoof. Jenkins & Lewis Group Xb, 428; CNP 41i; MAA 32; SNG Copenhagen 996; Bement 600; Jameson 923; de Luynes 3747–8; Weber 8491. Flan crack, trace deposits, scrape on edge. Good VF. Carthage, a Phoenician colony on the coast of North Africa, became a maritime powerhouse in the fifth century BC and challenged the Greek cities of Sicily and Southern Italy for control of the western Mediterranean. By the early third century, much of Sicily had fallen under Carthaginian control and mints were established on the island to produce coins used to pay the largely mercenary army. The stage was now set for the collision with Rome, newly dominant in Italy. Starting in 265 BC, Carthage and Rome fought three titanic wars that produced more death and destruction than any other conflict before the 20th century. This electrum piece, struck at the mother city of Carthage, was produced early in the First Punic War with Rome, which raged for more than 20 years and ended with a humiliating defeat for Carthage and the loss of Sicily to the Romans. Still, Carthage's empire remained otherwise intact and the loss only laid the groundwork for the similarly destructive Second Punic War. The use of electrum points to the need to stretch Carthage's gold supply while striking a coinage that would have special appeal to the mercenary soldiers that made up most of its army. A head of the Phoenician goddess Tanit adorns the obverse, while the "Punic horse" symbolic of Carthaginian cavalry stands on the reverse.
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CARTHAGE, Second Punic War. Circa 203-201 BC. AV Quarter Stater (12mm, 1.84 g, 12h). Carthage mint. Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears / Horse standing right. Jenkins & Lewis Group XIV, 464–7; MAA 76; SNG Copenhagen –; Pozzi 3310. Lightly toned, minor marks, minor deposits. Good VF. Rare. Ex F. David Collection.
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SKYTHIA, Olbia. Circa 437-410 BC. Cast Æ (67mm, 94.12 g, 1h). Facing gorgoneion / Sea eagle flying right, wings spread, holding in its talons a dolphin right; A-P-I-X around. Karyshkovskij p. 395, Таб. III=B, 1; V&K –; Anokhin 168; SNG BM Black Sea 380–2; SNG Pushkin 38–42; SNG Stancomb 343; Frolova & Abramzon 156–8; Sutzu II 95–6. Dark green-brown patina. VF. From the Ramrodivs Collection. Ex Harlan J. Berk inventory cc83133 (ND).
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MOESIA, Istros. Circa 260-253/40 BC. AV Stater (18.5mm, 8.47 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Corinthian helmet decorated with coiled serpent / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike, wearing long chiton, standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling stylis in left arm; below left wing, IΣ within wreath. Vîlcu & Petac Group 3, 10 (O4/R7); Price 968; HGC 3, 1797; Anadol 484–93; ANS inv. 1944.100.38434 (same dies); BM no. 1927,0504.10 (same dies); Hermitage Sale II 680 (same dies). Underlying luster. In NGC encapsulation 6323054-003, graded Ch AU, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Very rare, only the coins listed above are published (with the museum pieces likely from the Anadol hoard), none in CoinArchives. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 115 (16 September 2020), lot 80.Vîlcu & Petac associate the rare Alexander type staters struck at Istros with the participation of the city as a Seleucid ally in the Second Syrian War.
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THRACE, Abdera. Circa 450-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.85 g, 12h). Artemon, magistrate. Griffin springing left / Kantharos within linear square; AP-TE-MΩN and ivy leaf around; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera, Period IV, Group LXIX, 187 var. (unlisted dies); HGC 3, 1140; Hunterian 5. Underlying luster. Near EF. Well centered on a broad flan. Very rare, only one noted by May, two in CoinArchives.
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THRACE, Abdera. Circa 415/3-395 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 14.81 g, 12h). Heragores, magistrate. Griffin seated left, raising right foreleg / Hydria, wreathed with ivy, within linear square; EΠ H-PA-ΓO-PEΩ around; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera, Period V, Group LXXI, 201 var. (A164/P– [unlisted rev. die]); HGC 3, 1158 (same obv. die as illustration); Jameson 2457 (same obv. die). Area of weak strike. Good VF. Very rare, only one example noted by May, none in CoinArchives.
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THRACE, Abdera. Circa 415/3-395 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 14.95 g, 11h). Philados, magistrate. Griffin springing left / Bull grazing left within linear square; EΠI ΦI-ΛA-ΔOΣ around; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera, Period V, – (unlisted issue); HGC 3, –. Bright surfaces, minor doubling on reverse. Near EF. Extremely rare, unpublished issue; none in CoinArchives, and this magistrate not listed in Leschhorn.
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THRACE, Abdera. Circa 395-360 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 12.96 g, 6h). Philados, magistrate. Griffin seated left; cicada to left, ABΔH to right / Herakles seated half-left, his head turned to half-right, on lion skin draped over rock, his right hand holding club set vertically on his knee, his left arm resting on his left thigh; EΠI ΦIΛA-ΔO(Σ retrograde) at sides; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera 396 (A277/P322); AMNG II 105.4 = Ars Classica XIII, lot 620 (same dies); SNG Lockett 1132 = Weber 2379 (same obv. die). Beautiful iridescent cabinet tone. Near EF. A magnificent example, possibly the finest known of the type. From the Father & Son Collection. Ex Collection of a Cosmopolitan (Künker 351, 25 September 2021), lot 100 (hammer €120,000); Hess-Divo 335 (6 December 2018), lot 20 and front cover; Giessener Münzhandlung 44 (3 April 1989), lot 152.The superbly rendered "weary Herakles" depicted on the reverse of this stunning stater is part of a well-known sculptural motif in the ancient world that includes the famous "Farnese Hercules" now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Rome. Unlike the standing Farnese version, the die engraver of this piece depicts a seated Herakles with his heavily bearded face turned to right wearing a melancholy expression. The skin of the Nemean Lion covers the rock upon which he sits. He is surely mourning the death of his young companion Abderos, who perished while helping the hero complete his eighth labor, subduing the savage mares of Diomedes, king of the Thracian Bistones. Having captured the beasts, Herakles left them in the care of Abderos, but while he was away the youth was devoured by the mares. In a fit of rage, Herakles fed Diomedes to his own horses, and then founded a city on the site of Abderos' tomb: Abdera.
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THRACE, Ainos. Circa 412/1-410/09 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 16.49 g, 1h). Head of Hermes right, wearing petasos with pelleted rim / Goat standing right; AIN-I above, kerykeion to right; all within incuse square. May, Ainos, Period II, 259 (A159/P170); AMNG II 288; HGC 3, 1269; Boston MFA 779 = Warren 465; Jameson 1048. Iridescent tone, a few scratches and some porosity on obverse. Near EF. Ex Sheikh Saud Al-Thani Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 126, 17 November 2021), lot 89; Nomos 3 (10 May 2011), lot 38; Nomos 1 (6 May 2009), lot 33.The legendary founder of Ainos was said to be Ainios, a son of the god Apollo; the Roman poet Virgil apparently confused this name with that of the Trojan hero Aeneas and credits the city's foundation to him. The main deity of the city was Hermes Perpheraios ("the wanderer"), and it is he who is depicted on the city's early coinage. Here the messenger of the gods wears a tight-fitting conical hat called a petasos, and bears a particularly fierce expression. The goat on the reverse symbolizes the god's status as a patron of herdsmen. Ainos initially used the Persic weight standard, by which this issue would be a triple sigloi.
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THRACE, Ainos. Circa 412/1-410/09 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 16.49 g, 7h). Head of Hermes right, wearing petasos with pelleted rim / Goat standing right; AINI above, kerykeion to right; all within incuse square. May, Ainos, Period II, 268 (A165/P177); AMNG II 288; HGC 3, 1269; McClean 3826 (same obv. die); Ars Classica XIII, lot 583 (same dies). Lightly toned, small scrape on edge. EF. From the Father & Son Collection. Ex Gasvoda Collection (Triton XXII, 9 January 2019) lot 162, purchased from Baldwin's, August 2015; Gorny & Mosch 228 (9 March 2015), lot 49.
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THRACE, Maroneia. Circa 400-377 BC. AR Stater (23.5mm, 12.98 g, 7h). Aeginetic standard. Hebesas, magistrate. Horse rearing left; astragalos above / Grape arbor within linear square; HB-H-ΣA-Σ and vine leaf with berry around; all within shallow incuse square. Schönert-Geiss Period VI, 163 var. (symbol on rev., unlisted dies); HGC 3, 1528; de Luynes 1777 var. (same). Iridescent tone, some old scratches under tone, minor die wear on obverse. Good VF. Very rare with vine leaf, only the present coin in CoinArchives. From the JTB Collection. Ex North River Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 121, 6 October 2022), lot 169, purchased from Brian Kritt, January 2000.
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THRACE, Maroneia. Circa 365-330s BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 11.35 g, 6h). Kallikrates, magistrate. Horse prancing left, trailing rein; below, dog left / Grape arbor in linear square; EΠI K-AΛΛ-IKPA-TEOΣ around; all within shallow incuse square. Schönert-Geiss 491 (V35/R60); West 85 and 88 corr. (same dies); HGC 3, 1533; SNG Copenhagen 603; Jameson 1061; Traité IV 1467, pl. CCCXLII, 5. Deep iridescent tone, minor doubling, a few scratches under tone. Near EF. Well centered and struck with fresh dies. From the Pythagoras Collection.
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THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 275/50-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.91 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; in inner left field, helmet above ΠA monogram. Karayotov I 29 (O7/R22); Price 992; HGC 3, 1567. Light toned, a few light scratches under tone, slight doubling on reverse. EF. Perfectly centered. Fine Style.
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THRACE, Odessos. Circa 280-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.12 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; monogram below throne. Topalov, Odesos, Series 23, unlisted issue; AMNG I –; Price 1322 (Uncertain Black Sea); Black Sea Hoard 320 (OL/R34 – this coin, illustrated); HGC 3, 1584. Attractive light iridescent tone, underlying luster, slight die shift on obverse, a little off center on reverse. Near EF. Rare. Ex "Black Sea" Hoard.
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THRACE, Selymbria. Circa 492/0-473/0 BC. AR Oktobol (14mm, 4.43 g). Cock standing left; ΣA above / Quadripartite incuse square. Schönert-Geiss, Bisanthe 1–18 var. (unlisted dies); HGC 3, 1628. Lightly toned, some porosity, light scuff at edge on obverse. Good VF. Well centered. Rare.