| Oslo Myntgalleri AS > Auction 37 | Auction date: 25 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 1694 Price realized: 800 NOK (Approx. 75 USD / 68 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Augustus, 27 BC-AD 14. Æ quadrans (3,00 g). Lamia, Silius and Annius, moneyers. Rome mint, struck 9 BC. Simpulum to left and lituus to right / III•VIR•A•A•A•F•F around large S • C. Well struck and with an attractive dark-green patina., RIC I 421, BMCRE 201, Grade: 1+/01, Ex Artemide Aste, auction LIX, 6-7.5.2023, lot 526 Starting price: 800 NOK |  |
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| Oslo Myntgalleri AS > Auction 37 | Auction date: 25 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 1693 Price realized: 1,600 NOK (Approx. 150 USD / 137 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Augustus, 27 BC-AD 14. Æ quadrans (3,35 g). Lamia, Silius and Annius, moneyers. Rome mint, struck 9 BC. Clasped right hands holding caduceus / III • VIR • A • A • A • F • F • around large S • C. Well preserved and with an attractive brown patina., RIC I 420, BMCRE 200, Grade: 1+/01, Ex Roma Numismatics, E-Sale 77, 26.11.2020, lot 1022 Starting price: 1600 NOK |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 656 Price realized: 11,000 USD (Approx. 10,075 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Dupondius (33mm, 24.09 g, 5h). "Triumphal Coinage" issue. Rome mint; M. Salvius Otho, moneyer. Struck 7 BC. [CAES]AR • AVGVST • PONT • MAX • TRI BVNIC • [POT], laureate head of Augustus left; behind, Victory, draped, touching fillet of laurel wreath with right hand and holding cornucopia in left / M • SALVIVS • OTHO • III • VIR • A • A • A • F • F • around large S • C. RIC I 429; BMCRE 224-5 = BMCRR Rome 4689-90; BN 685-6; CNR III 419/5 (same dies). Dark green-brown patina, some light cleaning marks. Good VF. Exceptional and rare. From the Wayne Scheible Collection, purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. (their ticket included). This coin, unusual because of its obverse, has been the subject of scholarly speculation. The obverse clearly shows Augustus as a victorous commander. By 7 BC, however, when this coin was struck, Augustus, now in his 50s, no longer personally commanded Rome's armies; instead, he acted as commander-in-chief, while it fell to his stepsons, Drusus and Tiberius, to actually take the field. Drusus died in 9 BC from complications resulting from a fall. Thereafter Tiberius became Rome's main commander until his retirement to Rhodes in 4 BC. This issue may then commemorate Tiberius' victories in Germania, as well as his subsequent triumph and assumption of the consulship for that year (Vell. Pat. 2.97). Estimate: 4000 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 553 | Auction date: 3 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 361 Price realized: 180 USD (Approx. 163 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: PHOENICIA, Berytus. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ (21mm, 6.28 g, 12h). P. Quinctilius Varus, legatus Syriae. Struck 6-4 BC. Bare head right / Two legionary aquilae between two signa. Sawaya Series 18, 272 (D62/R121); RPC I 4535; Rouvier 493. Brown patina, roughness, minor deposits, cleaning scratches. Near VF. From the J.K. Biblical Collection. Ex Agora Auctions 78 (30 October 2018), lot . Up until his final battle, Publius Quinctilius Varus was one of the most celebrated of Augustus' generals. He had been consul in 13 BC (along with the future emperor Tiberius), governor of Syria from 7-4 BC, where he had sent two legions into Judaea to quell local unrest after the territory was converted to a Roman province, and subsequently governor of Germania. By AD 9, Augustus had decided to straighten (and thereby shorten) Rome's borders by conquering the vast region of Germania beyond the Rhine. He assigned Varus to develop the region without war, but the mixed Gauls and Germans living there were not prepared to accept Romanization. The Cherusci, along with other allies, ambushed Varus in the Teutoburg Forest of northwest Germany, and there annihilated the XVII, XVIII and XIX Roman legions in a pitched battle that lasted for three days. Varus, sensing doom, committed suicide, and when Augustus heard of the disaster, he tore his clothes and screamed, "Varus, give me back my legions." No further attempts were made to subdue the Germans beyond the Rhine until the reign of Domitian, and Varus was blamed for the collapse of imperial policy in Germany. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
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| Oslo Myntgalleri AS > Auction 38 | Auction date: 4 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 827 Price realized: 120,000 NOK (Approx. 10,848 USD / 10,149 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Augustus, 27 BC-AD 14. AV aureus (21 mm; 7,74 g). Spanish mint, Colonia Patricia?, struck circa 18 BC. Laureate head left / Domed tetra-style temple on podium of three steps, a triumphal carrus standing right within the temple; Carrus adorned with four miniature galloping horses and containing a legionary eagle. Light bend on flan and small scrape on reverse. Struck on a broad flan and with a wonderful portrait of refined style. Very detailed reverse composition. Extremely rare and the second specimen on CoinArchives., Calicó 285, RIC I 116, BMCRE 387, Grade: 1+, Ex Fritz Rudolf Künker, auction 171, 23.6.2010, lot 5015 Starting price: 70000 NOK |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 559 | Auction date: 3 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 328 Price realized: 2,250 USD (Approx. 2,083 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ (16mm, 5.38 g, 1h). Bare head right / Prow right; Q below. RPC I 5411; FITA p. 13-19. Earthen red-brown patina, light porosity. Near VF. This issue has previously been attributed to a Macedonian mint with identification of the portrait as Brutus (Friedlander) or Caesar (Grant). RPC presents a case for a Cilician or Syrian origin, supported by find data, with a suggestion that the portrait is Octavian. Issues of similar portrait style, perhaps by the same engraver, include the Princeps Felix coinage, RPC 4082-3, from Cilicia. New find data indicates with relative certainty that these coins originated in northern Asia Minor. It is possible that both sets of Cilician or Syrian issues portray Sosius, a leading general of Mark Antony. Sosius was quaestor (symbolized on this coinage with a Q and the symbols of the office) in 39 BC. The island of Zacynthus, a fleet station of Antony's, issued coins in the name of C SOSIVS Q (RPC 1290), C SOSIVS IMP (RPC 1291), C SOSIVS COS DESIG (RPC 1292), and C SOSIVS COS (RPC 1293). The first of these issues coincides with the dating of this coin. Note that both include the "Q" for questor. Sosius was governor of Syria in 38 BC. Antony supported Herod the Great against his rival Antigonus, and Josephus describes how Sosius commanded the Roman forces in support of Herod's claim. Sosius captured the island and town of Aradus in 38 BC and Jerusalem in July of 37 BC, for which he was acclaimed Imperator. Josephus notes that he was about to allow the soldiers to loot the fallen city and slay its inhabitants, when Herod intervened. Herod asked if the Romans, by emptying the city of money and men, had a mind to leave him to become king of a desert and paid the troops a donative instead, with Sosius himself receiving a "most royal bounty". Sosius called the defeated king the feminine name "Antigona" and imprisoned him for Antony to later execute. In 36 BC, Sosius assisted Octavian and Agrippa against Sextus Pompey and afterward probably stayed in Rome, where he celebrated a triumph in 34 BC and was consul along with Domitius Ahenobarbus in 32 BC. During his consulship, he rebuilt the Temple of Apollo, which had been constructed in 431 BC. He introduced a measure in the Senate to censure Octavian, but this was vetoed by a tribune. As war between Octavian and Antony approached, Sosius fled Octavian and Rome along with some 300 senators. At Actium in 31 BC, Sosius commanded the left wing of Antony's naval forces. This wing of heavy ships entered the battle first, but was overwhelmed by the smaller, faster ships of Agrippa, commander of Octavian's fleet. Meanwhile, Cleopatra and Antony escaped through the opening created by the movement. Sosius fought on, eventually surrendered, and was spared by Octavian. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
