| Astarte S.A. > Web Auction 4 | Auction date: 7 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 195 Price realized: 32 CHF (Approx. 35 USD / 33 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: CILICIA. Anazarbus. Marcus Aurelius, 161-180 (Bronze, 22.72 mm, 7.25 g). ΑVΤΟ Κ Μ ΑVΡΗ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ϹЄ Bare-headed bust right, with slight drapery. Rev. ΚΑΙ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΤΩ ΑΝΑΖΑΡ ЄΤ ΒΠΡ Athena standing left, holding spear and Nike on patera over fire altar; shield at side. RPC IV.3 online, 3641. Ziegler, Anazarbos 167. BMC -. SNG Von Aulock -. SNG Levante -. About Very Fine. Very Rare. Starting price: 30 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 2385 Price realized: 550 CHF (Approx. 625 USD / 581 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: CILICIA. Pompeiopolis. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Assarion (Bronze, 20 mm, 4.91 g, 12 h), CY 209 = 143/4 AD. XΡΥCΙΠ-ΠΟC Draped, bearded and bald bust of the philosopher Chrysippos to right. Rev. [ΠΟΜΠΗΙΟΠΟΛ]ЄΙΤΩN Asklepios standing front, head to left, holding branch over altar in his right hand and his left hand before his chest; behind to right, serpent coiled around tree; in field to left, ƆΘ (date). Leu Numismatik 10 (2021), 2278. Nomos 21 (2020), 228 corr. (reverse image misdescribed, dating overlooked and the coin hence misdated). RPC IV.3 online 17500 corr. (same). Extremely rare. Smoothed and with minor traces of corrosion, otherwise, about very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Chrysippos of Soloi (circa 279-206 BC) was a Greek philosopher, who became the third head of the Stoic school in Athens. Born in Soloi-Pompeiopolis of Phoenician descent, he was reportedly trained as a long-distance runner at a young age and moved to Athens when he lost his property to either Ptolemy II or Antiochos I. Chrysippos was an extremely prolific writer on a variety of subjects such as physics, mathematics and ethics, but he was most famous for his work as a logician, which deeply influenced many of the stoics that came after him. It is perhaps no surprise that Soloi-Pompeiopolis honored its famous citizen with coin portraits in the Antonine period, an era that saw the heyday of the 'younger Stoa', whose last important representative was the emperor Marcus Aurelius (138/161-180) himself. Our coin was struck in CY 209 = 143/4 and forms the half piece to a larger denomination showing, on the obverse, Pompey 'the Great', the refounder of the city (RPC IV.3 online 3580) in the 1st century BC. Starting price: 75 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 2308 Price realized: 240 CHF (Approx. 273 USD / 253 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: PHRYGIA. Laodicea ad Lycum. Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar, 139-161. Hexassarion (Bronze, 35 mm, 23.34 g, 7 h), P. Kl. Attalos, archiaereus, circa 139-144. Μ ΑVΡΗΛΙΟϹ [ΒΗΡΟ]Ϲ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Marcus Aurelius to right, seen from behind. Rev. [ЄΠΙ Π] ΚΛ ΑΤΤΑΛΟϹ [ΑΝЄΘΗΚЄ ΛΑΟΔΙΚЄΩΝ] Thea Rome, helmeted, seated left, holding Nike on her right hand and spear leaning on her left shoulder; shield on ground by her side . BMC - . RPC -. SNG Copenhagen -. SNG von Aulock -. Apparently unpublished. Somewhat smoothed, otherwise, good fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
