Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 115Auction date: 21 December 2023
Lot number: 31

Price realized: 110 GBP   (Approx. 139 USD / 127 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


lot of 5 Northwest Gaul, The Senones Æ Coins.

Lot sold as seen - no returns.

From the Terner Collection.

Estimate: 50 GBP

Match 1:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 114Auction date: 23 November 2023
Lot number: 13

Price realized: 35 GBP   (Approx. 44 USD / 40 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Lot of 5 Celtic AR Obols and 1 Fragment.

Lot sold as seen - no returns.

Estimate: 50 GBP

Match 2:
Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII Online SessionsAuction date: 17 January 2024
Lot number: 5166

Price realized: 800 USD   (Approx. 735 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.01 g, 11h). Pergamon mint. Dated month 9, year 223 BE (June 74 BC). Diademed head right / Stag grazing left; to left, star-in-crescent above monogram; to right, ΓKΣ (year) above monogram; Θ (month) in exergue; all within Dionysiac wreath of ivy and fruit. Callataÿ dies O48/R7, a (this coin); HGC 7, 340; DCA 692; SNG Ashmolean 201 (same obv. die); Davis 186 (same obv. die); Pozzi 2100 (same obv. die). Toned, broken and repaired, areas of heavy scratches, edge marks. Near VF. SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS.

From the Kalevala Collection. Ex Kunker 376 (18 October 2022), lot 4608; Münz Zentrum XLVI (21 April 1982), lot 107.

Mithradates was a fascinating Hellenistic at a time with Roman power was ascendent. His career, driven by megalomaniacal ambitions, led to murderous assaults upon family and followers alike and disastrous foreign adventures against superior forces. His portraiture attempts to mimic the gods with its bold staring gaze and unruly, free-flowing hair, but at its most extreme is a personification of hysteria in its Dionysiac sense.

At the age of 18, Mithradates overthrew his mother's regency and embarked on a career of conquest, bringing most of the lands around the Black Sea into his domain. His expansionist aims inevitably brought him into conflict with Rome, and in preparation for the coming war he built up the largest army in Asia, unleashing it in 88 BC in what would be the First Mithradatic War. He sought to undermine the Roman power base by ordering the massacre of every Roman citizen in Asia in which nearly 80,000 people perished.

The Romans were not intimidated, and when Mithradates crossed over to Greece proper as 'Liberator', the Roman legions under Sulla smashed his army. Mithradates retreated to Pontus, from where he continued to skirmish with the Romans, suffering more defeats to the general Lucullus. In 63 BC, having suffered a final defeat by Pompey and facing a revolt by his own son Pharnakes, the elderly king tried to commit suicide by taking poison, but he had inured himself to its affects by years of small counterdoses, and so had to be stabbed to death by one of his mercenaries.

Estimate: 500 USD

Match 3:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 552Auction date: 13 December 2023
Lot number: 463

Price realized: 2,500 USD   (Approx. 2,318 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Julia Titi. Augusta, AD 79-90/1. AV Aureus (20.5mm, 5.76 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Domitian, circa AD 88-89. Draped bust right; hair in long plait / Peacock standing facing, head left, hail 'in splendor'. RIC II.1 683; Calicó 809. Lightly toned, ex-jewelry, polished, rims upturned from edge hammering, edge chip from bezel, some smoothing. Fine. Rare. Sold As Is, No Returns.

From the Joshua Lee Collection. Ex Aventine Numismatics; Sotheby's (17 November 1983), lot 281.


Estimate: 4000 USD

Match 4:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 553Auction date: 3 January 2024
Lot number: 459

Price realized: 100 USD   (Approx. 91 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Tiberius. AD 14-37. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.15 g, 4h). "Tribute Penny" type. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Group 3, AD 18. Laureate head right, one ribbon on shoulder / Livia (as Pax) seated right, holding spear and olive branch, feet on footstool; ornate chair legs (simplified); two lines below throne. RIC I 28 var. (3 lines below); Lyon 148; RSC 16b var. (no footstool). Toned, smoothed and tooled, edge chips reveals crystallization. VF. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS.

From the J.K. Biblical Collection.


Estimate: 100 USD

Match 5:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 119Auction date: 24 April 2024
Lot number: 1935

Price realized: 60 GBP   (Approx. 75 USD / 70 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Maximinus II, as Caesar, BI Nummus. London, AD 305-307. GAL VAL MAXIMINVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / GENIO POP ROM, Genius standing to left, holding patera and cornucopia. RIC VI -; C&T 5.02.002; RML 228 & 232. 7.68g, 28mm, 7h.

Near Extremely Fine. Very Rare.

From the Terner Collection.

Estimate: 50 GBP