| Nomos AG > obolos 34 | Auction date: 10 November 2024 |
| Lot number: 151 Price realized: 550 CHF (Approx. 631 USD / 584 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: AKARNANIA. Leukas. Circa 375-350 BC. Stater (Silver, 23 mm, 8.60 g, 3 h). Λ Pegasos flying to left. Rev. ΛΕΥ Head of Athena to left, wearing Corinthian helmet; amphora behind. BCD Akarnania 205. Calciati 76. Lightly toned. Good very fine. Starting price: 150 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 34 | Auction date: 10 November 2024 |
| Lot number: 150 Price realized: 200 CHF (Approx. 229 USD / 212 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: AKARNANIA. Leukas. Circa 375-350 BC. Stater (Silver, 22 mm, 8.39 g, 3 h). Λ-Ε Pegasos flying left. Rev. ΛΕΥ Head of Athena to left, wearing Corinthian helmet; behind, four grape bunches on vine. BCD Akarnania 202. Calciati 51. Lustrous. Dies somewhat deteriorated, otherwise, very fine. Starting price: 200 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 31 | Auction date: 7 September 2024 |
| Lot number: 391 Price realized: 240 CHF (Approx. 285 USD / 257 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: AKARNANIA. Thyrrheion. Circa 320-280 BC. Stater (Silver, 23 mm, 8.25 g, 3 h). [Θ] Pegasos flying left. Rev. [Θ-Y] Head of Athena to left, wearing Corinthian helmet; behind, earring; below, [ΛY]. BCD Akarnania 373.3. Calciati 13. Imhoof-Blumer, Akarnania, 11. Areas of weakness and with some deposits, otherwise, very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 32 | Auction date: 7 December 2024 |
| Lot number: 358 Price realized: 300 CHF (Approx. 342 USD / 324 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: AKARNANIA. Thyrrheion. Circa 320-280 BC. Stater (Silver, 22 mm, 8.25 g, 6 h). Θ Pegasos flying left. Rev. Θ-Y Head of Athena to left, wearing Corinthian helmet; behind, earring; below, ΛY. BCD Akarnania 373.3. Calciati 13. Imhoof-Blumer, Akarnania 11. Light roughness and with minor traces of overstriking (?), otherwise, very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 75 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 33 | Auction date: 8 September 2024 |
| Lot number: 301 Price realized: 555 CHF (Approx. 659 USD / 593 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: CORINTHIA. Corinth. Circa 400-375 BC. Stater (Silver, 20 mm, 8.51 g, 6 h). Ϙ Pegasos flying to left. Rev. Helmeted head of Athena to left; flanking neck, Δ-I; behind, Artemis running to left, holding long torch. BCD Corinth -. Calciati 453. Very attractive dark iridescent toning, particularly on obverse. Collection sticker and light scratches on reverse, otherwise, good very fine. From a Swiss collection compiled in the 1960-70s. Starting price: 150 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 16 | Auction date: 19 October 2024 |
| Lot number: 44 Price realized: 22,000 CHF (Approx. 25,431 USD / 23,485 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SICILY. Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy, 344-317 BC. Stater (Silver, 19 mm, 8.60 g, 9 h), Corinthian standard. Pegasos flying left. Rev. ΣYPAKOΣION (sic!) Head of Athena to right, wearing Corinthian helmet. HGC 2, 1400. Pegasi 1/2 = SNG Ashmolean 2033 (same obverse die). SNG ANS 494-5. Very rare with the ethnic ending on ON instead of ΩN. A gorgeous coin, beautifully toned, sharply struck, and with wonderfully smooth and even surfaces. A hint of die rust on the obverse, otherwise, good extremely fine. Ex Leu 13, 27 May 2023, 29 and previously privately acquired from Arnumis (Anne Demeester) well before 2011. Dispatched from Corinth, the mother city of Syracuse, to Sicily in response to a plea for help, Timoleon not only expelled the tyrants Dionysios II and Hiketas from the city but also implemented extensive democratic reforms and brought in new settlers from Greece. His most significant achievement was his victory over a large Carthaginian army at the Battle of the Krimisos in 341 or 340 BC, which curtailed Punic influence in Sicily for many years. Despite these successes making him undoubtedly the most powerful man on the island, Timoleon - much to the surprise of his contemporaries - publicly withdrew from political life in 337 BC. Although he continued to wield decisive influence in the Syracusan Assembly, his renunciation of absolute power was a rare exception in Sicilian history, so full of tyrants. Timoleon, who eventually became completely blind, likely died only a few years later, greatly advanced in age and deeply revered. His influence on Syracusan coinage is evident in the adoption of the leading denomination and iconography of his Corinthian homeland, the silver Pegasi, representing another of the many reforms he implemented. Estimate: 5000 CHF |  |
