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Highlights from the forthcoming Gemini V auction:
Sicily, Syracuse. Ca. 405–400 BC. Silver decadrachm (43.19 gm). Signed on the reverse by Kimon. Estimate $65,000
Sicily. Syracuse. Silver tetradrachm (17.21 gm). Sicily, Syracuse, Ca. 430 BC. Slow quadriga right, above Nike flying right to crown horses.
estimate $45,000
Julian of Pannonia. (284-285 AD). Gold aureus (5.12 gm). Siscia. IMP C IVLIANVS P F AVG, bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right, seen from front / LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas standing left, holding cap and cornucopia, star in right field. If not for the small graffito in the right obverse field, this probably would be the finest known example of this great rarity. Mint state.
Estimate $48,000
Trajan Decius. (249-251 AD). Orichalcum double sestertius (40.49 gm). Rome.
Estimate $12,000
Septimius Severus. (193-211 AD). Gold aureus (7.26 gm). Rome
Estimate $40,000
M. Brutus, struck by L. Plaetorius Cestianus. Silver denarius (3.50 gm). Military mint, 43-42 BC. Bare head of Brutus right, BRVT IMP above, L PLAET CEST behind / Pileus (cap of Liberty) flanked by two daggers. (This is one of the few ancient coin types to be mentioned by a contemporary historian: Dio Cassius in his Roman History (xlvii.25) states that Brutus “struck coins on which were represented a liberty cap and two daggers, to show by this design and also by the inscription that he had, in concert with Cassius, given liberty to his country”.)
Estimated $48,000
And then just some others that caught my eye...
http://www.geminiauction.com/
Sicily, Syracuse. Ca. 405–400 BC. Silver decadrachm (43.19 gm). Signed on the reverse by Kimon. Estimate $65,000
Sicily. Syracuse. Silver tetradrachm (17.21 gm). Sicily, Syracuse, Ca. 430 BC. Slow quadriga right, above Nike flying right to crown horses.
estimate $45,000
Julian of Pannonia. (284-285 AD). Gold aureus (5.12 gm). Siscia. IMP C IVLIANVS P F AVG, bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right, seen from front / LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas standing left, holding cap and cornucopia, star in right field. If not for the small graffito in the right obverse field, this probably would be the finest known example of this great rarity. Mint state.
Estimate $48,000
Trajan Decius. (249-251 AD). Orichalcum double sestertius (40.49 gm). Rome.
Estimate $12,000
Septimius Severus. (193-211 AD). Gold aureus (7.26 gm). Rome
Estimate $40,000
M. Brutus, struck by L. Plaetorius Cestianus. Silver denarius (3.50 gm). Military mint, 43-42 BC. Bare head of Brutus right, BRVT IMP above, L PLAET CEST behind / Pileus (cap of Liberty) flanked by two daggers. (This is one of the few ancient coin types to be mentioned by a contemporary historian: Dio Cassius in his Roman History (xlvii.25) states that Brutus “struck coins on which were represented a liberty cap and two daggers, to show by this design and also by the inscription that he had, in concert with Cassius, given liberty to his country”.)
Estimated $48,000
And then just some others that caught my eye...
http://www.geminiauction.com/
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame
--Severian the Lame
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Amazing quality pics too... I'd really love to know what kind of set up these auction houses use, especially on the bronzes. Ancients are always harder for me to shoot accurately.
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Don
Estimate $48,000
I want to hurt whoever did that. That X kills me.
<< <i>I want to hurt whoever did that. That X kills me. >>
Quintus Flavius fecit.
You can have my eyeballs, too. They're no good anymore anyhow, particularly after seeing all of that.
The entertainment can never be overdressed....except in burlesque
Pergamum 334 BC. Gold Stater. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress/Facing Palladium wearing calthus. Ultra high relief on both obverse and reverse. Cf. von Fritze 100 greatest ancient coins. Stunning mint state.
Estimate $140,000.
--Severian the Lame