| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 3196 Price realized: 1,000 CHF (Approx. 1,137 USD / 1,056 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Divus Julius Caesar, † 44 BC. Denarius (Silver, 21 mm, 3.76 g, 12 h), Voconius Vitulus, moneyer, Rome, 40. Laureate head of Divus Julius Caesar to right. Rev. Q•VOCONIVS / S - C / VITVLVS•Q• / DESIGN Calf standing left on ground line. Babelon (Julia) 121 and (Voconia) 1. Crawford 526/4. RBW 1813. Sydenham 1133. Attractively toned and with a fine portrait of the deified dictator. Lightly brushed, otherwise, about very fine. From a Dutch collection, ex Soler y Llach 1122, 26 October 2021, 475 and previously privately acquired from J. Fernández in June 2000. This denarius was struck during the Perusine War of 41-40 BC, in which Octavian besieged Mark Antony's wife Fulvia and his brother Lucius in Perusia. After the fall of the city, Octavian pardoned Fulvia and Lucius, but he had the city council and more than 300 senators and equites executed on 15 March 40 on the altar of Divus Julius Caesar. According to a famous passage in Sueton's De vita Caesarum, the wrathful triumvir drily answered every attempt to beg for pardon of one of the doomed men with just two words: moriendum esse = 'You/he must die' (Suet. Aug. 15). Starting price: 150 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 2937 Price realized: 100 CHF (Approx. 114 USD / 106 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: C. Vibius C.f. Pansa, 90 BC. Denarius (Silver, 19 mm, 4.00 g, 12 h), brockage mint error, Rome. PANSA Laureate head of Apollo to right; below chin, T. Rev. Incuse of obverse. Cf. Babelon (Vibia) 1, Crawford 342/5b, RBW 1287 and Sydenham 684b. Very fine. Ex Leu Web Auction 18, 19-21 December 2021, 2329, from the Red Ox Collection, the collection of the Czech musician Adolf Picek (circa 1885-1978), and formerly in the possession of an Italian banker, whose life was saved by Mr. Picek in the Battles of the Piave River on the Italian Front in 1917-1918 and who presented his savior with 'four socks of old coins' in reward. Starting price: 25 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 2898 Price realized: 140 CHF (Approx. 159 USD / 148 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: C. Sulpicius C.f. Galba, 106 BC. Denarius (Silver, 19 mm, 3.80 g, 10 h), Rome. D•P•P Jugate, laureate heads of the Dei Penates to left. Rev. C•SV LP ICI•C•F Two soldiers standing facing each other, holding spears and pointing at sow which lies between them; above, A. Babelon (Sulpicia) 1. Crawford 312/1. RBW 1155 var. (differing control). Sydenham 572. Well centered and attractive. Minor scrape on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine. Starting price: 75 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 2870 Price realized: 340 CHF (Approx. 386 USD / 359 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: M. Sergius Silus, 116-115 BC. Denarius (Silver, 19 mm, 3.86 g, 12 h), Rome. ROMA - EX•S•C• Head of Roma to right, wearing winged helmet and pearl necklace; behind, star (mark of value). Rev. Q / M•SERGI / SILVS Helmeted horseman to left, holding a shield on his right arm and a sword and severed head in his left hand. Babelon (Sergia) 1. Crawford 286/1. RBW 1115. Sydenham 54. Beautifully toned and with a heroic reverse type. Good very fine. Ex Künker eLive Auction 72, 18 July 2022, 234. The soldier on horseback carrying an enemy's head on the reverse of this issue refers to the heroic deeds of the moneyer's homonymous ancestor who, during the Second Punic War (218-201 BC), reportedly continued fighting the Carthaginians despite the loss of an arm and a further twenty-three other wounds. Because the hero here is shown with a shield on one arm and a sword and a head in the other hand, we must assume the image depicts him before the loss of his arm! Starting price: 75 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29 | Auction date: 24 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 1788 Price realized: 320 CHF (Approx. 363 USD / 336 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Octavian, 44-27 BC. Denarius (Silver, 21 mm, 3.68 g, 12 h), uncertain Italian mint (Rome?), autumn 30-summer 29. Bare head of Octavian to right. Rev. Facade of the Curia Julia with a tetrastyle porch; on the architrave, IMP•CAESAR; in pediment, figure seated front between animals; on apex of roof, Victory standing facing on globe, holding wreath in her right hand and vexillum in her left; at each end of architrave, statues standing, each holding parazonium and scepter. BMC 631. CBN 52. Cohen 122. CRI 421. RIC 266. Lightly toned. Light scratches and with a banker's mark and spots of corrosion on the obverse, otherwise, nearly very fine. The construction of the Curia Julia, the new senate house, began under Julius Caesar in 44 BC. It was completed and dedicated by Octavian on 28 August 29 BC. Starting price: 100 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 3055 Price realized: 201 CHF (Approx. 228 USD / 212 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Q. Cassius Longinus, 55 BC. Denarius (Silver, 19 mm, 3.28 g, 7 h), Rome. Q•CASSIVS - VEST Veiled and diademed head of Vesta to right. Rev. Curule chair within circular Temple of Vesta with conical roof surmounted by statue; in field to left, urn; in field to right, tablet inscribed AC (absolvo condemno). Babelon (Cassia) 9. Crawford 428/1. RBW 1533. Sydenham 917. Beautifully toned. Scrape on the obverse and light deposits on the reverse, otherwise, very fine. From an old Swiss collection, formed in the 19th century. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
