Nomos AG > obolos 33Auction date: 8 September 2024
Lot number: 211

Price realized: 220 CHF   (Approx. 261 USD / 235 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


AKARNANIA. Leukas. Circa 167-100 BC. (Bronze, 13 mm, 2.75 g, 9 h), Struck under the magistrate Lakrates. Burning round altar decorated with laurel. Rev. ΛΕΥΚΑ/ΔΙ-ΩΝ Dove standing to right with closed wings; below, ΛΑΚΡΑΤΗΣ; all within myrtle wreath. BCD Akarnania 334.27 (this coin). SNG Copenhagen 396. Green patina. Struck off center on obverse, otherwise, good fine.
From the John Aiello Collection, and that of BCD.

Starting price: 50 CHF

Match 1:
Nomos AG > Auction 34Auction date: 13 October 2024
Lot number: 93

Price realized: 1,000 CHF   (Approx. 1,166 USD / 1,066 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


MESSENIA. Messene. Circa 35 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 16 mm, 2.53 g, 9 h), struck under the magistrate Polykles. Diademed head of Zeus to right. Rev. ΜΕ-Σ/ΠΟ-ΛΥ/ΚΛ-ΗΣ Tripod within the inscription; all within by an olive wreath. BCD, Peloponnesos, 753 (same dies). Grandjean 203a (this coin). Pozzi 1890 (same dies). A lovely, attractively toned and sharply struck coin. Extremely fine.
Property of a Late Collector, ex Tradart 8 November 1992, 90 (there incorrectly cited as being from the Brand Collection) and Superior 12 December 1987, 388.

Estimate: 750 CHF

Match 2:
Nomos AG > obolos 35Auction date: 15 December 2024
Lot number: 1268

Price realized: 340 CHF   (Approx. 383 USD / 365 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


AKARNANIA. Leukas. Circa 470-450 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 13 mm, 1.32 g, 7 h). Λ Forepart of Pegasos flying to right. Rev. Head of Aphrodite to right, with bound hair and wearing pearl necklace; all within incuse square. BCD Akarnania 179 (this coin) = HGC 4, 838 (this coin illustrated). A very rare fraction. Attractively toned. Somewhat porous and with a few light marks on the obverse, otherwise, very fine.
From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions, and from the BCD Collection, Münzen und Medaillen (DE) 23, 18 October 2007, 179, ex Lanz 30, 1984, 218.

Starting price: 200 CHF

Match 3:
Nomos AG > Auction 34Auction date: 13 October 2024
Lot number: 92

Price realized: 16,000 CHF   (Approx. 18,661 USD / 17,052 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


ELIS. Olympia. Circa 46s BC. Drachm (Silver, 20 mm, 6.00 g, 9 h). Eagle flying to left, with his wings above and below his body, grasping snake in his beak and with his talons; below the eagle, uncertain countermark. Rev. [ϝ] - Α Thunderbolt with wings above and volutes below; all within a shallow, oval incuse; on the edge at 5°-6°, graffito ΕV. Cf. BCD, Olympia, 9 = Seltman, Temple, p. 12, a and pl. VIII, 3. SNG Copenhagen -. Very rare. Toned and with a sharp and well-centered obverse. Countermark on the obverse, reverse struck from a worn die with die rust in the left field, and a graffito on the lower edge, otherwise, about extremely fine/about very fine.
Property of a Late Collector, ex Bank Leu 50, 25 April 1990, 145 and Hess - Leu 28, 5 May 1965, 198.

Estimate: 15000 CHF

Match 4:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 32Auction date: 7 December 2024
Lot number: 2147

Price realized: 160 CHF   (Approx. 182 USD / 173 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Diocletian, 284-305. Follis (Silvered bronze, 29 mm, 9.14 g, 12 h), Lugdunum, circa 302-mid 304. IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG Laureate and cuirassed bust of Diocletian to left. Rev. GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI / PLG The Genius of the Roman people, nude but for chlamys, standing front, head to left, wearing kalathos and sacrificing out of patera over lighted altar with his right hand and holding cornucopiae in his left; in field to right, Α. Bastien 317. RIC 113a. Boldly struck and of monumental tetrarchic style. Good very fine.


From the Rauceby Hoard, found in Lincolnshire in July 2017, submitted for consideration as Treasure to the PAS and returned to the finders (PAS ID: LIN-F6D516, BM Ref: 2017 T649).

The Rauceby Hoard was discovered by a detectorist near Ancaster (Lincolnshire) in July 2017, close to Ermine Street, originally a Roman road leading from Londinium (London) to Lindum Colonia (Lincoln) and Eboracum (York). The hoard of over 3000 coins – all tetrarchic folles – was contained in a large ceramic vessel, itself buried at the center of an oval pit lined with quarried limestone. This betrays a deliberate act rather than haphazard burial in the face of danger and, quite possibly, the hoard was a votive offering to the gods. The youngest coin in the hoard was a reduced follis of Maximian, perhaps minted under Constantine I, but no coins of the latter as Augustus were found. This means the hoard was likely buried circa 307, amidst the events of Constantine I's acclamation as Caesar in Eboracum in 306 and his subsequent elevation to the rank of Augustus in December 307. The importance of the hoard further lies in its well-recorded find context and the fact that it is the largest recorded hoard from this period found in Britain to date.

Starting price: 50 CHF

Match 5:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 32Auction date: 7 December 2024
Lot number: 2238

Price realized: 170 CHF   (Approx. 194 USD / 183 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Constantius I, 305-306. Follis (Silvered bronze, 29 mm, 9.21 g, 6 h), Lugdunum, 1 May 305-25 July 306. IMP CONSTANTIVS AVG Laureate and cuirassed bust of Constantius I to right. Rev. GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI / PLG The Genius of the Roman people, nude but for chlamys, standing front, head to left, wearing kalathos and sacrificing out of patera over lighted altar with his right hand and holding cornucopiae in his left; in field to right, ✱. Bastien 368. RIC 186a. Fresh and very sharply struck. Soubling, otherwise, good extremely fine.


From the Rauceby Hoard, found in Lincolnshire in July 2017, submitted for consideration as Treasure to the PAS and returned to the finders (PAS ID: LIN-F6D516, BM Ref: 2017 T649).

The Rauceby Hoard was discovered by a detectorist near Ancaster (Lincolnshire) in July 2017, close to Ermine Street, originally a Roman road leading from Londinium (London) to Lindum Colonia (Lincoln) and Eboracum (York). The hoard of over 3000 coins – all tetrarchic folles – was contained in a large ceramic vessel, itself buried at the center of an oval pit lined with quarried limestone. This betrays a deliberate act rather than haphazard burial in the face of danger and, quite possibly, the hoard was a votive offering to the gods. The youngest coin in the hoard was a reduced follis of Maximian, perhaps minted under Constantine I, but no coins of the latter as Augustus were found. This means the hoard was likely buried circa 307, amidst the events of Constantine I's acclamation as Caesar in Eboracum in 306 and his subsequent elevation to the rank of Augustus in December 307. The importance of the hoard further lies in its well-recorded find context and the fact that it is the largest recorded hoard from this period found in Britain to date.

Starting price: 50 CHF