| Nomos AG > Auction 33 | Auction date: 9 June 2024 |
| Lot number: 1107 Price realized: 46,000 CHF (Approx. 51,305 USD / 47,447 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Jonathan H. Kagan Collection of Ancient Greek Coins MACEDON. Argilos. Circa 510-500 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 12.78 g, 7 h). Pegasos with curved wing prancing to right. Rev. Bellerophon, wearing a crested Corinthian helmet and a cuirass, running to right, his head turned back to left, holding a sheathed sword with both hands; in the field to right, hoplite shield leaning on the inner dotted border; all within an incuse square. Gillet Plates 858 = HGC 3, 1, 464 HPM p. 122, 16, pl. III, 34 and pl. XIV, 23 ('Crestones') = Jameson 1837 = Liampi 17a (O15/R17) = Svoronos HPM pl. III, 34 & pl XIV, 23 = Traité II, 4, 1213 and pl. CCCXXVI, 6 (this coin). Extremely rare, the finer of the two known specimens. Rough surfaces, some corrosion pits and reverse struck from a damaged die, otherwise, very fine. From the Collections of Jonathan H. Kagan, Charles Gillet, Bank Leu 77, 11 May 2000, 159, and Robert Jameson and from the Taranto Hoard of 1911 (IGCH 1874). The main myth of Bellerophon - the name means slayer of Belleros, a Corinthian who our hero killed while practising knife throwing - concerns his taming of Pegasos, whom he then rode when killing the Chimaera. So here, on the obverse, we see Pegasos, seemingly ready for action - hot to trot as it were - while on the reverse we have Bellerophon. He is helmeted and wearing armor, but he seems to be running away from something: his head is turned to look behind him and he is holding his scabbarded sword with both hands. Before him is a tall hoplite's shield and, possibly, a spear. Many Greek coins tell stories that run from the obverse to the reverse, but if that is the case here, exactly what is happening is unclear. Starting price: 12500 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > Auction 33 | Auction date: 9 June 2024 |
| Lot number: 1118 Price realized: 15,000 CHF (Approx. 16,730 USD / 15,472 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Jonathan H. Kagan Collection of Ancient Greek Coins MACEDON. Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 17.29 g, 12 h). Dionysos, bearded, with his head to left, wearing an ivy wreath and a chiton, reclining to right on the back of a donkey walking to right, holding a kantharos with his right hand and resting his left on the donkey's side; to right, crow perched on an ivy plant to right; under the donkey, small dog standing to right. Rev. ΜΕΝ-ΔΑ-Ι-ΟΝ Vine with five bunches of grapes; all within incuse square. Jameson 1956. Kagan, Notes, pl. 2, 8 (this coin). Noe, Mende 78. SNG ANS 342. SNG Spencer Churchill 123 (this coin). A rare variety with attractive dark toning. Minor striking flatness on the reverse, otherwise, good very fine. From the Collection of Jonathan H. Kagan, ex Sternberg & Apparuti XIX, 18 November 1987, 125. This is a rather endearing coin. Not only do both the god and the donkey have pleasant expressions, but the little dog standing below seems to be calmly enjoying everything too. He is clearly an ancient version of the modern-day Pomeranian or Sptiz, but he is probably more than just a simple symbol. As Kagan points out, p. 4 and n. 9, not only does this little dog appear a small number of other dies at Mende (Noe 77-80) but he also turns up on rare contemporary octodrachms of Alexander I (could Prof. J. Kroll's suggestion - see n. 9, cited above - that the dog was the symbol of a travelling die engraver be correct?). Of course a link to Perdikkas II tetrobols (like lot 1142) is certainly preferable and more rational. Starting price: 7500 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > Auction 33 | Auction date: 9 June 2024 |
| Lot number: 1098 Price realized: 22,000 CHF (Approx. 24,537 USD / 22,692 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Jonathan H. Kagan Collection of Ancient Greek Coins MACEDON. Aineia. Circa 510-480 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 23 mm, 15.82 g). On the left, Aineias, in armor, advancing to right, holding a horizontal spear with his right hand and carrying his father Anchises on his left shoulder; on the right, to Aineias's left, his wife Kreousa, advancing to right, her head turned back to left, carrying her son Askanios on her left shoulder. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Asyut 194. HPM p. 151, 7 and pl. III, 27 (Berlin). HPM p.151, 8 and pl. III, 29 = Jameson 932 = SNG ANS 67. Extremely rare, one of four examples known and of great mythological interest. Well-centered but struck on a slightly tight flan. Porous, otherwise, nearly very fine. From the Collection of Jonathan H. Kagan; bought in the 1990s from an American dealer. This now extremely rare issue must have originally been a somewhat extensive one, since the four known examples seem to be struck from four different die pairs. The other three each have a added symbol on their obverse (two with a ram's head and one with a rosette) as well as an inscription (our coin's tight flan makes the presence of a ram's head at top center between those of Anchises and Askanios impossible to verify). Starting price: 6000 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > Auction 33 | Auction date: 9 June 2024 |
| Lot number: 1129 Price realized: 3,000 CHF (Approx. 3,346 USD / 3,094 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Jonathan H. Kagan Collection of Ancient Greek Coins MACEDON. Skione. Circa 480-470 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 23 mm, 16.38 g, 5 h). Head of Protesilaos to right, wearing ornamented Attic helmet [inscribed with retrograde ΠPOTEΣIΛAΣ on the base of the crest]. Rev. Σ-K/I-O Stern of galley to l. ACGC 470. Dewing 1076. HGC 3, 1, 668. Skione 63δ (E45/O50, this coin). SNG ANS -. Traité II, 1, 1629. Rare. Slightly porous, otherwise, very fine. From the Collection of Jonathan H. Kagan, ex Künker 158, 28 September 2009, 159, G. Hirsch 205, 25 September 1999, 142, G. Hirsch 202, 25 November 1998, 62 and Lanz 86, 18 May 1998, 111. Why is the head of Protesilaos wearing an Attic helmet, which makes him look similar to the head of Athena on contemporary Athenian coins, while on the smaller denominations of Skione the helmet worn is clearly of Corinthian type? Historically - and probably also iconographically - the minting of this stunning series should be linked with Skione's adhesion to the Delian League, which was, of course, under the leadership of Athens. Starting price: 2500 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > Auction 33 | Auction date: 9 June 2024 |
| Lot number: 1178 Price realized: 3,400 CHF (Approx. 3,792 USD / 3,507 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Jonathan H. Kagan Collection of Ancient Greek Coins EUBOIA. Karystos. Circa 500-450 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 16.90 g, 11 h). [KAR]Y[ΣTION] Cow standing left, head turned back to right. Rev. Rooster standing right within incuse square. Asyut 54 = BCD Euboia, 547 = HGC 4, 1547 (this coin). de Hirsch 1256 = Traité II, 1, 1084 and pl. XXXII, 14 (same dies). Very rare and attractively toned. Somewhat porous and with a few flan faults on the reverse, otherwise, very fine/good fine. From the Collection of Jonathan H. Kagan, ex BCD Collection, Lanz 111, 25 November 2002, 547, ex Numismatic Fine Arts MBS 14 December 1989, 283, and from the Asyut find (IGCH 1644). Starting price: 1250 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > Auction 33 | Auction date: 9 June 2024 |
| Lot number: 1011 Price realized: 3,800 CHF (Approx. 4,238 USD / 3,920 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Jonathan H. Kagan Collection of Ancient Greek Coins CALABRIA. Tarentum. Circa 470-450 BC. Drachm (Silver, 17 mm, 4.10 g, 7 h). ΤΑΡΑϞ Forepart of a hippocamp to left; below, scallop shell. Rev. Diademed head of Satyra to right, her hair falling down the back of her neck in a queue. HGC 1, 822. SNG Copenhagen (same dies). Vlasto 161 (same dies). Rare. Well-centered and lightly toned. Good very fine. From the Collection of Jonathan H. Kagan and from the collection of A.D. Moretti, Numismatica Ars Classica O, 13 May 2004, 1062, ex Sternberg XX, 20 April 1988, 46. Starting price: 1500 CHF |  |
