Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 116Auction date: 18 January 2024
Lot number: 8

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Etruria, uncertain mint AR Unit. Circa 3rd century BC. Unclear design / Blank. Cf. EC I, 10 (Luca(?), with hippocamp, dolphin and star on obverse). 1.17g, 14mm.

Fine, attribution uncertain due to indistinct design. Very Rare.

From the Mike Ballerini Collection, collector's ticket included.

Estimate: 40 GBP

Match 1:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 119Auction date: 24 April 2024
Lot number: 54

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Etruria, uncertain mint AR Unit. Circa 3rd century BC. Unclear design / Blank. Cf. EC I, 10 (Luca(?), with hippocamp, dolphin and star on obverse). 1.17g, 14mm.

Fine, attribution uncertain due to indistinct design. Very Rare.

Ex Mike Ballerini Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 108, 13 April 2023, lot 13, collector's ticket included.

Estimate: 25 GBP

Match 2:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 116Auction date: 18 January 2024
Lot number: 9

Price realized: 440 GBP   (Approx. 557 USD / 513 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Etruria, Populonia AR 20 Asses. 3rd century BC. Facing head of Metus, hair bound with diadem; OXI:IXO (mark of value) below / Blank. EC I, 55.1-40 (O26); HN Italy 152; Sambon 42. 7.95g, 22mm.

Very Fine.

From the Mike Ballerini Collection, collector's ticket included.

Estimate: 600 GBP

Match 3:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 116Auction date: 18 January 2024
Lot number: 11

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Etruria, Populonia AR 20 Asses. 3rd century BC. Facing head of Metus; X:X below / Blank. EC 1, 52.1-233 (O20); HN Italy 142; Sambon 59; HGC 1, 113. 6.36g, 21mm.

Near Very Fine; typical die break on obv.

From the Mike Ballerini Collection, collector's ticket included.

Estimate: 280 GBP

Match 4:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 116Auction date: 18 January 2024
Lot number: 13

Price realized: 24 GBP   (Approx. 30 USD / 28 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Etruria, Val di Chiana Æ Semuncia. 3rd century BC. Head of Śelvanś to right, wearing feline skin headdress / Volpino prancing to left; Etruscan letter ś below. EC II, 74 (forthcoming); HN Italy 70; Sambon 146a. 2.75g, 15mm, 4h.

Good Fine. Very Rare.

From the Mike Ballerini Collection, collector's ticket included.

Estimate: 40 GBP

Match 5:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXXAuction date: 21 March 2024
Lot number: 960

Price realized: 55 GBP   (Approx. 70 USD / 64 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, temp. Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon) Æ 11mm. Uncertain mint on Cyprus(?), circa 145-116 BC. Head of female (Aphrodite or Arsinoe III?) to right / [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ], double cornucopiae tied with fillets. Svoronos 1160 (Ptolemy IV); SNG Copenhagen 648. 1.76g, 11mm, 2h.

Near Very Fine.

From the Pavlos S. Pavlou Collection, collector's ticket included;
Privately purchased from Lennox Gallery, January 1996.

Catharine Lorber has suggested that the usual attribution to Ptolemy IV is too early due to numerous examples of this type found in the excavations at Nea Paphos which indicates that the issue was later, possibly 2nd-1st century BC.

Estimate: 30 GBP