| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 134 | Auction date: 21 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 3478 Price realized: 380 AUD (Approx. 249 USD / 228 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Italy, Etruria, (3rd century B.C.), uncertain mint, AE uncia, 21mm, (8.53 g), obv. six-spoke wheel, dot in field, rev. head of bipennis, in field dot and Etruscan letter, (SNG ANS 50, Historia Numorum Italy 59). Toned, attractive green patina, very fine and very scarce. Ex Dr Hugh Preston Collection. Previously Peus auction 374, 2003, lot 14. Estimate: 500 AUD |  |
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| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 134 | Auction date: 21 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 3644 Price realized: 200 AUD (Approx. 131 USD / 120 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Republic, Anonymous, silver denarius, (209-208 B.C.), uncertain mint, (4.22 g), obv. helmeted head of Roma to right, X behind, border of dots, rev. the Dioscuri galloping right, six-spoked wheel below, ROM[A] in exergue, (S.39, Cr.79/1, Syd 519, RSC 20kk, MBC 423). Lightly toned, minor corrosion at base of reverse, nearly extremely fine and very scarce. Ex Dr Hugh Preston Collection. Previously M&M Auction 17 (1988), lot 425. Estimate: 250 AUD |  |
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| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 134 | Auction date: 21 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 3668 Price realized: 240 AUD (Approx. 158 USD / 144 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ti. Quinctius, (112-111 B.C.), silver denarius, Rome Mint, (4.01 g), obv. bust of Hercules seen from behind, with head turned to left, and club over right shoulder, rev. two horses to left, ridden by naked rider (Desultor) wearing cuirass, behind control letter X dot below, below a rat to right, between TI and Q, in exerque on tablet, D.S.S, border of dots, (S.174, C.297/1a, Cf.BMC Italy 577, RSC Quinctia 6 [p.84]). Toned, good very fine and rare. Ex Dr Hugh Preston Collection. Previously CNG, March 1996, lot 1342 (part). Estimate: 180 AUD |  |
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| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 134 | Auction date: 21 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 3488 Price realized: 850 AUD (Approx. 558 USD / 511 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Italy, Lucania, Velia, (c.300-280 B.C.), silver nomos, stater or didrachm, (7.43 g), obv. head of Athena to right, wearing Attic helmet, AH behind, rev. lion walking to right, UELHTON in exergue, P below lion, corn ear above, (cf.S.454, Williams 481 see dies O239/R338, SNG ANS 1381). Toned, very fine and scarce. Ex Dr Hugh Preston Collection. Previously M&M Auction 17, lot 8. Estimate: 350 AUD |  |
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| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 135 | Auction date: 9 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 4481 Price realized: 150 AUD (Approx. 99 USD / 92 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Severina, wife of Aurelian, (270-275 A.D.), AE antoninianus, Rome Mint, issued 274-275, (3.31 g), obv. diademed bust to right of Severina, around, SEVERINA AVG, rev. CONCORDIAE MILITVM, E in right field, XXI R (in ex), Concordia Militum standing left, holding standard in each hand, (S.11705, RIC 4) (illustrated); denarius, (2.39 g), rev. VENVS FELIX, Venus standing left holding apple(?) and sceptre, (S.11709, RIC 6); Tacitus, (A.D. 275-276), antoninianus, Ticinum Mint, (3.85 g), obv. radiate draped and cuirassed bust to right, around IMP C M CLA TACITVS AVG, rev. Pax advancing left with olive branch and sceptre, (S.11787, cf.RIC 148) (illustrated). Toned, fine - good very fine. (3) Ex Dr Hugh Preston Collection. First coin previously Noble Numismatics April 1998, lot 1204 (part). Second Noble November 1999, lot 2058 (part). Third coin Walter Holt September 1999. Estimate: 120 AUD |  |
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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 146 | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 2053 Price realized: To Be Posted | |
| Lot description: Bruttium, Caulonia. Nomos circa 525-500, AR 31mm, 7.84 g. ΚΑVΛ Apollo, diademed, walking r., holding laurel branch in upraised r. hand and small daimon running r. in outstretched l.; in r. field, stag on platform, with head reverted. Rev. The same type incuse l. without legend. Noe, Caulonia Group A.2j and r (this coin, erroneously listed twice). SNG ANS 141 (these dies). SNG Lloyd 572 (these dies). Historia Numorum Italy 2035. Rare. Struck on a very fresh metal and with a superb iridescent tone. Extremely fine Ex Egger 26 November 1909, Lestranges, 68; Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 20 July 1914, Schlesinger Y. Guzman, 27; Glendining's 10 December 1986, Knoepke, 50; NFA XX, 1988, 616 and NAC 114, 2019, 26 sales. The origins of Caulonia are relatively obscure. It is usually described as a foundation of Croton, yet it may have been an independent city since its citizens preserved the name of its oecist (founder), Typhon of Aigion. Its residents, which numbered perhaps 10,000 at its height, were industrious despite having control over a relatively small territory. Their defensive walls were as much as 18 feet thick in some areas, and were unique in southern Italy as they were constructed mostly of loose river stones that had been cemented together. Though Caulonia was the last of the Achaean colonies on the Ionian coast to strike coins, production must have begun fairly soon after the city achieved some level of prosperity, as few archaeological remains at the site pre-date the middle of the 6th Century B.C. Robinson suggests that the high output at this relatively unimportant city might be explained by the lack of early coinage at its wealthier neighbour Locris. The design of the early nomoi of Caulonia has attracted various interpretations, many of which were reviewed by Barclay Head. He saw the main figure as the mythical founder of Caulonia, who held a leaf from the plant κανλüς as a punning allusion to the city name. Most scholars of the modern era prefer to see the figure as Apollo. The running figure in his hand – whose feet are winged on some examples – may be a wind god, perhaps Zephyrus, but he is almost always described as a genius or a daimon, a deity of a lower order which served the higher gods. Perhaps the most attractive explanation for the design is that the figure, Apollo, holds a laurel branch from the Vale of Tempe in Thessaly, and that the small figure is a daimon fulfilling the role of his messenger. If so, it would illustrate the story of how Apollo, after killing the serpent Python at Delphi, exiled himself for seven years of menial labour as penance for his murder; at the end of this period Apollo purified himself in the sacred grove of bay-trees. Specifically, the type would represent his return to Delphi, announced by the daimon-messenger, where he assumed his oracular duties on behalf of Zeus. It is unfortunate that the stag defies explanation since it is an integral part of the design on the earliest coins, and it subsequently became the standard reverse type. Estimate: 15000 CHF |  |
