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24/04/2024

E-Sale 119 Day One closes today! Today’s highlight is lot 117; a silver stater of Lucania, Sirinos (Siris) in alliance with Pyxoes (Pixos). This coin is an intriguing and historically interesting issue of which very few extant examples are known, with only two specimens recorded from this pair of dies.

This stater is testament to the alliance of two cities, Sirinos and Pyxoes. The word ‘Sirinos’, known only from the numismatic record, was at one point considered an adjective referring to the wealthy city of Siris on the Ionian coast, which was destroyed by the alliance of Sybaris, Metapontion and Kroton in the early sixth century BC. However, partly because of the great distance between Siris and Pyxoes it is now thought possible that ‘Sirinos’ is in fact the name of a city in its own right, likely that of the ‘Sirini’ people of whom Pliny the Elder writes in his description of southern Italy (NH 3.15).

To browse E-Sale 119 and to place any bids, please follow the link below. This sale will be spread across two days, on Wednesday 24th April and Thursday 25th April, both days starting at 1pm with lots closing every 15 seconds.

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18/04/2024

There is one week to go until our E-Sale 119 closes. Today’s highlight is lot 2981; a gold seal of Carlo d'Angiò, struck as king of Jerusalem and Sicily, duke of Apulia, count of Provence, Achaea, Forcalquer and Piamonte.

This coin is unique and of considerable historic significance. A similar gold seal of Charles of Anjou is held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. The legend suggests the Paris example was struck before Charles purchased the claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1277, as does the coat-of-arms which was updated thereafter (see reverse of this lot). Despite this, the same frontal, enthroned depiction of the King holding a globus cruciger and sceptre was struck on both seals to identify them with Charles. The style of the epigraphy is similarly consistent on both examples, as is the understated 13th century style of engraving.

To browse E-Sale 119 and to place any bids, please follow the link below. This sale will be spread across two days, on Wednesday 24th April and Thursday 25th April, both days starting at 1pm with lots closing every 15 seconds.

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12/04/2024

E-Sale 119 is now online! This sale features 3,247 lots of Celtic, Greek, Judaean, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic and World coins.

To introduce you to the sale is our beautiful cover coin for Day 1 of the sale: lot 506, a high-grade silver tetradrachm of Thasos, circa 148-90/80 BC.

To browse E-Sale 119 and to place any bids, please follow the link below. This sale will be spread across two days, on Wednesday 24th April and Thursday 25th April, both days starting at 1pm with lots closing every 15 seconds.

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09/04/2024

E-Sale 118 Day Two closes at 1pm! Today’s social media highlight is lot 2203; a Mint State Irene solidus of Constantinople, AD 797-802.

Struck for the sole reign of Irene, after her supporters had captured, imprisoned and blinded her son and once co-regent Constantine VI in 792, this interesting issue depicts the Empress on both the obverse and reverse. A new style and a precedent that was occasionally followed by later rulers, Irene decided against reviving the cross-on-steps type, or the reverse figures representing the deceased members of the ruling family, that had characterised the gold coinage of the Isaurian Dynasty, thus leaving us with coins that often have almost identical obverse and reverse designs.

To browse E-Sale 118 and to place any bids, please follow the link below. This sale will be spread across two days, on Monday 8th April and Tuesday 9th April, both days starting at 1pm with lots closing every 15 seconds.

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08/04/2024

E-Sale 118 Day One closes at 1pm! Today’s social media highlight is lot 1302; an Antoninus Pius, with Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar, bronze coin.

Despite adopting Hadrian's chosen successors, Antoninus was able to claim Marcus Aurelius as his own chosen heir. Aurelius was advanced in successive stages to near equality with Antoninus; he was granted the title of Caesar in 139 and become consul the following year. This coin was most probably struck to commemorate the consulship of Marcus Aurelius in 140, and emphasise his legitimacy as the successor to the Emperor. The attempt to strengthen Aurelius' claim to the Imperial throne over that of Verus was effective, for the Senate sought to make Aurelius sole emperor upon Antoninus' death. It was only on the insistence of Aurelius that the Senate was to accept his adoptive brother Verus as joint ruler.

To browse E-Sale 118 and to place any bids, please follow the link below. This sale will be spread across two days, on Monday 8th April and Tuesday 9th April, both days starting at 1pm with lots closing every 15 seconds.

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01/04/2024

There is just one week to go until our current E-Sale 118 closes! Today’s social media highlight is lot 181; a triobol or hemidrachm of Messenia, circa 35-31 BC.

This coin is published in Grandjean Les Messéniens de 370/369 au 1er siècle de notre ère. Monnayages et histoire, as well as once belonging to the BCD Collection and was previously sold in 1972 at Glendining & Co.

To browse E-Sale 118 and to place any bids, please follow the link below. This sale will be spread across two days, on Monday 8th April and Tuesday 9th April, both days starting at 1pm with lots closing every 15 seconds.

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28/03/2024

Today’s social media highlight is lot 1275 from our current E-118 sale; a Domitian aureus struck in Rome, AD 95-96. This coin is extremely rare, with only one other example on CoinArchives.

The great many images of Minerva that were promulgated during Domitian's reign, such as those on his coinage, are the physical record of his adoption of Minerva as his patron deity and personal protectress. Indeed, the reverence he showed for the goddess led him to establish a new legion in her name in AD 82 to fight against the Chatti in Gaul, and in 89, the Legio I Minervia were acknowledged by Domitian for suppressing the revolt of the Governor of Germania Superior, being awarded the cognomen 'Pia Fidelis Domitiana'. Value Minerva as he might, in the end no divine assistance spared Domitian from the palace conspiracy organised by court officials that resulted in his assassination in AD 96. Having had a difficult relationship with the Senate throughout his reign due to his autocratic rule and the removal of all their decision-making powers, upon news of his death the senators voted to bring damnatio memoriae against him.

To browse E-Sale 118 and to place any bids, please follow the link below. This sale will be spread across two days, on Monday 8th April and Tuesday 9th April, both days starting at 1pm with lots closing every 15 seconds.

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26/03/2024

Today’s social media highlight is lot 1281 from our current E-118 sale; a Trajan aureus struck in Rome, AD 98-99. This coin is NGC graded Ch XF 5/5 - 3/5 and features an expressive portrait.

Aged forty-five when this coin was issued, the portrait here is of a vigorous and forceful ruler in the prime of his life. After the peaceful but politically strained rule of the aged Nerva, the seamless transition of power into the hands of a popular general who was already named Caesar and a serving consul when the emperor passed must have seemed like nothing less than a total (and near miraculous) rejuvenation of the principate. Indeed, the early years of the reign of Trajan were hailed as the beginning of a new golden age, a time of peace and prosperity which would last for nearly a century until the megalomania of Commodus and his ruinous fiscal policies wrought an inevitable return to civil war and economic decline.

To browse E-Sale 118 and to place any bids, please follow the link below. This sale will be spread across two days, on Monday 8th April and Tuesday 9th April, both days starting at 1pm with lots closing every 15 seconds.

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22/03/2024

The Pavlos S. Pavlou Collection closes today!

Today’s highlight is lot 800; a Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt tetradrachm struck under Ptolemy II Philadelphos, dated RY 34 = 252/1 BC.

This sale consists of 414 lots of Greek coins and is due to close on Friday 22 March 2024. Please note that this is a timed auction starting at 1pm (GMT) with lots closing every 15 seconds. To browse this auction, view the catalogue and to place any bids, please follow the link below.

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21/03/2024

Auction ### takes place today!

Today’s social media highlight is lot 485; a Mint State Trebonianus Gallus aureus. This coin was previously NGC graded MS 5/5 - 4/5 and is exceedingly rare with only one known to Calicó and no others on CoinArchives.

Early in his reign Gallus shared the purple with his predecessor's son Hostilian, who had been Caesar in 251 at the time of his father's death. However, Hostilian died in an outbreak of the plague which struck Rome later that year, leaving the way open for Gallus' son Volusian to be made co-emperor with his father. The co-rulers were unfortunately too inept to deal with the pressures and instabilities that Rome faced, including economic crisis, famine and invasions by the Goths and Persians. It is then perhaps slightly ironic that Felicitas occupies the reserve of this coin, traditionally a symbol of wealth and prosperity, but this reflects the rather hopeful attempt of the co-emperors to maintain their power in part through the use of propaganda.

To read more about this coin and to browse Auction ###, please follow the link below. This auction will close on Thursday 21st March, with pre-sale bidding closing at 12pm and the live session beginning at 1pm.

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20/03/2024

Auction ### takes place tomorrow! Today’s social media highlight is lot 491; a Mint State Probus aureus struck in Lugdunum, AD 276-282 that was previously in the Leo Biaggi de Blasys (1906-1979) Collection.

Probus’ ascension to the throne in AD 276 occurred at an unstable time for the Roman Empire: three emperors had died over the last year, two of whom were assassinated and the third is rumoured to have been; the security of the empire was threatened by foreign invasion and Florian, the brother of the previous emperor Tacitus, had been declared emperor by the senate and army in the West in opposition to Probus in the East. Probus therefore had a difficult task ahead of him to defeat his rival for the throne and restore order to a destabilised empire.

Probus had employed a Fabian strategy to defeat Florian, avoiding an outright battle and instead relying on skirmishes, the intensity of the summer heat and the discontent this caused among Florian’s army to weaken his enemy’s position. Florian was soon killed by his own forces, and Probus was confirmed as emperor by the Senate with a minimum of bloodshed.

To read more about this coin and to browse Auction ###, please follow the link below. This auction will close on Thursday 21st March, with pre-sale bidding closing at 12pm and the live session beginning at 1pm.

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19/03/2024

There are just two days until our Auction ### takes place! Today’s social media highlight is lot 69; a 100 Litrai (Double Dekadrachm) struck in Sicily under Dionysios I, circa 405-400 BC.

The wonderful Syracusan 100 litrai or double dekadrachms are considered amongst some of the finest gold coinage of the Greek world, and are associated with the magnificent dekadrachms of Euainetos, whose signature also appears on the earlier dies of the gold denomination issue. The serenely graceful head of the sea-nymph Arethusa, rendered in very similar style to the great die-engraver Euainetos, is presented in delightful contrast to the dynamic rendering of the first labour of Hercules, the slaying of the Nemean lion, on the reverse. The die-engraver’s masterful composition within the bounds of a circular constraint produces a scene of great power and climax, both Herakles’ and the lion’s backs arched as the hero bends to tighten his grip around the lion’s neck and it strains desperately against him to escape. As a great Doric hero and ancestor of the Doric city of Syracuse, Herakles’ defeat of the lion, the symbol of Africa, has powerful connotations for Syracuse’s own conflict with the African city of Carthage.

To read more about this coin and to browse Auction ###, please follow the link below. This auction will close on Thursday 21st March, with pre-sale bidding closing at 12pm and the live session beginning at 1pm.

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