| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 622 Price realized: 85 GBP (Approx. 107 USD / 99 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Lykia, Choma Æ 16mm. Circa 1st century BC. Laureate head of Zeus to right / Kakasbos, helmeted, riding horse galloping to right, his chlamys floating behind him, brandishing club in raised right hand. SNG von Aulock 4287-8; BMC 1 var. (Zeus to left). 3.89g, 16mm, 12h. Near Very Fine. Extremely Rare mint. Kakasbos, an Anatolian rider-god, was represented on a large number of rock-cut and slab reliefs from northern Lykia and Pisidia. The name Kakasbos is known from numerous inscriptions. The male figure is always shown on horseback, facing frontally with an upraised club. He wears a short tunic (chiton), a travellers cloak (chlamys), and either boots or sandals on his feet. The club associates Kakasbos with the Greek hero Herakles, and on some examples the horseman figure is named Herakles by inscription. Kakasbos should be related to similar divinities known throughout the Graeco-Roman world, such as the Thracian horseman. Another set of horsemen reliefs from Tyriaion, near Balboura, identifies a club-bearing rider-god on his galloping mount as Maseis. Other indigenous rider-god cults known from this region include Mên and Sozon, whose attributes associate them with the moon and sun. Estimate: 50 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 114 | Auction date: 23 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 120 Price realized: 45 GBP (Approx. 56 USD / 52 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Thessaly, Halos Æ 14mm. Circa 3rd century BC. Laureate head of Zeus to right / Phrixos, nude but for cloak billowing behind him, clinging to neck and chest of ram flying to right; AΛEΩN below, AX monogram to upper left. Rogers 242, fig. 116; BCD Thessaly II 86.2; HGC 4, 8. 2.01g, 14mm, 12h. Very Fine. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 29, 27 August 2016, lot 51. Estimate: 40 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 623 Price realized: 60 GBP (Approx. 76 USD / 70 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Lykia, Patara Æ 10mm. Circa 168-30 BC. Laureate head of Apollo to right / [ΠΑΤΑ]ΡΕΩΝ, head of Artemis to left, wearing stephane. BMC 5-8; SNG von Aulock 8492; SNG Copenhagen 114; Weber 7289. 0.79g, 10mm, 1h. Very Fine. Extremely Rare; no other examples on CoinArchives. Patara was a flourishing maritime and commercial city on the south-west coast of Lykia. It possessed a harbour, and was said to have been founded by Pataros, son of Apollo (Strabo, Geography, 14.3). Patara was most celebrated in antiquity for its temple and oracle of Apollo Patareus, whose renown was inferior only to that of Delphi. It has been supposed that the town was of Phoenician or Semitic origin, however it seems certain that at a later period it received Dorian settlers from Crete; the worship of Apollo was certainly Dorian. Strabo, the Greek geographer, informs us that Ptolemy Philadelphos of Egypt, who enlarged the city, gave it the name of Arsinoë, but that it nevertheless continued to be called by its ancient name, Patara (Geography 14.3). Estimate: 50 GBP |  |
Match 3:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 527 Price realized: 60 GBP (Approx. 76 USD / 70 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Troas, Hamaxitos Æ 15mm. Circa 4th century BC. Laureate head of Apollo to right / AMAΞΙ, Apollo Smintheus standing to right, holding bow, arrow and patera, quiver over shoulder; in right field, monogram. BMC 3 var. (monogram); SNG Copenhagen 345 var. (no monogram); cf. Rhousopoulos 3471 (similar monogram). 2.45g, 15mm, 12h. Very Fine. Very Rare; no other examples on CoinArchives. Estimate: 50 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 114 | Auction date: 23 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 115 Price realized: 360 GBP (Approx. 449 USD / 413 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Kings of Paeonia, Patraos AR Tetradrachm. Uncertain Paeonian mint (Astibus or Damastion?), circa 335-315 BC. Laureate head of Apollo to right / Warrior on horse rearing to right, spearing enemy who defends with shield and spear; ΠΑΤΡΑΟΥ (retrograde) above, bukranion to lower left. Paeonian Hoard 227 (same dies); cf. SNG ANS 1030-1; Roma 86, 146 (same dies). 12.64g, 24mm, 12h. Good Very Fine. The exact original boundaries of Paeonia, like the early history of its inhabitants, are obscure, but it is known that it was located immediately north of ancient Macedonia; in the Iliad, the Paeonians are reported as allies of the Trojans. During the Persian invasion of Greece the then-powerful Paeonians were conquered by the armies of Darios I and deported from their homelands to Asia. At some point after the Greco-Persian Wars, the Paeonian princedoms coalesced into a kingdom centred in the central and upper reaches of the Axios and Strymon rivers, corresponding with today's northern part of North Macedonia and western Bulgaria, and joined with the Illyrians in attacking the northern areas of the kingdom of Macedon. Philip II reformed the Macedonian armies and put a stop to both the Illyrian and Paeonian raids, and campaigned deep into Paeonian territory, reducing their kingdom (then ruled by Agis) to a vassal state, which led to a process of gradual Hellenisation including the striking of coins with Greek legends. Later, a Paeonian cavalry contingent, led by Ariston (a member of the Paeonian royal house, possibly brother of Patraos and father of the later king Audoleon - see Heckel, W. Prosopography of Alexander's Empire, 2006), was attached to Alexander the Great's army. At the Battle of Gaugamela the Paeonian cavalry were placed with the sarissophoroi on the right flank, the position of honour, and in 331 BC they routed a large force of Persian cavalry near the Tigris; Ariston personally slew the Persian leader Satropates; he then presented Alexander with the Persian's severed head. He asked Alexander for a gold cup as a reward for his feat, and the king publicly saluted him and drank to his health. Estimate: 400 GBP |  |
Match 5:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 119 | Auction date: 24 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 729 Price realized: 130 GBP (Approx. 162 USD / 151 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Karia, Neapolis ad Harpasum Æ 16mm. Circa 2nd century BC. Laureate head of Apollo or Dionysos to right / NEAΠ-OΛΙΤΩN on either side of Artemis standing to right, holding bow in left hand and drawing arrow from quiver with right. Unpublished in the standard reference, for similar issues, cf. HNO 2722 (temporary) and Imhoof-Blumer, KM p. 147, 1. 3.68g, 16mm, 6h. Very Fine. Extremely Rare; apparently unpublished and possibly unique. Estimate: 75 GBP |  |
