Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 137

Pre-Long Beach Auction

Ancient Coins

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1211		Calabria, Taras. Silver Nomos (7.83 g), ca. 315-302 BC. Sa. and Ar., magistrates. Warrior on horseback right, holding shield and two spears, and preparing to cast a third; below, ΣA. Reverse: TAPAΣ, Taras riding dolphin left, holding kantharos and trident; before, monogram of AP; below, small dolphin left. Fischer-Bossert 842 (V335/R653); Vlasto 604; HN Italy 937. Lustrous surfaces. NGC grade Ch XF; Strike: 4/5, Surface: 3/5. Estimated Value $700 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $504
Lot 1212		Calabria, Taras. Silver Nomos (7.92 g), ca. 302-290 BC. Herakl. and Phi, magistrates. Nude warrior on horseback right, holding shield and two spears, and preparing to cast a third; below, ?HPAKΛ. Reverse: TAPAΣ, Taras astride dolphin left, holding Nike, shield and spear; below, ΦI. Vlasto 599; HN Italy 936. An outstanding example. NGC grade Ch AU; Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5. Estimated Value $1,250 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1213		Calabria, Taras. Silver Nomos (7.72 g), ca. 302-280 BC. Sa…, Arethon, and Cas…, magistrates. Youth on horseback right, crowning horse with wreath; behind and in two lines below, magistrates' names: ΣA and APE/ΘΩN. Reverse: TAPΣ, Phalanthos riding dolphin left, holding tripod; below, magistrate's name: CAΣ. Vlasto 666-7; HN Italy 957. Intensely lustrous. NGC grade Ch AU; Strike: 4/5, Surface: 3/5. Estimated Value $1,000 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1214		Calabria, Taras. Silver Nomos (7.88 g), ca. 302 BC. Sa… and Kon…, magistrates. Youth on horseback right, crowning himself with wreath; below, magistrate's name: ΣA and Ionic capital. Reverse: gb76, Phalanthos, holding snake and whip, on dolphin left; below, magistrate's name: KON. Fischer-Bossert 960 (V375/R739); Vlasto 657; cf. HN Italy 942 (KO, not KON). Lustrous surfaces. NGC grade AU; Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Estimated Value $800 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $840
Lot 1215		Calabria, Taras. Silver Nomos (8.00 g), ca. 302 BC. Sa… and Kon…, magistrates. Youth on horseback right, crowning himself with wreath; below, magistrate's name: ΣA and Ionic capital. Reverse: gb76, Phalanthos, holding snake and whip, on dolphin left; below, magistrate's name: KON. Fischer-Bossert 951 (V369/R736); Vlasto 657; cf. HN Italy 942 (KO, not KON). NGC grade Ch XF; Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5. Struck on a nice broad flan. Estimated Value $800 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1216		Lucania, Metapontion. Silver Nomos (7.92 g), ca. 330-290 BC. Ey… and Ly…, magistrates. Head of Demeter right, wreathed with grain ears; below chin, EY. Reverse: META, Grain ear with leaf to right; to lower left, ΛY; above leaf, star. HN Italy 1592. Johnston Class C, 8. Lustrous, excellent silver. NGC grade Ch XF; Strike: 5/5, Surface: 5/5. Estimated Value $800 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $840
Lot 1217		Lucania, Metapontion. Silver Nomos, ca. 330-290 BC. Dori… and Da…, magistrates. Wreathed head of Demeter left; below chin, ΔΩPI. Reverse: META, grain ear with leaf to right; above leaf, spindle; below leaf, ΔA. Johnston class C, 5; SNG ANS 452; HN Italy 1582. NGC grade Ch VF. Fine style. Estimated Value $350 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $300
Lot 1218		Lucania, Metapontion. Silver Nomos (7.70 g), ca. 290-280 BC. Wreathed head of Demeter left; behind, ΔI. Reverse: META, grain ear with leaf to right; above leaf, spindle. Johnston class D, 1; SNG ANS 507; HN Italy 1612. NGC grade AU; Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5. Estimated Value $900 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $510
Lot 1219		Lucania, Thourion. Silver Double Nomos or Distater (15.26 g), ca. 400-350 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet, the bowl of which is decorated with Skylla scanning; behind neckguard, Δ. Reverse: ΘYPIΩN, bull butting right; in exergue, fish right. Noe grp. F; SNG ANS 971; HN Italy 1805. NGC grade Ch VF; Strike: 4/5, Surface: 2/5. Estimated Value $2,500 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,560
Lot 1220		Lucania, Thourion. Silver Double Nomos or Distater (15.72 g), ca. 400-350 BC. Head of Athena left, wearing crested Attic helmet, the bowl of which is decorated with Skylla scanning. Reverse: ΘYPIΩN, bull butting right; in exergue, fish right. Noe grp. D; SNG ANS 960; HN Italy 1804. NGC grade VF; Strike: 4/5, Surface: 3/5. Fine style. Estimated Value $1,250 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,110
Lot 1221		Macedon, Chalkidian League. Silver Tetradrachm (14.31 g), ca. 432-348 BC. Olynthos, ca. 361-358 BC. Laureate head of Apollo left. Reverse: Χ-A-Λ-KIΔ-EΩN, kithara within incuse square. Robinson & Clement grp. F, 11; SNG ANS 473; HGC 3.1, 497. NGC grade Ch AU; Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5. Estimated Value $7,000 - UP Although the Chalkidian League, a confederation of cities in northern Greece, was founded during the Peloponnesian War, its coinage in its entirety dates to the fourth century (see U. Westermark, "The Coinage of the Chalkidian League Reconsidered," Studies R. Thomsen, p. 100). The League first allied itself with Sparta, but this led to its defeat at the hands of Athens. Then, after allying with Athens in an effort to contain Macedonian ambition, it was conquered and dissolved in 348 by Philip II of Macedonia. The head of Apollo, the youthful sun-god, found on the obverse is of an outstanding radiant handsomeness, and strongly influenced the Apollo-head found on the staters of the slightly later gold coinage of Philip II of Macedonia. Ex Numismatica Genevensis 16 (14 November 2022), 24; Sincona 41 (October 2017), 14; purchased privately from Spink in the 1960s or 1970s; Jean Vichon (5 November 1966), 31; Gerhard Hirsch Nachf. (25 November 1958), 81. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1222		Macedonian Kingdom. Alexander III 'the Great'. Fourrée Tetradrachm (14.66 g), 336-323 BC. Uncertain mint in Cilicia, circa 323-317 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Reverse: AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; in left field, ΦI; below throne, BΣ (the Σ retrograde). Price 2955 var. (the Σ not retrograde; Ascalon). Boldly struck with some deposits and partially cleaned. Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $400 - UP Purchased by the consignor from Superior sometime in the early to mid 1970s. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $990
Lot 1223		Macedonian Kingdom. Alexander III 'the Great'. Silver Tetradrachm (17.06 g), 336-323 BC. Tyre, year 11 of an uncertain king. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Reverse: AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; in left field, date (\|--\|O). Price 3302 (Ake); Newell 51. Lightly toned. About Very Fine. Estimated Value $350 - UP Purchased by the consignor from Superior sometime in the early to mid 1970s. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $276
Lot 1224		Macedonian Kingdom. Alexander III 'the Great'. Silver Tetradrachm (16.14 g), 336-323 BC. Alexandria Troas, 280-275 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Reverse: AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; in upper left field, monogram; in left field, monogram of ΔAK; in exergue, horse grazing left. Price 1590 var. (different upper control). Cleaned, with areas of roughness. Very Fine. Estimated Value $300 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $408
Lot 1225		Attica, Athens. Silver Tetradrachm (17.19 g), ca. 454-404 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right, frontal eye. Reverse: AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; above to left, olive-spray with berry and crescent; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; Svoronos pl. 14; SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Fantastic, full crested helmet. Mint State. Estimated Value $2,500 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $3,000
Lot 1226		Attica, Athens. Silver Tetradrachm (17.24 g), ca. 454-404 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right, frontal eye. Reverse: AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; above to left, olive-spray with berry and crescent; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; Svoronos pl. 14; SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Fully lustrous with an especially nice reverse. NGC grade MS; Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Estimated Value $1,700 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1227		Attica, Athens. Silver Tetradrachm (17.14 g), ca. 454-404 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right, frontal eye. Reverse: AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; above to left, olive-spray with berry and crescent; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; Svoronos pl. 14; SNG Copenhagen 31-40. on a huge flan. Boldly struck NGC grade MS; Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Estimated Value $1,700 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1228		Attica, Athens. Silver Tetradrachm (17.23g), ca. 430-420 BC. Helmeted head of Athena decorated with three olive leaves and palmette to right, frontal eye. Reverse: AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; to left, olive sprig and crescent; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; Svoronos pl 12-13. We note a tiny banker's mark on the cheek (?). Well struck on a nice large flan. Choice Very Fine. Estimated Value $500 - UP Ex. Leu Numismatik AG, 7-8 Dec. 2019, #248. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,560
Lot 1229		Ionia, Achaemenid Period. Uncertain satrap. Silver Tetradrachm (15.12 g), ca. 350-333 BC. Persian king in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear and bow. Reverse: Rectangular or ovoid incuse containing pattern possibly depicting relief map of the hinterland of Ephesos. Johnston 5-17; cf. Meadows 328 (legend on obv.); Mildenberg grp. 6.2, pl. XII, 110; Sunrise 70. NGC grade Ch VF; Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Estimated Value $4,500 - UP Although her interpretation has been contested more recently, Johnston suggested that the unusual design on the reverse represented a bird's-eye view of the river valleys of the Caÿster and Maeander rivers in Ionia, and that the coins were struck at Ephesos to pay for the soldiers under the command of the Persian general, Memnon, shortly before he was defeated by the Macedonian phalanxes under Alexander the Great at the Battle of Granicus in 334 BC. If this interpretation is correct, then the type is the first physical relief map known and the earliest instance of a Greek map. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1230		Seleukid Kingdom. Seleukos I Nikator. Silver Drachm (3.61 g), 312-281 BC. Uncertain mint, perhaps Persepolis, ca. 305/4-295 BC. Head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther's skin and adorned with ear and horns of a bull. Reverse: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Nike standing right, crowning trophy with wreath; below left and in field between Nike and trophy, Aramic inscription. Cf. SC 195 (tetradrachm with the same controls); HGC 9, -. Extremely Rare and unpublished. Nicely toned. Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $1,000 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1231		Seleukid Kingdom. Antiochos I Soter. Silver Drachm (3.80 g), 281-261 BC. Aï Khanoum, ca. 280-271 BC. Diademed head of Antiochos I right. Reverse: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOΧOY, horned and bridled head of horse right; in right field, Δ in circle monogram. SC 432.2; HGC 9, 136. Rare. Slightly corroded surfaces. Details of Very Fine. Estimated Value $250 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1232		Phoenicia, Sidon. Abdashtart I. Silver Dishekel (22.95 g), ca. 365-352 BC. Phoenician galley left above waves; above, 'beth'. Reverse: King of Persia in chariot with driver drawn by two horses left; above, 'Bo'; behind, attendant (or Abdashtart I) standing left. Elayi & Elayi 1240-60; Betlyon 23; HGC 10, 242. Rarely seen this complete. Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $3,000 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $5,280