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Celtic, Northeast Gaul, Remi (Reims), (c.50-30 B.C.), silver unit or quinarius (1.71 g), obv. winged bust left, wearing neck torque, ATEVLA before, rev. celticized bull(?) standing right; spiral ornament above, pentagram below, VLATOS to right, crescent in exergue, (D&T 640; Depeyrot, NC VII 35; Scheers series 41, class I; De la Tour 7186-7; CCCBM II 566-76). Slightly off centred as usual on the obverse, otherwise very fine, scarce.
Estimate $250
SOLD $200
Spain, Celti-Iberian, Jaen Province, Castulo, (late 2nd century B.C.), AE 28, (13.76 g), obv. male head to right with diadem, hand before, dotted circle, rev. Sphinx to right, star to right, traces of "Kastulo" in exergue, (S.15 (Greek Imperial, no hand), SNG BMC 2, 1323-1337, SNG Cop.212, CNH 335/38, ACIP 2143). Very fine portrait, weak in areas, very scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Spain, Osca, (204-154 B.C.), silver drachm, 18mm, (4.18 g), obv. bearded head to right, Iberian letters "BON" bihind, rev. horseman galloping to right, holding couched spear, below Iberian legend "BOLSKAN", (S.28, SNG Cop. 324, SNG BM 710, Burgos 1501, ACIP 1417, Heiss Pl.13,1). Very fine, toned, scarce.
Estimate $150
SOLD $220
Celtic, Danube Region, Imitation of Macedon coinage of the kingdom of Philip II, (359-336 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (12.32 g), struck in Danube Region, issued c.3rd - 2nd century B.C., obv. head of Zeus laureate to right, rev. naked youth or small man, on horseback to right, (cf.S.203, Lanz Collection 396-7 [p.78 same dies], Gobl, Ostkeltischer Typenatlas, No.74/2, Pl.9). In high relief on the obverse, weak as usual on the reverse, otherwise round with attractive pale grey tone, very fine/fine and rare.
Estimate $450
Passed in
Italy, Campania, Neapolis (Naples), (c.340-300 B.C.), silver plated nomos, stater or didrachm, (6.95 g), obv. head of nymph to right, monogram, pileus behind, rev. bull walking to right, crowned by Nike flying right; below TMO monogram, below exergue [NE]OPOLIT[WN], (cf.S.307, Sambon 449b, SNG Fitz 149, SNG ANS 322-3, SNG Milan 106). Minor green oxidation in places, otherwise toned, nearly very fine, scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Italy, Lucania, Heraclea, (330-280 B.C.), silver plated nomos, stater or didrachm, (6.22 g), obv. head of Athena to right wearing crested Corinthian helmet adorned with a Scylla, traces of letters in right field, rev. [I-HPAK**LHIWN*] to right off flan, Heracles standing facing, head turned to right, strangling a lion with both hands, between legs an owl in field to left a club, (S.389, cf.Work 39, cf.Van Keuren 50, cf.SNG ANS 60). Toned, plated, nearly very fine and a scarce type.
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Italy, Lucania, Metapontum, (c.400-350 B.C.), silver nomos, stater or didrachm, (7.51 g), obv. female head of Demeter to right with double fillet, rev. corn ear, META trace to right downwards, leaf to left, die break on corn ear, (cf.S.405, Noe 377 [same dies], SNG ANS 302 [same dies], Boston 78 (same dies), SNG Cop. 1190 [same dies]). Toned, nearly very fine a rare type.
Estimate $300
SOLD $320
Italy, Lucania, Metapontum, (c.400-350 B.C.), silver stater, (7.65 grams), obv. head of female to left, the hair bound by a wide fillet, giving effect of a sphendone, poppyhead to right, rev. corn ear, META**PO* to left, stalk to right, above it a a large ant, (cf.S.409, Noe [NN&M 47, 1984] 468, SNG ANS 354 [same dies], SNG Lockett 396). Toned, good very fine and very rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $600
Italy, Lucania, Metapontum, (c.335-330 B.C.), silver stater, (7.88 g), obv. bearded Corinthian helmeted head of Leukippos to right, lion head behind, rev. ear of corn, to right META, to left club erect over leaf, [A]MI below, (S.415, Johnston [NN&M 164] Class B.2, SNG ANS 432-440, SNG Ash.728-9). Toned, very fine/good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $750
SOLD $500
Italy, Lucania, Metapontum, (c.330-300 B.C.), silver diobol (1.22 g), obv. head of Apollo Karneios to right, rev. barley ear with leaf to right, uncertain symbol to right, (cf.S.419, cf.Johnston F6.2, HGC 1079); Italy, Lucania, Poseidonia, (c.410-350 B.C.), silver diobol, 13mm, (1.15 g), obv. Poseidon striding right, holding trident overhead; branch to lower left, rev. bull standing right, branch to right. *POMES* (S.426, HN Italy 1144, McClean 1087) (illustrated). Second coin nearly very fine, first coin fair/good fine, both scarce. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $160
Italy, Lucania, Sybaris, (c.530-510 B.C.), silver third stater, (2.40 g), obv. bull standing to left, looking back, VM in exergue, rev. bull standing to right, looking back, but incuse, and no legend, (S.246, BMC 9, SNG ANS 847-852). Good fine and scarce.
Estimate $400
SOLD $400
Lucania, Sybaris, (453-448 B.C.), silver twelfth stater or obol, 7mm, (0.48 g), obv. Poseidon advancing right, wearing chlamys, brandishing trident, rev. bull standing right, MVB above, (cf.S.431, cf.SNG ANS 871, cf.HN Italy 1749). Fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Italy, Lucania, Thurium (Thourioi), (c.400-350 B.C.), silver nomos, stater or didrachm, (7.56 g), obv. head of Athena to right wearing crested Athenian helmet, ornamented with figure of Scylla pointing, rev. bull butting to right, **QOURIWN, tunny fish below in exergue, with exergual line, (cf.S.442, HN Italy 1802, SNG ANS 1002 [same obv. die]). Toned, good very fine, well centred of fine style, scarce type.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $2,000
Italy, Lucania, Thurium (Thourioi), (c.350 B.C.), silver nomos, stater or didrachm, (7.56 g), obv. head of Athena to right wearing crested Athenian helmet, ornamented with figure of Scylla, rev. bull butting to right, **[Q]OURIWN above, tunny fish below in exergue, with exergual line, (cf.S.442, SNG ANS 1008). Lightly toned, nearly very fine and a scarce type.
Estimate $250
Passed in
Italy, Lucania, Thurium (Thourioi), (c.350 B.C.), silver nomos, stater or didrachm, (7.35 g), obv. head of Athena to right wearing crested Athenian helmet, ornamented with figure of Skylla, rev. bull butting to right, traces of **QOURIWN*, tunny fish below in exergue, with traces of **MOLOSSOS* on exergue line, (cf.S.442; SNG ANS 1027 [similar dies], HN Italy 1785). Toned, flaw about 5.00 on reverse, otherwise very fine and rare.
Estimate $250
SOLD $420
Italy, Lucania, Thurium (Thourioi), (425 - 400 B.C.), silver sixth stater or triobol, (1.19 g), obv. head of Athena to right wearing crested Athenian helmet, rev. bull butting to left, in exergue, **QOURI[WN]* in exergue a tunny fish to right, plain exergual line, (S.438, BMC 21, SNG Munich 1178). Surface roughness, otherwise fine/nearly very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Italy, Lucania, Poseidonia, (c.530-500 B.C.), silver stater, (7.57 g), obv. Poseidon, naked but for chlamys over shoulder, advancing right brandishing trident in right hand and extending left arm, **POS* retrograde to left, dotted border, rev. Poseidon striding left as on obverse, reversed and incuse **POS* (retrograde), (cf.S.241, SNG ANS 613 var, HN Italy 1107). Lightly toned, some surface pitting and lamination losses, nearly extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $9,000
SOLD $9,100
Italy, Lucania, Velia, (c.350/340-320/310 B.C.), silver nomos, stater or didrachm, (7.34 g), Period VI, Kleudoros workshop, obv. head of Athena to left, wearing crested Phrygian helmet, ornamented with female centaur, rev. lion standing to left devouring meat, A below, in exergue **TELHTWN*, (cf.S.454, Williams A384, 29 [same dies], HN Italy 1293). Nearly very fine, a scarce mint.
Estimate $250
SOLD $420
Italy, Lucania, Velia, (350-281 B.C.), silver stater, (7.23 g), obv. head of Athena to left wearing crested Athenian helmet ornamented with Pegasus, IE within square frame, A above, rev. lion pulling down stag to left, trace of legend upper right, (S.461, Williams Period IX, 552, [Obv.278, rev.387], SNG Ash 1400). Edge flaw, otherwise nearly very fine, scarce.
Estimate $250
SOLD $500
Italy, Bruttium, Croton (Kroton), (500-460 B.C.), silver stater or nomos (7.13 g), obv. tripod, crane to left on right, QPO upwards to left, rev. tripod, incuse, (S.256, SNG ANS 262, Gale 13, SNG Cop. 1750). Slightly off centred on reverse, weak in places, otherwise very fine/good fine and scarce.
Estimate $250
SOLD $190
Italy, Bruttium, Hipponion, (Colony of Corinth), (350-300 B.C.), silver stater, (8.41 g), obv. Pegasos with pointed wing flying to left, caduceus below, rev. head of Athena to right in Corinthian helmet over a leather cap, (S.-, Calciati 1 [p.415-6], SNG ANS 503 [Locri Epizephrii], SNG Delepierre 479, SNG Lloyd 633, HN Italy 2242). Traces of mint bloom, extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $2,100
Italy, Bruttium, Brettian League, (215-205 B.C.), AE 27 (reduced sextans), issued 208-203 (12.98 g), obv. helmeted head of bearded Ares to left, rev. **BRETTIWN* to left, rev. Hera Hoplosmia armed with spear and shield advancing right, fulmen [thunderbolt] to right, (S.702, SNG ANS 76, Scheu, Bronze 58, HN 2001); Campania, Suessa Aurunca. Circa 265-240 BC. AE 19, (5.59 g), obv. helmeted head of Minerva left, rev. cock standing right; star to upper left, (S.565. Sambon 873; HN Italy 449). Very fine; fine both very scarce. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $110
Italy, Calabria, Brundisium, (c.215 B.C.), AE sextans (17.87 g), obv. laureate head of Poseidon to right, trident behind, two pellets below, rev. BR-VN, youth on dolphin left, holding kantharos in right hand, cithara in left; two pellets below, (S.599, HN Italy 738, SNG ANS -; BMC Italy -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Morcom -; Antikenmuseum Basel 68; Laffaille -; Weber 492). Nearly very fine and very rare, dark brown patina.
Estimate $200
SOLD $170
Italy, Calabria, Tarentum (Taras), (272-235 B.C.), silver nomos, stater or didrachm, (6.25 g), obv. naked rider crowning stationary horse to left, below horse **LUKI NOS* in two lines, above to right **SU*, rev. Taras astride a dolphin to left, holding a chlamys on left arm and trident in right hand, to right, owl, **TA RAS below, (cf.S.374, Vl.839, cf.SNG ANS 1168-9). Lightly toned, nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $600
SOLD $750
Italy, Calabria, Tarentum (Taras), (3rd century B.C., 302-281 Ravel), silver drachm, (3.06 g), obv. head of Athena wearing crested helmet ornamented with Skylla to right, rev. owl with closed wings standing to right, TAP on left, club and IOP on right, (S.367, Vl.1057) (illustrated); another (380-325 B.C.), silver diobol, (1.01 g), obv. helmeted head of Athena left, helmet decorated with Skylla, rev. Herakles kneeling, strangling the Nemean lion; control marks off flan, (cf.S.351, cf.HN Italy 911 and 976). Nearly very fine, second coin toned. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $220
Italy, Calabria, Tarentum (Taras), (325-280 B.C.), silver diobol, (0.87 g), obv. head of Athena to left wearing crested Corinthian helmet, ornamented with Skylla, rev. Herakles standing to right strangling a lion, behind him a club above [TAP..], between legs XP monogram, (S.351, Vlasto 1370, SNG Cop.1129); Sicily, Syracuse, (485-479 B.C.), silver obol, (0.67 g), obv. Artemis-Arethusa head to right, diadem of beads, hair turned back, dotted border, rev. wheel of four spokes, (S.917, Boehringer 362, SNG Cop. 632); Arabia, Himyarites, (c.1st Century B.C.), silver half unit (hemi drachm?), (2.05 g), imitating the New Style coinage of Athens, obv. laureate male head right within wreath, rev. owl on amphora; two monograms, all within border of amphorae), (S.6126, SNG ANS 1475, BMC Arabia pg.59, 23). First and second coins very fine, third fine, with dark patina, scarce - rare. (3)
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
Italy, Calabria, Taras (Tarentum), silver obol, 9mm, (0.71 g), struck 500-473 B.C., obv. scallop shell, rev. dolphin to right, (S.227, cf.Vlasto 1473, SNG ANS 1482, HN Italy 979); Illyria, Epidamnos-Dyrrhachium, (3rd-3nd century B.C.), silver drachm, (3.30 g), obv. cow standing right looking back at calf, above **XENWN*, eagle to right above, rev. double floral pattern within square, around club to left, **D[UR PUT] BA*, (cf.S.1899, BMC 112-3, Maier 351, SNG Tubingen 1458). Fine - very fine, first coin rare. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $380
Sicily, Akragas, (Agrigentum), (c. 520-472 B.C.), silver didrachm, (8.46 g), obv. eagle with closed wings standing to left, trace of A[KRA] behind, rev. crab within circular incuse field, Corinthian helmet to left below, (S.709, BMC 31, cf.SNG ANS 946-7). Pitted surface, and roughness otherwise fine - very fine and rare.
Estimate $250
SOLD $300
Sicily, Leontinoi, silver didrachm, (475-466 B.C.), (8.12 g), obv. naked rider, on horse walking right on ground line, dotted border, rev. lion's head to right, surrounded by four barleycorns, around legend anti-clockwise, traces of *L*EON T INON, (N reversed) (S.826, SNG Ash 1777 (same obverse die), SNG Cop. 338-339 (same obverse die), SNG ANS 209 (Pl.8, same dies), Boehringer "Leontinoi" (Essays to M.Price) No.13 (same obverse die, Pl.10), SNG Munich 543-544 (Pl.15, same obverse die). Bright, minor cleaning marks, otherwise nearly very fine and rare.
Estimate $250
SOLD $240
Sicily, Leontini, (c.450-440 B.C.), silver tetradrachm 25 mm, (16.61 g), obv. laureate head of Apollo to right, rev. Spaced around **L E O N T I N O N*, lion's head with open jaws to right, above, below and to right, barley grain, to left a tripod, (S.834, Boehringer 33, SNG ANS 232 var., HGC 2, 675). A lovely, toned coin with a particularly elegant early classical head of Apollo. Some very minor surface roughness, otherwise extremely fine (as described by Nomos), rare.
Estimate $8,000
SOLD $7,500