| 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 1:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 531 Price realized: 24 GBP (Approx. 30 USD / 28 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Troas, Kebren (as Antiochia) Æ 10mm. Circa 400-310 BC. Laureate head of Apollo to right / Head of ram to right; ANTIO above, trident to right. Cf. SNG Copenhagen 275; BMC 40. 1.00g, 10mm, 5h. Very Fine. A very rare variant. Estimate: 40 GBP |  |
Match 2:
| 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 |  |
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 |  |
Match 4:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 117 | Auction date: 22 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 230 Price realized: 110 GBP (Approx. 139 USD / 128 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Tauric Chersonesos, Chersonesos Æ 14mm. Circa 150-125 BC. Laureate head of Apollo to right / Tripod; XEP above, ΑΠΟΛ[ΛΟ] to right. SNG SHM Moskau 3541-3545; SNG BM Black Sea 817; Frolova-Abramzon 519-523. 2.18g, 15mm, 11h. Very Fine. Extremely Rare; seemingly no other examples on CoinArchives. Acquired from Bermondsey Coins Ltd. Estimate: 100 GBP |  |
Match 5:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 115 | Auction date: 21 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 260 Price realized: 45 GBP (Approx. 57 USD / 52 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Kings of Bithynia, Prusias I Cholos Æ 26mm. Nicomedia, circa 230-182 BC. Laureate head of Apollo to left; c/ms: head of Artemis to left within circular incuse, lyre and tripod within rectangular incuses / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΡΟΥΣΙΟ[Υ] Athena-Nike standing to left, crowning the king's name with wreath and resting her left hand on shield; to left, monogram. RG 16; SNG von Aulock 247-8; HGC 7, 615. 9.12g, 26mm, 12h. Very Fine. Estimate: 40 GBP |  |
