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Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 154 (2025)

Numismatica Ars Classica · 2025 · 10 plate pages

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  Page 26 Croton · Lucania · Metapontum · Siris

  1. 1035 Stater circa 540-510, AR 30 mm, 8.25 g. I I / NO retrograde in archaic characters below and above the exergual line Bull walking l., looking backwards. Rev. PVX retrograde The same type r. in incuse. Traité 2083 (this coin cited, “autre”). Perret I (this coin). AMB 165 (this obverse die). Mangieri, RIN 1981, B7 (this coin). Historia Numorum Italy 1723. Very ...
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  Page 32 Kroton · Rhegium · Tarentum

  1. 1050 Octobol (?) circa 300-250, AR 17 mm, 3.12 g. Head of young Heracles r., wearing taenia; below, K – P – O. Rev. KPO Owl standing l., head facing; to l., at its feet, ear of barley with stalk and leaves. Attianese, Kroton 152 (this coin). SNG ANS 421. Historia Numorum Italy 2195. Demeester 15 (this coin). HGC 1, 1500. Very rare. Wonderful tone and about extrem...
  2. 1051 Tetradrachm circa 435-425, AR 27 mm, 17.45 g. Lion's mask facing. Rev. RECINOS Apollo Iocastus seated l., himation over lower limbs; r. hand holding long staff and l. hand resting on hip. Below chair, dog; all within olive wreath. de Luynes 788 (these dies). Herzfelder 41. Historia Numorum Italy 2488. HGC 1, 1635. Rare. Struck on a broad flan and of excellen...
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  Page 43 Athenian · Katane · Magna Graecia · Naxos · Syracuse

  1. 1062 Tetradrachm signed by Heracleidas circa 405-402, AR 25 mm, 17.29 g. Laureate head of Apollo, facing three-quarters l., his hair falling in loose curls around his face; in field r., Λ Δ . Rev. Fast quadriga driven l. by charioteer holding reins with both hands; in field above, Nike flying r., holding taenia and wreath to crown the charioteer. In exergue, KATA...
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  Page 45 Crete · Gela · Naxos · Rhodes · Syracuse

  1. 1065 Tetradrachm circa 475-465, AR 25 mm, 17.34 g. Naked, bearded rider wearing conical helmet, on horse prancing r., spear in r. hand, l. holding reins. Rev. Bearded, man-faced bull (the river-god Gelas) kneeling to r.; beneath, C . A.J. Evans, Contribution to Sicilian Numismatics, NC 1894, 207, 8 and pl. 7, 6 (this coin). Traité I, 2315 and pl. 77, 22 (this coi...
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  Page 47 Acragas · Athenian · Camarina · Gela · Naxos · Syracuse

  1. 1068 Tetradrachm circa 415-405, AR 27 mm, 16.48 g. – ΛΩ – [ Ω – ] Fast quadriga driven r. by Nike, holding kentron and reins; above eagle flying r. and, in exergue, large pellet. Rev. Λ retrograde Forepart of man-headed bull (the river-god Gela) advancing l. through reeds; ibis and garlanded altar before his mid section. In l. field, fish swimming upwards and abo...
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  Page 50 Gela · Katane · Naxos · Syracuse

  1. 1074 Tetradrachm circa 450-440, AR 27 mm, 17.15 g. Laureate head of Apollo r. Rev. ΛE – O – NT – IN – ON Head of a lion with open jaws r., around, four barley grains. Boehringer, Leontinoi 35 (these dies). Rizzo pl. XXIII, 2 (this obverse die). SNG ANS 221 (this obverse die). A portrait of fine style struck in high relief on a very fresh metal and with a delicate...
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  Page 55 Athenian · Naxos · Syracuse

  1. 1085 Tetradrachm circa 415, AR 27 mm, 17.43 g. Bearded head of Dionysus r., hair bound with stephane adorned with ivy-wreath. Rev. NA ION Bearded, naked Silenus, with pointed ears, ruffled hair and long tail, squatting on rock, facing; r. leg raised and l. folded to the side. He turns l. towards cantharus in his r. hand, while holding thyrsos in his l. In l. fiel...
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  Page 112 Apollonia · Athenian · Athens · Corinth · Lycia · Megara · Syracuse

  1. 1206 Stater circa 460-450, AR 20 mm, 8.52 g. Pegasus flying r.; below, [koppa]. Rev. Head of Athena l., wearing Corinthian helmet. All within partially incuse square. Traité III, pl. CCVIII, 11 (these dies). Ravel 304. Calciati –. BCD Korinth –. Kray-Hirmer pl. 153, 483. A portrait of enchanting beauty, undoubtedly the finest of the entire Corinthian series, work...
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  Page 122 Cappadocia · Heraclea · Pergamum · Pontus · Sinope

  1. 1229 Tetradrachm, Sinope circa 196-155, AR 32 mm, 16.81 g. Diademed and bearded head r. Rev. BA IΛEΩ - APNAKOY Pantheistic male deity standing facing, wearing flat hat topped with a thunderbolt, holding cornucopiae and kerykeion with his l. hand and feeding fawn standing r. with a vine branch held in his r.; in inner l. field, star-in-crescent (Pontic royal badge...
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  Page 129 Troas

  Islands off Troas, Tenedos 1246 Didrachm circa 490-480, AR 19 mm, 8.94 g. Janiform head: on the l., a bearded male face l.; on the r., a female face r.; both wearing necklace, stephane, and both share a disc earring with a rosette pattern and a double-curved pendant. Rev. TEN – E (retrograde) Bearded male head l., wearing a Corinthian helmet and a pearl necklace; all within incuse square. BMC 8 = Traité I, 630, pl. X...