Auction 126 - Session 2
Date: 2024-05-29 00:00:00
Lots: 316
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Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 435
ATTICA, Athens. temp. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (21.5mm, 7.53 g, 11h). Head of Athena right wearing crested Corinthian helmet / Facing bucranium with fillets hanging from horns. Kroll 403 (same rev. die as plated specimen); RPC X Online 59897; Svoronos, Athenes pl. 99, 11. Red-brown surfaces, light roughness, smoothing. Near EF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 436
KINGS of BOSPORUS. Rhoemetalces, with Hadrian. AD 131/2-153/4. AV Stater (20mm, 7.78 g, 1h). Dated Bosporan Era 428 (AD 131/2). Diademed and draped bust of Rhoemetalces right; to right, club downward / Laureate head of Hadrian right; HKY (date) below. Frolova p. 143, A/a corr. (symbol incorrectly listed as spear); MacDonald 437/2; RPC III 908.5 (this coin); Anokhin 502a. Flan crack, a bit off center. Near EF. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 1030.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 437
BITHYNIA, Cius. Sabina. Augusta, AD 128-136/7. Æ (31mm, 20.24 g, 6h). Draped bust right, hair coiled with pearls atop double stephane / Dikaiosyne standing left, holding scales and cornucopia. RG 36 corr. (rev. description); RPC III 1053.2 (this coin, illustrated). Red-brown patina, deposits, scratches, small edge split. VF. Extremely rare and with a fine style portrait, only two known to RPC. From the Mesogeios Collection, purchased from Edgar L. Owen. Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 91, 19 September 2012), lot 509; Münzen & Medaillen AG FPL 325 (July 1971), no. 20.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 438
BITHYNIA, Nicaea. Messalina. Augusta, AD 41-48. Æ (33mm, 22.90 g, 7h). C. Cadius Rufus, proconsul. Struck circa AD 47-48. Draped bust left, hair in long plait / Façade of basilica: a two story tetrastyle central bay with two story wings flanking; inscribed entablature above, clippeus in pediment. RG 33 var. (bust right); RPC I 2034. Yellow-brown patina, light tooling. Good Fine. Extremely rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 439
BITHYNIA, Uncertain. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Cistophorus (24.5mm, 7.90 g, 6h). Struck circa AD 198-202. Laureate head right / Legionary aquila right between two vexilla. Metcalf, Severan 1 (OS1/R1); Calomino, Severan pp. 153; BMC 758. Lightly toned with luster, minor edge marks, trace deposits. VF. Extremely rare, only this coin in CoinArchives. From the Weise Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 126 (14 October 2003), lot 1790 (hammer €1700).
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 440
BITHYNIA, Uncertain. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Cistophorus (23.5mm, 9.18 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 198-202. Laureate head right / Victory advancing left, holding open wreath in both hands over shield inscribed SP/QR set on low base. Metcalf, Severan 6 (OS2/R6); Calomino, Severan pp. 153; BMC 759n. Lustrous, light porosity, light scratch on obverse, reverse scrape. VF. Extremely rare, possibly the second known. From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 64 (24 September 2003), lot 1138 (hammer $1660).
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 441
TROAS, Alexandria Troas. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ (25mm, 7.78 g, 1h). Struck circa AD 184-190. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Statue of Apollo Smintheus standing right on base, quiver over shoulder, holding bow and sacrificing from patera over tripod altar to right, within tetrastyle temple seen in perspective with steps, pellet in pediment, decorated with acrostolium; on right column, Nike standing right. Bellinger A220 var. (no altar); RPC IV.2 Online 24 corr. (Nike not described). Dark green-brown patina, minor scratches. Near EF. Extremely rare, two in RPC, none in CoinArchives. An extremely well-detailed reverse scene.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 442
CARIA, Alabanda. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (31mm, 16.42 g, 1h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; c/m; bust of Geta or Caracalla right, within incuse circle / Homonoia standing facing, head left, wearing calathus, holding patera and cornucopia, to left, lighted altar. Waddington 2113. For c/m: Howgego 39. Brown patina, light porosity, small scrape on reverse. Near EF. Extremely rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 443
CARIA, Alabanda. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (33mm, 16.01 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; c/m: bust of Caracalla right within incuse circle / Homonoia standing facing, head left, wearing calathus, holding patera and cornucopia, to left, lighted altar. BMC 49; SNG München 43. For c/m: Howgego 39ii. Dark brown patina, light porosity. Good VF. Very rare.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 444
CARIA, Stratonicaea. Septimius Severus, with Julia Domna. AD 193-211. Æ (36.5mm, 24.78 g, 12h). Leon, son of Alcaios, prytanis. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Septimius vis-à-vis draped bust of Domna; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing calathus, holding patera and torch; at feet left, dog standing left, looking right. BMC 56; SNG von Aulock 2674. For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Brown patina with earthen highlights, reverse porosity, flan adjustment marks. Good VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 445
CARIA, Stratonicaea. Septimius Severus, with Julia Domna. AD 193-211. Æ (37mm, 24.32 g, 6h). Leon, son of Alcaios, prytanis. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Septimius vis-à-vis draped bust of Domna; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Zeus Panamaros, draped, on horseback right, holding scepter; at feet right, lighted altar. BMC 55; SNG von Aulock 2668. For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Brown patina with earthen highlights, minor porosity, area of light weakness on reverse. Good VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 446
CARIA, Stratonicaea. Septimius Severus, with Julia Domna. AD 193-211. Æ (39mm, 23.82 g, 12h). Tiberius Claudius Aristeas, magistrate. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Septimius vis-à-vis draped bust of Domna; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Cult statue of Artemis Ephesia, facing, wearing calathus and having supports, flanked by stags; star and crescent in upper field. SNG von Aulock 2670. For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Brown patina, flan adjustment marks, light roughness on reverse. VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 447
CARIA, Stratonicaea. Septimius Severus, with Julia Domna. AD 193-211. Æ (39mm, 28.61 g, 12h). Iason, son of Cleoros, grammateus. Struck circa AD 205-209. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Septimius vis-à-vis draped bust of Domna; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing calathus, holding patera and torch; at feet left, dog standing left, looking right. SNG Copenhagen 507. For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Brown patina with earthen highlights, minor pitting, flan adjustment marks, cleaning scratches, small flan crack, reverse double struck. Good VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 448
CARIA, Stratonicaea. Septimius Severus, with Geta as Caesar. AD 193-211. Æ (35.5mm, 20.45 g, 5h). Damnatio Memoriae. Philon, prytanis. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Septimius vis-à-vis [laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Geta]; c/m: laureate bust of Caracalla right within circular incuse / Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing calathus, holding patera and torch; at feet left, lighted altar. BMC 71; SNG von Aulock 2678. For c/m: Howgego 84. Brown patina, light porosity. VF. Portrait of Geta erased, Caracalla's Damnatio Memoriae of Geta applied after his murder in AD 211.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 449
CARIA, Stratonicaea. Septimius Severus, with Geta as Caesar. AD 193-211. Æ (35mm, 22.97 g, 6h). Damnatio Memoriae. Iouliades, son of Hierokles, prytanis. Laureate and cuirassed bust of Septimius, gorgoneion on breastplate vis-à-vis [laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Geta]; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Zeus Panamaros, draped, on horseback right, holding scepter; at feet right, lighted altar. SNG von Aulock 2679. For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Dark brown patina, minor marks. Near EF. Portrait of Geta erased, Caracalla's Damnatio Memoriae of Geta applied after his murder in AD 211.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 450
CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 198-217. Æ (34.5mm, 21.51 g, 12h). Tiberius Claudius Dionysios, president of the college of the grammateis. Struck AD 202-205. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla vis-à-vis draped bust of Plautilla; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing calathus, holding patera and torch; at feet left, dog standing left, looking right. BMC 65; SNG von Aulock 2694. For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Brown patina, light peripheral roughness, flan adjustment marks. VF. Three Carian cities - Alinda, Alabanda, and Stratonicaea - commemorated the marriage between Caracalla and Plautilla by issuing coins with dual portraits proclaiming the young empress as "the new goddess Hera." As Ken Harl notes (Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East: A.D. 180-275 [Berkeley, CA: University of California Press], p. 41): "By implication, Caracalla was envisioned as a youthful Zeus, so that the imperial marriage became a symbolic reenactment of the celestial one."
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 451
CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 198-217. Æ (37mm, 21.39 g, 12h). Tiberius Claudius Dionysios, president of the college of the grammateis. Struck AD 202-205. Draped bust of Plautilla vis-à-vis laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla; c/m: ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Zeus Panamaros, draped, on horseback right, holding scepter; at feet right, lighted altar. BMC 66; SNG von Aulock 2695. For c/m: Howgego 536. Brown patina, light roughness, rub on obverse. Good VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 452
CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Geta as Caesar. AD 198-217. Æ (36mm, 26.35 g, 6h). Damnatio Memoriae. Zosimus II, grandson of Posittus, prytanis. Struck under Septimius Severus, circa AD 198-202. [Bareheaded and draped bust of Geta] vis-à-vis laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing calathus, holding patera and torch; at feet left, dog standing left, looking right. SNG von Aulock 2692. For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Brown patina, scrape on reverse, small flan crack. Good VF. Portrait of Geta erased, Caracalla's damnatio memoriae of Geta applied after his murder in AD 211. Upon Septimius' passing in AD 211, his sons Caracalla and Geta assumed joint rule of the empire. Their joint rule was a failure, the Imperial Palace was separated into two sections and they threatened to divide the empire between them. During the Festival of Saturnalia, December 211, Caracalla tried unsuccessfully to have his brother assassinated. But a week later, at an arranged meeting in their mother's quarters, Geta was murdered by Caracalla's centurions.Caracalla immediately ordered a damnatio memoriae of his brother's image: statues were removed, paintings were destroyed or, like the Severan Tondo erased, and coins were recalled to have his image carved out. This damnatio was especially apparent on the provincial coinage of Pergamum in Mysia and Stratonicaea in Caria. It is estimated that approximately 95% of the dual bust types at Stratonicea have had the portrait of Geta erased, many of them having a countermark of Roma or Caracalla stamped over his bust.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 453
CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Geta as Caesar. AD 198-217. Æ (39.5mm, 33.78 g, 6h). Damnatio Memoriae. Zosimos II, grandson of Posittos, prytanis. Struck under Septimius Severus, circa AD 198-202. [Bareheaded and draped bust of Geta] vis-à-vis laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Zeus Panamaros, draped, on horseback right, holding scepter; at feet right, lighted altar. SNG von Aulock 2691; SNG Copenhagen 510. For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Dark brown patina, flan adjustment marks, a few pits. VF. Portrait of Geta erased, Caracalla's damnatio memoriae of Geta applied after his murder in AD 211.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 454
CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Geta as Caesar. AD 198-217. Æ (35mm, 25.40 g, 11h). Damnatio Memoriae. Flavius Leon Lena, archon. Struck under Septimius Severus, circa AD 205-209. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla vis-à-vis [laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Geta]; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing calathus, holding patera and torch; at feet left, dog standing left, looking right. SNG von Aulock 2686 var. (legends). For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Brown patina, flan adjustment marks, small flan crack. Good VF. Portrait of Geta erased, Caracalla's damnatio memoriae of Geta applied after his murder in AD 211.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 2 . 455
CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla & Geta. AD 209-211. Æ (34mm, 21.85 g, 7h). Damnatio Memoriae. Iouliades, son of Hierokles, prytanis. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla vis-à-vis [laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Geta]; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing calathus, holding patera and torch; at feet left, lighted altar. Cf. Leu EA 23, lot 3627 (same obv. die, same magistrate). For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Brown patina, light porosity, flan adjustment marks. Near EF. Very rare. Portrait of Geta erased, Caracalla's damnatio memoriae of Geta applied after his murder in AD 211.