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6 In Owl We Trust The Celator> by Jamie Knapp Incorporating 18 Astronomical Roman Coins Roman Coins and Cul/ulc by Robert S. McIvor Page 6 PublisherlEditor Kerry K. Wcttcrstrom 25 A Coin's Tale Keny@ce!ator.com by Lance/ol Kirby
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Ponterio - President October 2003 3 chemical in nature, whether that envi Reader Enjoyed ronment be PVC or other plastics, pa per, wood, felt, etc. Chemical reactivity September Issue significantl y increases in the presence Congratulations on a most excellent of air (particularly oxygen) and moisture. September issue of The Celator. I par An ideal environment for coin stor ticularly enjoyed Dr. Olbrich's scholarly age therefore should eliminate these two and persuasive article on the Byzan exposures. I have employed inexpensive tine Interregnum coinage. I can't help , individual rigid, hard plastic coin cases wondering if the enigmatiC "BA" in the which snap shut (small hinged cases in scriptions stands for "BASILE[?r, One Vote for the EI D MAR 55mmx45mmx10mm) which have black whatever the right grammatical ending bottoms and clear tops. They are lined would be for something like "co nsuls - D enarius or Aureus! with a special gray foam liner said by of the Emperor" or "of the Emp i re~. The I'd like to weigh in on the ~block the manufacturer not to have any effect date is rather early for this kind of mix buster, show-slopping" ancient coin to on coins (these small coin cases were ing of Latin and Greek, but not utterly rival the 1913 Liberty nickel, the 1804 purchased in Texas at Dal las Rare Coin). impossible, I think. do llar, etc. My vote goes to the 'EID I cut a small rectangle out of the corner I've got two ideas for you, regard MAR' reverse Brutus denarius. An ex of the foam, in order to fil in a small des ing the promotion of ancients within the celient strike with minimal wear, or bet iccant capsu le (silica gel or molecular numismatic hobby. We need an annual ler yet, one of the very few known aurei sieve wh ich absorbs all moisture and ancient coin calendar, with really ex (if one in great shape exists somewhere) other outgassed contaminants). The cellent color photos of really superb or would be the ideal candidate. coins are placed in each small case and important coins. Sort of a "swimsuit is I also wanl lo express my dismay at the transparent lid snapped shut. The sue" of The Celator. It would be expen Dr. Aron Green's disrespectfu l tone in his coin is easily viewable, held snug by the sive to publish, but perhaps a group of letter to you. Although epic poems are foam and cannot be scratched during dealers, or the ANA and/or ANS could nol my cup of tea either, I would much removal. The black reverse of each box co-sponsor it. Somewhat easier to cre prefer to have Charles Everett visit the is ideal; I adhere a small white label fully ate and distribute would be an ancient LA Ancient Coin Club than a snob with a describing the enclosed coin . Each little coin screensaver for Windows, again scowl, which Dr. Green seems to be. case can attractively ho ld one or two with superb images of beautiful coi ns. I love The Celaton tetradrachms, or a set of fractionals. All Mike Markowitz Ken 8aumhecke/ these small individual coin cases are Fairfax, VA California stored in larger rigid plastic boxes (trans lucent pencil cases). As an effective Reader Suggests That If You Reader Provides His Coin long-term storage technique, I vacuum Don't Like It, Write Some Storage Method package each larger box us ing a thing BeUer Yourself FoodSaver model Vac-750 (this really is I would like to add some comments a very fast and simple approach). As a In response to Dr. Green's ra ther to the question of the ideal method of good example, years ago I purchased a strong opinions on your publishing of storing and preserving ancient coins (as silver-plated Athenian Emergency Issue Mr. Everett's epic poem: I feel that Dr. discussed in the August 2003 Celatoris Tetradrachm (which has some of its Green's response is not appropriate. sue) . I know my methods are likely to bronze core exposed) which I carefully He is essentially criticizing two things, be controve rsial, but I have successfully cleaned to eliminate most traces of se Mr. Evere tt's poetry, and you r decision stored over 200 ancient coins (si lver, ve re bronze disease. I have since stored to pri nt it. In the first case, I feel that bronze, electrum and gold) during the this coin using this techn ique for 7 years; his criticism is too strong to be accept past 15 years now without even the the coin still looks exactly as it did after ab le . It simply is not polite to call slightest evidence of any surface deg cleaning. someone's wo rk, "pure self-indulgent, radation. Of course , the interaction of a Jamie Knapp coin's surface wi th its surroundings are Mendon, Massachusetts Please turn to page 50 ... . 4 The Gelator Pegasi NUMISMATICS Ann A rbor, M I Holicong, PA Jluction IX Complimentary Copy Upon Request "Quality Coins for Discriminating Collectors" Pegasi :Numismatics POBox 131040 Phone: (734) 995-5743 Ann Arbor MI 48113 Fax: (734) 995-3410 Visit us on the Web at: www.PegasiOnline.com Our ful/-service searchable Web site of ancient and medieval coins, antiquities and books for sale; historical information; historical and numismatic articles; maps; photo archive; and a user forum: Visit our VCoins store at: www.vcoins.com/pegasi October 2003 5 In Owl We Trust Central Asia. It is likely that the minting na wearing a highly decorated triple by Jamie Knapp of many of these rare and unusual non crested helmet, surely taken from the Athenian owls oftentimes coincided with great chryselephantine statue of Athena important historical events in antiquity. Parthenos by Phidias, which stood in the Americans traveling abroad are of Possible scenarios will be postulated in an Parthenon on the Acropolis. tentimes surprised with the universal attempt to uncover the interesting hisLori desire for and acceptance of U.S. cur cal secrets hidden within these coins. B. Owls Minted ill Athell.~' OWII rency. Worldwide, American Dollars are Hackyard recognized and respected; it is a true A. The Athenian Prototype An owl was employed on this 420 international currency. This explains the When an enormous vein of silver was BC bronze of Tegea, an important Ar extremely conservative designs of discovered in the mines just south of cadian city located southwest of Athens American bills over the past century, Athens at Laurion on the Sounion Pen in the Peloponnesus (Figure 3) . It was since it is thought that radical changes insula in the late 6 ' ~ century~ this silver the location of the great Temple of Ath in the currency's appearance mightlcad was used to mint untold millions of Athe ena Alca, reconstructed by the architect to a drop in its acceptability. nian tetradrachms. It would help pay for Skopas of Paros after it was razed in 395 This concept of maintaining a well building the navy that defeated the Per BC. To honor Athena, this Tegean recognized design to encourage inteflJa sians in 480 BC, and would later finance bronze features her owl on its reverse tional acceptance of a currency is of !he building of the Parthenon on theAcrop- and the Gorgoneion that adorned her course not new; it actually started 2500 olis. which at one time held over 175 tons armor on its obverse. years ago with the issue of millions of of silver in reserve. Thousands of owls Figure 4 illustrates a very rare 5'" silver tctradrachms from Athens, all hav have been discovered buried in hundreds century BC silverhemidrachm struck as ing Athena and her companion ow~ as of hoards throughout the Mediterranean. an Athenian imitation from an unknown main design elements. These coins cir Volumes have been written about this Central or N0l1hern Greek mint. As de l culated widely th roughout the ancient standard Athenian coinage . Figure 1 scribed by Alan Walker of Leu Numis Greek world. But there were times when illustrates a typical Classical Period tet maticsJ, the obverse features an Athe the famous Athenian owls were not radrachm minted circa 449 Be. The re nian owl, but whether a mint under Athe readily available; in these cases, many versC"shows the famous owl alongside nian control struck it is uncertain. As for local mints produced their own versions the "ethnic" AGE. Athena's gift to her its origin'jthe coin's fabric effectively of them. "Owls" were produced in re city, the olive (the oil of which became excludes Italy, Sicily, Asia Minor or the gions as far west as italy, and as far east the most lucrative export of Athens) is East, but rather points towards a central as Bactria. The celators of such coins shown in the upper left; the crescent or northern Greek mint. The amphora did not use the owl as an arbitrary de moon below was meant to celebrate the on the coin's reverse is related 10 the sign: there were specific reasons why victory of the Athenians over the Persians kraters of Boeotia, but is much more these coins were produced in this way. in the Battle of Salamis, which was fought similar to cxamplcs from Thasos, in In some cases, the issuing authorities "under a waning moon". The obverse de Thraee, and from the islands off north had a special political or economic re picts a I:?eautiful portrait of Athena, with west Greek (Corcyra). Coreyra was a lationship with Athens. In other cases, in this case, a facing archaic eye. strong ally of Athens during the the coins were used as payment for mer During the late Hellenistic period in Peloponnesian War; perhaps this coin cenary soldiers; the common design the 2nd century BC, "New Style" Owls was minted around the time of the re served as a way to have this money uni were minted' . Fif:urc 2 shows a typical volt of Corcyra (427 Bq· . versall y accepted as legal currency. The Athenian tetradrachm and drachm of the easily recognizable motif facilitated in period. Thin, broad Oans characterize C. Southerll Italy ternational trade th roughout the Medi these coins. The owl in this case has a From the late 5'hcen tury through the telTanean, as well as along the famous much more realistic, natural design, as 3r~ century BC, many of the Greek cit ancienl trade routes within Arabia and does also the beautiful portrait of Athe- ies in Magna Graecia minted coins bear ing owls. During this latter period, the growing power of Rome made itself felt, and these cities had natural concerns for their security. Mercenary armies were Ancient Coins hired for their defense. Payment needed ~ • Mail Bid Sales VII/I (llir IIllell1e! \1It' ul to be made with a fully trusted currency .v~ • Fixed Price Lists ",",\\,rosenhlumcoins.com of unquestionably good silver. 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This de part. for use at the revived free port of est sai lors. navigators and sea-merchants mocracy lasted for a brief period. end Delos, whieh became the major in ter in ancient times, the Phoenicians had ing in 212 BC when the city fell 10 the national trading center in the Mediter soph isticated cargo ships that carried Romans. During this short time. an un ranean. A number of Asian cities pro goods from port-to-port throughout the usual 1- 1/2-litra coin bearing an owl on duced imitative coinages based on Mediterranean. Among the items they its reversc was minted (figllre 6). The these At henian prototypes. Figure 7 eXl>orted were cedar, pine. fin e line n, obvcrse features a portrait of Artcmis depic ts a 2"d century tri hcmiobol of embroideries. metalwork. gl ass, wine, (Ihe patron goddess of Syracuse). Liule Halikarnassos in Caria . salt. dried fish, and the purple dye for is known about this rare coin type. Per Along wi th the Athe nian issues. which the Phoenicians were famous. haps the owl was used more or less as it magnificent Stepha nophori c The Phoenician shi ps brought back pa conventional reference to the democrat (wreathed) tetnldrachms having stun pyrus, ivory, ebony, sil k, amber, spices, ic v.dues of Athens and the wisdom of ning portraits of Athena and images of incense, horses, gold, silver. copper, Athena, both appropriate during these her owl we re produced by a number iron, and ti n. Thei r vast international few years of democracy at Syracuse~. of Asia M inor cit ies. Lebcdos pro trade networks made them ail too famil duced a marvelous tetradrachm, as did iar with the Athenian owls. So when it E. A.~ia MilloI' Herakleia ad Latmon (figu re 8) . came to producing their own coinage, For centuries, owls appeared as a the sign of metail ic puri ty and trustwor coin type throughout this region. Among F. Syria th iness was of course, the owl. A 112- the ve ry many citi es having minted such Figure 9 illustrates a rare imitative shekel ofTyrc (425 BC) is shown infis imitative coins were: Lesbos. Sigeion. tetradrachm minted in Syria having a ure 10. The reverse of th is early coin Lcbedos, Soloi.Amisos, Halicarnassos, historicall y significant countcnnark " K" (which employed a uniquely contoured Pergamon, Milctopolis. Neontcichos. on its obverse. Alan Walker has suggest incuse) interestingly combined designs Herakl eia ad Latmon. and Synnada. ed that it stands for the name of Cyrus of two of their major trading partners: After the Treaty of Apamcll. which the Younger, and it seems to have bcen the ow l of Athens and the crook-and-tllli l e nded Rome's wa r with Antioehu s 111 applied to coins used to pay his Arabian of Egypt. The obverse was intended to in 189 BC. many Greek ci ti es in Asia mercenaries during his Revoh against his publicize the ir superiority on the seas: a leaping dolphin over zigzag waves. The sourCe ofTyrian purple dye, the Murcx, is also depicted. FRANK L. KOVACS 11. Tile H oly Land Coins were not mi nted in ancient Is Ancient Coins & Anliquities rael before 400 BC The introduction of coinage in to the Holy Land was, not surpri si ngly, in the form of imported Athen ian tetradrachms. Whe n mer www.frankkovacs.com chants needed coins of smailer denomi nations. these tetradrachms were cut up and now additional coins also at into weighed fragments, heated and re work ed into bean-shaped "drachms". Some specimens still have fai nt remains www.vcoins.comlfrankkovacs of the original Athena or owF. An cx ample of this is il lustrated in Figllre IIA, which shows one of these "drachms", Special izing over 30 years in Greek and Roman coin s superimposed with a line-image of the origi nal Athenian owl. Ellrly locaily produced coins took the form of its Athenian protOtypes. Figure Advanced collectors especially will benefit 11/3 illustrates an unusual si lver drachm from an unknown mint in Palestine. This from my expertise and resources very crude specimen depicts a stylized owl on its reverse and a featureless lump on its obverse. [email protected] (4 15) 256-2432 Southern Palestine - PhiListia In the 4'h century BC , mints locat fax (4 15) 945-9916 ed in the south issued coins: Gaza. Ashdod and Ascalon. Gaza was an P.O. Box 151 790 · San Rafael, California 949 1 5~ 1790 8 The Cefator Want Your Ancient Coins Graded, Authenticated and Encapsulated? Well, here's all you need! In addition to g rading, authenticating and encapsulating your ancient coins, ICG will attribute your coins. 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FA X 303-221-5524 ja [email protected] ======;;---_Oale' ______Signature (This Subm ission Form must t>e sign9d for your order to t>e procesS&d) October 2003 9 important stop on the inland t rade Samaria and Judea Empire from 525-404 BC and again 343- routes, as well as being one of the larg Much has been written on the fasci 332 Be. During the 5'h century, a vast est seaports in the region . Most of nating tiny 4th century silver issues of number of owl tetradrachms circulated these autonomous, locally issued 4'h Samaria and Judea, most of which have in the region, many of which were lo ce ntur y "Philisto-Arabian" coins been only discovered since the call y produced direct imitations. This were often direct imitations of their 1960"s~~·1U . T here are many mysteries widespread minting of imitations is sub Athenian owl counterparts. But there about the ancient land of Israel during stantiated by the discovery of preserved were celators in th is region who at the Persian period: these coins are help bronze dies at Tel el-Athrib in the stan tempted to capture the Athenian owl ing to add important insight into Jewish danl Athcnian tetradrachm style. in very different. stylistically unique hi story during th is time. During the latter part of the 5th century, ways. Figure 12 shows a Gaza obol as Judean fractions ("Yehud Coinage"), the Persian Empire was plagued with cor a direct copy of the Athenian standard. minted in the region in and around Jcrus ruption and incompetent rule; revolts and A unique specimen is illustrated in akm, were likely employed for local, rebellion were rampant. During the reign Figure 13. The human-headed bird on daily transactions. A tiny Judean silver of Artaxerxes II in 404 BC, a bloody re the reverse of this drachm replaces the hemiobol (Figure 15) featurcs thc Pa volt led to the Egyptians declaring its in typical owl in this unusual issue. leo-Hebew inscription "Ychizqiyah dependence. Figure 17 shows a hastily Another very rare si lver coin (two (HezelUah) the Governor" next to the produced Egyptian tetradraehm minted known examples) is this drachm mint Athenian owl. during this very turbulent peri od. Possi ed at Ashdod. A bearded male wear Within the last 20 years. 4 ' ~ century bly created from silver left behind by the ing a rounded cap replaces the stan Samarian coins have been a major focal neeing Persians, the double-suuck obverse dard portrait of Athena (Figure 14A). point in the study of ancient Jewish nu image and the crude backwards owl de Very few specimens exist from the mismatics. Issued during the same pcri sign on this odd coin speak of the tumul Phil isto-Arabian mint of Ascalon. O ne ad as Yehud coins, the small sil ver frac \lIOUS times during its mintage. example is shown in Figure 14B. The tions of Samaria can also be considered Egypt returned to Persian ru le in 343 reverse image of this drachm features a to be among the first Jewish coins. Fig· Be; the Athenian tetradraehm again be fac ing owl, a design directly copied from ure 16 il lustrates a beautiful Samarian came the model for local issues. In this the famo us Athenian dekadraehms obol fcaturing an owl with outspread case. the Persian satraps (Altaxcrxes HI. (t here is evidence t hat thcse de wings; this miniature coin is inscribed Sabakes and Mazakcs) replaced the stan kadnlchms reachccl this area in antiquity3). with the le1\ers "SN". dard AGE inscription with Aramaic leg This drachm is marked with "aleph nun", ends and monograms. An exceptionally substantiating its attribution to Ascalon. I. Egypt rare example of a tetra drachm minted TIle obverse image is that of Aphodite. Egypt formed part of the Persian during this period is illustrated infigure i8. As described by Alan Walkerl, four specimens of th is type have been known to exist since 1858. What makes this coin extraordinary is the fact that several ex ANTIQUA INC. perts have contirmed that the legend on the reverse is neither in Aramaic or De • Specializing in ancient art and numis motic, nor does it seem to be an un known derivativc of either script. Yet the matics with an emphasis on quality, inscription is the same on all of the four rarity, and desirability known examples of this coin, each struck from different reverse dies, thus mak • Over 25 years of professional expertise ing it very unlikely that it is a kind of fantasy Demotic, cut by die cutters who • Regular and acti ve presence in the were completely unfamiliar with the of intern ati onal marketplace ficial Egyptian script. Yet since one prominent leiter in the second line close • Fully illustrated catalogues featuring ly resembles an Aramaic/Phoenician carefull y selected material Shin, there is a possibility that it is in some type of north Semitic script. • Representation fo r seri ous collectors at all major internationaJ aucti on sales J. Arabia During the 3'" century Be , the South • Appraisal s, market ad vice, liquidation ern Arabian kingdom of Saba (and later advice and profess ional courtesy to all Hi myar) held dominance over most of the Arabian trade routes - large camel interested parti es caravans that delivered goods over the • Visit our web site: Antiquainc.com desert sands from the southwestern tip of Arabia to the northern ports of Alex Afully illustrated catalogue sent upon request andria and Gaza (for eventual distribu tion to the c ities around the Mediterra 20969 VENTURA BLVD., SUITE #11 TEL: 818-887-0011 nean). Such trade included gold, pre WOODlAND Hlill, CA 91364 FAX: 818-887-0069 cious gems, pepper, cinnamon and the 10 The Celator THANK YOU! To All Our Valued Customers for a Very Successful Mail-Bid Auction # 11 Total Prices Reali zed: $4 18,56 1.00 Important Greek, Roman, Medieval coins September 3-4, 2003 ]f you are nOt currentl y on our mailing list please, send $15.00 (refundable with any purchase) for the nex t sales catalog. You can view catalog, li sts of prises realized and unsold lots at our web page: www. russjan.cojns.net G.I DMITRY MARKOV Coins & Medals • P.O. Box 950 Ph.: 718/332-4248 www.russian-coins.net New York, N.Y. 10272 Fax: 718/332-8676 e-mail: [email protected] October 2003 11 incenses frankinccnse and myrrh II. With Both regions were located along the own versions of these famous owls, of the need to create their own coinage, the Great Silk Road, where goods such as tentimes with interesting and unusual readily recognizable and acceptableAthe line si lks, porcelain, furs, cosmetics. sil stylistic variations. Thematically collect nian owl became their model. Figllre 19A ver, amber, carpets. perfumes, glass, ing and studyi ng this class of ancient shows typical Sabaean drachm and 112- spices and gems were transported. Fig coinage is immensely fulfilling; the drachm specimens. lire 20 illustrates a Babylonian tet dozens of owl-type coins (many of Known as the " Incense Road" or the radrachm (333 BC) min tcd under the rule which are likely yet to be discovered!) "Spice Caravan Trail", this lucrative of the Persian satrap Mazakes (whose offer a wealth of collecting and re trade route was supported by a number name appears in Aramaic on the reverse). search opportunit ies. of Arabian tribes. Figllre 19B shows a In recent years, a small number of unique silver drachm minted in the style Owls from Baclria have surfaced. Fig Ackllowledgemellts of known bronze specimens usually at ure 2 J shows a Bactrian tctradrachm I wish to express my warmest appre tribu ted to Northern Arabia Felix (the struck during the reign of the Persian ciation to Alan Walker of Leu Numismat area of modern day Oman, United Arab satrap Stamnencs having a ship's prow ics for his insight and assistance during Emirates and Northern Yemen). Coins as a design element on its reverse. the writing o r this article. Ri chard Wing minted in this region (2od century BC to From the Mir Zakah II Hoard (the provided the exceiJent photography. I " century AD) have very crude, sim so-called 'well deposit'). Figure 22 plistic designs. Based upon the Athe shows an Athenian imitation from Bac Bibliography nian owl prototypes, this Arabian owl tria that bears the unexpla ined letters I. Starr, Chester, AThenian Cvinage, design is basically schematic with A Ir. It is stylistically highly reminis Oxford University Press, 1970. curved lines and dots representing the cent of the Egyptian issues of Sabakes, 2. Thompson, Margaret, New Style owl's eyes, feathers and tail. A crescent and its Bactrian origin might never Silver Coinage of Athens. New York: moon appears only as a cmde arched line. have been suspected , cxcept for the ANS. 1961. fact that all th ree known pieces were 3. Walker, Alan, Auction Leu 83, Leu K. Tlie Great Silk Road: Babyloll found in Afghanistan'. Numismatics, 6-7 May 2002. alld Hactria 4. Zarit, Ben, http://www.cs.tufts .edul In order to more easily accommo Conclusion -bzaritlthucydides. html date trade, imitations of Athenian owls The Owls of Athens were by far the 5. De Camp, L. Sprague, TheAllcient were produced in the city of Babylon, most recognized, trusted and subsequent Engineers. N.Y. 1962. located in modern-day Iraq, as well as ly imitated coins throughout the ancient 6. Davis. Phil (Harlan J . Berk Ltd), in I3 actria. now located in the region of Greek world. Cities separated by distanc personal conversation. Northern Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. es exceeding 4500 miles created their 7. Gi tler, Haim, Miming III The Lalld Of Israel, http://www.imj.org.illenglar chaeology/numismatics/minting.html 8. Hendin, David, Gllide 10 Biblical Coins, Amphora, N.Y. 2001. NUMISMATICA ARS CLASSICA 9 . Meshorcr, Ya ' akov and Qedar, Sbraga, Samarian Coinage, Israel Nu ANCIENT COINS AND MEDALS mismatic Society, 1999. GREEK - ROMAN - BYZANTINE - MEDIEVAL - RENAISSANCE 10. Gerson, Stephen, " Fractional Coins of Judea and S amaria in the AUCTIONS - LISTS Fourth Century BCE", Near Eastern Arclieology, Vol. 64, No.3, September VALUATIONS 2001. 11. Tameanko, Marvin, "The Incense Road: Background 10 the Coinage of Ancient Southern Arabia", The Celator, Vol. 8, No.5, May 1994. Abolltrlie aW/lOr-Jamie Knapp is an optical thin-film physicist for Thermo Electron Corporation in Massachusetts. He has coll ected and studied ancient Greek coinage for over 20 years. His fo cus on imitative non-Athenian owl type coinage started with his acquisition of Catalogues upon request an inexpensive silver coin thought to be ann ual subscription rate US$ 100 an oddly struck Athenian drachm; to much surprise, it was later discovered NUMISMATICA ARS CLASSICA AG to be a rare Philisto-Arabian issue. He is the Secretary for Society Historia Nicderdorfstr. 43 P.O. Box 745 Tel. +41 1261 17 03 Numorum, an active o rganization for CH-802S Zurich Fax. +41 J 261 53 24 ancient numismatics in the Boston area. 12 The Gelator America's Most Prestigious Ancient & Foreign Coin Show The 32nd Annual WWW~iIIl NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL NUMISMATIC CONVENTION The Waldorf Astoria Hotel· New York City 301 Park Avenue between EasI49'" & 50" Sireeis • (212) 355-3000 Call fire Waldorf Astoria Hotel reservations departme1l1 at the above number and ask for the special NYINC rate 0[$190, $219 or $229 depending 011 accomodariolls selected. Security by Positive Protection, Inc. AUCTIONS BY: (760) 728·1300 • Classical Numismatic Group • Ponterio & Associates • M&M Numismatics, Ltd'/A.H. Baldwin & Sons/Dmitry Markov • Stack's • Heritage World Coin Auctions II Club Meetings ~~~>Edu cational Forums /~ Seminars -~~ Exhibits ,.7 Book Signings Gencrallnfonnation: Kevin Foley P.O. Box 370650 Milwaukee, WI 53237 (414) 421-3484· Fax (414) 423-0343 E-mail: [email protected] October 2003 13 Illustrations Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 9 Figure 10 Figure ItA Figure l1B Figure 12 Figure 13 Figure 14A Figure 148 Figure 16 Figure 17 Figure 18 Figure 19B Not all illustrations are shown at I: I Figure Photograph s by Richard Wing 14 The Gelator 7J -, _, Commodus. AE20. II""", ler, Sold AS IS. 00 returns " ...... ,, " 6() m.n gal loping. NISC. unptlbli,hed? RODI ' . E!r ANTIOCH ASSOCIATES .Vl-'N f . i"' October 2003 15 Illustrations cont. Figure 20 Figure 21 Figure 22 !!II Interest High For Late Roman, Byzantine Gold And Central Asian Coinage In Dmitry Markov Mailbid Sale #11 NEW YORK-Late Roman, Byzantine strong interest continued into the early SvOr.177, in EF (lot 172) realized Gold and early medieval Central Asian Middle Ages with Byzantine gold. A $2,100; 40 percent above estimate. coins all drew enthusiastic bidding in So lidus (lot 350) of Ph il ippicus Central Asian coins, notably Cash Dmilry Markov Coins & Medals Mailbid 8ardanes (S8 1447), for example, type Soghdian pieces, proved very rd Sale #11 which closed September 3 . hammered al $1,975, ($475 over esti popular. An extremely rare Cash-type The 952-101 sale, which also included mate). Byzantine bronze, notably coin from Semirech'e, ca.9Ih -1OIh Cen European and Russian Coins and Med pieces from the Cherson mint, also saw tury, with Arabic legends, in About EF als, real ized a total of $418,561.00. strong bidding. (lot 434) commanded $950, nearly A bronze 25mm Medallion of Among Greek silver, it was the double its estimate. On this remarkable Constantine the Great with Constantine scarcer, higher-grade coins that elicited Sino-Arabic coin struck well after the II and Constantius II as Caesars (Lot healthy bidder interest. A handsome 319). the third known, struck ca. 328- Carthaginian Electrum 1-1/2 Stater is 330 AD in Constantinople, in VF (Cohen sued during the First Punic War (lot 3), realized $5,250, a bit above estimate. 171), in nearly EF condition , brought Coins of later emperors by and large did $4,200, while a lovely toned Ptolemy I very wel l, according to Markov, and thai Tetradrachm, issued ca. 310-305 BC, Edward J. Waddell, Ltd. Ancient Coin I Lot 319 from Markov MBS #11, a bronze 25mm medallion of Constantine the Great with his two sons, Constantine /I and Constantius /I as Caesars on the reverse, realized $5250. Arab conquest of the region, the Arabic legends were squared to emulate Chi nese characters around the central hole. Meanwhile, the sale's collection of Giray Khan coinage of Crimea evinced fevered bidding with all lois bringing 50 to 200 percent over estimate. Highlig hts include an Uncirculated Pattern Heavy Kurus of Shahin Giray, 1777-1783, Baghchih-Sarai AH 1191, year 5 (lot 469), brought $6,000. ($1,000 over estimate); and its 'companion' piece, a Pattern Kurus, AH 1191, regnal year 4 sold for $4,100 (over 60 percent above estimate). For further information, please check the company web site: www.ru ssian-coins .net; or call Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals, at 718-332- PO. Box 3759, Frederick, MD 21705 4248 ; fax: 718-332-8676; or write: Phone: (301) 473-8600 Or (800) 3R l-tl3%· Fax: (01) 473·871 6 · E·mail:[email protected] Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals, PO. Box 950, New York, NY 10272. 16 The Celator PUBLIC SALE 93 to be held in BASEL/Switzl. HILTON HOTEL on Tuesday, December 16t h, 2003 ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN COINS f eaturing The Arthur Bally-Herzog (1849-1912) Collection of Important Roman Coins including m a ny rarities and outstanding pedigrees Consignments accepted wilil October J (Yh, 2003 Fully illustrated catalogue available ill early November MUNZEN UND MEDAILLEN AG BASEL MALZGASSE 2S - P.O. BOX 3647 - CH·4002 IlA SELISwitzl. TEL. ++4161272 7S 44 Fax ++41 61 272 7S 14 October 2003 17 Astronomical Roman Coins in dicate where it appeared in the sky. Far East, emperors employed profes by Robert S. McIvor Plutarch referred to the "great comet sional sky observers to keep constant which shone very brightly for seven watch on the heavens and report un nights and then disappeared," us ual phenomena. Detailed reports Summary: Several Roman coins Suetonius described the comet and the were filed with a government bureau preserve evidence of European astro popular mythology it generated: "there cracy. and while none of the original nomical observations that were re arose a blazing star for scven days to reports have survived, summaries were corded independently in the Far East. gcther, arising about the eleventh hour preserved in the Chinese annals. Ob of the day; and it was bel ieved La be servers in both China and Ko rea re Introduction the soul of Caesar reeeived up into corded a comet in 44 BC (Ho, 1962). heaven." Augustus. successor to the It was visible for "a few days" in the The comet coin struck by Augustus th rone, struck a coin two decades laler "fourth month" of the Chinese calen inscribed to the ··d ivine Julius" and to commemorate the comet with it s dar (equivalent to May 18 to June 16). several star coins struck by Tiberius distinctive blazing tail (Sec Coin Type They called it a hlli-hsing, which is "a inscribed to the "divine Augustus" I ), Inscri bed on it are the Latin words broom star" with a prominent comet take on added meaning when we com DlV VS IVLlVS (the "divine Julius'"). tail. It was reddish -yellow in color and pare them with contemporary astro Was the cornel appearance con the tail changed in length. It appeared nomical records of the Far East. cocted in order to add a celestial sig near the Chinese star-group of "the nificance 10 the status of Caesar? It is Shen" which is identified as the trian The Comet Associated a legitimate question because all we gular area of sky bounded by Betel With Caesar know of the comet from Roman geuse, Alnitak, and Saiph in the con sources is that it appeared in 44BC stellation of Orion (See Figurc I). Jul ius Caesar was assO:Issinated in sometime after March but we are un While these summaries lack the full March of 44 Be and several Roman informed about thc comet's sky loca details of the original firsthand ac authors alleged that 11 cornel appeared lion. To resolve the issue. we need 10 counts, they do preserve explicit infor a few months later during the special determine if independent evidcm.:e has mation for the date of the comet appear Games held in his honor. Roman his survived outside Italy to corroborate ance, its period of visibility. its color and torians wrote of the comet but did not a comet appearance in 44BC. In the changing tail, and its sky location. This is credible eyewitness evidence for the comet's appearance in 44 BC, and we can say with confidence that the comet of 44 BC was real. The Roman coins Dr. Busso Peus N achf. connect the comet with Caesar. This was - NUMISMATISTS AND AUCTI ONEERS SINCE 1870 - Roman propaganda. The Star Associated With Augustus When Augustus died in 14 AD. his successor, Ti berius, struck a coin a year • PURCHASE AND SALE O F ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND or two later and it displays the portrait MODERN COINS AND MEDALS AS WELL AS OF IMPORT ANT of Augustus and adds a six-pointed Slar above his head (See Coin Type 2). Simi NUM ISMA TIC LIBRARIES lar coins with a star above Augustus • AT LEAST TWO PUBLIC AUCTIONS / MAIL BID SALES A YEAR were produced at provincial mints across • APPRAISALS AND EXPERT ADVICE Europe, including three mints in Spain, and mints in Gaul , Sicily, the Balkans • ATTENDING MOST MAJOR INTERNATIONAL SALES and Cyprus (See Coin Type 3). The star ON BEHALF OF CLIENTS is shown with rays of light spread evenly in all directions. This is not a Catalogs available by subscription at a biennial rate of U.s. $40 (4 issues). comet with a tail. Inscribed on the coins Payments may J:.l..Q1 be made by Credit Card arc the Latin words DIVVS PLEASE CONTACT US FOR FURHIER INFORMATION AVGVSTVS (the "divine Augustus"). Some coins add the title PATER, an ab 'A'''~.. p. Bornwiesenweg 34, breviation for PATER PATRIAE ("Fa ~*""~. ~~ D-60322 Frankfurt a.M. 1, Germany ther of his Countrymen"), that was con L~'Q ~ Phone: (011 4969) 959 66 20 ferred on Augustus by the Roman sen .~ V FilX: (011 4969) 55 59 95 ate on February 5 in 2 Be. 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October 2003 19 Gestae, "the senate, the equestrian or Did the Romans fabricate this star mers, including Xi & Bo (1966) and der and the whole people of Rome gave appearance to glorify Augustus? Kukarin et al (197 1) and Pskovskii me the title PATER PATRIAE (Father These coins are more expl icit than the (1972), consider this object to have been of my Countrymen)." His 13,h consul comet coin for Lhey identify the con a nova. A nova is an unusual star that ship coincided with the year 2 BC stellation where the star appeared and suddenly erupts into brilliance, some Tiberius issued another coin with an thcy suggest a dating formula implicit times startling brilliance, and then gradu additional feature that enhances the evi in the title PATER. ally fades to invisibility after some dence of all these coins. The star appears Thi s seems to refer to a star in months. It seems likely that the star in again above Augustus on the obverse, Aquila during the reign of Augustus Aquila on the RmTI Visit our web site at: Biblioe; raphy www.ponterio.com Burnett, Andrew, Arnandry, Michel & Ripolles Perc Pau. ROlllan Provin cial Coinage, Va/lillie J (44BC- 69AD). Ponterio & Associates, Inc. British Museum Press, London (1992) 1818 Robinson Ave. #21-2 Emerita, Spain San Diego, CA 92103 #73 Romula. Spain 1-800-854-2888 or 619-299-0400 #66-7 lIalica, Spain ,.,.,,'" "II!!\'"'' #644 Panormus, Sicily ,., IUII ISMRIIII! Fax 619-299-6952 #3917-8 Paphos, Cyprus ::...:;:;.\ '""~ ."" ~,- Licensed Auction CompallY #968 #537-8 Unknown mint, Gaul #5439 Unknown mint, Balkans P.N.G. #308 Richard H. Ponterio - President 20 The Celator • • s I g n i f i c a n t c o I n s a t Auction Auction Leu 88 20 October 2003 T h e Bern ese 10 Ducat with the City View Sw iss cit y view coins are already something special, especially when they come fr o m somewhere other than Zu rich or Basel. While Bern produced a very rich and varied series of coins and medals, this 10 ducat piece is the only one that bears a view of the city. A number of clues help us to date this coin. The obverse die, on which the small D is the signature of the engraver David Dick ( 1650-1729), was used for m ultiple ducats dated 1681. The reverse d ie was cut by Hans Jaco b Burckhard of Nidau, who began to engrave di es for Bern beginning in 1684 (if you look ca refull y, you can see his signature, a small BJ. in any event, this d ie seems to have been made around the turn of the 18th century, since si lver medallions dated 1700 also use it. This 10 ducat piece, however, must have been struck slightly later, early in the first decade o f the 18th cen tury, because the die shows slight imperfections not fou nd on the medallio ns. This (al/tastic gold coill is only O1I C o(tlre many Swiss mrilies, wlriell Leu Numismatics U (I. will present i" Auction 88 0" 20 October 2003. The CClla/ague will appear in Sep tember (USS 30.-) and we will be happy to send you a copy. Leu NumiSlllatics Ltd, II! GI/SSt'n 20 1'.0. Box, e N·B022 2l1ricll, Switzer/(l1II1 ill([email protected] www.Lell·Nrl mismfllik..(Q1II Telep/ ro" e <-+ 4 1 I 211 47 72 Leu Numismatics T('/e(ax <-+41 1211 46 B6 Tile {irst address ill IlIImiSllwlics October 2003 21 Brunt, P.A. & Moore, 1.M. Res Med vedeva, a .1.. Pe rova, N.B .. Xi, Ze-zong & 80, Shu-reno Allciem Ge.fllle lii"i Augusti. Oxford Univer Fedorovich, V.P.• and Frolov, M.S. Gell Nome alld Supernovae Recorded ill the sity Press, London ( 1967). eral Catalogue of Variable Stars (jnl anllal.f of Chin(l, Korea and Japan. alld Ho , Peng Yoke. Ancient anl/ Medi Ellition). Astronom ical Academy of Their Significal1ce in Rm/io(lstl'U/lOmy. aeval Observations of Comets alld Sciences of U.S.s.R., Moscow (197 1). NASA, TTF·338 (1966), Novae in Chinese Sources. Vistas in Pskovskii. Yu P. Survey of Stdlar Astronomy, Pergamon Press ( 1962) Outbunt.\· of the Pre-telescopic Era. Abol/f the allthor- Robcrt S. Mcivor #59.44 BC; #64, 4 Be. Soviet Astronomy. AJ . Volume 16, No was born in Ireland in 1946 and moved Kidger, M . The Star of Bethlehem. 1 (1972). to Cnnada in 1968. He holds a Fellow An Astronomer '.f View. Princeton Uni $ueton iu s. The History of the ship degree from the Insurance In sti versity Press, Princeton (1999). Twelve Caesa rs. tute of Canada, and he has been an in Kukarin, a.v., Kholopov, r.N., Sutherland, Carson, Mattingly & surance c laims in vestigator for 30 Pskovsky, Yu . P., Efremov, Yu . N .. Sydenh am. The Roman Imperial years. Hi s hobbies in clude numismat Kukarina. N.P., Kurochkin, N.E. , Coinage. ics, astronomy, and chronology. Illustrations Betelgeuse Coin Type I-This silver denarius was struck Coin Type 2- This coin, struck under by Augustus to commemorate the comet that Tiberius in 15 or 16 AD, displays a six • appeared in 44 Be. It is inscribed on the re pointed star above the portrait of DIVVS verse DfVVS IVLfVS, "the divine Julius«. RIC AVGVSTVS. RIC 72 (Photo courtesy of 37b. (Photo courtesy 01 eNG Auction 50, lot CNG, Inc., Auction 50, lot 5, the Cornelius 1396). C. Vermeu/e //I Col/ection). .t Alnitak 46, rue Vivienne F-7S002 PARIS • tel: 33(0)1 42.33.25.99 Saiph C • G • B • E-mail: [email protected] http://www.cgb.fr ORION 100.000+ images - 100.000+ pages Figure 1 MAIL BID SALES: HOKU "MONNAIES" Altair FIXED PRICE USTS : "ROME" • "MODERNES" • "JETONS" "BILLETS" • AQUILA " .... d CI.A.lRAND _J ...· M. '" DESSAL - E...... KONTOS· Mk.tlI'RfEUIt - tum" SCIIMfTT· SI~ pluo . SOMIMRT Figure 2 22 The Celalor TKALECAG OF ZURICH-SWITZERLAND ANNOUNCES A HIGHLY IMPORTANT PUBLIC AUCTION OF THE FINEST QUALITY ANCIENT COINS TH OCTOBER 24 , 2003 WITH A GREAT NUM BER OF RARITIES IN GOLD, ELECTR UM , SILVER AND BRONZE This sale features high quality Celtic, Greek, Romau aud Byzantine coins from the highest degree of connoisseurship with modest starting prices, If you would like more information, please contact us, TKALECAG Limmatquai 48 CH-8001 Ziirich Mailing address: P.O. Box 2902 , CH-8022 ZUri ch Telephone: +411 251 8229 Fax: +411 251 8239 E-MAIL: coinstkalec @aol. com Our catalogue will he online, Web: www.coinstkalec.ch Catalogue price is 35 US $ CD price is 15 US$ October 2003 23 Illustrations cant. 64411 391 7 538 2 1 73 Coin Type 3- Coins produced at provincial mints in Spain (Emerita and Romula), Sicily (Panormus). Cyprus (Paphos) and Gaul (Unknown mint) show a six-pointed star above DIVVS AVGVSTVS, PATER. (All photos from Roman Provincial Coinage, Volume 1). Coin Type 4-A coin struck under Tiberius (RIC 82, far left) and repro duced under Domitian (RIC 456, immediate left). The obverse has a star above the portrait of Divus Augustus, and the reverse has an eagle with spread wings, standing on the globe of the earth. (Photos cour tesy of eNG, Inc., Triton II, lot 770, BALDWIN'S and Auction 47, lot 1429). AUCTIONS Limited \ViII o!fa on 13 Gcrober 2003 The Professor James C Brindley Collection Goin Type 5-The constellation of Greek Coins & The Persian Empire Capricornus is represented on Ro man coins, such as this Titus If you haven't already, priority-order a catalogue denarius, as a sea-goat with the and one of the limi ted edition high-resolution globe of the earth below it. (Photos image CDs. This comprehensive collection of courtesy of eNG, Inc., Auction 40, ancient coins from the communities of the lot 1440). eastern Mediterranean is a significant numismatic record and only $20. Don't miss a single 11 Adelphi Terrace, London issue of WC2N6BJ UK tel: +44 20 7930 9808 fax: +44 20 7930 9450 The Celator. email: [email protected] Renew today! 24 The Gelator A Coin I sTale ils lai l came rushing up (0 him in a Temp le of Venus Genetrix, and he by Lance/ot Kirby panic and did nO I notice whom he w:tS looked about through the wares for approaching. He was a lmost about to sale there. snatch it from his hands when it cmne An Arab, seeing hi s interest. almost "Clang! Clang!" went Ihe double accosted him shoving a boll of cloth strike of the hammer against the die. into hi s face. "Looking for a tunic?" Then the "plop" sound as a freshly the merchant said. "We have the fin minted denarius sank to the bottom of eSllinen from Egypt, the softest necce a bucket o f cold water. The pile WllS from A sia." high enough th e Mall eator thought "Cloaks," the solider replied maI and, after the Suppostor had laid down ler-of-racily. his tongs he drained the bucket and "Oh we have many fine cloaks sir, began to pour the coins into a sack. look and see," the Arab opened a chest One of the denarii jumped the sack and to the side of him and started pulling rolled across the floor. "Get it," the QU! a range of cloaks of various mate Mall ealor shouted, "or it will be a upon him what he was. The solider rials. T he so lider found one to his li k Whipping!" The sluve ru shed across clasped the handle of his sword in it s ing and a price was set. The denarius the floor of the Temple of Juno Mon scabbard and grunted at the slave who scu lcd Ihc deal. eta hunched over and dodging the other was so impudent. The slave jumped, After another hour or so the mer~ workers at their tasks, obli vious to the begged his apology, and then ran as chant decided his luck was going to shiny sil ver circle glid ing past thei r fas t as he could back into the sacred get no better and closed up shop. He fe et. It fi nally rolled th rough a chink enclosure. placed his day's earnings into the pu rse in the door and came to rest outside in The solider smiled at his good fo r on his belt and started for home. the knoll of the Arx. tune. He would not be pa id for sev "Oh no ," the merchant said to him A member of the Urban Cohorts on eral more days and was eager to bu y scJ f under his breath. Marcus Statius, policing duty noticed it glinting in the a new cloak to keep out the cold at a knight 10 whom he owed money, was sun and picked it up. As he hel d it up the night watch. His rounds took him to the light the sluve who had been on through the Forum of Caesar, past the • • • S 1 g n 1 f i c a n t c o 1 n s a t • A u c t I on Leu Auction 89 ;h 21 October 2003 M e di e val a11d Mod e r" C oin s Rare and exciting Modern Coins, indl!ding: Al bania· Belgium· France· Germany Great Britain· the Holy Roman Empire ·l taly· Portugal · Russia· Spain · Switzerland Africa· Brazil · Ch ile· Mexico· Peru· Anllam . Ch ina The culalQglle will appear in September (US$ 30.-) and we will be happy to send you a copy. Leu ,vl/mismulics LId III GI/SH' II 20, 1'.0. Box e N·B022 Zurich, Switzerland www.Leu·N/lmismalik.com ill(o@Le ll .NUlllismatik.rom Teic/ihOIll! ++4 1 I 2 J J 47 72 Leu Numismatics Te lefr/X ++4 1 1 2 11 46 86 Tile (irst address ill numislllatics October 2003 25 coming in his direction. The merchant "Go on then, but you had better have " Then you shall have a treat thought to duck for cover, but it was it all next time," Marcus admonished. Nicias," he said to the tutor, "why too late, he had been spotted. Philippus. feeling lucky to get off so don't you take him down to the Col i "I see you there Philippus," Marcus easily, took his offer and made good his seum to see a fight. There's nothing cried out. escape whi le he slill could. Marcus better for hardening a Roman youth "Thought you were going to get looked at the little pile in his hand again than a good slaughter." away from me did you. Come, come and noticed the denarius looking up at "Very well Master," Nicias replied man, let's have it." him. Thc newness of it brought a smile and they started for the door. Philippus took the purse from his to his face as it shined in the sunlight. "Oh, and Nicias," Marcus said sud belt and handed it to Marcus wi th his He shuffled them all into his own purse den ly, thinking, "take this." He handed eyes closed, like a mother giving up and then headed fo r home himself. him a fist full of coins and as the old her child. Marcus snatched it up and Marcus Statius entered the atrium tutor opened his hand to look at them, poured its contents into the palm of of his home and immediately flung off there was the denarius in the center. his hand. his stuffy toga, which was then picked "Buy him something nice in the Forum." "That's it?" said Marcus. "You up from the floor by a slave. He Child and tutor then departed. owe me live times this. What do you walked straight to the altar of the They passed barbers and bakers and do all day, sit and twiddle you household gods and made a libation the great rabble of the streets rushing thumbs?" before taking up some petitions that to and fro wi thout pausc. Finally, they "I've had a hard month Marcus, another slave then handed to him. He came to the Forum Romanum. Some that's all. things will pick up," grunted as he ran through each one. one was making a speech on the Ros Philippus replied, as though he were "How easily they find it to beg," he tra and the tutor and his charge stopped prostrated before the Emperor himsclf. remarked of his client's letters. "Dogs to listen. Out of the corner of his eye "Well it had better, a man ought to do not do it so well." Nicias noticed an old acquaintance in pay his debts Phi li ppus, otherwise he's "Where is Quintus?" he asked an the distance sitting in the shade of the a fool to borrow money." attendant. Basilica Julia. "Especially if he borrows it from "Here I am father," shouted the boy "Good day to you Zeno," Nicias you," Philippus thought. as he ran to embrace him. said as man and boy walked up to him. " I expect every as back plus inter "Have you been good today?" "I have not seen you in a great while; est. You knew my terms before you Marcus asked. are you still instructing Lucius' boy on madc the deal, you can't blame me if "Very good," Quintus replied. the finer points of logic?" you haven't lived up to your end of the Marcus then looked to his son's tutor Zeno looked up at him. "Lucius bargain." Philippus noddcd in assent. who nodded cheerfully in agreement. junior died not three months past. I have been 'let off' as they say." ''I'm sorry to hear that." replied Nicias. "I'm not," said Zeno with a grin. "Now I have time to truly put that most respected principle of phi losophy into practice - learning to be happy with nothing." cbtcbal Zeno was quite serious and Nicias knew it, but it was beyond him to un derstand such wisdom. He had been cursed with that greatest of misfor ~tlbtr tunes, to have a good master, a fate worse than death the old philosopher might say. Nicias, feeling pity for him, sifted through the coins Marcus had given $8 him and plucked out the denarius. He picked up the unsuspecting Zeno's Curious about medieval as a natural complement to your ancient hand and laid it down in his palm. collection, but don't want to invest much until you know you li ke Zeno didn 't understand the gesture at first until he looked at his hand and it? Then start small and painless. For every $8 you send, I'll send saw it lying there. He raised it up to you a different medieval coin ... $16 fo r 2 different, $32 for 4 the sunlight and mused upon its lus different, $80 for 10 different, etc. With 12 di fferent get a free ter, as it seemed to glow, the profile of the recently deified Vespasian in copy of Walker's Reading Medieval European Coins. Please add high relief almost as though he were $2 postage per order. present at this meeting. Doubtless the [email protected] old mule driver would have under (845) 434-6090 stood the fickleness of fortune. llen G. Berman FAX (845) 434-6079 Nicias gave him a crookcd smile of ., ...... ".-...... ,,~ u .s. "" ''''' acld $2 postage ~ g P.O. Box 605-E overseas orders sem at oo),<>r"s pilY and Zeno returned the smile, not ~~ Fairfield. CT 06430 USA risk and are always welcome .oliNII' even making an attempt to givc back the gift; then the tutor and the lad 26 The Gelator walked off. Zeno rol led the coin about "He didn't ask you to go anywhere "Piss!! Remus." a voice whispered in his hand fo r a few moments in re with him did he?" to him. It was hi s brother. He stuck flection then began wa lking away him "No, he j ust picked up my arm and his heud in a little more. "Is mother self. There was a you ng boy looking handed it to mc. He was very odd aboutT longingly at the wares for salc in the looking; I think he was a Greek. Then "No, she went down stairs, but only Forum. Zeno tapped thc boy on the he just walked away into the crowd for a moment." Remus said. quickly shoulder, plucked up his arm and , with with hi s hands behind his back." ne rvous. a grin dropped it into the boy's cupped His mother gave a sigh of relief. "Oh good," said Phyrrus, now en hand, then walked away without a "Thank the gods for thaI. I don't tering the room in confidence. He word. The boy could not believc his want you running around so fa r from wal ked over 10 the cupboard and helped good fortune and ran as fast as he home from now on. it's not safe, not himselr to whatever he could find. could out of the Forum and down the even in the day time.'· Drinking from a pitcher of wine he street to hi s home. He galloped up She walked over 10 a largc bcnch backed up and knocked against the several fl ights of stairs until he came and pulled it out from against the bench where the hoard was secreted. to the top most apartment where he wall. Underneath one of the legs was Remus let out a gasp and Phyrrus lived with hi s mother, and occasion a hole in the I10OT. She slUek her hund looked up at him from the pitcher with ally, hi s older brother. into it and retrievcd a leuther pouch surprise. "Mother! Mother!" the boy shouted. into whieh she dropped the coin, and "Something·s not quite ri ght here. His molher did not even bothcr to raise then returned everything to its pluce. Why are you so nervous Remus? Did her head from her sewing but asked in "Now, perhaps we can get a de mother get paid?" Quickly he started an almost disaffected manner: cent meal. I need to take this sewing up and moved the bench from its place. "What is it this time Remus, has to the lady down stairs; if she likes it Rcmus attempted to stop him but wus your brother been in a brawl ngai nT it may mean more work in thc futurc. no match for his elder brother, and was "No Mother, look!" He hcld out If your brother shows up, don' t Ict pushed ou t oflhe way. Phyrrus reached the coin under her nose. She looked him know about the money," she said in and, picking up the pouch emptied up almost in disbelief and took it from wagging her finger. " If he knew we it into his hand. There among several his hand. only had a single as to kcep us from small bronze coins was the denarius. " Whcrc d id you get t hi s?" s he the street, he'd filch it to bet on the Hc left the small change but fl ipped the asked. races." Hi s mother then closed the silver coin in the ai r like it was his "A strange, bearded man gavc illo door behind her. lucky day. me in the Forum." His mother gavc a After several minutes the door look of alarm: slowly opened again to u crack. ... www.freemanandsear.com Cat! or write for Unsurpassed expertise and experience in the field of classical coins. We olTe r. a copy of .. A large inventory of quality Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Biblical coins in aU price ranges. Hno PRICE UST 8 " Among the fi nest fixed Price Lists and Mail Bid Sales in the field, available for release in in print and downloadable foml. Fall, 2003 " Personalized service in starting, building and liquidating collections. .. Auction representat ion and consultation at all major sales the world O\'er. FreellM & Sear I P.o. Box 6413;2 I Los Ange les, Californ ia 90064-63;2 TEl: 310/4;0-97;; fAX: 310/4;0-886; email: [email protected] October 2003 27 .. Tell mother I said hello and I'll against a wall and give him a closer and clubs. When they had finished, pay hcr back later," he shouted as he inspection. At last onc of thcm pul led Phyrrus was bowed and bloody, but went out. He had made that prom ise out the denarius from Phyrrus' still alive. Two of his attacker's li fted many times before. clenched hand. him from the ground. Remus sat down and buried his face "Please don't take that!" Phyrrus "I will let you live this time but in his hands. He knew how angry hi s shouted. " It 's aU I have. I've got a when next we meet you will nOI be so mothcr wou ld be when she came back sure thing at the Circus today. then I lucky." Man ista gave another look to and tempered himself for the Ilogging. can get it all back for you." the men and they dropped him groan Out on the street Phyrrus started to "What. so you can just throw more ing, and left him to Ihe darkness of the head for the Circus. It had been a long of my money away? I don't think so ." alley. After lying there for some time time since he had anything to bet on One of Manista's hired men then Phyrrus finally dragged himself to his the races and he was eager to place a turned to hand it over. Phyrrus in des feet. At the baths he was able to clean wager before the next one could be peration kicked his retaincr in the shin himself and assess his wounds. It was gin. He was entirely consumed by his and managed to get free of his grip. while doing thi s that he came across gamblcr's daydreams, the big score He darted for and grabbed the coin an old friend and fellow gambler. He and the winnings he wou ld reap, an d then began running down the street had recently had a bit of luck and, at did not notice the gang of toughs who with Manista and his henchmen right his insistence, treated him to a tour of were now forming up around him. behind. He found a dead-end alley to thc taverns. " Hello th ere Phyrrus," a voice duck into and catch his breath, then They drank well into the night talk spokc in his ear accompanied by a bcgan looking about wildly every ing about old times. By afternoon of strong hand upon his shoulder. "Why where for a place he might hide his the following day Phyrrus had slept off do you look so cheerful today, I hope treasurc. Therc was none. In the dis the wine of the night before. He it's because you have the money to pay tance he could hear Manista and his walked across the street to a public me fo r our little loan." Phyrrus men returning. He had to think of latrine to relieve himself. Settling stopped dead in the street, suddenly something quick or all would be lost. down upon the cold stone of the bench going pale. Finally, in one movement, he snatched he began to reminisce about the events "Hello Manista. No, [ don't have up the coin and swallowcd it. of the day before, thinking with espe an as to my name. ['11 get it to you "1 am tircd o f these games cial fondness of the ta les they had told though, don't you worry about that." Phyrrus," came Mani sta's voice echo between themselves, most especially "I'm not the one who should be ing in the narrow alley. He gave a look the one Phyrrus told of his run in with worried Phyrrus." That was lhe sig to his men and they closed around him Manista and the ingen ious way he had nal for two of his men to push Phyrrus proceeding to pummel him with fists hidden his prize. At that moment al] his smiling self satisfaction left his face as he heard the splash in the wastewater below. He jumped up immediately and stared down into the darkness. All that he could see was the shine of a li ttle si l ver circle glinting up at him, so close and yet so fa r away. About the author-Lancelot Kirby is a 26-year old resident of Portsmouth, Ohio, and he writes historical fiction. He has been in the hobby of ancient numismatics for over a year now. YOU CAN HELP US save time and money by renewing early The Visit our website www.astartesa.com '" ~"0'."-' Celator P.O. Box 839 Lancaster, PA 17608 Astarte SA· Via Cantonale, l /a· CH-6900 Lug3no Switzerland Tel/Fax: (717) 656-8557 Phone +41 91 9233640 · FaK +41 91 9232118· [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] 28 The Gelator Collection Management Software: An Old Problem With New Solutions considerations in creating your own soft Carlis le Developme nt created a prod by Michael E. 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If you other calendars. YOll can set the currency Vill age Coin has a user-definable assume that the last save reall y worked, and decimal conventions, and so on. Of Description-8, a drop-down menu. [t you will be sorry. You must save explic course, you can redefine the fi e ld labels also has a field for Grading Service. I itly with each exit. lncverdid figu re out to meet the needs of your collection. changed Description-8 to Grading Ser what the Apply button was for. The program is not completely Win vice and emered IBSCC. ICGS. Scar, dows compliant. FilcMaker sta rted life a nd De a le r fo r the options. I t he n DATA EX MACHINA :IS a Mac intosh program. The re fo re, changed the old Grading Service fi eld It may not be possible to be ailihings Some o r the things a Windows user docs 10 Date because this text fi eld will al to all people. bUI Vinual Coin Cabinet reflexively do not work. One example low 2 1 BC or 997 AV C and so o n. That II co mes close. Thc creator is coin dealer is closing a window by clicking o n the left me with a Year field I could not use Slephen HuSlo n. The program is based X in the upper right. To close a winder or ch:lnge, since it is hard-codcd to be on his 1999 cfTort, Virtual Coin C3bi in VCC-2, you click on Windows along four di gits. right justified. It seemed a net. VCC-2 was written in FileMakerPro. the menu bar and pick the windo w you small price to pay. Basically, Huston has delivered to the user want 10 be on lop or .... h3ve focus." Al so, I changed some of the menus directly an interface fo r an intemctive datab3se when you are working down a couple by editing the *'oAT files wi th NOlepad. schema. Thus, the col lector can configure of levels with the schern3, you will no Most of the drop--downs I changed on the the inventory progr..un to meet any ap tice the Mac presentation within thc ny wit hi n the program itself. Either way, proach ( 0 coll ecting. Windows presentation. I also fo und a I was able to change the list of modem Created by a coin dealer. this pro small bug. but because I have played cont inents and nations to a short list of gram generates nip 13bels and tray tags. Myst, it was not a problem for me. These ancient nations to complement a collec It delivers strong suppol1 for the produc are not major drawbacks. The fi naljudg tion of Roman Republican and Im peri al tion of cat3logs. The program exports ment is that Virtual Coin Cabinet II is coins: Carthage, Numidia, Alexandria, etc. output in a wide ronge of options, in powerful. flex ible, and configumblc. Another powerful feature is the way cluding HTML tabl es for webpages. it ull ows up to six images to be tied to For each record, you can import two ANATES IN AcrE the record. This means that you can scan pictures per coin. (With a picture pro- Torn Schroer got interested in an cients about 1980 when he was in Bel gium 3nd bought a coin of Constantine the Great. It was almost 20 years before he sought to create a database manage TOPCOINS.COM mcnt syste m for Roman imperial coins. • PO Box 39947 • Win nellie, Northern Territory· 0821 • Australia · The result is Moneta. As an electric:11 engineer and a collector, Schroer wrote Eac h month, Topcoins.com features o ne outstanding coin fro m our collection the program he wanted, Since 1999, o f Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins. Gold, silver and bronze coins, as about 1000 demo disks have been di s well as references, software a nd numismatic supplies are uvailable from our tributcd resulting in 300 s3les. Moneta we bs ite ... please visit us at your le isure! does morc than any other progmm for 3ncient s, although it does thi s just for Roman imperials. Kingdom of Parthia Like 311 programmers, Schroer has Bagasis, 127-126 BC been stalked by .... the creeping femu re creature." In other words. he has packed Tetradrachm into the progra m everything he can thi nk of and has plans for more improvemcnts. Moneta incl udes about 430 pages of suppo rting narrative 3bout emperors, mints, and denominations. Schorer says th3t he re3d all of the references he could but that all of the writing is his own AR. 15.86 gm, Sctcucia min t Obv. Long work: "Nothing is cribbed. " The pro bearded bust to ri ght in diadem. filleted gram also has a contact manager for bordcr. Rev. Demeter ent hroned to tefl. holding Nike in right hand, comucopiae keeping track of dea lers and olher in le ft , neirod supponing throne. to ri gh t. people. The Moneta database knows the BADAffiI to le ft [AJ PIA KOY. S.-. possible obverse and reverse legends for Sellwood 18. 1. U: Ride r Susc. Pt.LJl.xi . 1- each ruler. You can configure it to auto 2. BMC-, Shore -. Some rninurporosit)' at maticall y convert grains to grams and edgc, otherwise good vcr)' fin e and ex decimal inches to millimeters, t rc mel)' rare . See CelalOr Januar)' The program includes over 70 mint 2001 ...... U5$ 3800.00 control marks; those little squiggles and ligatures. Schroer also desig ned a 30 The Celato( TTUCTYIXnt font of Latin and Greek char (operating system and RAM) to install programs. For an In formix/SQL pro acters. Report fonnals include JPEG and Virtual Coin Cabinet II. grammer to fire up Access, knock out a HTML so that these all print correctly. Most of the so-called "coin collector" few tables and tie their key fields with Tom Schroer keeps a prelty low pro software out there cannot be adapted eas code might be an evening of hobby lime file. I would not have known about his ily (if at all) to ancients. One case in point for thcm - it would be a week of effon product if another collector. Andrew is Coin Manage from Liberty Street Soft for me, and a month later I would still Thall, had not told me about it. I wrote ware. It is meant for modem U.S. coins. be tweaking it. to Schroer, Hi s reply: "I just figured you However, the company is very well aware Word is the program I am most com were looking for products that would of the markct for ancients because they fortable with. I can create tables, insert work for any ancient coin." He is now sell a CD of 4000 Roman Coins. pictures, sort columns and perfonn arith working on Noumisma, a database man With ancients, many collectors and metic in them. Word allows poetic flex agement program for Romaion ("Byz dealers use complex codes for grading ibility in the presentation of verbal de antine") coins. such as g VF+/aEF. However. catcring to scriptions for grades, attributions, prices, collectors of U.S. Type, most inventory etc. The Symbol fonl takes care of much CAVEAT EMPTOR programs for numismatics usually kow (PO.6.IQN or AGE), but not everything. Mosl companies have demo versions low to the Sheldon 70-point scale and do Many collectors track inventory with Iha! are free or at a modest cost. Some not allow you to grade both sides of the Excel. A simple spreadsheet lets you tally companies provide Internet downloads coin for legends, dcvices, fields, and flan. City, Date, Emperor, Type, Purchase Price of demos or products. Downloading is Suppose you want to collect Athenian and Current Value. The text fields allow always dangerous. A hacker's virus can New Style tetradrachms. Your goal will rich formatting. You can include pop-up hit the most reliable company and then you be a complete set of reverses showing comments and hyperlirrks. Of course, wi th will have a problem. This happened to me magistrates and months. This is just one Excel, you can perform a wide range of while gathering programs to evaluate. Get example of a pursuit that will blow away arithmetic functions on the prices, costs, a CD direct from the company. most programs, no matter who designed and values. You can create additional Packaged software has always taken them. This raises the question of whether sheets and link the cclls 10 track dynas all of the resources available. It always or not you should creatc your own. ties, snbsets of your collection, and so on. assumes that it is the only program run What you cannot easily do is include pic ning. I was unable to install HobbySoft DE SCRIPTORE tures. However, hyperlinks are one way from Compu-Quote and Jan Schwenk's Yo u can create your own database around this, Coin Inventory Software for lac k of re with Microsoft Access, Excel, or even Writing your own inventory manage sources, whether memory or disk space, Word. Bear in mind that the people who ment utilities can be a good exercise. Orthe fou r computers in our home, only tell you how easy this was for them to You will find yourself thinking more the network server had the resources do al ready have some fac ility with these continued on page 36 ... SPINK rOUNO [ O 1 6('6 THE COINEX SALE 8 October 2003 Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Co•ins, including a collection•• of high qual ity and rare Baktrian and Indo-Greek coins English and Foreign Coins The catalogue will be available from early September, To order your copy or to subscribe to our catalogues please contact us by telephone, or email [email protected] 69 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury. London We1B 4ET Te l: +44 (0)20 7563 4000 Fax ' +44 (0) 20 7S63 4066 www.spink.com October 2003 31 ~::::::::~~~rj~!~~~~:~~~~::::::] Thomas R. McIntosh Collection To Be Sold By The Classical Numismatic Group LANCASTER, PA-The collection of ogy, and Literature, will form the nucleus educator and author Thomas Randall of the Mc intosh Library in the new Har Mcintosh, which features many Greek, risburg Polytechnic Institute. Proceeds Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic coins, from the sale of the collection wilt help highlights Classical Numismatic fund additional book purchases at HPI. Group's 15-29 October Electronic Auc Approximately 200 coins from the tion 76 closing 29 October 29"', 2003. collection, including a good selection A lifelong collector, Mac, who is the of Alexandrian, scarce Byzantine Dean of Facu lty at Harrisburg High bron ze, and Islamic gold are included School in Pennsylvania, began build in Electronic Auction 76 (closing Octo· ing his numismatic collection while ber 29, 2003). The bu lk of the collec· teaching and pursuing advanced de tion, to be sold in lots, will appear in grees in anthropology, history, and edu the upcoming Triton VII scheduled for cation. In addition, he has given numer· January 13·14, 2004. ous presentations on ancient coins and The electronic auctions are avail has published several articles dealing able a t CNG's web site, with numismatics and local history. In www.cngcoins.com. Registration fo r Thomas R. Mcintosh the early 19608 he was the author of bidding is free. Collectors interested in the column, "World of An cients," which receiving the ca ta logue for the Triton appeared in Gain World. His extensive VII can pu rchase a copy by sendi ng 39th International Con book collection, with specialized sec· $25 in check to CNG, Inc., PO Box 479, gress on Medieval Studies tions on Histo ry, Theology, Anthropol· Lancaster, PA 17608-0479. To Be Held in Kalamazoo in May of 2004 CHICAGO-The International Con gress on Medieval Studies has issued ~roft(es in a call fo r papers fo r their meeting next May 6-9, 2004 in Kalamazoo, Michi .fl umismattcs gan . The title of the session is "Stamps of Authority: Coins and Seals in the Sydney P. Noe Middle Ages.H 1885 - 1969 This interdisciplinary special ses sion invites proposals for papers on all An important figure in the early his tory of the aspects of numismatics (ancient and American Numismatic Society, Sydney Philip medieval coins and medals or their Nee salVed the ANS well and in many differ represenlation) and sphragislics (seals ent capacities during his long numismatic ca or Signet rings of any kind) in the reer. In 19 15 he was appointed Librarian, a post Middle Ages. Topics might explore , he held until 1938. He was secretary from 1917 though are by no means limited 10: to 1947, Editor from 1921 to 1945 , Curator ' Sphragistic signification in medi from 1938 to 1947, and Chief Curator from eval culture 1947 to 1953. He was appointed ChiefCura "Economic commodification in Me tor Emeritus when he retired on September I, dieval Studies 1953, until his death. He received the Society's "Coins and Meaning (Iconography) Archer M. Huntington Medal in 1937. A pro- "Numismatic sources of medieval lific researc her and author, his works on ancient coinage are sti ll standard refer iconography ences today and include: The Cobwge of KOlilonia; 1he Coinage ojM elapontum; "Imaging Authority in the Middle The 77mrian Distalers; 771£ Alexander Coil/llge ofSikJon; The Early Cistol)/lOric Coin Ages: Medieval coins and/or seals age (co-authored with Fred S. KJeiner); and A Bibliogmphy of Greek Coin Hoards. "Connections between coins/seals Nee is also nQ(ed for his seminal works on u.s. colonial coinage which include: 1111! and history Oak Tree Coinage ofM as$lldwsell$ and The Pine Tree Coinage ofMas.'il1Chusetts. 'Coins andlor seals and material This feature is provided courtesy of George Frederick Kolbe culture Fine Numismatic Books, Crestline, CA 92325 continued 0/1 page 49 .... 32 The Gelator ~:::::~~~!7~~~!!!~~:~~~~!~:~~~::] Miinzauktion Tkalec AG Will Conduct Their 2003 Auction Sale On October 24th A lot by Ursula Kampmalln more could be said about the ZUAICH-On October 24, 2003 the G r e e k lime has come: The auction sale of the coins, but Tkalec AG win take place. Every single let's stop it. piece is of the highest quality, a special Kerry would ly chosen testimony to the outstanding not be hap craftsmanship of ancient die engravers. py, if the But why should we mention this? It is compl ete Lot 26 in the upcoming Tkalec AG Auction is a tetradrachm just normal for Tkalec. It will be a deep Gelator was from Gamarina in Sicily. Struck ca. 415 BG, and signed by joy for every connoisseur to leaf through filled with the catalogue of the upcoming sale. Exakestidas. Kraay-Hirmer pl. 53, 149. -Prachtexemplar-. auction pre Starting price: 10.000.- CHF. (Photos enlarged). Enlarged color pictures of each coin views. LeI's show the beauty of the material. turn to the 485 coins will be for sale in the old Roman coins. There is a nice li ttle series all there. You will find denarii of all the fashioned Hotel "Haus zum ROden" at of Republican denarii in FDC. And then 12 Caesars and their relatives, all-can the bank of river limmat. That seems the coins of the Roman Empire follow. you have any doubts about it - in EF not to be a large nu mber, but to reach Augustus, Caligula and his father and better. Do you like the Flavians? Or a choice of which coin of the 485 to Germanicus, Antonia, mother of Clau mention is very, very difficult. Just think dius, and Claudius himself. They are COlltilllled 011 page of Magna Graecia and Sicily! There are 37 .... lots of wonderful coins designed by skilled artists who have engraved the dies. And the condition! Just one ex ~ !Je ~lbe (uriositie ~boppe ample: Th ere is a magnificent tet radrachm from Camarina engraved by I!I.. (a div. of RCCA Ltd_ ) located at Exakestidas. This artist was the first 111 South Orange Avenue · South Orange, NJ 07079 who dared to portray Heracles not as a man at his best age, but as a young A complete collectors gallery buying & selling: man without beard. This became a fa U.S., al1ciel/f, & foreign coins, U.S. & foreign stamps, mous model for the young Heracles who took the imagination of the whole paper money, toketJs & medals, Classical Antiquities Greek world by storm when depicted of Greece, Rome, Egypt, & judaea, Pre-Columbian, on the coins of Alexander the Great. Americall /"diall, African, & Etllllographic objects Or just look at the charming little head & artifacts, along with historical and popular autographs 01 Arelhusa on the tetradrachms of & mflllllscript material, Revolutionary War & earlier Americana. Syracuse designed by Parmenides.ll's the portrait of a tender, playful young BUYING & SELLING - FREE APPRAISALS woman, causing every beholder to fall in love with her. You prefer a severe "You'd be amazed at what we will buy & how much we will pay" beauty? You will love the tetradrachm of Ainos with the head of Hermes in severe style. But one that thinks there are only Prop.: Dr. Arnold R. Saslow very expensive coins in the Tkalec LookJor us on eBay catalogue doesn't know Tony Tkalec. Phone (973) 762-1588· Fax (973) 761-8406 He is able to see a beautiful coin, even if it Is just a normal fraction, and Email: [email protected] he will publish it in his auction cata logue. Look at the charming little Gallery hours: Monday to Saturday 10:00 - 6:00 hemidrachm from Priene in Ionia, Visa, MasterCard & Ameri can Express Accepted pride of every future possessor. Starling price of this treasure in small ------Gift Ce rtificates Issued ------size will be 500.- Swiss Francs. October 2003 33 Stories and History - The Saints of Zurich later formed by Ursula Kampmann a part of the imperial re Have you ever been to Zurich? Per galia, is said haps during the lasl week of October, to have fore when the distinguished auction hous seen the es of Zurich hold their autumn sales? persecution If you were, I am sure that you would of Christians have crossed the River Limmal by the by Maximin MunsterbrOcke (see fig. 1) while you ianus Hercu were hurrying here and there in order lius (286- to see all the interesting coins for sa le. 305). He ad So please, close your eyes, and imag vised Fel ix to ine the skyline of Zurich you saw from seek refuge the bridge. To the left are the spires of with his sis the FraumOnster, to the right those of te r Regula. It the Grossmunster. is said that With two so eminent churches so the myrmi close to each other, it is somehow nat dons of Max imianus fol Figure 1-View from the lake of Zurich, with the river Limmat divid ural that there was constant friction ing the two sides of the city. On the left you see the Fraumiinster between them over which one was the lowed them and hunted with the pointed tower, on the right the two towers of the more important. During each dispute Grossmiinster. the canonesses of the FraumOnster them down produced a document issued by Lud al the castle wig the German and still to be found in of Tu ricum - today's Zurich. The sib But a Saint would not be a Saint if he the archives of Ihe convent. There ev lings were tortured, bul Felix and Reg just stayed in his grave like an average erybody could read that the great Ger ula refused to give up the ir faith. At that corpse. And Felix and Regula were man emperor had given important gifts point they were brought outside of the found by nobody else but Charlemagne! He saw a stag outside of Cologne and to the nunnery because his daughter castle to be executed. Standing on the Hildegard was the abbess of the MOnsterbn:lcke you can see where it then followed him until they came to Fraumunster convent. The Grossmun happened: you only have to turn Zurich (a long chase then and now) and sler - which was at least as old as Ihe around, and at your right side you'll see arrived at the place where Felix and FraumOnster, but couldn't prove this - a little Gothic building called the Regula were buried. The stag stopped there, fell to his knees and the Emperor had no document of comparable age, Wasserkirche. If you happen to have a immediately realized that he had to build but called upon a legend saying that close friend at the Zurich office for pres the most important sa ints of Zurich - ervation of monuments, you might even a church and a monastery in Felix and Felix and Regula - were buried where be able to enter the underground crypt Regula's honor. the church was built. and view the stone where Felix and Let's avoid a discussion about the The legend says that Felix was a Regula are said 10 have finished their truth of this story. We Just have to re member of the famous Thebean legion lives. They were decapitated and the member that in medieval Zurich this legend was considered to be true. And from Egypt, the location of whose mar legend says that they took their Charlemagne outranked Ludwig the tyrdom has been claimed by an incred heads and walked - just as SI. Di ible number of different places in Swit onysius of Paris or Klaus Stortebeck German. Therefore, apart from Felix zerland, France and Germany. Mauri er from Hamburg - to the place and Regula, "Charles the Grear was tius, commander of the Thebean legion where the GrossmOnster now is. also honored at the GrossmOnster in and first owner of the sacred lance that There they were buried. order to demonstrate to those pesky nuns at the FraumOnster that the Grossmunster was much older and much more important than their con The Professional Numismatists Guild, In c. vent. There still exists a statue of has stood for KNOWLEDGE, INTEGRITY & RESPONSIBILITY since 1955. Charlemagne showing him with an The PNG membership list includes dealers from all around tht: world. imperial c rown and the sword of jus A directory of PNG members is available free by cO!!/f.lClil1g: tice (see fig. 2). This was a symbol of the imperial fullness of power that Robert Brueggeman, PNG Executive Director, called the Grossmunster into being . 3950 Concordia Lane, Fallbrook, CA 92028 And now the clergymen there could TeL (760) 728-1300 Fax (760) 728-8507 email: in [email protected] boast of their noble origin. On the first dicken of Zurich - a coin that was minted in 1500 and is offered at the upcoming Leu Auction 88 (see ~P.N.G. fig. 3) - Charles the Great is shown www.pngdealers.com exactly the way he could be seen at the GrossmOnster. This wasn't the first 34 The Celator time that the citizens of Zur ich used this image on a coin: LITERATURE they already had placed him BUY OR BID SALE on their plapparts of 1417 and (Closing dale - November 15, 2(03) 1424, They had chosen th is A selection of outslanding auction catalogs motif deliberately because relating to AocientIMedieval Coinage they didn't want to place Fe NUMISMATIC fiNE ARTS AUcrl0NS' lix and Regula on their coins. Pineoalalog' ""Ancient Coins wi,h ,ubM.mi.t hislori Off icially, the abbess of cat malerial. We offer. subjecll" priOf ..le. lhe follow· FraumOnster still was the ing early catalog" #1, 2, 3. 5. 6. 8. 9. to. 1 J. t2. t6. 18 owner of minting rights for the Figure 3-ZURICH. Dicken without date (pl. t). t8 (pl. 2). 22. 25. 27 and 33 ...... Each al $45.00 (1500-1503). Tobler (1974), S. 77 (this speci city and her predecessors had SOME SCARCE nnLES' (MO'1 only oneof each) minted coins with the images men). HMZ 1124. From the upcoming auc tion 88 of Leu Numismatics (2003), lot 1787. Nerce.. ian . Ann€I!iQI! C,,;n.. al!d ~ir Vnluu of Felix and Regula (see fig. H $45.00 4). This is because when Ctain-Slef.netti. E .• Life in Republu."a" R(mU! il! i,.' Coin_ some relics were transferred Figure 4- ZURICH. Fraumun age ...... S S20.00 MiIle', M. Cla.,sical Greek &: Romon Coi'" - In",wing in 873/5, the FraumOnster ster abbey. Abbess Judenta Guide .. H S25.00 also owned various parts of of Hagenbuch, 1229-1254. Hobbs, R. Iron Age Coim in Iht Brilish Museum the bodies of Fel ix and Regu Penny. Cahn-Wiithrich ...... H $80.00 Toynbec. 1.M.C .• Ronum H;storical POrlraiu H S5(I.00 la (see fig. 5). And they also 203var. From the upcoming Planl, R.. A,a/Jic Coin. and How to Read Them had their own legend about a auction 88 of Leu Numismat ...... S S3O.00 ics (2003), lot 1730. Foss, c.. Roman Hislorieal Coi", H S80.OO slag, this time one guiding the Metcalf. W. (Ed.). MItt"'ow: Puper< in MmwryofNQ/,, ;Y daughters of Ludwig the Ger- Waggoner ...... H S25.00 • Beny. G .. Medieml English le/om.. .. S S25.00 man to the place where the on the coins of Zurich , But on a crown Chrisliansen. E .• Coins ofAlexatulria and Ihe Nomes FraumOnster was founded, of 1512 we find not only Fe lix and Reg ...... S $4(l.00 By the way, the type of Zurich's BaleS. G .. iJrJlNline Coim ...... H $50.00 ula, but also a thi rd headless person coins changed soon after the minting Cunningham. A.. Co;", ofAlexander's Successors in 'h€ age, St. Exuperantius (see fig . 6). His £0..<1 ...... H S5(].OO of the first dicken. The citizens of Zur cull on ly dates back to the 13'" centu Sd'man. c.. Greek Coins ...... H SSO.oo ich gained self-confidence and the ab Malleil-GC about your accumulated hoards. Of Coming Events .... course, there are only 24 hours in a day and you will be making a new hobby Oct 3-5 North Carolina Numismatic Assn. Convention, Hickory, NG out of computer programm ing. The ef Oct 3-5 Sacramento Coin Expo, Convention Center (Downtown) fort will nOl be wasted. Perhaps the pri mary reason that people make weak Oct. 20 Leu Numismatics Ltd., Auction 88, Zurich, Swiss Coins choices when buying software is that Oct. 21 Leu Numismatics Ltd., Auction 89, Zurich, Medieval they do not really understand the prob Oct. 24-26 PAN 25th Anniversary Show, Monroevilfe, PA lem that they wan t their software to solve. If you design your own inventory Oct. 24-26 40th Annual Utah State Coin Show, Sandy, UT database, you will be in an excell ent Oct. 25-26 Torex Coin Show & Auction, Toronto, Ontario pos ition to pick the commercial pack age that meets your real needs. Oct. 31·Nov. 2 Minnesota Org. of Numismatists, Brooklyn Center, MN Nov. 7-9 Bay State Coin Show, Radisson Hotel, Boston, MA Software for Numismatists Nov. 8-9 Edmonton Numismatic Soc. 5(J~ Anniversary Show (Ancient and Modern) Nov. 14-16 Coin & Stamp Expo, River Palms Hotel, Laughlin, NV Ancient Coin Collector's Assistant Nov. 21-23 The Santa Clara Coin. 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Ill"ge quarto. tilles in red and ~I ack . ple, It highlights the whole group of rep IX"i. 4%: viii. 650: ,·iii.800 pages. 102 line colllllype tion just one piece, the extremely rare plates. large quano. lwo sets 10 choose from. s8stertius of Platina with the nice dark resentative gold coins of this emperor. I) From the library 0( Edwanl Newell with his I:000I0: plate in the iiI$! volume. ,..,bound in the $lyle 0( lhe EF. The most expensive coin of the Tkalec patina in original. A. Ii"" set .... ilh an impressi, ,, ~ .. The ~ ave rage · collector who nor sale is the first known gold medallion ...... S3.000.00 mally looks at Platina sestertii only in of Valens (364-378) from Aquileia with 2) From the Wdlinglon New Zeal..,d Public library the weight 01 two Solidi. On the reverse with lheir '.tam ps. oMg;nal clolh worn ondjoinls .... ~ ak . Kent-Hirmer wilt prefer the frequent !nternally clean ...... $ I .~oo.oo denarii and antoniniani of the Roman you will see the personifications of Empire. Each specimen was picked out Rome and Constantinople sitting side Anne Robortwn. Roman Imperial Coin. in the /lo"'ltr by side on a throne. The splendid spec Col/eCliotl. ! 962- ! 982. 5 vo!um .... quano. clui. 39 1: carefully because of ils perfect preser d~i ~ . 534: ui.... 325: ccxv;. 340: xlviii. 529 pales: vation and the high quality of the style. imen will start at 100.000.- Swiss 60. 124. 8S. 64. 96 fine pI'I... . original d od,. ' na1<:h_ Francs. Of course this is not th e end of ingduSljacket•. A >lriC1!y Fi nclNcar New sol •.•..•..•. Of course, you will also find the rarities ...... SI.1SO.oo 01 the 3'" century-Gordian I and II, Tran the auction sale, but lei's finish Ihis pre quillina, Julian of Pannonia - and, 01 view and let's forego the late Roman gold H. A _ Grueberc COi ~ f 01 ,h~ Roma~ R ~p"blic in Ih ~ and the Byzantine sol idi (believe me, Bril;,h Museum. \.blol/nt I. Ats Rude, An S;gna/WlI. course, all in best quality. Let's mention A" Gr~\' ~. lind Coi""!;~ 01 Rome/rom B. G. 268. \iol there are plenly "m~ fl. CO;""IIU IIi 1/""", RoltUln Campan;", lu"y. of both of them Ille Social \\I" ami ,lie I'rol'ince._ ful",,,~ Iff. Tobl., and in pretty of f"inds lJnd C"gttOtnlna. tnJ~us mull'lm~$. 3 vol unlt:s. 594. ~92 . 236 pales. 123 collotype plate •. quality) . After all quano.l:ucr ml ~lfM orocco. ~ cloth sMJcs.A hand- the purpose of iIOIl"It: stt...... $61'.00 this preview is Maningly &; Sydcnham' The ROftum Iml'l'ri,,1 Coi~. nollo replace the age. a uSC/wII wllolype p!_tes ...... SI .7SO.00 piece offered al the Tkalec sale is die al wW'N.oc,;nSl:ka",c.ch. Eli" Riagg;; Tt, ~ S1Il'erh Pm'n(l.' oj ,h. SU 'N ,i/ oi ·.,·,,17"''''''... ,:·...... \.'-'.+ ..•. , .... identical with an aureus that was pub Imperial Rome. PIt~ograrh s byGiuS<1'P" Bruno Ivrt:a. lished in the Mazzini collection. Referrals Work! / 1992.299 pages. la'¥cquMlo. Icxl in English and !lal· ian. 735 enlarged color i!!uS1ntion.", black lcathert:ue Whoever is interested in gold coins .. Tell your friends about in pictorial slipcase.. New...... $300.00 of the tetrarchy has 10 have a look at the Tkalec catalogue. l eaving out the John Walker..... Co'oll>g", 0/ M,,/rommaJwo COiM in Ih~ Brilish Mo ..t"m . It"'""", f. Arob·S See August iss ue for in-prinllitlcs. Unless noced. all boob are new. are the !aleOl edi!ions. .nd are in Slack. Unless nooed (sb).• n are hardbound. Out-<>f-print lilies are oo.e October 2003 37 Zurich Coot from page 35 You have never been to Zurich? Are you curious about it? Come and visit the city this year during the numismat ic week, and you can see and buy all of the coins that I have used lor illus tration. Figure 5-A Fresco from the Fraumilnster. A king - probably Charles 1/1- guides the relics of Felix and Regula to the convent. Figure 7-Felix. Regula and Exuperantius - a painting of the so called Zurcher Nelkenmeister's Figure 6-ZURICH. Guldiner 1512. from 1506. Hurl. 422. HMZ 1121. From the upcoming auction 88 of Leu Numis matics (2003), lot 1806. Figure 9-ZURICH. 2 Ducats without date (1588-1600, mintmaster Hans Ulrich /If. Stampfer). HMZ 1136. From the upcoming auction 88 of Leu Numismatics (2003), lot 1851 . lPifl!}JlPiflO Now Available for Subscription Payments Now offering PayPal as an option you can use to conveniently pay for your subscription, Celator binders, or back issues. Just send pay ment to: [email protected], andyoucanpayusingthecredit card of your choice or have the monies automaticall y deduct ed from your checking account. Or you can still send payment directly to us by check, money order or use your Visa/Mast erCard. The Celator =-n Figure 8- ZURICH. Guldiner 1526, ~ ~ P.O. Box 839, Lancaster, PA 17608 _ 1,.,1 so-called Kelchtaler. Dav. 8772. From PhonelFax (717) 656·8557 _ the upcoming auction 88 of Leu ~ Numismatics (2003). lot 1827. 38 The Celator Kolbe Schedules Their 92nd Auction Sale of Rare & Im th portant Numismatic Literature For November 13 , 2003 CRESTLINE, CA- George Frederick ing a complete set; an unbound set of tion with Stack's, this landmark sale will Kolbe/Fine Numismatic Books wi ll con "The Numismatist,n 1894-2002; classic take place on Tu esday, June 1, 2004 duct their 92nd auction sale of rare and works on ancient Greek and Roman at the Mission Inn, Riverside, Califor important numismatic literature on coins; a complete set of B. Max Mehl nia, a National Historical l andmark Thursday, November 13, 2003. The sale auction sale catalogues, also very fine Hotel: www.m issioninn.com. The Mis features 1635 lots, covering a wide deluxe leatherbound copies of the Dun sion Inn is about half way between range of numismatic topics. Featured is ham and Morse, Faelton and Todd sales; Crestline (where lot viewing will be held the interesting and notable library of a an important selection of works on Na on the days preceding the sale), and "Sage Old Roman," selections from The poleonic and other medals ; legal docu long Beach (where the l ong Beach Money Tree archives, and material from ments and correspondence pertaining to Coin Convention will begin the day af over fifty other consignors. The firm's the Roy E. Naftzger, Jr. versus Ameri ter the sale). The Mission Inn is about next sale will not be held until June 1, can Numismatic Society litigation con an hour by car from l os Angeles Inter 2004 when, in association with Stack's, cerning the Clapp/Sheldon large cent national Airp ort, and about ten minutes George Frederick Kolbe will conduct the controversy; important Waiter Breen from the new Ontario Intern ational Ai r first public auction of the superb Ameri correspondence; rare works on Serbian port. Riverside is a large city (approx. can numismatic library formed with dedi numismatics; important antiquarian nu 300,000 residents) and offers a wide cation and great care by John J. Ford, mismatic books dating from 1557; an array of lodging and recreational activi Jr. over many years. original copy of Miles, "The Numismatic ties . Periodic reports about the many A few November 13th sale highlights History of Rayy," along with many other rare and interesting th ings that will be follow: a collection of 175 bound important works on foreign coins and in the sale will appear in the E-Sylum, Sotheby's auction sale catalogues, medals; the paper money archives of Dr. weekly electronic newsletter of the 1830-1900, assembled by the renowned John A. Muscalus; etc. Numismatic Bibliomania Society. British coin collector Henry Platt Hall; an The sale may be viewed at Those interested in subscribing, free of 1879 catalogue of Berlin coin dealer www.num islit.com.Copiesof theprinted charge, are invited to visit the society's Adolph Weyl containing the previously catalogue are available for $15.00. web site: www.coinbooks.org. Regular unreported, earliest European appear The fi rm has already started work on updates will also be posted on the ance of an 1804 silver dollar at auction; the public auction sale of the John J. firm's web site: www.numislit.com. many early Yeoman "Red Books," includ- Ford, Jr. Library. To be held in associa- Glenn W. Woods Numismatist p.o . Box 7822 Dallas, TX 75209 21 4-725-4300 • 214-890-7609 (fax) [email protected] • Dallas and Ft. Worth's only full time Ancient and Medieval coin dealer • Specializing in Late Roman/Byzantine Gold • Greek, Roman and Byzantine Ancients in All Metals • Better Quality Medieval Coins in All Metals • Extensive Stock in Varied Price Ranges • Purchasing and Evaluation Services Available October 2003 39 forgo that pleasure. Bal timore was an Fortunately, melancho ly doesn't enjoyable ve nue, and I don't w:mt to get the last wo rd. All of thi s is a rou nd anger the conve ntion gods, lest I be about way of saying that the collect fated to twiddle away eternity in beau ing spark has recently been rekindled. ti ful downtown Smyrna.) I attended I' ve had a somewhat vague in terest in the convention as a collector, rather "barbarous" imitations of Republican than for the fi rm, and I made it a poi nt denarii fo r a while, but I knew virtu not to hang out behind the ti,b le, I all y nOlhing abou t them, Earl ier th is guess thi s was some sort of qu irky re year, I made a consc ious decision to turn to my roots, but the tru th is, it felt try 10 rectify that. Gathering informa a bit strange (and several collector/cli tion about imi tations has proven to be ents asked me if I were lost.) I sup pose a challenge, involving photocopi es it was inevitable that my collector per fro m obscure Romanianjournals, di li The genesis of this column. a few sona, initially vigorous and calling the gcnt reading between various lines, ye3rs b3C k when "The Other Side" W3S shots, would graduall y wither as I spend and the utilization of actual brain cells. just a gle3m in Kerry's eye, was the more of my time cataloguing and seil It 's turned out that most of what I not ion that th e metamorphosis of a ing for the finn. Now my personal col th ought I knew about imitalions was long-time, serious devotee of 3ncient lection sometimes fee ls like a stepchild wrong. I'm not alone in Ihis; Republi coins from collec tor i111 0 dealer, the or an afterthought. Blasphemous sugar can imitations are poorly understood move to the "Other Side" of the bourse plum angels have once or twice danced by almost everyone, collectors and table, mi ght be of some interest to through my head, sweetl y suggesting it dealers alike. So th is is an area where readers. Hopefully that's proven to be might be time to se ll . it may be possible to advance kn ow l the casco I' ve mostly tried to stay on For various reasons, my co llection edge. To that end, I'm hoping to as topic, or on-mes.mge, as the bUZl de no longer brings the fulfillment it has semble a study collection that reveals jour would have it, and to cast some for the past 25 or so years. Partly, my something ne w about antiquity, rather light on dealers and the market through frustration and fl aggi ng in terest stem than an "aesthetic" collection Ihat the lens of a collector's eye. The more from the intense international compe comprises an art objet in its own right. tim e I spend o n the dealer's sid e ti tion for tru ly exceptiona l Republican That approach has changed every though, the more I fee l li ke that's denarj i. Often. bidding what would thing. The world seems fresh and new, where I belong. At the time of writ have been a record price for a particu and the sideshow is now the main ing, I' mjust back fro m the Baltimore lar piece isn't enough to win the lots I event. I haven't given up on "official" ANA Convention. (I intended here to most want. I' ve touched on this before, denarii yet, and my quality criteria fo r insert my annual rant about the ANA. and I don't want to beat it to death. them are still unreasonably high, but and had a clever paragraph about Anyway, the compe tition's been every imitation catches my fancy, no pompous dinosau rs and ncver-ending heated for years, but my ma laise is mailer how beat up, worn or mi s shows ready to run, bU I I think I'll re latively recent, so something else struck. I find myself turning first to must be going on. Another part of the the Celtic section of a new sale cata problem is the realization th at I may logue. (Mosl of these pieces aren't on 1118 Road - have bitten off rather more th im I can actually Celtic at all, although they're chew in one collecting li fct im e. The frequently described as such in cata ." . lha Callier'S goal of assembling an unim provablc logues, but that's a story for another & set of Republican and Imperatorial day.) The best quality examples arc :: Shew Club denari i, including nOt just the tmti n still offered by first rank dcalers, at ~ Schedule types but also every variety, may not commensurate prices, but quality isn't be attainable. (If I were ab le to found really the game here, and imit ations Oct. 19-Ancient Numismatic and fund a personal rcligion. with he of RepUb lican denarii hide every Society o(Washington, D.C. Kerry reditary pricsthood dcdicated to build where, often mis-described as officiHI Wetterstrom will be giving a presen ing the collection through the ages. it issues, or simply termed "unknown", tation, "A Story To Tell - Greek might be nearly complete in a couple This requires me to look everywhere, Mythology on Roman Prov incial of hundred years.) And in an odd way, at every minor list and casual Ebay Coins" , at the club's regular meet the early availability of important auc vendor, and to collect in a very differ ing. Please see the Club Directory tions on~ l inc has dimin ished my plea ent way, Since even a complete cata section on page 58 for more details sure in the entire auction ex perience. logue of imitations will probably ne ver on this club. It renders the arrival of the paper cata be feasible, as essentially every die OCt. 24-26--Pennsylvania Asso logue ant i-climactic, without ad pair would require its own listing, a ciation o( Numismatists (PAN) equatel y replac ing it. Mostly though, comp lete collection is not reall y a 25th Anniversary Convention, pitts I think this melancholy is due to sen mean ingfu l concept, let alone a worth burgh Expomart. Monroeville, PA. sory overload. I've been exposed to while goal. Nor is it essential to per Oct. 28-Wilmington, Delaware too many lovely and important coins sonally obtain each particular type; a Coin Club. Same topic as above. over the past few years. I' ve becomc good photo is almost as valuable. This Jan. 16- 18, 2004-New York In jaded, ancient coin s have become may be the germ of an ins ight into the ternational Numismatic Conven commodities for me, and it takes nature of collecting: a dichotomy be lion, The Waldorf Astoria Hotel, something extraordi nary to awaken tween "closed" collections susceptible 301 Park Ave nue. Educational Fo my interest. My wife says th at si nce to a checklist an d, at least in theory, rum 011 Saturday, the ]71h. my hobby has become my career, I compl etion, and "open" collections, need a new hobby. never cnding or endab!c. One mi ght 40 The Celator speculate knowingly about two sorts of "collector mentalities" . I now can elaim both mentalities, but I'll leave the pop psychology to others. The re al lesson is obvious in hindsight: if you're bored with what you're doing, try something else. One final notc: my search for "bar barous" Republican imitations is very Your source for the best in Ancient Coi ns much ongoing. If anyone has photos Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Indian, 10 share (or coins to sell ). please email Parthia n, Sasanian and Eastern Coinage. me al Phji@Harianj berk.com.orwrile Over 18 years experience in Numismatics clo The Celalor. bu siness. Active ANA Member. Please visit our web site for a superb August 2003 ACCLA selection of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Coins as well as Meeting Features Talk on AntiqlJii l:iesand Numismatic Bac)ks. Roman Imperial Coinage www.parscolns.com "Along &: Beyond the Email: [email protected] Northern Limes Frontier" LOS ANGELES, CA-The August Tel. (408)281-3870 meeting of the Ancient Coin Club of Los Fa x. (408)28 1-7205 Angeles [ACCLAI began with a discussion of two new coins identified by Bob Effter. Based on his recent trip, Ken Friedman P.O. Box 9667 described several excellent coin collec San Jose, CA 95157 tions exhibited at Italian museums. In the feature program Dr. Raymond Sidrys presented ulmperiat Roman Coin age: Along and Beyond the Northern limes Frontier". Over 100,000 denarii have been cataloged from hoards found in the Barbaricum region north of the fron tier zone of Northern Europe. Military and POCKET MAGNIFYING GLASS 3x, 6x & lOx diplomatic Roman activities along the limes were illustrated with a variety of coin with integrated illumination! images. Raymond described the major hypotheses - trade vs. subsidy - for the inflow of coins into this region and the da ® tabase, which support them. Geographi cal and chronological data from the litera ture were presented. Terminal dating of hoards suggests that some 54% of the denarii were buried during or after the 193- The Perfect tool for the Professional Numismatic & Antiquities collector 211 CE time period. Several rousing dis· cussions resulted including the use of per Hand le & lens holder constrllC[ed White light Diodes with a color sonal credit, lourfee vs. bronze coinage, of anodized aluminum. B:utcries temperature of 6500 kelvin. lack of gold coins and the purpose of coin included. Brighter than daylight! use by the barbarian tribes. A raffle of coins and books on Numis matics and Ancient History was held. At the end of the meeting an array of arti Nemes's facts and coins were exhibited for sale. AlI.: imt:, & Auri'luiri .: :o The ACCLA meets atl PM on the 2nd Sunday of each month at the Town Hall in Classical Numismatics & Antiquities the Balboa Mission Shopping Center in Granada Hills, CA. Upcoming programs include presentations such as "The Gold H~rhert R. Cha\~n ria Coinage of Carthage~ and "The Roman 20 Chnmplnin ave Port City of Ostia". 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Canadian coin deal er Robert Kokotailo, whose Calgary Coins is well known to ancient coin collectors, listed the coin on Sunday, September 14'h. Said Kokotailo, "I'm Learn All About Collecting Ancient Coins pleased to have been the one to hit the mark. VCoins not only has the la rgest offering of coins on the web, but also www.ancientcoinmarket.com is rapidly becoming one of the best places to research ancient coins." New Articles Monthly continued on page 46. .. 42 The Celator the prized possession of all scribes. Writ ing was done with reeds. which were c hewed to make a type of brush and when Ihe tip was worn. it was cui off and a new tip chewed. The reeds c ur rently in use were kept in a special com partment in Ihe scri bal pillette, and spares were kept in a tubular reed case. The palette also contained compartments for ink that were made of ground pigments such as eharcoal and ochre and mi xed with gum, which was then dri ed. Usually there was one cach of red and black but some The Profession of scribes had veritable artist's palette of col ored pigments. Indeed, such pa lettes may Scribe in Ancient have Ixlongcd to "artist-scribes". Since the Egypt dry pigment in the palette had to be mixed with water to make the ink. scribes also One of the most prestigious jobs in canied a small waler bow l, a flint knife ancie nt Egypt was that of a scribe. Be for cutting reeds, spare blocks of ink, and cause most ancient Egyptians were il scraps of leather or small pieccs of sand A stone sculpture of a seated scribe literate, except for the very hig hest stone used as erasers. These were placed from the Middle Kingdom (Xllth classes in soc iety. scribes were an every in a bag attached to the pen case and pal Dynasty. 199 1-1 786 Be). Photo day necessity for the conduct of dail y ette. This set of equipment - pen case, courtesy of Royal-Athena Galleries. life. If you wallled 10 send a letter or palette and bag - became the symbol for have o ne read Ihal had been senl lO you. Ihe scribe or indeed anything to do with Curiously in Egyptian society. 111 - or if you needed a contract written or a the art of writing. Scri bal implements were though the children of nobles were of will made. then you wenl not to a law often elaborately deconltcd and are works ten literate, anyone with the necessary yer but to Ihe village scribe. You would of art worthy of any collection. in and of intelligence could become a scribe. It then seal the document with your per themselves. Many of these scribal imple was o nly necessary to have the luck to sona l seal la indicate you approved of ments have survivcd and residc in public the scribe's work. Moreover, Ihe Egyp and private collections. cOn/illlled 011 page 50 ... tian government was based o n a vast bu reaucracy, as was the rel igious sys tem, which permeated every aspect of Egyptian life. Classical This bureaucracy was adminiSlcrcd by a vast array of scribes. There were Coins & Art of o rd inary scribes and chief scribes, the Ancient World King 's scribes and Temple scri bes. Scribes whose job was translating for Greek, Etruscan, eig n correspondence and scribes whose Roman, Egyptian, job was teaching others. Officials were & Near Eastern Antiquities often descri bed as scribes as in "the overseer of public records" whose title We are pleased to announce the included the symbol for scribe. Or the most recent edition (2003) of "scribe of the grain count" whose job it Art of the Allcient World, was to keep track of granary records as well as oversee the granary's operations. ou r new 80 page catalog ill ustrati ng 225 objects Many of the artists who c reated the in full color. with chronotogies and glossaries for the Classical World and Anciem Egypt beautiful objects we collect were a lso scri bes, because il was necessary, at DEALERS: We will exchange our least for the master artist, to under autiquities ! or your ancient coins! stand the inscriptions associated with many objects. This list of the various occupatio ns conducted by scribes in anc ie nt Egypt could go on and o n but there is no need. Suffi ce it to say that Egyptian society could not have ex royal-athena galleries isted wi thout its scribes. Not surpris Jerome M Eisenberg. Ph .D .. Director Established 1942 ingly. the patron of all scribes was the great god of wisdom Thoth. 153 Easl5711l Sl .. New York. NY 10022 ' Tel: (2 t2)-355-2034 ' Fax: (212)-688-0412 • e-mail: ano.;ienlan @aol.oo!1l · Visil nnT Website. updaled monlhly Wilh onT lale.l acquisilion$: The scribe was lilerally known by hi s www.royalatllclJ a.colll tools. The s ymbol for a scribe in Royal·Alhcml al Seaby. 14 Old Bond Slrccl, London W IS 4PP. Engtand hieroglyphs is the reed case bag of , Tel: (44) 0207-495-2590 ' Fax: (44) 0207-491 -1595 • e- mail: minervamag@compuservc,com implements and tablet of ink, whi ch was October 2003 43 ther. and the process was repeated un He explained that Levy had made ti l all were stru ck. an error in his experiment. His mis This all sounded like a perfectly take was in believing that the ancient logical and sensible process, and was flan molds were made out of local soft supported by various molds found in limestone. In fact, Dray explained , the archaeological contexts. specific stone used to make the molds However. several years ago, just as was in fact NOT soft limestone, but a I was completing work on the fourth close[y related stone-chalk. edition of my book Guide to Biblical The chalk, it turns out. has a high Coins, an Israeli collector staged an er degree of porosity. Thus, the bub experiment that seemed to disprove, bles of air in the hot molten metal or at least modify the theory. would be easily absorbed by the chalk In his experiment, A. Levy created molds, but these bubbles would cause a mold from local Jerusalem area [ime the limestone 10 crack after coming Creating Flan Molds in stone. He carefully poured molten inlO contact with the molten bronze. Ancient Judaea bronze into this mold, and it shat tered. This was repeated more than Like the ebb and fl ow of the ocean's one time. The experiment was wit tides, theories regarding various aspects nessed by a number of numismatic of ancient numismatics come and go. experts in Jerusalem. This experi New ideas supplant old ideas. Old and ment was said to prove an alternate discredited theories are dusted off and theory to the one posited above. taken down from the shelves. Some That is that thc limestone molds times this happens over many decades, were actually used 10 cast wax, and sometimes the process is com wh ich was, in turn used to create pressed in u shorter period of time. molds to cast the coin blanks. Ac This is the exact situation with some cording to Levy's experiment, cre in teresting aspects of minting the bronze ating nan slrips through the [ost coins. induding Ihe bronze prutah and wax process was the ONLY possi lepton coins in ancient Judea during lhe bility. Tn fact, in the Hebrew edi Coin of Mattathias Antigonus (40·37 Second Temple Period (circa 3'" centu tion ofYa'akov Meshorer's current BC), Hendin-482, 18 mm diameter; ry Be to 1" century AD). book Treasury of Jewish Coins, he below it is an unstruck planchet from For years it was bel ieved that the cites the Levy experiment as proof the same type coin. Experiments in blanks, or flans, for the Judean bronze Ihat the lost wax process was used. Jerusalem prove that these planchets coins were made by casting metal in The Englisb edition of Meshor molds consisting of shallow. round were cast directly in chalk·stone molds er's book (published two years lat and NOT using the lost wax process sockets connected by channels drilled er), however, cites another experi into pieces of soft limestone. After as an earlier experiment had posited. ment. J got some first-hand details (Photos courtesy of the author). pouring molten metal into the molds about it on my recent visit to Jerus and letting it cooL strips of coin blanks alem. Since the data is not yet pub connected by short metal ribbons were lished, J was lucky to be able to dis removed. These are called flan strips. CllSS this with Dona[d Ariel, a top-nu SLU"e enough. when Dray l-1eated molds An assistant would reheat each strip mismatist with the Israel Antiquities from chalk-stone, and poured molten broll7..e and then place the first blank nan in Authority. into them they did not break. Donald Ariel between the two striking dies on a stur This experiment was conducted by reported that he watched these experiment'> dy base, perhaps a tree trunk. The Yehoshua Dray, an Israe[i specialist in and thaI there was not even a ''hint of tearing moneyer hit the top die with a ham ancient technology. Dray described his off of some parts of stone." mer. thus striking the coin. Then. the work in a lecture to the Jerusalem branch assistant pulled the strip one coin fu r- of the Israel Numismatic Society. Israel Notes When I retum from a tripto ismel,every H. D. RAUCH GmbH Vienna one asks me questions. So here are the an swers and some news tidbit'>: Numismatist and Auctioneer since 1969 [. I found the people in gcxxl spirits, a[ UlOugh very fiustnlted. Ri ght now the Israeli For Ancient & World Coins in the street believes that a comp[etely sepa ishJri,cal medals and rated two-state solution is the only way that Ismel can be protected from terrorism. Auction: E-mail usforfue.fI.• • 2. Tourism from outside of Israel is sparse. On the other hand, mo re Israelis ~"!n 'a ,' us : phone: 011431533 than ever seem to be traveling within the mail; [email protected] ~~""""~":,) country and in both Jerusa[em and Eilat the hotels were absolutely PACKED with write to: A-I 0 I 0 Wien, Graben vacationing Israelis. Visit our shop: www.hdrauch.com 3. Most of the coin dealers in Jerusa lem, especially the Old City, have all but 44 The Celator shut their doors due to lack of tourists and lack of material. 4. Professor Va'akov Meshorer remains in poor health, although he continues to en Guide to BIBLICAL COINS gage in some very limited numismatic work and enjoy his lovely family. He appreciates everyone's good wishes. FOURTH EDITION 5. Jerusalem coin dealer David Bar LevdV, known to many American collectors [rom his trips to the U.S. in the 80s and 90s, died by David Hendin in JclUsalem in early September. 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October 2003 45 Roman Imperial, including a Tiberius Steve Tribute Penny for $ 198 and a Galba Album's denarius fo r $220. At the end are near list #191 ly sixty medieval to modern coins, is a big mainly English, Italian and German. one with Frank Kovacs' 15'h Ma il Bid Sale nearly will be clos ing on October 1", just 1 1 0 0 as thi s issue is being picked up from lot s . our readers' mailboxes. If you're not This is a able to get your bids in under the non - wire, contact him about unsolds; ph 0 t 0 maybe the one you want didn't get lis t away! This full color, fully photo f i ! led This month's column is going to graphed (with two plates of cnlarge wit h be very short. because most of the ments) catalog offers 440 lots of coins priced under $100 - some even dealers who submit their lists are in single digits. Of primary interest still sending them to myoId Seattle to collectors of ancients will be the P.O. Box. The forwarding order from Ancient Near East section, offering Seattle has now expired, and any FRANK '1. KOVACS assorted Hephthalite and late Sasa mail sent there is likely to be re nian drachms, a sma!! selection of turned to the sender. All who would Parthian AR and.tE and a choice Kus like their lists reviewed here should hano-Sasanian anonymous drachm. In now mail them to: the ancient India section there is a va Jeff Winter M a jtl\ids..J~~ riety of AR karshapanas from the mid c/o Tom Cederl ind 6th-mid 5th centuries BCE. P.O. Box 1963 Portland, OR 97207 Now that that's out of the way, let's look at this month's lists. M&R VCoins from page 42 Coins has ••• sent their The 15,000+ ancients now listed on ---, - , .~- - ba r gain ---....,...... - ".'.. list #330. VCoins total nearly $4 million in value. This non Greek to Byzantine with a few Cru They range from modest ancients un photo list sader issues at the end . With most de r $5 to beautiful Syracuse tet contains lots estimated from $100-$1000, radrachms and Roman medallions in the ahout250 there is something beautiful and in $10,000,$25.000 range. Beyond coins, Greek to teresting for nearly every budget, VCoins also offers a wide variety of an Byzan such as a prelly AR 112 shekel from tiquities from the ancient wo rld, ranging tine coins Carthage, Roman Provincial bronz up to Egyptian pieces priced at $50,000. in all es from Thrace with mythological "The world's ancients collectors metals, themes or a charming quadrans of have discovered that VGoins is a fast most un Hadrian. For deeper poc kets. the and easy way to view the marvelous der $75 . temptations include a pedigreed El inventories of all of our great dealers," It starts ephant tetradrachm of the Seleukid explained Puetz. oul with ten Byzantine gold coins Antiochos III (estimate $16,000), a "Many thanks to everyone. Togeth from Maurice Tiberius to Androni Carthaginian AV trihemistater (esti er. we're putting on a great coin show cus II & III, priced from $110-$685. mate $12,000), and an FDe Gord at VGoins. And every day holds the Approximately half of the list is ian I denarius (estimate $4,(00). promise of new items listed and new "finds" for collectors," continued Puetz. The site can be found a t WHOLESALE TO ALL! www.vcoins.com. 100 ancient coins in flips and attributed, A diverse lot including Send us your Nero, Caesar Augustus, Alexander the Great, Bibl ical "Widow's . ~ news and Mite", etc. Only $475,00 postpaid, with satisfaction guaranteed! views (including Van Meter's book Collecting Roman COins) ~ 1Lonbon 46 The Celator tion with one particular city, this was Side in Pamphylia or Sinope in li ke fi nding the key to Shangri-La. Pro Paphlagonia? One could certainly be fessor Ziegler's catalogue included 840 come an expert in the coinage of those different dies. This vast production was cities, and probably not have to acquire more than a liule sobering for someone 1,200 coins to do it. Some cities are who had considered collecting coins known to us only through their coinage, only of this city. Would it be possible and their location in antiquity is not even to obtain anything close to a complete certain. To me, there can be no greater collection of these coins? My interest cha!Jenge than unraveling the mysteries and enthusiasm apparently exceeded my of a lost city. reservations as I took the plunge and Another aspect of collecting coins by started collecting not only by type, but mint city is that one is able to see changes Collecting by mint city by Ziegler variety. Of course, what I over time. At a city that prospered over There are about as many ways to found quickly is that there were many many centuries, even at a small isohlted collect ancient coins as there arc collec die variations, and even some new city, one can easily see from the coins tors of them. Among the most popular types, that did not exist in the sources produced there how artistic style devel approaches would certainly be the col available to Ziegler. The number of pos oped, how religious preferences changed lecting of portraits of famous people, sible die variations is probably closer and how the population was governed. and thc topical collecting of anything to 1,200 than to the 840 pub lished in In other words, the story of a people is from animals to early representations of Ziegler's initial work (already supple exposed to the collector who narrows his the numeral zero. At one time in my mented). It became obvious to me thai or her focus sufficient ly to digest the own collecting past, I searched diligently any allempt to seriously collect these nuances of narrative images and epigra for coins bearing clasped hands as a coins, at least in this way, would have phy on coins. symbol of marriage or concord. At an to be a lifelong endeavor. None of this acquired knowledge is other time, I collected ancient error coins Why would anyone want to collect of much signilicance, however, unless which were double struck in such a way the coins of a single city? I suppose the it is shared with the rest of society. We that the second image was 50% or more answer li es somewhat in the realization in the hobby have a tremendous advan off the flan. in both cases, r managed to that few of us will ever become expert tage over academics in this respect. We Hi Brett, thanks for your ques Please contact James ~Iorton , Tom Eden or tion. I know that if the damage has Steve Uoyd for advice on buying or seUing progressed too far, the coin is fin or TO be included on our mailing ~ST. ished. Some have reported that they have seen coins "reduced to a pile of green slime" - obviousl y those te1t'phOflt' +44 (0) 20 7493 5344 fax + 44 (0)20 7495 6325 ",-mail [email protected] coin s cannot be saved. From what 1 48 The Gelator have read "PYC affected coins have Congress from page 32 to vanished civilizations and cultures. an oily slimy feeling, and a strong As significant artifacts of material cul chemical smell" . I believe that if a ture coins and seals have long been 'Coins and/or seals or references to coin has a minimal amount of dam~ recognized by scholars as a sort of mir coins and/or seals in literature/texts age, then it can be stabilized by a ror to history, especially economic, po 'Coins/seals: portraits, politics, and good cleaning of Acetone. Let's see litical and social history; medievalists propaganda what others have to say. - JA H particularly have relied upon numis 'Relationships between medieval matic and sphrag istic evidence to Belljamin Bell, CIVITAS Galler coins and seals As to acetone, there should ies- " ... 'Coins and/or seals and religious supplement other fragmentary kinds of be no long-term effects (to the coin) evidence. Un ique symbols of authority studies as the liquid evaporates almost in and sovereignty, coins and seals bear 'Coins and medieval economics; stantaneously. It does not react with witness to historical events in an all but issues of medieval money manage the co i n's surface, and the only unparalleled fashion. ment or the relationship of coins to traces left behind are whatever sol In recent decades scholars have money ute is not blotted from the coin's come to appreciate numismatics and 'Coins, engraved gems and ars surface after treatment. There is a sphragistics as import ant auxiliaries to sacra plethora of other volatile chemicals 'The persistence of the classical tra art history, literary criticism, biblical (like the ether family), which also dition: medieval humanism and anti studies, history and economics. This dissolve any organic substance, but special session focuses broadly on the quarian study of ancient coins and/or acetone is the most available, legal, coins and seals of the Middle Ages as seals and ostensibly safe." medieval "stamps» of authority, and as *lmperial heritage of ancient coins Da ve Welsh, Goleta, CA- " I have tiny, but significant, windows to medi and its influence on medieval coins acqui red PVC damaged coins in eval culture and creation. and/or seals auction lots and observe that a lot The intent of this interdisciplinary For further information and to sub of the green slime seems to be de session is to reveal the contribution that mit a proposal, please contact: Susan composed plastic that comes off Solway, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, the f ie lds of numismatics and fa i rly easily with acetone. Of Barat College of DePau l University. Tel: sphragistics can make to medieval course, I don't recommend llsing 847/574-4308. studies. Ancient and medieval coins PYC, but I have seen some really and sea ls comprise tantalizing relics of ugly looking coins kept in old pvC the bygone past and constitute part of 2X2's for 30 years and have often the physical legacy that bears witness not always - been pleasantly sur prised at how well they cleaned up." Reid Goldsborough, Ph iladel phia- "Acetone is the way to go, from all I' ve heard and read. Some people soak their damaged coin in it for an hour, others use a Q-Tip. STILL IN PRINT You want pure acetone from a hard ware store rather than nail polish Martin J. Price remover, which is acetone with other chemicals added to it." The Coinage in the name of Alexander STAY T UNED NEXT M O NTH; it wi ll be the final installment rela the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus tive to long-term coin storage, and A British Mu seu m Catalogue. ZUrich/London 199 1 will contain many interesting, addi 2 cloth bound volumes, 637 pages, 159 pl ates tional readers' comments. See you next month. CARPE DIEM! H ave fun collecting - Share T he Swiss N umismati c Society is pleased to announce that (he your Hobby - Enjoy! - SEND IN late M artin Price's masterwork on the coinage of A lexander SOME QUESTIONS/COMMENTS. is stili available from the Society's d i stributor. Copyright © 2003 l ames A. Hauck Special Price for Celator readers: E-mail l im at: $275.00 includine postaee. [email protected] To order, send your cheque to : Mr. A lexander Wild, R athausgasse 30, CH 3011 Berne, Switzerland Say you phone: 0041 0313114480. fax : 004 10313114470 saw it in ~ and don 't f orget to note that you ar e a Ceialor read er! The Celator October 2003 49 while we were there, we did stumble upon Celator. I was surprised to learn that LETTERS a room with an ancient coin exhibit. For he had never attended an auction ei all one could tell from the signage, it was ther. I would guess that the majority of Continued from page 4 just a bunch of typical ancient coins. the readers of this magazine would say Maybe it was deliberate understatement, the same thing . I found Charlie boring, drivel." This is even more uncon but anyhow, the coins clearly comprised Everett's poem not only creatively scionable when you consider that Mr. the greatest treasures of the national col pleasing but also very informative. I Everett is neither a professional poet nor lection, a really eye-popping assemblage hope The Celatorwill continue to print is he being paid for his work. While I am of rarities and superb specimens. I re li ke diverse articles. not a poet and I am not sure I could have member particularly a large gold medal Frederick A. Scheeren done better than Mr. Everett's brave al lion of Galla Placidia. Washington, DC tempt, I must confess I fell that Mr. Everett But the most memorable item was an could have better edited his work, and al even larger, veritably saucer-sized gold limes mixed his metaphors. This is the piece, with the helmeted bust of the Bac extent of my literary criticism. However, I trian King Eukratides so familiar from his would never, even if I believed it to be the tetradrachms. I looked at this and said to case, call another man's work "drivel." myself, "My gosh, is that a COIN?" Indeed Liebert CooL from pg. 43 As for criticizing your decision to print it was. It is even listed in Sear, number it. I have two responses. I understand thai 7565, a Twenty-stater coin, stated to be come to the attention of a scribe who you are in chronic need of new materiel "Unique." I believe it is in fact the largest would takc an apprentice, or to be picked and generally have more space than you gold coin ever issued in the ancient world. to study in one of the official govern have articles. This alone should be answer Put that one on your list for a "show ment or temple "schools". Thus, many enough. Finally, I must ask, what has Dr. stopping" exhibit! important scribes who rose high in the Green submitted to you recently? One Frank S. Robinson Egyptian hierarchy record their lowly should only criticize another's work if he Albany, NY roots with pride in their tombs. An ex can do better and has often contributed. If treme example was the scribe Horemheb Dr. Green is so upset by either the quality Reader Found Everett's who rose 10 become Pharaoh in his own of the poetry or by its inclusion in your pub right but that is another story. lication, he should write better pieces and Poem Pleasing AI first, the perspective scribe was submit them Dr. Green did not state his profes taught the simpler Hieratic version of the Matthew S. Reid sional specialty; however, I'd be will Egyptian language by the repetitious Massachusetts ing to bet one of my Stephanaphoric copying of various texts usually on bits How About the Unique tets that he is a _ (use your imagi of stone call ed ostraca, since papyrus was expensive. Many of these have sur Gold 20 Staters Piece of nation). Tunnel vision such as his can only be achieved after long practice. I vived and sometimes appear for sale Eukratides have been collecting ancients for to collectors. When the Hieratic lan twenty-five years but I have never at guage was mastered, the student went Ae your editorial seeking input concern tended a coin auction. I am also a on to learn the hieroglyphs themselves. ing a putative ~ blockbuster" ancient coin screenwriter. I want to include a scene Although it took years of hard work exhibit, let me relate this experience: at an ancient coin auction in my cur and study, when the student finally In 1989, my wife and I visited Paris. became a scribe in his own right, it was Being a professional librarian, she was rent script. To get some authentic in sight I wrote to a well-known coin indeed cause for celebration for him keen to see the Bibliotheque Nationale. I dealer and routine contributor to The and his family. hadn't even thought about it for coins, but rillS COULD 8f TIlE £An" TIME TIiAr TllROCJ(MORTON do rORTESQUf. I1If WORL(j! 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The small ketos on the collection of the British Museum, is tistic pa rallels far closer to th e work Mars and Rhea Silvia sarcophagi at the one of the most famous and valuable of the late renaissance Ihan 10 thai Villa Mattei is actually a Renaissance artifacts in the world. With its grace of the Augustan period. In particu restoration, a fact that may explain its ful images of seven mythological fig lar, in no ancienl mythological group incorrect depiction on the vase. ures , most commonly interpreted as representation does a winged, podgy Renaissance artists are renowned Peleus, Eros, Theti s, Poseidon, Eros wi th bow fly. Rather, this image for the c lassical inspiration they Ares, Ariadne, and Aphrodite. art appears to be an invention of the sought and for the ancient iconogra scholars have long viewed the vase Renaissance, epitomized by Rapha phy, which they based their arl on. as epitom izing the zenith of Roman el's 'Triumph of Galatea' on a fr esco In the 16th century the power and glass and cameo brilliance (pro in the Villa Farnesina and by Titian's wealth of the fou r papal families, the duced ca. 30-20 SC). 'Rape of Europa' (ca. 1488-1576) . Medicis, Borgheses, Farneses, and After 400 years of conform ity th is Furthe r, the swing and twist of the Ludovisis, made it almost impossible sacred view has been dismantled by bodies of the three females on the for other private citizens to acquire research by Dr. Jerome M. Eisenberg ancient sculpture of such high stan in the September/October issue of dard. Francesco Maria Borbon del Minerva, the International Review of Monte (b. 1549), the original owner Anc ie nt Art and Archaeology. Dr of the Portland Vase, had served Eisenberg, who founded the maga under Ca rdinal Ferdinanda de' Med zine 13 years ago and is its editor ici since 1581, and in 1588 del Mon in-Chief, set out on his quest for the te succeeded him as cardinal to be tru th behin d this vase in 1971. Even come head of the Medici household though the figures depicted appear in the Palazzo Madama, the MediCi to be familiar mythological charac palace in Rome. The vase was sup ters, or even historical people in a posedly fou nd in 1582 on the Monte mythological context, Eisenberg was del Grano in a sarcophagus alleged perplexed why several dozen differ by Fabrizio Lazzaro, the owner of the ent interpretations have been sug property, to have contained the body gested for the scene since its discov of the Emperor. Lazzaro had already ery ca. 1590 in a sarcophagus in the amassed a fine collection of antiqui Monte del Grano, close to Rome . ties housed in the Palazzo del Bufa- The past 50 years alone have wit 10 in Rome. The vase, however, was nessed no less than 24 (of a total of not mentioned at the time of the dis 54) different interpretations. The Portland Vase - perhaps a Renais covery of the sarcophagus. How The reason for this confusion, Dr. sance Masterpiece? (Photo courtesy of could such a masterwork have been Eisenberg proposes, is that the artist the Trustees of the British Museum). overlooked? Perhaps it was really behind the vase did not possess a true comm issioned at that time by Lazzaro knowledge of classical mythology, and or del Monte so that the latter could so only used sources artistically, with vase are almost Rubenesque. upstage the four papal families. Cer out an awareness of his protagonists' Rubens himself (1577-1640) in fact tainly Cardinal del Monte would have proper mythological meaning in antiq produced a painting of Mars and been a prime target for someone with uity. Such artistic naivete could clear Rhea Silvia, which is now in Vaduz a fine work of art to sell. ly not have occurred during Roman and demonstrates the Villa Mattei times. So who was this masterwork's sarcophagus's key role as a source Va se History mystery cre ato r? For Eisenberg, the of renaissance inspiration. T he Barberini or Portland Vase, figures must have been executed 'af A further mystery is the treatment today one of the star attractions in ter th e antique' by a brilliant later 16'" of the ketos, a mythological sea ser the British Museum, has long daz century artist, perhaps an engraver of pent, seen sitting in the lap of a god zled admirers with its opaque, white cameos, based primarily upon a mis dess (Thetis?) on the vase. It has no mythological scenes cut in lustrous interpretation and adaptation of a well forelimbs, as with a serpent, but also cameo relief, set against a cobalt known early 3f<1 century AD Roman lacks the feet or paddles of a marine bl ue background. This masterwork marble sarcophagus relief 01Ma rs and creature. This creature is actually a has a long histor y. The earliest Rhea Silvia in the villa Mattei, Rome. pastiche of various ancient depic record 01 its existence dates to the This sarcophagus relief has been tions and is, no doubt, a hybrid Re 16th century when it was noted at the known since at least the first hair of naissance mix. From the Hellenistic Palazzo Madama in the possession the15th century. Similar scenes on period on it usually has a 'squared of Cardinal del Monte, who had pu r three other 3f<1 century sarcophagi re off nose', fins on the back, a 'beard' chased it around 1582. When the liefs in the Villa Mattei and Palazzo springing down from the head, and Ca rd inal died in 1627, the vase was Rondinini could have served as simi prominent ea rs. The Portland Vase's lar inspiration. miniaturized ketos does not appear continued on prior page ... 60 The Gelator m Auctions • Fixed Price Lists • Purchases and Sales Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. Leading The World in Ancien~ Medieval & British Numismatics United States Office: Post Office Box 479, Lancaster, PA 17608-0479, USA Tel: 717.390.9194 Fax: 717.390.9978 London Office: 14 Old Bond Street, London W1 S 4Pp, UK Tel: +44.20.7495.1888 Fax: +44.20.74W.5916 Complimentary Catalogue On Request [email protected] -UlA':RJJ' lioin@aUeries is pleased to announce ilHegular AUTUMN MAIL BID SALE of ANCIENT AND MODERN COINS OF THE WORLD AND THE UNITED STATES Closing Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 Ancien! coins for every interest and pocketbook Profusely Illustrated Catalogues Available Now! 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