| Naville Numismatics Ltd. > Auction 86 | Auction date: 17 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 130 Price realized: 800 GBP (Approx. 1,016 USD / 931 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ionia, Myrina Tetradrachm circa 155-143, AR 33.00 mm., 16.90 g. Laureate head of Apollo r. Rev. Apollo Grynios standing r., holding branch and phiale; omphalos and amphora at feet, monogram to l.. Sacks Issue 14. BMC 17. Extremely fine Ex Auctiones 27, 1996, 303 and Ceresio 3, 114 sales. Starting price: 500 GBP |  |
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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 146 | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 2220 Price realized: To Be Posted | |
| Lot description: Myrina. Tetradrachm circa 165-160, AR 33 mm, 16.68 g. Laureate head of Apollo r. Rev. MYPINAIΩN Apollo Grynios standing r., holding branch and phiale; at his feet, omphalos and amphora. In l. field, monogram. Sacks, ANSMN 30, issue 41, 71a (this coin). A very rare variety. A portrait of excellent style and a wonderful old cabinet tone. Perfectly struck and centred on a full flan and good extremely fine Ex Gitta Kastner 4, 1973, 82 and New York I, 1998, 128 sales. Estimate: 7500 CHF |  |
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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 143 | Auction date: 7 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 469 Price realized: 2,000 CHF (Approx. 2,211 USD / 2,053 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Dioscuri Collection. The Roman Empire. Octavian 32 – 27 and as Augustus, 27 BC – 14 AD. Brundisium and Roma Denarius 29-27 BC, AR 18 mm, 3.72 g. Laureate head of Apollo r. Rev. Octavian, veiled and laureate, holding whip and ploughing with yoke of oxen to r.; in exergue, IMP CAESAR. C 117. BMC 638. RIC 272. Sear Imperators 424. CBN 92. Light iridescent tone and good extremely fine Ex NAC 23, 2002, 1453 and NAC 94, 2016, 44 sales. From the Alberto Campana collection. Estimate: 2000 CHF |  |
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| Naville Numismatics Ltd. > Auction 86 | Auction date: 17 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 162 Price realized: 700 GBP (Approx. 889 USD / 814 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Seleucid Kings, Antiochos VI Dionysos, 144-142 Antioch on the Orontes Tetradrachm 143-142, AR 33.00 mm., 16.18 g. Radiate and diademed head r. Rev. The Dioskouroi, holding reins in r. hand and couched lances l., on horses rearing to l.; BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY above, EΠIΦANOYΣ ΔIONYΣOY below, TPY above monogram above ΣTA r., OP (date) beneath horses; all within wreath of laurel, ivy, and grain ears. SC 2000.3a. SMA 244. Old cabinet tone and Extremely fine Ex Roma Numismatics sale XXVII, 2023, 387. Privately purchased from Numismatica Ars Classica Starting price: 400 GBP |  |
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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 143 | Auction date: 7 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 271 Price realized: 38,000 CHF (Approx. 42,003 USD / 39,016 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Dioscuri Collection. The Roman Republic. Q. Pomponius Musa. Denarius 66, AR 19 mm, 3.85 g. Laureate head of Apollo r.; behind, flower. Rev. Q·POMPONI – MVSA Erato standing r., playing square lyre. Babelon Pomponia 12. Sydenham 814. FFC 1037 (this coin). RBW –. Crawford 410/6. Extremely rare and undoubtedly among the finest specimens known. Perfectly struck and centred on a very large flan and with superb old cabinet tone. Extremely fine Ex Hirsch 11 May 1905, Barron, 810; M&M 53, 1977, 199; Lanz 100, 1998, Leo Benz, 584 and Aureo & Calicò 319, 2018, Alba Longa, 601 sales. In a recent article written by Phil Davies and published in the Festscrhif dedicated to Rick Witschonke, the author maintains, with convincing arguments, the issues showing on the reverse a muse holding a square lyre (kithara) should be identified as Erato, while those holding a turtle-shell lyre on reverse and having the turtle symbol on obverse should be identified as Terpsichore. This obviously makes the coin with Erato on reverse less rare than previously thought. Nevertheless the issue Crawford 410/6 remains an extremely rare type as Erato is playing the kithara whereas the type where she is holding the lyre in one hand and the kithara in the other is a much more common type. To consider this type as simply a die variety, as made by some cataloguers but not from Phil Davis, is in our view a mistake. Like the preceding piece, this denarius also belongs to the thematic series of Q. Pompnius Musa, but here the goddess depicted on the reverse is Erato (literally meaning "Lovely"), the Muse of lyric poetry-especially love songs. Like her sister Muses, she was a daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory) and recognised Apollo as leader. Details of her mythology are very limited, but she was important enough to be invoked by name at the beginning of the lost Greek love poem, Rhadine, and by Virgil at the opening of Book 7 of the Aeneid. Estimate: 30000 CHF |  |
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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 143 | Auction date: 7 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 274 Price realized: 2,500 CHF (Approx. 2,763 USD / 2,567 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Dioscuri Collection. The Roman Republic. Q. Pomponius Musa. Denarius 66, AR 18 mm, 4.02 g. Laureate head of Apollo r.; behind, star. Rev. Q·POMPONI – MVSA Urania standing l., holding rod which she points to globe resting on tripod. Babelon Pomponia 22. Sydenham 823. RBW 1488. Crawford 410/8. Lightly toned. Minor metal flaw at eleven o'clock on edge, otherwise extremely fine Perfectly struck and centred on a large flan and with a light iridescent tone. Good extremely fine Ex Leu 30, 1982, 244; Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser 12, 1996, 342; Leu list Herbst 1998, 183 and NAC 29, 2005, 355 sales. Estimate: 1250 CHF |  |
