| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 558 | Auction date: 20 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 544 Price realized: 325 USD (Approx. 299 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Anonymous. 7th-3th centuries BC. Æ Aes Formatum (35x15mm, 19.22 g). Mint in Etruria or Latium. Tear-shaped cast bronze / Incuse. ICC Appendix p. 76, pl. 90, no. 7. Dark green patina. VF. Ex Artemide E57 (8 January 2022), lot 309. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 246 Price realized: 50 CHF (Approx. 57 USD / 53 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Anonymous, 6th-4th centuries BC. Aes Formatum (Bronze, 31x23 mm, 13.04 g), uncertain mint in Central Italy (Etruria?). Cast bronze shaped as a cockle-shell. CNG E-Auction 457 (2019), 219. ICC Appendix p. 76 and pl. 90, 5. Thurlow-Vecchi p. 20. Minor deposits, otherwise, about very fine. From the James Knox Collection of Biblical related coins, formed since summer 1991. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 569 Price realized: 3,250 USD (Approx. 2,977 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Anonymous. Circa 230-220 BC. Æ Aes Grave Dupondius (71mm, 259.87 g, 6h). Volterrae (Etruria) mint. Janiform head of Culsans, wearing pointed petasus / Club; I I (mark of value) above and below tail; ethnic around. HN Italy 109a; ICC 136; Haeberlin p. 83, 1-6. Dark green patina, traces of deposits. VF. Rare. From the Ramrodivs Collection. Ex Berk BBS 179 (24 May 2012), lot 447; L.C. Aes Grave Collection (Triton XV, 3 January 2012), lot 1449; Numismatica Ars Classica 10 (9 April 1997), lot 287; Bradbury Kalmonde Thurlow Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXIV, 9 December 1992), lot 69. Estimate: 3000 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 572 Price realized: 15,000 USD (Approx. 13,739 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Anonymous. Circa 225-217 BC. Æ Aes Grave As (73mm, 280.10 g, 12h). Libral cast series. Rome mint. Head of Minerva facing slightly right, wearing triple-crested helmet / Bull standing right; L above, ROMA below. Crawford 37/1a; ICC 73; Sydenham 138; HN Italy 331; Haeberlin pl. 55, 3-4; RBW 93 (this coin). Green patina, roughness, minor casting flaws. Near VF. Extremely rare, only three in CoinArchives. From the Ramrodivs Collection, purchased from Harlan J. Berk. Ex RBW Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 61, 5 October 2011), lot 42; Classical Numismatic Group XXIV (9 December 1992), lot 43; Johns Hopkins University Collection [inv. 44.6.120] (Part I, Numismatic Fine Arts and Bank Leu, 16 October 1984), lot 606; John Work Garrett Collection [inv. G 1024]; M. L. Vierordt Collection (J. Schulman, 5 March 1923), lot 39. According to Thurlow-Vecchi, this is a war issue. This head of Minerva is reminiscent of those of Eukleidas on Syracusan tetradrachms, and the bull may represent Italy. "Such a combination, together with the ROMA inscription, would fittingly symbolize the anti-Carthaginian alliance of Rome, Magna Graecia, Hiero of Syracuse, and the [Mamertini] (a Samnian expeditionary force originally and the specific pretext for the First Punic War)" (Thurlow-Vecchi p. 25). Estimate: 5000 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 917 Price realized: 1,900 USD (Approx. 1,740 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Constantius II. AD 337-361. Æ Medallion (34.5mm, 28.99 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 337-340. D N FL CONSTANTIVS AVG, laurel-and-rosette diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTOR GE NTIVM, Constantius on horseback riding right, bareheaded and wearing military attire, thrusting spear held in right hand at barbarian, to right, kneeling right, head left; fallen barbarian holding shield in right hand beneath emperor's horse; BARBARR. RIC VIII 357 (this coin cited; Ntantalia Series B, Group 10, Type h, 78 (V61/R55 – this coin cited); Gnecchi II, pp. 147–8, 17 (this coin cited). Dark brown-green patina, a few old spots of roughness, smoothing, details enhanced. Good VF. Very rare and possibly unique variety. Ex New York Sale XIV (10 January 2007), lot 453; Dr. H. Longuet Collection (Platt, 17 March 1970), lot 208; Henri Hoffmann Collection. All references cite the same coin from the Henri Hoffmann Collection in 1866. That coin, published in the 1866 Annulaire de la Societe Francaise de Numismatique et Archeologie, has a line drawing on p. 88, pl. II, 16. This coin appears to be the same coin depicted in that line drawing. The areas of weakness, particularly where the beading on the obverse tapers off are quite convincing. Furthermore, the roughness in the far right of the reverse are likewise represented. These dies, recorded in Ntantalia as V61/R55 do not appear elsewhere in her substantial 2001 work, making this coin the only known instance of these dies and die pair. What is additionally noteworthy about this coin, and is mentioned in a note for the RIC entry is that the legend appears to read VICTOR instead of VICTORI. RIC speculates that perhaps the coin's legend is tooled but this is not the case. However, there is some old corrosion in the relevant area which makes determining the distinction difficult. The original Annulaire entry for the coin (which describes it as a "Grand médaillon de bronze" on pp. 93-4 despite the incorrect symbol being used in the plate) highlighted that is was the first coin known with this legend rather than the more commonly found DEBELLATORI GENTIVM BARBARR. For context, in 1866 this type with the medallion reading VICTORI was not yet known. With this background established, this coin appears to be from Hoffmann's collection in 1866, though not appearing in any of the sales of his collection from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. More likely, it was privately sold when Hoffmann was a dealer and remained in private hands until its 1970 sale in Paris. Estimate: 1500 USD |  |
