Morton & Eden > Auction 129Auction date: 20 November 2024
Lot number: 364

Price realized: 800 GBP   (Approx. 1,012 USD / 962 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Roman denarii (15), comprising Pub. Crepusius (Cr. 361.1c), Domitian, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Faustina I, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, Crispina, Septimius Severus (2), Caracalla (2), Geta, Elagabalus, and Severus Alexander; antoniniani (3) of Gordian III , Valerian I, and Tacitus; and Rome mint follis of Divus Romulus, mainly fine to very fine, some corroded (19)

Estimate: 250 - 350 GBP

Match 1:
Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG > eLive Auction 85Auction date: 2 December 2024
Lot number: 2336

Price realized: 1,400 EUR   (Approx. 1,466 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


ROMAN COINS
LOTS RÖMISCHER MÜNZEN
Lot römischer Münzen: Enthalten sind Denare der Republik (Crawf. 344/3, 345/1 und 352/1 c) und Kaiserzeit, darunter Prägungen des Augustus, Vespasianus, Titus, Domitianus, Nerva, Hadrianus, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius (auch für Faustina filia), Commodus, Septimius Severus (auch für Julia Domna), Caracalla, Geta, Macrinus, Elagabalus, Severus Alexander und Maximinus Thrax. 32 Stück. Meist sehr schön

Estimate: 600 EUR

Match 2:
The Coin Cabinet Ltd. > Ancients Auction 19Auction date: 27 February 2025
Lot number: 839

Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot
Lot description:


ROMAN EMPIRE. Various Emperors/Empresses.
Silver 17 x Denarii, 2nd - 3rd centuries AD.

Including:

1 x Mark Antony (Imperatorial Period)
2 x Trajan
1 x Antoninus Pius
3 x Marcus Aurelius
1 x Faustina II
1 x Lucius Verus
2 x Commodus
2 x Septimius Severus
1 x Elagabalus (holed)
1 x Julia Maesa
1 x Gordian III (holed)
1 x uncertain

Fine - Very Fine.

Weight: 42.37 g.

Estimate: 200 GBP

Match 3:
Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 136Auction date: 30 July 2024
Lot number: 2737

Price realized: 850 AUD   (Approx. 556 USD / 514 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Egypt, Alexandria, a described collection of mostly drachms and tetradrachms from the following rulers; Claudius with Messalina, billon tetradrachm, dated year 4. rev. Messalina standing left leaning on column holding two children and grain ears, (S.495, RPC 5164) (illustrated); Nero and Poppaea, dated year 10, rev. Poppaea bust left, (RPC 5275) (illustrated); anothers of Nero; Otho, Vespasian, Hadrian (8, including obol, year ?11, rev. Harpokrates); Antoninus Pius (2); Marcus Aurelius; Severus Alexander; Gordian III, Philip I (2); Claudius II; Salonina; Aurelian and Vabalathus; Tacitus; Probus; Diocletian (4); Maximian (2). Very good - good very fine, an interesting stater collection. (31)

Ex Dr L.J. Sherwin Collection, first two from Antiquarius (c.1982-4) other from various Australian dealers.

Estimate: 500 AUD

Match 4:
Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG > eLive Auction 85Auction date: 2 December 2024
Lot number: 2340

Price realized: 440 EUR   (Approx. 461 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


ROMAN COINS
LOTS RÖMISCHER MÜNZEN
Lot kaiserzeitlicher Denare: Das interessante Lot enthält 24 Denare sowie zwei Animae severischer Prägungen. Es finden sich Münzen des 2. und 3. Jahrhunderts, darunter folgende Kaiser: Domitian, Traian, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, Geta, Elagabal, Severus Alexander und Gordian III. Dazu Münzen für Iulia Domna und Diva Faustina I. 26 Stück. 2 Animae, 2 Stücke subaerat, meist sehr schön

Estimate: 350 EUR

Match 5:
Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 150Auction date: 2 December 2024
Lot number: 767

Price realized: 220,000 CHF   (Approx. 247,804 USD / 236,702 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:



Marcus Antonius. Aureus, mint moving with M. Antonius 32-31, AV 20 mm, 8.04 g. ANT·AVG Galley r. with sceptre tied with fillet on prow; below, III·VIR·R·P·C. Rev. LEG – II Aquila between two standards. Babelon –. C –. Sydenham –. Sear Imperators 349a (this coin). Biaggi 53 (this coin). Crawford –. Calicó 92 (this coin).
Apparently unique and possibly the finest of only eleven legionary aurei known.
An issue of tremendous importance and fascination. Flan crack at nine o'clock
on obverse and minor marks, otherwise about extremely fine / good very fine

Ex Sotheby's 21-22 June 1990, Hunt, 663; Sotheby's 26 October 993, 90; NAC 70, 2013, Student and his Mentor, 199 and NAC 992017, 2 sales. Privately purchased from Bank Leu in January 1955. From the Leo Biaggi de Blasys collection and from a Scandinavian private collection.
Marc Antony struck his 'legionary' coinage in very large quantities as he and Queen Cleopatra VII prepared for war with Octavian and Agrippa. In the end, however, all of their efforts were futile. Upon realising they would not win the day at Actium, Antony and Cleopatra fled the battle and sailed separately to the territories of Egypt. Both chose suicide over dealing with the consequences that would have been enforced by Octavian.
Twenty-three legions are named on Antony's 'legionary' coinage. Of the numbered legions, most are indicated strictly with Roman numerals. However, the first legion is named PRI, and three legions are honoured with supplementary issues that also list their honorific title: XII Antiqvae, XVII Classicae and XVIII Lybicae.
Antony struck untold millions of debased denarii, yet this cannot be said of his high-purity aurei, for which only a handful of examples survive. Aurei are known for just seven numbered legions and the named units of the cohortes speculatorum and the cohortes praetoriarum. It is possible that aurei were struck as companions to every denarius issue, but that a low survival rate has left us with an incomplete record.
Antony began coining his issues in 32 B.C., precisely 50 years after the imperator C. Valerius Flaccus had produced an issue of denarii (Cr. 365/1) with a reverse design that many researchers believe was the prototype of Antony's iconic reverse design.
The design, which features a legionary eagle between two legionary standards, was later recycled on several occasions. In A.D. 68-69, one century after Antony's production, a flood coinage was struck that copied this memorable reverse type. Nero introduced it on his denarii in A.D. 67-68, and in the rebellions that followed his overthrow this type was used by Galba, Vitellius, Clodius Macer and by some of those who struck anonymous 'Civil Wars' coinages. One hundred years after that – apparently in honour of the bicentennial of Actium – Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus restored Antony's legionary types in a remarkable issue of denarii.
The type remained popular even without commemorative occasions. It was a mainstay for Imperial cistophori in Asia Minor, and all three Flavians struck middle bronzes with reverse types inspired by this design. Trajan used it for coins in all metals. Quadrantes with this type were struck 'anonymously' and by Hadrian (whose issue of c. A.D. 118 may commemorate the 150th anniversary of Actium) and Antoninus Pius. Still other coinages that copied Antony's legionary reverse were struck by the later emperors Clodius Albinus, Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Elagabalus, Gallienus, Constantine I, Maximinus Daia, Licinius I and Alexander of Carthage.

Estimate: 100000 CHF