Nomos AG > Auction 33 | Auction date: 9 June 2024 |
Lot number: 1229 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot | |
Lot description: The Jonathan H. Kagan Collection of Ancient Greek Coins CRETE. Phaistos. Circa 330-320 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 15 mm, 2.85 g, 1 h). ΦΑΙΣ (retrograde) Youthful head of Herakles to left. Rev. Bull's head facing; border of dots. BMC 22 (= Le Rider 72h, same dies). Le Rider, Crétoises, p. 98, 72 and pl. XXIV, 16-22 (same dies). Svoronos, Numismatique, p. 261, 42 and pl. XXIV, 10. Lightly toned. Slightly porous, overstruck and struck from somewhat worn dies, otherwise, very fine. From the Collection of Jonathan H. Kagan. Starting price: 300 CHF |
Nomos AG > Auction 33 | Auction date: 9 June 2024 |
Lot number: 1429 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot | |
Lot description: The Jonathan H. Kagan Collection of Ancient Greek Coins CILICIA. Uncertain mint. 4th Century BC. Obol (Silver, 11 mm, 0.61 g, 3 h). Head of Aphrodite (?) facing, turned slightly to the left, wearing an ornate stephane, a crenellated polos, pendant earrings, and a pearl necklace; in the field to left, rose. Rev. Head of a youthful, beardless satrap to left, wearing bashlyk. Babelon, Perses, p. XLVII, fig. 12. Winzer 18.1 (Mazaios). Very rare and attractively toned. Areas of minor roughness, otherwise, nearly extremely fine. From the Collection of Jonathan H. Kagan. Starting price: 250 CHF |
Nomos AG > Auction 32 | Auction date: 8 June 2024 |
Lot number: 434 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot | |
Lot description: Greek KINGS OF PONTOS. Mithradates III, circa 220-200 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 34 mm, 16.86 g, 12 h). Diademed and draped bust of Mithradates to right. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - MIΘ-PAΔATOY Zeus seated to left on a high-backed throne, holding a long scepter with his left hand and, in his extended right, an eagle with closed wings standing to right; in the inner field to left, below his extended hand, eight-pointed star within a crescent; below throne, monogram of EMΠ; in the inner field to right, B over monogram of ΡΑ. De Callataÿ, First, 5 (O5/R1) = Mattingly, "The Coinage of Mithridates III, Pharnakes and Mithridates IV of Pontos", Studies Price, pl. 56, 4 (same dies). Very rare. Well-centered, toned and clear. Struck in high relief. A coin of wonderful quality. Obverse with traces of very light double striking, otherwise, good extremely fine. From a European collection. This impressive coin was struck by one of the most obscure and mysterious kings of the early Mithradatic dynasty of Pontos. Aside from his production of a handsome series of tetradrachms featuring a remarkably veristic portrait, virtually nothing is know about Mithradates III. Nevertheless, he is sometimes suspected of having been responsible for a failed Pontic attack on the Greek city of Sinope at the beginning of his reign, although this event might have taken place in the reign of his predecessor. Starting price: 50000 CHF |