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The following coins, antiquities, books, catalogs and supplies are listed on the FORVM Members' Auction. The Members' Auction is a budget auction with all items starting at $5.00. There are NO buyers fees. The Members' Auction is a no snipe auction. If you bid near the end of the auction, the time to close will be extended two hours. Click on the link with the hammer to see the current price and to bid.

Domitian, 13 September 81 - 18 September 96 A.D., Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria, Syria

|Members| |Auction| |Listed|, |Domitian,| |13| |September| |81| |-| |18| |September| |96| |A.D.,| |Antioch,| |Seleucis| |and| |Pieria,| |Syria||as|
The ruins of Antioch on the Orontes lie near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey. Founded near the end of the 4th century B.C. by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch's geographic, military and economic location, particularly the spice trade, the Silk Road, the Persian Royal Road, benefited its occupants, and eventually it rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the Near East and as the main center of Hellenistic Judaism at the end of the Second Temple period. Antioch is called "the cradle of Christianity," for the pivotal early role it played in the emergence of the faith. It was one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis. Its residents are known as Antiochenes. Once a great metropolis of half a million people, it declined to insignificance during the Middle Ages because of warfare, repeated earthquakes and a change in trade routes following the Mongol conquests, which then no longer passed through Antioch from the far east.6th Century Antioch
RP111928. Bronze as, McAlee 402(d) (rare); RPC II 2016; BMC Galatia p. 181, 246, VF, earthen deposits, obverse corrosion, weight 13.209 g, maximum diameter 27.8 mm, die axis 0o, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, as caesar, 69 - 79 A.D.; obverse DOMITIANVS CAESAR, laureate head left; reverse large S C, no dot in field, within laurel wreath with eight bunches of leaves; from the Michael Arslan Collection; $27.50 (€25.85)


France, Louis XIV the Sun King, 1643 - 1715

|Members| |Auction| |Listed|, |France,| |Louis| |XIV| |the| |Sun| |King,| |1643| |-| |1715||liard| |de| |France|NEW
Under Louis XIV, the Sun King, France reached the apogee of its power. His reign began at age four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days; one of the longest of any European monarch. He fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession. Louis converted a hunting lodge into the spectacular Palace of Versailles, and by compelling the noble elite to inhabit his lavish palace, he pacified the aristocracy and eliminated the remnants of feudalism. He consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that endured until the French Revolution.
MA113688. Copper liard de France, Duplessy 1588, Ciani 2012, Gadoury 80, SCWC KM 192.9, Droulers 412 , F/gF, weight 4.153 g, maximum diameter 23.3 mm, die axis 180o, Limoges mint, 1656; obverse •L• XIIII• ROY• DE• FR• ET• DE• NA• 1656• (Louis XIV, by the grace of God, king of France and Navarre), crowned, draped, and armored juvenile bust of Louis XIV; reverse •LIARD• / •DE• / •FRANCE• in three lines, three lis flanking and below I (Limoges mintmark) below; $25.00 (€23.50)


Roman Republic, c. 206 - 194 B.C.

|Members| |Auction| |Listed|, |Roman| |Republic,| |c.| |206| |-| |194| |B.C.||Sextans|
Sextans, a Roman coin, which is marked sometimes on the obverse, sometimes on the reverse, or on both sides with two globules, denoting it to be the sixth part of the as, or two ounces (uncia) because the as was divided into twelve. It has for its types the head of Mercury and the prow of a ship. Some of these pieces bear the names of Roman moneyers.
MA114146. Copper Sextans, weight 2.196 g, maximum diameter 15.9 mm, die axis 0o, c. 206 - 194 B.C.; obverse head of Mercury right. wearing winged petasus, two pellets above; reverse prow of galley right, ROMA above, uncertain symbol right, two pellets below; $25.00 (€23.50)


|Members| |Auction| |Listed|, |The| |First| |Jewish| |Revolt,| |66| |-| |70| |A.D.||prutah|
Vespasian, along with legions X Fretensis and V Macedonica, landed at Ptolemais in April 67. There he was joined by his son Titus, who arrived from Alexandria at the head of Legio XV Apollinaris, as well as by the armies of various local allies including that of King Agrippa II. Fielding more than 60,000 soldiers, Vespasian began operations by subjugating Galilee. Many towns gave up without a fight, although others had to be taken by force. Of these, Josephus provides detailed accounts of the sieges of Yodfat and Gamla. By the year 68, Jewish resistance in the north had been crushed, and Vespasian made Caesarea Maritima his headquarters and methodically proceeded to clear the coast. -- Wikipedia
JD99808. Bronze prutah, Kadman III 12; Meshorer TJC 196a; Hendin 6389; SNG ANS 427; Sofaer pl. 222, 11, aF, green patina, earthen deposits, reverse edge beveled, parts of legends unstruck/off flan, weight 3.789 g, maximum diameter 18.3 mm, die axis 150o, Jerusalem mint, year 2, 67 - 68 A.D.; obverse Paleo-Hebrew: Year two, amphora with fluted body, narrow neck, broad rim, and two small curved handles; reverse Paleo-Hebrew: The freedom of Zion, vine leaf on small branch with tendril; $16.00 (€15.04)


Lucilla, Augusta c. 164 - 182 A.D., Wife of Lucius Verus

|Members| |Auction| |Listed|, |Lucilla,| |Augusta| |c.| |164| |-| |182| |A.D.,| |Wife| |of| |Lucius| |Verus||sestertius|
For Roman wives, piety often meant accepting neglect. It was not considered adultery for a Roman husband to have sex with slaves or unmarried women. The historian Spartianus wrote that after Lucilla complained, Lucius Verus reproached her: "Uxor enim dignitatis nomen est, non voluptatis" (Wife is the name of dignity, not bliss).
MA114131. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC III 1756, BMCRE IV 1161, Cohen III 54, Hunter II 27, SRCV II 5505, weight 15.707 g, maximum diameter 28.8 mm, die axis 0o, Rome mint, 164 - 166 A.D.; obverse LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F, draped bust right, hair waived and knotted in chignon low at back; reverse PIETAS, Pietas standing left, veiled, raising her right hand, perfume-box in left hand, flaming altar at feet on left, S - C (senatus consulto) flanking across field; $16.00 (€15.04)


Macedonian Kingdom, Philip II of Macedonia, 359 - 336 B.C.

|Members| |Auction| |Listed|, |Macedonian| |Kingdom,| |Philip| |II| |of| |Macedonia,| |359| |-| |336| |B.C.||AE| |17|
Philip II became the ruler of all Greece when he defeated the Athenians at the Battle of Chaeroneia in 338 B.C. Philip personally selected the design of his coins. His horse, on the reverse of this coin, won a race in the Olympic Games in 356 B.C., the year his son Alexander the Great was born.
MA114236. Bronze AE 17, cf. SNG ANS 841 ff., SNG Cop 581 ff. (various control symbols), weight 5.777 g, maximum diameter 17.3 mm, die axis 90o, Macedonian mint, 359 - 336 B.C.; obverse head of Apollo right, wearing taenia; reverse ΦIΛIΠΠOY, nude male youth on horse pacing right, uncertain control symbol under horse's belly, convex field; $16.00 (€15.04)


Severus Alexander, 13 March 222 - March 235 A.D., Philomelium, Phrygia

|Other| |Phrygia|, |Severus| |Alexander,| |13| |March| |222| |-| |March| |235| |A.D.,| |Philomelium,| |Phrygia||AE| |17|
Philomelium, Ak-Shehr today, was probably a Pergamenian outpost on the great Graeco-Roman highway from Ephesus to the east. Cicero, on his way to Cilicia, dated some of his extant correspondence there. The place played a considerable part in the frontier wars between the Byzantine emperors and the Sultanate of Rum. It became an important Seljuk town, and late in the 14th century passed into Ottoman hands.
MA113893. Bronze AE 17, RPC Online VI T5774; SNG Cop 653; BMC Phrygia p. 357, 21; McClean 8844, F, well centered, porous, weight 2.006 g, maximum diameter 16.9 mm, die axis 180o, Philomelion (Ak-Shehr, Konya, Turkey) mint, obverse AV K CEVH AΛEΞANΔPO, laureate head right; reverse FIΛOMHΛEΩN, eagle standing facing, wings spread, head right; $13.00 (€12.22)


Komama, Pisidia, 1st Century B.C.

|Pisidia|, |Komama,| |Pisidia,| |1st| |Century| |B.C.||AE| |16|
 
GB112101. Bronze AE 16, Von Aulock Komama 3, BMC Lycia -, Weber -, VF, dark patina, earthen encrustation, weight 2.304 g, maximum diameter 15.8 mm, die axis 90o, Komama mint, 1st century B.C.; obverse laureate head of Zeus right; reverse lion forepart, KO below; from the Michael Arslan Collection; rare; $12.01 (€11.29)


Kingdom of Commagene, Mithradates I Kallinikos, 96 - 70 B.C.

|Members| |Auction| |Listed|, |Kingdom| |of| |Commagene,| |Mithradates| |I| |Kallinikos,| |96| |-| |70| |B.C.||chalkous|
The Kingdom of Commagene was an ancient Armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic period, located in and around the ancient city of Samosata, which served as its capital. The Iron Age name of Samosata, Kummuh, probably gives its name to Commagene. Commagene has been characterized as a "buffer state" between Armenia, Parthia, Syria, and Rome; culturally, it seems to have been correspondingly mixed. The kings of the Kingdom of Commagene claimed descent from Orontes with Darius I of Persia as their ancestor, by his marriage to Rodogoune, daughter of Artaxerxes II who had a family descent from king Darius I. The territory of Commagene corresponds roughly to the modern Turkish provinces of Adiyaman and northern Antep.Map of Commangene
MA113896. Bronze chalkous, weight 0.939 g, maximum diameter 10.6 mm, die axis 0o, Samosata (Samsat, Turkey) mint, 96 - 70 B.C.; obverse bust of Mithradates I left, bearded and wearing bashlyk (Armenian tiara) tied with a diadem, ear flaps down; reverse Nike advancing left, holding wreath in both hands, all within round incuse; rare; $12.00 (€11.28)


Adramytion, Mysia, c. 2nd Century B.C.

|Members| |Auction| |Listed|, |Adramytion,| |Mysia,| |c.| |2nd| |Century| |B.C.||AE| |17|
Adramytteion was a coastal town northwest of Pergamon in Mysia, said to be founded by Adramys, brother of King Kroisos. In classical times, Adramyttium received settlers from Athens and Delos. It later belonged to the Roman province of Asia, whose capital was Ephesus. The ancient city with its harbor has entirely disappeared. Paul, while being taken as prisoner from Caesarea to Rome, embarked upon a ship belonging to Adramyttium (Acts 27:2). It conveyed him only to Myra, in Lycia, from which he sailed on an Alexandrian ship for Italy.

Von Fritze and/or the other authors of AMNG IV believed their no. 77, an Adramytion type bearing the same designs as the present coin, was a pseudo-autonomous issue based on its style. It was represented by a single example from Athens, which the editors of RPC Online IV carried over and placed under their T2313, dating it and three other coin specimens to c. A.D. 138?192. While the Athens specimen has not been seen yet by this cataloger, all three other coins (i.e. SNG BnF 8, another Paris specimen, and an example from the ANS) are almost certainly Greek issues!
GB113953. Bronze AE 17, Stauber 41; AMNG IV 16.5 = SNG BnF 6 (same obv. die); RPC Online IV T2313.2(!); BMC Mysia p. 2, 2, F, bare metal with traces of patina, weight 5.378 g, maximum diameter 16.9 mm, die axis 0o, Adramytion (Edremit, Turkey) mint, c. 2nd century B.C.; obverse laureate head of Zeus left, with long hair; reverse AΔPAMY/TH-NΩN, horseman rearing or galloping on horse right with chlamys fluttering and right hand raised, ground line under horse's hind feet; $12.00 (€11.28)




  



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