| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 558 | Auction date: 20 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 408 Price realized: 120 USD (Approx. 111 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ARABIA, Bostra. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ (28mm, 19.89 g, 7h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Philip right, seen from behind / cuirassed bust of Dusares right, wearing taenia, gorgoneion on breastplate. Kindler, Bostra 43; Spijkerman 56; RPC VIII Online 2150 (this coin cited); Rosenberger 49; Sofaer 53. Earthen brown surfaces. Near VF. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 356 (29 July 2015), lot 404. Dusares (or Dushara) was a pre-Islamic Arabian god and the principal god of the Nabataean pantheon, worshiped primarily at Petra and Hegra. He was the lord of the local Shara mountains and their sun god. A shrine to Dusares was found on the western coast of Italy, in the harbor of Puteoli, a major trading center with Arabia in the first century BC. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 555 | Auction date: 7 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 356 Price realized: 120 USD (Approx. 112 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: IONIA, Ephesus. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ (37mm, 17.68 g, 7h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / The hero Androklos standing right, holding spear, clasping hands with Alexander the Great standing left, holding spear. Karwiese, MvE 5 942 (V1A/R3); RPC VIII Online 21879 (this coin cited). Rough green and brown patina, pitting, roughness, bare metal exposed. Good Fine. Very rare, only two known to RPC, including this coin. From the DFA Collection. Ex Dr. D. Cornel Collection (Leu Web 15, 27 February 2021), lot 1147. Estimate: 150 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 559 | Auction date: 3 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 358 Price realized: 130 USD (Approx. 120 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Antoninus Pius, with Marcus Aurelius as Caesar. 138-161 CE. Æ (20mm, 7.00 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Pius right, seen from behind / Bareheaded and draped bust of Marcus right, seen from behind. Meshorer, Aelia 38; RPC IV.3 Online 6408; Rosenberger –; Sofaer 44. Earthen red-brown patina. VF. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 362 (28 October 2015), lot 313. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 555 | Auction date: 7 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 357 Price realized: 550 USD (Approx. 513 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: IONIA, Ephesus. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ (22mm, 5.44 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / The philosopher Heraclitus standing left, raising hand and holding club. Karwiese, MvE 5 943 (V3/R4); RPC VIII Online 20468 (this coin cited); BMC 340. Brown patina, light roughness, minor earthen deposits. Fine. Very rare. Heraclitus "the Obscure" is one of the earliest Greek philosophers whose writings have come down to us reasonably complete. Born in Ephesus in the 6th century BC, he retired to the countryside after the aristocratic party he supported was ejected from power, but nonetheless became a revered figure in the city's history. Heraclitus held that fire was the basic building block of existence, hence he is depicted holding a torch. "This world-order, the same of all, no god nor man did create, but it ever was and is and will be: everliving fire, kindling in measures and being quenched in measures. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 556 | Auction date: 21 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 249 Price realized: 90 USD (Approx. 84 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: COMMAGENE , Samosata. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ (31mm, 18.63 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Tyche seated left on rocks, with eagle perched on her arm; at feet, Pegasos springing left. Butcher 31a; RPC VIII Online 8385; BMC 44. Dark brown patina with light earthen deposits, minor roughness. VF. From the André Ronde Collection. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 557 | Auction date: 6 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 255 Price realized: 275 USD (Approx. 253 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: CILICIA, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Gordian III, with Tranquillina. AD 238-244. Æ (37mm, 24.88 g, 12h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Gordian right, seen from behind vis-à-vis draped bust of Tranquillina left, wearing stephane / Draped bust of Tyche right, wearing calathus, cornucopia behind vis-à-vis draped bust of Apollo left, branch and quiver behind; c/m: annulet within Δ. RPC VII.2 2889; SNG BN 1034-6 var. (arrangement of rev. legend; same obv. die); SNG Levante 776 var. (same; same obv. die). For c/m: Howgego 670. Blue-green patina, light deposits, a few cleaning marks. VF. Estimate: 200 USD |  |
