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Lot 1812 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Lot 1812 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Thessaly, Larissa. Silver Drachm (5.87 g), ca. 356-342 BC Choice VF. Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, hair bound in ampyx. Reverse: ΛAPI-Σ-AIΩN, sorse standing right, preparing to roll. Lorber phase L-III, 38-60; BCD Thessaly II 317-9. Lovely fine style. Choice Very Fine. Estimated Value $400 - 500

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Lot 1831 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Lot 1831 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Corinthia, Corinth. Silver Stater (8.55 g), ca. 375-300 BC. Pegasos flying left; below, Qoppa. Reverse: Helmeted head of Athena left; below chin, A; behind neckguard, astralagos. Pegasi I 400; BCD Corinth -. Boldly struck with underlying luster present. NGC grade Ch AU; Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Fine style. Estimated Value $600 - 800

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Lot 1847 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Lot 1847 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Mysia, Pergamon. Gold Stater (8.63 g), 334-332 BC Nearly Mint State. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Reverse: Palladium facing, wield spear and holding shield ornamented with star; in left field, crested Corinthian helmet to right. Callataÿ 2n (D2/R3; this coin); SNG BN 1557 = De Luynes 2493 = Saida 37; cf. Von Fritze 7 = Saïda 36 (rev. not incuse); cf. Gulbenkian 699 (same); cf. Jameson 2580 (same). Boldly struck in high relief. Superb and lustrous. Nearly Mint State.
At the beginning of the Hellenistic period, Pergamon was a small, lazy town with a sparse population on the periphery of the Persian Empire, a mere shadow of the major power it would become in subsequent centuries. Its future lay in its position above the Kaikos river valley. The river itself disgorged into the Aegean Sea at Elaia, but other important ports bounding the valley were Atarneios and Pitane. Furthermore, trade traveled along the Persian road from the coastal port towns through Pergamon before reaching the inland settlements of Gambrion, Germe and Nakrasa. For the same reasons that Pergamon proved of vital importance for trade, it became of utmost strategic value to the Macedonians after their invasion of the Persian Empire.

F. de Callataÿ has recently studied this important and extremely rare coinage and notes five obverse and seven reverse dies, all of which are die-linked. Furthermore, he was able to establish that they are struck to the Attic standard. While the coins lack any form of legend and therefore they do not explicitly state the mint, it is without doubt Pergamon as is apparent from identical silver fractions that do carry the ethnic (cf. SNG BN 1558ff). The chronology is uncertain, but Callataÿ has shown that they were struck before 323-320 B.C., and evidence from the Saïda hoard as well as the obverse type which stylistically closely resembles the Herakles of Alexander's tetradrachms places the date in the late 330s. Here we follow the traditional date most often cited in numismatic publications of 334-332 B.C.

The purpose behind the minting of these gold staters is not clear, but they were perhaps struck autonomously by Pergamon during the tumultuous period before Alexander had solidified his gains in Asia Minor, a time when even the outcome of the war was uncertain. The extreme paucity of surviving specimens suggests the issue was quite small, and in fact it is possible that no more than five talents (approximately 3000 coins) were ever struck. Estimated Value $50,000 - 60,000

Ex Nomos 8 (22 October 2013), 165.

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Lot 1807 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Lot 1807 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Skythia, Geto-Dacians. Koson. Gold Stater (8.55g), mid 1st century BC VF. KOΣΩN, Roman consul advancing left, accompanied by two lictors. Reverse: Eagle with wings displayed standing left, holding wreath in talon. Iliescu 1; RPC 1701. Areas of weakness as struck, otherwise, lustrous. Very Fine. Estimated Value $500 - 600

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Lot 1818 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Lot 1818 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Attica, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. Silver Tetradrachm (17.18g). Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace and crested Attic helmet. Reverse: Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent to left, AOE to right; all lwithin incuse square. Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597; SNG Cop. 31. Boldly struck on a nice broad flan and free from edge splits. An attractive example with light mottled toning. NGC Mint State*; Strike: 5/5, Surface: 5/5. Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000

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Lot 1826 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Lot 1826 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Attica, Athens. Silver Tetradrachm (16.71 g), ca. 165-42 BC VF. Ca. 111/0 BC. Phanokles, Apollonios and Philotheos, magistrates. Head of Athena right, wearing triple crested Attic helmet decorated with Pegasos springing right. Reverse: A-ΘE, owl standing right, head facing, on overturned amphora; in right field, Artemis standing facing, holding torch; across field, magistrates' names: ΦANO-KΛH, AΠOΛ/ΛONIOΣ, and ΦIΛO/ΘEOΣ; M on amphora, ME in exergue; all within laurel wreath. Thompson 709. Very Fine. Estimated Value $300 - 400

Ex Thomas B. Lesure Collection (CNG XXXII, 7 December 1994), 144.

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Lot 1842 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Lot 1842 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Paphlagonia, Sinope. Silver Drachm (5.89 g), ca. 330-300 BC EF. Ikesio…, magistrate. Head of nymph left, hair bound in sakkos; in left field, aphlaston. Reverse: ΣINΩ, sea-eagle left on back of dolphin left; below eagle, magistrate's name: IK[EΣIO]. RG 31; cf. SNG BM 1487 (no aphlaston); HGC 7, 391. Traces of luster present. Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $500 - 600

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Lot 1802 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Lot 1802 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Islands off Thrace, Thasos. Silver Tetradrachm (16.58 g), ca. 90-75 BC VF. Wreathed head of young Dionysos right. Reverse: PAKLEOYΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ, ΘAΣIΩN, Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club and lion's skin; to inner left, MH monogram. Prokopov grp. XIX; Le Rider 51; SNG Copenhagen 1040. Toned. Very Fine. Estimated Value $250 - 300

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Lot 1821 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Lot 1821 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Attica, Athens. Silver Tetradrachm (16.93 g), ca. 454-404 BC Nearly Mint State. Helmeted head of Athena right, frontal eye. Reverse: AΘE, owl standing right, head facing; above to left, olive-spray with berry and crescent; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; Svoronos pl. 14; SNG Copenhagen 31-40. Natural flan crack at 5 o'clock. Attractive dark iridescent toning. Superb. Nearly Mint State. Estimated Value $1,800 - 2,200

Ex CNG E329 (25 June 2014), 80.

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Lot 1837 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Lot 1837 - ancient greek coinage - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

Bosporan Kingdom. Sauromates I, Electrum Stater (7.75 g) EF. Struck under Hadrian, year 416 (AD 119/20). BACIΛEωC CAYPOMATOY, diademed and draped bust of Sauromates I right. Reverse: Laureate head of Hadrian right; below, date (ςIY). McDonald 390/1; Anokhin 409. Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $1,800 - 2,000

Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #91

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