Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles > Auction 142Auction date: 16 October 2024
Lot number: 488

Price realized: 240 USD   (Approx. 221 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Neapolis (Shechem). Philip II, AD 247-249. AE 26 mm (17.75 g). Laureate head of the emperor to r. Reverse: She-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus; above, Mt. Gerizim. SNG ANS 1028 var (reverse legend variant). Cf. Meshorer's City Coins of Israel # 145. Dusty olive-green. Fine to Very Fine. Estimated Value $250 - UP
From the "ZZS" Collection; Earlier from Goldberg's Auction 25, lot 3108, from the Daniel M. Friedenberg Collection.

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Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles > Auction 142Auction date: 16 October 2024
Lot number: 489

Price realized: 150 USD   (Approx. 138 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Neapolis (Shechem). Treboninus Gallus AD 251-253. AE 25 mm (12.32 g). Laureate and draped bust of Gallus to r. Reverse: Eagle, symbolizing Zeus-Hypsistos, supporting Mr. Gerizim on its wings. SNG ANS 1033; Cf. Meshorer's City Coins of Israel # 147. Porous surfaces with excellent detail still present. Pale olive-green and light brown. Very Fine. Estimated Value $250 - UP
From the "ZZS" Collection; Earlier from Goldberg's Auction 25, lot 3108, from the Daniel M. Friedenberg Collection.

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Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles > Auction 142Auction date: 16 October 2024
Lot number: 502

Price realized: 225 USD   (Approx. 207 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Tiberias. Hadrian, AD 117-137. AE 22 mm (7.72 g). Laureate head of Hadrian right. Reverse: Tyche standing left, holding scepteer and head, foot resting on ship's prow. Rosenberger III, 13; SNG ANS 115; Meshorer's City Coins of Israel #82 (this being superior to the plate coin). Pleasing olive green and dark brown patina. Choice Very Fine. Estimated Value $250 - UP
From the "ZZS" Collection; Earlier from Goldberg's Auction 8, Feb. 20, 2001, lot 2968.

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Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles > Auction 142Auction date: 16 October 2024
Lot number: 485

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Medaba. Caracalla, AD 198-217. AE 27 mm (7.55 g). Laureate bust of Caracalla right. Reverse: City goddess standing r. foot on on prow of galley and holding cornucopia. Meshorer's City Coins of Israel #269; Spikerman 5. Very Rare and comparable to the Meshorer plate coin in quality. Olive-green and brown patina. Nice Fine. Estimated Value $400 - UP
The coinage of Medaba ceased under the Roman Emperor Elagabalus after being active for only twelve years between 210-222 CE. Medaba is probably best known from the famous mosaic floor of the Byzantine period discovered in the city.
From the "ZZS" Collection.

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Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles > Auction 142Auction date: 16 October 2024
Lot number: 457

Price realized: 200 USD   (Approx. 184 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Aelia Capitolina. Elagabalus, ca. AD 218-222. AE 26 mm (8.89 g). Draped bust and laureate bust of Elagabalus r. Reverse: Quadriga draws cart carrying the stone of Elagabal, eagle in relief on stone. Meshorer City-Coins of Israel 176; Hendin (GBC 4) 816 var. Dusty green patina with earthen highlights. Scarce type. About Very Fine. Estimated Value $250 - UP
From the "ZZS" Collection; Earlier from Superior's Dec. 3-4, 1999 New York Sale, lot 1578.

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Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 150Auction date: 2 December 2024
Lot number: 536

Price realized: 38,000 CHF   (Approx. 42,802 USD / 40,885 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Catana
Tetradrachm signed by Herakleidas circa 405-402, AR 27 mm, 16.99 g . Laureate head of Apollo, facing three-quarters l., his hair falling in loose curls around the face; in field to r., ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΑΣ. Rev. Fast quadriga driven l. by charioteer holding reins with both hands; in field above, Nike alighting from flight, holding caduceus and wreath to crown the charioteer. In exergue, KATANAIΩΝ / fish l. Rizzo pl. XIV, 11 and XVI, 3 (these dies). SNG Lloyd 902 (these dies). Jameson 546 (these dies). Gulbenkian 192 (these dies). AMB 338 (these dies).
Very rare. An impressive portrait of masterly style struck on very fresh metal on a
very large flan with a light iridescent tone. Minor area of die rust on obverse
and an area of weakness on reverse, otherwise extremely fine

Ex Lanz 24, 1983, 83; Giessener Münzhandlung 50, 1990, 144; Ira & Larry Goldberg 72, 2013, Hunter, 4012 and Nomos 16, 2018, 34 sales. From a Scandinavian private collection.
Originally settled by native Sikels, the city of Katane was refounded c. 729 B.C. by colonists of Chalkidian Greeks from Sicilian Naxos who forced the former inhabitants to vacate. The colony was well sited, with the rich soil at the foot of Mt. Aitna supporting a thriving agriculture, and access to the sea was provided by a natural harbour. The colony flourished, and the citizens soon fortified the acropolis and the surrounding urban area with walls, and built sanctuaries to Demeter and Kore, and a theatre. No doubt attracted by Katane's prosperity, in 476 B.C. the Syracusan tyrant, Hieron I, seized the city and forcibly removed its inhabitants to Leontinoi. He then repopulated the city with Syracusans and about 10,000 Dorian Greeks, renaming it Aitna. According to different sources, in either 463 or 461 B.C. after Hieron's death, the deported Katanians returned and expelled the Dorian Greeks, reoccupying their former homes. In 427 B.C., Katane was allied along with other Chalkidian Greek colonies with Leontinoi in its war against Syracuse, and in 415 B.C. the city served as the Athenian base of operations during their disastrous Sicilian campaign. In 403 B.C., Katane again fell under the sway of Syracuse, when Dionysios I took the city and sold the inhabitants into slavery. He resettled the city with Campanian mercenaries who only remained a short time, until 396 B.C., when the Syracusan fleet suffered a resounding defeat by the Carthaginians off the coast of Katane. Throughout the fourth to first centuries, Katane welcomed the Epeirote king, Pyrrhos, in his Sicilian campaigns (278 B.C.), submitted to Rome after the outbreak of the First Punic War (264-241 B.C.), saw conquest at the hands of slaves during the First Servile War (135-132 B.C.), had its wealth seized by C. Verres, the rapacious Roman propraetor of the province of Sicilia (73-71 B.C.), and served as the primary base for Sextus Pompey's pirate fleet (43-42 B.C.) until his defeat by Octavian's admiral Marcus Agrippa. Early in the Principate Katane was refounded as a Roman colony with the name colonia Catina. Coinage at Katane only begins after the return of the exiles in the mid-fifth century B.C. Adopting the Athenian standard of c. 17.2 g, the Katanians struck their first tetradrachms to commemorate their recent return. The initial types consisted of the figure of the local river-god Amenanos, depicted by a man-headed bull, whose spirit was embodied by the small river adjacent to the city, and the goddess of Victory, Nike. Beginning in the 440s and continuing until just prior to the conquest of the city by Dionysios I in 403 B.C., the tetradrachms of Katane employ as the obverse type the quadriga, derived from contemporary issues of Leontinoi and Syracuse, and the head of Apollo or, rarely, Amenanos on the reverse. At the very end of the fifth century in the period leading up to the conflict with Syracuse, the tetradrachms of Katane underwent a significant transformation. At this time in Sicily, and especially at Syracuse, Sicilian mints were employing engravers who were given licence to excel in the miniature arts. Famous master engravers such as Choirion, Euainetos, Eumenos, Exakestidas, Kimon and others, all boldly signed their works, were reaching unparalleled degrees of quality, expressing in miniature degrees of excellence previously unattained and simply astounding in their execution. The artists Choirion and Herakleidas both engraved a series of dramatic facing head Apollo dies for use at Katane, such as the remarkable specimen offered here which is signed by the artist Herakleidas. The obverse die used to strike this magnificent coin features the nearly frontal gazing portrait of the god Apollo presented in a naturalistic form, with his hair falling gently downward around his face and his laurel crown resting atop his head as if placed without any thought of preparation, and though the whole evokes an image of a woodland entity or sprite, the countenance is clearly divine with the god's wide-eyed gaze suggesting one is looking into the face of a living god.

Estimate: 35000 CHF