| Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG > Online Auction 203 | Silver | Auction date: 24 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 2 Price realized: 600 EUR (Approx. 652 USD) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Central Europe. Vindelici 100-1 BC. "Regenbogenschüsselchen" type Stater EL 17 mm, 5,40 g Triskeles, with a pellet within an annulet at the center and a pellet at the end of each leg, to right within a wreath-like torc with an annulet at each end / Pyramid of eight annulets: five, on the bottom, each enclosing a pellet, and three, forming the top two rows, each enclosing a smaller annulet; all within a wavy torc. Very Fine Flesche 400; LT 9439v. Starting price: 200 EUR |  |
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| Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG > Online Auction 198 | Silver | Auction date: 25 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 1 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: Central Europe. Vindelici 200-100 BC. Regenbogenschüsselchen Type II C Stater AV 17 mm, 7,52 g Bird's head to left; beak between two pellets within wreath open to right / Six pellets within torque. Note: This variant appears to have what seems to be a column or numeral "I" on the pellet at reverse 8h. It could also just be an abnormally in the minting process, resulting in an die break. (?) Very Fine LT 9427; Kellner 2327 Type II D; Castelin 1068-70; Dembski 446-8; Flesche Coll. 303-4. In colloquial language, "Regenbogenschüsselchen" refers to a unique type of Celtic gold and silver coin that was in circulation in a region stretching from what is now Hungary through Austria to southern Germany between roughly 200 BC and the turn of the era. These coins are known for their characteristic bowl-like shape and typically lack any inscriptions. Instead, they feature abstract, symbolic patterns or tangible motifs from Celtic iconography. The name "Regenbogenschüsselchen," which translates to "rainbow bowls," derives from a superstition that these gold pieces fell from the sky as if from a rainbow and landed on the earth. The unique curvature of these coins made them stand out when discovered, especially when the sun was at the observer's back, as their shape allowed them to reflect sunlight back in the direction it came from. This sometimes led people to believe that the coin had fallen from the heavens and was gleaming under a rainbow. These mysterious coins were often uncovered during plowing and were believed to bring luck, possessing even healing properties. This finding context likely inspired the Grimm fairy tale "The Star Money." The Bohemian numismatist Nikolaus Adaukt Voigt used the Podmokl coin hoard discovery in 1771 to characterize these coins as early indigenous pieces, dispelling theories about their foreign origin Starting price: 1750 EUR |  |
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| Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG > Online Auction 188 | Black | Auction date: 17 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 2 Price realized: 4,200 EUR (Approx. 4,617 USD) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Central Europe. Vindelici 200-100 BC. Regenbogenschüsselchen Type II C Denarius AR 18 mm, 7,51 g Bird's head to left; beak between two pellets within wreath open to right / Six pellets within torque. very fine LT 9427; Kellner 2327 Type II D; Castelin 1068-70; Dembski 446-8; Flesche Coll. 303-4. In colloquial language, "Regenbogenschüsselchen" refers to a unique type of Celtic gold and silver coin that was in circulation in a region stretching from what is now Hungary through Austria to southern Germany between roughly 200 BC and the turn of the era. These coins are known for their characteristic bowl-like shape and typically lack any inscriptions. Instead, they feature abstract, symbolic patterns or tangible motifs from Celtic iconography. The name "Regenbogenschüsselchen," which translates to "rainbow bowls," derives from a superstition that these gold pieces fell from the sky as if from a rainbow and landed on the earth. The unique curvature of these coins made them stand out when discovered, especially when the sun was at the observer's back, as their shape allowed them to reflect sunlight back in the direction it came from. This sometimes led people to believe that the coin had fallen from the heavens and was gleaming under a rainbow. These mysterious coins were often uncovered during plowing and were believed to bring luck, possessing even healing properties. This finding context likely inspired the Grimm fairy tale "The Star Money." The Bohemian numismatist Nikolaus Adaukt Voigt used the Podmokl coin hoard discovery in 1771 to characterize these coins as early indigenous pieces, dispelling theories about their foreign origin. Starting price: 1 EUR |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 398 Price realized: 1,400 CHF (Approx. 1,591 USD / 1,478 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BRITAIN. Iceni. Uninscribed, circa 20 BC-10 AD. Stater (Gold, 17 mm, 5.35 g), 'Freckenham flower' type. Wheel decorated with flower in center and pellets on spokes. Rev. Celticized horse standing right; to left, triangle of consisting of pellets and single pellet; to right, pellet within spiral shaped ornament; above, decorated crescent; below, pellet in annulet. SCBC 428 var. (wheel below). Van Arsdell 626-1 var. (wheel below). Rare and unusually well preserved. Struck from somewhat worn dies with minor marks and flan imperfections, otherwise, good very fine. From the collection of the renowned Swiss architect Max Vogt (1925-2019), formed since the 1980s. Starting price: 500 CHF |  |
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| Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG > Online Auction 203 | Silver | Auction date: 24 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 149 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: Ionia. Uncertain mint. circa 600-550 BC. Trite - Third Stater EL 13 mm, 4,69 g Forepart of a ram to right, on a raised oval shield-like surface / Two incuse squares with irregular surfaces Good Very Fine Hilbert Abb. 137: III.8; Traité II/1 –; BMC Ionia –; SNG von Aulock –; L. Weidauer, Probleme der frühen Elektronprägung, Typos 1, Fribourg (Switzerland), 1975, - cf. 136–137 (horse, head turned); M. Mignucci, "Elettro arcaico, incroci di conio inediti", GNS 42/166, 1992, 3. MFA Boston 1759 (same dies). Cf. Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 74, lot 290. (2013). M.-M. Bendenoun, Coins of the Ancient World, A Portrait of the JDL Collection, Tradart, Genève, 2009, 25. Of the highest rarity, apparently only four specimens known. As with most uninscribed, early electrum coins of Asia Minor, it is not possible to identify the mint of this trite with any degree of confidence. However, it was struck to the Milesian standard, and in every other respect would seem to be Ionian. In her commentary on an example from the same dies in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (no. 1759), Agnes Baldwin Brett proposed that it was struck in Clazomenai. She reasoned, in part, that the ram, a symbol of Apollo, was commonly used as a coin design of that city during the 4th Century B.C. In his 1992 survey of this issue of trites, Mignucci observes that die links and a commonality in style, fabric and production quality indicates this type belongs to a small group of electrum staters and trites produced at a single mint in a short period. The high standard of engraving, which displays the full vigour of Archaic Greek art, makes it probable that this coinage is from one of the more important mints in Ionia. The other coins in the group appear to be the staters Weidauer 52-54, 131-132 and 135, and the trites Weidauer 136-137. Quote: Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 74, lot 290 Starting price: 2500 EUR |  |
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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 146 | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 2212 Price realized: To Be Posted | |
| Lot description: Troas, Abydos. Stater circa 330, AV 17 mm, 8.60 g. Facing head of Artemis, wearing an ornate stephanos decorated with acanthus leaves, triple pendant earrings and necklace. Rev. Eagle standing l. with closed wing; in l. field, vine-tendril with bunch of grapes. For similar reverse type. cf. Traite II, 2449 and pl. CLXVIII, 2 (eagle standing r.). Apparently unique and unpublished. A portrait of enchanting beauty, in the finest late Classical style work of a very talented master engraver. Virtually as struck and almost Fdc Ex NGSA sale 6, 2010, 84. From the Collection of a Man in Love with Art. The eagle type used for the reverse of this unique stater signals its production at the mint of Abydos on the Hellespont. This city, which faced Sestos in the Thracian Chersonesos, was a popular crossing point from Asia to Europe and vice versa due to is location at the narrowest point on the Hellespont. As such it was a staging area for various invasions, such as those of Xerxes against mainland Greece and of Philip II and Alexander the Great against the Persian Empire, ostensibly in revenge for the earlier campaign of Xerxes. Unlike most Greek cities, Abydos possessed its own gold mines and is known to have struck gold coins in the late fifth and early third centuries BC, probably in support of the fleets used by both the Spartans and Persians to end Athenian domination in the region. The city probably also struck gold coins in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip III Arrhidaeus in the period between 328 and 297 BC. The present coin, however, probably belongs to the 330s BC and the beginning of Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire. The Mysian city of Pergamon also struck an unexpected civic gold emission at this time, possibly in support of Alexander's fleet before he could release the vast wealth of the Persian treasuries. The obverse type, depicting an exquisite image of Artemis, the patron goddess of the city, is mirrored in the contemporary bronze coinage of Abydos. The goddess is shown facing and wearing a polos on the bronze issues, but only on this remarkable stater is her headdress so masterfully ornamented with palmettes and acanthus decorations. Estimate: 500000 CHF |  |
