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Vol. 8, No. 11 FEATURES November 1994
6 Astrological omens commemorated The CeitlToJ( on Roman coins: The Ides of March Incorporating Roman Coins and Culture by Michael R . Molnar Publisner/Senior Editor Wayne G. Sayles 16 Sasanian bronze coins Editor minted in Alexandria Steven A. Sayles Page 6 by Ed Dobbins Office M anager The Ides of March by Michael R. Molnar Stephanie Schultz 34 The case of the curious coin of Production Ass t. Caligula: A provincial bronze Nick Popp restruck with legend-only dies M I Parnell Nelson by Thomas P. McKenna The Cefator (ISSN 1# 10480986) is an 45 The sword of peace independent journal by Norman A. Rubin published on the first day 01 each month at 141 Lodi Street, Lodi, WI 53555. It is circulated internationally DEPARTMENTS through subscriptions Page 16 and special distributions. Sasanian bronze coins Subscription rates, by Ed Dobbins 2 The Gelator's Point of View payable in U.S. fu nds, are $27 per year (second 4 Leiters to the Editor - Quotes from the Past class) within the United States; $30 to Canada; 12 Antiquities by David Liebert $48 per year to all other addresses (Air Printed 22 Coins of the Bible by David Hendin Matter). Advertising and copy deadline is 24 Through the Looking Glass by David L. Vagi the lirst 01 each month. Unsolicited articles 26 People in the News - Profiles in Numismatics and news releases are welcome, however 28 Just for Beginners by Wayne G. Sayles publication cannot be guaranteed. Second 30 Coming Events class postage paid Page 34 (USPS #006077) The curious coin of Caligula 32 Art and the Market at Lodi, WI 53555. by Thomas P. McKenna Copyri ght ©1994, 42 Book News Celator, Inc. Postmaster: send address Long Before Columbus by Joe Rose About the cover: 46 changes to P.O. Box 123, Reverse of a Brutus "Eid Mar" Ladi, WI 53555 50 Coin File - Trivia - Humor denarius commemorating the assassination of Julius Cae 608-592-4684 51 Professional Directory (same lor FAX, after hours sar. Photo courtesy of Clas activate with asterisk sical Numismatic Group, Inc. 60 Index of Advertisers· Classifieds on touch tone phone)
Deadline for the December issue is Tuesday, November 1 portive member of the ANS and to avai l themselves of the many benefits and servi ces offered by the society. More information about membership may be obtained by writing to Arlene • • Jacobs at The American Num ismati c Society, Broadway at IS5th, New Commentary by Wayne G. Sayles York, NY 10032, or by ca ll ing (21 2) 234-3130. Although the ancient coin market sti ll remains a little soft, the Boston new day may be dawning for the bou rse noor opening being coordi International was in my opi nion oneof 1 collectors of ancient coins. na ted with the symposium adjourn the most enj oyable and productive We reported, some months ment. This proved to be an excellent conventions that I have evcr attended. 11 back, the notable success ofa arrangement, with the symposium and It was very much a social as well as numi smatic sy mposium at Berkeley bourse benefi ting mutually. The two commercial event and collectors came which brought together rcpresentati ves session auction (Friday and Saturday great di stances to participate. We of the collecti ng, academic and insti· evenin gs) held by Classical Numis spoke with several West Coast and tutional communities. This month in matic Group also added an important Midwest coll ec tors on the noor, and a Boston we witncsscd an event which elemen t and depth to the overall pro few European collectors as well. The may set a new standard for "Interna gram. fac ili ties were excellen t. tional" conventions. That wonderful Among the many contri butors who Accordi ng to Lucien Birkler, the forum which had been pioneered in deserve credit for assurin g the success convention is scheduled fo r an encore Washington and Berke ley was ex of this effort were Da vid Gordon Mit on Septcmber 7- 1O, 1995. We applaud panded to include thc professional nu te n of Boston's Society Hi storia the efforts of all those involved and mismaticcommunity by combining the Numorum ; Arthur Houghton of the look forward to next year's trip to American Num ismatic Society's"Out American Nu mi smatic Society; Peter Boston! reach" symposium with a major coin Weiss of Brown Un iversity;and Lucien • This has been a busy Inonth for all show. Birkler, the BlNC organizer. Without orus: we are mail in g our semi-annual card deck; preparing the annual BestoJ Th e Celator; and fittin g in two shows (Milwaukee and Min neapolis). We "It simply sings to me!" have also produced a new nyer ex plaining ou r services and offerings, which is located in the center-fold of There arc always inherent risks in the remarkable cooperation and vision this month's iss ue. an innovative undertakin g like thi s, of these group leaders the idea could I suppose this is the price one has to but risky ve ntures can be all the more not have become reality. Again , as I pay for a vacation in Greece! It was, impressive in their success. Well , sue· suggested following the Berkeley sym by the way. a great outi ng. We char· cess was universally ack nowledged in posi um . thi s coalition of academicians, tered a 32-fool Attalia sloop out of the halls of the Swissotel Boston, site hobbyists, and now professional nu Corfu and sailed south as far as Ithaca of the first ann ual Boston In tern ation al mismatists could no t have been and Kephallonia. The weather was Numismatic Convention. The four achieved without the good graces and beauti ful, water pristi ne (excepl for day affa ir began Thursday evening with uni ve rsal prestige of the American Levkas harbor), and company par a keynote address by the venerable Numi smatic Society. The implemen excellance. We enjoyed huge Greek Leo Mildenberg, followed by a sub tation of a serious outreach program salads an d volumes of local wine in scription dinner. Dr. Mildenberg has rapidl y brought the ANS to the some of the most charmin g spots one shared with fellow numismatists a fo refront of our hobby, and has lent a could imagine. On the return leg we "Dream Collection" of coins based on new measure of respectabil ity to the slopped at Actium, whe re Eric his personal stylistic preferences. Ex hobby by fac ilitating a long overdue (Mc Fadden) and I stumbled blindly plain ing why a particular tetradrachm in teraction between coll ectors and arou nd the ruin s of Nicopolis. It 's of Cat ana was chosen above all others, scholarly institutions. Wc can notover hard to find fault with the world righ t hc admitted " It si mpl y sings to me!". state the importance of thi s initiative. at th is moment! This comment succinctly embodies thc We should keep in mind. however, As you can sce by the Coming essence of collecting and it effectively that the ANS is a non-profit organ iza Even ts, this is reall y the season for set thc tone fo r the events which fo l tion. It is dependent upon its members ancient coins. Since we always seem lowed. and benefactors for program support to be rattlingon about shows and sales, Symposium speakers from each of and for its very existence. We cer why not take a few momen ts to tell us the participating groups held court on tain ly encouragc every reader of The how they look from you r point of Friday and Saturday mornings, with Celator to become an active and sup· view?
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November 1994 3 bly resulted in the slipshod issues of as a useful starting point in determining Tarsus, and the varying weights of the artistic validity of an antiquity. the coins themselves would have bal I do feel some clarification is needed anced each other out when weighed in regarding Mr. Liebert's generalization large un its, such as a hundred or a Ihat "an antiquity can be most eaSily thousand. defined as an object which was manu On a recent visit to the ANS I was factured at least 500 years ago·. Within very surprised to find lour examples of the framework of the Western Art Tra Aeginetan staters (the familiar turtle) dition and commonty accepted dating J,., which had been overstruck by King by historians, the demarcation is taken Azbaal of the Cypriote city of Kilion to be the years encompassing the fall More on weight standards (449-425 B.C.). Evidenlly, the Aegi of the Roman Empire and the onset of netan standard of a stater weighing the Middle Ages. Using the commonly In regards to Mr. Vagi's interesting 12.3 grams was in heavy use in the accepted dating pushes back by ap article [October, 1994J, I have several Cycladic islands, Crete, and in portions proximately t ,000 years the dividing points to make. While the study of of southwestern Asia Minor. Being tine separating antiquity from the medi weight standards may seem mundane, also of a similar weight 10 the Persic eval world. Mr. Liebert's dating per it can reveal important questions about standard employed on Cyprus, these haps holds true for non-Western cul the coins, such as different attributions coins served as pre-prepared blanks, tures, but given the focus of this maga to mints, rulers, periods of issue, and of which the Cypriotes already knew zine I feel some further discussion nec so on. These are some of the most the fineness due togeographic proxim essary. basic facets of classical numismatics, ity and probably economic ties. Due And now lor something completely things upon which we would all rather perhaps to trade imbalance and the different, I found Mr. Vagi's piece, "Col spend more time, and I think his novel consistently high purity " f Cypriote coin lecting with a higher purpose" in the comparison of different coins with the age, very few foreign coins made it September issue to be very enlighten same weights may be helpful 10 us all. onto the island, but apparently the ing. Mr. Vagi's method of collecting As far as the issues of Alexander turtles were fam ilia r to and were ac while discovering the story behind each the Great go, it is interesting to note cepted by at least Azbaal, a very pow coin is an approach I've tried to use in that the liIatima issues show great di eliul king. Therefore, our understand assembling my own collection. Il wouid versity in their weight, and that the ing of weight standards helps us to do much to elevate the industry if more fluctuation may be somewhat geo understand how the ancients saw the individuals including deaters and col graphiea1. T he tel radrachms Irom coins, valued them, who they traded lectors would adopt Mr. Vagi's collect Amphipolis, an enormously productive with, how they were paid, etc. I hope ing philosophy. All too often, one is mint , rarely exhibit bad weights, that if Dr. Saslow reads th is, he will confronted in the marketplace with ig whereas the issues from Tarsus and come to know thai there are people norance, apathy, and greed without Babylon, also major centers of produc who actually do like to discuss such concern for the rich and fascinating tion, show great diversity. Tarsus pro thin9s as ~Roman Provincial iconogra cultural legacy of which coins are a duced a large number of blundered phy" and "Late Roman mint-marks", symbol. I invite readers to comment coins, some showing Incorrect spell and yes, weight standards too. further on the nature of art and antiq ings of Alexander, and so forth. An uity, and on collecting philosophies. other mint of fairly large scale was Bill Bubelis Byblus in Phoenicia, and it too pro Washington Don McKenzie duced lifetime or immediately posthu Indiana mous coins of greatly differing weights. Attributions to mints previously were Art and collecting based on often incorrect interpretations re ad with interest Mr. Liebert's Patination opponent of monograms and symbols, and later article on the definition of ancient art in Several items related to the state of on the rather unsatisfactory interpreta the October Gelator. His premise that the art of collecting (and dealing in) tion of style. The weights of the coins "An antiquity, to be considered a work ancient coins struck me in the Septem in question thus become important in of ancient art, must exhibit some de ber Gelator. First, 1 was startled by determining the chronology of the en gree of aesthetic content imparted to it Wayne Sayles' statement in his "Just tire series; Martin Price has assigned by its creator" is certainly convenient lor Beginners" column that coins, par most of the coinage produced in though perhaps overly simplistic in deal ticularly those from hoards, are now Phoenicia and Cyprus, as well as West ingwith this problematic subject. Marcel being commercially ret oned and ern Asia Minor, to Ihe period when the Duchamp and others associated with repatinated. While I am not strictly a Macedonian veterans and mercenar the art of Dada would have certainly "beginner", having collected my first ies were re turning home. These sol preferred a broader interpretation of Roman coin back in 1960, this news diers were paid huge sums. The mass what is art and what is not. Neverthe rather amazed me. Having come origi production of coins would have possi- less, Mr . liebert's definition d(.les serve nally Irom England, where I was a cus tomer of Seaby's, and remembering the admonition in their 1958 Standard Gatalogue of the Goins of Great Britain QUOTES FROM THE PAST and Ire/and, "Speaking generally, don't clean coins.~ I've even felt a little guilty "Possunt, quia posse videntur." cleaning coi ns, let alone adding toning (They could do it because they believed they could do It.) or patination! Perhaps this practice is another component of the "new school" Publius Vergilius Maro - Vergil (70-19 B.C.) Please turn to page 48 4 The Celator These are just a few of the quality ancient coins offered in our Mail Bid Sale Closing November 1, 1994 Catalog & Prices Realized $15 Sendforyourcopytoday!
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November 1994 5 Astrological omens commemorated on Roman COIns:• The Ides of March
by Michael R. Moll.ar
The assas si nation of Julius Caesar Brutus glorified the Ides of March 3S th e Senate would try to fulfill the is one of th e most significant events the day when Roman liberty was saved prophecy by mak ing Caesar a kin g, a in history. Brutus propagandized his from Iyranny. He and hi s accomplices despised thought among republicans. I leading role in Ihe plol on the Ides of believed their success was assured by Even if the Senate did not beslow Marc h by striking coins that are among an omen. We will see that this was an kingshi p upon Caesar. a victory over the rarest and most im portant in nu astrological event in whi ch Caesar's Parthia would give him the politi cal mismatics. Ironicall y, Brutus boldly star would "set" on the Ides of March. power to become king regardless of displayed his portrait on them, after There arc a number of events lead the Senate's opinion. Thus. we ha ve having opposed Caesar for striking ing to the Ides of March that scaled the ingredients fo r a self-fulfilling coins with hi s portrait. The reverse Caesar's fa te. Most importantly, Cae prophecy: Caesar's oppon ~n t s desper side is even more historicall y signi fi sar was preparing to leave fo r the con ately needed to act soon, and the ap canl. Here. the assass in alion is com quest of Parlh ia three days after the proaching Ides of March was said to memorated by a liberty cap nanked by Ides of March. His opponents believed be dangerous for him . a pai r of daggers, which arc above Ihe the rumors that the Sybyl said only a The Ides of March was an ordinary legend EID MAR (Eidibus MartUs), king could conquer Parthia, and that day before Caesar's death. In the Ro man calendar the Ides simply marked the fifteenth day in March, May, J ul y, and October, and the th irteenth day for the other months, Few assassination Ie ®lhe QIurlllsifie ~411f'f'e lif dates are remembered, especially af (0 div. oj RCCA Ltd.) located at ter many centuries, but the Ides o f March became memorialized because 111 South Orange A venue· South Orange, NJ 07079 the haruspex, Spurinna, correctl y pre dicted that this day in March was quasi A complete collectors gallery sellin g: fatales fo r Julius Caesar.2 However, U.S., ancient, & foreigll coins, U.S . & foreign stamps, predicting that a certain date in the paper money, tokens & medals, Classical Antiquities future would be dangerous fo r a spe of Greece, Rome, Egypt, & Jll daea, Pre-Columbian, cific individuat was not the custom ary practice of an orthodox haruspcx. American Indian , African, & Ethnographic objects A haruspex was a priest who made & artifacts, along with historical and popular autographs prophecies by inspectin g the entrails & manuscript ma terial, Revolutionary War & earlier Americana. of sacrificed animals. Romans used th is ancient Etruscan practice to make BUYING & SELLING - FREE APPRAISALS prognostications for the event on hand. "You'd be amazed at what we wi ll buy & how much we will pay" The role of the haruspex is exempli fied when Jul ius Caesar asked for a reading of the omens before he entered Ie ®lhe QIurlllsifie ~411f'f'e the ill-fated Senate meeting. An ani mal was sacri ficed and its viscera were Prop.: Dr. Arnold R. Saslow inspected by the haruspex, Spurinna, A ssociate Director: Erik G old Assistant Director: Charlene Saslow who interpreted the sacrifice as signi Phone (201) 762-1588 • Fax (201) 761-8406 fyi ng grcat danger, apparently death. Caesar had the sacrifice repeated sev Gall ery hours: Monday to Saturday 10:00 - 6:00 eral times. but chose to ignore each Vi sa. MasterCard & American Express Accepted bad prognostication. Finally, Caesar grew impaticnt and went to the Sen G{ft Certificates Issued ale tlleeti ng. Spurinna's Ides of March omen, however, was not these di sas- 6 The Gelator trous sacrifices that were used to st ren gthen hi s warnings. Rather, the Ides of March omen was a prediction that Spurinna had made 30 days in adva nce) Spccifying a future datc as ominous for a person was more famil iar to thc practice of an astrologer than a haruspex . Spurinna was effectively the court soothsayer for the Senate; he was a * I' - - a' East Q0 I -- -- Wesl famous haruspex. Nevertheless. there Ho r izon is evidence that he made astrological predictions as well. He is believed \ 0 have been the summa haruspex who warned Caesar not to sail to Africa in the Civil War until the winter solstice had passed.4 This kind of prognosti cati on is more typical of astrology than haruspicial arts.5 As Michael Grant has notcd, astrology partnered closely with Roman religion and philosophy; Figure 1 il never supplanted the customary re This is the zodiacal chart for sunn'se on the Ides of March. Venus, Q. is ligious practices, just supplemented heliacally setting 8 ~ from the Sun 0 while in square to maleficent Satum, 7. them.6 Thc gcometrical celesti al alignmcnts were considered to be an other fo rm of omens. Thus, it is not Mars. 0'. For these planets there was wide. so th ree signs total 90" to make unusual that Spurinna wou ld have used a particular aspeci or celestial align the corner of a square. There were astrology with his di vination. ment thai was unquestionably evil. other bad aspects involving these plan In analyzing the omen of the Idcs This geometrical relat ionship occurred ets. but Saturn bei ng in squarc was of March for astrological connections, when either planet was three zod iacal unequivocall y among the worst, and we arc confronted by two crucial ques signs from an important body, such as was associated with "violent dcath".9 tion s. The first is what celestial align the Moon or Sun. Each sign is 30° However, Saturn bei ng in square with ment would have been recognized among ast rologers as dangerous. The omen wo uld have to be obviously harmful from the standpoint of ancient astrological practi ces. The second PUBLIC AUCTION question is why did the omen focus on Julius Caesar. There had to be some IN ZURICH, SWITZERLAND thing that was unmistakably associated On the 7th & 8th of November, 1994 with Caesar's personal fortune. We know that Spurinna had indicated that the omen grew more thrcatening as the Idcs of March approached, and thatlhe danger would cease after that day.? No. XXVII Thus. we have some importan t infor mation to help our investigation. ANCIENT COINS: Figure I shows a zodiacal chart il Greek, Roman lust rating the sky at sunrise on March 15.44 B.C. All the planets arc in the eastern, morning sky. The Moon is waning in its last quarter, which lends some credence to the story that. on the ANC IENT GEMS, CAMEOS, JEWELRY night before the assassination, Caesar woke \0 see his wife Calpurnia by the ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBJECTS light of the Moon when she was hav ing a nightmare about his murder.8 Ncar the Moon is Jupiter, '4, which is Fully Illustrated Catalogue: US$40.00 - prepaid potentia ll y a good astrological align ment, but this is overwhelmed by one of the worst aspects: Saturn, ", is in FRANKSTERNBERGAG square (quartile) to the Sun,O. Mer Schanzengasse 10, 800 1 Zurich, Switzerl and cury, ~ I , and Venus, '('. Ancient astrologers watchcd two Tel. 0 II 4 1 11252 30 88, Fax 0 II 4 1 11252 4067 planets for bad effects: Saturn, It, and November 1994 7 thc Sun leading up to the Ides of March comet and soared across the sky to By astro nomical defi nition, a docs no t explain why Caesar was in take its place among the slars. 13 Even planet becomes visible when it under tended as the "star-crossed" victim. Ovid related Ve nus to Caesar's for goes a hel iacal rising, and in visible at There was something much more sig tune. Therefore, we ask what was so its hcliacal selling. Ancient astrolo nificant and climactic. important about the planet Venus, gers, however, did not equate v i sib i !~ T here is strong evidence that other than being in square with Sat ity w ith heliacal rising or sett ing. Spurinna's omen was re lated not to the urn on the days leading up to the Ides T hey real ized that determining a Sun or Mercury, but to Venus being in of March. planet's visibility was complicated. square with Saturn. Caesar claimed Most people are aware of the ad Visibility depended on more than the ancestry with Venus through the gens age that good fort un e is when "one's distance between the Sun and planel, Julia. 10 He boldly propagandized this star is rising". This ancient astrologi wh ich astrologers could easily calcu relationship and considered Venus as cal metaphor describes a planet that is late. They needed to know how far his guardian and patron. I I He erected in the process of distancing itself from the Sun was below the horizon at the a temple to her as Venus Victrix after the bright Sun. Relative to the Sun, moment the planet had risen, which narrowly heat ing his opponents in the planet appears to be rising. The was a difficult calculation.15 Astrolo the Civil War. 12 His coinage also at plane t's emergence from the Sun's gers avoided this time-consuming tests 10 his devotions to this goddess. hrightness is called a he/iawl rising, computation by adopting a canonical About two-fifths of the denarii asso which happens once in a period of sev number: one angle between the Sun ciated with Caesar make references 10 eral months. (This should not be con and planet would apply to all risings Venus. Thus, the goddess' planet was fused with diu m al risi ng, thaI happens and scttings of the planet. Claud ius in all likel ihood watched by diviners every day as the Eurth rotates). When Ptolemy (ca. A.D. 150) and Firmicus such as Spurinna for signs of Caesar's a planet such as Jupiter or Venus un Maternus (ca, A.D. 335) gave the same fale . derwent a heliacal rising, this was be astrological heliacal angle for Ve Caesar's astrological star, Venus, lieved to indicate powerful, good nus. 16 They claimed that Venus had shou ld not be confused with the fa magical effects. On the other hand, a heliacally risen when it emerged 8° mous sidus iI/til/til, the comet that ap heliacal setting had the opposite as from the Sun. Of course, whcn Venus peared soon after his murder, and was trologicul effects. During the time was approaching the Sun, it would hc commemorated on a denarius of Au leading up to the disappearance in to liacally set also 8° from the Sun . gustus. According to Ovid (ca. A,D. lhe hright sky, a planet's powers were E)lamillillg the localion.of Venus on 8), the lore associated with the comet believed to be weakened by the Sun's March 15,44 B.C., we sec that Vcnus is that Venus (!) was lifting Caesar's rays, and made vulnerable 10 bad ef had passed through 8° from the Sun, soul to heaven when it burst forth as a fects. 14 leaving {he morning sky to be- -+
YOU CAN OWN THE MOST UNUSUAL MONEY OF THE GREEK WORW!! These small copper pieces cast in the shape of dolphins are totally different from other Greek coins. They are made of copper, but the earliest copper Sicilian coins appeared about 100 years later. They arc cast, but are older by over 200 years thanlhe earliest Italic and Roman cast money. Finally, they arc made in the shape of a sea mammal, the dolphin (the Greeks considered the dolphin to be a fish) . There was no other such money in the Greek world!! Copper dolphins first appeared in Otbia between 550-525 B.C. Olbia was founded by Miletians in the early si )l th century B.C .. at the mouth of the Gipanis River (South Boog) near its meeting with the Black Sea, and not so far from the detta orthe Borisphen (Dneper). Apotlo-Do tphinium had been the most important god of the M i letian settlers, and a dolphin was the main altribUie of this god. Small. cast dolphins at first were made as sacrificial subjects for Apollo, but soon they started to be a currency, and were used by the local settlers as a pri vate money . Dolphins were ci rcu lated in Olbia and the surrounding vicinity. About 430-41 0 B.C. , the issue of dolphins had been taken under the con tro t of the Polis (city-state). Dolphins became flat on one sidc, and the inscription appeared in that area. One of the two known inscriptions is "0Y'". These dolphins were made for a very short time. and they are rare. These fish-coins were the last figure-shaped coins in the Greek world . This offering is a specialized coHection which had been assembled over a number of years, with attention to detailed varieties. There are no e)lact duplicates. We di vided this collection into si mple groups by type and condition. You choose the type, we pick the coin. BLACK SEA AAEA . OLBIA. SEAA-1684 (£299). ~~ ~ !5-~:""" t°---.::::::, ~ VF-$95 F-$65 VF- $75 F-$50 VF-$160 F-$100 Length 2S-30mm Length 13-22 mm Length 23-27mm with BY We use the totlowirog grad ing system: F, Well del ifle Berk, Harl an J., Eastern Roman S uccessors of the Scstcrtius. Reg. $20.00 Special $15.00 (B Y 104) Berk, Ha rl an J., Roman Gold Coins of the Medieval World. Reg. $20.00 Special $ 15.00 (BY 105) Carson. Hill and Kent. Latc Roman Bronze Coinage. Reg. $2S.00 Special $20.00 (R 162) Hoberman, Gerald, T he Art of Coins a nd Their Photography. Reg. $9S.00 Special $75.00 (X IDS) Holloway, R. Ross, The Art and Coinage of Magna Graecia. Reg. $50.00 Special $35.00 (GR228) . Kellner, Die Munzen del' Rcichsstadt Niirnberg. Reg. $65.00 Special $25.00 (M 136) Klein and Raff, Die Wiirttcmbcrgischcn M unzen von 1693· 1797. Reg. $6S.00 Special $25.00 (M 134) Kle in a nd Raff. Die Wiirttcmbcrgischcn Munze n von 1798-1873. Reg. $6S .OO Special $25.00 (M 13S) Levy, Bob, From the Coin's Point of View. 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David, Greek Imperial Coins and Their Values, $85.00 (GII02); Sear, David, Roman Coins and Their ValUes, $75.00 (R 107). PRICES GOOD UNTIL DECEMBER 20, 1994 POSTAGE: POMage will be billed al (0$1 plus a handling charge. The minimum charge for US onlcrs is $5.00. Orders 10 Canooa $1.00. Overseas orders $10.00. l'AV~ IENT': Paymen1should be m:l(k: in oovanttofthc: .hipmenlof any boob. yOlO may pay by check. monc:yorde •. orcreditcard (Visa and Me). tfpaying bycre November 1994 9 come an evening star a few weeks deflected any bad connotations from 6 Grant, Michae l, The World of Rome, later. Thc heliacal sctting of Venus on Trajan. This is analogous to Augus (Meridian, New York. 1987), pp. 149- the Idcs of March was exacerbated by tus' interpretation of the comet, an 176. being in square with thc harmful planet unquestionably bad omen , as the wan 7 Suetonius. Caesar, 81; see also Valerius Saturn. Spurinna realized a month in dering soul of Caesar, the sidus Maximus, op. cit. advance that the powers of Venus Julianus. g Plutarch. Caesar, 63. would become progressively weaker 9 PtOlemy, Telrabiblos, III 10: Maternus, Being aware of the impact of an Malilesis. VII. XXII!.!. as it headed for a heliacal setting. cicnt astrological practices, we can 10 Venus as Caesar's star is corroborated Caesar would then lose the magical now better appreciate how Spurinna by Bouche-Leclercq. A., L'Astrologie protection of his patron goddess and contrihuted to the intrigue and subter Grecque, (Culture et Civilisation, succumb to Saturn's evil. fuge leading to the assassination. He 8ruxelles, 1899, rep. 1963), pp. 369.1. There is compelling evidence that was not just a dramatic prop, as in 548,552.3,613.2. heliacal transitions were among the Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, II Manilius, Astronomica, I . 79S. most auspicious of ancient astrologi warning Caesar ahout impending 12 Caesar changed this to Venus Genetfix cal cvents. The famous Biblical pas doom. Given the level of superstitious (the Mother of the Ju lian clan) because sage, "We have seen his star in the beliefs in omens, we can see how Spur Pompey had already dedicated a temple to Venus VietTi x (the Victori east." refers to a he liacaJ rising of Ju inna's omen may have encouraged the ous). Pompey's temple was next to his piter that coincided with the events conspirators. Consequently, Ihe assassi theater. where Caesar would he slain. 17 discussed in an earlier article. Also, nation of Julius Caesar on the Ides of 13 Ovid. Metamorphosis, 15,843-851. a heliacal sctting relates to an enig March was an astrological legacy. Julius 14 Ptolemy. Tetrabiblos, II. 6. matic aurcus struck under Trajan.IS Caesar died because his star had scI. 15 Ptolemy, Almagest, XIII. 7. Ptolemy This coin's reversc cvidently dcpicts demonstrated how the seasonal change a very close conjunction of the plan References & Comments of the Sun's and planet's inclination cts Jupiter and Mercury, which is now 1 Dio Cassius. 64. 15. with respect to the horizon determined realized to have occurred when Jupi 2 Valerius Maximus, 1. 6, 13 first and last visibility. ter had heliacally set. Similar to the 3 Ibid. 16 Maternus, Mathesis, II. IX . I : Ptolemy, Telrabibios, 10. Ptolemy's source astrological conditions of the Ides of 4 Cicero. De Divinatione, 2. 24. 52. III. 5 Cramer, F.H., Astrology ill Roman Law is prohahly from the firs! century March, this heliacal sctting had a bad and PolitiCJ. (American Philosophical B.C. connotation that altered the meaning Society. Phi ladelphia, 1954). p. 77. 17 Molnar.M.R., 1991. The Celalor. 5. 8. of the heneficent conjunction. Thus, Cramer originally pointed out a possible 18 Mol nar, M.R .. 1993 , The Cefalor. 7, presenting deified Vespasian on the astrological connection with the Ides of 38. coin glorified a deceased emperor and March . freeman & Sear Now Available! [ FIXED PRICE LIST #2 ] Featuring 150 Celtic, Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins oj incomparable quality. All pieces are illustrated. Mailing Address: Phone/Fax (310)202-0641 P.O. Box 5004 or Phone (818) 993-7602 Chatsworth, CA 91313 Fax (818) 993-6119 10 The Gelator ,,", Cnl', IS), P.Nf ~ BYIANTINI: 71 CARIA . "~"a.,, . -lOOBC, "EIl . TI'iS I1 November 1994 11 Antiquities The Djed column in Egyptian art and mythology in wall paintings and seen on painted carnelian, lapis-lazuli. bronze, and by David Liebert coffins and other objects. gold, to name only a few. In basic form it is a pi ll ar sur In fact, the l55th chapter of the mounted by four horizontal bars. In Book of the Dead tells us that it should Most collectors of ancient Egyptian more elaborate representations, it is be made o f gold and placcd on the art arc probably familiar with the surmounted by thc liter crown associ neck of th e deceased. The proper "Djcd" column, which is often en ated with Osir is, and has human hands ritual of the Djcd, sometimes referred countered as an amulet, as well as fre wh ich hold the crook and nail. 11 ap to as the "tet", would enable the de quently appearing as a symbol on olher pears as an amulet in many different ceased to pass through the gates of the Egyptian an. It is often encountered materials, including faience, wood, underworld. As a hieroglyph, it meant "stabi lity" or "continuity of power". It was 31so used extensively in life as a divine cult symbol. For c)lam pl e, in We have a small number of the New Kingdom it played un impor tant role in the monarch's jubilee cer Holy Land Bronze Age emonies. solidifying the royal identi fication with Osiris. shell shaped pottery oil lamps. There has been much speculation 1t as to its e)laCI meaning. There is some c. 5 • VF, some with minor repairs and restorations. evidence that the symbol prcdated the cult of Osiris, with which it was latcr $82.43 each identified. It appears, fore)lample. in the step pyramid of King Djoser at The Time Machine Co. SllQQlIra, dating about 2600 B.C. P.O. Box 282, Flushing Station, Queens, NY 11367 Some have suggested that it represents an a ltar, or even several altars in a row (718) 544·2708 depicted as if superim posed on one another from a pre-dynastic sanctuary. Others have suggested that it repre sents a mason's table, a Nilometer used to measure the rise o f the Nile, a FRANK L. KOVACS bundle of reeds. or an artist's easel. Yet another theory is that it stood for an abstrllct concept such as the four Ancient Coins & Antiquiti es regions of the known world. since 1965 Whatever its originlll mean in g. the Egyptians soon connected it with the emerging cult of Osiris, lind in lateT Working with collectors to build fine collections 0/ Greek, times it was inseparable from this asso Roman and Byzantine coins. ciation. The Book of the Dead itselfcal ls it the backbone of Osiris, and as such it We offer the benefits of 30 years in the business, involved in came to symbolize his divine protection. Although it is primaril y associated with serious research and a regular presence in the international Osiris, other deities such as the moon market. And still in loue with ancients. deity Chensu often hold Djcd columns as symbols of power. While our expertise in locating, Quthenticating, and correct Collectors desirous of acquiring an pricing will be especially ualuable for the advanced col/ector, example of this interesting ancient Egyp collectors of every stage are welcome. As we sell primarily' tian religious symbol can easily do so, directly to individuals (via correspondence and shows) new as faience amulets of the Djed column arc rather common, and can usuall y be customers are invited to discuss their interests with us. purchased for rather nominal sums, of ten undcr$ IOO. One might in fact make price Occasional mail bid and fixed lists. an interesting collection of di fferent types of Djed columns andlor Egyptian Fax (4t5) 574· t995 Phone (4 t 5) 574-2028 artworks featuring the Djed. although SOOle of the more elaborate e)lamples P.O. Box 25300. San Maleo, California 94'I01~·5cIOO can run into a bit more money to say th e least. 12 The Gelator C1rxalll. 01. 0 1111-211 AR ~rU. Sot. C-39. 'If' ... __ ...._ . ... ____. 23.00 AR~RoH1e""_ I'IIiIip all(! PtIiIip 8it Err"\l C·7118 aXFtf ". 20,00 Tet •.• Te1 ,ad,achm. ~n. _ o.na"U I . S. SI..S"sle " ;us, MI..Anlon"'ianu•. Plluti n• • w_ofC . ....1It lid. So2671 . VF ._ ...... 195.00 ,o,A Ivt.. Valolian 5 Gal. C·792b. TERMS: AllcO November 1994 13 Common to unique: Another $1,000,000 Berk sale The $1,000,000 level will be sur offering, along with a near mint state Tarentum and Metapontum, all in mint passed for the third lime in a row with aureus of Aelius of the linest style, and state condition. The area of Macedonia the release of Harlan J . Bark ltd.'s mint state aureii 01 Faustina Sr. and features an Acanthus tetradrachm 83rd Buy or Bid Sale 01 ancient coins Commodus struck in the last year of his signed by an unpublished magistrate and antiquities. T here are 930 indi reign. The Byzantine offering features "of Zeus", a Chalcidian League vidual ancient lots ranging in price from an exquisite and fare portrait 01 tetradrachm, and an exquisitely fare $4.5010$60,000. Two bulk lois at fixed Constantine VII and a number of very Zeus tetradrachm with an eagle re prices contain 9,000 coins to be sold rare issues from the mints of Alexan verse struck by Alexander II I, of which singly or by tens, hundreds, or thou dria and Rome. there are only six recorded, this being sands. One is a lot of Roman the finest known. As for Athens, there anloninianH al $450 per' 00. The other is a Thompson Class I of the New Style lot is a hoard of Persian silver siglos at tetradrachms with an obverse die in an $30 each, unrecorded recut state and a totally Among the Greek gold coins are new reverse die. There are only six two eleclrum staters 01 the Ionian re Thompson Class I tetradrachms re vall, one with a horse, and one with a corded. An impressive run of bilingual winged man-headed bull which is Electrum stater of the Ionian revolt letradrachms features many important unique. A sphinx is depicted on an rarities, inctuding a jugate bust of electrum stater of Chios, while an elec The rarest coin among the Greek Agathocle ia and Strato I, and Irum staler of Cyzicus sports a lacing silver section is a facing portait of the tetradrachms of Antialcidas and head of Zeus which is from the Jameson river god on a didrachm of Camarina by Artemidorus, all three of which are the collection, Paris 191 3, and several Bank the artist Euainetos, of which there are finest known. Leu sales. The Greek gold section also only eight recorded. A dekadrachm of contains an example 01 the only issue Syracuse by the artist Kimon, with a 01 Egyptian Dynastic gold ever minted, near perfect head of Arethusa sur and a unique gold stater struck during rounded by four dolphins on an im the Sicilian slave revolt 01 136·131 B.C. mense flan and a near mint state by Eunis/Antiochus, accompanied by a tetradrachm of Syracuse, 465·460 B.C., detailed art icle by Catharine Lorber of the Demaretion influence are in about the coin. The linest known cluded in the sale. A large section of Aureus 01 Aelius, Caesar Quintillus aureus heads the Roman gold coins of the second Punic war struck at , . The Roman section includes t4 cistophoric tetradrachms and portraits of Lepidus, Nigrinian, Gordian II Africanus, and Alexander the Tyrant. SPINK. TH E OLD EST There is a run of several hundred antoninianii from Marius to Diocletian, ESTABLISHED CO IN including an extremely rare bust left of Tetricus, four of Marius, eight of Florianus, 100fSeverina, 180fTacitus, BUSINESS IN THE and 137 of Probus in EF to mint state conditi on wilh elaborate obverse busts, WORLD. Roman bronzes include a gilt medal· lion of Probus, a framed medallic as of Julia Domna which is unique, and a Coins from ancicnllo modcrn bought and sold' Frec ve rbal valuations sestertius of Britannicus, which is the Expert impartial advice given ' Coins bough t outright . or sold on commission rarest of all Roman Imperial portraits. Regular auctions held - please send for our currem list· Publishers and stockists of The sale also includes a fine selec numismatic books' Pu blishers of The Numism:uic Circular si nce 1892 . Advice and purchase lUa uction salcs on collectors' be half - all major sal es attended. tion of Classical antiquities, including a For f urther illjorm(l{iol1 0 11 {/ Ilciem coills com(lC/ beautiful torso of Aphrodite inspired by John "ell. the Praxitelean 4th century B,C. Greek Qu ote TIle Celator for ~ free edi tion of The Nurnismatic original. ManyGreekvases which were Circular, our fixed price list of coins of all the se ries and a originally purchased from Hisperia Art 1f orum for l1umismatic debate. Subscription S55 (10 isslles). during the 1960's are featured. The fixed price book section, including an assortment of Numismatic Fine Arts auction catalogs, concludes the sale. The catalog is a total of 52 pages, with over 960 items illustrated with four color plates. Harlan J. Berk, ltd. char ges no buyer's premium. Catalogs can be obtained free upon request by phone SPINK (312)609-0018, by fax (312) 609-t309, 'PI ,~I( '" SO~ r H}o 5. h;:, ] ~ I:-;(, QMII' I \'1 ),\\11 y" I . 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Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60602. 14 The Celafor The celebrated collection of Roman coins formed by Gilbert Steinberg of New York which will be sold at auction on Wednesday, 16 November 1994, at the Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich consists of 900 coins of exceptional quality, 140 gold, 400 silver and 360 bronze pieces of the Republic, Empire and Provinces and catalogues for this superb sale are available at S.Fr. 20 from NUMISMATICA ARS CLASSICA SPINK TAISEI NUMISMATICS Niederdorfslrasse 43, UiwenSlrasse 65, CH - 8025 ZUri ch CH - 800 1 ZUrich Telephone (41 I) 261 1703 Telephone (41 1) 221 1885 Telefax (4 1 1) 261 53 24 Telefax (4 1 1) 2112976 November 1994 15 Sasanian "bronze COIns• lllinted In• Alexandria episode within this period when the anonymous bronzes to this specific by Ed Dobbills Persians controlled the important port time and place in history. city of Alexandria. NumisnHllic31ly. The Sasanian occupation of Alex these coins are intriguing because they andria occurred during the reign of In the carty seventh century A.D., combine design elements which were Khusro II, "the Vic tori us" (A.D. 590- the Sasanian and By zantine empires characteristic of the iss ues from each 628). Betwccn A.D. 604 and 619, struggled (or control over a number of empire. Equally interestin g arc the Khusro incrcased his domains at the strategic arcas. A distinctive series of arguments which researchers have pUI expense of the Byzantines by captur bronze coins documents a len year fo rth to support the attribution of lhese ing Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria. and other major t:ities. Although his grip on these territories was not to outlast a countcrsurge by Herakleios (A.D. 610-641), Kh us ro's occupation of Egypt is evidenced by four dcnomi nations of anepigraphic bronze coins struck at the Alexandri a mint between about A.D. 619 and 628. The most common coins in the se ries belong to the highest denomina tion. They portray, on the obverse, a Figure 1 Byzantine-style faci ng bust with a star Twelve nummi, variety with simple cross on head. Actual diameter and crescent to either side. On the re 17mm, weight 8.7 grams. Sear, Byzantine Coins, (S8) #855. verse appears the denominati on marker "IB" for twelve nummi, a cross potent on a globe, and the abbrevia tion AAE::: for Alexandria (Figures I and 2). The coins were sometimes struck on thick, compact flans that arc reminiscent of third century Roman Alexandrian tetradrachrns. Weight and diameter vary considerably with in the type, ranging from 5 to 17 grams and 15 to 30rnm. Two varieties of the twelve nummi Figure 2 type arc known. One shows only a Twelve nummi, variety with cross and crescent on head. cross above the bust (Figure I). wh ile Actual diameter 25mm, weight 14.5 grams. sa #856. the other displays both a cross and a crescent (Figure 2). The second vari ety is scarcer than the first. and occurs on modules that tend to be broader and heavier than the average of the type. CALVIN J. ROGERS Attribution of these coins to the Persian occupation has not always Classical Numismatist been recognized. In the 1908 British Museum Catalogue, Wroth assigned the type to the emperor Herakleios, Full y illustrated and s uggested that the coins were list free upon req uest struck to commemorate the Byzantine reoccupation of Alexandria in 628. P.O. Box 7233 Phillips, in 1962 however. provided Ancielll & the arguments which are accepted to Medieval Redwood City CA 94063 day for assigni ng [he coins to the reign (415) 369-1508 of Khusro II . In a study of early sev enth century Alexandrian bro nzes, Phill ips noted that no coins of the 16 The Celator above description were present in the Arsinoe cemetary hoard (c. A.D. 614/ 615). thus the coins must have been s truck between 615 and the e nd o f Herakleios' reign in 642. As the por· traiture showed a beardless counte· nance, he reasoned that the depiction could not be Herakleios, who was por· trayed as bearded during this time pc· riod. The star and crescent which oc cur on the 12 nummi were prevalent symbols on s ilver Sasanian coi ns of the cra (Fi gure 3). Phillips. therefore, concluded that the bronzes were minted under Khusro's authority dur Figure 3 ing the hi storically known Sasanian Sifverdrachm of Khusro II, actual diameter 31mm. occupati o n of Alexandria between Note star and crescent motifs in margins. G6b1 #212, variety. A.D. 619 and 628. Two aspects of the coinage war SlOn . Grierson noted that there did not Wolfgang Hahn, in 1978, provided ranted further comment by Phil lips seem to be a coherent pattern to the a concise summary of the coinage that and later researchers. First, if the fac weights of the 12 nummi pieces. He pulled together these disparate views ing bust is not Herakleios, then who was unable to separate thc coins into into a description of a coin series with is depi cted on these coins? Phillips "light" and "heavy" varieties. The dis a uni fy ing theme. In his view, the por· ruled out the possibility orthe portra it tribut ion of weights s uggested to tra it on the coin was not meanllO rep being Khusro because he could not be Grierson that the coins circulated by resent an aClual individual. bUI merely lieve the ruler of a Zoroastria n state weight only, and that the denomina portrayed an emperor as a symbol of would allow himself to be portrayed tion marks were of little significance. powe r. The juxtapos ition of the cross with the Christian cross atop his head. Transaclions involv ing the coins with star and crescent symbols sug He suggested. instead, that the figure would have requ ired weighing the gested to him the neutrality orthe mint represented either the Byzantine em bronzes, perhaps using a system em magistrate at Alexandria. The design peror M aurice Tiberius (A.D. 582- ploying items similar to early Arab of the coins was, perhaps, il compro 602) or his son Theodosius (A.D. 590- period glass weights. mi se that would antagonize neither the 602), to whom Khusro was indebted for help in regai ning his throne in 591. Khusro instigated campaigns against the Byzantines under the pre text that he was a venging the over· Miinzen und Medaillen AG throw of Maurice by Phokas (A. D. 1942-1994 602-6 10). For 52 years we have been serving Grierson, in Byzantine Coins. pre sented the opposing view that the por· collectors of Ancient Coins ... trait could have represented Khusro. In spite of the Persian 's massacre of and we would like to serve you too! tens of th ousands of Christians in 1crusalem and the theft of the ''True Cross" from that city, some historical accounts portray the Sasanian ruler as holdi ng lenient views toward Chri s tianity. The best example of Khusro's tole rance was his marriage to Shiri n, • Monthly Illustrated Fixed Price Lists • hi s favorite wife and a Christi an. The story of Khusro and Shirin, in fa ct, has • Public Sales· Appraisals· Buying and Selling· been regarded as a significant love • Large Stock in All Price Ranges· epic in Persian folklore. On this ba sis, Grierson saw no reason to dismiss (Please send us list, We will the portrait as that of Khusro. whose yo~rwal1t fUlfil) appearance with a cross on these coins may have been tolerated by the em Please contact: peror. He also considered the possi· bility that the existence of the portrait Mtinzen und Medaillen AG may have been unknown to the Sasa P.O. Box 3647 • Malzgasse 25 nian. The great variability in weight and eH - 4002, Basel, Switzerland diameter is the second aspect of thi s Tel. (061) 272 75 44 Fax. (061) 272 75 14 coinage which has prompted discus- November 1994 17 each reverse by an "S" for the six nummi and a 'T" for the three nummi (Figure 4). A cross also appears on ... ~ ...... , . '. .'...... the three nummi reverse. ~ ~ The nummus in the series is a coin . 0 . Hahn believed had been misattributed to Justinian I (A.D. 527-565). It por ~ trays, on the obverse, a crudely ex FigureS ecuted eight point star and , on the re :Rendering of one ilumm'lIs. $8 #865b. verse, the denomination marker "A" below a small cross (Figure 5). In other change in the weight standard addition to being a neutral depiction, had occurred, either by the Persians or Hahn reasoned that this coin belonged the Byzantines after their return to Al in the series because the obverse de exandria, If this last supposition is Figure 4 sign sty I istically resembled the star on true, then numismatic reasoning has rendering of the palm the 12 nummi. returned, in part at least, to the sug shared by the six Hahn believed that the weights of gestion made by Wroth in the BMC. 80ttom left: each of the three smaller denomina That is, the lighter twelve nummi may $8. tions truly represented fractions of the have been struck by Herakleios after larger module variety of 12 nummi he repossessed the mint. No fractions with the cross and crescent on the ob have been associated with the lighter verse bust's head. He suggested the 12 nummi variety. new Persian rulers nor the former Byz system was a Persian reform that was The usc in this coin series of anony antine overlords who still held sway based on a 12 nummi weighing around mous, neutral obverses and the 12 io some parts of Egypt. 15 grams. The weights of the fruited nummi system peculiar to the Egyp Politically ncutral designs are also palm and star coins roughly approxi tian mint is significant for our under found on the six nummi, three nummi, mate divisions of the 15 gram twelve standing of the Sasanian presence in and one nummus coins struck at Al numm l. Alexandria. Hahn's postulated weight exandria under Persian ru le. The ob The small er module 12 nummi, reform by the Sasanians allows us to verse on both the six nummi and three wit h only the cross on the obverse view the heavier coins as a tidy series numm i portrays a palm tree bearing bust, average arou nd nine grams. in four denominations. Aside from the fruit. Denomination is indicatcd on They may have been struck after an- weight reform, however, it ~ MAJOR DEALER PAYING CASH Worldwide Treasure Bureau is presently buying the follow ing items, for which we are paying the prices shown. • Roman bronze coins in about Very Fine or better condition, attributed as to ruler. Coins of any Roman rulers are acceptable. For quantities over 1,000 coins, plcase send sample lot of 100 or so coins with details as to balance available. $2.00 each. • New or sound used copics of the following out-of-print numismatic books: Greek Coins and Their Values, Volume I, by Sear, $30. Dictionary o/ Roman Coins, by Seth W. Stevenson, $40. Volume V of the Roman Imperial Coinage, $450. • Grade I silver 8 reaJes pieces (must have photo certificates) from the wreck of the Atocha. For quantities over 10 pieces, please call or write with details. For smaller quantities, just ship for our payment. $200 each. • Portrait bronzes of Augustus, Tibcri us, Nero, Galba, and/or Titus. Fine + condition. $35 each. • Identifiable portrait bronzes of Caligula, Fair to Fine condition. $50 each. Othe r areas of cu rrent intcrest- send coins along with your asking price. We will send our check or return the cams at our expense : • Coins dated 1776 from any country and in any metal. • Portrait coins of Richard III. • Any collections, accumulations, or hoards priced for quic k sale; regardless of size. Please ship to: Worldwide Treasure Bureau 2230 W. Sunnyside Ave. , Suite 2 Visalia, CA 93277 United States or America Be sure to include your name, address and daytime telephone number. Payment will be made by company check upon our receipt and acceptance of the items . If you have questions, please give us a call at our toll-free number: 1-800-437-0222 . Outside the U.S. caJi (209) 732-2252. Our FAX number is (209) 732-3930. Worldwide Treasure Bureau sells more ancient coins directly to collectors than any other company in the U.S. Ban k and trade references av ailable on request. 18 The Celator Write today for a complimentary copy of our heavily illustrated catalog! We carry an extensive stock of rare and unusual ancient coins and antiquities. TOM CEDERLIND P.O. Box 1963, Dept. C, Portland, OR 97207 Phone: (503) 228-2746 Fax: (503) 228-8130 November 1994 19 appears that Khusro exerted little ef intact or the weakness of Sasania n concerns as keepi ng the infrastructure fo rt to impose tradi ti onal Sasania n control over the area. of the em pire in good repair and fu nc coin standards and types at Alexandria. The end of the Sasani an coin se tion ing. The ruler's populari ty waned This policy d iffered from the practice ries struck at the Alexandria mi nt oc towards the end of his reign as he lost followed in the eastern pOTtion of the curred around 628. In the first half of many of his conquered territories to empire, where Persi an presence oft en his rei gn, Khusro II had expanded hi s the Byzan tines. When Khusro refused res ulted in either standard Sasani an empire almost to the li mi ts enjoyed by to make peace with Herakleios in 628, issues or local coinages strongly in his Achamacnid predecessors . It he was murdered by his son, who took fl ue nced by the ubiquito us sil ve r seems, however, that in expanding, he the throne as Kavad II. The Sasanians drachm . The coins from Al exandria overstretched hi s resources. Khusro evacuated Alexandria under terms of arc overwhelmingly Byzantine rather was well known for the grandeur of a treaty betwee n Kavad a nd than Sasanian in appearance. We are his palaces and "refined degeneracy" Herakl eios, and the Alexandria mint left to wo nder whether the lack of ex li festyle supported by heavy taxation. resu med produc tio n o f Byzan tine tensive changes in coin designs re Unfortunately fo r him , Kh us ro did not coinage until the M O's, when the area flected a desire to leave the status quo pay enough attention to such mundane was occup ied by the fo ll owers of Mohammed. The attribution of fou r anonymous bronzes to the time of Persian ru le in Al exandria resulted largely from the fortunate d iscovery of a well-dated hoard a nd historical records. There may have been other occupatio ns by Leu Numismatics Ltd. Sasanians that led to as yet un recog nized local bronze coinages. Current Zurich, Switzerland sy nt heses o f Sasan ian coins are heavily weighted toward descriptions o f si lver drachms. Recent work, how ever, has brought to light a nu mber of new types o f bronze and lead issues. Perhaps addi ti onal series similar to thai fro m the Alexandrian occupat io n arc waiting to be discerned. Refere nces: Connell. C.T., "Coins struck by He rakleios offer the greatest vari ety of any Byzan· tine emperor". The CeJolOr, Vol. 6, No. 10. October 1992. pp. 6- 11 . Frye, R.N .. "The Political History of Iran Under the Sasanians", The Cambridge Nistory of Iran, Vo1. 3, PI. I, 1983, Cam bridge, pp. 11 6-1 80. GObi, R., Sasanian Numismatics, 1971, Brau nschwe ig. Grierson, P., Byzantine Coins, 1982. Lon· don. Hahn, W.R.O .. "Ale:tand rian 3-nu mmi and I-nummus types under Heraclius", Nu· mismatic Chronicle, 138 ( 1978), pp. 181· 183. Malek, H. M ., "A Survey of research on Sasanian Numismatics", Numismatic Every year we have an auction of very important ancient coins Chronicle, 153 (1993), pp. 227-269. in spring, Milne. J.G., " Report on the Coi ns Found at Anti nOe in 1914". Numismatic Chronicle, We issue occasional lists. yii ( 1947), pp. 108- J t4. Our stock ranges from Hemitartemoria to Dekadrachmai, and Phillips, J.R., "The Byzantine Bro nze Coin from Quadrantes to Multiple Aureus Medallions. age of Alexandri a in the Seventh Cen We actively buy and sell at all price levels. tury", Numismatic Chronicle. ii ( 1962). pp. 225·24 1. Rawlinson, G., The Seventh Grt!ot OrienlaJ Monarchy. 1976 reprint of 1876 original, Tehran. Sear, 0 .. Byzanline Coins and Their Values, 1987, London. Wroth. W.. Ca lalogue oflhe Imperial Byz· Leu Numismatics Ltd. anline Goins in Ihe British Museum, 1966 In Gassen 20 GH-8001 Zurich Switzerland reprint of th e 1908 original, Lond on, Telephone (from the US) 011 41 1211 4772 Telefax 011 41 1 211 4686 20 The Gelator OWLS OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF ATHENS In the fifth century B.C., the city 01 Athens became the most and art shoutd flourish in the city which took its name from the prosperous and powerful slate in Greece. Under their great states goddess 01 wisdom. Athena , seems appropriate. man Pericles, the Athenians built an empire through their leader Athens' wealth and power aroused the envy of other Greek ship of the Delian league, an anli-Persian military alliance. The states, especially Sparta. In 431 B.C., the great contest between tetradrachms of Athens, popularly known as ' owls" because of their the two City-stales and their allies known as the Peloponnesian reverse design, are wonderful artifacts of the city's Golden Age. War began. At the outset of the war, Athens had a reserve of These distinctive silver coins were struck from the wealth that 6,000 talents (9,000,000 tetradrachms) in coined silver lodged in poured into Athens from her own silver mines and from the cities the opisthodomos (treasury) of the Parthenon. However, plague under her rule. Athenian 'owls' became the standard currency 01 (which took the life of Pericles In 429 B.C.) and ill-conceived mili the Aegean region. In about 449 B.C., Athens issued a decree tary ventures (such as the disastrous campaign of 415-413 B.C. directing her subject states to cease coining silver and use Athe against Syracuse) proved 10 be the city'S undOing. In 404 B.C., nian coins in all transactions with the city. The reputation of ·owls· she surrendered to Sparta and dismanUed her fortifications. Ath as a stable currency was so great that they were used for trade far ens would become a power again in the fourth centu ry B.C. , but and wide. Hoards of Athenian te tradrachms have been found from she never regained the dominant position she attained before the Sicily and Italy in the west to Afghanistan in the east. Peloponnesian War. The Athenians used the great wealth the city now possessed to rebuild the temples burned down by the Persians in 480 B.C. Because of what they represent, Athenian ·owls· are among For this purpose, Pericles appropriated the colossal sum of 5,000 the most sought-after of ancient coins. Weighing in at about 17.20 talents (equal to 7,500,000 tetradrachms) from the treasury of th e grams each, they are of almost pure silver. On the obverse of Delian League. The greatest of these temples was the Parthenon, these coins is the head of Athena, wearing a crested helmet deco begun in 447 B.C. Under the direction of the sculptor Phidias, the rated with three olive le aves and a floral scroll. Although Athena's greatest architects and sculptors of the day labored to produce the head Is shown in profile, her eye is shown frontally ~an archaic finest of all Classical Greek buildings. The city's wealth also helped feature which may have been retained due to a reluctance to tamper pay for the production of dramas performed as part of the festival with a recognized symbol of financial stability. On the reverse Is of Dionysus, held each spring. The tragedies of Aeschylus, Athena's companion, the owl. According to Greek tegend, Athena's Sophocles, and Euripides, and the comedies of Arislophanes which owiliew around the world each nighllo bring back to the goddess were wrilten and performed during Athens' Golden Age are still news of the day's events. Behind the owl is a sprig of olive (a acted today. The city had also become a center of learning. This reference to the city's chief agricultural export, olive oil) and a cres was the era of the philosopher Socrates and his star pupil Plato, cent moon (possibly commemorating Athens' great naval victory who, in their search for knowledge and understanding of the hu over the Persians at Salamis in 480 B.C., fought during the last man condition, left an enduring legacy. ThaI literature, philosophy quarter of the moon). Due to our fortunate purchase of a fabulous hoard of Athenian owls. we can offer a wide selection of these wonderful ancient Greek artifacts, struck from 449 to 413 B.C. Each tetradrachm comes with a photo certificate of authenticity signed by Jonathan K. Kern. OWLS OF ATHENS, 465-413 B.C • ...... It. CROER POUCIES: 1 .... ____ ...... ond .. - . ANA.OtOl __gr--.v y"", __ JONATHAN K. KERN CO. p- 2 , • ...., ...... _ ~_._". ....ongoocI-.JIO November 1994 21 Coins of the Bible Modern Pontius Pilate forgeries examined because the bronze prutot coins struck due to the nature of the manufac by David Hendin in ancient Israel during the first cen ture of prutot in ancient Israel, they tury C.E. are generally of poor work arc oftcn known to occur this light. manship. Furthermore, they are often However, such a light coin cries out Dear Mr. Hendin: Recently I pur~ badly preserved. To make things for a closer look. chased two coins of Ponti us Pi late. worse, they are often delivered to 4) Microscopic examination reveals When I looked at them individually American dealers in large hoards coins that are obviously cast and they looked fine to me. However, which must be clcaned to re move thick not struck. First, the inscriptions when viewing them together, they encrustations befo re they can be sold. and devices are not at any point seem to be virtually identicaL I be A second look at your two coins, sharply raised. Of course this ean lieve they are fakes. I am sending however, reveals some telltale signs occur in a coin with a lot of wear, them to you. Ihat should set off warning bells. but in ancient coins one can usu Dear Collector: It seems espe ally sec at least a tiny bit of the cially evil for the forgers to set to work sharp relief that comes from strik copying coins that are often collected mg. by people for their significance in Ihe Second, while the edges are history of religion . Nevertheless, they cleverly bevelled, just as on the did it this time and will no doubt do it genuine coins, there is a slight filed again . edge on the broad side of the bevel. This is the first lime r have seen this Third, on the bevelled edge it particular forgery. And this is very self there arc a number of sharp defin itely a modern forgery, meant to Obverse and reverse of two projections-deri n ite telltale signs deceive unknowing collectors or tour identical modem forgeries of a casting mold. ists. of coins of Pontius Pilale. My guess is that these coins were The type is the prutah of Pontius cast from a mold made from a genu Pilate struck under Tiberius, with the I ) The most obvious sign, of course, ine coin of Pontius Pilate. The origin obverse carrying the design of the is that you have two IDENTICAL of the coins is unknown, but almost lituus (augur 's wand) with the inscrip coins. In deed they are cast from certainly they came from the Middle tion "Of Tiberius Caesar", and the rc the same mold. No two ancient East. As I mentioned above, I have verse carrying the letters HZ within a coins are ever identical in every never seen this particular coin before, wreath. (The letters HZ are probably way. but similar forgeries abound in the a poorly engraved version of the let 2) Both of the coins have the appear markets in various Middle Eastcrn ters LIZ, which stand for "Year IT', ance of being cleaned right down capitals. corresponding to 30 C .E.) to the bronze, with some black ma How can you avoid fakes in the Indeed, the two coins you sent me terial (wax?) added to cover tell future ? arc identical in every way. If one was tale signs of casting. I) Learn as much about ancient coins not paying attention, they could cas 3) The coins each weigh 1.3 grams. as you can. Reading is important. ily slip through a n honest person's This is generally light for the Handling coins is more important. hands as genuine, and be passed along prutah denominations, which are Visit dealers, coin shows, coin unwillingly. This is especially true often closer to 2 grams. However, clubs, and museums. Get as much expericnce looking at the coins in your own hands as possible. Ask questions. Quality Auctions 2) Deal with experienced dealers that We conduct two Numismatic Collector oriented Public & Mail Bid Auction sales you know to be well educated and each year. Our sales feature a wide selection of Ancients. Antiquities, World Gold, of excellent reputation. A dealer's Crowns & Minors, Canadian & United States Coinage as well as Paper Money, knowledge and integrity is your Tokens & Medals. Each of our catalogs is well illustrated. Subscription rates are $17.50 per year best protection. which includes prices realized fo llowing the sale. 3) If you ever purchase a coin shown Consignments are always accepted for our upcoming auction schedule. For to be fake, return it immediately. information and terms ptease write us. If you do not receive an instant re Craig A. Whitford Numismatic Auctions fund, NEVER do business with that dealer again. P.O. Box 22026, Lansing, Michigan 48909 Tel: 517/394·4443 or Fax: 517/394·5510 Copyright ©1994 by David Hendin ~ 22 The Gelator Giessener Munzhandlung Dieter Gorny GmbH, Munchen AUCTION PHARNABAZOS. Tetradrachm (14,67 g) about 395 B.C. One of the earlics! portrait coins of the world. NOV. 18, 1994 RRR! Good EF, 60.000,- OM ANTIQUE Eight hundred selected Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins are offered in this sale. Especially worthy of mention are series of coins from southern [taly, northern Greece (including the kingdom of Macedonia), the Diadoch Stales, clec[rul11 issues of Mytilene, as well as a widely ranging collection of Sestcrtii. AUCTION SAXONY. Friedrich August I., 1694-17334 Dukats 1707. (13,94 g) . NOV. 19, 1994 Unique! EF, 15 .0(}{),- OM MODERN COINS One thousand five hundred coins and medals will be sold. Of special note arc coins of southern Germany (incl. Regcnsburg, Nuremberg & Wlirltcmbcrg), Spain and Latin America from two hoards: II Central European hoard with 150 gold coins of the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as a Cuban hoard of 135 silver coins of the 15th and 16th centuries. Both hoards contain major rarities. Giessener Miinzhandlung Dieter Gorny GmbH 0-80333 Miinchcn, Maximi1iansplatz 20 Tc1cfon: 0 89122 68 76, Fax: 0 89/2 28 55 13 November 1994 23 Through the Looking Glass Hellenistic "heavenly gaze" resurrected by Constantine of Persian satraps. Within a century and was used well into By zant ine by David 1. Vagi this convention evolved from a spo times. radic and isolated practice to the stan Roman portraits had become in dard mode under the successors of creasingly styli 7.ed since the end of the The depiction of humans, living or Alexander the Great. first century A.D., and by the end of once living, was a common occurrence With the exception of a few issues the third century, it had become stern on ancient G reek and Roman coinage. (notably certain issues of the Perga and mi litaristic with the ri se of mili With Greek coins it is a hallmark of mene, Pontic, Byth in ian, and Cappa tant emperors of Danubian origi n. the Hellenistic period, and with Ro docian kingdoms), Greek portraits are This fi rm stylization and uni formi ty of man coins it is the most rem arkable highly idealized. The "heavenward portrait was carried into the fourth aspect of more Ih.m 500 years of Im gaze" portrait was perfected under the century, and adoptcd in principle by perial coinage. Seleucid king Antiochus II, wh o is Constan tine. The trea tmen t of the human portrait show n on man y of his coins with a However, toward the latter part of on ancient coinage ranges from the heavy brow, upward-gazing eyes, and hi s reign, Constantine's portraiture brutally realistic \0 the almost entirely wearing a royal diadem. The best ex became solemn and pious, arguably idealized. In every case, it can be ar amples of this type emanated from the due to hi s favoritism for C hristianit y, gued, the sentiment of the pOTtrait re Seleucia-o n-the-Tigris mint. This portrait style slowly developed veals how the s ubject wished to be into a full "heavenward gaze" by the perceived. For example, a typical por end of his reign, and was also adopted tra it of Republican Rome is stern, by his sons to foster the image of uni care-worn, and elderly. It was the in formity of the House o f Constantine. tention of the art ist to show (hal the subject had the necessary age and wis dom [0 wield authority responsibly. Eaeh portrait served its political purpose for the issuer. If the artist was successfu l in his task, the portrait would convey exactly what the ruler Tetradrachm of Antiochus I wished. After all, coins were impor with "heavenward gaze~ portrait tan t Jools of propaganda in the anc ient world, much li ke other media are to Thi s sty le of ponrai t conveys a the politic ian s of our age. message of piety and humility before So when we gaze upon these care heavenly forces, and contrasts sharply fully selected images we mu st realize wit h other portrait types which might that we are not looking upon mere ac express attributes such as strength, Si/iqua of Constantine I cidents, or simple guesswork, but beau ty, or pride. The "heavenward with wheavenward gaze" portrait rather upon carefully calculated pro gaze" portrail depicts a ruler guided paganda. by, and subservient to, supernatural These Constantin ian portraits more The treatment o f the ponrait in the forces. closely emulate products of late Hel ancient world underwent tremendous Wh ile the "heavenward gaze" por lenistic Greek monarchies than the change from one culture to another, trait was perhaps the perfect expres Roman coins of even a century before. and from one time period to another. sion of Greek monarchical ideals, it On these remarkable portraits, not Much like history (which is destined was in virtual opposition to the prin even a trace of Republican realism to repeat itself) and arl (which evolves ciple of "tempered realism'" of the exists. This style of portraiture was in cycles), certain aspects o f ancient early portraits of the Roman Empire. so unfamiliar on Roman coins that it coin portraiture reappear, sometimes However, after more than three centu had made only one brief appearance centuries apart. ries of development, the Roman por before, on the sil ver denarii depicting One of the most dramatic examples lTai t had come full circle from its roots Cnaeus Pompey Magnus. Even the of thi s phenomenon is the "heaven of realism to the pseudo-Hellenistic deified portrai ts of emperors in previ ward gaze" portrait wh ich is found on idealism observed on Constantinian ous centuries did not take on this char both Greek He llenis tic coins and portraiture. acter. Constantinian-era Roman coi nage. This idealism is not limited to the Though the Conslantinian portraits Hcre we have coins from significantl y simple lack of real ism, but extends are engraved in low relic f when com differcnt cultures separated by a gap into othcr Hel lenisti c conventions such pared with the sculpted Greek por of about 600 years, with portraits that as the "heavenward gaze" and the pref traits, thcre was nevertheless a return are fundamentally the same. erence for the royal diadem over the in principle under Constantine to the We'll begin with a look at the laurel wreath or rad iate crown, both style of portrai ture used by the Helle Greek Hellenistic coinage. Portraits of which had been so closcly associ nistic mon archs of Greece and Asia of living human beings first appeared ated with Roman portraits in previous Minor more than 600 years before. on Greek coins in the late fifth or early centuries. The diadem crown is vari Copyright © t 994 fourth century B.C. with the likenesses ously depicted with pearls or rosettes, by David Vagi 24 The Gelator QClassiraI QCoins @r££k • JRoman • :J'§P?antin£ • :J'§arbaric Numismatic Literature Rome, Licinius I & II gold aurei, 3 12-322 A.D., RI C 41-42 (Nicomedia). Struck to celebrate the quinquennalia of Licinius II . Mint State. Offered as a pair. P.O.R. Illustrated Catalog on Request Edward J. Waddell, Ltd. Suite 316 444 N. Frederick Avenue Gaithersburg, MD 20877 ~~ .. '".,.' Phone: (301) 990-7446 Fax: (301) 990-3712 November' 994 25 • Delaware Valley society sets first meeting date Philip A.J. DeVice; has recently d iscussion and com parison with ing a new numismatic gem keeps me announced the formation of the genuine coins. from attending most meetings. I have Classical Numismatic Society of Discussing th e purpose for the th us formed this Society in hopes of the Delaware Valley. The Society's Society's formation, DeVicci noted attracting collectors and scholars. first two meetings will be held on that -The greatest joy in collecting The meeting place is less than two Saturday, November 19 and Satur comes from the sharing of mutual hours !rom New York or Delaware, day, December 17, 1994, at 1:00 pm interests and experiences. Stories and the meeting time will allow mem in th e William G. Rohrer Memorial of the hunt, acquisitions made or lost, bers to return home at a reasonable Library in Westmont, New Jersey. and info rmation wrenched from the hour. " Westmont is just a few miles from dim mists of history enrich our hobby. The clu b, being new, has no set Philadelphia, and the library is less When I attend aucti ons or conven format, and members attending the than two miles from the Collings tions, I cherish the meeting of other first few meetings will have the great wood Station o f the high-speed like-minded individuals, yet the pur est influence in setling the club's line from Philadelphia. Yearly dues suit of numismatic material at the style and flavor. DeVicei expresses have not been sel at press time. tables of knowledgeable and infor the hope that the Society will eventu Althe first meeting on November mative dealers competes with meet ally have a broad membership, with 19th, members will o rganize the ing similarly inclined collectors. Be many intellectual resources to draw club, plan topics for future meetings, fore going to co nventions, I mark up upon. For more info rmation, inter and perhaps go out for dinner after the schedule with a long list 01 meel ested individuals may contact Philip wards. At the second meeting on ings and talks I should like to attend. DeVicei al (609) 866-0463. December 17th, members will be Invariably the lure of the convention asked to bring counterfeit coins for floor and the possibility of unearth- Three numismatists celebrate weddings This Fall, numismatists are cel rnfil:es in ebrating the nuptial vows 01 three members 01 their fraternity. On Au gust 27th, John R. Gainor of Toronto, umismctfits Canada took Patricia Kastanek as his wile. Patricia is also a resident of Adolf Occo III Toronto. Th e ceremony was held at the Vic tori a College Chapel on the 1524-1606 University 01 Toronto campus. Adolph Occo was born in Augsburg and On October 22, Jonathan K. Kern of Lexington, Kentucky, married stud ied med icine and ph ilology i n Ferrara. Monica Harris. A reception was held Returning to A ugsburg in 1564, he practiced at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington. medicine there, and in 1579 was granted a On October 19-20, Kern hosted th e rank of nobility by Kai ser Maximilian II. In Kern Convention, a bourse which was 1582 he became Deacon of the medica l college. Occo was a serious student also held at the Hyatt. Dealers were of Roman coins and a noted humanist. His important work, Imperatorum provided with complimentary tables Romanorum Numismata a Pompeio ad Heraciium, published in A ntwerp in for the two day bourse. 1579, se t the precedent for a chronological c1assi l'ication of Roman coins On November 26th, Erik Gold will rather than an arrangemen t by size and metal. This logical approach was an tie the knot with Chelsea Somers in important factor in the early development of numismatics as a sc ientific Portland, Oregon. Erik is employed discipline. His treat ise was so highly regarded by early numismatists tnat it by Rare Coins & Classical Arts Ltd. was revised and rep rinted in Milan i n 1683 and again in \ 730. Duke Albrecht of South Orange, New Jersey, and von Bairn lauded it as the fou ndation upon which all later works on this can regularly be seen at bourses subject were based. It is, of course. a popular item with modern bibliophiles staffing a table with Dr. Arnold R. as well. Adolf Occo died at Augsburg in his 82nd year. Saslow. Chelsea has family mem bers in Portland, as well as in San Francisco. This feature is provided courtesy of George Frederick Kolbe Congratulations and best wishes Fine Numismatic Books, Crestline, CA 92325 to John & Patricia, Jonathan & Monica, and Erik & Chelseal 26 The Gelator Interesting Ancients Fairly Priced " Sy( i001 AR IeIr, FNF, SCfa\dles '" fiokL "... "... "",.. ",, ... , :n; AomanEqypl ", ~ E\IjlIl k)(oIlwoIead1 JU"l November 1994 2 7 Superior: Familiar name, new company In the aftermath of a recenlly filed the same Beverly Hills, California bUild world, and ancient coinage on the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy by Superior ing as the former company. wholesale. retail, and auction levels. Stamp & Coin Co. Inc., of Beverly Hills, Mark Goldberg is currently Presi With A·Mark backing us we have the a newfirrn has emerged. Following the dent of the firm, and he maintains that advantage of tremendous capital and sale of some Superior assets to A-Mark the new firm will be different and beller experience to fall back on. We are Co., a precious metals firm , Superior than the previous one. In a recent open and doing business aggressively. Stamp & Coin-an A-Mark Co. was press release he slaled that "It would We are open to any deal, no matter formed on September 22, 1994. The be safe to say that we will focus a great what the size.~ The firm plans to place new Superior has its offices located in deal of attention and energy 10 U.S., special emphasis on the collector base, and will continue to handle stamps, space memorabilia, and rare manu· scripts in addition to numismatics. Ancient Coins A number of employees of the old company have migrated to the new Superior, including Larry Goldberg, Please write for afree Mark's brother, as well as his cousin Ira Goldberg. The firm plans to conduct a illustrated catalogue public auction in conjunction with the New York International Numismatic Convention in December, in which a KIRK DAVIS number of ancient coins will be offered. Superior Stamp & Coin may be con Post Office Box 324, Claremont, CA 91711 tacted by phone at (800) 421·0754, by fax at (310) 203-0496; or by writing to (909) 625-5426 9478 W. Olympic Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. JUST FOR BEGINNERS by Wayne G. Sayles Questions Answers Please can we have Twenty-five years ago there wefe relatively few hoards being ·Jiberated~, and those that did show up more info In The in the coin market generally appeared wrapped in a scruffy bandana. At that lime, the finders were not Calator regarding at all organized and were basically uneducated about the coins themselves-much less the market or recent hoards. I'm marketing strategies. II was my good fortune to live in Turkey during the 1960s and I still remember how tired of paying a much the locals coveted two things in particular: American cars and sa le catalogs of ancient coins. Today fortune for the they have both. Those whO might illicitly spirit hoard coins out of Mediterranean source countries (there finest specimen I've are others besides Turkey) also have an excellent understanding of European and American markets. I ever seen or heard have seen neither a scruffy bandana nor an intact hoard in years. of only to find out 6 When a hoard is found today, great pains are taken to disguise its provenance and its size. The former months later that It concern is, 01 course, calculated to keep the finder at liberty rather than taking up residence in some Is part of a hoard of unpleasant commune. The laller is critical in realizing the greatest financial return. If the finder simply 6000 similarly nice showed up at a New York show with 6,000 lovely tetradrachms, it would saturate the markelfor thai type pieces recently and dealers would be very reluctanllo buy into the group at even a fraction 01 the previous market value. " liberated" from What generally happens is thai a few of the nicest pieces are doled out here and there to establish a Yugoslavia. Where benchmark price. Early in the process there are few buyers who really know for sure how extensive the else if not from you find Is. Rumors are typically rampant, but even the "insiders" don't really know for sure. If it is a small can I get such find, early buyers will generally get the choicest pieces, and any premium paid wlll be justified. If it turns advance warning? out that the lind is huge, and nice, the ea rl y buyers may witness a rapid devaluation. By the time a collector starts to see dozens of the type in every bourse case it is probably safe enough to buy because the price is pretty well established. The drawback to waiting, however, may be that all the really choice pieces are gone. It would be nice il we could warn collectors when a large hoard of some particular type is about to appear in the market, but then why would anyone (including dealers) tell us? If a dealer buys one or two pieces early on, and pays a premium, there is also a substantial risk involved. More than one dealer has "bit the buller in this game. Remember what happened with Larissa and Rhodian drachms? Maybe a more poignant example is the Nagidus stater debacle. We also saw those splendid letradrachmsol Kyme, Myrina, and Magnesia drop in value when a large group hil several years ago; now it seems there are even more appearing. Fortunately, they are like Maria Theresa talers-t!verybody has to have alleast onel To make a long story Short, by the time we know about a hoard it's too late to be of any help. As a word of caution, we should remember thai virtually all hoard material is cleaned until it's bright and shiny. Practically no one of J,(,oderate intell igence would clean an old collection coin. If you really have a fear of hOard coins, don't buy the Shiny ones. 28 The Gelator Classical Numismatic Group Auction 33 Wednesday· December 7, 1994·2 PM in conjunction with the NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL Unreserved Public & Mail Bid Sale of "The Property of a Private European Investment Consortium" CONSERVATIVELY ESTIMATED TO BRING ABOUT $1,000,000.00 To be sold without reserve over ten thousand ancient Greek & Roman coins including the following: 130+ gold staters of Alexander III • 600+ silver staters from Aspendus • 700+ Athenian New Style tetradrachms • 1500+ silver staters from Southern Italy· 100+ silver staters of Tarsus· 400+ tetradrachms of Alexander III • 400+ tetradrachms of Ptolemaic Egypt· 1500+ Constantinian Bronzes· 900+ Bronzes from Maroneia • 30+ Electrum Hektes from Mytilene • Plus thousands of other coins. Catalogue with prices realized $15/£10. Contact either our U.S. or U.K. office. Seaby Coins Eric J. McFadden, Senior Director 14 Old Bond Street London WIX 4JL, United Kingdom (0171) 495-1888, Fax (0171) 499-5916 Classical Numismatic Group Victor England, Senior Director Post Office Box 479 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 17608-0479 (717) 390-9194, Fax (717) 390-9978 November 1994 29 eNG's December 7th Coming Events •••• auction offers two Oct. 28-30 Bay Sta le Coin Show exceptional rarities "57" Park Plaza Holel, Boslon, MA Oct . 29-30 23rd International Milnzenborse Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. Swiss61el, Zurich, Swilzerland will be conducting a public and mail bid No v. 2-5 Peus Auction sale, e NG Auction XXXII , wh ich will be Bornwiesenweg 34, Frankfurt. Germany held in co njunction with the 23rd An Nov. 5 london Coin Fair nual New York In\'1 Numismatic Con Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch, London, England ve ntion. The sale will be held Wednes Nov. 6 Malter Auction Portofino Ho/el, Redondo Beach, CA day, December 7th, al 2pm at the Nov. 7-8 Sternberg Auction Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers. Schanzengasse 10, Zurich, Switzerland Two im portant rarities have already Nov.11-12 Numismatic & An tiquarian Bourse been consigned to this sale, One is an Holiday Inn-Golden Gateway. San Francisco, CA extremely rare va riety of an IVDAEA Nov. 16 Numismatics ARS ClassicalSpink Taisei AuClion seslerlius of Hadrian , depic ting a Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, Switzerland kneeling personi fi cation of Judaea Nov. Tradar! AuCl io n " Hotel des Bargues, 33 quai des Ba rgues, Geneva. Switzerland with three children before the emperor. Nov. 21-22 l onz Au ction The on ly published example similar 10 Maximiliansplatz 10, Munich, Germany this coin was in Henry Cohen's work, Nov. 23- 25 Hirsch Auction first published in 1859 (#871 as a me Promenadeplatz 10. Munich. Germany dallion without SC). All other modern Dec. 7 CNG Auction references, including AIC and BMC, Sheraton NY Hotel & Towers, 7th Ave & 52nd 51., New York City Dec. 7-' Stack's Auction have failed to me ntion this important Sheraton NY Hotel & To wers. 7th Ave & 52nd 51., New York City variety with Judaea kneeling. The stan Dec. 9-10 Superior Auction dard va riety of this type shows Judaea Sheralon NY HOlel & To wers. 7th Ave & 52nd 51., New York City standing before an altar with children Dec . 9-11 New York International Numismatic Co nvention and facing the empe ror. This medallic Sheraton NY Holel & Towers. 7th Ave & 52nd St .. New York City sestertius grades good Fine with an De c. 11 KolbBISpink Auction Sheraton NY HOlel & Towers . 7th Ave & 52nd 51 .. New York City attractive da rk green patina with Dec. 13 Sotheby's Auction touches of red. It is estimated at $7,500. 1334 York Avenue. New York City The other rarity of note is an ex tremely rare gold aureus of the Roman usurper in Britain, Carausius, whose short reign lasted from A .D. 287 to 293. America's Most Only about 20 gold aurei are known for NYINC Cara usius, most of wh ich are in muse NEW YO RK ums Th e obverse of this coin depicts a INTERNATIONAL Prestigious Ancient laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of NUM ISMATIC Carausius, and the reverse shows a CONVENTI ON & Foreign Coin Show standing personification of Pax (Peace) with the legend PAX AVG and MVlTX . The 23rd Annual New York International It was possibly struck around A, D. 291 for Carausius' Quinquennalia celebra Numismatic Convention tion. It grades good Very Fine and will be estimated at $15,000. December 9-10-11,1994 CNG XXXII will also include a mail bid only section of nu mismatic litera Dealer Set-up: Dec. 8th tu re. The library of Dr. Frank J. Novak Public Hours: Fri/Sat. lOa.m.-7p.m., Sun. lOa.m.-3p.m. of San Francisco, California will be fea tured in this section of the sale, and Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers approximately 500 lots of books and 7th Ave. and 52nd St., New York City auction catalogues will be offe red, In addition to the aforementioned Over 200 Anciellt & Foreign Numismatic Dealers From around the World ra rities, CNG Auction XXXII will also Major Ancient & Foreign Coin Auctions include a superb offe ring of Greek, Roman Republican, Roman Imperial Stack's . Superior· Classical Numismatic Group· Kolbe/Spink and Provincial, Byzantine, Worl d and Our bourse is sold out. We are British coins in all metals. An offering accepling applications for our waiting lis!. of over 100 large lots of nice collector mate rial closes out the sale, Cata For Bourse Informalion. Hotel Reserva logues will be available for $ 15 in mid tions, General Information: November fro m CNG, Inc" P.O. Box NYINC, 3950 Concordia L1ne 479, Lancaster, PA 17608·0479, orfor Fallbrook , CA 92028 U.S.A. £ 10 from CNG's London office, Seaby (6 19) 728-1300 ' Fax (6! 9) 728-8507 Coins, 14 Old Bond Street, London, England, WI X 4JL 30 The Celato( ANNOUNCING THE SAN FRANCISCO NUMISMATIC & ANTIQUARIAN BOURSE When: November 11 th & 12th Where: Holiday Inn - Golden Gateway In downtown San Francisco - On Van Ness Hours: 2-day show, 10-7 each day FEATURING: Many of the most important dealers in the United States in ancient coins, medieval coins, coins of Britain, Anglo-Saxon, modern foreign , crowns, foreign gold, & classical antiquities. * * * * * San Francisco Numismatic Society Open Meeting Sat. Nov. 12th, 2-4 pm. Held in conjunction with NAB at the Holiday Inn - Golden Gateway. * * * * * Auction Previews Classical Numismatic Group - Dec. 7th Auction of general Greek & Roman, & Lesure Collection of ancient Janiform coinage. Freeman & Sear - Dec. 16th Mail Bid Sale #1 - Greek & Roman Sotheby's (NYC) - Dec. 13th Auction of ancient & foreign coins. * * * * * Special Hotel Rates of $92 single and double for all show participants including out-of-town dealers & collectors. * * * * * Special Parking Rate of $6 per day for all collectors. * * * * * Open to the Public - Free Admission (Upon presentation of a positive ID). * * * * * Please note that all dealers in attendance are interested in buying so this is an excellent chance to get rid of material in which you are no longer interested in collecting. * * * * * This is strictly a non-smoking show. For Further Information Contact: THE NUMISMATIC & ANTIQUARIAN BOURSE Dr. Arnold R. Saslow - Bourse Chairman, P.O. Box 374, South Orange, N.J. 07079 Phone: (20 1) 761-0634 FAX: (20 1) 761-8406 November 1994 31 • Art and the Market European investment consortium liquidates ancient coin holdings in eNG Auction XXXIII Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. well as some Roman coins. The ment is conservatively estimated to has recently announced thai an im consignmenl includes a lola I of over bring over $1,000,000. portant investment holding of ancient 10,000 ancient coins. Among the Eric McFadden of CNG stated as coins has just been consigned for highlights are: 130 gold staters of follows: ~ We want to stress that this unreserved public auction. The sale Alexander the Great; 400 silver material is completely unreserved. will be held in conjunction with the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great; The conSignor has given us strict December New York International 600 silver staters of Aspendos; 700 instructions that eve ry coin is to be Numismatic Convention. The con· New Style silver tetradrachms of Ath sold, with no reserves or minimums signment is so large that eNG has ens; 400 silver tetradrachms of Ptole of any kind. It is a wonderful oppor· scheduled a second auction in addi maic Egypt; 1500 Greek silver staters tunity for collectors and dealers, and tion to the sale if had already planned. from South Italy; 100 silver staters of because of the enormous quantity eNG 's regular auction will be held on Tarsos; 900 bronzes from Maroneia; there should be something for every· the morning of Wednesday, Decem 30 elect rum hektes from Mytilene; 15 one." ber 7th, and the newly announced Baktrian tetradrachms of Eukratides; In addition to the consortium's auction will lake place on the after and 1500 Constantin ian bronzes; as material, CNG's regular auction will noon of the same day. well as thousands of other Greek include the fi rm 's usual variety of The new consignment consists of and Roman pieces. Greek, Roman, Byzantine, medieval, the holdings of a private European. Although some coins will be of British, and world coins. Highlights based investment consortium wh ich fered individually, most will be sold include an important group of held mainly ancient Greek coins, as in multiple coin lots. The consign· Judaean coins and a selection of rare coins of Carausius, including an extremely rare gold aureus. The sale will also include a mail bid only sec· c.,. Martin (Coins) Ltd tion of numismatic literature, with approximately 500 lots of books and of London, England. auction catalogues. The auction catalogues are avail· able for $15 from CNG, Inc., P.O. Our current 24 page Box 479, Lancaster, PA 17608·0479 cataLogue contains or for £1 0 from CNG's London office, Seaby Coins, 14 Old Bond Street, about 500 Greek London WIX 4JL, United Kingdom. and Roman coins, The firm offers an annual subscrip 200 English tion to all of its auction catalogues, price lists, and book catalogues lor Hammered $35 (£25). and a wide range of antiquities. Please . .. Check your maiHng label: If the address is not correct, C.J. Martin (Coins) Ltd send us a change notice 85, The Vale, Southgate, immediately. When the postal London N14 GAT, England service sends us your address Established 20 years change, they rip the label off your Celator, send it to us with Tel, (0)8\ 882 \509 Fa" (0)8\ 886 5235 a change notice, and throw the Telephone Visa £, Mastercards accepted rest of the journal away. OUR CATALOGUES INCLUDE ANCIENT GREEK BRONZE, GREEK SILVER, Adding insult to injury, we have ROMAN SILVER [,. BRONZE, BYANTINE, CELTIC, ANGLO SAXON, NORMAN, to pay them (postage due) for HAMMERED MEDIEVAL, ANCIENT ARTIFACTS, HOARDS £, SPECIAL OFFERS this disservice. 32 The Gelato( ship. Se., 124 •. FinfllVF. ..,,,,,,. 091 Galllenus. ,1,0 253·268. Anion ...... 1 ", ~., tan ...."" blown pa. ao.. Sea< 2950. VF+ .""". 29.00 Peter F. Hamilton Co. tina ...... 39 .00 002 _,Anton .• Stag , Se., 295 1_. 055 M. Cleclll. a.F. On. M.nell... . EF 35.00 127 Be. !lenarius. 093 -. Anron .• Antelope , Soa, 2953, P.O. Box 5542, San Mateo, CA 94402·415-574-4114 VGry Fino ... " ...... "",, ..... ,,'" 69.00 EF ... , ... "" .... " .. .. "" .... "",, . 35.00 056 a. Thermtus 101.1 •• 103 6C, 094 -, Amon .. Panthe'. Sear 2978 , Welcome to our list of Ancients for November, 19941 Denarius. very Fino 59 .00 VF. 29,00 057 M. Lucillus Rulu l. 101 6e. 095 -.Mton..Hippoc.~.SOa r 2ge2. There are a goodly number of very nice coins herein and many have tleen priced at a small premium over Denarius. Very F...... ,," 49.00 VF.... 29 .00 their original purdJase price_ The reason !>eng is they were acqUired some years ago in order to t.ecome 0$6 L C.lpumlul Ptso Frugi. 90 se. 096 -.Anton.. Vir1us. Se., 3001. reacquainted w~h lhe ancient coin mal1 November 1994 33 The case of the • • curIOUS COlD of Caligula: A provincial "bronze restruck with legend-only dies Greek Imperial Coins and Tll eir Val slriki ngs. The second striking oflhese by Tho1llas P. McKelma ues. The corresponding BMC (Lydia) coins was done with new dies for the numbers arc # 104 - 105 for the origi legends and a different reverse leg nal and #106- 109 for the restrike. A end.), Larry Devine was renowned for nice example of the original is shown the depth and detail of hi s research on One of the most curious ancient in Figure I. I sold this coin for $335 ancient coins. As a tribute 10 his schol- coins is a provincial bronze struck in Sardis under Caligula in A.D. 38 wh ich had the legends restruck at a later date. Many ancient coins have legends which were changed by recul ting the original dies, but this coin's reverse legend was changed by the ap parently unique method of cutting new dies which consist orlhc legends only. The obve rse shows Drusus and Germaniclls. logale and laureate, scated side by side on curul e chairs facing left; the farther one holds in hi s extended right hand a lituus. The ob verse legend, on both the original and Figure 1 Figure 2 the restrike, is llPOYLOLKAI The original Caligula coin The restruck Ca/igu/a coin rEPMANIKOE KAIEAPHNEOI (3EOICllIAAllEACIlOI. The origina l in eNG Auct ion XXIX, lot 953, March arship, here is his description of coin reverse is EnIAPXIEPEQ:EAAEE 1994. The British Museum 's best ex #412 in hi s Fountainhead Catalog #10 ANllPOY KAEnNOLLAPlllANOY ample of the restrike, BMC 109, is in the winter of 1977: outside an oak and laurel wreath, shown in Figure 2, courtesy of Ihe within which is KOINOY AlIAL. British Mu seum. "Lydia, Sa rdis, c. 38A.D. AE 27, The restruck outside reverse legend is "The Superstar of Re strikes" is struck by Caligula, commemorat rA In · ALINN ln • nnAAlflNI • what the late Larry Devine called this ing the opening of sacred games AN0YrlATn. coin. (Strictly speaking, a restrike is a dedicated, in this case, to the The original coin is the type of coin struck at a later dale with exactly memory of Drusus Jr. and #364, and the restrike is #365 in Scar, the same di es used for the original Germanicus, both of whom died during the reign of Tiberius, of that dreadful malady, 'Popular Heir '. ObI': DrUSIlS and German iClls. togate and laureate, sellled New York - aurich - LII- 1litJtWon side by side 01/ clITille chairs 10 left. Rev: Within an oak and fall rei-wreath. KOINOY AEIAE. On Does a healthy slice of your numismatic budget underwrite big the olltside we re the nallle alld title city overhead rather than buy coins? Could be. of Alexander, son of Cleon, the magisrrate who issued it. and th e Our free illustrated catalogue is the collector's alternative. city-name. The Proconsul Caius Discover where desirable ancients at realistic prices are backed by Pol/is, Oil seeing the coin and re fri endly, small town service. a fizillg its historical potential. alld seein g a chalice for posterity to /lot e his /lame. did an amazing ROBERT T. GOLAN thing. He had his OWllllame en P.O. BOX 812, WARRENTON, NORTH CAROLINA 275R9 (9 (9) 257-3853 graved 0 11 a {:ircular rillg. alld the origill al obverse legend 011 an· 34 The Gelator other. then he had the coins re struck, only the outer edge of the coin, mind )'ou, (the design was THE SWISS NUMISMATIC SOCIETY not to be effected) between them, Founded ill 1879 thus obliterating the original cir cular legends on each side of the At the forefront of scientific and historical research for over one hundred years, the Swiss Numismatic Society has established a wOOd -wide reputation by its work with coin, and replacing it with his leading scholars, collectors and deal9fs diffused through its weD known Revue and own, The difficulty of thi.f feat is GozeNe journals with articles in four languoges, together with numerous monogrophs mind-boggling, for the primitive and special publicotions in such series OS Typos and the Catalogues of Swiss Coins, equipment of the time. You COIl The Society itself owes its inception In 187910 the pioneering spirit of Or. Chorles see how these rings would easily Fra090is Trachsel. its founder and fIrSt president. but the Swiss numismatic tradition goes bock to the earliest days of coin collecting In the Iote 15th century when slip, even if just a fraction of all COfY)Qisssurs like the Amerboch family of Basel. inspired by Renaissance humanists inch, and deface the figures of such as Erasmus of RoNerdam then residing In lhe city ,established important cabinets. Drusus and Germanicus. Also, The Society continued from the old century under the guidance of Eugene Demole with some planchers being just a and Paul Slroehlin, while the new was presided over by eminent scholars such as bit less wide than others, most of Dietrich Schwarz and Colin Martin. the IIew legend, eve" if there was The Swiss Numismotic Society remains today at the service of the international numismatic community. dedicated as it Is to the furthera nce of the knowledge of no rillg slipping, would be off the those small but invaluable witnesses of a rt and history, the coins of Greece, Rome. flan. Yes, a far-sighted mml. this Byzantium, the Orient. the middle ages. the modern period and Switzerland itself. Pollio. but il/theface olal! these By joining this leading society you will be able to partiCipate directly in numismatic difficulties (although the threm of researCh and moreover be eligible to receive the annual Revue and the quorte~y a work-stoppage b)' the minters Gazette, os well as members' discounts on most speCial publications. has IIot been silificien/i), substan Applications for membership in the Society ore welcome from all with an interest in tiated to rake into accoulII). he ancient and modern numismatics. The membetship fee is Sfr lOOper year (Str 50 for members under 25) andSfr .a::u:7 for SOOIl gave it up. Ver), few speci life membership, or a sponsoring membership from Sfr 250 per year. Make checks meTls with hisful/legend, rAID · payable fa Swiss Numismatic Society. Credd Swiss Bank. 8eme, Switzenanc/, ale txJ94- AEINNID • nDAAIDN I • 1aJ849-41. ANBynA TD have survived. and it is believed that half of these are SWISS NUMISMATIC SOCIETY in the British M,l seUI/I (they have c/o Italo Vecc hi three). Th is one is BMC 106. and is olle of the halldful withful/leg Niederdorfstrasse 43, CH-8001 Zurich ends. still 011 the public market. 'The Superstar i l l al/c iem re strikes'. Redundallt to say, it's of the highest rarit),. Fille- Very Fille. Are you interested in Ex. Col, O'Sullivan Collection. $750" CHOICE WORLD COINS? The British Museum actually has You shou ld be receiving our publications four restruck specimens. and the nUln ber of restrikes not in mu se um s is cer MORE THAN THREE tainly more than three, because I have MAIL BID CATALOGUES ANNUALLY owned four at once myself. However, a "handful" is probably a reasonable estimate of the number in private col Featu ring RARE and CHOICE gold and silver co ins of lections or currentl y for sale. the world as well as ancient coinage and wo rld paper Theodore Buttrey. writing about Iype, coin #274 in Greek, Romall, and money. A sample catalogue is $15.00 postpaid. Islamic Coills From Sardis (Harvard University Press, 198 1), challenges Includes Prices Realized the attribut ion as follows: "The issue is traditionally altrib An annual su bscription is also available. Th e cost is $45 uled to Sardis but almost certainly with in the U.S. and $60 outside the U.S. be/ollgs elsewhere. The original reverse legend reads, En IAPX JEPEDEAAEEANtlPOYKAED Ponterio & Associates, Inc. NOEEAPMANOY referrillg to 1818 Robinson Ave. the magistra te rather thall the people of Sardis. The reverse type ,- " ffm" ... San Diego, CA 92103 must be a reference to the games • \'VIIISKA11IH 1-800-854-2888 or 619-299-0400 ~ '''\1'''' of the koillOIl ... all d would be 'Vi • Licensed Auctioll CompallY #968 appropriate to Pergamum, Ephe sus or Sm),rlla. as cities where th e P.N.G. #308 Richard H. Ponterio - President L M. #2163 major games were held. " November 1994 35 A header in the Bri tish Museum's raises the possibility that only those some cases the new legend did deface tnlys says that Pick attributed this is coins were restruck and that there was the figures. I have an illustration from sue 10 Smyrna but also noted a no recall of coins already in circula an auction catalog which shows an reattribution to Pergamon. tion . However, it seems more prob otherwise very fine example with the Buttrey also discussed the date and able that a proconsul who would be so top half of one head missing. This purpose of the restrike: motivated to change the legend on a defect did not dampen the enthusiasm coin already issued would exert con of the cataloger, who estimated it at "MallY oj/he known examples, ill cludillg al/ the filld pieces, are siderable efforl to collect all the coins $3,250-4,250. already in circulation to include in the overstrllck on the aliter rim, call G.F. Hill, in Ancient Methods oj cellillg the earlier reverse legend. restriking. Based on a rough estimate Coining (an Attic Books offprint from C. Asillills Pofiio was proconsul of the number of each in published the Numismatic Chronicle), gives this museum collections and in auction and ill A.D. 37-38, which provides a explanation of the method: terminus ante quem for the origi dealer's catalogs, I be lieve the origi "At Sardes the whole of the cir nal coins arc much scarcer tha n the lIal isme, which could date back cuLar inscriptions all both sides of rcstrikes. to the appointment ofGermalliclIs a coin of Drusus Jllllior alld If the new inscription was no t leg as supreme authority ill the East GermallicliS were removed by the ible the purpose of restriking would be in A.D. 17. There is I/O indica process of clltfing away the edge defeated, and "decapitating" either tioll of the rea SOli for the partial of the die, and substituting new Drusus or Germanicus would have restrike, which may simply have circular bands oj metal 011 which been intended to hOllor DrllSIIS been undesirable. So it is probable new inscriptions were engraved. that some of the lowest quality re alld cermanicus 011 the occasion Owing to the faulty adjustment of strikes were consigned to the melting of Caligula 's accession. All elabo the bands the alteration is clearly pot. However, not all the poor speci rate restriking seems all unlikely apparent. " mens met that fate, as I have owned response /0 the downjall of the several miserable examples myself. This explanation seems unlikely for original magis/rate, Alexander. The di fficul ty of restri king without several reasons. It wou ld be more dif The high proportioll of res/ruck damaging the figures would be com ficult to cut the bands to fit on snugly, pieces shows that a millt could pounded by off-center originals, such properly aligned, and to keep them on call ill a givell type ijnecessary... " as the one illustrated in SNG Cop the die during repeated striking than It is also possible that many coins enhagen, Vol. V, #517. The restruck to cut complete new dies in the nor from the original stri king were still in Copenhagen specimen, #518, has rem mal manner, but with inscriptions only government hands and, if so, that nants of the original inscription. In and the centers hollowed out. Also, Hill's method implies all new coins struck on new blank planchets rather than a restriking over the old coins. Die matches of new coins struck with Hill's method would certainly prove PALLADIUM his case, but I have not seen any. That, of course, does not prove they do not exist. However, without such sopport NUMISMATICS ing evidence and with the contrary evidence of the remnant of an origi • A full-service firm for collectors of Classical nal inscription on the Copenhagen coin, Hill's explanation should be re coins and antiquities in all price ranges, jected. The dies used for restriking were • We issue regular illustrated Bid-Dr-Buy almost certainly similar to most Ro catalogs and attend most major coin shows. man dies in size and shape, i.e. with shafts to allow the ohverse die !O be mounted in a workbench and the re • We service want lists and will assist you in verse to be held in the hand while it developing your collection. was hit with the hammer. Thecenters of the new dies would have been hol lowed out enough to prevent damage • To receive a free catalog, please to the central images on the original coins. They probably tried to position call or write: both dies correctly on the original PALLADIUM NUMISMATICS coin, and to strike the upper die straight-on to avoid damaging the cen 4125 W. Mineral King. Suite 316 tral images. However, enough poorly Visalia, CA 93277 struck specimens are available!O dem David S. Michaels, (209) 636-0945 onstrate that they were not always suc cessful, or careful, in that effort. These Classical Numismatist misaligned restrikes would also indi _ aIICii calC that they did not use a collar or other device to achieve correel align- 36 The Gelator Figure 3 Left: Obverse of the British Museum specimen. Right: Reverse of the O'Sullivan coin. ment of the dies on the coins to be re image may have been beyond their One o f the pleasures of collecting struck. technical ability. and dealing in ancient coins is the The Romans probably tri ed to Two drawings by Bctsy Davison challenge of researching questio ns slri ke on heated planchets to get a (Fi gure 3) show the obverse of the about them, and then discussin g the sharper strike, avoid nan cracks, and British Museum specimen and the rc results with oth er numismatists. I \0 reduce di e wear and cracks, How verse of the 0' Su II i van coir.. The ver hope thi s article wil l stimulate some ever, to heat the original coins enough tical object above the ou tstretched arm debate about why and how these curi to provide these advantages wilhout of the farthest figure is a defect in the ous coins were struck. overheating and damaging the central field. HARMER ROOKE GALLERIES Coming in December Classical Antiquities, Egyptian Art, Ancient Coins, Pre-Columbian Art, Oriental Antiquities At Absentee Auction Fully Illustrated Catalogue $ 15 Domestic I $25 Foreign Lovely selection of Ancient Bronzes HARMER ROOKE GALLERIES 32 East 57th Street New York, N.Y. 10022 (212) 751 - 1900 Fax (212) 758-1713 November 1994 37 Quality and selection Ancient Coins mark Davissons 4th • Mail Bid Sales ancient coin auction • Fixed Price Lists Davissons Ltd. of Cold Spring, • Buy or Bid Sales Minnesota, is conducting their 4th • Numismatic Literature mail bid auction. The sale consists of ancient Greek, Greek Imperial, Specializing in moderate priced Judaea" coills Roman Republican, Roman Imperial, (serious want-lists solicited) ancient to modern British, and clas sic Chinese coinage, and includes William M. Rosenblum /rare coins unusual items of high quality with an p.O. box 355-CE. evergreen, colo. 80439 emphasis on carefu l selection. Highlights 01 the gold coinage in phonelfax 303·838·4831 clude a 60 litra of Syracuse, a staler of Philip II of the Kolophon mini, vari ous Celtic gold issues, a beautiful portrait gold coin of Justinian II, and AUCTION 70 two one· half pound gold coins of on Nov. 21st, 1994 in Munich Elizabeth I. SAMMLUNG Other noteworthy items are a choice Myrina letradrachm, an ex MARGARETHA LEY ceptional Julius Caesar portrai t ANCIENT COINS denarius, a nice Titus seslerlius, and a wonderful as of Domitian (esl. at GREEK·ROMAN·CELTlC·MIGRATlON PERIOD $2,000). Following the ancient coin The MARGARETHA LEY COLLECTION of ANCIENT COINS includes some 01 the most age is a nice run of medieval English Interesting pieces to have been offered for sale. The electrum coins 01Asia Minor illustrate coinage, including issues 01 Harold I the development of early coin engraving as shown by the e.lraordinary slater from and If, a sefection of Viking coins, DarDanas. Among the most inleresling gold coins are on octodrachm 01 Anliochus III, a and choice silver of Charles If, with Sialer of Pharnakes I, and a slater of T. Quinctius Flamininus. Silver issues of Italy, Sicily, Greece, As ia Minor, and the Near East include rare coins such as a 15 litra piece from the sale's cover coin being an ex· Syracuse, a tetradrachm of Amphipolis , a stater from the island of Naxos, among many ample of Charles II's first hammered others. The about 60 Roman gold coins begin with a half stater of the Republic, followed 6-pence. Concludin g th e auction is by aurel of Sex tus Pompey . Galba, Domi tia, Septimius Severus with Julia Domna. an assortment of ancient Chinese Postumus, Tetricus I, Carinus. and Aelia FlaciUa. 01 the 70 or so coins which include Celtic coins from an old collection. coins, irregular issues and COins 01 the period of tribal migrations there are a number 01 The sale closes N ovember 18, remarkable pieces. These include many coins struck by tribes outside the borders 01 the t994. Copies of the Auction 4 cata Roman Empire, as well as Ostrogothic and Germanic issues. The collection is especially noteworthy for the generally splendid condition and rarity of many of the coins, and is log are available upon request by probably the most outstanding collection of ancient coins that has ever been auctioned in contacting Davissons lid. , Cold Germany. All coins are illustrated in COlor with English translations in the te~t. Spring, MN 56320-9623; phone (612) 685-3835; fax (6 12) 685·8636. AUCTION 71 on November 22nd, 1994, in Munich MEDIEVAL & CONTEMPORARY COINS & MEDALS Pegasi Coins changes The MEDIEVAL & MODERN auction incl udes almos t 1.000 especially selected co ins and medals in gold, silver and base metal. The Holy Roman Empire, Austria and the House 01 their mailing address Hapsburg include numerous rare double lalers, Temporal coins of the German Church Eldert Bontekoe of Pegasi Coins, States, interesting and rare medievat coins together with An n Arbor, Michigan, has reported a an extraordinary collection of Salzburg containing a triple change in the fi rm's mailing address. "Tulmtaler", a 1709 10 ducal of Franz Anton 01 Harrach, the secular German princes, rare medieval pennies of The new address is P.O. Box 131040, Istria, Carinthia, and Styria, as well as rare gold coins such Ann Arbor, M! 48113. The firm's ~ as a t682 ducat of Schwarzenberg and talers such as a phone and fax numbers remain the 1537 of Oellingen, and the German City States including same, at (313j ~95- 5743 and (313) a rare 1621 1f8 laler of Nuremberg, The German Empire 995-3410 respectively. is well represen ted by rare gold coins such as Ihe 191020- Pegasi Coins deals in classical Mark coin of Sachsen·Meiningen . A wi de range of forei gn Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and me coins including a seri es of interesting Danish Medals, dieval coinage, as well as books and Islamic coins, Italy wilh the rare so·called ·Salzburger Taler" perhaps from Bozzolo. and a numberof pieces from antiquities. Illustrated catalogs are Russia, Switzerland, Hungary, and the issued regularly by the firm, and cop Vatican State. ies of their late st catalogs are avail· NUMISMATIK Subscription. air mail, 525 eac h able upon request-please specify catalogue. including list of prices reali7.ed. ancient or medieval. In addition to regular catalogs, Pegasi Coins also NUMISMA TlK LANZ services want lis ts, provides consul Maximiliansplatz 10 tati ons, and performs appraisals and LANZ D-80333 Miinchen I Germany estate evaluations. Eldert Bontekoe Tol. (0049) (89) 299070 can a lso be found represe nt ing MONCHEN Telcfax (0049) (89) 220762 Pegasi Coins at most major bourses and conventi ons. 38 The Celator 3 1 McDowell. R .. COiM from $ckucia on the TIgris. Ann ArboI". 1935. PAPYRUS BOOKS HB . fine. important on Purlhian and Seleucid ...... $150.00 32 Meshorer. Y.. Ancient Jewish Coinage Vol. I Pel"!;ia n Period through 34372 Dunhill Drive. Fremont. CA 94555 HlLSmona("3ns. N.Y.. 1982. HB . fine. (VI' $15.(0) ...... $36.00 Phone 5 t 0-790-1342 Fax 510-790-2676 33 Milne. J.G., Cata logue of Alexandria n Coins. London. 1933. HB. E-Mail [email protected] minor wear to cover otherwise near fine ...... $ 150.00 34 N.I·: A. Auction XVII 3-31·87. A. Houghton Collcrtion, PB .. $25.00 Fi~ed price Jist #4 on mostly out of print booh on Ancient Numismntics and 3S Nac. Sydney. The Coinage of Mctapontum Parts 1-2 ANSNNM Antiquities including several ~arce tilles. 32147 & The Coinage ofM~tapontum l'arlS 1-2 W/Additiorti & Tenlls; 7 day return. please call first pl)~lnge in U.S. 53.00 first hook. $1.00 Corrections by Ann Johnston. N.Y.. 1927131/84. PB/HB each additional. Ovel'SO'a.. shipping al actual CO!II. CA residenls add sales la x . ncar fine ...... SISO.oo I Sabelon. Jean. Catalogue I.le 1. 101 Coll ection I.le Luynl'$ Monnaiu 36 Nne. Sydney. The Coinage or Cllulon ia. NUl1lismatic Studies No. 9. GrecquC'S II . Paris, 1925.2 vol. lext & plales. near fine...... $250.00 N.Y. . 1958. PB . v.g ...... S75.OO 2 8abelon. Jean. Catalogue De La Collection De Luyncs Monnaies 37 Numismatic Notes & Monographs.No. 126. MilCedonian Regal Coin- Grtcques IV. Paris, 1936.2 vol. lc.'(t & pl~ICS, near fine ...... 5125.00 age, by Doris Raymond . N.Y.. 1953. PB . near fine ...... _$75.00 3 Ban k Leu, Griechische Munten: Aus Des Sa mm lung .:ines 38 Pozzi. Monnaies Grecques Antiques Provenant De La Collection Kunstfreundes Auk!ion AM 23 Mai 1974. PB. flear fine ,_,. _, .. $50,00 De Feu Le Prof, S.I'ozzi. Zurich. 1966. HIl. near fine ...... $85.00 don. 1970, ncar 8 De La Tour, Hendri. Atlas De Monna ies Gouloiws. London, 1968, one fine in d.j...... _...... $60.00 of the better reprints oftne 1892 original. HB. v.g ...... S60.00 4S Sutherland. Roman Coins. N. Y.. 1974. fioe in d.j. & slipcase$125.oo 9 Gallatin. Albert. Syracusan Oekadrachms or the Euainetos Type. 46 Sutherland. The Cistophori or Augustus. RNS special publication no. Cambridge. 1930, frontis. TEG. HIl . fine . . .. $ 125.00 5. London. 1970. fine in d.j ...... $5{).00 10 Giacosa, Giorgio. Women or the Caesars: Their I, ives and Portraits 47 Svoronos. IN .. Dic Mun7.cn Ocr l'tolcmaecr Vol. IV. Athens, 1908. on Coins. Milan. 1978. near fine in d.j ...... $50.00 unbound copy with uncut pages, I'll , ncar fine ...... $250.00 II GobI. R .. Sasanian Numismatics. 197 1. ncar fi ne in d.j ...... $65.00 48 Sv oro no.~. J.N .• Journa llntHnational O'An::hcologie Numismatique: 12 Grierson. Ph ilip. 8y1.antine Coi ns. London. 1982. text and 95 plates. Lome Sei1.ieme. Athens. 19 14. I'll. cover & spine chipped. binding fine in slightly faded d.j. ... $ 120.00 loose. most pages uncut. internal ly finc ...... $175.00 13 Haatvedt & Peterson, Coins From Kara nis, The University or Michi- 49 Svoronos. J.N .. Synopsis De Mille Coins J<' aux Du Fa ussaire C. gan t:"cavations 1924.1935. Ann ArboI", 1964. PB . v.g ...... $~ . OO Christodoulos. Athens. 1922. PS. v.g .. superior to reprints .. $150.00 14 Head. Barclay. BMC Catalogue or the Grttk Coins of Lydia. IAn· 50 SNG: The Burton Y. Berry Co llection I'art I & 2. Macedonia 10 don, 1901. HB . cover minot" wear. internally fine. uncut pages$2oo.oo Attica & Mcgaris to Egypt. N.Y. • 1961 ·62. PB . near fi ne ... $200.00 15 Hill. George. 8 eckerThe Counterfeiter Part I & II in One Vol. Lon· 51 SNG : Vol. III, The Locbll Collection I'arl l Spain· Italy (Gold a nd don. 1955, HB. v.g...... $85.00 Silver). London. 1938. PB. v.g ...... $85.00 16 Hill. George. 8J1.1C Catalogue or the Greek Coins or 52 SNG: Vol. IV, Fitzwilliam Mu ~um : Leake ami General Colis, Part Lycaonia, Isauria, & CiJicia. London. 1900, HB. near fine T Spain (Emporiae, Rhoda)-Ttaly. London. 1972. brds. fine .. $65.00 w/uneut pages...... $200.00 53 SNG: Vol. V, Ashmolean Museum Odord Part II: Italy, Lucanla, 17 Hoberman. Gerald , The Art of Coins and Their Photography. N.Y. , IIrultium, Sicily, Carthage. London. 1969, brds, fine ...... $65.00 1982. out ,tanding photography. fine in dj...... $90.00 54 SNG: Vol. VI, The Lewi .~ Collection In Corpus C hristi College Part 18 Je nkins, G.K., Ancient Greek Coi ns. N.Y., 1972. v.g . in d.j . $150.00 I The Greek & Hellenistic Coins. London. 1972. HB. v.g .... $65.00 19 Jenkins & Uwis. Carthaginian Gold & Electrum Coins. RNS spe · 55 Thompson. M .. The New Style Silve r Coinage of Athens. N. Y.. 1961. eial publication 110. 2. London, 1963. (ron!is, fine in d.j ...... S60.oo 2 volumes. HB . back hinges loose. OIherwisc near fine ...... $225.00 20 Jenton·Nelsen. M .. Ancientl'ortrailure; TheSc:ulplor'sArt in Coins 56 Tudeer. L.. Th. Die TClrad rachnu;' npragung von Syra kus in du and Marble. Richmond, 1980, glossy cardcovcr. fine ...... S I5.00 I'criode der Signiert'nden Kurtitler. Chicago. 1979. HB. fine$25.oo 2 1 Jones. J.M .• A Dictionary of Aoc:ienl Romlln Coins. London. 1990, 57 Ward. John. Grt'tk COiM & Their l'aT(:nt Cities. LoTldon. 1902. HB . fine in d.j...... $65.00 rrontpicce. TEG. near fine ...... __ . $ 150.00 22 Kindler. A .. The Coinage of Roslra. PB. 1983. fioe ...... _.. $80.00 58 Westermark & Jenkins. The Coinage of Kamarina. RNS special pub- 23 Kraay & Jenkins. Essays in Grttk Coinage: Presented 10 Stantey licmion no. 9. London. 1980. fine in sli ghtly f.C uffcd d.j...... $50.00 Robinson. London. 1968.l'revious owncr' ~ stamp. HB . fine $250.00 59 Whiting. P.D., Byzantine Coins. N.Y., 1973. fine in d.j ...... S85.OO 24 Kraay & Ilirmer. Greek Coins. N.Y., 1966. ncar fine in d.j .. $500.00 ANTIQUIT IES 2~ I.e Rider. G .. Monnaies C re toises Ou Ve Au IH Sieclc AV . J-C Paris. 60 Uoardnl.1n. J . Archaic Gre~k Gems. 1968. ncar fine in d.j . ... $45.00 1966, pp. 9·24 of text replaced w/photo copi c.>. HB. v.g ...... 5285.00 6 1 H ci~~crcr. A .• C lassical Antiquities. 1986, fine in ".j ...... $25.00 26 I.e Rider. G., Deux Tresors Dc Monn~it'S Grt'cques De La l'rnpontide 62 Hi ggins. R .. Greek & Roman Jewell ery. 1980. fine in d.j ..... $45.00 (IV Sieclc Mans). Paris. 1963. PB . ncar fine ...... S60 00 63 SOIheby·s. The Ada Small Moore Coll ection or Ancient Near ElLSt- 27 Le Rider. G .. u Monnayage O'Argent I':t O' or Dc Philippe II : ern Sc;tls. 12-1 -91 glossy cardcover. prices realized. fine ... .. $20.00 Frapi'C' ":n ~ I a c edoin e De 359 A 294. Paris. 1977. liB. fine $175.00 28 Mattingly. H., Coins Of The Roma n Empire in The British r. luseun,: 64 Spiteris. 1.. The Art of Cyprus. 1970. fine in d.j. & slipca.<.e $85.00 1Il Nen Ancielll NUllliStlUlllCS Wid Allliqllilin. spine. imemally good. in beller than avemge condition for this wurk. \Ve (lelirei)" f!urchtlse slIIJ?lt I" November 1994 39 Wanted to Purchase: Mark Antony and Egyptian Coins and Antiquities Cleopatra lead off We will purchase collections or accumulations of any size in YG to EF, especially Tradart auction quantities of Ptolemaic bronzes, Alexandrian billan tctradrachms and The faces of the most celebrated bronze drachms, ushabtis, scarabs, amulets, and terracalla heads and figurines lovers in antiquity, reproduced for for our galleries in New York, Beverly Hills, Las Vegas (the Luxor HOlel) and London. eternity on the same coin, will be Please send photos or xeroxes and fu ll details with your offers. auctioned in Geneva on November Jerome M. Eisenberg, Ph,D., Director (ANA LM 277) 17, 1994 al 2 pm in the Hotel Des Be rgues by Tradart Geneve, world royal-athena galleries K ~wy"'k-'_l,h m'-l"","" specialists in ancient coins. This Established [942 extremely rare and superior quality 153 East 57th Street, New York. New York 10022' Telephone (212) 355-2034 ' Fa:>:. (1 12) 688-04 12 coin could exceed the experts' valu alions of 38,000-48,000 SFr. Indeed, this very interesting historical issue not only commemorates the marriage of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 32 B.C., but also his conquest of Arme WHOLESALE TO ALL! nia in the same year, as well as his 100 ancient coins in flips and attributed. A diverse lot gift of Alexandria to Cleopatra. The auction includes 290 Greek in cluding Nero, Caesar Augustu s, Alexander the Great, and Roman coins selected not only Biblical "Widow's Mite", etc. Only $475.00 postpaid, with for their histori ca l interest, but their satisfaction guaranteed! fine preservation. Two important ex hibitions have been planned leading up to this important sale. The first 1!1onl'ron ~ 930-6879; fax (071) 930-9450. G. HIRSCH OF MUNICH ANNOUNCES AN IMPORTANT PUBLIC AUCTION OF ANCIENT AND FOREIGN COINS AUCTION NR.184 23-25 November, 1994 r.------,Munzenhandlung Catalogued and sold by I Gerhard Hi rsch Nachf. I I Promenadeplatz 10, D-80333 Munchen 2, Germany I Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger I Enclosed please find $60.00 for a Subscription of I I Four Auction Sale Catalogues and Prices Realized Lists I Promenadeplatz 10 I Name ______1 D-80333 Mtinchen 2, Germany Telefon (089) 29 21 50 I Street I Telefax (089) 2283675 IL City ______State Zip ~I November 1994 41 Book News MOllnaies Grico-Bactriennes et over, he mentions nearly a ll the pub ford. Among the publications used, the l ndo-Greques, by Osmund Bopear lished coins and the unpublished ones most relevant certai nl y are M. Mitch achchi, Paris, 1991. Card cover, 460 as far as he has studied them from mu iner's volumes I -4 of Illdo-Greek and pages, 69 plates. $145 seum and private collections all over the Indo-Sc}'lhiall Coillage, London 1975, The heirs of Alexander's em pire in world. The intention was 10 bring to comprising the Briti sh Mu se um, the the east, the Seleucids, 10S1 their cast gether as many specimens as possible Ashmolean Museum, and so me private ern-most province. Bactria-Sogdiana, coverin g al l different types with all collections includin g Mi tchi ncr's per about 250 B.C. follow ing a re volt of its known monograms. In eac h case the sonal one. In spite of some errors and satrap DiOOo105, who declared himself author indicates the number of known someti mes very speCUlati ve histori cal independent king of this new Graceo specimens with reference to the respec reconstructions and monogram illlcrpre Bactrian kingdom. About 100 years of tive collection. The excellent 69 photo tations Mitchiner's work retains its high progressive expansion passed before graphic plates illustrate all specimens in value in presellling a we ll done survey first Sogdiana and then Bactria were the Cabinet des Medailles, and selec of the British Museum co ll ec tion wi th overrun by nomadic invaders, promi tively important pieces from other exce ll ent photographic plates. Further nently amon g them the Yuczhi. With sources. While the coins from outside publiclltions now more or Jess of hi stori Hcliocles' death in 130 B.C. only land the Paris collection are just mentioned cal value are Gardners and Lahiri's south of the Hindu Kush was still in the by number of known specimens and catalogues, as well as the historical re hands of the Greek kings (now called provenance, the description or the 1,227 constructions of Cunningham, Tarn and Indo-Greeks), but the further advance of specimens of the Cabinet des Medailles Na rain. But as many of the specimens the nomadic aggressors was irresistible: is impressively comprehensive and pre fro m the Indian Mu seu m collecti on in bastion by bastion the Greeks had to give cise, including details frequently ne Calcutta, published by V.A. Smith in up, unlil wilh Ihe final occ upation of the glected by former cataloguers: weight. 1906, and of the Lahore collection, pub western Punjab by the Indo-Scy thian dimension, axes-orientation, iconogra lished by Whitehead in 1914, are not ruler Azes around 55 B.C., o nl y a small phy, legends and legend arrangement, included in later catalogues, Bopear Greek province in the eastern Punjab provenance. me tal, inventory number, achchi incorporates them also, as well survived unt il the begi nning of the reference to earlier publications, form of as the items of some smaller, already Christian era. the planchet, overstrikes (indicating the published col lections: those of the Dan Coins generally play an important succession of reigns), monograms and ish National Museum in Copenhagen. of role in the reconstruction of historical associations of monograms with find the State Museum Lucknow, of the Na events. In Ihe case of lndo-Greekl spots (helping to determine the bound tional Museum Athens, of the Magyar Graeco-Bactrian coins this is especiall y aries of a ruler's territory). Nemzeti Muzeum Budapest, and of the true because of the scarcity of explana In addition to the collection of the Na tional Museum of Georgia in Tbilisi. tory ancient literary passages and ar Cabinet des M~d a i lles in Paris, Bo To all these specimens the aut hor adds chaeological data. Therefore each pub pearachchi personall y examined that of those from hoard s and excavations: lication of fresh material is welcome. It the British Museum in London. of the hoard coin s from Ai-Kh anoum, Bouk is, however, for many more reasons thai Musee Guimet in Pari s, the Ashmolean hara, Qunduz, MiT Zakah, and coi ns Osmund Bopearachc hi's MOll llaies Museum in Oxford, the Ameri can Nu from archaeological sites like Ai Grlco-Bactrielllles et Illdo-Grequ es, mismatic Society in New York, the Kha nO UIll and Taxi la. The excavations Paris 1991. deserves special attention. Staatliche Musee n in Berl in , the conducted by French archaeologists in The author presents a detai led, in-depth Smithson ian Institut ion in Was hi ng ton, the 70s have brought to light a consid study of the hitherto unpublished, highly and the Museum of FineArts in Boston, erable amou nt of historically important important collection of the Cabinet des as we ll as some very important personal material. It is of great benefit that Med ailles, Paris, comprising as many as collections, those of Harry Fow ler in Bo pearachchi has also included this 1,227 specimens of the series. More- New York and of Adrian Holli s in Ox- fresh material with an explanation or the conclusions that can bc drawn from it. The excavations of Ai-Khanoum were interrupted by the Russi an invasion of Afghanistan. Having mentioned the d iffe rent sources (collections, publications, exca vations, dealers' lists and auction cata logues) from which the catalogue speci mens have been gathered. Bopearaehchi marks each of them wit h an abbrevia tion; he explains the wa y and the crite ria by which the coins are described in the catalogue paT!, wi th special empha sis on the importance of the monograms. The interpretation of the various mono grams is certainly one of the most im portant. but also most controversially discussed questions. Counting together 42 The Gelato( all hitherto proposed monograms. one in the west and Gardez in the south." Eukratides I revolled ca. 170 B.C. and reaches a figure of more than 550, By Kn ow ing thi s, it is not su rprising that whose coinage is ch:..racteri zed by the systematically examining more than the coinage of the ru lers of Taxila and standing Athena reverse type: and the 10,000 coins of the series. Bopearachchi the eastern Punjab are only scarcely rep bilingual coi nage ofDemetriosAniketos dctected that many monogram varieties resented in the Cabinet des Medailles, obviously belongs to a third ruler of th is in fact arc mere misreadi ngs: many cata in contrast to the British Museum, which name, whom Bopearachchi places loguers had drawn monograms as they made its acquisitions most ly in anc ient around 100 B.C., basing hi s argument had seen them. without realizing that the Gandhara and the Punjab. particularly on the legend arrangement presum ed variety was based onl y on The next chapler consists of a con on his coins, which is of a kind first in corrosion or wear. By eliminating all vincing historical reconstructi on com troduced by Menander ( 155- 130 B.C,). these incorrect readings the author re bined with a numismati c discussion de Concerning the Eukratides coinage, duced the total number to 298, and by veloped in a chronological order. ruler the author allocates it to two different furt her exclusion of posthumous em is by ru ler. Discussing and testing the va sovereigns. the famo us Eukr:lI idcs I sions to about 250 (sec O. Bopear lidity of arguments brought forward by ( 170· 145 B.C.) with hi s Dioscuri on achchi's 'A new approach to the hi story ot her scholars. Bopearachchi either ad horseback emblem_ and a short-lived of the Greeks in Bactria and India' . to heres to an established hypothesis or Eukratides II (145- 140 B.C. ) with stand be published soon). This great number draws his own conclusions. Only a fcw ing Apollo rcverse type. Together with obViously does not represent 250 differ cases may be mentioned here, where several other arguments Bopearachchi ent minting authorities in the Graeco Bopeara chchi's results clarify former presents a number of overstrikes over Bactrianllndo-Greek rea lm. In discuss controversics or di ffer from form er re Strato IfAgathokleia. Strato I and ing the problem Bopearachchi connects search, partly because of fresh consid Antialkidas, which lead him \0 place a the results of scholars likeA.D.H. Bivar erations. part ly because of new material. Helioklcs II around 110-100 B.C. with and R. Curiel with special emphasis on The discovery of the Attic tetradrachm a bilingual coinage, in cont rast to the the phenomenon of di e-links. which with a portrait of Apollodotus I and a monolingual Allic coinage of the parri Curiel had worked out so clearly in his seated Athena reverse type is a definite cide Heliokles I. The t he sis that presentation of the famous Qunduz proof fo r the ex istenc e of two kings with Eukratides I and Menandcr had becn hoard: coins struck from identi cal ob this same name. Regardin g the Deme contemporaries was already proposed by verse dies show reverses with different trios coinage the author follows the hy Rapson. Tarn, and Bivar('The sequence monograms, wh ich are however con pothesis of three homonymous kings: of Menander's drachms, JRAS 1970, pp. nected by a common principal form. Demetrios I, All ie coins with the el 123-36). Bopearachchi shares this view, Systematically working out these obser ephant scalp portrait, ru li ng 200-190 making both men biller riva ls. Based vations Bopearachchi proposes a system B.C. and firstl y crossing the Hindu on monogram and legend comparisons, of about 15 monogram "families", each Kush; Demetrios II is regarded as the as well as on literary evidence, he de of them mostly characterized by the legal king against whom the usurper scribes Eukra tides as win ner of the con- shape of a Greek letter. Suhordinated to these main monogram s are a multi tude of va riet ies, interpreted as marks of subordinated "officinae" auached to the main mints, which are represented CATALOGUE #1 by the main monograms. Further die studies could support th is interpretation. A lot of guesswork has been done in A Special Selecti on of the past with reference to the attribution of certain monograms to certain locali ties-a typical example is to connect the COINS & ANTIQUITIES Greek letter shape wi th a ci ty name be ginning with just this leiter, or to take it Ancient coin s with historical themes and antiquities of the as an initial of the mint-master. Bo pearachchi concentrates on the impor ancient civilizati ons selected for the numismatist with an tance of coin provenances, gathering and appeal for fine art in miniature. evaluating this information systemati call y: from the Charles Masson collec tion, that of Marc Ie Berre, of Joseph Availab le in Fall 1994 Hackin, and of various excavation and hoard coins. The result is the attribu tion of a few monograms to certain lo REQUEST YOUR COMPLIMENTARY COPY calities, which can be taken to be highly convincing: R is con nected with Mir Appraisals Agency Services Zakah, N::l with Taxila, and ~ with Consultations Commissioned Sales the Kabu l region (probably Begram). With the support of new archaeological data and numi smatic evidence we shou ld be able. in the future, to enlarge this STEVE L. RUBINGER small nucleus of knowledge, thu s com plet ing the monogram puzzle lillic by Over 20 years of Professional Experience lillie. It is informative in this context to learn that the greater part of the Paris Telephone (818) 592·2100 Fax (818) 592·2101 collection comes from "the regions com 6320 Canoga Ave., Suite 1770 Woodland Hills, CA 91367 prising Begram in the north, Kand ahar November 1994 43 flict, forcing Menander to withdraw to eastern Punjab, in the Sagala region, that and that not Strato II bu t possibly a the southern periphery of the realm. a small Greek remnant survived for a Strato IV was the last Indo-Greek ruler. Only afler Eukratides' death was few more decades. It is Ihe history and Senior takes the old portrait with the Menander able to regain hi s lost territo coinage of these late kings of Sagala simple lege nd 'Great king St rato' as ries. which Bopearachchi treats with particu be longing to Strato II, the very old por· We know that after Eukratides' death lar devotion. Contrary to the opinion of traits also but together with his son, as by the hands of his son Heliokles I, the Narain, ot her numismatists li ke Jenkins, the legend now tells us. Then Senior Bactri an kingdom was shaken by a po MacDowall and Cribb have provided presents a new type (ONS Newslctterno. lilical cri sis, and nomadic invaders from arguments for the existence of a Greek 138) with a mature bust and Greek leg the north used this weakness to gain con enclave in the eastern Punjab unti l the end 'Great king, the father- loving Irol. Around 130 B.C. the Graeco-Bac first years of the Christian era. It is an Strato'. This ·father-Ioving Strato' in trian kingdom was a thing of the past. other achievement of Bopearachchi to the reverse Kharosthi inscription is how The nomadic conquerors imitated the have convincingly supported this hy ever placed in such a way (botto m li ne, coins o f Eukratides I (mostly in pothesis in the light of new evidence. reserved for the king's name) that one Sogdiana) and of Heliokles I (in On the basis of fin d·spots and differ must assume that Strato Philopator in Bactria), and it would have been desir ences in the artistic cxecution of coin de fact is {he name of thi s StralO III, obvi able if Bopearachchi had incorporated signs and portra its, he attributes some ously ruling after his fa ther'S death. And these imitations too, as he has done with monograms to the western Punjab (good finally we have the series with the por the post-Hermaios coins. Hermaios (90- style) and others to the eastern Punjab tra it of a young man with simple legend 70 B. C.) was the last Greek king of (i nferior style), and sets them in relation 'Great king, Strato', considered by Se Kabul, and wi th his death this region to the monograms of the Indo-Scythian nior as Strato IV, son of Strato III, and also fell 10 the nomadic rul ers, who in conquerors. Furt her va luable informa it was Ihis Strata IV whom he takes to tensively copied his coinage. It is an · tion is drawn from hoard evidence have been overthrown by Rajuvula. other merit of the aut hor to have clearly (Akhnoor. Sialkot, Punjab I. II , III). In Fina ll y. t he historic-numismat ic distinguished between the Hermaios and conclusion Strato 1I (ru ling together with comments arc followed by the extensive the post-Hermaios issues in his cata his son) is taken to be the last Indo catalogue part with its above-mentioned [ogue. Greek kin g, being extinguished by the unusually precise and comprehensive With Hermaios' death the Greek do Indo-Scythian satrap Rajuvula ca. A.D. coin descriptions. A rich index section minions were restricted 10 Taxila and the 10-20. wi th helpful references is devoted to eastern Punjab. Around 55 B.C. the Another numismatist. R.C. Senior. each ruler in alphabetical ord er, to the Greek rule o f Taxi lil e nded under has mod ifi ed this view somewhat. different coin designs, to the legends, to HippostralOs, when the mighty Indo Hoard analysis. legend and portrai t stud· the monograms, and to the persons and Scythi an king Ales made himself mas ies bring him to the conviction that the institutions from whi ch Ihe Cabinet des ter of the region, and it was only in the late Strato coinage is more complicated, Medailles made its acquisitions. Valu able tables concern ing the Kh arosthi al phabet. the genealogy and the mono gram-pattern as well as inst ru ctive geo graphical maps follow, and a photo graphic part comprising 69 excellent L. ALEXANDER WOLFE plates round off this maslerpiece. Best of a ll , the author's efforts to Ancient Art & Artefacts enlarge the corpus cont inue, and (he re vised edition, in English, probably com ing out in 1994/95, wil l :l lso contain important collections from the former Specializing In Soviet Union (Moscow, Leningrad, Tashkent, and Samarkand). Pakistan (Lilhore and Taxila) and India (New Jewish Coins Delhi, Mathura, Calcutta, Lucknow, A!lahabtld and Bombay) as we ll :IS some City Coins of Israel & the Decapolis more private collections. Even if at the moment the language barrier might con stitute a problem-the book is written Semitic Inscriptions in French-thi s publication has estab li shed it self in the short time since its Stamp Seals publication as the new reference work of the series. Jewish and Early Christian Antiquities Dr. Wilfried Pieper Biblical Antiquities (Reprinted by permission from the Ori enta/ Numismatic Society'S ~ONS News letter No. 140". Readers interested in 7 Natan Hanavi, Jerusalem 95111, Israel information about the ONS may contacl William B. Warden, P.O. Bo)( 356, New Hope, PA 18939, or K. W. Wiggins, Flat Tel. 02-288891 Fax. 972-2-280183 31, Oak/ands, Montargis Way, Grow· borough, Eas l Sussex TN6 2XL, United Kingdom.) 44 The Gelator The sword of peace edged blade with a prominent central Although there have been depic by Norlllau A. Rubiu ridge running along its ent ire length. ti o ns of s imilar s word s worn in The hilt was originally inlaid with a Assyrian rel iefs from the 9-8th centu material that has not survived. most ries B.C .. very few complete long iron The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, has probably wood. Only the nails that swords from the ancient Near East date on Clthibilion a rare iron sword of the once secured the in lays to the wood Ihis early. a fact thai heightens th e 7th century B.C. found in a first temple can be seen. The sheath was also made importance of this remarkable find. period building on the 1cricho Plain. of wood. and all that remains of il is . . neither shall they learn war no "The Sword of Peace", as ent itled, its bronze tip. commemorates the hopefulness of The building where the sword was today: A symbol to the phrase as found could have been a fo rtress that written in Isaiah 2:4, ". . and they commanded the route between Jericho shall beal their swords into plough and the Dead Sea: destroyed follow shares ... " ing Jehoiakirn's revolt against Th is exceptionally long sword Babylonia, or shortly thereafter. (1.05 meters) was discovered on the Another theory about the building noor of the building next \0 a skeleton where Ihe sword was found is that this ofaman. He may have been akingor was a c ultic site, perhaps a Beit Bimol a priest, as only a person of importance ( House of the Hi gh Place), which would have carried such a long sword . would have been destroyed during the Owing 10 the length and weight of the purge of cult places throughout Judea sword. it was probably necessary \0 and Samaria under the religious re grasp the hill with two hands. form of Josiah in 632·622 B.C. If this The sword is made ariran hardened is the easc, the sword may have been into steel, lIttesting 10 substantial met used ceremoniously by one of the allurgical know-how. It has a double priests serving at the si te. Ancient and World Coins We actively Buy & Sell: - Roman, Greek, Parthian, Sassanian, Byzantine, Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and most other ASian and Oriental Coins from all periods. - Coins from the rest of the World, especially Britain and Europe, including Celtic, Saxon, Medieval and Crusader. 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Box 4ft8 ASHGROVE QLD 40&0 "The Sword of Peace ~ AUSTRALIA displayed in The Israel Museum Phone: 61.'.:1005:&55 Fax; 61., .],006:&96 by the Archaeological Staff Officer of Judea and Samaria November 1994 45 r Long Before Columbus 47th Street and the Chase Money Museum intermingled with jewelry counters, Terranova: The Money Shop (Irwin byJoe Rose and, at ils heyday, there must have Cohen and Bob Morton); Jack Storm; been hundreds of dealers operating OUI the Graf Bros.; Howie Hazelcorn; of several large locations, as well as John Breen; Richie Genot; Ralph It seems "Long Before Columbus" many smaller, more conventional coin pfau: Gary Fitzgerald ; Gene Galetta; when New York City 's 47th Street shops. George Vana; and so ma ny, many was thc center of Ihc coin world. Ac The na mes come noodi ng back over more. tually, it was only about thirty years Time's end less chasm, most no longer There was also a crew of indepen ago, but times, our hobby, and espe in the business, many at that great dent operators who made the rounds 0 cially OUT world have done a 360 turn Convention in the sky (or lower!), a daily from dealer to dealer, buyi ng, since those exciting, gratifying and few still operative, and the rest, like sell ing, and trading. Often known only mostl y carefree days when we were a your correspondent, remembering by a nickname, but completely trust lot younger. those hectic days, and perhaps seeking worthy, I remcrnber "Thc Hat" (Charlie The coin hobby was then in Ihc to set thi s panorama down on paper Hatounian); "Schmutzie", so called throes of becoming the coi n business. before it 's lost forever. because of hi s numerous "zits"; "Lou ie The in vestmen t ang le wa s becomi ng In no particular order, I remember the Pants-Presser" (his regu lar occu very important, but thc majority of Moe Geiger, still operating in Fl orida; pat ion); "Murray the Cabbie" (Good buyers were still collector-based. They Kay Coins (Bill Selfridge and Harver man, reknowned for hi s outrageous would come fl ooding into Midtown, Hoffer); Brigandi Coin Co. (still in Bermuda shorts); and others whose perhaps having saved up all year for business); Stanley Kopkin o f Rio faces float before me but whose names their foray inlo 47th Street. What Coins; Milt and Roz. Dinkin; Harry don't follow! Nassau Streel was to philately. 47th Leder; Bleiweiss Bros.; Bill and Tom There was a character who bought was to numismatics. Donner; Lee-Lee; Ed Shapiro; Nat and sold gold coins. virtuall y making Bourses housing a dozen or more Deutsch; Dick Picker; Bob Jenove; the daily market in these vi tal items. dealers sprang up in large stores, often Ji m King; Tom Tesoreiro; T ony Known as Harry the Litvak, he would visi t each bourse, call for attention, and then call out his bu y and sell for the day. These quotes were written in Classical Coins & stone, as nobody ever went back on an Art of the Ancient World offer. U.S. coins were the mainstay, but Greek, Etruscan, Roman, many of the dealers knew and loved Egyptian, & Near Eastern Antiquities ancient, medi eval, and foreign coins. Foreigners were almost always present. Send for our new FREE full color 32 page brochure. pedal ing small and large hoards of Our full-color 50th Ann iversary catalogue - recently unearthed coins for (current ly) 96 pages, 466 objects - $ 10.00 ridiculous prices. I well remember buying several hundred mint-state beautifully si Ivered an toniniani o f Trebonianus Ga llus at ~M EMBER 25¢ each, and actually complaining ANA about the price! (The seller had origi kromc M. £1","",,'1: LM 271 nally asked 35¢ 1) Judaic leptons were ava il able in plethora at the same level, and common bronzes of the ConSlan tinian Period were as cheap as 5¢ each. Esl~bli s hed 1942 l ance bought a bag of several hundred dirt-encrusted sestertii for $50, spent royal-athena galleries months soaking them in mineral oil , soft -brushing the dirt away, and seIl Jerome M EillCnberg. Ph.D .• DireclOr ing them for a buck apiece! Wh nt a 153 East 57th 51.. New York. N. Y. 10022 haul! Tel: (2 12)·355·2034 Fax: (2 12)·688·(}.11 2 332 Nonh Beverl y Dr.. Beverly Hills, Ca. 90210 Sitting just across what New York Tel: (31 0)·'50-t l99 Fax: (3 tO)·,SO· 139, ers caU Siltth Avenue, also known to Roy~I - Ath c n ~ ~ l B.A. Seaby Ltd. out-of-towners as Avenue of the 14 Old Bond Street. London WIX 4J L. England Americas, was the vene rable Chase Tel: 011·495·2590 Fax : 071491· 1595 Mone y Museum , at 1230 6th Avenue. 46 The Gelator Th is was a magnet that pulled into the 47th StTeet bourses hundreds of cus tomers who might not have known Maine Classical Numismatics about this market. Daily classes of school children filed through those 2069 Atlantic Hwy. , Warren, Maine 04864 hallowed halls under the watchful eyes Bowley's: A full service coin center of the guards-gru ff, kindly Clin t Open 7am to Spm Mon. thm Fri. and 7am to 4pm on Sat. Reynolds and a large norid man re called only as John. U.S. Route #1 , Warren, Maine Expertise was available from the Phone 207-273·3462 - H. 207-273-2653 curator Vern Brown and his ultra know ledgable assistant Da ve McCly When in Maine SlOp ;1/ lIlId see liS. We will be glad /0 see you. mont. What they didn't know about coins was not worth knowi ng. Dave, Barrie Jenkins - Classical Numismatist in particular, could look at a coin , gaze at the Mu seum's vast library, and say "What you want to know is in the large red book, topofthe right-handed page, probably page 1451" And he was never Largest Stock of Ancient wrong. He had a memory like a com puter long before there were comput coins in the World! ers, and his brain was continually picked by the 47th Street mob in need Coins in quantities include: of knowledge! Greek, Roman, & Byzantine bronze & silver T he Museum had been founded Dealer inquiries only. many years before 10 house the vast collection of the legendary Farran Zerbe. who was then a Chase Bank Educational Coin company executive. It had been augmented by Box 3815, Kingston, N€VJ York 12401 many other acquisitions, and at the Phone, (201) 728·8650 or 728·3865 Fax, (201) 728·0204 time of which we write. was one of the most complete coin and banknote col lec tions in the world. Virtually any thing which had ever passed as legal DISCOUNTED' NUMISMATIC BOOKS!! tender could be viewed there. They ON ANCIENT GREEK COINAGE even had a stone "cruller" from the Baklwi1. A.. FACING HEADS ON GREEK COINS .... SUO SELEUCID MINTS...... $55.00 is land of Yap, as big as a tru ck tire; a Baklwi1. A. SYMBO/.JSM ON GREEKC()jN$ .. $20.00 N_I. E.T .. ROYAL GREEK PORTRAIT Beninger. " .. ESSAYS ON THE COINS COINS(Orig. I9378d) $35.00 Mi ng Dynasty bronze money tTee; OF ALEX.M.OER THE GRu. T ...... 130.00 N_I. E.T .. SQMECYPRIOTE ALEXANDERS ...... $6.00 Beninger. A . SYRIAN T£TRADRACHMS ...... $30.00 NeWill. E. T.. STANDARD PTOLEMAIC SIL VER. ... 57.00 primitive African and Mi cronesian BeHnJer. A.. TROY THE COINS ...... $35.00 Plam. R.. GREEK COiN TYPES" THEIR money; a vast collection of Roman, C.''''dicD. I.. &. PI""'. M.. COINAGE IN IDENTlFlCATlON ...... 545.00 rHE GREEK WORLD ...... $<15.00 Plant. R .. GREEK SEMITIC !lNDASIATIC Greek. and other ancient pieces; for Davis. 1'1 .. '" Kraay. 1'1 .. THE HELLENISTIC COiNS" /lOW TO READ THEM .. .. $50.00 eign and medievals; and famous U.S. KINGDOMS. PORTRAIT COINS & HISTORY ... ~5.00 Ralto. R.. COI..LECTIONC/.A.UDlUS COTE a ErlIibilion. TH E SEARCH FOR ALEXANDER ...... $20.00 MONNAIES DE TARENTE ...... $15.00 collection with most of the greatest Fellows. C .. COINS OF ANCIENTLVCIA ...... SI5.00 Ra ...... 0 .. NUMISMATIOUE GRECOUE Florance. "-. GEOGRAPHICAL LEXICON OF FALSIFICATION .. $20.00 rarities. GREEK COIN INSCRIPTIONS ...... $15.00 Ra ..... 0 .• LES P<)()UoINS DE CORINTHE ...... $95.00 Gafdlloer. P .. CATALOG OFGREEK COINS AotWIW"I. E.. PUNIC COINS OF ANCIENT SPAlN ... SS.OO Each visitor received a brochure on (BMC) SYRIA...... US.OO Rude,. 1'1 .• CAMPANIAN COiNAGE 565.00 coins and collecling, as well as an Gran!. M.. ANCIENr HISTORY A7lAS ...... $12.00 Rosotn. J .. OXLECTIONOF ARCH,.f,/C Head. B.V.. HlSTORIA NlIMORUM{! .IOO pg l $95.00 GREEKCO/NS ...... 525.00 inex pensive foreign coin (usually an H8ad. B.V .. '" RobItIs. W.R .. TIlE COINSOF Sea,. D.. GREEK COINS " VALUES. ANCIENT BQ£1lA ...... $20.00 VOt. II (ASIA/AFRICA) ...... 560.00 Austrian two groschen piece in alum i Head. B.V .. /-YIND8OOK OF GREEK' Sear. D.. GREEK IMPEFUAL COINS 8; VALUES ... $15,00 num) as a souvenir of their visit. The ROMAN COINS. . $5.00 Sellman. C .. THE TEMP1E COINS OF ot YIo/PIA ... $30.00 HiI, G.F.. DESCRIPTlVE CA TAlOO OF ANCIENT Suu,. C .. A THENIIIN COINAGE ...... _.... $30.00 good that thi s Museum did ou r hobby GREEK COINS (JOHN WARD COtL.) ... . 125.00 ~. J.N .• SIGN/FICA TION. DES TYPf'S Hill. G.F .. SElECT GREEK COINS .. . 125.00 MOt'IETAIRES DES IINCiENS ...... $1.00 is incalculable! Icard. 5.. DlCTlONARY OF GREEK COIN 5_0lI01. J.N.• l 'HEttENISME PRlMlTlF DE Alas though, the Money Museum INSCRIPTIONS ...... _. $45.00 LA MACEDOINE ...... U5.00 Imho/1·Bkme<. F.. ANCIENT COINS ILLUSm... TlNG WI"",. J .L. GREEK FEDERAL COINAGE... • .. $17.00 is no more. Ri sin g real eState costs LOST MASTCRPlECES OF GREEK ART ...... 525.00 W...... G .. CLEANING" PRESERVATION .)oMs. J .. DICTIONARY OF ANCIENT OF COINS "MEDALS ...... 516.00 doomed it. and today the space is oc GREEK COiNS .. . $55.00 Wl iams. R.T. SlLVERCO/NS OF THE P/1OKIANS 530.00 cu pi ed by a more commercial venture. Jenkins. G.K . ANCIENT GREEK COINS ...... S60.00 Keary. C .. THE MORPHO((lGY OF COINS S20.00 , Over $ \00.00 deducl \0%: over $150.00 Its vast collections (which my staff Klawans. Z .. OUTUNE OF ANCIENT declu<:1 I 5%: o~er $200.00 deduct 20%. GREEK COINS ...... SIS.00 LiSl of 400.. classical numismatic litles $ I .00. and [ had the pl easure of inventorying Kr aa~. C. ARCHAIC' CLASSICAl GREEK COiNS S95.00 Md $2.00 firr.! I~~ lor sI1ippi1g. $t.oo each aher lirr.! I~~. at the end) wen I to the Smi thsonian McOonak!. G. THE SILVER COiNAGE OF CRETE .. sa.oo Milne. J.G .. CATALOO OF ALEXANDRIAN COINS .$55.00 Institution, where much of the best can Na,.". A.I<. . COIN TYPES OF IN[)o'GREEK SANFORD J. DURST KINGS ...... $15.00 11 Clinton Avenue, still be viewed today. SiT TTansit [n Newell. ET.. COINAGES OF EASTERN Gloriae Mun dae! SELEUCID MINTS .. . $55.00 Rockville Centre. NY 11570 NeweM. E.T .• COINAGES OF WESTERN Tel.. 516-766-4444 Fax: 516-766-4520 November 1994 47 PATRICK FINN Letters Continued from page 4 Numismatist versus the ~ old school" argument over entry, ~ Ararat", in Volume I, pages 351- which Drs. Alan Walker and Arnold A. 352. Saslow wrangled in the August and J. M. Newlove September issues of The Gelator! Canada Another item that interested me in the September issue was Dr. Saslow's discussion regarding the merits of a Ethics and the ANA nice looking catalogue. I have worked Your editorial in the September is both with dealers who send out illus sue discussed the sale of fake ancient Specialist ill Early British trated lists and those who don'l. I much coins, and you mentioned several pro fessional organizations which "police Scottish and Irish Coins prefer a catalogue that is illustrated throughout, with good quality photo their own membership". You included graphs 01 the coins appearing next to the ANA in this group. Three fully illustrated the descriptions. I find it annoying to Unfortunately, the ANA allows the li sts per year. have to Ilip to another page to find the sale of fake ancient coins by member illustration. Moreover, when no photo dealers if the dealer simply writes ~not Spring, Summer, Winter graph is provided, I have to confess to guaranteed" on the invoice. a high element of frustration to think Several years ago a local dealer 500+ coins per list that I am ordering in the dark or that I sold a nearly worthless fake Roman may be wasting my time with an en provincial bronze of Antinous to a friend PATRICK FINN Numismatist quiry when with a good quality illustra of mine 10r $I,000. At the lime of sale tion I'd know immediately if the coin the dealer admitted that he was no P.O.8ox:26 was of interest. expert on ancient coinage, so he could Z Kendal As a customer of Classical Numis not guarantee the coin, and he then ~ ~ Cumbria LA9 7AD matic Group of Lancaster, Pennsylva wrote "not guaranteed" on the invoice. England nia, I have to praise the always clear, My friend, thinking he was getting a informative photographs that distin $2,000 coin at half-price, let his greed Telephone: 015 39 730008 guish eNG's catalogues. I also we l ove rrule his belter judgement. *Fax: 015 39 721800 When several dealers and I later come additional historical background for the coins, wh ich CNG and other confronted the seller at a local coin dealers often provide. After all, part of show and asked for a refund he re the joy of collecting ancient coins is the fused. We felt that while he could not history. Any additional nugget of infor guarantee the authenticity, he was nev mation that enhances one's knowledge, ertheless ethically bound to offer a re I for one wholeheartedly welcome! fund if the coin was later proved to be Islamic, Indian, Baktrian false. He felt that the collector had and Christopher T. George taken a chance on realizing a prof it and Central Asian Coinages Mary/and lost. I feel that ANA member dealers should not be allowed to sell fake coins More on Urartu/Uratu (without offering refunds) by the simple I have been late reading TheCe/ator ploy of admitting their professional ig 8/8, and so these notes on the ~Ur artu l norance. This decision certainly doesn't Uratu· question are also late. say much for the ethical or professional I do not know if Werner Kelter (The standards expected by the ANA. And if Bible as History, a book I have read and ignorance of ancient coinage is all il sold) is the strongest of authorities to takes to sell fakes with immunity, I cite. shdder to think of how many dealers in The index of the revised Cambridge the U.S. are thus qualified. Ancient History, Volume II , Part 2, The My friend and I filed a protest with Write for sample ilIuslrnted list Ancient Middle East and the Aegean the ANA and subsequently fou ght the Region c. 1380-1 000 B.C., 3rd edition, action all the way to a board of directors 1975 (1993) , has thi s index entry: vote althe 1993 ANA convention. After PERSIC ~ U r artu (formerly) Ur(u)alri", Page 279 the final decision against us we both says: resigned ou r ANA memberships in pro GALLERY test. If the ANA is a collector driven organization, they should protect the P.O. Box 10317 "Immediately Shalmaneser I suc ceeded his falher he was attacked by interests 01 collectors before the inter Torrance, CA 90505 Uruatri (variant Uratri), the later Urartu, ests of unethical dealers. Tel: (310) 326-8866 one of a large number of Hurrian prin If the dealer has instead sold a coun cipalities in the mountainous regions terf eit U.S. $20 gold piece and later Fax: (310) 326-5618 round Lake Van and Lake Urmia ...• refused a refund because the coin was "not guara nteed ~ he would cert ainly The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 1992, been kicked out of the ANA and most uses Urartu throughout; see the main probably visited by the U.S. Secret 48 The Gelator Service to boot. Buttheesoteric nature produced by boiling grape juice; con to come will offer more for the collector of ancient coins in the eyes of many sumption of lead acetate (a sugar sub of Byzantine coins. apparently make them fair game for stitute); a wine additive (which Weights and scales are of great unscrupulous dealers. Tameanko notes); use of leaded cos interest to me from all lime periods. Bart Lewis metics and medications; projectiles and Articles on them would be most wel Texas weapons; glasses and glazes. Per come. haps the only use for lead that wasn't Emmett McDonald known in ancient times was as an an\i New York Ancient nses of lead knock additive in gasoline!! I enjoy numismatics as a hobby, but As for coins, lead was present in at Kudos to dealers I spend most of my waking hours as a leasl trace amounts in virtually all an I'd like to share with your readers scientist specializing in the field of lead cient and medieval silver coins. since toxicology. So I was more than nor the two metals could not be completely my experience with two dealers at the fine first Boston International coin show. mally interested in Marvin Tameanko's separated by early refining processes. recent article on Roman aqueducts Leaded bronze coins were common I asked Alexander Basok a question about a Russian coin because he ad (Sept. 1994, p. 6) that discussed. inter place throughout the Mediterranean aha. lead poisoning in ancient Rome. world. Recently, I had the opportunity vertised books on the subject. Since Generally, I agree with the notion to analyze a bronze coin of Tigranes he didn't know the answer, Mr. Basok that the decline of Rome was a com the Great of Armenia (95-56 B.C.), and closed his table and returned in a few plex phenomenon that cannot be as I was amazed at the high proportion of minutes with a Russian book, which he cribed to a single overriding cause. I lead that I found. But that is grist for scanned until finding my answer. Forseveral shows, I've been asking also agree that it would have been another mill .. . unlikely for an ancient Roman to con David Hendin to look for one particular tract lead poisoning solely from drink Lean A. Saryan, Ph.D. coin that I wanted and couldn't easily ing water transported along a lead Wisconsin identify. He volunteered that another lined aqueduct. dealer probably had one in a new hoard. I do think it is important to point out, When I did search that hoard at another however, that the uses of lead in the Byzantine articles wanted table, David came over and quickly ancient world were many and varied, The Gelator is an excellent maga identified the coin in the pile for me. and that hundreds of thousands of zine for collectors of ancient coins. but These helpful dealers together with people were unwittingly exposed to Byzantine coins are the only subject the many ancients displayed made my cumulatively significant amounts of the covered that is of primary interest [to airfare to Boston well spent. metal at their jobs, in their homes, in mel. Recent coverage in this area is their food and drink. and yes, even in scarce in my opinion; hopefullytheyear Edward E. Cohen their coins. (An excellent source on this topic is Nriagu's Lead and Lead Poisoning in Antiquity.) Let's not forget that it was man's lust for silver thai was responsible for the huge quantities of lead produced in the Auction 4 ancient world. Lead and silver are often found together in ore deposits, Quality classic coins and lead is a byproduct of silver refin ing. Gold - Silver - Copper - Bronze Nriagu estimates that over 140,000 Roman workers per year were exposed Includes rarities and unusual material you seldom see to lead in the workplace. Exposures in food and drink were highest for the • Ancient Greek, Greek Imperial aristocratic class, and there is substan • Roman Republican, Roman Imperial tial evidence that members of this class suffered adverse health effects (satur • Ancient to modern British nine gout) as a result of exposure. One authority estimates Ihat lead • Classic Chinese usage in ancient Rome amounted to more than 550 grams per person per • More year. Only a tiny fraction of this quan tity entering the body is needed to cause Call, write or fax for a FREE CATALOG! irreversible intoxication. Here are just a few of the uses that Carefull y assembled, beautifully presented the ancients found for lead: sinkers, Closing November 18, 1994 weights, ship ballast and sheathing, roofing; alloying agent with copper to make a low-melting, easily worked bronze; pigments and paints; preser vation of fruits and vegetables with lead salts; cooking in lead-lined pots <8> GOLD SPRING, MN 56320· USA· (612) 685-3835· FAX (612) 685-8636 (copper leaves a disagreeable flavor), ~ especially the manufacture of a sweet ening agent called sapa or defrutum, November 1994 49 r J acquier presents a TRIVIA QUIZ wide variety of ancient Ze us "The Protector of the City" was honored with an altar on the coinage in Fall catalog Acropolis at Athens. What was Paul· Francis Jacquier's Fall 1994 his surname in this role? fixed price list offers collectors an (Answer on page 60) assortment of 600 lois 01 Celtic, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine coin age. Highlighting th e Celtic coinage r------, is a gold stater of 57 B.C., possibly from the Treveri. Severa l items are prominent among the Greek series, including a Parthian lelradrachm of Von ones I, !~ c~T~sFiele ~! A.D. 8-12. and an exemplary tetra drachm of Eukratides I. Selections Ir------, Alexander III I from Crete, T roas, Ionia, and Cilicia are also worthy of mention, as is an Macedon I 18 lot run of Seleucid cO inage. A AR-Tetradrachm I va riety of Parthian, Bactrian, and 336-323 B_C. I Indo-Scythian coins complete the SNG Cop. 686 I Greek section. Featured in the Roman section Alexander, son of Philip II and Olympia, was born at Pella in 356 B.C . He received I are a seslerlius of Didius Julianus the education of a king, with Aristotle, Leonidas, and Lysimachus as tutors. As a I with Fortuna re verse and an twe~ty year old , he ascended the Macedonian throne in 336 following th e murder I of his father, Alexander quickly consolidated most of Greece under his control, antoninianus of Gallienus with Cap ricorn reverse which is unlisted in and. then marched north to subdue barbarians who had been threate ning , In the I Spring of 334 he marched against the Persians with a force 01 35,000. As his I Cohen and RIC. Coins olthe Twelve Caesars are included, with a nice con~uesls mounted, so too did the size of his army. He deleated the Persian king I selection of Augustus' issues in sil· ~anu~ at I s~us and mar~hed south and then east, leaving a path of spectacular I victOries which earned him the surname "The Grear , In Sogdiana he met and ver and bronze. An other highlight of married Roxana, the daughter 01 a Bactrian prince, who bore a son (Alexander I the Roman section is a large run of Aegus) shortly alter Alexander died at Babylon of a lever, I antonlnianii, representing most em perors from Gordian III to Carausius. A small selection of Byzantine coins I~------~ MARKET CAPSULE Comments: I and a ba rgain section of Roman coin I Jurisdiction...... Kings of Macedonia Scarcer mint issues I I Personality ...... ,.,.,. Alexander III can command higher prices. I age rou nd out the catalog. Paul- Francis Jacquier issues Denominalioo ... AR Tetradrachm """"~_."y _comoIa r;o,,_ I References ...... SNG Cop. 686 rnism.t1<.,a""fysi 50 The Gelator Professional Directory C Antiqiilties ) ( Antiquities ) C~~_A:..::n:::ti::.:lqL::ul:.::tt:EjiS,=.• ~....,) £ ...... ~_~" _ .... +'l.-~_M_~.~ ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL COINS OF ALAMEDA ! 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(I have no idea what that last bit meant, but it is several hours wandering the room and commenting to Sunday and I am just kinda floating along.) dealers thai "they have splendid coins but he has made I must comment on the re cent Boston International his purchases for the show ~ . I know that this has since it does indeed merit some uBack Page" attention. happened on many occasions to me at various shows, t think lucien Birkler, Ed Aleo, et. al. did a splendid job. much to the annoyance or confusion of other dealers. I I was very pleasantly surprised to see the bourse room am aware of this having happened to a lucky few in packed with dealers, and a combination of magnificent Boston, including some well·known dealers having a weather and an "intelligencia"·packed symposia pro· mediocre show until Sunday afternoon. One can sud· vided for a very nice turnout of the public. I do not know denly acquire a splendid coin which attracts such how lou could have done a better job, and even the attention that a buyer who had no intent to buy this hotel was wonderful. Myoid partner and good friend particular coin, or indeed spending the sum necessary Tom Tesoriero was there in his new capacity as expert· to acquire it, simply "must have it". If a dealer is willing extraordinaire at Stack's, and I had the pleasure of his to give gterms", this often aids in the sale. company on the long drive back to South Orange, Or in fact, it can just be that you did not sacrifice the where he spent the night encamped amidst Charly's correct nu mber of white doves and ~ t he Gods" are not teddy·bears. Having now duly commented on the kind to you. It just happens. I look forward to the next amenities and work to putthe show on, I would be doing Boston International, and if any of my readers did not a disservice to my readers if I did not "analyze·the·helr make the trip to Boston, or go out of th eir way to attend out of what this all means (at least to me). I mean the this show, I strongly urge you to make the effort next "Back Page" does serve some sort of function, at least year. I know Lou expected some of the well-known from my point of view. . collectors from neighboring states to attend, and in There are people who buy ancient coins, that we all many cases they did nct. I hope that having read this know. Then there are those people who enjoy looking and other positive comments on the show, that you will at ancient coins, reading about ancient coins, going to plan to make that ~ ext r a bit of effortMto attend this year, lectu res on ancient coins, but who basically have no and remember as you enter the room , I am to the lett. real desire or perhaps the financial means to acquire We are once again going to be holding the Fall NAB ancient coins. Having a major symposia in conjunction in San Francisco, so please read the details in the full· with a major coin show, such as happened at Boston, page ad elsewhere in this issue as we are adding a few attracts far more of the laller than the former, in my su rprises. This is indeed a show th at is worth your extra opinion, based on my observations and the show reo effort to attend as it is a highlight of the Fall show circuit suits as translated in dollars. J was amazed to see the on the West Coast. numismatic lu minarie s who turned out for the sympo· Also a reminder with the Holiday Season approach· sia, whi ch indeed was well·deserved, both from the ing. We sell many more items at our S. Orange gallery calibre of the lectures and the reputations of those than coins (see separate ad ) and we are happy to Ship. putting them on. I shook a lot of hands, was introduced to many people who I only knew by reputation, and had Upcoming Show Schedule: lots of comments on my writings lor The Gelator Irom NAB·San Francisco. Nay. 11·12Ih. Holiday Inn Golden persons who I did not even realize read my meanderings. Gateway. (on Van Ness), show hours 10-7 each day, Did this translate into sales for me? Unlortunately, no. smoke· free, tree adm ission (see ad). I am aware of several major dealers who had just Nov. 26th we will be in Portland, Oregon, for Erik & wonderful shows. I am also aware of several major Ch elsea's wedding. 1 am sure I speak for all of my dealers who did far worse than I did. How does one readers in wishing them a long married life filled with health explain this? I am not sure, but will tender a lew and happiness. thoughts. One can have specific coins lor specific clients, and use a show as a convenient meeting place. What this !D.. dt'tllDld d? <:5aJe", means is that you could easily have mailed photos or Rare Coins & Classical Arts ltd. the coin to your client, but since you are both going to ·Specialists in Museum Quality Goins· be in the same vicinity, why not do the transaction at the Member: ANA, ANS, SAN, AINA, INS, Ex· Fellow RNS show. I certainly do this with my West Coast shows. As allen as not, I could just mail the coin off, but instead, P.O. Box 374 "At the Gallery" elect to wait until the show. Lady luck can u bless ~ you. South Orange, NJ 07079 111 Soulh Orange Ave. All dealers understand this concept. A new, wealthy Phone: (201) 761...0634 South Orange, NJ 07079 buyer comes to a show which he has never attended FAX : (201) 761·8406 Phone: (201) 762-1588 November 1994 59 INDEX OF DISPLAY ADVERTISERS Celator Classifieds _ s"",,*> ______.. _.. _._ ... _... _._._ .. _._. $:l. 56 """""*' 1$ 60 The Gelator ANNOUNCES AN IMPORTANT PUBLIC AUCTION OF ANCIENT AND FOREIGN COINS To be held in conjunction with THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL NUMISMATIC CONVENTION Wednesday & Thursday, December 7 & 8, 1994 at th e Sheraton Centre Hotel Seventh Avenue at 52nd Street, New York City Featuring Over 250 Lots of Ancient Coins • An old col lection of outstanding Roman Imperial Bronzes, fonned before 1960; • An impressive offering of ancient Judaean Silver coins. • AN IMPORTANT REMINDER -- Our Stack's/Coin Galleries Fall Mail Bid Sale closes on Wednesday, November 9, 1994 Please remember to mail or fax your bid sheets early. r------, I ~~~!l.'A. eEL. I I ~ I CATALOGUED AND SOLD BY I 123 West 57th Sl., New York, NY 10019 I I Enclosed please find $10.00 for your December 7-8. 1994 I I Auction Sale Catalogue and list of Prices Realized (after sale). I : ~m. : 123 WE.~r .57TII STREt." NEW YORK. NV 10019 I Street I Telephone (212) 582-25110 I City Slale Zip I "'AX (212) 245-5018 or (2 12) 582-1946 I I AMERICA '5 01.1)I::S1" & I..ARGt.'STCOIN DEAU:.'J.I& Te!ephonc • • LEADING COIN AUCTIONEERS FOR OVER 55 YI;:ANS L ------_ ... - HARLAN J_ BfRK, LTD_ AUCTION 1- MARCH 23, 1995 In conjunction with the CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL COIN FAIR Syracuse, 413-399 BC Tudccr-67, I recorded by '1l1deer, Signed by " 1M" We are seeking consignment of exceptional coin s as well as coin s of special interest to collectors of note. 83rd BUY OR BID SALE Closing Date October 26, 1994 HARLAN J. BERK, LTD. 31 N. Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602 (312) 609-0017 FAX (312) 609-1309 #178 o