Happy New Year!
=> hey, here are two more sweet winners ...
Yah, I love these two winners (it's mighty sad to see 'em go) ... oh well, they're going to a great friend/collector, so everything is
good Cheers
Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. Æ DiobolAD 138-161
Dated RY 5 (AD 141/2)
Diameter: 23 mm
Weight: 9.71 grams
Obverse: Laureate
head right
Reverse:
Apis bull standing right,
head facing; before,
altar; above, L Є (date)
Reference: Köln 1383;
Dattari (
Savio) 3089; K&G 35.174;
Emmett 1737.5 (R3)
Other: 12h … dark green
patina with earthen highlights/deposits, a few scratches on the
reverse, holed in
antiquity. "
Rare"
Ex-CNG 388 – Lot# 343
BOEOTIA, Federal Coinage (Overstrike), Æ18Circa 220s BC
Diameter: 17.5 mm
Weight: 5.11 grams
Obverse:
Head of Demeter or
Kore (
Persephone) three-quarter
face right, wearing corn-wreath
Reverse: Poseidon, naked, standing left, resting right foot on rock and leaning on trident; to right, ΒΟΙΩΤ[ΩΝ] downward
Reference:
BCD Boiotia 108 (this coin);
HGC 4, 1182. VF, dark brown
patina.
Overstruck on Æ of Antigonos Gonatas of the
type SNG Cop. 1214-1221
Other: 12h … the overstrikes are reversed on this coin, which is quite
rare ...
=> ummm, a
horse wrapped around a dude's
face is super-cool, yes? ... winna-winna (one of my favourites)
Ex
BCD Collection (
Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 108.
Ex-CNG 346 – Lot #81