Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 564Auction date: 19 June 2024
Lot number: 154

Price realized: 325 USD   (Approx. 303 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


PISIDIA, Termessos. Circa 205-203 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.56 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, forepart of horse left above TE; X below throne. McIntyre, Termessos 9 (A1/P9) = R. Ashton, "The Coinage of Oinoanda" in NC 2005, n. 40, pl. 5, D (this coin, illustrated by McIntyre); Price 2986 var. (no X). Light iridescent tone, graffito (M) in field on reverse. Good VF.

From the Richard Ashton Collection, purchased from Sidney Mygind, 23 June 2001.


Estimate: 300 USD

Match 1:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 563Auction date: 5 June 2024
Lot number: 249

Price realized: 950 USD   (Approx. 873 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


PISIDIA, Termessos. Circa 205-203 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.94 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, forepart of horse left above TE (civic) monogram. McIntyre, Termessos 7b (A1/P7) = R. Ashton, "The Coinage of Oinoanda" in NC 2005, n. 40, pl. 5, C (this coin); Price 2986a (same dies). Lightly toned, underlying luster, slight die shift, light scrape at edge on obverse, some flatness to strike on reverse. Near EF. Rare.

From the Richard Ashton Collection, purchased online, November 2004.


Estimate: 200 USD

Match 2:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 559Auction date: 3 April 2024
Lot number: 85

Price realized: 225 USD   (Approx. 208 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 225-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.42 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; two monograms in left field, maeander pattern in exergue. Vădan Group 2, variety unlisted, but obv. die 19; Price 2047–8 var. (lower monogram). Porous, some flan flaws. VF. Unpublished variety, extremely rare thus.


Estimate: 200 USD

Match 3:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 559Auction date: 3 April 2024
Lot number: 83

Price realized: 200 USD   (Approx. 185 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


TROAS, Assos. Circa 280-275 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.13 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; boukranion in left field, monogram below throne. Price 1460; Seyrig, Parion 17 (dies II/B; Parion mint). Light roughness, stress cracks on obverse, patch of find patina on reverse. VF.


Estimate: 200 USD

Match 4:
Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 126Auction date: 28 May 2024
Lot number: 108

Price realized: 500 USD   (Approx. 460 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


THRACE, Odessos. Circa 90-80 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.64 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ΘE in left field, OΔH (civic) monogram below throne. Callataÿ Group 1, dies D9/R- (unlisted rev. die); Topalov, Odesos 69; Price 1181; HGC 3, 1587. Toned. EF.

From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Toliver Besson Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 473, 29 July 2020), lot 14 (hammer $1100) Heritage 3042 (20 September 2015), lot 32040; Classical Numismatic Group 99 (13 May 2015), lot 49; Classical Numismatic Group 91 (19 September 2012), lot 93; Dr. Patrick H.C. Tan Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 84, 5 May 2010), lot 151; Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 249.


Estimate: 500 USD

Match 5:
Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 126Auction date: 28 May 2024
Lot number: 207

Price realized: 900 USD   (Approx. 828 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


BITHYNIA, Kalchedon. Circa 260-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.84 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field, grain ear in exergue. Price 926 (Kallatis); Türkoğlu –; HGC 7, 521; Black Sea Hoard 26 (same dies). Toned, underlying luster, slight die shift on reverse. Good VF.

See U. Wartenberg & J.H. Kagan, "Some Comments on a New Hoard from the Balkan Sea" in Travaux Le Rider, pp. 402–5, for the reattribution of this, and many of the other issues Price assigned to Kallatis, to Kalchedon.

Estimate: 750 USD