Auction 126 - Session 3
Date: 2024-05-28 00:00:00
Lots: 322
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Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 752
Nerva. AD 96-98. AR Denarius (16.5mm, 3.33 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 97. Laureate head right / Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, guttus, and lituus. RIC II 24; RSC 48. Attractively toned, some iridescence. Near EF. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXII (7 December 1994), lot 374.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 753
Nerva. AD 96-98. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 28.49 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 97. Laureate head right / Fortuna standing facing, holding rudder and cornucopia; S C across field. RIC II 83; Banti 21. Green patina, edge split, lightly smoothed. Good VF. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex New York Sale III (7 December 2000), lot 669.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 754
Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.56 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 103-104. Laureate head right / View of the Circus Maximus, showing a colonnaded front, with arch, indicating gateway, surmounted by facing quadriga, on right, and, behind it, higher up, a similar arch with quadriga, and another arch, surmounted by quadriga facing right at extreme left: the sides of the Circus are not seen but the back is indicated by a sweep of colonnades: in the interior is the great obelisk in center; to left and right smaller obelisks. RIC II 571; Woytek 175a; Banti 272; Elkins, Monuments Figure 111. Dark green-brown patina, some red, areas of smoothing and light pitting, several spots of fill. VF. From the Bellwether Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, April 1994.The Circus Maximus, perhaps the second greatest monument built for the benefit of Rome's citizens after the famed Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum), was restored by Trajan in AD 103.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 755
Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 28.90 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 104/5-107. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Victory standing right, left foot set on helmet, holding stylus in right hand and resting left on shield inscribed VIC/ DAC in two lines set on palm tree trunk. RIC II 528; Woytek 204cA; Banti 168. Brown patina, smoothing. Good VF. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Toliver Besson Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 115, 16 September 2020), lot 641; Heritage 3046 (14 April 2016), lot 29292; Daniel M. Friedenberg Collection (Goldberg 25, 31 May 2004), lot 3155; Classical Numismatic Group 38 (6 June 1996), lot 969; Superior Stamp & Coin FPL (Summer 1981), no. 117.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 756
Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34.5mm, 26.42 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 106-107. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Roma standing left, holding Victory and spear; at feet to left, Dacian kneeling right, raising hands. RIC II 486 var. (bust type); Woytek 250b; Banti 122. Brown patina, cleaning scratches. Near EF. Bold portrait. From the Wild Rose Collection, purchased from Pars Coins, March 2017.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 757
Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Quinarius (15.5mm, 1.59 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa mid AD 107-111. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Victory advancing right, holding palm frond and wreath. RIC II 133; Woytek 372bC; King 4; RSC 79. Iridescent toning. EF. An exceptional grade for this scarce denomination. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 87 (8 October 2015), lot 216; Rauch 72 (20 September 2003), lot 567; Numismatica Ars Classica 11 (29 April 1998), lot 418.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 758
Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.14 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa mid AD 107-108. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Front view of octastyle temple on podium of three steps: togate figure standing in the center of the columns; in pediment, seated figure between reclining figures; on roof, five standing figures. RIC II 575; Woytek 302bD (this coin cited and illustrated); Banti 290; Elkins, Monuments Figure 115. Attractive green patina, lightly smoothed. Near EF. A handsome architectural type. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 111 (29 May 2019), lot 684; Lanz 109 (27 May 2002), lot 403.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 759
Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.77 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa mid AD 107-110. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Arched, single-span bridge with seven posts across river; single-bay arches at either end; boat sailing left in river below. RIC II 569; Woytek 314bC4; Banti 262. Green patina, smoothed. Good VF. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Lanz 161 (7 December 2015), lot 292.The bridge on the reverse of this coin is generally thought to be that constructed across the Danube by Trajan's architect, Apollodorus of Damascus, in AD 104. There is good circumstantial evidence for this. The date range for this coin's issue is closely contemporary with the date of the bridge's construction and would fit in well programmatically with those war-related issues of the same time frame.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 760
Trajan. AD 98-117. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.29 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 108-110. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COS V P P S P Q R OP TIMO PRINC, Ceres, draped, wearing wreath of grain ears, standing left, holding grain ears pointed downward in right hand and long vertical torch in left. RIC II 109 var. (bust type); Allen Series 42, Type IX (dies 26/ix.1); Woytek 291f; Calicó 996a (same rev. die as illustration); BMCRE 258-9; BN 413-5; Biaggi 469 var. (break in rev. legend); Mazzini 65 v.; Heritage 3071, lot 33274 (same dies). Lightly toned, underlying luster, edge marks. Near EF. Ex Grand Haven Collection (Triton XXIV, 19 January 2021), lot 1081; Triton XXI (9 January 2018), lot 750.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 761
Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (31.5mm, 24.10 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 111. Laureate head right / Arabia standing left, holding branch and bundle of cinnamon sticks; to left, camel advancing left. RIC II 466 var. (bust type); Woytek 363a; Banti 23. Green-brown patina, smoothing. Near EF. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex T. R. Fehrenbach Collection (Heritage 3089, 21 January 2021), lot 32191; Lanz 60 (11 June 1992), lot 433.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 762
Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Dupondius (28.5mm, 11.43 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 112/113-114. Radiate bust right, wearing aegis / Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornucopia. RIC II 626 var. (bust type); Woytek 481c (this coin cited and illustrated). Mottled green-brown and red surfaces, smoothed, details enhanced. Near EF. Rare with this bust type. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 98 (12 December 2016), lot 1158; Gorny & Mosch 176 (10 March 2009), lot 2255; Gorny & Mosch 160 (9 October 2007), lot 2314.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 763
Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 27.60 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck winter AD 114-early 116. Laureate and draped bust right / S C across field, Fortuna Redux seated left, holding rudder and cornucopia. RIC II 652 var. (S C in exergue); Woytek 542v-2 (this coin cited); Banti 66 var. (same). Brown patina, light smoothing. VF. Woytek knew of only two examples with S C across field, including this coin. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 1432.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 764
Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Dupondius (26.5mm, 14.23 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck winter AD 114-early 116. Radiate and draped bust right / Fortuna seated left, holding rudder set on ground and cornucopia. RIC II 653; Woytek 543v. Attractive dark green patina, minor marks, smoothing, flan crack. Near EF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 765
Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.19 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa autumn AD 116-August AD 117. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis, with bare chest showing, wearing balteus; globe below / Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornucopia. RIC II 333 var. (bust type); Woytek 570tt+; RSC 192 var. (same). Toned, some underlying luster, flan crack. EF. Very rare with this bust type. Woytek listed four examples. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Michael Kelly Collection (Roma XVII, 29 March 2019), lot 745; Spink E-Sale 18055 (7 November 2018), lot 325.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 766
Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 24.88 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck after 20 February AD 116-August 117. Laureate and draped bust right / Trajan, laureate and in military attire, standing right, holding reversed spear and parazonium; around feet, Mesopotamia seated left, head right, and the Tigris and Euphrates seated right, facing one another, leaning on inverted urn from which water flows. RIC II 642; Woytek 590v–2; Banti 30 (same rev. die as illustration). Green patina, areas of smoothing, edge smoothed, earthen deposits. Good VF.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 767
Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 28.73 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck 20 February AD 116-August 117. Laureate and draped bust right / Trajan seated left on daïs, presenting Parthamaspates to Parthia kneeling right; to right of Trajan, prefect standing left. RIC II 667; Woytek 594v–25 (this coin, cited and illustrated); Banti 96. Dark green and tan patina, scratches, smoothing. Good VF. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Rauch 108 (4 June 2019), lot 171; Rauch 102 (7 November 2016), lot 387; Vinchon (24 November 1994), lot 438; Walter Niggeler Collection (Part 3, Bank Leu/Münzen und Medaillen AG, 2 November 1967), lot 1232; Henry Platt Hall Collection (Part II, Glendining's, 16 November 1950), lot 1309.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 768
Plotina. Augusta, AD 105-123. AR Denarius (20.5mm, 3.34 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Trajan, AD 112-summer 114. Draped bust right, wearing hair bunched high in front and held in position by a double stephane, hair elaborately waved at back and falls down in a queue / Vesta, veiled and draped, seated left on chair without back, holding palladium and transverse scepter. RIC II 730 (Trajan); Woytek 705–1 (Trajan); RSC 3. Lightly toned, small die flaw on obverse. Good VF. Struck on a broad flan from dies of excellent style. From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Thomas A. Palmer Collection (Triton XXV, 11 January 2022), lot 877; Helios 6 (9 March 2011), lot 153 (hammer €6,000).
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 769
Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.13 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 118. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right with exposed upper part of breastplate visible, wearing balteus / P M TR P COS II, SALVS AVG in exergue, Salus, draped, seated left on throne, feeding out of patera in right hand snake coiled around and rising from altar to left and resting left arm on back of throne. RIC II.3 135; Strack 40; Calicó 1369a (same obv. die as illustration); BMCRE p. 250, note 84; Biaggi 654. Attractively toned, light marks, minor deposits. Good VF. Bold portrait struck in high relief. From the LCM Collection. Ex Roma XXI (24 March 2021), lot 593; Numismatica Ars Classica 92 (23 May 2016), lot 546.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 770
Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.59 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 119-circa mid 120. Laureate bust with bare chest right, slight drapery / Lictor standing left, holding brand and setting fire to a heap of bonds on ground to left, and holding fasces with ax upright; to left, three citizens standing right, raising right hands in celebration. RIC II.3 264; Banti 624. Dark green-brown patina, smoothing. VF. From the Wild Rose Collection, purchased from Notaras Coins & Antiquities (David Morgan), November 2015.To promote his popularity, Hadrian cancelled debts and burned promissory notes in a general amnesty for tax arrears, the event this sestertius commemorates. The reverse depicts either Hadrian himself or a lictor applying a torch to a heap of documents (sungrafoi) symbolizing the debts being cancelled. The burning occurred in Trajan's Forum, where Hadrian erected a monument inscribed "the first of all principes and the only one who, by remitting nine hundred million sesterces owed to the fiscus, provided security not merely for his present citizens but also for their descendants by this generosity."The legend RELIQVA VETERA HS NOVIES MILL ABOLITA literally translates to "old receipts in the amount of nine times a hundred thousand sestertii cancelled." The HS is a standard abbreviation for sestertii and, depending upon its context, it can mean a single sestertius, a unit of one thousand sestertii, or a unit of one hundred thousand sestertii. Novies means "nine times" and applies to the sestertius as a unit of one thousand sestertii. Taken in context with the monument's inscription, the HS in the legend of this sestertius should be read with a thousand, or mille, understood. Thus, the figure should be increased to 900 million sestertii, equaling the sum named on Hadrian's monument.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 771
Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ As (24mm, 8.76 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 119-circa mid 120. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / BRITANNIA in exergue, Britannia seated left, head facing, foot on rock, resting head on hand and holding scepter, elbow resting on large shield. RIC II.3 241; SCBC 635. Attractive green patina. Good VF. From the Dr. Malcolm Lyne Collection, purchased from Spink, 17 February 2004.
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 126 - Session 3 . 772
Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.34 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 124-125. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising hem of dress. RIC II.3 714; RSC 390. Attractive iridescent cabinet tone. Near EF. Well struck with fresh dies. From the I.L. Collection.