| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 134 | Auction date: 21 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 3619 Price realized: 320 AUD (Approx. 210 USD / 192 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Phrygia, Eumeneia (as Fulvia), Fulvia, third wife of Mark Antony, (c.41-40 B.C.), AE 18, (6.96 g), Zmertorix, son of Philonides, magistrate, obv. draped bust of Fulvia (as Victory) to right, rev. Athena advancing left, holding shield and spear, around [FOU]LOYIANWN [ZM]ERTOPOS [F]ILANWN, (S.5141, RPC I 3139, BMC 20-1, SNG Copenhagen -). Attractive brown toning, very fine and rare. Ex Dr Hugh Preston Collection. Previously Helios Numismatik, Auktion 6, 2011, lot 679. Estimate: 300 AUD |  |
Match 1:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 553 | Auction date: 3 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 291 Price realized: 80 USD (Approx. 72 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: PHRYGIA, Eumeneia (as Fulvia). Fulvia, third wife of Marc Antony. Circa 41-40 BC. Æ (21mm, 8.36 g, 12h). Zmertorix, son of Philonides, magistrate. Draped bust of Fulvia (as Victory) right; c/ms: {ZMEPTO} and {ΦIΛΩ} in circular incuse / Athena advancing left, holding shield and spear. RPC I 3139; BMC 20-1; SNG Copenhagen –. For c/ms: Howgego –. Black patina with light earthen highlights, obverse flan flaw. For coin: Near VF; c/ms: VF. Fulvia was first married to P. Clodius, the Roman firebrand. After his violent death in 52 BC, she married C. Scribonius Curio, who likewise met an untimely end in Africa. She married Mark Antony in 44 BC, and became an outspoken defender of his interests in Rome while he campaigned in the east (and enjoyed the attentions of Cleopatra). The city of Eumenia was re-named Fulviana in her honor by Antony's partisans. By 40 BC, Fulvia's strident attacks on Octavian had provoked a reaction, and she had to flee first to southern Italy and then to Greece. She met Antony at Athens, where he upbraided her for antagonizing Octavian when he was trying to maintain a semblance of cordial relations. Fulvia died at Sicyon shortly thereafter. Some examples of these coins show that the ethnic was removed from the die and two countermarks were applied, one that was the monogram of old Eumeneia, and the other probably of the magistrate Zmertorix, possibly proclaiming that he did not think such a renaming of the city was a good idea in the first place. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
Match 2:
| Eid Mar Auctions GmbH > Auction 1 | Auction date: 16 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 236 Price realized: 90 EUR (Approx. 98 USD) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Roman Provincial PHRYGIA, Eumeneia (as Fulvia). Fulvia, first wife of Marc Antony, ca. 41-40 BC. AE (19,5 mm, 8,58 g.) magistrate Zmertorix, son of Philonidas. Draped bust of Fulvia as Nike with wing behind to right. Rev. [Φ]OVΛOVIANΩΝ / ZMEPTΟΡΙΓΟΣ ΦΙΛΟΝΙΔΟΥ Athena advancing to left, holding spear with her right hand and shield in her left. BMC 20. RPC 3139. Good Very Fine. Estimate: 100 EUR Starting price: 80 EUR |  |
Match 3:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 126 | Auction date: 28 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 461 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot  | |
| Lot description: CILICIA, Tarsus. Maximinus I. AD 235-238. Æ (36mm, 23.63 g, 1h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / The Judgement of Paris: Paris seated left on rock, wearing Phrygian cap and holding apple and pedum, facing Aphrodite, nude, standing right, drawing drapery from shoulders, veiled Hera enthroned right, and Athena standing right, resting shield on ground before her and holding spear. SNG BN 1587 (same dies); RPC VI Online 7109.10 (this coin); SNG Levante –; Cornell 117 (this coin). Earthen red-brown patina, slight roughness. VF. Rare. From the Hesiod Collection. Ex Historical Scholar Collection (Heritage 3101, 25 August 2022), lot 32073; David Simpson Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 1755; Classical Numismatic Group XXIV (9 December 1992), lot 497. Before the birth of her second son, Hekaba, wife of King Priam of Troy, dreamed that she had brought forth a flaming firebrand that destroyed the city, and the new-born child was therefore exposed on Mount Ida. Brought up by a shepherd, he was called Paris, and later, by his courage, earned the name Alexander or 'defender of men'. He was beloved by the nymph Oenone, but he deserted her as a result of a tempting suggestion by Aphrodite which led to the Judgement of Paris. When Hermes came to Mount Ida with the three goddesses he called Paris and said to him: "Come here and decide which is the more excellent beauty of face, and to the fairer give this apple's lovely fruit." (Colluthus, The Rape of Helen 130). While Paris reflected, the goddesses, who for the occasion had bathed their immortal bodies, offered him bribes in order to win the apple award of beauty: Athena offered him the command of Phrygia and the destruction of Hellas, or as some say, that he would be bravest of mortals and skilled in every craft. Likewise Hera offered him, besides wealth, the dominion over Asia and Europe. But Aphrodite offered him the hand of Helen, whose beauty was famous worldwide, and this bribe won the apple. Estimate: 2000 USD |  |
Match 4:
| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 135 | Auction date: 9 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 4046 Price realized: 3,800 AUD (Approx. 2,517 USD / 2,318 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Thrace, Kingdom of, Lysimachos, (323-281 B.C.), gold stater, (8.26 g), Istrus mint, posthumous issue c.88-86 B.C., obv. diademed head of Alexander the Great to right, wearing horn of Ammon, rev. Athena enthroned to left, holding Nike and resting left arm on shield, transverse spear resting against right side, to right BASILEWS to left LUSIMACOU, DI below arm, IS on throne, trident below in exergue, (cf.S.6813, M.285). Extremely fine. Ex Dr. L.J. Sherwin Collection and from I.S.Wright, January 2, 2004. This gold stater, it is believed, comes from the time of the Mithradatic War (88-86 B.C.). They were issued by Mithradates VI of Pontus who used the design of the famous issues two centuries earlier of Lysimachos whose staters with the head of Alexander the Great linked him to Alexander, history's greatest conqueror. At the age of 18, Mithradates embarked on a career of conquest, bringing most of the lands around the Black Sea under his control. These policies bought him into conflict with Rome and he consequently tried to liberate the East from Rome and quickly defeated the local garrisons and massacred every Roman citizen in Asia (some 80,000 in one night). Athens welcomed him as a liberator, but the Roman response came in 87 B.C. with the Consul L.Sulla and five legions. Sulla captured Athens and pursued Mithradates back to Asia Minor. Mithradates was fined 2000 talents (600,000 gold staters) and returned to Pontus. These gold staters were probably struck during his campaign in Thrace in late 88 to early 87 B.C., to pay his mercenary soldiers. Three cities struck these coins. Alternatively another view has been put forward suggesting that these coins were issues by Brutus in the Civil war of 44-42 B.C. Estimate: 3000 AUD |  |
Match 5:
| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 135 | Auction date: 9 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 4047 Price realized: 3,600 AUD (Approx. 2,384 USD / 2,196 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Thrace, Kingdom of, Lysimachos, (323-281 B.C.), gold stater, (8.22 g), Istrus mint, posthumous issue c.88-86 B.C., obv. diademed head of Alexander the Great to right, wearing horn of Ammon, rev. Athena enthroned to left, holding Nike and resting left arm on shield, transverse spear resting against right side, to right BASILEWS to left LUSIMACOU, DI below arm, IS on throne, trident below in exergue, (cf.S.6813, M.285). Good extremely fine, as struck, with some mint bloom. Ex Ponterio & Associates, Sale 115, August 14, 2001 (lot 843). The Dr. L.J. Sherwin Collection example, not as fine from Noble Numismatics, Sale 127 (lot 4696) realised $3000. This gold stater, it is believed, comes from the time of the Mithradatic War (88-86 B.C.). They were issued by Mithradates VI of Pontus who used the design of the famous issues two centuries earlier of Lysimachos whose staters with the head of Alexander the Great linked him to Alexander, history's greatest conqueror. At the age of 18, Mithradates embarked on a career of conquest, bringing most of the lands around the Black Sea under his control. These policies bought him into conflict with Rome and he consequently tried to liberate the East from Rome and quickly defeated the local garrisons and massacred every Roman citizen in Asia (some 80,000 in one night). Athens welcomed him as a liberator, but the Roman response came in 87 B.C. with the Consul L.Sulla and five legions. Sulla captured Athens and pursued Mithradates back to Asia Minor. Mithradates was fined 2000 talents (600,000 gold staters) and returned to Pontus. These gold staters were probably struck during his campaign in Thrace in late 88 to early 87 B.C., to pay his mercenary soldiers. Three cities struck these coins. Alternatively another view has been put forward suggesting that these coins were issues by Brutus in the Civil war of 44-42 B.C. Estimate: 3000 AUD |  |
