Triton XXVII - Session 3
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Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVII - Session 3 . 654
Augustus, with Divus Julius Caesar. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.62 g, 5h). Rome mint; M. Sanquinius, moneyer. Struck 17 BC. AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, bare head of Augustus right / M • SANQVI NIVS • III • VIR, youthful, laureate head of deified Julius Caesar right; above, a comet with four rays and a tail. RIC I 338; RSC 1 (Julius Caesar and Augustus); BMCRE 71-3 = BMCRR Rome 4585-7; BN 279. Darkly toned, a few scratches under tone. Good VF. Rare. Ex Grand Haven Collection (Triton XXIV, 20 January 2021); Kallman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 389, 18 January 2017), lot 578; Gorny & Mosch 164 (17 March 2008), lot 357; Giessener Münzhandlung 89 (5 May 1998), lot 393.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVII - Session 3 . 655
Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.84 g, 6h). Rome mint; C. Antistius Reginus, moneyer. Struck 13 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right / C • ANTISTIVS • REGINVS, III • VIR in exergue, sacrificial implements: simpulum and lituus above tripod and patera. RIC I 410; RSC 347; BMCRE 119-20 = BMCRR Rome 4661-2; BN 542-7. Traces of horn silver, minor cleaning marks, some smoothing on reverse. EF. Wonderful portrait.
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Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Dupondius (33mm, 24.09 g, 5h). "Triumphal Coinage" issue. Rome mint; M. Salvius Otho, moneyer. Struck 7 BC. [CAES]AR • AVGVST • PONT • MAX • TRI BVNIC • [POT], laureate head of Augustus left; behind, Victory, draped, touching fillet of laurel wreath with right hand and holding cornucopia in left / M • SALVIVS • OTHO • III • VIR • A • A • A • F • F • around large S • C. RIC I 429; BMCRE 224-5 = BMCRR Rome 4689-90; BN 685-6; CNR III 419/5 (same dies). Dark green-brown patina, some light cleaning marks. Good VF. Exceptional and rare. From the Wayne Scheible Collection, purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. (their ticket included).This coin, unusual because of its obverse, has been the subject of scholarly speculation. The obverse clearly shows Augustus as a victorous commander. By 7 BC, however, when this coin was struck, Augustus, now in his 50s, no longer personally commanded Rome's armies; instead, he acted as commander-in-chief, while it fell to his stepsons, Drusus and Tiberius, to actually take the field. Drusus died in 9 BC from complications resulting from a fall. Thereafter Tiberius became Rome's main commander until his retirement to Rhodes in 4 BC. This issue may then commemorate Tiberius' victories in Germania, as well as his subsequent triumph and assumption of the consulship for that year (Vell. Pat. 2.97).
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Divus Augustus. Died AD 14. Æ Dupondius (29mm, 15.88 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Gaius (Caligula), AD 37-41. DIVVS • AVGVSTVS, S C across field, radiate head left / CONSENSV SENAT • ET • EQ • ORDIN • P • Q • R •, Augustus, togate, seated left on curule chair, holding branch in right hand and resting left against side. RIC I 56 (Gaius); BMCRE 88–91 (Caligula); BN 137–8 (Caligula). Glossy green patina, smoothing and light cleaning marks. EF. From the Wayne Scheible Collection, purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. (their ticket included).
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Julia Augusta (Livia). Augusta, AD 14-29. Æ Dupondius (30mm, 15.55 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Tiberius, AD 22-23. SALVS • AVGVSTA, bareheaded and draped bust of Julia Augusta (Livia) as Salus Augusta right, wearing waved hair and fastened in a knot at the back / TI • CAESAR • DIVI • AVG • F • AVG • P M • TR • POT • XXIIII • around large S • C. RIC I 47 (Tiberius); BMCRE 81-4 (Tiberius); BN 63-7 (Tiberius). Glossy brown surfaces, smoothing scratches. VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVII - Session 3 . 659
Tiberius, with Divus Augustus. AD 14-37. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.81 g, 8h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 14-16. TI CΛESΛR DIVI ΛVG F ΛVGVSTVS, laureate head of Tiberius right / DIVOS ΛVGVST DIVI F, laureate head of Divus Augustus right; six-pointed star above. RIC I 24; Lyon 118, 6a (D3/R4); Calicó 311; BMCRE 29; BN 1-2; Adda 16 (same rev. die); Biaggi 167; Jameson 32; Mazzini 3 (Tiberius and Augustus). Lustrous, some light hairlines. EF. Two wonderful portraits. Rare. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 119 (with Jesús Vico, 6 October 2020), lot 7.The son of Augustus' wife Livia by her previous marriage to a member of the Claudian family, Tiberius Claudius Nero was born in 42 BC in the last days of the Roman Republic. Augustus had ambivalent feelings toward his stepson, finding him dour and humorless, but still provided him with an excellent education and an accelerated career. He found his true calling as a soldier, where he spent years in the field with his legions expanding the Empire's holdings in the Balkans and Germany. In 12 BC, Augustus arranged for his widowed daughter Julia to marry Tiberius, seemingly a mark of high favor. But Julia was promiscuous and capricious, and the marriage was a failure. A despairing Tiberius went into exile in Rhodes in 6 BC, seemingly ending his public life. With the deaths of Augustus' two grandsons, Tiberius was recalled to Rome in A.D. 4, officially adopted and granted the Tribunican power, marking him out clearly as successor. From then forward, he was essentially co-emperor and succeeded to the throne without challenge upon Augustus' death on August 19, AD 14. His first coinage issues quite understandably stressed his dynastic connections and the deification of his adoptive father.
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Tiberius. AD 14-37. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.78 g, 3h). "Tribute Penny" type. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Group 1, AD 15-18. TI CΛESΛR DIVI ΛVG F ΛVGVSTVS, laureate head right / PONTIF MΛXIM, Livia (as Pax) seated right on chair, holding scepter in right hand and olive branch in left; plain chair legs, double line below. RIC I 25; Lyon 143 (unlisted dies); Calicó 305d; BMCRE 30-3; BN 13-5; Biaggi 169; Jameson 31; Mazzini 15. In NGC encapsulation 6029601-005, graded AU, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5.
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Tiberius. AD 14-37. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.79 g, 9h). "Tribute Penny" type. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Group 4, AD 18-35. TI CΛESΛR DIVI ΛVG F ΛVGVSTVS, laureate head right; one ribbon on shoulder / PONTIF MΛXIM, Livia, as Pax, seated right, holding scepter in right hand and olive branch in left, feet on footstool; ornate chair legs, single line below. RIC I 30; Lyon 150; RSC 16a; BMCRE 48-60; BN 28-31. Lustrous, hairlines. EF. Portrait in high relief. Ex DFA Collection.Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Shall we give, or shall we not give. But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, "Why tempt ye me? Bring me a penny, that I may see it." And they brought it. And he saith unto them, "whose is this image and superscription?" And they said unto him, Caesar's. And Jesus, answering, said unto them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." (Mark 12:14-17)Since Tiberius was the reigning Caesar at the time this famous incident took place in Jerusalem, it is believed by many that the famous "penny" (a James-era English translation of "denarius") was a silver denarius of Tiberius.
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Tiberius. AD 14-37. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.85 g, 7h). "Tribute Penny" type. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Group 6, AD 36-37. TI CΛESΛR DIVI ΛVG F ΛVGVSTVS, laureate head right; long, parallel ribbons, caricature portrait / PONTIF MΛXIM, Livia (as Pax) seated right on chair, feet on footstool, holding spear in right hand and olive branch in left; ornate chair legs, single line below. RIC I 29 var. (scepter); Lyon 153; Calicó 305c var. (same); BMCRE 46-7 var. (same); cf. BN 22; Biaggi 170 var. (same); cf. Mazzini 15*. In NGC encapsulation 6029810-001, graded VF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5, "Boscoreale" tone. Ex Monaco Collection (Heritage 3094, 19 August 2021), lot 32016; Jonathan K. Kern [Lexington] Collection (Heritage 3035, 3 September 2014), lot 29197; Coppens Collection (Bourgey, 6 December 1961), lot 11.
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Tiberius. AD 14-37. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 26.49 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 36-37. Empty horse-drawn quadriga right, its side ornamented with trophy, captive seated left, Victory standing right, erecting trophy, and wreath / TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST P M TR POT XXXIIX around large S • C. RIC I 66; BMCRE 130; BN 116-7. Brown patina. Near EF. Amazing details on the obverse. From the Gilbert Steinberg Collection, purchased from Bowers & Ruddy Galleries. Ex Auctiones AG 11 (30 September 1980), lot 399.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVII - Session 3 . 664
Tiberius. AD 14-37. Æ Sestertius (31.5mm, 25.55 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 36-37. Hexastyle temple with flanking wings; Concordia seated within, Hercules and Mercury standing on flanking podia; Jupiter, Juno, Minerva and Victories above pediment / TI CAESAR • DIVI • AVG [• F • AV]GVST • P • M TR POT XXXIIX • around large S • C. RIC I 67; BMCRE 132-4; BN 119-21. Brown patina, minor smoothing. Good VF. From the Gilbert Steinberg Collection, purchased from Bowers & Ruddy Galleries, 20 July 1981.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVII - Session 3 . 665
Anonymous issues. temp. Tiberius, AD 14-37. Æ Tessera – Spintria (22mm, 3.97 g, 10h). Struck circa AD 22/3-37. Male figure kneeling right on couch, raising left leg of woman laying on her back and resting her head on her left elbow / Campana, Spintriae Series 10, dies D19/VII; Simonetta & Riva scene 10, dies A/VII; Buttrey 8. Brown patina, some roughness and deposits, cleaning scratches, light smoothing. Fine. Extremely rare – only two examples of this die numeral recorded for this particular erotic scene, both of them in museum collections. From the Wayne Scheible Collection.For centuries, numismatists have been puzzled by a curious series of bronze tokens bearing on their reverse numerals from I to XVI. The obverse types on these tokens vary dramatically, bearing not only portraits of Augustus, Tiberius, and Livia, but also various erotic scenes, heterosexual and (possibly) homosexual, or bigas, maenads, capricorns, and other scattered mythological figures. The most prominent theories suggest that they were tickets for entrance to the theater or the games, and the numerals represented sections in the stands, or that they were brothel tokens, with the obverse representing a chosen "product" and the reverse the price. However, both of these theories seem unlikely when one considers that the two seemingly divergent themes are joined by die links to the numeral reverses. Alberto Campana ("Le Spintriae: Tessere Romane con Raffigurazioni Erotiche," in La Donna Romana Imagini e Vita Quotidiana [2009], pp. 43-96) has published a new die study of the erotic pieces, recording eight specimens with at least basic find spot information, most notably a sealed tomb in Modena, firmly dated to the mid-late Julio-Claudian period, as well as other examples found around the Roman world in Palestine, Gaul, Germany, and Britain, often in areas of military interest. He notes that these tesserae are primarily struck in orichalcum, a metal more valuable than regular copper or bronze. Considering the find spots and the metal used in the tokens, Campana suggests that they were luxury gifts given by the Imperial house to important military figures for use in some now-forgotten board game, possibly a variant of duodecim scripta, a game resembling modern backgammon ("Les spintriae et leur possible fonction ludique," in Archeothema 31 [2013], p. 66).
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Nero Claudius Drusus. Died 9 BC. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.78 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck under Claudius, AD 41-42. NERO CLAVDIVS DRVSVS GERMANICVS IMP, head left, wearing oak wreath (corona civica) / DE above and GERM on architrave of triumphal arch surmounted by equestrian statue right, holding spear in right hand, between two trophies, each with seated and bound captive at foot. RIC I 69 (Claudius; Rome) var. (laureate); von Kaenel Type 12, 202.255 (V158/R159) = CNR XI 1/1 = Sartiges 46 (this coin); Lyon 22 (unlisted dies); Calicó 315; BMCRE 95 (Claudius; Rome) var. (same); BN 2; Adda 17; Biaggi 180; Mazzini 1. Edge scuff. Good VF. Ex Rauch 114 (16 June 2022), lot 66; Vicomte de Sartiges Collection (Ars Classica XVIII, 10 October 1938), lot 68.
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Nero Claudius Drusus. Died 9 BC. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 27.18 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, AD 42-43. NERO • CLAVDIVS • DRVSVS • GERMANICVS • IMP, bare head left / TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P • IMP • P • P •, S C in exergue, Claudius, bareheaded and togate, seated left on curule chair, holding out branch in right hand and resting left hand on lap; around the chair are scattered arms–spears, shields, cuirass, helmet. RIC I 109 (Claudius); von Kaenel Type 72; BMCRE 208-211a (Claudius); BN 198-203 (Claudius). Brown surfaces. Good VF. Ex Gemini III (9 January 2007), lot 344.
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Agrippina Senior. Died AD 33. Æ Sestertius (37.5mm, 31.32 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Gaius (Caligula), AD 37-41. AGRIPPINA • M F MAT • C • CAESARIS AVGVSTI, draped bust right; her hair is waved and knotted in a club at the back; a single lock falls free down the neck / S P Q R above, MEMORIAE/ AGRIPPINAE in two lines high in left field, carpentum drawn left by two mules, the cover supported by standing figures at the corners, and with ornamented side; eight spokes in wheel. RIC 55 (Gaius); Trillmich Group I, 3 (same dies); BMCRE 86-7 (Caligula); BN 128-9 (Caligula). Green patina, earthen deposits, minor smoothing. Near EF. Well centered and complete. From the Wayne Scheible Collection. Ex Edward J. Waddell inventory C24106 (ND); Stack's (6 December 1995), lot 278; Numismatica Ars Classica 7 (2 March 1994), lot 681.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Triton XXVII - Session 3 . 669
Agrippina Senior. Died AD 33. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 29.68 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, AD 42-43. AGRIPPINA • M • F • GERMANICI • CAESARIS, draped bust right / TI • CLAVDIVS • CAESAR • AVG • GERM • P • M TR • P • IMP • P • P • around large S • C. RIC I 102 (Claudius); von Kaenel Type 78; BMCRE 219-23 (Claudius); BN 236-40 (Claudius). Red-brown and green patina, smoothed and details slightly enhanced. EF. Ex Triton XVI (8 January 2013), lot 1032; Leo Benz Collection (Lanz 94, 22 November 1999), lot 185; John W. Garrett Collection (Part I, Numismatic Fine Arts & Leu, 16 May 1984), lot 734, purchased from M. Schulman, 1 April 1927; Baron Augustus Carolus Delbeke Collection; J. Hirsch XI (4 May 1904), lot 758.
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Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.42 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck late summer-autumn AD 114. IMP CAES TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CONSERVATORI PATRIS PATRIAE, S • C in exergue, Jupiter, nude except for cloak hanging behind him from his shoulders, standing left, holding thunderbolt in right hand over Trajan standing left, holding laurel branch in right hand and scepter in left. RIC II –; Woytek 507f (this coin); Strack 448β; Banti 39 var. (bust type); BMCRE p. 215, * corr. (bust type); BN –. Brown patina, some green, flan preparation marks on obverse, light smoothing. Good VF. Extremely rare, Woytek records only one other example in the Vatican Collection, which BMCRE quotes with incorrect information about the bust variant. From the Wayne Scheible Collection. Ex Gemini II (10 January 2006), lot 347 (hammer $9,000); Lanz 123 (30 May 2005), lot 562.
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Agrippina Senior. Died AD 33. Æ Sestertius (36.5mm, 29.71 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, AD 42-43. AGRIPPINA • M • F • GERMANICI CAESARIS, draped bust right / TI • CLAVDIVS • CAESAR • AVG • GERM • P • M • TR • P • IMP • P • P • around large S • C. RIC I 102 (Claudius); von Kaenel Type 78; BMCRE 219-23 (Claudius); BN 236-40 (Claudius). Dark green and brown patina, minor smoothing. Good VF.
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Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 27.28 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck winter AD 114-early 116. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO. AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust right / SENATVS POPV LVSQVE ROMANVS, S C across field, Felicitas, draped, standing left, holding up caduceus in right hand and cornucopia in left. RIC II 672; Woytek 534v2 (this coin); Strack 455; Banti 106; BMCRE 1002-3; BN 845-6. Handsome brown patina, marks on edge. Good VF. From the Wayne Scheible Collection. Ex Berk BBS 89 (14 February 1996), lot 554; Numismatic Fine Arts XII (23 March 1983), lot 256; Hess-Leu [9] (2 April 1958), lot 317.
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Agrippina Senior. Died AD 33. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 30.49 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, AD 42-43. AGRIPPINA • M • F • GERMANICI CAESARIS, draped bust right / TI • CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG • GERM • P • M • TR • P • IMP • P • P • around large S • C; c/m: NCAPR (= Nvmmvs Caesare Avgvsto PRobatvs[?]) in rectangular incuse. RIC I 102 (Claudius); von Kaenel Type 78; BMCRE 219-23 (Claudius); BN 236-40 (Claudius); c/m: Pangerl 1; CNR XII 52/9 (this coin). Green and red-brown patina. Host coin: VF; c/m: VF. From the Libertas Collection, purchased 1 December 1985. Ex Sir Arthur J. Evans Collection (Ars Classica XVII, 3 October 1934), lot 1242.
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Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 24.81 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 114-116. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust right / SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS, FORT RED/ S · C in two lines in exergue, Fortuna Redux seated left, holding rudder and cornucopia. RIC II 652; Woytek 542v; Banti 66. Attractive brown patina with some green and red, some smoothing on edge. EF. Fine style. Ex T.R. Fehrenbach Collection (Heritage 3089, 21 January 2021), lot 32192; Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 890 and color plate 15; Astarte 1 (11 May 1998), lot 243.