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| Gemini, LLC > Auction III | Auction date: 9 January 2007 |
| Lot number: 387 | |
| Lot description: Antinous, Favorite of Hadrian. (). Framed bronze medallion, diameter 58 mm: medallion 37 mm; circular frame 10-11 mm (103 gm). Bithynia, Nicomedia. ANTINOOC - HPΩC, bare head right / [H MHTPOΠO]ΛIC [NIKOMHΔEIA], bull standing right. Blum, Antinoos, p. 45, 1; pl. III.2 (probably same dies, but reverse legend remade). SNG Aulock 7102 (same obverse die). Only framed medallion of Antinous in private hands. Strong portrait. Some reverse porosity. Very fine/fine. Circular bronze frames, often with grooves or other decorations, have been found on some Roman bronze coins from Augustus on, and on occasional Roman bronze medallions from Hadrian on (see lot 368 above). Frames on provincial bronze coins are quite exceptional, although one other example seems to be known for Antinous, on a medallion of Tarsus in Paris (Blum p. 53, 13). Frames made coins more impressive and decorative, but it is a myth, often refuted but hard to eradicate, that coins were framed in order to insert them in military standards. Estimate: US$15000 |  |
