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    A41, Lot 76:

    SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 B.C. Æ. 2.5 gm. 14 mm. Antioch on the Orontes mint. Head of Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy / Elephant standing left; AY monogram to right; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ. SC 1791.1a. HGC 9, 919. Good Very Fine; glossy dark brown patina; a bit of light porosity; good style, with a pleasing elephant. Well centered and struck.

    Ex Elsen 59 (18 September 1999) lot 167.

    “The Seleukid Empire was the largest of the successor states carved from the short-lived empire of Alexander the Great, and arguably the most culturally diverse. Over nearly two and a half centuries it produced an astonishing volume and variety of coinage...from mints scattered across its vast expanse.” (Seleucid Coins: A Comprehensive Catalogue, Volume I, by Arthur Houghton and Catharine Lorber with Brian Kritt.) Lots 68-80 mark the beginning of our offering of a collection of Seleukid coins which we will continue in succeeding sales. We begin with tetradrachms from several different mints of Seleukos I, who founded the Seleukid dynasty which ruled until Pompey made Syria a Roman province in 63 B.C. He was succeeded by his son Antiochos I Soter, who was followed by Antiochos II Theos, and so on. We offer examples both in the types of Alexander, and with their portraits. Sprinkled throughout are a number of interesting bronzes.
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    A41, Lot 77:

    SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 B.C. Serrate Æ. 7.94 gm. 21.5 mm. Contemporary imitation. Copying an uncertain mint in northern Syria. His diademed head right / Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and long scepter; ΑΛEΞANΔ... (debased legend). Cf. SC 1818. Cf. HGC 9, 909. Very Fine; dark patina with red earthen highlights; appealing almost barbarous bust; broad flan. An attractive and idiosyncratic imitation of a rare type.

    “The Seleukid Empire was the largest of the successor states carved from the short-lived empire of Alexander the Great, and arguably the most culturally diverse. Over nearly two and a half centuries it produced an astonishing volume and variety of coinage...from mints scattered across its vast expanse.” (Seleucid Coins: A Comprehensive Catalogue, Volume I, by Arthur Houghton and Catharine Lorber with Brian Kritt.) Lots 68-80 mark the beginning of our offering of a collection of Seleukid coins which we will continue in succeeding sales. We begin with tetradrachms from several different mints of Seleukos I, who founded the Seleukid dynasty which ruled until Pompey made Syria a Roman province in 63 B.C. He was succeeded by his son Antiochos I Soter, who was followed by Antiochos II Theos, and so on. We offer examples both in the types of Alexander, and with their portraits. Sprinkled throughout are a number of interesting bronzes.
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    A41, Lot 78:

    SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 B.C. Serrate Æ. 7.3 gm. 21 mm. Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck mid 143(?)-circa 142 B.C. Radiate and diademed head of Antiochos VI right, wreathed with ivy / Elephant standing left, holding torch with raised trunk; ΣΤΑ above cornucopiae to right; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ. SC 2006d. HGC 9, 1043. Near Very Fine; dark brown patina; clear and attractive; charming portrait well centered on a broad flan.

    Acquired from Brian Kritt in December 1999.

    “The Seleukid Empire was the largest of the successor states carved from the short-lived empire of Alexander the Great, and arguably the most culturally diverse. Over nearly two and a half centuries it produced an astonishing volume and variety of coinage...from mints scattered across its vast expanse.” (Seleucid Coins: A Comprehensive Catalogue, Volume I, by Arthur Houghton and Catharine Lorber with Brian Kritt.) Lots 68-80 mark the beginning of our offering of a collection of Seleukid coins which we will continue in succeeding sales. We begin with tetradrachms from several different mints of Seleukos I, who founded the Seleukid dynasty which ruled until Pompey made Syria a Roman province in 63 B.C. He was succeeded by his son Antiochos I Soter, who was followed by Antiochos II Theos, and so on. We offer examples both in the types of Alexander, and with their portraits. Sprinkled throughout are a number of interesting bronzes.
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    A41, Lot 79:

    SELEUKID EMPIRE. Tryphon. Circa 142-138 B.C. Æ. 4.86 gm. 17 mm. Uncertain mint. His diademed head right / Spiked Macedonian helmet with cheek guards, adorned with wild goat's horn above visor; AΣ to inner left; [B]AΣIΛEΩΣ TPYΦΩNOΣ [AY]TOKPATOPOΣ. SC 2040. HGC 9, 1061. Extremely Fine; glossy black patina with some red earthen and silvery highlights; fine portrait.

    “The Seleukid Empire was the largest of the successor states carved from the short-lived empire of Alexander the Great, and arguably the most culturally diverse. Over nearly two and a half centuries it produced an astonishing volume and variety of coinage...from mints scattered across its vast expanse.” (Seleucid Coins: A Comprehensive Catalogue, Volume I, by Arthur Houghton and Catharine Lorber with Brian Kritt.) Lots 68-80 mark the beginning of our offering of a collection of Seleukid coins which we will continue in succeeding sales. We begin with tetradrachms from several different mints of Seleukos I, who founded the Seleukid dynasty which ruled until Pompey made Syria a Roman province in 63 B.C. He was succeeded by his son Antiochos I Soter, who was followed by Antiochos II Theos, and so on. We offer examples both in the types of Alexander, and with their portraits. Sprinkled throughout are a number of interesting bronzes.
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    A41, Lot 80:

    SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander II Zabinas. 128-122 B.C. Æ. 6.23 gm. 19 mm. Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated year 184 (129/8 B.C.). His diademed head right / Dionysos standing left, holding thyrsos and kantharos; Σ to outer left, ΔΠΡ (date) to inner left; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ. SC 2229.2. HGC 9, 1161. Good Very Fine; fields chased; glossy dark green, almost black, patina, with a lovely portrait.

    Ex Lanz 117 (24 November 2003) lot 418.

    “The Seleukid Empire was the largest of the successor states carved from the short-lived empire of Alexander the Great, and arguably the most culturally diverse. Over nearly two and a half centuries it produced an astonishing volume and variety of coinage...from mints scattered across its vast expanse.” (Seleucid Coins: A Comprehensive Catalogue, Volume I, by Arthur Houghton and Catharine Lorber with Brian Kritt.) Lots 68-80 mark the beginning of our offering of a collection of Seleukid coins which we will continue in succeeding sales. We begin with tetradrachms from several different mints of Seleukos I, who founded the Seleukid dynasty which ruled until Pompey made Syria a Roman province in 63 B.C. He was succeeded by his son Antiochos I Soter, who was followed by Antiochos II Theos, and so on. We offer examples both in the types of Alexander, and with their portraits. Sprinkled throughout are a number of interesting bronzes.
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    A41, Lot 89:

    JUDAEA. Procurators. Marcus Ambibulus (Governor under Augustus). 9-12 CE. Æ prutah. 2.25 gm. 16 mm. Year 39 (9 CE). A grain ear curved right; KAI CAP ("Of Caesar"); border of dots / A palm tree, eight branches, two bunches of dates hanging from bottom branches, L — ΛΘ on sides; border of dots. AJC 3. (II: Pl. 30). Hendin 1329. Good Very Fine; bold, well struck and centered, choice green patina; full weight plus, bottom portion of flan missing.

    Purchased from Brian Kritt, with his envelope.

     

    A COLLECTION OF HIGH QUALITY COINS OF JUDAEA

    This group of eleven Biblical era coins represents the Hasmoneans, Herodians, and Roman Procurators of Judea concluding with the First and Second Revolts. David Sear, author of several important references on ancient coinage, once commented about this series as “the miserable coins of this type…identified with the widow’s mite,” a description of their usual condition. They were casually produced as small change with minimal attention to quality. This group is exceptional and was carefully assembled by a collector over a period of years who sought the finest examples possible. The provenance for each piece is the same, ex Brian Kritt, and each coin comes with the envelope he provided with the coin, with his attributions, including handwritten inscriptions.
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    A41, Lot 94:

    JUDAEA. Second Revolt. 132-135 CE. Æ middle bronze. 10.42 gm. 23 mm. Year 2 (133/134 CE). A vine leaf on a tendril; "Year two of the freedom of Israel" around in Hebrew lettering / A seven branched palm tree with two bunches of dates hanging; "Simon" in Hebrew letters. Mildenberg 48 (same dies; probably number 4 of 4 cited; not number 3, an NFA 1982 piece). Hendin 1408. Extremely Fine; beautifully patinated; well centered and sharply struck. Exceptional quality example.

    Purchased from Brian Kritt in 2002 ($725), with his envelope.

     

    A COLLECTION OF HIGH QUALITY COINS OF JUDAEA

    This group of eleven Biblical era coins represents the Hasmoneans, Herodians, and Roman Procurators of Judea concluding with the First and Second Revolts. David Sear, author of several important references on ancient coinage, once commented about this series as “the miserable coins of this type…identified with the widow’s mite,” a description of their usual condition. They were casually produced as small change with minimal attention to quality. This group is exceptional and was carefully assembled by a collector over a period of years who sought the finest examples possible. The provenance for each piece is the same, ex Brian Kritt, and each coin comes with the envelope he provided with the coin, with his attributions, including handwritten inscriptions.
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    A41, Lot 145:

    Classic Greece. Robert Ready British Museum electrotype. Iasus?. Circa 395 B.C. Silver didrachm copy. 29.5 mm. (15.31 gm., the actual piece). Head of Persian satrap right / Lyre with seven strings; ΒΑΣΙΛ. Head plate 19, 41.

    Head: "It has been ascribed to the time when Tissaaphernes was collecting his forces against Dercylidas in 395 at Issus."

    All Greek electrotypes offered here are in two separate halves.

     

    An in-hand experience of the finest of Greek coinage

    Robert Ready British Museum Electrotypes

    In the late 1850’s the British Museum hired the seal-maker, Robert Ready, to produce copies of some of the finest coins in the British Museum collection. With an electrotyping technique they had perfected Ready and his sons produced exact replicas of the actual museum coins. They were produced in two parts, an obverse and a reverse. We acquired a select group of some of the most beautiful and important pieces they produced. All of these were direct copper casts of the actual coins and all have been gilt to illustrate the color of the actual coin, silver or gold. (Numbering based on Barclay Head’s 1889 work A Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients. Published by the British Museum. Modified and republished in 1932; subsequently modified slightly and republished in 1959.)
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    A41, Lot 147:

    Classic Greece. Robert Ready British Museum electrotype. Italy. Bruttium. Pandosia. Circa 350 B.C. Silver drachm copy. 22 mm. (7.78 gm., the actual piece). Head of Lara Lacinia wearing a lofty stephanos adorned with griffin foreparts and honeysuckles, three quarters facing, turned slightly right / Pan, the Hunter, seated on a rock, a hound at his feet; at left a bearded terminal figure with a caduceus. Head plate 25, 23.

    All Greek electrotypes offered here are in two separate halves.

     

    An in-hand experience of the finest of Greek coinage

    Robert Ready British Museum Electrotypes

    In the late 1850’s the British Museum hired the seal-maker, Robert Ready, to produce copies of some of the finest coins in the British Museum collection. With an electrotyping technique they had perfected Ready and his sons produced exact replicas of the actual museum coins. They were produced in two parts, an obverse and a reverse. We acquired a select group of some of the most beautiful and important pieces they produced. All of these were direct copper casts of the actual coins and all have been gilt to illustrate the color of the actual coin, silver or gold. (Numbering based on Barclay Head’s 1889 work A Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients. Published by the British Museum. Modified and republished in 1932; subsequently modified slightly and republished in 1959.)
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    A41, Lot 149:

    Classic Greece. Robert Ready British Museum electrotype. Syria. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 B.C. Silver tetradrachm copy. 31 x 35 mm. 16.53 gm actual coin weight. Radiate bust of young Antiochus IV Dionysus right / The Dioscuri charging left; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΧΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ in four lines; date ΘΖΡ (Year 169 = 144/3 BC); ΤΡΥ over Φ in field for his guardian Tryphon. Head plate 40, 25. As made; an extreme rarity in the series.

    All Greek electrotypes offered here are in two separate halves.

     

    An in-hand experience of the finest of Greek coinage

    Robert Ready British Museum Electrotypes

    In the late 1850’s the British Museum hired the seal-maker, Robert Ready, to produce copies of some of the finest coins in the British Museum collection. With an electrotyping technique they had perfected Ready and his sons produced exact replicas of the actual museum coins. They were produced in two parts, an obverse and a reverse. We acquired a select group of some of the most beautiful and important pieces they produced. All of these were direct copper casts of the actual coins and all have been gilt to illustrate the color of the actual coin, silver or gold. (Numbering based on Barclay Head’s 1889 work A Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients. Published by the British Museum. Modified and republished in 1932; subsequently modified slightly and republished in 1959.)
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