| Nomos AG > obolos 35 | Auction date: 15 December 2024 |
| Lot number: 1142 Price realized: 50 CHF (Approx. 56 USD / 54 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: MOESIA. Istros. 4th century BC. Obol (Silver, 7 mm, 0.46 g, 3 h). Two male heads facing, the right one inverted. Rev. [ΙΣT]PIH Sea eagle flying left with dolphin in its talons; below eagle's tail, Θ. AMNG I 452. Cf. Klein 769 (eagle and dolphin right). SNG BM Black Sea -. Somewhat porous, otherwise, very fine. From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions, ex Creusy 1, 1 December 2012, 286. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 36 | Auction date: 23 February 2025 |
| Lot number: 71 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: MOESIA. Istros. 4th century BC. Hemiobol (Silver, 7 mm, 0.41 g). Two facing male heads side by side, one upright and the other inverted - a tête-bêche pair. Rev. ΙΣΤΡΙΗ Sea eagle standing left on dolphin. AMNG I 453. Cf. HGC 3.2, 1805-8 (trihemiobols). SNG BM Black Sea -. SNG Stancomb 136-7. Scarce. Light porosity, otherwise, very fine. Starting price: 25 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > Auction 35 | Auction date: 5 April 2025 |
| Lot number: 293 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot  | |
| Lot description: THESSALY. Phalanna. Circa 360-340 BC. Drachm (Silver, 19 mm, 5.52 g, 9 h). Youthful male head to right, perhaps Peloros (?). Rev. ΦΑΛ-ΑΝΝ-Α-ΙΩΝ Bridled horse trotting right, with curly tail. BCD Thessaly I, 1250 (same dies). BMC 1 = Papaevangelou-Genakos 1. Traité IV, 583, pl. CCXCIII, 7 var. A clear and attractive piece, very nicely toned and unusually pleasing. Good very fine. Ex Classical Numismatic Group e468, 20 May 2020, 47, Gorny & Mosch 224, 13 October 2014, 171, Giessener Münzhandlung 55, 14 May 1991, 203 and Giessener Münzhandlung 50, 24 September 1990, 280. The silver coinage of Phalanna - and by extension the early bronze- is usually given the general date of 4th century, but it can be narrowed to some extent by comparing the horse with that found on issues of Larissa. He usually has a curly tail, prances to right and has a legend that goes around the coin, usually ending in the exergue: this is quite similar to the horses that begin to appear on the later facing head groups from Larissa and allows us to date Phalanna's coinage to the later second and early third quarter of the 4th century, probably c. 360-340. This coinage of drachms must have been fairly extensive, since at least two obverse dies were used for it (paired with at least four reverse dies). Estimate: 1750 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 35 | Auction date: 15 December 2024 |
| Lot number: 1484 Price realized: 550 CHF (Approx. 619 USD / 591 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: IONIA. Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 350-325 BC. Obol (Silver, 9 mm, 0.79 g, 5 h). Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. MAΓ Forepart of a bull butting to right; behind, horse's head to right. Cf. Classical Numismatic Group e287 (2012), 173 (horse's head facing to left). Cf. Klein 408 (no symbol). Cf. SNG Kayhan 400-1 (meander pattern behind). Extremely rare and possibly unpublished with the horse's head facing to right.Attractively toned with traces of iridescence. Somewhat porous, otherwise, good very fine. From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions, acquired in 1991, ex Münzen und Medaillen FPL 538, November-December 1990, 69. Starting price: 100 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 35 | Auction date: 15 December 2024 |
| Lot number: 1399 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: TROAS. Abydos. Circa 480-450 BC. Obol (Silver, 10 mm, 0.58 g, 9 h). ABY Eagle standing left; above to right, T. Rev. Facing gorgoneion, tongue protruding, within shallow incuse square. BMC 6. SNG Copenhagen 5 var. (monogram behind eagle). SNG Keckman 177. SNG München 4 var. (monogram behind eagle). Fine iridescent toning. Very fine. From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions. The gorgoneion was an apotropaic artistic device used throughout the Greek world that was thought to ward off evil. Thus it is often found in mosaics near the front door of houses, on the exteriors of buildings, on amulets and weapons, and especially on coins were it served as a protector of the city issuing the coin. In fact, one of the earliest representations of a gorgoneion comes from an electrum stater discovered during excavations at Parion (see A. A. Potts, The World's Eye, 1982, pp. 26-8). Gorgoneia became so ubiquitous on coinage that they appear as the principal type on coins from no less than thirty-seven cities across the Greek world, from Etruria to the Black Sea region and beyond. Starting price: 100 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > Auction 35 | Auction date: 5 April 2025 |
| Lot number: 144 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot | |
| Lot description: SICILY. Messana. 420-413 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 17.08 g, 3 h). MEΣ-ΣANA (retrograde) The nymph Messana, holding the reins with her right hand and kentron with her left, driving a slow biga of mules to right; in exergue, two confronted dolphins. Rev. MEΣ-ΣA-N-I-O N Hare leaping to right; below, dolphin swimming to right. Boutin 1093 = Caltabiano Series XIV, 533.1 (D210/R227, this coin). HGC 2, 792. Pozzi 490 (this coin). SNG ANS 362. Well- struck, clear and attractively toned. Usual edge breaks, otherwise, nearly extremely fine. From a European collection, ex Hirsch 150, 5 May 1986, 112, and from the collections of E. G. Spencer-Churchill, Ars Classica 14, 2 July 1929, 97, Pasquale del Pezzo, Duke of Caianello and Marquis of Campodisola (1859-1936), Sambon & Canessa 27 June 1927, 820, and that of S. Pozzi, Naville 1, 4 April 1921 490. Estimate: 10000 CHF |  |
