| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 586 | Auction date: 30 April 2025 |
| Lot number: 415 Price realized: 275 USD (Approx. 242 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: CILICIA, Aegeae. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.53 g, 6h). Dated year 180 of the Caesarean Era (AD 133/4). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on harpa, head right, with wings displayed; in exergue, goat standing right; ΠP (date) in legend. Haymann, Hadrianic 399 (O14/R96); Lorber & Michaels 356; Haymann 54; RPC III 3349; Prieur 721; SNG Levante 1719. Lightly toned with patches of light roughness, trace depostis, minor scratches, some reverse weakness. VF. From the Lionel Tenby Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear. Estimate: 150 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVIII Online Sessions | Auction date: 22 January 2025 |
| Lot number: 5384 Price realized: 3,750 USD (Approx. 3,599 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.32 g, 12h). Dated year 31 of the Actian Era and Cos. XIII (1 BC/AD 1). Laureate head right / ETOVΣ ΑΛ (Actian era date) NIKHΣ, Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; in right field, monogram (=ΥΠΑTOY) and IΓ (consular date) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). McAlee 186; RPC I 4157; Prieur 56. Deeply toned, minor marks and scratches, small patches of find patina remaining. Good VF. High relief portrait. From the Collection of a Gentleman. Ex Spink 223 (26 March 2014), lot 1125; Spink 198 (19 March 2009), lot 449; Leu 13 (29 April 1975), lot 383. Estimate: 750 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 129 | Auction date: 13 May 2025 |
| Lot number: 427 Price realized: 1,100 USD (Approx. 985 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Nero. AD 54-68. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.19 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 and year 112 of the Caesarean Era (AD 64). Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / ETOVΣ BIP • I (dates), eagle standing right on thunderbolt, with wings displayed; palm frond to right. McAlee 265a; RPC I 4188; Prieur 89. Iridescent cabinet toning, minor scratches. Near EF. From The Meander Collection. Ex Giovanni Chiarot Collection (Tradart 21, 15 February 2018), lot 114; Sternberg V (28 November 1975), lot 47. Estimate: 500 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 129 | Auction date: 13 May 2025 |
| Lot number: 426 Price realized: 900 USD (Approx. 806 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.37 g, 12h). Dated year 29 of the Actian Era and Cos. XII (October-December 3 BC). Laureate head right / ETOVΣ ΘΚ (Actian era date) NIKHΣ, Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond in right hand; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; in right field, monogram (=ΥΠΑTOY) and IB (consular date) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). McAlee 183; RPC I 4154; Prieur 53. Lightly toned, minor marks. VF. Rare, Prieur records three specimens, several more in CoinArchives. Estimate: 500 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 585 | Auction date: 16 April 2025 |
| Lot number: 437 Price realized: 325 USD (Approx. 286 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Nero. AD 54-68. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 15.09 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 and year 112 of the Caesarean Era (AD 64). Laureate bust right, wearing aegis; • below bust / ETOYΣ BIP • I (dates), eagle standing right on thunderbolt, with wings displayed; • and palm frond to right. McAlee 264; RPC I 4190; Prieur 90. Lightly toned, minor deposits and roughness, reverse scrapes and metal flaw. VF. Estimate: 150 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 587 | Auction date: 21 May 2025 |
| Lot number: 468 Price realized: 350 USD (Approx. 309 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: CARIA, Mylasa. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (28mm, 9.96 g, 6h). Bare head right / Zeus Osogoa standing facing, head right, holding trident set on crab and eagle. Metcalf, Cistophori, Type 41, 188-90 var. (O–/R– [both dies unlisted]); Akarça 19; RPC III 1379; Pinder 55; RSC 303. Lightly toned, minor marks, scratches, overstruck on an uncertain undertype. Near VF. Rare. According to the first century Greek geographer Strabo (Geography 14. 2. 23), the Mylasians had three temples of Zeus in their city. In addition to the temples of Zeus Labraundos and Zeus Karios, a third was dedicated to Zeus Osogoa, an indigenous Carian god. The temple complex dedicated to him in Mylasa was of such a size and style that Pausanias (8.10.3) equated it with the Athenian Acropolis. For a further discussion of this god, see A. Laumonier, Les cultes indigènes en Carie (Paris, 1958), pp. 45-126. Estimate: 200 USD |  |
