| The Coin Cabinet Ltd. > Ancients Auction 7 | Auction date: 23 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 40 Price realized: 26 GBP (Approx. 33 USD / 30 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Good Fine; banker's marks to obv | ROMAN REPUBLIC & IMPERATORIAL. C. Mamilius Limetanus. Silver serrate denarius, 82 BC. Rome. Obv: draped bust of Mercury right, wearing winged petasos; caduceus and C (control letter) behind. Rev: Ulysses standing right, holding staff in left hand and extending right hand to Argus; C•MAMIL downwards left, LIMETAN upwards right. Good Fine; banker's marks to obv. Reference: Crawford-362/1; RSC Mamilia-6. Die Axis: 7h. Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 3.58 g. Composition: Silver. PLEASE NOTE: 20% Buyer Premium + VAT on this lot. No other fees, including live bidding. Delivery cost will be added to your order. Starting price: 20 GBP |  |
Match 1:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 119 | Auction date: 24 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 39 Price realized: 600 GBP (Approx. 746 USD / 698 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Geto-Dacian Imitation of C. Mamilius Limetanus AR Serrate Denarius. After 82 BC. Draped bust of Mercury to right, wearing winged petasos; caduceus and M (control letter) behind / Ulysses standing to right, holding staff and extending hand to Argus standing to left; P MIIL downwards behind, LINENS upwards before. For prototype cf. Crawford 362/1; cf. BMCRR Rome 2725; cf. RSC Mamilia 6; Davis, 'Dacian and Celtic Imitations of Republican Denarii' in The Celator Vol. 18, No. 4 (April, 2004), pp. 6-15, Class A Group Ib (Geto-Dacian Monetary Copies), C52 (same dies). 3.35g, 18mm, 10h. Very Fine. Estimate: 75 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 119 | Auction date: 24 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 40 Price realized: 220 GBP (Approx. 274 USD / 256 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Geto-Dacian Hybrid Imitation of Republican AR Denarius. Imitating the type of C. Mamilius Limetanus and quadriga reverse type. After 82 BC. Draped bust of Mercury to right, wearing winged petasos; caduceus behind / Ulysses standing to right, holding staff and extending hand to Argus standing to left; P MIIL downwards behind, LINENS upwards before. For obv. prototype cf. Crawford 362/1; cf. Davis, 'Dacian and Celtic Imitations of Republican Denarii' in The Celator Vol. 18, No. 4 (April, 2004), pp. 6-15, Class A Group III (Geto-Dacian Hybrids). 3.46g, 19mm, 10h. Very Fine. Estimate: 75 GBP |  |
Match 3:
| Eid Mar Auctions GmbH > Auction 1 | Auction date: 16 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 314 Price realized: 55 EUR (Approx. 60 USD) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Roman Republican C. Mamilius Limetanus. AR Denarius serratus 82 BC. (18mm, 3.84 g.) Draped bust of Mercury r., wearing winged petasus; caduceus over l. shoulder. Rev. C·MAMIL – LIMETAN Ulysses standing r., holding staff and extending his r. hand to his dog Argus. Babelon Mamilia 6. Sydenham 741. RBW 1370. Crawford 362/1. Very Fine. Estimate: 50 EUR Starting price: 40 EUR |  |
Match 4:
| The Coin Cabinet Ltd. > Ancients Auction 6 | Auction date: 10 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 35 Price realized: 19 GBP (Approx. 24 USD / 22 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Fine; banker's mark | ROMAN REPUBLIC & IMPERATORIAL. C. Calpurnius L. f. Frugi. Silver denarius, 67 BC. Rome. Obv: laureate head of Apollo right; snake soiled around staff behind. Rev: C•PISO•L•F•FRVG, horseman galloping right, holding torch; shield above, sword in scabbard below. Fine; banker's mark. Reference: Crawford-408/1b. Die Axis: 7h. Diameter: 18 mm. Weight: 3.51 g. Composition: Silver. PLEASE NOTE: 20% Buyer Premium + VAT on this lot. No other fees, including live bidding. Delivery cost will be added to your order. Estimate: 40 GBP Starting price: 12 GBP |  |
Match 5:
| Heritage World Coin Auctions > CSNS Signature Sale 3115 | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 32122 Price realized: 4,800 USD (Approx. 4,465 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients IONIA. Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Ca. mid-2nd century BC. AV stater (18mm, 8.42 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Ca. 155-145 BC, Euphemus and Pausanius, magistrates. Draped bust of Artemis right, wearing stephane, hair gathered into knot at back of head, quiver and bow over shoulder / ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ, Nike driving biga galloping right, kentron in right hand, reins in left; ΕΥΦΗΜΟΣ below horses, ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΟΥ below ground line. BMC Ionia -. SNG Von Aulock -. SNG Copenhagen -. Delightful example with microgranular fields. Magnesia ad Maeandrum was founded on the banks of the Lecathus, a tributary of the Maeander river, in south-western Ionia circa the mid-700s BC by a tribe from Thessaly known as the Magnetes, plus colonists from Crete. In the mid-2nd century BC, Magnesia was among the cities that enjoyed a Renaissance of classical Greek coinage, issuing large and beautiful stephanophoric ("wreath bearing") silver tetradrachms bearing a lovely head of the city's patron goddess, Artemis, with a reverse depicting her brother Apollo standing atop a meander pattern. These coins carried the names of a series of magistrates (or, as suggested by Nicholas F. Jones, wealthy civic patrons who financed the coinage), including probably the same Euphemos and Pausanius named on this gold stater, allowing us to date this remarkable piece to the same era as the stephanophoric tetradrachms, circa 155-145 BC. While Artemis graces the obverse, the reverse depiction of Nike driving a biga is otherwise unknown on any coinage of Magnesia and suggests that the issuance of our stater was in honor of a military victory of some kind, or perhaps the anniversary of a great victory. Since Magnesia was not itself a military powerhouse, the occasion must remain an open question, although the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Magnesia, which fell in December 150 BC, is a possibility. Although the battle between the Roman Republic and the Seleucid Kingdom occurred near a different Magnesia (ad Sipylum in Lydia), it effectively freed western Asia Minor from Seleucid control and gave the cities therein a large measure of autonomy within the loosely controlled Pergamene Kingdom. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-ionia-magnesia-ad-maeandrum-ca-mid-2nd-century-bc-av-stater-18mm-842-gm-12h-ngc-choice-au-5-5-4-/a/3115-32122.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3115-05082024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
