| Naville Numismatics Ltd. > Auction 86 | Auction date: 17 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 97 Price realized: 650 GBP (Approx. 825 USD / 756 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Locri Opuntii, Locris Stater circa 369-338, AR 24.00 mm., 11.71 g. Head of Persephone l., wearing barley wreath. Rev. The Locrian Ajax, naked but for helmet, striding r., holding short sword and shield; in lower r. field, bunch of grapes. Traité 431 and pl. CCVII, 2. SNG Copenhagen 95. BCD 622. Scratches, otherwise Very fine Starting price: 350 GBP |  |
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| Naville Numismatics Ltd. > Auction 88 | Auction date: 7 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 8 Price realized: 850 GBP (Approx. 1,072 USD / 991 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Lucania, Heraclea Nomos circa 330-281, AR 22.00 mm., 7.68 g. Head of Athena r., wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Scylla hurling a stone; in r. field, [K]. Rev. |[-HPA]KΛEIΩN Heracles standing facing, holding club, bow, and arrow, with lion's skin draped over l. arm; to upper l. field, Nike flying r. and holding wreath; in outer l. field, EYΦ and in r. field, Σ. van Keuren 81. SNG Fitzwilliam 431. Historia Numorum Italy 1383. Old cabinet tone and Good Very fine Starting price: 150 GBP |  |
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| Naville Numismatics Ltd. > Auction 86 | Auction date: 17 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 46 Price realized: 25 GBP (Approx. 32 USD / 29 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Bruttium, The Brettii Double Unit circa 208-209, Æ 26.00 mm., 15.40 g. Head of Ares l., wearing crested Corinthian helmet; within wreath. Rev. Athena standing r., holding spear and shield; in r. field, lyre. SNG ANS 89. Historia Numorum Italy 2000. Very fine In addition, winning bids of UK (England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland) clients for this coin are subject to a 5% fee on hammer price as a reimbursement for import duty paid to HMRC. Starting price: 25 GBP |  |
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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 146 | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 2058 Price realized: 9,000 CHF (Approx. 9,911 USD / 9,220 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Croton. Nomos circa 380-350, AR 21 mm, 7.59 g. Head of Hera Lacinia facing, wearing decorated stephane. Rev. [ΚΡΟ] – ΤΩΝΙ – ΑΤΑΝ Young Heracles seated l. on lion's skin, holding jug in outstretched r. hand and club resting on ground in l.; in lower r. field, bow. SNG ANS 371 (this obverse die). SNG Lloyd 616 (these dies). AMB 198. Historia Numorum Italy 2167. Very rare. A portrait of fine style and a superb reverse composition struck on a very broad flan. Old cabinet tone, surface slightly porous and minor marks, otherwise and good very fine Ex Ars Classica XV, 1930, 243 and Glendining's 9 March 1931, 873; Vinchon 9-10 December 1983, 50 and New York XXVII, 2012, Prospero, 100 sales. The designs on this masterful nomos are boastful celebrations of the issuing city, as Croton controlled the famous sanctuary of Hera Lacinia on the nearby Lacinian promontory, and it counted Heracles as its founder. As tranquil as the images of Hera and Heracles appear, this coin would seem to have been struck in a particularly troublesome era. Jenkins associates it with the period in which the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius I meddled in the affairs of South Italy, and ruled over Croton for a dozen years. It is generally believed that this majestic portrait of Hera Lacinia is derived from Cimon's immensely influential facing Arethusa at Syracuse. Katherine Erhart, in her 1978 doctoral thesis on the facing head motif on Greek coins, notes that this image of Hera Lacinia was copied on coinages of other cities in South Italy, including Pandosia, Fenseria, Hyria, Phistelia, Neapolis, Poseidonia, Thurium and Nola, though in each case with lesser degrees of success than seen on the present coin. The depiction of Heracles Epitrapezeus ("Heracles at the table") lounging as he holds aloft a cup of wine bears all the hallmarks of statuary captured on a miniature scale. The observations of Phyllis Lehman in her 1946 study of statuary on Greek coins are of great interest. She notes (p.40): "The highly plastic quality of the reverse type, the rendering of the vigorous body, suggests the likelihood that this numismatic image reflects a statuary prototype. Such details as the inclination of the head, the lowering of the extended arm until it almost rests upon the right thigh, and the foreshortened left leg appear to be concessions made by a skilled die-cutter in adapting a three-dimensional plastic type to a flat, circular field. This hypothesis is strongly reinforced by the analogy between the numismatic type and a group of statues commonly considered to be replicas of the Herakles Epitrapezios of Lyssipos. The relationship is so striking that one is forced to conclude that Lyssipos either based his work upon an earlier numismatic type whose plastic potentialities he divined or, what is far more probable, that he derived his conception from an older statuary type which is also reflected on the coinage of Croton Estimate: 6000 CHF |  |
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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 146 | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 2285 Price realized: 1,800 CHF (Approx. 1,982 USD / 1,844 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt, Ptolemy I as satrap, 323 – 305 or King, 305 – 282. Tetradrachm struck in the name of Alexander III, Alexandria circa 306-300, AR 28 mm, 15.71 g. Diademed head of Alexander r., wearing elephant skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Athena Promachos advancing r., brandishing spear and holding shield; in r. field, monogram and eagle. Svoronos 162 and pl. VI, 2. SNG Copenhagen 28. CPE 69. Wonderful old cabinet tone, a graffito on reverse field, otherwise extremely fine From the collection of a Mentor. Estimate: 750 CHF |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 176 Price realized: 8,250 USD (Approx. 7,556 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: LOKRIS, Lokri Opuntii. Circa 360-350 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 12.24 g, 11h). Head of Persephone left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and pearl necklace / Ajax, nude but for crested Corinthian helmet, holding sword in right hand, shield decorated with coiled serpent on left arm, advancing right on rocks; ivy leaf and broken spear below, OΠON-TIΩN around. H&D Group 12, 117–22 var. (O–/R37 [unlisted obv. die]); BCD Lokris 44–5 (same rev. die); HGC 4, 989. Lightly toned, with some iridescence and underlying luster, a few minor hairlines. Superb EF. From the James Fox Collection. Ex CNG inventory 701572 (May 1997). Estimate: 5000 USD |  |
