| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 17 Price realized: 15 GBP (Approx. 19 USD / 17 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Uncertain Celtic Imitation(?) AR Drachm. Circa 3rd-2nd centuries BC. Head of Apollo(?) to right / Pseudo legend(?) in two lines within border of dots. 2.17g, 19mm, 10h. Very Fine; edge chipped. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 66, 9 January 2020, lot 619 (listed as Arabia, Himyarite(?)). Estimate: 25 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 353 Price realized: 35 GBP (Approx. 44 USD / 41 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III 'the Great' AR Obol. Sidon, undated issue, struck under Menon or Menes, circa 332-323 BC. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; AΛEAN to right, ΣI in left field. Price 3476. 0.62g, 9mm, 10h. Near Very Fine, slight dent. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 15, 31 January 2015, lot 111; Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 7, 26 April 2014, lot 389. Estimate: 25 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 355 Price realized: 30 GBP (Approx. 38 USD / 35 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Kingdom of Macedon, temp. Alexander III - Philip III AR Hemidrachm. Struck under Menes or Laomedon, in the name and types of Alexander III. Arados, circa 324-320 BC. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ below, [ΑΛΕΞ]ΑΝΔΡ[ΟΥ] to right, [control] in left field, monogram below throne. Cf. Price 3330; HGC 3.1, 947b (Alexander IV); cf. Roma E-73, 254 (same obv. die). 2.08g, 15mm, 9h. Near Very Fine; edge knock. Very Rare. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 15, 31 January 2015, lot 110; Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 7, 26 April 2014, lot 387. Estimate: 25 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 116 | Auction date: 18 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 263 Price realized: 85 GBP (Approx. 108 USD / 99 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Mysia, Priapos Æ 11mm. Circa 3rd century BC. Laureate head of Apollo facing slightly to right / Crayfish; ΠPI above, A below. SNG von Aulock 7527 var. (rev. legend); Asia Minor Coins Online 14626 var. (same). 1.31g, 11mm, 10h. Very Fine. Very Rare. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 104, 15 December 2022, lot 333. Estimate: 40 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 116 | Auction date: 18 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 281 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: Dynasts of Lykia, uncertain dynast AR Stater. Uncertain mint, circa 520-480 BC. Head of boar to right / Incuse square with pellets in fields. Müseler - cf. I, 7; SNG Copenhagen -; CNG 41, 612 (same dies); Goldberg 23, 3690 (same obv. die); apparently unpublished in the standard references. 9.00g, 17mm. Very Fine. Unpublished in the standard references; apparently the sixth known example. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 104, 15 December 2022, lot 365; Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 86, 8 July 2021, lot 570. Estimate: 250 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction date: 21 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 74 Price realized: 3,200 GBP (Approx. 4,054 USD / 3,732 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Sicily, Syracuse AR Tetradrachm. Time of Agathokles, circa 310-305 BC. Head of Kore to right, wearing wreath of grain ears and single-pendant earring; KOPAΣ behind / Nike standing to right, erecting trophy to right; monogram to lower left, triskeles to right, [A]ΓAΘOKΛE[OΣ] in exergue. Ierardi 103e (O21/R64 - this coin [corr. prov.]); BAR Issue 23; Boston MFA 463 = Warren 406 (same dies); HGC 2, 1536. NGC graded Ch XF 4/5 - 3/5, scratches (#5769822-001); beautiful old cabinet tone. Rare. This coin cited in M. Ierardi, 'The Tetradrachms of Agathocles of Syracuse: A Preliminary Study' in AJN 7/8 (1995-6), p. 53; Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XXIII, 24 March 2022, lot 73; Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 114, 13 May 2020, lot 73; Ex Weise Collection, Gemini LLC, Auction I, 11 January 2005, lot 48; Ex F. Sternberg AG, Auction XII, 18 November 1982, lot 78. With the usurpation of Agathokles in 317 BC, Syracuse once more monopolised the right of coinage for the whole of Sicily, even more distinctly than in the time of Dionysios. Yet the reign of Agathokles, as noted by Malcolm Bell (Morgantine Studies I, 1981) "was a watershed for the arts in Sicily, just as it was for politics. The change from a conservative late-classical style to the new modes of the early-Hellenistic period came very quickly, within the space of a decade, and it coincided with the replacement of democratic government by the new monarchy. It is clearly perceptible in the coins that... document the full acceptance of early-Hellenistic style." Depicted often as a cruel and unscrupulous adventurer and tyrant, Agathokles achieved little of lasting historical importance; indeed after his death anarchy erupted both in Syracuse, where a damnatio memoriae was decreed, and in other places that had been under his rule (Diod. Sic. 21. 18). Nonetheless, his patronage of the arts left a legacy of beauty as embodied by a small number of surviving works of art from his reign, and smaller but no less wonderful objects such as this stunning coin. Estimate: 3000 GBP |  |
