| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 24 | Auction date: 3 December 2022 |
| Lot number: 1283 Price realized: 4,505 CHF (Approx. 4,787 USD / 4,570 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BITHYNIA. Kios. Circa 340-330 BC. Stater (Gold, 15 mm, 8.51 g, 2 h), Attic standard, Agathokles, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. [ΑΓΑΘΟ]-ΚΛΗΣ Prow of galley to left; on fighting platform, star; to left, [eagle standing left]; above, club. HGC 7, 550 corr. (magistrate's name). RG p. 311 and pl. XLIX, 1 = Traité II, 2850 (same dies). Of the highest rarity, apparently the third known example. Struck on a short flan and with minor marks, otherwise, very fine. Starting price: 1500 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 25 | Auction date: 11 March 2023 |
| Lot number: 787 Price realized: 6,500 CHF (Approx. 7,069 USD / 6,613 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: IONIA. Miletos. Circa 130-120 BC. Stater (Gold, 20 mm, 8.51 g, 12 h), Attic standard, Eumechanos, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo to right, with bow and quiver over his left shoulder. Rev. EYMHXAN[OΣ] Lion standing right, head turned back to left; above, star; in field to right, monogram of MI above monogram of ΙΣ. BMC 114 and pl. XXII, 3 (same obverse die). Deppert-Lippitz p. 121, 3-5 and pl. 32, 6 (same dies). Extremely rare, apparently the fourth known example. Struck from slightly worn dies and with a scrape on the obverse, otherwise, very fine. Ex Leu 10, 24 October 2021, 2151. With Deppert-Lippitz recording a mere five examples in 1984, the late Hellenistic Milesian civic gold coinage is of an exceptional rarity. Unfortunately, much damage was done by her unjustified condemnation of the entire series as doubtful, a judgement that was vehemently contested by P. Kinns in his review of Deppert-Lippitz's monograph (P. Kinns: The coinage of Miletus, in: NC 146 (1986), pp. 233-260, with the relevant discussion on pp. 245-247). There is, as Kinns rightly pointed out, not the slightest evidence that these coins are anything but authentic, and his arguments in favor of them are absolutely persuasive. For example, Kinns pointed out that BMC 114, a coin struck from the same obverse dies as ours, has a recorded pedigree to 1816, when it was acquired by Lord Elgin, carrying an extremely rare name on the reverse that was unknown to scholarship prior to this date. Yet similarly named magistrates later turned up in inscriptions recovered from Miletos and Didyma. How any 18th or early 19th century forger should have made up a name on a coin that later appeared on authentic inscriptions is anyone's guess. In any case, to this and Kinns' other observations we may add that our example, signed by the very same magistrate, Eumechanos, has all the signs of a struck original, with some die wear and minor die breaks, and perhaps even some light traces of overstriking on the reverse. It is clearly authentic and of great interest as one of the very few civic gold issues in western Asia Minor from this time. Kinns originally dated the series to circa 175-160 BC (Kinns, Miletus, p. 260) and later amended this to 150-130, connecting it to the gold from Ephesos (P. Kinns: Milesian silver coinage in the second century BC, in: Studies Price, p. 182). With the latter now being downdated as well, placing the Milesian gold in circa 130-120 BC appears realistic. Starting price: 1500 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 24 | Auction date: 3 December 2022 |
| Lot number: 1365 Price realized: 7,500 CHF (Approx. 7,969 USD / 7,608 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: IONIA. Miletos. Circa 130-120 BC. Stater (Gold, 20 mm, 8.51 g, 12 h), Attic standard, Eumechanos, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo to right, with bow and quiver over his left shoulder. Rev. EYMHXAN[OΣ] Lion standing right, head turned back to left; above, star; in field to right, monogram of MI above monogram of ΙΣ. BMC 114 and pl. XXII, 3 (same obverse die). Deppert-Lippitz p. 121, 3-5 and pl. 32, 6 (same dies). Extremely rare, apparently the fourth known example. Struck from slightly worn dies and with a scrape on the obverse, otherwise, very fine. Starting price: 1500 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 25 | Auction date: 11 March 2023 |
| Lot number: 307 Price realized: 5,007 CHF (Approx. 5,445 USD / 5,094 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: KINGS OF MACEDON. Philip II, 359-336 BC. Stater (Gold, 17 mm, 8.61 g, 12 h), Pella, circa 345-336. Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ Charioteer driving biga to right, holding reins in his left hand and goad in his right; above, cicada to right. Le Rider 45 (D23/R36). SNG ANS 128. A sharp and attractive example. Light scratches on the obverse and some deposits on the reverse, otherwise, virtually as struck. Starting price: 1500 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 25 | Auction date: 11 March 2023 |
| Lot number: 687 Price realized: 80 CHF (Approx. 87 USD / 81 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BITHYNIA. Kios. Circa 350-300 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 14 mm, 2.35 g, 1 h), Persian standard, Proxenos, magistrate. KIA Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΠΡΟΞ/ΕΝΟΣ Prow of galley to left; on fighting platform, star. HGC 7, 553. SNG Copenhagen 373. SNG von Aulock 504. Granular surfaces, otherwise, very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 25 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 25 | Auction date: 11 March 2023 |
| Lot number: 94 Price realized: 240 CHF (Approx. 261 USD / 244 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: LUCANIA. Metapontion. Circa 340-330 BC. Nomos (Silver, 20 mm, 7.71 g, 12 h). Bearded head of Leukippos to right, wearing Corinthian helmet; behind, head of a roaring lion to right. Rev. Ear of barley with leaf to left; above leaf, vertical club with head below; below leaf, AMI. HN Italy 1575. Johnston Class B, 2.28. Harshly cleaned, otherwise, very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
