| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction date: 21 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 333 Price realized: 2,600 GBP (Approx. 3,294 USD / 3,032 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Marc Antony and Cleopatra VII Æ 23mm of Chalcis, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated RY 21 (Egyptian) and 6 (Phoenician) of Cleopatra = 32/31 BC. BACIΛICCHC KΛЄOΠATPAC, diademed and draped bust of Cleopatra to right / ЄTOYC KA TOY KAI Ϛ ΘЄAC NЄѠTЄPAC, bare head of Marc Antony to right. RPC I 4771; DCA 476; SNG Copenhagen 383 (Phoenicia); HGC 9, 1451. 9.86g, 23mm, 3h. Extremely Fine; two superb portraits for the type. Estimate: 1000 GBP |  |
Match 1:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 115 | Auction date: 21 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 583 Price realized: 550 GBP (Approx. 697 USD / 635 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Marc Antony and Cleopatra VII Æ 23mm of Chalcis, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated RY 21 (Egyptian) and 6 (Phoenician) of Cleopatra = 32/1 BC. [BACIΛICCHC KΛЄOΠATPAC], diademed and draped bust of Cleopatra to right / [ЄTOYC KA TOY KAI Ϛ ΘЄAC NЄѠTEPAC], bare head of Marc Antony to right. RPC I 4771; DCA 476; SNG Copenhagen 383 (Phoenicia); HGC 9, 1451. 8.47g, 23mm, 12h. Very Fine. From the collection of a European engineer; Acquired from Münzpaß MDM. Estimate: 200 GBP |  |
Match 2:
| Baldwin's Auctions Ltd > Auction C24002 | Auction date: 7 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 65 Price realized: 1,200 GBP (Approx. 1,535 USD / 1,404 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Marc Antony and Cleopatra VII (32?31 BC) Æ22, mint of Chalkis, 6.27g. BACI?ICCHC K??O?ATPAC, diademed and draped bust of Cleopatra facing right. Rev. ?TOYC KA TOY KAI? ??AC N??TEPAC, bare head of Marc Antony facing right. (RPC 4771; BMC 15; SNG Copenhagen 383 (Phoenicia). Nearly Extremely Fine. Exceptional grade for the issue, with two clear portraits of the famous lovers. Estimate: 1200 - 1300 GBP |  |
Match 3:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 117 | Auction date: 22 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 585 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: Augustus Æ 20mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated year 25 of the Actian Era = 7/6 BC. Pseudo-autonomous issue, struck under P. Quinctilius Varus, Governor of Syria. Laureate head of Zeus right / ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΟΥΑΡΟΥ, Tyche seated to right on rocky outcropping, holding palm branch; EK (date) to right; at feet, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right. RPC I 4252; BMC 59; McAlee 87. 6.19g, 20mm, 12h. Very Fine; scratches. The name of Publius Quinctilius Varus has become synonymous with the ignominious defeat suffered by Rome at the hands of Arminius and his confederation of German tribes in the Teutoburg forest. A son-in-law of the emperor, Varus had been consul in 13 BC (along with the future emperor Tiberius), governor of Syria, 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. In AD 9, Augustus resolved to shorten Rome's borders by bringing the vast region of Germania across the Rhine under Roman dominion. Varus was tasked with negotiating a peaceful annexation, but the mixed Gauls and Germans of this land were not prepared to accept Roman overlordship. The Cherusci under Arminius, along with other allies, betrayed and ambushed Varus in the dank Teutoburg Forest of northwest Germany as the army marched in extended column, having neglected even to send out scouts. The so called 'Battle of the Teutoburg Forest' or in German, 'Varusschlacht', was fought over an extended area several kilometres long, resulting in the total annihilation of the XVII, XVIII and XIX Roman legions in a brutal series of ambushes that lasted for three days. Varus, sensing defeat, committed suicide, and when Augustus heard of the disaster, he rent his clothes and was seen to repeatedly butt his head against the wall of his palace, screaming 'Quintili Vare, legiones redde!' - 'Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!' Such was the magnitude of this disaster and the profound psychological shock it created, that the 17th, 18th and 19th legions were never reformed. Estimate: 75 GBP |  |
Match 4:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 117 | Auction date: 22 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 563 Price realized: 1,600 GBP (Approx. 2,018 USD / 1,868 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Marc Antony and Octavia AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm of Ephesus, Ionia. Circa 39 BC. M•ANTONIVS•IMP•COS•DESIG•ITER•ET•TERT, conjoined busts of Antony, wearing ivy wreath, and Octavia to right / III•VIR• R•P•C, Dionysus standing to left on cista mystica between twisting snakes, holding sceptre. RPC I 2202; RSC 3; CRI 263; BMCRR East 136. 11.90g, 27mm, 12h. Good Very Fine. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Live Auction 6, 25 March 2023, lot 27; Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 52, 10 January 2019, lot 482. Following the death of Octavia's first husband, C. Claudius Marcellus, in 40 BC, her marriage to Antony sought to seal the Pact of Brundisium in which it had been agreed that Octavian would assume control of the west and Antony of the east. The striking of this type cements the agreement before the people of Ephesus, an important city, later made the capital of Asia Minor by Augustus in 27 BC. Octavia spent two winters with Antony in Athens and in 37 BC assisted in securing the Triumvirate for another 5 years at the Pact of Tarentum. Following this, Antony returned to the east and, having left Octavia behind, lived with Cleopatra in Egypt. Although they divorced in 32 BC, after Antony's defeat at the Battle of Actium and subsequent suicide, Octavia raised all of his surviving children by Fulvia and Cleopatra, along with her own. Estimate: 750 GBP |  |
Match 5:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII Online Sessions | Auction date: 17 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 5497 Price realized: 500 USD (Approx. 459 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: COELESYRIA, Chalcis ad Belum. Mark Antony and Cleopatra. 32-31 BC. Æ (20mm, 5.56 g, 11h). Dated RY 21 (Egyptian) and 6 (Phoenician) of Cleopatra (32/1 BC). Diademed and draped bust of Cleopatra right / Bare head of Antony right. Svoronos 1887; RPC I 4771; DCA 476; SNG München 1006; Sofaer 43. Green patina with earthen deposits, scrape on obverse, porosity. Near VF. Estimate: 300 USD |  |
