| Status International > Auction 397 | Auction date: 3 June 2025 |
| Lot number: 12976 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: ROMAN COINS A. Postumius A.f. Sp.n. Albinus. BC 81. Silver Denarius serratus (3.94g). Rome mint. Head of Hispania to right, wearing veil; HISPAN behind. Rev. Togate figure standing to left, raising hand; legionary eagle to left, fasces with axe to right; A ALBIN / N?S across fields, POST?A?F in exergue.aEF. Lovely dark grey old cabinet tone with golden highlights.Crawford 372/2; BMCRR Rome 2839-42; RSC Postumia 8. (P) Starting price: 350 AUD |  |
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| Status International > Auction 397 | Auction date: 3 June 2025 |
| Lot number: 12985 Price realized: 475 AUD (Approx. 307 USD / 270 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ROMAN COINS Mn. Aquillius Mn.f. Ca. BC 71 or 65. Silver Denarius serratus (3.78g). Rome mint.VIRTVS-III?VIR, draped bust of Virtus right, wearing crested helmet, decorated with side feather; dotted border / MN?AQVIL-MN?F?MN?N (partially ligate), consul Mn. Aquillius Senior standing left, head right, supporting kneeling female figure of Sicilia; SICIL in exergue.EF with attractive cabinet tone.Crawford 401/1; Sydenham 798; RSC Aquillia 2; S.336. (P) Starting price: 200 AUD |  |
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| Status International > Auction 397 | Auction date: 3 June 2025 |
| Lot number: 13012 Price realized: 2,400 AUD (Approx. 1,552 USD / 1,363 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ROMAN COINS Julius Caesar. BC 49-44. March-April BC 44. Silver Denarius (3.63 g). Rome mint.M. Mettius, moneyer. Laureate head right / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory and transverse sceptre, resting her elbow on shield set on celestial globe to right; A to left.VF. Rev. off centre as most of the examples from the same issue. Area of weakness.Crawford 480/17; Alfoldi Type XVI, 62 (A10/R9); CRI 101; Sydenham 1055; RSC 35; RBW 1686. Rome had spurned the Hellenistic practice of placing the ruler?s portrait on the coinage of the realm, much as they rejected the concept of kingship altogether. So early in 44 BC, many Romans must have been stunned to see the image of Julius Caesar, recently appointed dictator for an unprecedented fourth time, on circulating silver denarii. Like a profusion of other honors and titles, the right to place his image on coins had been bestowed on Caesar by the Roman Senate. Caesar?s enemies may have had an ulterior motive in approving the honor, as it almost certainly would fuel the growing suspicion that Caesar intended to name himself king of Rome. If this was the intent, it succeeded, for within three months a conspiracy had been formed and Caesar was duly assassinated at a meeting of the Senate on March 15, 44 BC. This silver denarius carries a startlingly realistic, warts-and-all portrait of Caesar on the obverse and the image of the dictator?s patron goddess, Venus, on the reverse. The obverse legend acclaims Caesar as ?Imperator,? or victorious general. Within a few years, Caesar's successors and even his assassins would show no compunction about putting their portraits on their coins. (P) Starting price: 400 AUD |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 20 | Auction date: 18 October 2025 |
| Lot number: 505 Price realized: 7,000 CHF (Approx. 8,804 USD / 7,540 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ITALY. Padova. Under Venetian rule, 1405-1797. Medal (Bronze, 33 mm, 27.27 g, 7 h), so-called 'Paduan Medal'. By G. Cavino, no date (circa 1550). Laureate bust of Hercules to right, wearing lion-skin; all within bead and reel border. Rev. HEPAKΛEOΣ - ΣΩTHPOΣ / TPAKΩN Standing club; in the field to left, monogram of HB and, on the ground line, the severed head of the Nemean lion to right and the severed head of a hound to left; in the field to right, eagle with spread wings standing to left. Attwood 1236. Johnson/Martini 2175. Toderi/Vannel 976. Very rare. A splendid struck original in the finest Renaissance style. Virtually as struck. From the Aviz Collection, Nomos 24, 22 May 2022, 499 and ex Numismatica Ars Classica 53, 7 November 2009, 563. This impressive medal is usually attributed to Giovanni Cavino of Padua (1500-1570), who produced a medal with a very similar portrait of Hercules (Attwood 298). Both pieces bear the ligatured monogram 'HB', long regarded as a signature, though its meaning has been the subject of considerable debate. The monogram has often been assigned to an anonymous 'Monogramist HB,' but Attwood argued convincingly for Cavino's authorship and saw the letters as standing for Hercules Buphiloponus ('Hercules, who loves labor like an ox'), the opening words inscribed on the base of Ammannati's Hercules, commissioned in 1544 by the great Paduan patron Marco Mantova Benavides (1489-1582). However, Matzke has suggested reading the initials as those of the Paduan sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammanati (1511-1592), who in 1544-45 created a monumental statue of Hercules that still stands in a Paduan palace courtyard. The head of that statue closely resembles the portraits on both medals, leading Matzke to conclude that Ammannati may have supplied the design, while Cavino, the more accomplished die-cutter, executed the dies (cf. Historisches Museum Basel: All'antica. Die Paduaner und die Faszination der Antike, Speyer 2018, pp. 110f.). So, this medal too could be regarded as Cavino's work. The portrait of Hercules on the obverse ultimately derives from an ancient gem - almost certainly the one in Florence (A. Furtwängler: Antike Gemmen, pl. XLI, no. 35). The animal head on the lower right has sometimes been identified - rather implausibly - as the Erymanthian Boar. A more plausible explanation is that it represents one of the heads of the hellhound Cerberus, whom Hercules had to overcome in his final task. Estimate: 3500 CHF |  |
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| Timeline Auctions > Auction 167 | Auction date: 10 June 2025 |
| Lot number: 3607 Price realized: 20 GBP (Approx. 27 USD / 24 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: United States of America AR Dollar. Dated 1922. San Francisco mint. Peace type. LIBERTY, head of Liberty to left, wearing radiate headband, IN GOD WE TRUST across fields; date below / UNITED • STATES • OF • AMERICA E • PLURIBUS UNUM, eagle standing to right on rock, wings closed, seen from rear, branch in talons, rays behind, PEACE below; ONE DOLLAR across fields; mintmark S in lower left field. KM 150. 26.61gr, 38mm, 6h. Near Very Fine. Ex Stocker collection, Kent, UK, 1955-early 2000s. TimeLine Auctions follows a rigorous vetting process to ensure the authenticity and legality of all items, reinforcing our commitment to integrity and responsible trading. Each antiquity, antique, and coin lot undergoes thorough examination by a vetting committee of at least ten external specialists, professional trade association members, scientists, and archaeologists: Starting price: 5 GBP |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 40 | Auction date: 14 December 2025 |
| Lot number: 863 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot  | |
| Lot description: Vespasian, 69-79. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 34 mm, 19.74 g, 12 h), Judaea Capta issue, Rome, 71. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS III Laureate head of Vespasian to right. Rev. IVDAEA CAPTA / S C On the right, mourning Jewess seated to right at the base of a palm tree; on the left, the emperor standing right, holding spear in right hand and parazonium in left, and with his left foot resting on a helmet set on the ground. BMC 546. Cohen 239. Hendin 6534. RIC II. 167. Rough surfaces, otherwise, fine. This coin was part of one of the festive issues struck to commemorate the effective end of the Jewish War (it actually didn't end until the fall of Masada in 74) and shows either the emperor Vespasian (or perhaps the actual victor, Titus) standing and facing a palm tree (symbol of Judaea) and mourning Jewess. The reason why the victory over the Jews was so important to Vespasian and his sons was simple: their more important victory, the one over Vitellius that both ended the Roman Civil Wars and established the Flavians on the imperial throne, was against Roman citizens, and, thus, could not be celebrated. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
