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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Themes & Provenance| ▸ |Animals| ▸ |Griffin||View Options:   | | | The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. As the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle was the king of the birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature. Griffins are normally known for guarding treasure and well valued priceless possession. |
Lifetime issue!SH33207. Gold stater, Price 2533, Müller Alexander 293, VF, weight 8.496 g, maximum diameter 18.2 mm, die axis 0o, Sardes (Sart, Turkey) mint, c. 334 - 323 B.C.; obverse head of Athena right wearing earring, necklace, and crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a coiled snake, hair in ringlets; reverse Nike standing left, wreath in right hand, stylus in left, griffin head left, AΛEΞANΔPOY downward behind; SOLD
Macedonian Kingdom, Alexander the Great, 336 - 323 B.C.
Alexander the Great lifetime issue, struck by his Satrap in Lydia, Menander. Menander, the commander of a force of mercenaries in Alexander's army, was appointed by Alexander as the satrap in Lydia in 331. In 323 B.C., he was commissioned to conduct a reinforcement of troops to Alexander at Babylon, where he arrived there just before Alexander's death. In the division of the provinces after the death of Alexander, Menander received his former government of Lydia. He appears soon to have attached himself to the party of Antigonus. In the new distribution of the provinces at Triparadisus in 321 B.C., he lost the government of Lydia, which was given to Cleitus; but this was probably a promotion by Antigonus, as he commanded part of Antigonus' army in the first campaign against Eumenes in 320 B.C. The following year, Menander learned of the escape of Eumenes from Nora, and advanced with an army into Cappadocia to attack him, forcing him to take refuge in Cilicia. After this, no further mention of Menander is found in history.SH68249. Gold stater, Price 2533, Müller Alexander 293, gVF, weight 8.547 g, maximum diameter 17.5 mm, die axis 0o, Sardes (Sart, Turkey) mint, struck by Menander, c. 330 - 323 B.C.; obverse head of Athena right wearing earring, necklace, and crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a coiled snake, hair in ringlets; reverse AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, wreath in right hand, stylus in left, griffin head left; ex Gorny & Mosch auction 216, lot 2269; SOLD
Macedonian Kingdom, Philip III Arrhidaeus and Alexander IV, 323 - 317 B.C.
Struck in the name of King Philip III Arrhidaeus, Alexander the Great's half-brother, under the regent Perdikkas. Philip III and Alexander's infant son, Alexander IV, were made joint kings after Alexander's death. Philip was the bastard son of Philip II and a dancer, Philinna of Larissa. Alexander the Great's mother, Olympias, allegedly poisoned her stepson Philip III as a child, leaving him mentally disabled, eliminating him as a rival to Alexander. Neither Philip III nor Alexander IV was capable of actual rule and both were selected only to serve as pawns. The regents held power, while Philip III was actually imprisoned. In 317, Philip was murdered by Olympias to ensure the succession of her grandson.SH08281. Gold stater, Price 193, VF, weight 8.47 g, maximum diameter 17.4 mm, die axis 225o, Mesopotamia, Babylon (Hillah, Iraq) mint, obverse head of Athena right in crested Corinthian helmet ornamented with a griffin; reverse BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΦIΛIΠΠOY, Nike standing left holding wreath and ship's mast, monogram at feet left, wheel in left field; SOLD
Macedonian Kingdom, Alexander the Great, 336 - 323 B.C.
Lifetime issue!
Sardes surrendered without a struggle to Alexander the Great in 334 B.C. Alexander stayed in Sardis for a few days soon after taking the city. He gave thanks to Zeus for delivering Sardes peacefully and decided to erect a shrine to Zeus there. When a sudden summer thunderstorm began and thunderbolt struck near the old palace of the Lydian kings, Alexander believed Zeus himself selected the site. He ordered the shrine be built on that spot.SH32293. Gold stater, Price 2533, Müller Alexander 293, VF, damaged obverse die, weight 8.605 g, maximum diameter 18.5 mm, die axis 0o, Sardes (Sart, Turkey) mint, c. 334 - 323 B.C.; obverse head of Athena right in crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a coiled snake; reverse Nike standing half left, wreath in extended right hand, stylus in left, griffin head to left, AΛEΞANΔPOY downward behind; scarce; SOLD
Athens, Attica, Greece, c. 152 - 151 B.C., New Style Tetradrachm
In 1961, Margaret Thompson completed her brilliant study, "The New Style Coinage of Athens." At that time, she estimated there were fewer than 8000 new style tetradrachms "above ground."
This issue introduced the letter on the amphora, which that may indicate the month of production.SH26244. Silver tetradrachm, Thompson Athens 82 (same dies); Svoronos Athens pl. 35, 21 (same obv. die); BMC Attica -; SNG Cop -; SNG Britain -, Weber -; ANS -; et al. -, gVF, nice style, weight 16.641 g, maximum diameter 33.9 mm, die axis 0o, early period; obverse head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing crested helmet ornamented with a griffin; reverse A-ΘE, owl stands right on amphora, XM monogram left, AΦN monogram over two snakes right, I on amphora, all within olive wreath; nice style; rare; SOLD
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, 51 - 30 B.C., Orthosias, Phoenicia
This is an extremely rare issue known only from a few specimens.SH03585. Bronze AE 23, RPC I 4502, SNG Cop 176, aF, weight 6.68 g, maximum diameter 22.5 mm, Orthosias (Bordj Hakmon al-Yahoudi, Lebanon) mint, 35 - 34 B.C.; obverse diademed head of Cleopatra right, star behind; reverse Baal of Orthosia in chariot pulled by to griffins to right, LΓ (Phoenician regnal year 3) in left field, OPΘΩCIΕΩN in exergue; extremely rare; SOLD
Metapontion, Lucania, Italy, c. 330 - 290 B.C.
Demeter in Greek mythology is the goddess of grain and fertility, the pure; nourisher of the youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death; and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, dated to about the seventh century B.C. she is invoked as the "bringer of seasons," a subtle sign that she was worshiped long before she was made one of the Olympians. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that also predated the Olympian pantheon.SH92198. Silver nomos, Johnston C6; BMC Italy p. 252, 108; SNG ANS 489; SNG Munchen 977; SNG Lockett 421; SNG Fitzwilliam 509; SNG Oxford 760; HN Italy 1589, VF, attractive style, struck with high relief dies, light toning, tight flan, weight 7.524 g, maximum diameter 19.9 mm, die axis 270o, Metapontion (Metaponto, Italy) mint, c. 330 - 290 B.C.; obverse head of Demeter left, wreathed in grain; reverse barley ear with seven rows of grains, leaf on left, griffin springing right above leaf, ΛΥ below leaf, META on right; ex Forum (2013); SOLD
Athens, Attica, Greece, c. 120 - 119 B.C., New Style Tetradrachm
The "New Style" tetradrachms were issued by Athens as a semi-autonomous city under Roman rule. The new-style Owls are markedly different from the Owls of Periclean Athens or the "eye in profile" Athena head of the Fourth Century. They were struck on thinner, broad flans, typical of the Hellenistic period, with a portrait of Athena that reflected the heroic portraiture of the period. The owl now stands on an amphora, surrounded by magistrates' names and symbols, all within an olive wreath. The amphora is marked with a letter that may indicate the month of production. Letters below the amphora may indicate the source of the silver used in production.SH62476. Silver tetradrachm, Thompson Athens 546a (same dies), Choice VF, weight 16.632 g, maximum diameter 29.0 mm, die axis 0o, Athens mint, c. 120 - 119 B.C.; obverse helmeted head of Athena Parthenos right, triple-crested helmet decorated with curvilinear ornament on the shell, a griffin right above the raised earpiece, and protomes of horses above the visor; reverse A-ΘE / AΦPO-ΔIΣI / ΔIO/ΓE / OΠA/ΣY, owl standing right on amphora on its side, filleted double cornucopia on right, B on amphora, ΣΦ below, all within olive wreath; SOLD
Phokaia, Ionia, c. 625 - 600 B.C.
SH86570. Electrum 1/24 stater, myshemihekte; Bodenstedt Em. 1 (cf. c / α); SNGvA 1794; Rosen 332; Traité I 172, pl. V, 4 (Teos); SNG Cop -, Choice aEF, well centered, earthen deposits, edge cracks, light bumps and marks, weight 0.639 g, maximum diameter 6.3 mm, Phokaia (Foca, Turkey) mint, c. 625 - 600 B.C.; obverse head of griffin right; reverse quadripartite incuse square; very rare; SOLD
Roman Republic, L. Papius, 79 B.C.
In Roman mythology, Juno was the daughter of Saturn and the wife of Jupiter and she had many attributes. Among these was Juno Sospita, who offered protection to women, accompanying them throughout their lives from birth to death. Women called upon her to aid in conception. Juno Sospita was characterized by her goatskin coat and headdress with the horns of a goat. The control marks on this type are normally paired related symbols. Each pair has only one set of dies.SH13729. Silver denarius serratus, BMCRR I 3078, controls 102; Crawford 384/1, pl. LXVII 122; Sydenham 773; RSC I Papia 1; SRCV I 311, gem EF, particularly fine style, superb strike, preservation, and toning, weight 3.883 g, maximum diameter 19.3 mm, die axis 135o, Rome mint, 79 B.C.; obverse head of Juno Sospita right, clad in goat's skin, thyrsus (control symbol) behind, bead and reel border; reverse Gryphon leaping right, ivy branch below (control symbol), L PAPI in exergue, bead and reel border; SOLD
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