Triton XXVII - Session 2
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Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVII - Session 2 . 464
MYSIA, Pergamum. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Medallion (42mm, 38.95 g, 12h). Marcus Caerellius Attalus, strategos. Struck AD 211-217. AYTKPA K MAPKOC AYP ANTΩNЄINOC, laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from the front, breastplate decorated with a gorgnoeion / ЄΠI CTP M KAIPЄΛ ATT/AΛOY ΠЄPΓAMHNΩN ΠPΩTΩN Γ NЄΩKOPΩN, Asclepius standing facing, leaning on serpent-entwined staff to left, gathering himation with right; to right, Caracalla, togate, standing left, sacrificing from patera with his right hand over lighted altar between them, he holds a scroll with his left hand. Weisser 1750; MPR II, 1546. Brown patina, scattered porosity. Near VF. Extremely rare, the second and finest known. From the CLA Collection, purchased from Pegasi Numismatics, inventory no. 9954294, 12 August 1999. Ex Waddell I (9 December 1982), lot 155.
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MYSIA, Pergamum. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ Medallion (43mm, 31.84 g, 12h). Olympic Games issue. Aur(elios) Damas, Strategos and Asiarch. Struck AD 253 or 257. AYT • K • Π • ΛIK • OY AΛЄPIANOC •, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ЄΠI C AYP • ΔAMA •/A ΠЄPΓA(MH)NΩN, • ΠΡΩTΩN • Γ •/ NЄΩKOPΩ/N, wreath with OΛ/YMΠ/IΛ in three lines, flanked by two prize crowns, each containing a palm frond; all set on prize table; below, urn, flanked on either side by a purse and whip. Weisser – (cf. 2533, Gallienus); Von Fritze, Pergamon, p. 81 and pl. IX, 4; RPC X Online 62133; SNG BN 2293 (same dies); SNG Leypold –; SNG von Aulock 7518 (same dies). Brown patina, rough surfaces, once gilt with traces remaining. Near VF. Very rare. Ex J. P. Righetti Collection, no. 0369.By the mid second century BC, Pergamum had become the the most important center of sport and physical education in the Hellenistic east. Its Nikephoria games, held every three years, had nearly the prestige and appeal of great Panhellenic games, including the Olympics, upon which they were modeled. By the second century AD, the Olympic name had even been "franchised," in a manner still poorly understood, for use at sporting contests far removed from the original quadrennial festival still held at the ancestral home of Elis, Olympia. The contests at Pergamum now honored the Roman emperors and bore the name Olympic, as attested by the reverse of this remarkable medallion, which shows the prizes awarded to the victors in the various athletic, equestrian and artistic contests, all arrayed on and around a table. The laurel wreath enclosing the name "Olympia" was likely for the winner of the premier event of the games, possibly the "stadion" foot race.
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IONIA, Ephesus. Circa 1st-3rd centuries AD. Æ Tessera (17mm, 3.16 g, 12h). KHPIΛICωAЄΠPOCΠAΛYPIN, bee / Stag kneeling left, head right; Є Φ flanking, CKOΠI in exergue. Cf. SNG Copenhagen 355; cf. BMC 186; cf. SNG von Aulock 1875 (all with legend variations). Dark brown patina, minor marks. Choice EF. A superb example of the type, with exceptionally detailed engraving. A number of bronze tesserae of the bee/stag type were struck at the cult center of Ephesus, likely during the 1st-3rd centuries AD, and are distinct from the widely varied lead issues from the same city. The legends on these bronzes cannot be translated and are, for the most part, meaningless mystical formulae, but are most likely related to the apotropaic and healing properties attributed to Artemis of Ephesus. (J. Obermajer, "The Tesserae of Ephesos in the History of Medicine," in Medical History Vol. 12, No. 3 [1966], pp. 292–4).
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IONIA, Ephesus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Medallion (48.5mm, 56.17 g, 12h). Homonoia with Alexandria in Egypt. AYT K M ANTΩ ΓOPΔIANOC CЄB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from the front / EΦECIN K AΛЄΞANΔPЄΩN, cult statue of Artemis Ephesia, wearing calathus, with supports on left; to right, Serapis standing left, raising right hand and holding scepter in left, on galley sailing left with full sail and rowers; in the background, coastal line with series of buldings with a large temple in the center; to right of the temple, boar running right. Franke & Nollé 555 (VsU/Rs59); Karwiese, MvE 5, 899 (V30/R71); RPC VII.1 400. Red-brown patina, roughness, smoothing and light tooling, once gilt with traces remaining, holed and plugged. Near VF. Extremely rare, only two known to RPC. Ex Leu Numismatik Web Auction 6 (9 December 2018), lot 529; J. P. Righetti Collection, no. 0323.
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LYDIA, Germe. Septimius Severus, with Caracalla. AD 193-211. Æ Medallion (45mm, 48.30 g, 6h). Glykon II, strategos. Struck AD 202-205. AV KAI Λ CЄΠTI CЄYHPOC Π KAI AY K M AY ANTΩNЄINOC ЄY, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Septimius Severus right, seen from behind vis-à-vis laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla left, seen from behind / ЄΠI CTPA ΓΛYKΩNOC B ΓЄPMHNΩN, at center; Hercules seated left on rock draped with lion's skin, right hand resting on club, holding cantharus in left hand; to right, Apollo stands facing, head right, holding plectrum and lyre; to right, Tyche stands left, wearing calathus, holding cornucopia in right and crowning Hercules with wreath in left; behind Hercules, Artemis standing right, drawing arrow from quiver at shoulder. Ehling 160 (V1/R1); SNG BN 986. Green-black patina, slight roughness. Good VF. Extremely rare, one of five known. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 72 (14 June 2006), lot 1167; Garth R. Drewry Collection (Triton VIII, 11-12 January 2005), lot 765; Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 992; Gorny & Mosch 64 (11 October 1993), lot 547 .This coin can be more closely dated by the magistrate's office. Glykon appears as strategos for the first time earlier in the Severan period; he appears on a coin of Germe in the name of Plautilla, hence 202-205 AD. He must have accepted his second magistracy in the period 205-209 AD, since it is recorded on a coin of Geta as Caesar. The rather crowded reverse features deities that appear individually on numerous Germe coins in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, but not in this grouping, the significance of which is uncertain. We cannot say for sure if reference is being made to a specific event, but the posture of Tyche presenting a wreath to a seated figure (or being presented one herself) is often associated with the sponsoring of agonistic games proclaimed by the emperor and eagerly sought by ambitious towns for the prestige (and income) that the city derived from the affairs. On the other hand, the city fathers would be tapped for hefty contributions toward expenses, often leaving individual magistrates like Glykon bankrupt! He at least got his name on the coin. Germe may have celebrated such a festival, which perhaps coincided with the elevation of Severus' younger son Geta to the rank of Augustus. The problem with this theory, though, is that there are no games issues struck during the Severan era at Germe. There are, however, multiple procession scenes possibly depicting an imperial visit.
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LYDIA, Hypaepa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (37mm, 23.90 g, 6h). Aurelius Damas & Aurelius Lucius Damas, strategoi. AYT K M AYP CЄ ANTΩNЄINOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / ЄΠI AYP ΔAMA KAI ΛOYKIOY CTPA YΠAIΠHNΩN, Cult statue of Artemis Anaïtis standing facing, veiled and draped; to right, Helios, radiate, standing facing, head left, holding torch in raised right hand and globe in left. Hochard 861 (D94/R209) = Altinoluk 111B = Kurth 279 (this coin); Waddell 1, lot 270. Dark brown patina, minor marks. Near EF. Extremely rare, the finer of two known specimens. Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 766; Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 631; Sternberg XIV (24 May 1984), lot 382.
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LYDIA, Sardis. temp. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Medallion (39mm, 23.24 g, 12h). Aurelius Rufinus, first archon for the second time. ACIAC ΛYΔIAC ЄΛΛAΔOC A MHTPOΠOΛIC CAPΔIC, turreted, veiled, and draped bust of the Tyche of Sardis right / ЄΠI AYP POYΦЄINOY APX A T B CAPΔIANΩN B NЄΩKOPΩN, Zeus Lydios seated left, holding Nike in right hand and scepter in left; within zodiac circle; ZЄYC ΛYΔIOC across field. Hochard 2222 (D381/R807); Kurth 340; RPC VII.1. 3 (this coin). Brown patina, roughness, smoothing, once gilt with traces remaining. Near VF. Very rare, five recorded in RPC. Ex J. P. Righetti Collection, no. 275; Lanz 163 (7 December 2016), lot 435; Lanz 151 (30 June 2011), lot 857; Peus 366 (25 October 2000), lot 731.A popular Zodiac reverse type. Lorber summarized the type as "...a symbolic map of the cosmos. Zeus, chief of the gods, is the central figure... Surrounding this scene is a broad band containing the twelve signs of the zodiac. The entire design reflects the common belief of third-century Romans that their lives were shaped by higher powers. This schema and variations on it were employed by numerous mints for different emperors from the mid-second through the mid-third centuries."
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CILICIA, Tarsus. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Tridrachm (25.5mm, 10.56 g, 12h). AYT KAI ΘE TPA ΠAP YI ΘE NEP YI TPAI A∆PIANOC CE, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder, balteus across right shoulder / TAPCEΩN MHTPOΠΟΛΕΩC, lion attacking bull kneeling left. RPC III 3264; SNG BN –; Prieur 765; SNG Levante 997. Attractive light toning, scrape and tiny spot of verdigris on reverse. Near EF. Ex Triton XXIV (19 January 2021), lot 912.
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GALATIA, Ancyra. Antinoüs. Died AD 130. Æ (32mm, 23.74 g, 7h). Julius Saturninus, legatus Augusti. ΘEOC ANTINOOC, bare head of Antinoüs right / IOYΛIOC CATOPNINOC ANKYPANOIC, Mên standing left wearing cloak and Phrygian cap, crescent on shoulder, holding anchor and scepter. Arslan 83; RPC III 2839; SNG BN 2445; Blum, Smyrne 2; SNG Copenhagen 108. Brown-green surfaces. In NGC encapsulation 6369993-002, graded VF, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 2/5, Fine Style, smoothing. Very rare. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 507 (5 January 2022), lot 279; Auctiones E45 (21 February 2016), lot 73; Schweizerische Kreditanstalt 4 (3 December 1985), lot 511.
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CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea-Eusebia. Nero, with Agrippina Junior. AD 54-68. AR Drachm (18mm, 3.74 g, 12h). Struck AD 54-56. NERO CLAVD • DIVI CLAVD • F • CAESAR • AVG • GERMANI •, laureate head of Nero right / AGRIPPINA • AVGVSTA • MATER • AVGVSTI •, draped bust of Agrippina left, her hair in a long plait down neck; double K monogram behind. Ganschow, Münzen 55a; RPC I 3640; Sydenham, Caesarea 76. Light iridescent tone, minor hairlines, slightly off center. EF. Extremly rare, three known to RPC, only two in CoinArchives, this specimen finer than all.
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CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea-Eusebia. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Didrachm (22mm, 5.89 g, 12h). CЄBACTOC AΔPIANOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / ΠATHP ΠATPI YΠATOC TO Γ, Tyche standing left, holding rudder in right hand and cornucopia in left. Ganschow, Münzen 182; RPC III 3117.6 (this coin); Sydenham, Caesarea 252. Attractively toned with light iridescence. EF. Rare variety, only six known to RPC, three in CoinArchives. Excellent portrait, among the finest known.
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ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (27mm, 11.96 g, 1h). Ephesus mint(?). Struck 28 BC. IMP • CAESAR • DIVI • F • COS • VI • LIBERTATIS • P • R • VINDEX, laureate head right / PAX, Pax standing left, holding caduceus in right hand; to right, serpent arising from cista mystica; all within laurel wreath. Sutherland Group I, 1-72 (both dies unlisted); RPC I 2203 (Cistophoric mint); RSC 218. Deep cabinet tone, minor obverse die flaw, a few minor marks under tone. Near EF. Ex Peter Corcoran Collection (Roma XVII, 28 March 2019), lot 628.
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ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (27mm, 11.70 g). Uncertain mint in Asia Minor. Struck soon after 27 BC. IMP • CAESAR, bare head right / AVGVSTVS, Sphinx seated right. Sutherland Group II 73-76 (both dies unlisted); RPC I 2204.9 (this coin, Cistophoric mint); RSC 31. Lightly toned, minor marks, a little softly struck at high points. EF. Very rare. From the Father & Son Collection. Ex Nomos 19 (17 November 2019), lot 247 (hammer CHF 36,000).
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ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (26mm, 11.87 g, 11h). Pergamum mint(?). Struck circa 27/6 BC. IMP • CAESAR, bare head right; lituus before / AVGV STVS, six grain ears bound together. Sutherland Group IIIγ, 99-115 (both dies unlisted); RPC I 2209.11 (this coin, Cistophoric mint); RSC 32. Lightly toned with hints of iridescence, minor marks under tone. EF. From the Father & Son Collection. Ex Nomos 19 (17 November 2019), lot 249 (hammer CHF 19,000); Numismatica Ars Classica 72 (16 May 2013), lot 560; Gorny & Mosch 180 (12 October 2009), lot 274; New York Sale XX (7 January 2009), lot 389; Hess-Divo 309 (28 April 2008), lot 102.
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ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (25mm, 11.95 g, 12h). Ephesus mint(?). Struck circa 25-20 BC. IMP • CAESAR, bare head right / AVGVSTVS, capricorn right, head left, bearing cornucopia on its back; all within laurel wreath. Sutherland Group IV 124 var. (O5/R–, [unrecorded rev. die]); RPC I 2213 (Cistophoric mint); RSC 16. Lightly toned, a few minor marks. EF. From the Father & Son Collection. Ex Nomos 19 (17 November 2019), lot 248 (hammer CHF 15,000).
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ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Claudius, with Agrippina. AD 41-54. AR Cistophorus (26mm, 11.44 g, 6h). Ephesus mint(?). Group II, AD 51. TI CLAVD CAES • AVG • AGRIPP • AVGVSTA, laureate head of Claudius and draped bust of Agrippina left, jugate / DIANA EPHESIA, cult statue of Diana (Artemis) Ephesia standing facing, wearing calathus, fillets hanging from wrists. RPC I 2224.3 (this coin, Cistophoric mint); RSC 1. Attractive cabinet toning, trace deposits. Good VF. Rare, among the finest known. Ex Gasvoda Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 94, 6 October 2016), lot 106; Goldberg 60 (20 September 2010), lot 2360; Bruun-Rasmussen 764 (11 December 2006), lot 5700; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part VIII, Glendining, 26 May 1959), lot 191; Glendining (15 November 1949), lot 68.
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ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Domitia. Augusta, AD 82-96. AR Cistophorus (26.5mm, 11.17 g, 6h). Struck under Domitian, AD 82. DOMITIA AVGVSTA, draped bust right, hair in long braids with single looped plait at back / VENVS AVG, Venus Victrix, seen half from behind, naked to the hips and draped below the waist, standing right, resting left elbow on column, holding scepter in left hand and helmet in right. RPC II 870; RSC 19; SNG von Aulock 6590. Old cabinet tone with deep iridescence, a few minor cleaning hairlines. Near EF. From the Wayne Scheible Collection, purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. Ex Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 854; CNG inventory 726296 (18 April 2001).Domitia Longina was the daughter of the famous Roman general Corbulo, and the mistress of Domitian before the two were married in AD 71. A boy was born to the couple, but died very young and was deified upon Domitian's accession as emperor in AD 81. Domitia was acclaimed as Augusta shortly thereafter, but the marriage was a tempestuous one and she was exiled from the palace for a time in AD 83. By the following year she had returned, and the couple seems to have arrived at a modus vivendi for the rest of Domitian's reign. The historian Cassius Dio claims Domitia had a role in her husband's assassination in September of AD 96. However, she continued to refer to herself as "Domitia, wife of Domitian" for the rest of her long life. She died peacefully sometime between AD 126 and 130.
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KINGS of ARMENIA MINOR. Aristoboulos, with Salome. AD 54-92. Æ (21.5mm, 7.89 g, 12h). Dated RY 13 (AD 66/7). BACIΛEΩC APICTOBOYΛOY ET IΓ, diademed and draped bust of Aristoboulos left / BACIΛIC CHC CAΛOMHC, diademed and draped bust of Salome left. Kovacs 300; Meshorer 365 corr. (date); Hendin 1257a; RPC I 3840 corr. (same). Dark red-brown and green patina, light scratch on reverse. Good VF. Clear and complete legends and date. Salome is described in the Gospels (Matthew 14 and Mark 6) only as the daughter of Herodias, who asked Herod Antipas for the head of John the Baptist in return for his daughter's risqué dance for the king. Salome's name is supplied by Josephus in Antiquities 18.5, where he also informs us that she grew up to marry her great-uncle Philip the Tetrarch and, after Philip's death, her cousin Aristoboulos, who is featured on the obverse of this coin and with whom Salome had three sons. Aristoboulos was the son of Herod V of Chalkis and great grandson of Herod I, and was appointed king of Armenia Minor in the first year of Nero's reign.The present issue was struck in AD 66/7 (year 13 of Aristoboulos's reign), the first year of the Jewish war and around 40 years since the execution of John the Baptist, which has been tentatively dated to some time between AD 25 and 29. Hendin (5th ed., p. 275) suggests that Aristoboulos struck this issue for propagandistic and political purposes, in the first year of the war, as a show of loyalty to Rome and his patron Nero.When RPC was published, citing three known examples of this type, the date was off the flan on two pieces and the one example with partial date had been tentatively read as date Α or Η (RPC p. 570). Frank Kovacs subsequently discovered an example with a clear date 13 (Hendin p. 275, pl. 24, same obverse die as the present coin), and Kovacs's opinion was that other reported dates were most likely mis-readings of that date. The publication of additional specimens has since confirmed Kovacs' opinion, and it is now clear that all coins of this type are dated year 13.
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CYRRHESTICA, Hierapolis. Caracalla. AD 198-217. BI Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.16 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. AVT • K • M A AN TΩNЄINOC •, laureate and cuirassed bust left, with gorgoneion on breastplate, holding scepter over shoulder in right hand, large shield suspended by baldric over left shoulder; shield is decorated with a half-length figure of the bearded Apollo of Hierapolis, wearing calathus, holding serpent-entwined spear in right hand and flower in left, set on a pedestal decorated with two eagles / ΔHMAPX • ЄΞ V ΠATOC TO • Δ •, eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; between legs, lion advancing right. Prieur 935. Lustrous, light porosity. EF. Extremely rare, only six cited by Prieur, one in CoinArchives. Much finer than Prieur's specimen. A fascinating bust type, the shield Caracalla carries is decorated with a cult image of a local deity, whom Henri Seyrig ("Sur une idole hiérapolitane," Syria 26 [1949], pp. 17-41) identified as the bearded Apollo of Hierapolis contained within the temple complex of Atargatis and Haddad. The statue is only briefly discussed by Lucian of Samosata (De Dea Syria 35), but Macrobius (Saturnalia I.17.66-67) describes it in much greater detail, informing us that Apollo wore a calathus, pointy beard, and cuirass, and held a lance and flower.
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Mark Antony & Cleopatra VII of Egypt. 36 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.08 g, 1h). Struck circa 36-34 BC. [B]ACIΛICCA KΛЄOΠATPA ΘЄA [NЄωTЄPA], diademed bust of Cleopatra right, wearing earring, necklace, and embroidered dress / ANTωNIOC AVTOKPATωP TPITON TPIωN ANΔPωN, bare head of Antony right. McAlee 174; RPC I 4094; Prieur 27; HGC 9, 1361. Lightly toned, trace deposits, minor surface cracks. VF. Two excellent portraits.
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Gaius (Caligula), with Germanicus. AD 37-41. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.04 g, 12h). ΓAIOΣ KAIΣAP ΣEBAΣTOΣ ΓEPMANIKOΣ, laureate head of Caligula right / ΓEPMANIKOΣ KAIΣAP, laureate head of Germanicus right. McAlee 227; RPC I 4163; Prieur 62; Trillmich 114. Lightly toned, minor roughness, light deposits. Near VF. Very rare, only six recorded in RPC, two in CoinArchives.