| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 733 Price realized: 260 GBP (Approx. 329 USD / 303 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Kyrenaika, Kyrene AR Didrachm. Time of Magas, as Ptolemaic governor, circa 300-275 BC. Horned head of Zeus Karneios to right / Silphium plant; KY-PA across upper fields, tripod and monogram flanking below. BMC 252 corr. (head to right, not left); SNG Copenhagen 1242 var. (position of controls). 7.58g, 22mm, 12h. Good Very Fine; areas of flatness. Acquired from Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung; Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 536, 12 April 2023, Estimate: 250 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 114 | Auction date: 23 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 478 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: Kyrenaika, Kyrene AR Didrachm. Time of Magas, as Ptolemaic governor, circa 300-275 BC. Horned head of Zeus Karneios to right / Silphium plant; KY-PA across upper fields, tripod and monogram flanking below. BMC 252 corr. (head to right, not left); SNG Copenhagen 1242 var. (position of controls). 7.58g, 22mm, 12h. Good Very Fine; areas of flatness. Acquired from Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung; Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 536, 12 April 2023, Estimate: 500 GBP |  |
Match 2:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 733 Price realized: 260 GBP (Approx. 329 USD / 303 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Kyrenaika, Kyrene AR Didrachm. Time of Magas, as Ptolemaic governor, circa 300-275 BC. Horned head of Zeus Karneios to right / Silphium plant; KY-PA across upper fields, tripod and monogram flanking below. BMC 252 corr. (head to right, not left); SNG Copenhagen 1242 var. (position of controls). 7.58g, 22mm, 12h. Good Very Fine; areas of flatness. Acquired from Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung; Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 536, 12 April 2023, Estimate: 250 GBP | |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 115 | Auction date: 21 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 436 Price realized: 30 GBP (Approx. 38 USD / 35 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, temp. Kleopatra III and Ptolemy IX - Kleopatra IV and Ptolemy XI Æ 12mm. Alexandria, circa 2nd century BC. Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon to right / Eagle standing to left; B-A across fields. Faucher Series 9; Svoronos 1733 (Kleopatra IV with Ptolemy XI); BMC Ptolemies p. 114, 1 (Ptolemy Apion as King of Kyrene); SNG Copenhagen 670-2 (attributed to Alexander the Great). 1.35g, 12mm, 11h. Very Fine. Very Rare. Estimate: 50 GBP |  |
Match 4:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 367 Price realized: 3,500 USD (Approx. 3,206 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC, or king, 305/4-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.75 g, 1h). Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 306-300 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin, aegis around neck with tiny Δ in scales / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, monogram, Corinthan helmet right, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. CPE 70; Svoronos 164; Zervos Issue 29, dies 518/c; SNG Copenhagen –; Noeske –; SNG Lockett 3393; Weber 8226. Toned, traces of undertype. EF. Well centered. From the JTB Collection. Ex North River Collection; RCM Collection (Triton XVI, 8 January 2013), lot 587; Triton VII (13 January 2004), lot 372. Ptolemy I Soter, the son of a Macedonian nobleman, was a friend and intimate of Alexander III the Great from boyhood and accompanied him on his great career of conquest, from 333-323 BC. Upon Alexander's death in 323 BC, Ptolemy was granted the prized satrapy of Egypt, the richest of the formerly Persian provinces. Alone among the Diadochi ("successors"), he was content with his sphere of influence and did not risk all to succeed Alexander. However, he was not above using the great conqueror's image and reputation to secure his own position. He hijacked Alexander's funeral cortege as it was proceeding back to Macedon and had his embalmed corpse formally interred at Memphis in Egypt; later the body was relocated to a splendid mausoleum in Alexandria. Ptolemy's early coinage is modeled on that of Alexander and carries the conqueror's image and name, as seen on this remarkable tetradrachm, which shows Alexander wearing an elaborate elephant-skin headdress in honor of his victories in India, backed with a striking image of Athena in a fighting stance. Ptolemy declared his own kingship in 305/4 BC and was the only one of Alexander's Successors to die peacefully, in his bed, in 282 BC, having founded a dynasty that would last three centuries. Estimate: 2000 USD |  |
Match 5:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 368 Price realized: 2,250 USD (Approx. 2,061 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC, or king, 305/4-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.77 g, 11h). Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 306-300 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin, aegis around neck with tiny Δ in scales / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear in right hand and wearing shield on extended left arm; to right, helmet, ΔI, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. CPE 72; Svoronos 169; Zervos Issue 31, dies 531/b; SNG Copenhagen 30; BMC 26. Lightly toned, hairline flan crack, some die wear on obverse. Near EF. Ex GTP Collection; CNG inventory 419724 (December 2015). Ptolemy I Soter, the son of a Macedonian nobleman, was a friend and intimate of Alexander III the Great from boyhood and accompanied him on his great career of conquest, from 333-323 BC. Upon Alexander's death in 323 BC, Ptolemy was granted the prized satrapy of Egypt, the richest of the formerly Persian provinces. Alone among the Diadochi ("successors"), he was content with his sphere of influence and did not risk all to succeed Alexander. However, he was not above using the great conqueror's image and reputation to secure his own position. He hijacked Alexander's funeral cortege as it was proceeding back to Macedon and had his embalmed corpse formally interred at Memphis in Egypt; later the body was relocated to a splendid mausoleum in Alexandria. Ptolemy's early coinage is modeled on that of Alexander and carries the conqueror's image and name, as seen on this remarkable tetradrachm, which shows Alexander wearing an elaborate elephant-skin headdress in honor of his victories in India, backed with a striking image of Athena in a fighting stance. Ptolemy declared his own kingship in 305/4 BC and was the only one of Alexander's Successors to die peacefully, in his bed, in 282 BC, having founded a dynasty that would last three centuries. Estimate: 2000 USD |  |
Match 6:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction date: 21 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 266 Price realized: 750 GBP (Approx. 950 USD / 875 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Kyrenaika, Kyrene AR Didrachm. Temp. Magas, circa 294-275 BC. Horned head of Zeus Karneios to left / Silphion plant; two stars across upper fields, KY-PA across lower fields. BMC 237; SNG Copenhagen 1237. 7.63g, 20mm, 12h. Near Extremely Fine; light cabinet tone. Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 121, 6 October 2022, lot 609 (hammer: USD 1,300). Estimate: 1000 GBP |  |
