| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction date: 21 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 21 Price realized: 60 GBP (Approx. 76 USD / 70 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Etruria, Populonia Æ Uncia. Circa 215-211 BC. Female head to right, hair in band; • (mark of value) behind / Two crescents and four stars. EC I, 131.1 (this coin); HN Italy 116; HGC 1, 182. 5.67g, 23mm. Good Fine. Extremely Rare, one of only two known examples. This coin published in I. Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage Part 1 (Milan, 2012); Ex VCV Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction X, 27 September 2015, lot 85. Estimate: 100 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction date: 21 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 23 Price realized: 1,100 GBP (Approx. 1,393 USD / 1,283 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Etruria, Populonia Æ Sextans. Circa 215-211 BC. Diademed head of young Hercle to right, club over shoulder / Etruscan legend 'pvplvna', bow, arrow and club; •• (mark of value) between. EC I, 136.15 (this coin); HN Italy 187; Sambon 116; HGC 1, 181. 12.22g, 28mm, 5h. Good Very Fine. Rare, and unusually well preserved for this issue. This coin published in I. Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage Part 1 (Milan, 2012); Ex VCV Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction 10, 27 September 2015, lot 90 (hammer: GBP 1,800). Estimate: 1500 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction date: 21 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 24 Price realized: 120 GBP (Approx. 152 USD / 140 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Etruria, Populonia Æ Sextans. Circa 215-211 BC. Diademed head of young Hercle to right, club over shoulder / Etruscan legend 'pvplvna', bow, arrow and club; •• (mark of value) between. EC I, 136.18 (this coin); HN Italy 187; Sambon 116; HGC 1, 181. 13.67g, 30mm, 5h. Very Fine; edge split. Rare. This coin published in I. Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage Part 1 (Milan, 2012); Ex Baldwin's Auctions Ltd., Auction 99, 4 May 2016, lot 567; Ex Lord Renfrew Collection, purchased from Spink & Son Ltd, 21 September 1960. Estimate: 100 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction date: 21 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 22 Price realized: 240 GBP (Approx. 304 USD / 280 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Etruria, Populonia Æ Triens. Circa 215-211 BC. Head of Menvra to right, wearing Corinthian helmet; •••• (mark of value) below / Etruscan legend 'pvplvna', owl facing with wings spread; •••• (mark of value) between, countermarked crescent over line with two pellets. EC I, 133.26 (this coin); HN Italy 184; Sambon 114; HGC 1, 175. 20.14g, 30mm, 11h. Very Fine, weakly struck. Rare. This coin published in I. Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage Part 1 (Milan, 2012); Ex VCV Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction 10, 27 September 2015, lot 87 (hammer: GBP 700). The main bronze issues are made up of various denominations tariffed in unciae (represented by pellets) on a weight standard based on a nominal bronze as of 81g which was extant in Rome after the post-semilibral phase of c. 215-212 BC (Crawford 1974, 41). Estimate: 400 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 115 | Auction date: 21 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 34 Price realized: 230 GBP (Approx. 291 USD / 265 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Campania, Capua Æ Biunx. Circa 216-211 BC. Laureate head of Jupiter to right; two stars (mark of value) behind / Diana driving fast biga to right; two stars (mark of value) above, 'kapu' in Oscan in exergue. SNG ANS 206-7; HN Italy 488; HGC 1, 386 (R1). 13.07g, 25mm, 6h. Good Very Fine. Rare. Ex Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions, Auction 15, 27 April 2015, lot 2 (hammer: EUR 480). Estimate: 350 GBP |  |
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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 119 | Auction date: 24 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 117 Price realized: 6,000 GBP (Approx. 7,460 USD / 6,979 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Please note this lot is not suitable for US Import. Lucania, Sirinos (Siris) in alliance with Pyxoes (Pixos) AR Stater. Circa 540-510 BC. Bull standing to left, head reverted; ΣIΡIN-OΣ retrograde in archaic characters below and above / Incuse bull standing to right, head reverted; archaic characters PVX retrograde in exergue. G. Mangieri, 'Sibari Sirino e Pissunte', in RIN 1981, A1 (same dies); Traité 2083, pl. LXVII, 1 (same dies); Perret I (same dies); BMC 2; HN Italy 1723; HGC 1, 1228. 6.83g, 30mm, 12h. Extremely Fine; dark cabinet tone with traces of original mineral adhesions. Very Rare; an intriguing and historically interesting issue of which very few extant examples are known, with only two specimens recorded from this pair of dies. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XXV, 22 September 2022, lot 38. This stater is testament to the alliance of two cities, Sirinos and Pyxoes. The word 'Sirinos', known only from the numismatic record, was at one point considered an adjective referring to the wealthy city of Siris on the Ionian coast, which was destroyed by the alliance of Sybaris, Metapontion and Kroton in the early sixth century BC. However, partly because of the great distance between Siris and Pyxoes it is now thought possible that 'Sirinos' is in fact the name of a city in its own right, likely that of the 'Sirini' people of whom Pliny the Elder writes in his description of southern Italy (NH 3.15). Ruins attributed to Sirinos have been identified on a rocky peak in the valley of Lauria near Rivello, which are still referred to as 'the city', and which geographically would make considerably more sense, being only approximately 30km away from Pyxoes. Pyxoes itself was an ancient Lucanian city situated on the Tyrrhenian coast, today Policastro Bussentino, and reported by Diodoros Siculus (11.59.4) as having been founded by Mikythos the tyrant of Rhegion and Zankle-Messana in 471/0 BC, possibly as a military outpost, though the numismatic evidence suggests that Pyxoes existed prior to this event; what is not clear is whether it was a Hellenic community prior to Mikythos' refoundation, or whether it was an Italic one. The extent of Pyxoes' territory is uncertain, but it is hard to conceive of it as being autonomous. Both cities must inevitably have come under the influence of Sybaris, an important city which amassed proverbially great wealth and power due to its fertile land and advantageously positioned port. Indeed, this type of a bull with head reverted and an incuse reverse is directly derived from the contemporary Sybaritic coinage (e.g. HN Italy 1729-1742), the similarities extending as far as the details of the dotted ground line and reverse ray border (S. R. Olsen, 'An incuse stater from the series 'Sirinos/ Pyxoes'', Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia 26 (2015), p.37.). The incuse design and Achaean weight standard is typical of coinage from the sixth century BC in southern Italy and was also employed in nearby Metapontion and Croton. Estimate: 10000 GBP |  |
