| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 948 Price realized: 24 GBP (Approx. 30 USD / 28 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Tiberius, with Livia (mother of Tiberius), Æ 22mm of Thessalonica, Macedon. AD 14-23. ΤΙ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ, laureate head of Tiberius to right / ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΑΕΩΝ, draped and veiled bust of Livia to right. RPC I 1570; Touratsoglou 69-100; BMC 77-8. 7.87g, 22mm, 6h. Near Very Fine. Livia, Augustus' third wife and the mother of Tiberius, was adopted into the gens Julia and granted the honorific title Augusta by the provisions of his will. Estimate: 40 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 950 Price realized: 30 GBP (Approx. 38 USD / 35 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Germanicus, with Drusus (heirs of Tiberius) Æ 17mm of Pergamum, Mysia. AD 14-19. ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ, bare head of Germanicus to right / ΔΡΟΥΣΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ, bare head of Drusus to right. RPC I 2367; SNG BnF 2047-8. 3.12g, 17mm, 10h. Near Very Fine. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Live Auction 6, 25 March 2023, lot 85. Estimate: 25 GBP |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29 | Auction date: 24 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 1866 Price realized: 2,200 CHF (Approx. 2,497 USD / 2,308 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Claudius, 41-54. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 36 mm, 29.45 g, 6 h), Rome, 41-42. TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP Laureate head of Claudius to right. Rev. NERO CLAVDIVS DRVSVS GERMAN IMP / S - C The Arch of Nero Claudius Drusus: monumental triumphal arch consisting of a single arch and decorated piers set on raised base with four columns supporting ornate attic; attic containing central pediment decorated with simpulum and litui on either side; clipeus and ewer in flanking panels; attic surmounted by statue of Nero Claudius Drusus on horseback to right between two Germanic trophies, striking downwards with spear held in his right hand. BMC 122. CBN 162. Cohen 48. RIC 98. An attractive example of this impressive issue struck on a particularly heavy flan. Very minor traces of corrosion, otherwise, very fine. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica Autumn Sale, 26-27 October 1995, 540. When Octavian fell in love with Livia in 39 BC, she was pregnant by her first husband, Tiberius Claudius Nero, who agreed to divorce her to please his master. Drusus was born in early 38 BC, just months after Octavian had married his mother, and he and his older brother, Tiberius, subsequently grew up in their stepfather's household. As they came of age, Octavian - now Augustus - gradually started entrusting his stepsons with important duties, and when the Roman army launched a series of offensives against barbarian tribes in central and northern Germany in 12-9 BC, it was Drusus who led the charge. The young general proved to be an able commander, for he defeated his enemies in several battles and pushed deep into their heartlands. In commemoration of these victories, Augustus commissioned the triumphal arch shown on the reverse of this beautiful sestertius of Claudius, Drusus' own son, who, as an often-belittled stutterer with congenital deformities, clearly attempted to confer some of his father's glory as a successful general upon himself. Starting price: 250 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 2158 Price realized: 3,600 CHF (Approx. 4,092 USD / 3,801 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SPAIN. Bilbilis. Tiberius, 14-37. As (Orichalcum, 30 mm, 12.07 g, 10 h), L. Aelius Sejanus, praetorian consul and honorary duovir, AD 31. TI•CAESAR•DIVI•AVGVSTI•F•AVGVSTVS• Laureate head of Tiberius to right. Rev. MVN•AVGVSTA•BILBILIS• / •TI•CAESARE•V•[L•AELIO•SEIANO] around laurel wreath containing COS. ACIP 3024. NAH 1079-80. RPC I 398. SNG Copenhagen 620. Very rare, particularly with the damnatio memoriae. A very interesting piece of the greatest historical interest. Very minor traces of corrosion and with light deposits, otherwise, very fine. L. Aelius Sejanus was perhaps Rome's most powerful praetorian prefect. As Tiberius's closest friend and advisor, he stoked the aging emperor's fears of a conspiracy led by Agrippina the Elder, Augustus' granddaughter. As a result, Tiberius became increasingly paranoid and eventually withdrew to the island of Capri in 26 AD, effectively handing over power in the capital to Sejanus. In 31, the strongman received the consulship, despite being an Eques, and became engaged to Livilla, sister of Germanicus. These events marked the climax of his rise and perhaps hastened his downfall, for that same year he was suddenly arrested and executed on the emperor's orders. Later authors accused him of plotting against Tiberius, and planning to assume the purple for himself. However, as Sejanus was not of senatorial origin but a simple eques, such accusations from the senatorial historiography must be taken with a grain of salt, and modern historians have therefore come to very different assessments of Sejanus' role. Whatever the true background, by executing his closest ally, Tiberius made it abundantly clear who held true power in Rome. The present coin belongs to the sole emission of coins with the upstart's name, struck in the provincial mint of Bilbilis in Spain. Only a few examples of this coinage have survived to this day, suggesting either that the issue was abruptly stopped after Sejanus' downfall, or that many of the coins were confiscated and melted down after Sejanus' execution. What makes this particular example especially interesting is that it belongs to a very small number of coins on which Sejanus' name was erased in an act of damnatio memoriae. This is the earliest instance in Roman history of such condemnation of coins by the authorities, and set the stage for some of the later removals of names and portraits from provincial coins, such as when Caracalla murdered his brother Geta in 211. Starting price: 1000 CHF |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction date: 21 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 341 Price realized: 360 GBP (Approx. 456 USD / 420 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Livia (third wife of Augustus) Æ "Dupondius" of Emerita, Hispania. Struck under Tiberius, circa AD 14-29. PERM AVGVSTI SALVS AVGVSTA, bare head to right / C A E IVLIA AVGVSTA, Livia seated to right on throne, holding sceptre and corn ears. RPC I 39; ACIP 3405; Vives 145-5. 18.47g, 34mm, 9h. Near Very Fine. Ex collection of V.B., United Kingdom, Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 43, 3 February 2018, lot 307 (hammer: 1,500 GBP). Estimate: 250 GBP |  |
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| Nomos AG > Auction 32 | Auction date: 8 June 2024 |
| Lot number: 44 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot  | |
| Lot description: The Anthony Milavic Collection of Ancient Games Coins Games Officials Agonothetes PHRYGIA. Cotiaeum. Galba, 68-69. (Bronze, 21 mm, 4.27 g, 12 h), struck under the magistrate Tiberius Claudius Aretis Philopatris, Agonothetes for life. ΓΑΛΒΑΝ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑ Laureate head of Galba to right. Rev. ΕΠΙ ΤΙ ΚΛ ΑΡΕΤΙΔΟΣ ΑΓΩΝΟΘΕΤΟΥ / ΔΙΑ ΒΙΟΥ / ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ Zeus(?) standing facing, head to left, raising his right hand. BMC 33. RPC I 3222.6 (this coin). With a craggy portrait of Galba and a golden-brown toning. Some mior roughness and surface cracks, otherwise, very fine. From the collection of Major Anthony F. Milavic, USMC (Ret.), and from that of D. Simpson, Triton V, 15 January 2002, 1738. An Agonothetes was the official who presided over a city's games, whether just local ones, as here, or over major ones that were international in scope - like the Olympics at Olympia or the Pythian Games at Delphi. He would have paid the expenses of the games. Starting price: 225 CHF |  |
