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| Nomos AG > Auction 32 | Auction date: 8 June 2024 |
| Lot number: 44 | |
| Lot description: The Anthony Milavic Collection of Ancient Games Coins Games Officials Agonothetes PHRYGIA. Cotiaeum. Galba, 68-69. (Bronze, 21 mm, 4.27 g, 12 h), struck under the magistrate Tiberius Claudius Aretis Philopatris, Agonothetes for life. ΓΑΛΒΑΝ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑ Laureate head of Galba to right. Rev. ΕΠΙ ΤΙ ΚΛ ΑΡΕΤΙΔΟΣ ΑΓΩΝΟΘΕΤΟΥ / ΔΙΑ ΒΙΟΥ / ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ Zeus(?) standing facing, head to left, raising his right hand. BMC 33. RPC I 3222.6 (this coin). With a craggy portrait of Galba and a golden-brown toning. Some mior roughness and surface cracks, otherwise, very fine. From the collection of Major Anthony F. Milavic, USMC (Ret.), and from that of D. Simpson, Triton V, 15 January 2002, 1738. An Agonothetes was the official who presided over a city's games, whether just local ones, as here, or over major ones that were international in scope - like the Olympics at Olympia or the Pythian Games at Delphi. He would have paid the expenses of the games. Starting price: 225 CHF |  |
