Auction No. 123

Münzen der Griechen
★ Just Magnificent ! ★
LUCANIA. Velia. Drachm (Circa 535-510 BC).

Obv: Forepart of lion right, eating prey.
Rev: Quadripartite incuse square.

Williams 8; HN Italy 1259; SNG ANS 1205-6.

Ex Münzen & Medaillen AG 32 (1966), lot 16; ex Münzen & Medaillen AG 54 (1978), lot 51; ex Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger 427 (2020), lot 54.

Condition: Extremely fine.

Weight: 3.89 g.
Diameter: 15 mm.

Münzen der Griechen
SICILY. Messana. Tetradrachm (Circa 420-413 BC).

Obv: MEΣΣANA.
The nymph Messana, holding kentron and reins, driving slow biga of mules right; two dolphins confronted in exergue.
Rev: MEΣΣANION.
Hare springing right; below, dolphin right.

Caltabiano 525; HGC 2, 792.

Condition: Very fine.

Weight: 17.18 g.
Diameter: 27 mm.

Münzen der Griechen
★ Extremely Rare ★
KINGS OF THRACE. Mostis (Circa 125-86 BC). AR Tetradrachm. Dated year 35 (105/4 BC).

Obv: Diademed and draped bust right.
Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ MOΣTIΔΟΣ / EΠΙ ΣΑΔΑΛΟΥ ΕΤΟΥΣ EΛ.
Athena seated left, left arm resting on shield, holding crowning Nike; monogram to inner left.

SNG Black Sea 309 var. (monogram and date); SNG Stancomb -; HGC 3.2, 1727.

Extremely rare. Mostis was the king of Caeni, ruling over territories in South East Thrace. He is known almost exclusively from his coins, usually bronze pieces and very rarely silver tetradrachms like this one.

Condition: Near extremely fine.

Weight: 16.43 g.
Diameter: 33 mm.

Münzen der Griechen
THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES. Mygdones or Krestones. AR Stater (circa 480-470 BC).

Obv: Goat kneeling right, head reverted; ΔE monogram above.
Rev: Quadripartite incuse square.

Lorber, Goats, Issue 8; BMC (Macedon) 1; Jameson 1836; Weber 1840.

Ex Frank Sternberg XXII (1989), lot 61; ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XVII (2012), lot 266.

Condition: Near extremely fine.

Weight: 9.03 g.
Diameter: 22 mm.

Münzen der Römischen Kaiser
TITUS (Caesar, 69-79). GOLD Aureus. Rome.

Obv: T CAESAR IMP VESPASIANVS.
Laureate head right.
Rev: COS VI.
Roma seated left on shields, holding spear; bird in flight to left and right; to lower right, Lupa Romana suckling the twins Remus and Romulus.

RIC² 954 (Vespasian); Calicó 738.

Condition: Extremely fine.

Weight: 7.35 g.
Diameter: 21 mm.

Münzen der Römischen Kaiser
LUCIUS VERUS (161-169). GOLD Aureus. Rome.

Obv: L VERVS AVG ARMENIACVS.
Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: TR P III IMP II COS II / ARMEN.
Armenia seated left in attitude of mouring, propping head on hand and resting left hand on bow and quiver; behind, trophy.

RIC 499; Calicó 2103.

Ex Triton XIX (2016), lot 582

Condition: Very fine.

Weight: 7.12 g.
Diameter: 19 mm.

Münzen der Römischen Kaiser
★ CORNELIA SUPERA ★
CORNELIA SUPERA (Augusta, 253). Antoninianus. Rome.

Obv: COR SVPERA AVG.
Draped bust right, wearing stephane and set on crescent.
Rev: IVNONI AVG.
Juno seated left on throne, holding flower in right hand and infant cradled in left.

RIC 31 (Aemilian).

Very rare. Wife of Aemilianus, she is known only from coins and an inscription (Cuicul). She was proclaimed Augusta in AD 253. Her portrait is, in some issues, still rather academic, while in others it is characterised by a large aquiline nose, a hard mouth and an elongated, thin face that vaguely recalls her husband’s features. As suggested by Bernoulli, we could possibly find her portrait in the Munich Glyptoteca, in a bust in the Torlonia Museum and one in Madrid

Condition: Good very fine.

Weight: 3.24 g.
Diameter: 22 mm.

Münzen der Römischen Kaiser
LICINIUS I (308-324). GOLD Aureus. Siscia.

Obv: LICINIVS P F AVG.
Laureate and draped bust right.
Rev: IOVI CONSERVATORI / SIS.
Jupiter standing left, holding crowning Victory on globe and sceptre; at feet to left, eagle standing left, head right, with wreath in beak; X to right.

RIC 18 var. (bust type); Calicó 5108b var. (same); Depeyrot 16/1; cf. Nomos 21, lot 360 and Nomos 23, lot 261.

Extremely rare emission with draped bust.

Condition: Extremely fine.

Weight: 5.36 g.
Diameter: 21 mm.

Münzen der Römischen Kaiser
CONSTANS (337-350). GOLD Solidus. Antioch.

Obv: FL IVL CONSTANS PERP AVG.
Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM / SMANI.
Victory seated right on cuirass, behind which is a shield, holding shield inscribed VOT / V / MVLT / X in four lines; to right, Genius standing left, supporting shield with both hands.

RIC 29; Depeyrot 5/7.

Condition: Extremely fine.

Weight: 4.49 g.
Diameter: 21 mm.

Münzen des Byzantinischen Reichs
★ Quality! ★
JUSTINIAN II (Second reign, 705-711). GOLD Solidus. Constantinople.

Obv: δ N IҺS CҺS RЄX RЄGNANTIЧM.
Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator.
Rev: δ N IЧSTINIANЧS MЧLTЧS AN.
Crowned facing bust of Justinian, holding cross potent set upon three steps and globus cruciger inscribed PAX.

Sear 1413.

Condition: Mint state, FDC.

Weight: 4.44 g.
Diameter: 20 mm.

Münzen der Neuzeit
★ Extremely Rare ★
AUSTRIAN EMPIRE. Franz Joseph I (1848-1916). Thaler (1852-A). Vienna.

Obv: FRANC IOS I D G AVSTRIAE IMPERATOR.
Laureate head left.
Rev: HVNG BOH LOMB ET VEN GAL LOD ILL REX A A.
Crowned imperial double eagle facing, with crown above and coat-of-arms on breast, and holding sword, sceptre and orb.

Davenport 16; KM 2242; Frühwald 1348.

Condition: Mint State.

Weight: 28.12 g.
Diameter: 38 mm.

Münzen der Neuzeit
★ Rare Taler ★
GERMANY. Ulm. Taler (1623). In the name of Ferdinand II.

Obv: MONETA NOVA REIPVB VLMENSIS.
City arms.
Rev: FERDINANDVS II ROM IMP SEMPER AVGVSTVS.
Imperial double eagle facing, with crown above.

Davenport 5903; KM 15.

Condition: Mint state.

Weight: 28.88 g.
Diameter: 40 mm.

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