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6 Part 1 erne Ce[ator Dark Age Britain: the retreat of Rome by Ron KolIgaard Publisher/Editor Wnync G. Sayles 20 Old Testament story is Office Manager Janet Sayles illustrated on ancient coinage Page 6 by Marvin Tameanko Associate Editor Steven Sayles Dark Age Britain RCC Liaison The retreat of Rome 30 Historical evidence points to James L. Meyer by Ron Kol1gaard laurette's syndrome as the cause of Claudius' unusual behavior Production Asst. C hris Lane by George M. Burden, M.D. Distribution Ass!. Christine Olson 32 A coin's point of view Rochelle Olson Brutus denarii participate in events An at the Julio-Claudian coin reunion Parnell Ne lson by Bob Levy The Celator (ISSN 1110480986) is an independent joornal published on the first day of each month at DEPARTMENTS 226 Palmer Parkway, Page 20 Lodi, WI. It is circulated Old Testament story internationally through by Marvin Tameanko 2 The Celators Point of View subscriptions and special distributions. Subscription rales, 4 Letters to the Editor payable in U.S. funds, are $24 per year 24 Coming Events (second class) with in the United States; $30 to Canada; $48 26 People in the News · Profiles in Numismatics per year to ali other addresses (Air Printed Maner). Advertising and 27 Art and the Market· Quotes from the Past copy deadline is the second Friday of each 38 Antiquities by David Liebert month. Unsolicited articles and news releases are welcome, however 39 Coin File· Trivia· Humor publication cannot be gueranteed. Second Page 30 40 Coins of the Bible by David Hendin class poslage paid The emperor Claudius (USPS 11006077) al LocIi, WI 53555. and Taurette's syndrome 41 Just for Beginners by Wayne G. Sayles Copyright 0 1992, by George M. Burden, M.D. Clio's Cabinet. 42 Reference Reviews by Dennis Kroh Postmaster: send address changes 10 P.O. Box 123. About the cover: Lodi, WI 53555 Book News Merovingian gold coin from the 46 SUllon HOD ship burial, discov 608-592-4684 48 Professional Directory ered in 1939. The hoard is (same for FAX, aftef hOOfS dated to c. 625. This coin now activate with asterisk on resides in the British Museum. 56 Index of Advertisers· Classifieds IOuch tone phone)
Deadline for the July issue is Monday, June 1 full y, this will be an easier date to re member, and the extra lead time will allow us to mail earlier. Dennis Kroh reminded us tha t our "Point of Vi ew" last month about coun • • tcrfeit coins did not cmphasize the fa ct that these particula r coins were exclu Commentary by Wa yne G. Sayles sively "high ticket" items. He appar ently has received queries from collec tors who arc concerned about recent acquisitions of coins in the less than his issue affords the reader a not only usefu l as a visual guide to the S I,ooo pri ce range. There is always rare and exclusive opportunity coins offered for sale, it is also a vcry cause forconcem about the authenticity T to buy or bid on coins from a helpful reference to coins that are fre of certain ancient coins, but not any well-known and publislled collection. quently ignored and seldom illustrated more so than usual, since the coins pro The rema ining Greek bronze coins from in other collections. Incl uded are many duced by the "British Museum Forgers" the collection of Henry Clay Lindgren types which arc often diffic ult to at were not made forthe"average~ collec arc being offered in a special four-page tribute. Whether one buys, bids, or tor. This danger to the hobby is not centcr scction advertisement by the passes in the sa le, this reference is worth going to dim inish in years to come, but "soon to be venerable" Frank Kovacsof having. I do believe tha t professional numisma San Matco, Califomia. We are mail ing 'l1ze CelalDr a lill ie tists ha ve done and are doillg a reaSOIl Within this col umn we do nOt nor earlier thi s month in thc hope that we ably good job of cull ing the bad materia I mally promote the offcrings of spccific can compensate for some of the postnl frolll ci rculation. As we have sa id re denIers, butthis isa vcryspecial event in delnys which inconvenience ou r read- peat edly, and will continue to say until everyone is sick of hearing it - BUY FR OM A SOURCE WH ERE YOU "... we feel very comfortable about HAVE I{ECOURSE. We mel a few hardy souls who bra ved recommending participation in this sale. " the civi l strife to attend the NAB in San Franciscothis month . As we were leav in g the city, a torched wlIrehouse wa s ,I numbcr of ways. On thc one hand, it ers. We arc especially concerned with bill owing smoke across the freewa y. answers the perenni a I req uests fr01l1 our deadlines, and have nOl missed one in Actually, we were in Los Angeles rCllders for a major list ing of inexpen the five Sf.. {!.fato, i, nal1ud f07. and d.dicahd to tf.& coin di,-w:ra,nu of antiquity ('llho 1£ a'l l u mailB Qi flownfu{ and app£aUng todaJ a:1 in lhd,,-. own tim£. 2 The Celator Ancient, Foreign and United States Coins and Banknotes 13nlnlS, died 42 D.C., Silver Denarius (Cr.503/ 1). veryJiIlC al/d vt'ry nln'. Mark Antony. died 30 13.c., Sil ver Denarius (Cr. 494/ 32), exln'mciy.f/Ill'. Auction to held Wednesd1Y, Junc 24, 1992 in our galleries at 502 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022. Viewing to be held: Sunday.June 21 from 12 noon to 5 pm Mond1Y, Jl'ne 22 from lOam to 5 pili Tuesday, June 23 from l Oam [Q 5 pm Illustr.l.ted catalOb'uc #7500 is available through Christie's Publications. To order please call 7181784-1480. For fi.lrther information, please call James La mb or Christine Deusscn at 212/546-1 05(). CHRISTIE'S June 1992 3 It is clear to me that the pioneering ($20) in order to alleviate concern over work by your authors Berdy and this matter. Whetstone was undertaken at some Dennis Kroh considerable risk, especially to their Empire Coins, Inc. professional reputations. I encourage this kind of refreshing re search, work M usical re-creation th at I myself have been unable to I enjoyed Mark Aakicic's article on accomplish. i)' depictions 01 the lyre and kithera [April, I As for me, the next time I visit ( ( Bulgaria, I just might hollow out my high 1992J. While ancient Greek coins, pottery, heel shoes. By th e way, please alert theaters(I), and other artifacts rellect your readers not to take artifacts from Book recommended the importance of music (and poetry/ foreign countries. Congratulations with your great drama) in Greek society, the actual article on Mlmages~ [March, 19921. I was music of ancient Greece seems to be Elaine R. Herich fa scinated by it, and ordered the - to forever lost. Texas me yet unknown - Joseph Alsop book However, a wonderful re-creation of from the Inler Library Service. what this music might have sounded Interesting subject like is available on Musique de la Greca Robert Turfboer Eric Kondratieff's article "Legion X Antiqua by the Atrium Musical (Madrid), Missouri coinage and the Judaean connection" directed by Gregorio Paniagua. The (March, 1992] was, for me personally, original 1979 record (harmonia mundi (We highly recommend The Rare Art the most interesting that I have yet read - HM 1015) included a dictionary of Traditions by Joseph Alsop to anyone in The Celalor. And that says a lot, instruments that, unfortunately, is not interested in the history of art collecting considering the line selection to choose includ ed with the compact disc and connoisseurship. Published by from the past several years. (harmonia mundi - HMA 1901015). Harper & Row, NY. 1982; ISBN 0-06- My specialty happens to be Roman Audiophiles will also enjoy the disc 010091 ·5; Ubrary of Congress 81- countermarked coins, particularly those because of the first-rate recording 47218; Card Catalogue IIN5200.A4.) that relate to the Jewish War of A.D. 66- quallty. It is truly an "ear-opening" 73, and those connected to the revolt experience! against Nero. Larry Sekulich Experience related I am considered quite knowledgeable Michigan The article about lIilianus, featured on the subject ofthe"two"tenth legions, in the March issue of The Celator, was but I learned several new facts from this most interesting. article. Whenever I can add to my Coins of the Bible? knowledge in these areas, I feel I have been working on my Ph.D. in In answer to David Hendin's article extremely grateful to the source of that Roman history al Northwest Texas Siale 'What are 'Coins of the Bible'" [April, information. Please extend my thanks University, specializing in usurpers of 19921, I would comment as follows. the Roman Empire. As parto! my thesis and appreciation to the author - as well as to The Celator for publishing the I have been searching the "historical A) In building a rationale for naming article. record~, reviewing ancient documents his column "Coins of the Bible", our Richard Baker and re cord ed facts, and spent part of columnist begins with "we need to clarify California last fall on a field trip to Bulgaria, known what we mean by 'Biblical'" and in ancient times as Moesia. continues "In general that term is an My research revealed very little about Panic unneccesary adjective referring to 'the Bible'. We lIilianus, and I am pleasantly surprised Your editorial in last month's issue have the original Bible, the Old to learn more about this fascinating on th e exposure of the "British Museum Testament, etc. etc. Money is often usurper. Forgers" by the I.B.S.C.C. was very well mentioned in the Old Testament .... As il so happens, I was offered some presented, but you missed one pOint Unfortunately for collectors, however, ancient Aoman coins th at had been that I think should be brought up. all Old Testament mentions of coin age excavated near the town where I was These fake coins, without exception, are in fact anachronistic. Coins as we examining some 4th century scrolls, were all ~high-ticker items (most of them know them were not invented until late Vratsa, near Bulgaria's capital city of extremely rare gold issues) that sold for in the 7th century B.C. thus all Sofia, during my aforementioned trip. $10,000 and up! mentions of money in the context of the These coins appeared to be those of There is no need for collectors who O.T. must be considered weights and lIilianus, based on the clear photos and purchase coins for less than that amount not coins". legend description in The Celalor article. to panic. I lail to understand the reasoning Unfortunately, the coins were Only if they have purchased EF+ behind naming the column "Coins 01 the confiscated as I was leaving the Sofia "too good to be true" five or six-figure Bible~ il the author defines Bible to airport, and I was detained lor over 36 coins do they have anything at all to include the original Bible, the O.T., and hours until my credentials could be worry about, and in that case they should in the very same article he concludes verified. It appears that the Bulgarian immediately contact the dealer they that the O.T. had no coins! ctficials were aware of the rarity of th ese bought them from. If indeed it is the coins of the New coins, and asked me to pay a small La stly, Dr. Arnold Saslow has Testament or some other period that his ran som in order to forget the whole acquired a number of th e I.B.S.C.C. thing and leave the country. Bulletins that he is selling at his cost Please turn to page 47 4 The Celator Numismatic Fine Arts ~a will be present at the NEW YORK SPRING INTERNATIONAL NUMISMATIC CONVENTION JUNE 25-27 We will have with us a representative selection of our vast stock of high quality ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins. Stop by our table to preview highlights from our upcoming Auction XXIX, to be held in August in conjunction with the ANA Convention in Orlando, Florida Numismatic Fine Arts INTERNATIONAL, INC 10100 SANTA M ONICA BOULEVARD, 6TH FLOOR Los AN GELES, CALIFORNIA 90067 TELEPH ONE: (310) 278-1535 ' FAX: (310) 785-0457 June 1992 5 Part 1 Dark Age Britain: The retreat of Rome Germanic barbarians. This does not the world of the original King Arthur by ROil Kollgaard mean, however, that a central Romano legend. British govcmment stepped into the void left by the ret reating Imperial govern The Decline of Roman Britain King Arthur is nOi a figure one would melli, although from the sketchy Roman Britain was generally a se normally associate with the Roman information it may be that a single war cure and prosperous part of the empire, Empire. And indeed, many of the well lord was able lodominatea large part of although this depended on a regular known details of the King Arthur leg Roman Britain. Could this have been maintenance of the defenses. This was end, such as Camelot and Ihe Round the original Arthur? Perhaps - al made clear at the end of tile fourth cen Table, the Holy Grail and Sir Lancc!ol, though barring a dramatic archaeological tury. The defenses in Britain included were added by romantic writers during discovery, we'll probably never know the slone wal l of Hadrian to guard aga inst the Middle Ages. BUl ihe kcma! of the for s ure. the Picts in modern Scotland, and the legend derives from a much earlier lime, Coinage, even the rather stylized numerous forts and ships employed within thcccllturyor soaft crthe Roman types produced by the Romans in the along the "Saxon Shore" in the south, armies evacualed Britain in 410. And fifth century, would help elucidate this which protected against the Saxons, Arthur hi msclf - assliminglhal there is confused period, but that hardly exists Franks, and other peoples from modem a real man behind the legend - mny ei ther. This lack, however, does pro coastal Germany fllld Denmark. These have been one of the last Romano-Bri t vide some clues as to the stat e of sixth defenses were not foolproof, however, ons fighting against the Saxon invaders and seventh century Britain, primarily and in 367 a massive assault from all who came after the Romans Jefl. Un that there was no central authority as, sides overwhelmed the Romans. In the fOTwnalcly, very linle is known about for example, ineontemporary Gaul. But north, the Picts raided in force, and were Britain in Ille early Dark Ages when, coins were in Britain at thi s ti me, though able 10 overrun J·hldrian's wall, while unlike lhe rest of the western Romlln almost certainly not circulating in any Scots (then living in modem Ireland) Empire, the British were able to secure real sense, and where they aTe found, attacked the western shores,and Franks their independence for a time, before s uch as in the Sutton-Hoo ship burial, and Saxons invaded the south and east. succumbing to the encroachment of they provide another sma!! glimpse al Of the two leading Roman generals in Britain, the COllie Litoris Saxollici (Count of the Saxon Shore) was killed, and the Dux Bri/anlliarum (Duke of c.r. Martin (Coins) Ltd Britain) was captured. Although the Roman military in Britain itself was shattered by these attacks, considerable of London, England. Roman resources remained. The em peror Valentini an (364-375) dispatched Our current 24 page an army under Count Flavius Theodosius, the father of the emperor catalogue contains Theodosius I (379-395), who was able about 500 Greek to stabilize the situation by 369. Most and Roman coins, pans of Britain were able to recover quickly after this disaster. 200 English The military lessons from the inva Hammered sions of 367 were clea r: Britain could and a wide be defended only if the internal de fenses were maintained, and if forces range of from the continent were available dur antiquities. ing emergencies. Count Theodosius probably realized as much, although the situation within the empire was chang C.J. Martin (Coins) Ltd ing. Most serious was that many of the 85, The Va le, Southgate, local auxiliaries which had manned Hadrian's wall had joined the invaders. Lo ndon N1 4 GAT, England They were obviously not trustworthy, Established 20 years and although some of the deficit of na tive British troops was made up by Tel: (0 )818821 5 0 9 Fax: (0 )81 BBG 5 235 Germanic soldiers, who were recruited Telephone Vis~ [, MDstercards accepted on the continent, there seems to have OUR CATALOGUES INCLUDE ANCIENT GREEK BRONZE, GREEK SILVER, been a reduction in the size of the garri ROMAN SILVER [, BRON ZE, BYANTINE, CELTIC , ANGLO SAXON, NORMAN, son forces. COUll I Theodosius repaired HAMMERED MEDIEVAL, ANCIENT ARTIFACTS, HOARDS [, SPECIAL OFFERS the damaged wall, although he aban doned the outpost forts which lay about 6 The Celator 10 miles north of the wall. Fro m these thou gh he probably didn't see himself some of this territory to the control of a forts special combined cavalry/infantry that way at all. He is remembered ill friendly Iri sh warl ord. The Romnn citi units carried out vital patrols. Instead, Welsh legend as Maesen IYledig. The zells of Britain appealed \0 Rome for small independent British kingdoms title IVledig (roughly"landholder")was aid , and at first it was forthcoming. began to take shape in the region be given to a few Others from this time, but After the death of Theodosius I, the tween Hadri'lll's wall and the only MliximllS was not a native Briton, western empire was bequeathed to his long-abandoned Antonine wall farther Maxi1l1us also appears in the genealo weak son Honorius(39S-423), although north. It is possible that Count giesofseveral Welsh kings. It ispossible rea l power in the west resided in the Thcodosi us encouraged their f onna! ion, that Maximus did indeed have a British commander of the anny, who was gen using the old Roma n policy of maimain wife, although perhaps more important erally a barbarinn. The half-Vandal ing friendly cl ient states outside Roman than whet her or not Maximus actually StiHcho (Master-of-soldiers, 394-408) borders, although he may only have was related to these later kings is that responded tothe Britons. Stilichoprob acqu iesced 10 a situation that developed the kings felt him worthy of bei ng in ably led the army he sent to Britain in beyond his COntrol. By and large these cludedamong theirancestors, Although 396-398, which W:lS able to repel the kingdoms appear to have handl ed Max imus was wel! remembered in worst of the invasions. However, themselves well against the Picts, and Welsh legend, the chronicler Gi ldas (c. Stilicho may also have encouraged the northern Britain remained relatively 550) was more to the poi nt in his De gradual disi ntegra tion of ceillral aUlhor peaceful for a few more decades. The Excidio Brita/mae (The Ruin of Brit itybyaiding Cunedda, who was reputed kingdom of Strathclyde, whose ea rly ain), where he condemns Maximus for to have arrived fr om nonhern Britain rulers names and titles show a strong withdrawing the armies from Britain, with his clan, driven out Irish settlers in Roman influence, was able to remain leaving them open toatlack, And this is northern Wal es, and established the independent fo r over 500 years. The what soon happened. kingdom of Gwynedd. Assuming this is formation of these small kingdoms The history of Britain after the fall of correct, th is may have been another at foreshadowed the fate of all of Britain Maximus in 388 is murky, and depends tempt by the Romans to establi sh as Roman power waned. on early chronicles and histories, all of friendly cli ent states in border regions. The fragmentation of the western which arc nawed. It would seem that The armies under Stilicho were nOI to Roman Empire was funhered by Magnus incursions by the Picts began soon after remai n, but wi lhdrew to combat the Clemens Maxim us (383-388), who 388, if not before, as well as attacks by onslaught of the Visigoths under Alaric claimed to be a distam relative of Count theScotsalld other Irish tribes. Some of (395 -41 0), who invaded Italy and sacked Theodosius. Maximus was Dux the Irish even began to settle in western Rome in 410. Dritolllliarum, and popular with the England, although it is possible thai this Gildas records a second Roman :lmlY troops. The western emperor Gratian was begun under Maximus, who ceded arriving in Britain after Stilicho left, (367-383), however, was not. For rea sons that are not clear, Maximus was proclaimed Emperor by the troops in Britain. Maximus was no! the first ANCIENT COIN SPECIALIST usur per to arise in Britain. Constantine I (306-337), who started with a power GREEK, ROMAN, BYZANTINE COINS b..'1se in Britain, was able to defeat nu AND CLASSICAL ANTIQUITI ES merous rivals and become sole emperor lind the founder of a renowned dynasty, while before him Carausius (286-293) had fo rmed an independent regime in Britain and northern Gaul, which was eventually crushed. Maximus learned from history and, emu lat ing Constantine, crossed the channel with much of the Roman army stationed in Britain. He defeated Gratian and was able 10 rule Britain, GlIul, Spain, and westem Af rica, but was eventually defeated :lnd put todeath by Theodosius I (379-395). Maximus was a man of mixed char acter. He seems to have been popul:lr, rind was even cheered in distant A leX:lll SAMPLE CA TALOG UPON REQUEST dria when his name W:lS mentioned, although he extorted heavy taxes 10 pay forh isanny. Heseems to have had deep EDWARD J. WADDELL, Ltd. religious beliefs, deferring to St. MaTlin on a number of occasions, although he 444 N. Frederick Avenue, Su it e 316 has the dubious honor of being the first ~ Gaithersburg, 1\1D 20877 Christian ruler to have put other Chris (! (301) 990-7446 FAX: (301) 990-3712 , tians to death for their religious beliefs. ;:::::; Overa!!, Maximus made a positive im ••• . pression in Britain, and he stands as a transitional figure in British history, al - June 1992 7 , although this docs not seem 10 have Gaul with most of his army. At one thc confused and fanciful Th e Hisloryof occurred. instead, the Britons began to point he advanced inlo Italy in Ihe hope Ihe Kings of Britain, by Geoffrey of look \0 themselves for protection. In of seeking an accommodation with M onmouth (d. (155), as the falher of 406 the Roman armies remaining in Honorius, but was forcedlOrelrcat. After Aurelius Ambrosius (a real figure, dis Britain decla red an obscure man, Mar a series of murders and duplicity on all cussed below) and Uther Pendragon. cus, \ 0 be emperor. However, he was sides, the defection of Constantine's The laller, thnnks to Ihe magic of M er quickly killed and replaced by another, Icading general in 409 turned thc tide lin, is thcn crcdited as being the fatherof Gnllian, who only lasted four months. ngainst him. Consl<1ntine III wa s even Arthur! Virtually nothing is known about these tllnl Iy cnplUred by th e forces of Honorius At the time, however, Constantine's "emperors", other than Gmlian having and , in spite of a sudden Inst minute cOlllemporaries saw little to commend been a nali ve Briton. After Gratian, the ordination into the priesthood, was put him. As his cau se faded, revolls broke British armies declared for Constantine to death. T he main consequence of his out in areas under his domain. In 1lI (407-411 ). However, Constantine rcign wns a furthcr weakening of the Amorica in northern Gaul (modern III did little for Britain. Following the !J! !l0U'"I.E: buying c/fnciwt, cJ1J1,t:diwa[ 0'1: \lIVo'ttd coin~ . !J0tL !.flOUfJ c,e. j.ubj.c7.dJin:; to DIn maLl-bid and /wClic. atLction cala{oguu.. !JI !JOU 'u. ulu.1l3 aft 0'1. pa'll of !l0U'l cofre.ction.. you !.houtd i£.'I.iom.ty cOluidct cO/Digl1il!9 to au '!: wElt /lU[;[ic.ized j.Qto rwfu:thn !Jou '7.£ A1lcient Coills tuyi"9 0 ' ,dli"9' World Coins Ponte'1. io & clfiioaiatei Gold Medals tza, att the in9"dient1 Bankllotes you need. to,,, quality U. S. Coills catat09, and ex/",tiiE c.om&im:. to make. YOLt! numiim atic "I. E-dIu:. a .HLCC£B. . For additional information contact our office PONTERIO & ASSOCIATES 1818 Robinson Ave . P.N.G. #308 San Diego, CA 92103 ~PM 800-854-2888 or 619-299-0400 AmericonNumlsmollc • 0 • ~ • , , • < • • , , Licensed Allc/ion CompallY #968 LM. #2163 Richard H. Ponte rio - President June 7992 9 Maximus, which is not impossible as cannot be blamed for first bringing the of former Rom an Britain for at least a t hc t wo daughters of Maxi mus survi ved Sa )(ons to Britain. There arc indications fcw decades. Of this therc seems lillIe his fall, although the connection could that migrations from the continelll be doubt, as Gildas, who was living at the simply be fantasy. Gildas and Nennius gan before his rise, and it is doubtful time, refers to it. (c. 830), the author of the His/oria they could have been prevented. The legendsofKing Arthur arc rooted BrillOlJllIl1 (History of Britain), give the The defeat of Vortigern led to the in these fifth century events. For in heyday of Vortigern as being c. 450, rise of Ambrosius Aurelianus, men stance, Arthur was later said to have although from olher sources it may be tioned above as one of the sons of been the viclOr over the Saxons at the inferred that he was in power c. 425. Constantine III by Geoffrey of siege of Mount Badon, the climatic The dating is important because Mon mouth. Gilda!> claims that Bri tish victory also credited el sewhere VOrligern employed Saxon mercenar Aurel ian us was reputed to be descended toAurelianus. But were both at Badon? ies asfoedcrali 10 deal with the Picts and from somc Roman Imperial family, pre· Unfortunately, it is very unclear. In olher raiders who were preying on Ihe sumably meaning either the ephemeral fact, il is not even clear whether the Britons. In doing so, Vortigern was Ma reus, Grat i an, Constant inc 111, or even Britons were the besiegers or the be fallowing the standard practice of Ihe Magnus Maximlls. Of course, sieged at Mount Badon, or even where late Roman Empire to recruit Germanic Aurelianus may simply have been from the battle was fought. barbarian soldiers by giving Ihem Innd one of the great Roman landowning to sett le 0 11. Here, as uhimalely Imp. families in Britain. In any event, Who Was King Arthur? pelled in the empire, the plan backfired. Aure\i:lnus apparently succeeded. In a Anhllrderives from the Roman n:lme After some success, the Saxons revol ted series of battles taking place:lt the end "Artori us", though none of Ihe earliest agninsllhc British. Vort igern was de of the fifth century, possibly liS early as chronicles mellli on a man oflhal name, fe YLncient (jreel0. 'RJJman & 13yz antine COINS ( Send Today For Free Illustrated List ) TOM CEDERLIND P.o. Box 1963-C, Portland, OR, 97207 (503) 228-2746 12 The Cefator Ancient Greek and Roman Coins Greek Silver Coins Excellenl penlail and excellent green pa' NEAPOLIS, Campania, c:, 450-340 B.C .• U"a. Very Fine 10 Exlremely Fine $450.00 Oidrachm. Obv. Hoadolnvmph t. Rev. Man· he.dod bull r.o crowned bV Nike. SNG ANS 17 TRAJAN, 98·117 A.a ., AE23. OOv. &>slof 3$6, VfWI Fine $850.00 Aslarte r.: in Irool. small head 01 Trejan r. 2 METAPONTUM, Luc:ania, 330-300 B.C .• Rev. Humped bull galloping I. BMC 374, Slaler. Obv. Head 01 Demele. r. Rev. Ear of Sear 1083. Black plItina. Very Fine $75.00 corn: to '-. leal with plough. Sear 416, BMC 18 COMMODUS, 180·192 A.D .• AE 35 01 98, S NG COP 1227. Very Fine $395.00 Kyzikos, Mysia. Obv. Young busl r" 3 THURIU M, Lucania, c. 330 B.C .. Nomos. oou nterslamp 01 small head below. Rev. Obv. Head 0/ Athe"" r., helm" led. Rev. Bull Galley r. SNG von Aulocl< 1266. butting r. SNG ANS 1059, Fino $235.00 Very Fine $395.00 19 SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS, 193·211 AD., AE 4 TER INA, Bruttium, 4th CenlUfy B.C., Third 26 01 Thessalooica, Macedon. Obv. BU$! r. Slaler. Obv. Head of nymph Terine I. Rev. Rev. Nike advancing I. BMC 89, Sear 2118. Winged Nike sealed I. BMC 46, Sear 510. Very sharply slruc:l<;. Very Fine $395.00 Very Fone to Extremely Fine $4SO,oo 5 MA CEDON, Philip II, 359·336 B.C. Obv. 20 SEVERUS ALEXANDE R, 222-235 A.D., Telradrachm ot AIoxandria, Egypt. OIlv. Laur. head 01 Zeus f. Rev. Naked youth on horse prancing r, Extremely Fine $950.00 Bust r. Rev. Providence slg. I. 6 ATHENS, 393·300 B,C .. Tetradrachm. Obv. Very Fine $75.00 Head of Athena r. Rev . Owl r. BtAG 144. 21 GORDIAN III, 238·244 A.D., AE 30 01 Very Fine plus $375.00 Viminacium, MoesOa Superior. Obv. Bust r. 7 SYRIA, Anliochu s VIII, 121-96 B.C., Rev. Female figure sIll. I. between bull and Telradrachm. Obv. Head r. in lillel border. lion. BMC 12, Sea.- 3642. Green pa~na. . Very Fine $395,00 Sear 7145. E~1remely Fine S375.oo 22 TREBONIANUS GALLUS, 251·253 A.D., Greek Bronze Coins Sesler1ius. Obv, 8(>5lr, Rev, ApoIlosIII.!. C. 8 RHEGIUM, Bru1tium, 203·89 B.C., AE Tel· 21, RIC 103. E~cellenl gref!n pa~na, fields ras. Obv. Jugal~ busls ollh~ Dioscuri r. A~v. smoothod. Very Fine $275,00 Hormos 519 . I. BMC 108, Sea r 693. Groen 23 FLDRIANUS, 276 A.D., AAloninianU$ 01 palioa. Vnry Fine $65.00 C y~ic us. Obv. Bust r. Rov. Emperor, Vic· 9 MACEDON,AE 13. Obv. SI Lucien Birkler & Company, 1707 L Street, N.W., Suite 520, Washington, D.C. 20036 . Phone 202-833-3770 June 1992 13 AE2'swith VIRTV$ EXERCITI,anda empire. No local fi gures were able to reverse design oftheempcrorholdinga fill the vacuum left by the ret reating standard and globe, with a foot all a Imperial administration, and none ap captive. These types were also struck pa rently even attempted 10 resurrect the for Theodosius him self, although the st riking of coinage. Without the Impe officina deha is restri cted only to the rial government, which ha d imponed coins of Maximus. Th is could mean money \0 pay officials and troops, coi n that large numbers werestTuck,al though A solidus of the usurper arrived only via trade. This seems to the rarity of these issues implies that, if Constantine /If (407-4 11 ). In the have so greatly reduced the supply that so, they were either not distributed later, fa nciful history of Britain it disappeared from circulation within a widely, or were effectively ca ll ed back written by Geoffrey of Monmouth, few decades. in and restruck. Constantine 11/ is presented as Until relati vely recently, it was With the collapse ofMnximus ' cause, the grandfather of King Arthur! thought by some that the "barbarous" the mint of London was closed, and was imitations of small bron ze issues, which never aga in to strike for Rome . How were common in Britain, represented a ever, one of the usurpers that fo llowed emperor. All of the types from father sub-Roman coi nage that bridged the gap issued coins from olher mints in Gaul. and son allude to the emperors' many between true Roman issues and the rise Th eephemeral "emperors" Marcus and "victories", which increasingly became of native Anglo-S axon coins . In many Grntian, who were proclnimed briefly mere wishful thinking, as Constantine's ways, the ba rbarous bronzes arc what by the Romnn armies in Britnin in 406, allies began to desert him. One ofthese. one wou ld ex pect for a sub-Roman Jeft no numismatic legncy. Constantine Maximus (409-411 ), was promoted as coinage. They are imitations of stan Ill , however, did. When Constnntine emperor by Gerontius, originally one of dard types wh ich were issued from the lOok the ga rrisons from Britn in over to Constantine's best generals. The rare time of the House of Constantine or Gnul, he gai ned control of four milliS silver from this Maximus was struck in later, although struck on smaller, some which struck in his name. As with Spain, which had otherwise ceased as a times very much smaller, nans. Their Maxim us, hi s ultirnm e aims were not minting area for an extended period. styles range from merely poor to abso directed townrds Britain, nnd he did not lutely appalling, with the worSt ha ving even reopen the London mint. Bronze Th e Legacy of Rome insc ript ions that are barely recogniz nnd si lver was struck for Constallline The revol t of Constantine III, and the able as lett ers. A common imitation is III , wi th Aries (and possibly Lugdunum) gra nting of Bri t ish cities the right of self of the va rious types with the legend FEL nlso striking si lver for his son ConSlans defense by Honorius, severed the politi TEMP REPARATIO, and usually (409-411), who was proclaimed co- cnl ties between the island and the showing a soldier spearing a fall en horseman. Official striking of these fallen horsemnn types ended in 35 7. After th is ti me, Imperial coinage refonns If you aren't seeing this symbol on led toa return of abundant silver. Some si liqua types were also im itated, and ca talogues you are currently receiving have been found in Britain, often heavi ly cli pped or on reduced nans. After 38 1, buge bronze coins with the inscription REPARATIO REI PVB appeared, and were the ln st seri es for which relatively large numbers of barbarous imi tations were also made in Britain. While these barbarous coins arc in teresting, hoards and archaeological sites provide the evidence that they were not issued by any fifth century sub-Romnn government. The best indication of this is that barbarous coins arc most often found in association with official coins of the type they im itate, indicati ng thnt they ci rculated at the same time. Hoard evidence and dating of coins found in archaeological sites provides furth er proof of th is. Further, although barba rous issues are most oft en found along southertl and eastCrtl Britain, where most Write for our membership list of the tra de between the island and the rest of the empire was conducted, bar Jean-Paul Divo barous coins are not found in Saxon Secretary, I.A.P.N. graves. And as the Saxons controlled L6wenstrasse, 65 much of southern coastal Britain in Ihe fiflh century, this makes it improbable CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland that native Britons could ha ve struck them either. 14 The Celalor Hoards lliso provide indicllIions of Britain soon after 400, and gold c. 406, barbilTian kin gdoms of the Visigoths the types of coins that were in use in but with silver from Gaulish mints COIl and Suevi began to strike imitation IIll fifth century Britain, as well as how tinuing to arrive until c. 420. IlCrial solidi c.430, with other kingdoms long they remained in usc. In the late The ncxt Cluestion is, how long were also doingso later in thecemury. Instead founh century, gold coins became much t11 ese last Roman coins in circulation? (in my opinion), what happened was more common in the e mpire asa whole. Gildas, writing in the sixth century, that the need for large scale coinages After 400, gold solidi of Honorius with mentioned both the ··denarius·· and SlO pped. The Roman Imperial govern thereverselegend VICTORIA A VGGG, ··ObUltIS··, suggesting that heavil yc1 ipped ment used coins both to pay soldiers and wi th Honorius holding a standard and siliqua and small bronzes remained in officials as well as to coll ect tax es. In wi th a foot on a captive, were the most circulation. Also, most of the coins Britain, un like the rest of the western abundant. Issues from Milan were most found in later hoards arc in very poor empire, no large force gained control common, fll though after 402 th e mill! of condition, suggesting that they were in over the countryside. The local chief Ravenna is most represell!ed in Britain. circulation for a considerable period. tains and strongmen, both British and. This provides an important clue, in that However, th is does not seem consistent Saxon, relied mo re on their IlCrsonal the output of solidi from Ravenna has with the lack of coins in Saxon graves, charisma, and a prow-feudal social becn grouped into three time periods. where coins probably would have 3p structure bascd increasingly on obliga Only those from the first period, from peared as jewelry if they were readily tions and personal loyalty, to maintain 402 - c. 409, are present in great num available. Further, Castle Dore, a royal control overtheirwarbands. What these bers in Britain. residence from the sixth century. has local leaders wanted from their followers Fresh silver also ceased at this time. been excavated without a s ingle coin was service as warriors, and the suppl ies The latest abundant coins being siliqua being fo und. And thedegreesof"wear·· to maintain them. In parallel with this with the legend V1RTVS ROMAN on lTlany of the latest coins is compli was a breakdown in the trading patterns ARVM, and showing a seated Roma cated by the often poor q uality of the which had deve loped under the Romans, holding Victory and a spear. As with originnl strike. Kent, in fa ct, believes which led to a decrease in the abi li ty of gold, a large output of silver was struck that the condition of most of these is money to c irc ul ate. Trade and industry from the mints of Rome and Ravenna delCrmined more by poor striking than did not vanish in Britain, however, and after 402, although relatively few of wear. He estimates that Roman coins some British textiles remained in de these types have been found in Britain. were lorgely out of circulation by 430. mand in Gaul, although mllny of the More va rieties of bronze remained This is a remarkable tum of events. aspects of a monetary economy. such as in ci rculation after 400, primarily be Certainly the idea of coinage di d nOI the abil ity to grant loans and acquire cause of the greater number of types beco me forgotten in Britain, nor wa s it largesulllsofabstract wealth, must ha ve which had been issued in abundance. bcyondthcirtcchnological ca pacity. The largely disappeared. Especially in northern Britain, a large v:lriet y of types, often clipped or cut if they had ori ginally been struck on large nans, circulated together. The most common bronze coins appear to have ROMAN IMPERIAL been those struck in the mid-fourth cen tury, such as those with GLORIA ANCIENT NEAR EAST EXERCITVS and soldiers standing by ISLAMIC & INDIAN COINAGE a standard. Somewhat oddly, many of the FEL TEMP REPARATIO types, Our Specialty which were struck after the GLORIA EXERCITVS issues, appear to have been less abundant by 400. Some lat e fourt h century issues, such as th e GLORIA ROMANARVM issues which were struck by several emperors, also circulated at this time, although not in the numbers that one would naively expect. In addition to seeing what coins were available in Britain, the virtual absence of many Imperial Iypes wh ich were infereSTed in buying rare or high g rade Romall, Greek, Greek struck in great quantity shows that there Im perial, ByWllfille, Anciellf Near EaSTern alld Illdian coills. was a dramatic decrease in the amount of coin reaching the island in the early For Serious Collectors - Occasional LiSTS fifth century. Many issues from the mint of Rome, for instance, stru ck after WILLIAM B. WARDEN, JR. 420, are either unkno wn or extremely rare in Britain. P. o. BOX 356 In summarizing all of this evidence, [I] Kent (1961) concluded that the differ NEW HOPE, PA 18938 4\ ~MEM BER ent metals ceased to be imported into ANA (215) 297 -5088 'I:lI Britain at different times. His conclu sion was that bronze stopped rcaching June 1992 15 Regardless of the exact reasons and northwestern Spain. Most of their solid i possibly legendary, Fran kish ki ng da ting, it seems clear that coins stopped were im i ta I ions of the coins of Honori us, Merovech), produced kings un til 737, ci rcu lati ng in Britain by the mid-fifth while Suevian tremisses were primarily although only a few of these monarchs century. In many ways this is unfortu copiesofValentinian III. The Visigoths, ruled all of Frn nkia. Following Frank naIC, ns even a limited supply of coins in Gaul and Spain, a Iso struc k im itations ish custom, the territory of each king from this era would hel p clarify its his of the laller around the same time. A was divi ded among all his surviving tory. So - barring a dramatic and few early variants appeared, including sons, leading to several, sometimes ri totally unexpected discovery - eoins an extremely ra re $ucvian sil iqua which val, Frankish kingdoms. After 679, of ARTORIVS REX remain wishful has the name of the king Rechiar (448- however, the king's power was over fantasy. 456) on th e reverse. The Vandals, who shadowed bylhe powerful Mayorofthe controlled former Roma n Africa, also Pnlace. Charles Marte l (mayor, 719- Non-Native Co ins did more than merely copy existing 74 1) bega n the powerful Carolingian in Dark Age Britai n Roman types, adding on some pi eces dynastythnt wasta usurp the posi tion of While coinage va nished as an eco marks of value, a praclice which may king, and reached a pinnacle with nomic necessity in fourth century have intluenced the Byzantines, The Charlemagne (king. 768-800. emperor Britain, coins themselves continued to Senates of Rome and Carthage (under 800-8 14), a conllemporary of Offa. reach the island, albeit in very small the cont rol of the Ostrogoths and Van Th e decen tralized nat ure of numbers. Although some must have dal s, respectively) also struck coins late Mcrovinginn France is reflected in their known of their intended purpose, these in the fifth century. complex coinage. Fran kish coins imita· coins werc used only as jewelry. No Sixth century coinage continued the tive of Imperial solidi and tremisses substant ial na tive coinage existed on basic imitative style, although more were struck after the early sixth century. the island for nearly twO centuries after variations appeared. Of most impor Small mintages of silver and bronze the I:lst imllCria l ROlllan issues fell out tance 10 the Britons and Saxons were Ihe were also struck, although these wcrc of usc. coins of the Franks. Underthe Frankish discontinuedc.650. Early Merovingian In contrast, true coi ns apl>cared in kings Childeric I (458-481) nnd Clovis gold generally included the name ofthc the Germnnic kingdoms thnt rose as the (481-5 11), the Franks expanded oul of moneyer and the mint, and only morc sliccessors of the Romans in tile west, the nrea around modern Belgium, de rarely the name of the reign ing king. allhough at first these were copies of feating remnants of Roma n authority, The use of a blundered Victory, taken Roman issues, complelC with the name the Visigoths and ot hers to become the over from late Imperial coins, was re rrnd ponT"it of the reign ing emperor. dominnnt force in Fran kia , or placed with a cross or monogram , Some of the e:lrl iest were the gold coins "Fr;mkland", The rcsulting Mcrovingian following the introduction of the "cross st ruck by the Suevi, who controlled dynasty (named for a little known, and o n-steps" reverse introduced on Byzantine IremissesofTiberius II (578- 582). A few other Merovingian Irem isses, however, used as thei r inspi ration laic Roman bronzesofMagncmius and Crispus. The decentralization of coining authorit y continued into the seventh CC llIury. In total more than 1200 cities and 1600 moneyers are represented on Merovingian coi nage! This proliferation is so great that somc of these "cit ies" were probably little more than small hamlets, and it may be that th e name designates where taxes were collected, asopposcd \0 where the coins were struck. Merovingian coin age is an extremely complex series, but scholarship over the past fcw decades has finally begun to unravel the dati ng of these issues. A Ithough decent rali zed, genera l trends arc evident, the most important being the gradual debasement of gol d, and its replacement with a purely silver coinrrge during the 670's. CuriOUS ly, perhaps, the appearance of the !"irsl Merovingian coins did not Whether you are buying or selling Ctassical Ancient Coins. let Galerie des inspire a similar effort in England. En Numisrnntiques. Ltd. a~ s i ~t you . Our expert staff of professionals and international network of truden; are conswntty working to provide our gland was not isolaled after the depanure clients, ....'i lh an outstanding selection of coi ns of extmordinaJ)· quality. of Rome. Trade and commerce contin CAlJ.. t'OR OUR lATEST tlJ..USJ1t,\TED l1"XF.1) PRICE US1Th"G ued with the continent, and there must hnve been many individuals, panicu larly those living in the channel port s, who were familiar with coi ns. 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By (he eighth cemury, En elaborate buried treasure ship ulleanhed Crondall hoard, whi ch contains a total glish trade was si gni ficalll enough for in 1939, which is presumed to be the of 100 pieces, represents a "wergild". (here to be a specia I Anglo-Saxon quarter burial of a king, probably Raewald of In early Saxon law, after a Illurder or in Rome. Sixth celllury coins have been East Anglia. The Crondall hoard was other serious offense, Ihe criminal and found in England, primarily in excava discovered earlier, in 1828 . The Sullon his clan wc re required to pay a fix ed tions of gra ves. Foll owing pa ga n Hoo hoard consiSIS of 37 Merovingi:lO wergild 10 the clan of their victim . The tradition, early Saxon g ra ves incl uded coins, three gold bl anks. and two small Sullon Hoo honrd may have a diffe rent goods for the deceased to use in the rectnngula r gold ingots. Current studies purpose, contai ning 40 pieces to pay for :l fterlife, although this tradition comin each of the 40 rowers that would have li ed int o the early years of the general bccnllceded for the ship where the hoard conve rsion to Christinnity. Only a few was buried, as well as the two ingots pe rce nt of Snxon graves contain coins, (whi ch, togel her, are n I mosl exactly ci ght and then only as ite ms of jewelry. In the times heavier than one of the coins) for most elaboratecascs, the coins are placed the steersman. Also, the SUllon Hoc in a ci rcular mount, or as pan of an coins contai n a wide range of types, no intricate piece, although other coins are two of which are nlike, and which come merely pierced, and were intended to be from all parts of Frankia, and il is quite worn . possible that they were consciously se An cnormous variety of coins Ilavc lected to re fl ect the divers ity of been found in Saxon graves. Most Ro Merovinginn coinage. m:ln coins arc bronze issues struck under Bib1iogr~phy: Constanti ne Ihe Gre:l t or his sons, al As.he, G. ( 1990). Kingsand Quun.< of £arly Brit_ though the ra nge extends from a few Sixth century Merovingian gold coin, air/. first cenlury examples 10 those struck now in the British Museum. This Ba rber, R. (1986), Ki'l~ Arthur: lI~ro "",; vl:rlld. by Honorili S. In on e in ,;wllce, a Celtic coin was found among the treasures Bla ir, P.I-! . (1963), ROlllan Brilailt ami Early £" Briti:; ll coin, from before the domina of the Sutton Hoo ship burial. gland. Bl air, P.I-! . (1990). The World of Hule. li on of Rome, was recovered. Also, of Bowder, D .• cd. (1980). Who WlL< Wh" illlh~ Ra. COllr,;e, there arc m:lIl y Merovingian of the Mcrovinginn series date the honrd lIIan W<>rld. M issues, as well as those of the Vi sigolhs 10 c. 625. The Crondall hoard contains Blu nt , c.E. (1961), "111C eoi n ~ge of Offa • iu and Lombards. Byzalll ine coins, how 69 early Anglo-Saxon, 24 Merovingian, A I1g lo-SoxolI Coi, .... (ASC). cd. R.II.M. Dolley. ever, arc rare, not just from Saxon graves, nnd one Byzant ine coin (which some Brooke, G.C. (1950), f.'lglislr Coin<. Bruce -Mil ford. R. (1979), Th~ Su/l v" llim Ship but in all COil!exts and at all times in consider an imitation struck by the H"rial. enrly English history. This docs not Lombards), ns well as 6 small blanks, Dolley, M. (1 964). Allg /v -Saxon Pellllir.<. me:ln, however, thai Byzantine coins and has been daled 10 c. 640. Even Embleton. R. alt d Graham, F. (l984), lfadri(1 I1's had no influence in earl y Englnnd, al though the Crondall hoard contains many Wall i lll h ~ Days ofl lu~ RomallS. though it was indi rect, genernlly via ea rl y Saxon types, 60 of these coins arc Gr~" ! , M. (1985), TIlt ROIII"11 Empuors. Grierson. P. ~nd l3Iackbum, M. ( 1986). Medie>"(J/ Merovingi :m designs. Early Saxon die li nked 10 others in the hoard, and the Europr"" Coinoge. VoIu",e 1: The£ar/yMiddle coins, also having been used as jewelry, implication is that the mintages of these Ages. nrc present in some of the later graves. fi rst Saxon issues were quite small. Al so, King, M.D. ( 1988), M R o mall co in.~ fromcar l y Anglo Th e nnture of these finds shows that, the inclusion of rounded blanks, which SaxoncO ll1 c~ l sM,i n Co i"<,,"drh ~ A ,,h a eolog i.w. while the Merovingian and s imilnr types do not appear to have been discarded or (CA), edos. J. Casey and R. Recrc. Kenl, J.c.P. (1 961), ··PrOH Roman Brifain (oSaxon reached Britain via trade, th e number of unused flans, suggests that coins of all M England , in ASC. older coins which were discovered from types were diffic ult to comc by when Metcalf, D.M. (1988), ~ 1>.lor>Clary cx pa n ~ion and rccovered hoards was comparable. these hoards werc assembl ed. rcecssi011: Imerpreting tile dislTiblltion of sev The scarc it y of coins in England, A bit of caution musl be exe rcised, enlh 300 eisJlIh-cell'ury coins~, in CA. c vcn nfter the introduction of the first however, in that the SUl\on Hoo, and NOfIh. J.J. ( 1963). Etlglislr lIammurd Coiaagt. Volumt I. Sa xQlltypes, is demonstrated by the two probably the Crondall hoard as we ll , Reece, R. (t978). ··l3ro n1.C CO'nJge in Roman Bri. grem hoards from lh is pe ri od. The Sulton were nsselllbled with a special plIrp0,;e ain and lhc W C~1C nl Provinces, A.D. 330·402 ··, in Scripta Numll!uriu ROIII«/wi. (S NR ). crts. R.A.G. Cmson and C.M. Kraay. Rigold, S.E. ( 1988). MCoins. fonnd ill Anglo-Saxon burials.-. in CA. S!cwa n, I. (1978), ~A n g l o-S:u.on Gold CoinSM, in SNR. S. cwan, I. (1986), MThc Loo do n min. and !he coinagc of Offa··. in Al1g/o-S"xO/, MOllrll">· !fislory. cd. M.A .S. Blackburn. TIn.·a i!e. A. ( t976). Bryon" It. ~ IlIlwbilrd World. Wh it loc k, R. ( L991). n,e Warrior Ki"gsofSaxon Ellg/am/. Whining. P.O. (L96t). -The Byzaminc Empircaoo the coinagc of the Anglo-Saxo I L~M, in ASC. Williams, A., Smylh, A.P .• and Kirby, D.P .. cds. (199 t),..4 Bil1grllphical Diclioll(1ry of Durk Agt Hriwi". Wood. 1>1 . ( 1987), I" S.·"reh uflhe Dark Agts. !!iI 18 The Celalor ALEX G. MALLOY, INC. 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BOX 38 NEW YO RI( I O~'O ANC IENT AND M~: Il1t:V AL ART AN D NUMIS."IATICS Office and Gallery Phone 203 -4 38-0396 by appointmentoniy· Fax 203 -438-6744 est. 1967 June 1992 19 Old Testament story is illustrated on ancient coinage Ale xander the Great, around 333 B.C. the ancient world, the only clearly iden by Marvin Tameanko Lnter, the Rom 20 The Celator invaded Asia, enroute to Greece, Under the Romans, Apamea became loads, which they rep:lcked as a mixed Cclacnac became a military center fo r a great trade terminal, second only to assonmenl of goods in chests, for trans King Xerxes I, 486-465 B.C. After his Ephesus on the coast, and the city grew shipment to port cities such as Ephesus. defc:lI at Salamis in 480 B.C., Xer;r;es wcahhy. The population was n cosmo In these operations, they functioned like retreated to Celncnae and fortified the politan mix of Phrygians, Lydi:lIls, the modern wholesalers who provide citadel) When Alexander the Great Cappadocians, Pisidians, Grceks, Jews, smaller quantities of goods to retailers. invaded Asia, Celaenac, not a Greek and Romans. The Jews had been settled The distinctive wooden shipping chests colonial city, resisted his a!!ack unti I he there by Antiochus I, probably when he of Apamea became famous throughout offered very generous terms to the in founded the city around 270 B.C. They Asin. Barclay V. Head, ill his work habitants. It then became Al exander's had corne as garrison soldiers, ci vii ser Historia NUII/QrulI/, tells us that the military base, where he prepared for the vants, and royal administrators from nickname for the city of Apamea was drive into the heart of the Persia n Em Babylon. A second, larger group of '"the Chest~.5 Other historians and nu pire. Jews was brought to Aparnea by mismatic scholnrs translate the Greek Afler the death of Alexander, Antiochus III the Great, sometime be word for chest, kibotos, as "ark". Strubo, Celaenae came under the rule of the fore 188 B.C. Joscphus, the Jewish! the Greek historian and geographer, 64 Seleukids of Syria. Antiochus I, 280- Roman historian, tells us in his work B.C. - A. D. 21, in his work Geography, 261 B.C., built a new cit y in the valley Amiquilies 0/ the Jews that Antiochus is the first to mention the nickname of below the citadel of Celaenae, and na med scttled 2,000 Jewish families from Apamea as kibotos, which in the En it Apamea, after his mother Apame, a Babylon in Lydia and Phrygia. This fact glish translation of his work is usunlly Syrian princess. It was at this city, in may explain the appearance of large given <"IS "The Ark".6 193 B.C., that Antiochus III negoti3ted communities of Jews in the cities of The Noah coin reverse may have with the Romans who supponed the Antioch, Delos, Sardes, and Ephesus. appeared as a direct resull of all these kingdom ofPergamum, thcnat wa r with These selllers were given special privi histo ri cal circumstances. The Jewish the Se!eukids. After his defeat at the leges, including tax exemptions for ten settlers of 188 B.c. arrived at a ci ty in bmlleofMagnesia, 189 B.C.,Antiochus years, and permitted to use their own which a multitude of pagan gods were returned 10 Apamea 10 sign the humili customs, laws, and religion.4 worshipped. These Jews were the de ating peace terms dict,lIed by the The later Roman city of Apamea scendants of the Judacans who had been Romans. Apamea then fell under the functi oned as a commercial cente r for takc n as hostages to Babylon by rule of Pergamulll, Rome's a ll y, and in the trade caravans coming from the Far Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C., and then 133 B.C., the last king of Pergamum East to Greece and Rome. The mer released by King Cyrus in 539 B.c. bequeathed his country, including c hnnts of Apnmea specialized in These exiles had not returned toJudaea, Phrygia, to Rome. purchasing bulk goods in ba les and camel but preferred to remain in Persia, where No Need For Any Further MedItatIon! The BEST standard one-volume catalog of Roman Imperial Coins is... 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June 1992 21 they prospered. They had staunchly King Artaxcrxes in 445 B.C., and was communal sense of humor when they preserved th e ir re ligious beliefs scm to govern jerusalem with another honored the ni ckname of the ci ty, "the throughout tllCBn byloninn cnpti vily, nnd group of Jews. Chcst", on these coins by dcpicti ng still manngcd to be loynllo the pngnn The Jew ish selliers at Apamea con Noa h's tlrk as an Apamcan packing kings who ruled over them. By re Ii nued the evol ut ionary, adapli ve process chest, complcte with an open lid. strucluring their religious riluflls and of Iheir ancestors, and, in order 10 eSlab The scholars, studying Ihe det ails of pr,lcl ices, Ihese Babylonian Jews lish some hi storiCal con nection or rOOts the coin, claim that the re verse was adnpted to the pnntheistic society in 10 their new homelflnd, cJflimed Ilwt the probably copied from a famous wall which they lived, yet remained fnithful hill behind th e city WflS Ararnt, the place painting in the city, perhaps located in to the One God. Some of them rose 10 where Noah's ark came 10 resl after Ihe the main synagogue) They interpret high positions. The prophel Ezrn, who deluge. This gave them a powerful the scene as Noah and his wife in the led fI grou p of exilesbnck toJudaea, was myth to counteract the pagan legends ark, and then, to represent a lalcr time, a scribe, and probably an official in the flbou t Zeus, Apollo, Athena, and Mflry as, Noah and his wife again, on dry land at king's court. Nehemiah of the Bible which encompassed thc society in the left. This arti stic device of duplicat was n "cup bearer", a Iype of advisor, to Apamca. They also revealed their ing figu res to record the passage of time is used frequently in Greek and Roman art. However, because the fi gure of Noah on dry land is portrayed as an elderly man with a beard, and th e man in Ihe ark appears as a beardless youth, I would suggest that the man and woman in the ark represent the "twO and IWO, Bank Leu Ltd Zurich male and female" that God commanded Noah to take on board the ark. The Numismatics depiction of this "two of each species" concept would have been more com ~ plete and satisfyi ng had the artist shown animals on the ark, but he probably could not differentiate between male and female beasts in his art work as easily as he could with humans. The influential Jewish community of Apamea supported the Judaean re volt f1gainst the Romans in the First Jewish War, A.D. 66-70. For thi s, they lost all their specia l, historic pri vileges, but the em perors Vespasian and Titus wou ld nOI al low thelll 10 be persecuted, and con fi nned their full rights as Roman citizens.8 The community continued to prosper, and struck their Noah's ark coins up 10 at least A.D. 253. The Jews in Apamea obviously had a hand in choosing the Noa h's ark design. Ac cording to the historians, twO of the magistrates named on the coins have Jewi sh-Greek 11 ames.9 T hese are Artemas on coins struck under Septimius Severus, and Alexander on those of Philip I. Every year we have an auction of very important ancient coins Thc Apamean Jews' traditi onal in spring. adaplion to local custom and religious We issue occasiona/lists. prn cliccs eventua II y eroded Iheir strong Our stock ranges from Hemitartemoria to Dekadrachmai, and commitment to judaism. When ap- from Ouadrantes to Multiple Aureus Medallions. We actively buy and sell at all price levels. The advertisers on these pages support your journal. Support them and say you saw it in Bank Leu Ltd In Ga ssen 20 GH-800 1 Zurich Switzerland Telephone (from the US) 011 41 12192406 Te/efax 0114112193306 'Tfie Cefator 22 The Gelator pointed magistrates, the Jews Alexander and Artemas would have also become the priests of the Imperial cuI!, leading the people of Apamea in the worship of the emperor. This is a clear indication Ihm some of the more prominent mem bers or the Jewish community had completely assimilated. Eventually, some of the Jews of Apamea became pagans, and many adopted the early Jewish-Christian rel igion which was brought to the communities in Asia by the Apostles. These converts paved the way for the great spread of Christianity in the Roman world. The last vcstige of thc Jewish congregation of Apamea is a noor mosaic of a synagoguc. It was di scovered under a church whieh had been built ovcr the earlier synagogue structu re. The mosaic contains an in scription in Greek text that gives the name of the person who donated the noorin the year A.D. 391. 10 Within 100 years of this date, the Jewish commu nity of Apamca faded away, but the r coins depicting Noah's ark remain as a monumenl 10 their lengthy and very special history in Gracco-Roman Asia Minor. The reverse of a later Noah coin, a bronze 28mm struck under Philip I, A. D. 244-249. The inscription around the edge and below the ark gives NOles and Bibliography: the name of the magistrate, Alexander. Von Aulock 8347. 1 Helle/listie Civiliz.ation, by W.W. Tarn, Me ridian Books,Cleveland, 1965,p. 269. 2 The coins arc illustrated in several refer· ences. The best known is the one on page 667 of Historia NI/marum , by Barclay V. fine Roman Coins -Reasonable Prices Head. SeealsoGreck Imperial Cains and Their Va/lies, by David R.Sear,No. 4327, or COinso/the Bible, by Marlin Price, p. 7. Also Sylloge Num orum Graecorum, Vall Au/od, 35 13,8347,8348, and An· cient Greek and Roman Coins, by G.F. Hill, Argonaut Library, Chicago, 1964, ~T£RlON p.170. Ancient Nutnismaticsj l1C. 3 The Persiall Expedition, by Xenophon, Book I, Chapler 2, p. 60, translated by Rex Warner, Penguin Classics, London, u.ee or- wrikfbrfee Ftuv. 1949. 4 Allfiqllities o!theJews, Josephus, Book Jerry Mason 575 Pelham Road. NE XII , Chapler Ill, 4, transla ted by Wm . Whiston,John C. Winston Co., Philadel 404-872-4 510 Atlanta, Georgia 30324 phi a, 1899. 5 His/aria NI/morum, A /I1(/llua/ 0/ Greek NUlliismatics, by Barclay V. Hend, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 19 t I, p. 666. 6 71Ie Geogrophy oj Strabo, Book 12, Chapler 8, 3, translated by H.L Jones, STEPHEN M. HUSTON Loeb Classical Library, Harvard, 1933, Crass ica{ 'J..(j lmLs rna tis t Vol. V, p. 505. 7 Cities and Bishoprieso/Phrygia, byW.M. Post O rrice Hox 193621 Ramsay, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1896, San Fr:lIlcisc(), CA 94 11~-J62 1 USA pp.669·675. 8 Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, as · 4 15 · 78 1-7580 · above, p. 669. 9 Cities and BishopriCS oj Phrygio, as above, p. 669. OFfiCI! O~ H)I RY A~~()INTIot~~T O.~LY 10 The Synagogue, by Brian de Brcffny, Weidenfield and Nicolson, London, 582 MII"')(F.T STIIEf:T ' Sll.~ F~ II ;;c t $CO 1978, p. 38. June 1992 23 A.C.C.S. and CNA take part in Spring NY Int'l Coming Events •••• The New York Spring International scheduled for June 25-27th has been May 31 • Jun. 2 Superior Auction sold out, and will have a total of 62 tables 9478 W. Olympic Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA and 70 attending firms at the show. Jun.4-7 l ong Beach Expo Reduced rate rooms at the Roosevelt Long Beach Cony. Grr" Long Beach, CA Hotel are still available for $99 a day for Jun.6 London Coin Fair either a single or a double. Reservations Cumberland Hotel, London should be made directly with the hotel at (212) 661·9600. Inform the hotel that you Jun.11-12 Lanz Auction are associated wi th the NY Spring Maximi/ianspJatz 10, Munich International, and the you wish the Jun. 12 -13 Craig A. Whitford Auction rennovated ro oms which have been set Lansing, MI aside for the event. Jun. 13 Elsen Auction Show hours are from noon to 7 on Avenue de Tervueren 65, Brussels Thursday. and 10·7 on Friday and Jun. 19 - 21 18th Annual Prescott Coin Club Show Saturday. The show is limited to non· Ponderosa Plaza Ma ll, Prescott, AZ U.S. material, including foreign. ancient, and medieval coins, or U.S. coins prior to Jun.24 Christie's Auction 1815. Foreign paper money, tokens, and 502 Park Avenue, NYC medals will also be available. Jun. 25 - 27 N.Y. Spring International An auction of ancient coins will be Roosevelt Hotel, NYC held by Classical Numismatic Auctions J un.26 CNA XXI on Friday, June 26th, at 6 pm at the hotel. Roosevelt Hotel, NYC The auction is open to the general public. J ul. 24 - 26 Mid-America Show David Sear, noled author on ancient coins MECCA Center, Milwaukee, WI and founderof A.C.C.S., an authentication service for ancient coins. will also be Aug.B-l 0 Florida Show manning a table at the show. Twin Towers Hotel, Orlando, FL For further information. contact Dr. Aug. 12- 16 ANA Convention Arnold A. Saslow. P.O. Box 374, South Orange County Com. err., Orlando, FL Orange, NJ 07079 or call (201) 761· 0634. ALL $15.00 AND UNDER - SPRING SPECIALS!! 100 BOOKS ON CLASSICAL COINAGE - MANY REDUCED BELOW COST!! (Over $100 deduct 10%, over $200 deduct 15%) - BUY ENTIRE LIST DEDUCT 25%!! GREEK Kanl. Wu nh 01 ROIIl.In Wcffd $15.00 Be'ry. 1A9d~ •• , £"iI'i.M J e'O 24 The Celalor SUPERIOR ANNOUNCES A MAIL BID SALE Included in the June issue of MoneyTalks is a mail bid auction of ancients. Closing Date is June 30. Send for our FREE Catalog by using the coupon below. Alexander the Great Philip II Tetradrachm Gold Stater Vologases V Tetradrachm Leo III the lsaurian Claudius As Nero Sestertius Gold Solidus Money Talks also features: Superior Galleries • The Doug Daniels Collection of Columbian Exposition A Division of Superior Stamp & Coin Co., Inc. memorabilia, featuring over 300 lots of paper items, 9478 W. Olympic Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA tokens, medals, and other exonumia. (310) 203-9855 or (800) 421-0754 • Over 1000 lots of World Gold coins, Crowns, and FAX (310) 203-0496 Minors featuring many scarce and important pieces. :send' me' {tie' June' Money rai ks' Maii sid 'Issue ...... j at NO CHARGE. (Coupon required.) • U.S. and Foreign Stamp Bid or Buy section. Purchase , stamps for the price listed or bid the amount you are iName ______willing to pay. . • Oriental Art and Jewelry section. An interesting : Address ______selection worthy of careful examination. Featuring glass and stone pieces and 14K gold. City ______State _ ZIP _~ • Olympic memorabilia featuring almost 100 items, HomePhone ______~ including paper objects, medals, and even an Olympic Torch . Business Phone ...... " June 1992 25 CMNS members visit McMaster Coin Room Twelve members of the Classical & Coin Room activities include numismatic lectures and workshops. Medieval Numismatic Society recently seminars wi th graduate and under· When several private collections of visited the McMaster University Coin graduate studen ts, which relate cl assical coins were offered on loan to Room in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. numismatics to their particula r studies, the university, itwas decided to combine Bruce R. Brace, HonoraryCuratorof the and to see coins in their historical, these with McMaster's collecti on and Coin Room and President of CMNS, religious, mythologi cal , artistiC, house them in the Art Gallery. The described the orig ins 01 the McM aster archaeological and sociological Coin/Print Room opened in 1982. collection, and its importance as a contexts. Worksh ops are held in which The Classical and Medieval teaChin g aid to the classical and other students handle ancient coins, learn to Numismatic SOCiety is a non· profit relevant departments of the university. identify them, and obtain guidance in educational society whose members The numismatic section of Ihe using numismatic re sources for research include collectors, historians, students, university's extensive library was also purposes. External visits to schools and others interested in ancient and visited by the group. and presentations to classes, special medieval coinage and history. The Members were given a first hand exhibits to support meetings of scholarly Society's objective is the study, research look at the Coin Room collections, which organizations, and themalic exh ibits and publication 01 information, and to include ancient Greek, Roman and changed several ljmes a year are also further the education of its members, Byzantine coins. The collection is also pari of regular Coin Aoom activities. regardless of their level of knowledge. composed of medieval European and While the McMaster Un iversity Art The Society publishes a bi.monthly Is lamic coins, early Canadian tokens, GaUery long possessed the nucleus of a newsletter, The Anvil, and an annual British portrait coins, Chinese cash, collection of ancient coins and artifacts, publication, The Picus. For further infor French Min t medals, and Canadian il was only in 1980 that the Depa rtment mation, please write to The Executive Numismatic Association medallions. of Classics sponsored a series of Secretary, CMNS, P.O. Box704, Station S, Willowdale, Ontario, Canada M2K 2P9, Of phone (416) 494-8670. 'tafilcs in Minerva features article On forgeries ~umismllfits The current issue of Minerva maga· zine (May/J un e 1992) features a Justis Lipsius comprehensive and enlightening article, by Dr. Jerome M. Eisenberg, about an d. before 1611 cient art forgery. Written !rom an art Lipsius was not only a renowned 16th historian's point of view, KThe Aesthet ics of the Forger" lists and explains 30 century humanist and slOic phil~ distinct elements which often betray the osophcr, but a Iso an avid numismatist. work of a forger. Allhough the article is He t:lught Philology at the University oriented mainly toward antiquities, the of Louvain, and was the imc)lCClllal basic premise and Ihe points of evalua leader of 11 distinguished group of tion are equally va lu able for collectors young classicists whi ch included the brothers Phi Iip and Peler Paul Rubens, as well of coins, or any other form of art. as Jan Wovcrius. Lipsius edited the complelC works of Seneca, which was Among the details discussed are: published post hu mously (Amwcrp, 1652) in a single volume. He also wrote Incongruous and extraneous elements; important treatises (Conslal!tia) espousing the sloic philosophy of the Romans. Disparity in degree of abstraction of Li psius authored sevcrnlnurnismalic tilles, building on Ihe work of hi s colleague elements; Misunderstanding of style : Abraham O neil ius. The earliest works of Lipsius are dated in 1592 (Lugdullum) The inlluence of current style on the and 1593 (AIlIWCrp), in addition loa dissertat ion on Roman scstertii (Rome, 1600), forger; and Synthesis of elements. and a final work published in 1608. His lise of numismat ics to study and elucidate Eisenberg points out that art col1ec· Roman hi story wa s a major influence in thc development of this field a~ an integral tors often want to believe in the part of classical scholarship. Justis Lipsius is not to be confused with Johann authenticity of a work, and therefore tend to accept it before categorizing it. Godfrey Lipsius (1754-1820), whose Bibliography ofNllmismatic Books Printed According to Ihe author, the converse is B('for(' 1800 is all inv:l luable aid, even today, for collectors and bibliophiles. the appropriate approach. T his feat ure is provided co urtesy of Geo rge Frederick Ko lbe To obtain acopy of this issue write to Fine Nu mismatic Books, Crestline, CA 92325 Minerva, 7 Davies St.london W1 Y 1ll, England or call (44) 71 4952590. 26 The Celator Art and the Market Sotheby's London sale featured rare ancient coins and Italian Renaissance medals The coin sale held on April 9-10 by realized £8,600. The beautiful medal of Sotheby's in London was deemed Gian l udovico Battaglia, done by the successful in virtually all areas, grossing Venetian medalist and sculptor Danese just over £: 1 million, with 93% of the lots Cattaneo, and illustrated on the cover of sold. Despite the current economic the sale catalogue, brought£5,OOO, while recession the auction fared extremely the medal of Pope Alexander VI Borgia well, with an international audience of realized £6,500, both conservatively buyers in the room. estimated at £1·1 ,500. Amongst the English coins a superb example 01 a King Olla non·portrait penny from the Canterbury mint sold for £1,850. It had been recently excavated in England. Prices quoted lor individual lots include a 10% buyers' premium. For fu rther details of this and future coin sales in london, please contact Tom Solidus of Helena realized f28,ooo Eden. Coin Department, Sotheby's, 34- Bronze medal of Pope Alexander VI 35 New Bond Street, l ondon W1 A2AA, (1492- 1503) realized £6,500. Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins England; phone (07 1) 408 531 3. started 011 the sale, and were highlighted by the extremely rare solidus 01 Helena, mather o! Constantine the Greal, which Rare medieval coins highlight Elsen auction sold for £28,000 against an estimate of £20-25,000. Helena was thelounder ol Jean Elsen's Auction No. 25 will be 11 , as well as a "franc a pied" 01 Charles the True Cross, and was cannonized by held in the firm's offices in Brussels on V. A denarius of Rouen in the name of the Church after her death in ci rca A.D. June 13th. It will cons ist almost entirely Hug hes and a gold florin of Raymond IV 328. The Greek coins of Olympia. struck of coinage of the Middle Ages and d'Orange are notable among the French in association with the ancient games modern limes. feudal coinage. (and being sold in theyearof the current The morning session will open with Medieval England is represented by modern games), attracted interest, with 57 coins of the Crusaders. Two very a penny of Cnul of Northumbria and an a stater of circa 460 B.C. selling for nice Visigothic tremisses are featured, extremety rare penny of Harold I. Other £3,000, and a drachm of the same period in the lypes of Justinian I and Justin I. rare items in the auction include two l ombard tremisses, a denarius of the realized £2,700. A collection of coins of An interesting collection of Carolingian denarii will also be offered for sale. Vatican struck by Nicolas I and lOUIS II , Trajan was keenly sought after by Among them. a denarius of Brugge and and an extremely rare florin minted at Spanish buyers - Trajan was born in an obol of Chelles are prominen1. Plock for Wenceslas. Spain. An au reus shOwing Trajan's Several Bohemian coins of high quality Modern coinage is featured in an Forum as a reverse type sold for £2,200. are included. with a denarius of Jaromir afternoon session. The auction There was selective bidding for the being the most interesting item. concludes with tokens and medals, Islamic coins, leaving the setal Umayyad German coinage is highlighted by a books, and auction catalogues. dinars from AH 78 to 132 unsold. The denarius minted at Dortmund for Otto Catalogues are available from Jean Abbasid dinar of al-Mu'tadid struck at Ill, and one minted al Worms in the Elsen, S.A.. Avenue de Tervueren 65, Makka realized £6,300. name of Henry IV. French gold includes 8·1040 Brussels, Betgium; phone (02) Perhaps the most unusual aspect of an ReCUR and a "franc a cheval" of Jean 734 63 56, fax (02) 735 77 78. the auction was the section of Italian Renaissance medals, many of which came from the impotlant collection formed by Hermann Vogel (1841·1917). Q UOTES FROM THE PAST Great interest was shown, not only from medal collectors, but also Irom buyers "Faith is to believe what you do not se e; of European works of art and old master the re ward of this faith is to see what you believe. " paintings, as well as national institutions. The exceptional silver medal of the S. Aurelius Augustinus, c. A.D. 60 ·charlatan" Girolamo Scotto by Abondio June 1992 27 Memphis exhibit depicts Etruscan daily life On Friday, May 1st, a display of these antiquities have been on display featured, along with various funerary Etruscan artifacts tilled MThe Etruscans: in the United States. implements. A recorded tour and various legacy of a Lost Civilization" opened at Beginning with a model city gate, panels along the way give historical the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis, visitors can view displays of objects details about the lives of the Etruscans. Tennessee. The exhibit demonstrates used by Etruscan women, a life size The Pink Palace Museum is located everday life of the ancient cUlture. house fayade, a depiction of home life, at 3050 Central Avenue in Memphis. Consisting of 178 artifacts from Etruscan and artifacts used by Etruscan men for Museum hours are 9-8 daily, with adult tomb excavations, the Etruscan display farming, hunting, and fishing. An ticket prices of $7. More information will be open until August 31 sl. Etruscan banquet scene is made up of may be obtained by calling (BOO) 489- The artifacts featured are on loan various tomb murals, and has banquet 7465 for oul of lown inquiries. from the Gregorian Etruscan Museum utensils and antiquities on display. in the Vatican. The museum has Concluding the exhibit is a model collected Etruscan art since the early Etruscan tomb, complete with slone lions Lanz holds two 19th century. This is the first time that at the entrance. Astone sarcophagus is session auction Numismatic Lanz of Munich conducting a public auction of ancient," Guide to Biblical Coins by David Hendill medieval, and modern coins June 11· Hardcover. 224 pages. 16 pages plates. values, cleaning coins. 12. The ancient session contains 1025 detectin g IOfgeries. much more. 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E.~tab1i she d customers will be invoiced with the shipment of coins; IleW customers ure requested to provide refercnces from othcr ancient coin dealers, or to pay in advullce. FRANK L. KOVACS - P.O. Box 25300, San Mateo, CA 94402 PHONE (415) 574·2028 FAX (415) 574-1995 No. $ No. $ 3 125 Bosporus, Phanagoria. AE 21. Artemis/stag. F+ 315 10 Troas. Ab ydos. AE 20. Apollo/eagle. VG 4 175 -, -. AE 24. Apollo/bow & quiver. F+ A 315A 85 -, -. AE 22. Artemis, turreted/eagle. VG 5 60 CoJchis.Dioscurias. AE 17. pileVthrysos. aF 316 15 -, -. AE 13. FaCing hd/eagle. VG 78 30 Paphlagonia. Amastris. AE 20. GorgoofNike. F 317 150 -, -. AE 24. Artemis/stag. F+ 83 65 - . Cromna. AE 16 Tyche{amphora. F+ 3\8 20 -, -. AE 12. ArtemiS/ea9Ie. F .. 86 45 - . Sesamus. AE 15. Zeus/Artemis hd. F .. 320 5 -. Ale~andria Troos. AE 10. Apollo/Apollo. VG 87 60 -. Sinope. AE 30. Zeus/eagle. F 321 5 -, -. AE 16. Apollo/horse. aF 88 25 -, - AE 17. Zeus cmk Hermesfeagte. aF 322 45 -. -. AE 17. Apollo/horse. aVF 89 10 - , -. AE 23. Area/sword in sheath. aF 346 35 -, Assus. AE 12. Female hd./bull's hd. F+ 90 150 -, -. AE 29. Athena/Perseus. F+ 348 20 -. -. AE 15. Athena/griffin. aF 125 - , -. AE 17. Perseus/cornucopia & pilei. VF 349 20 -, -. AE 14. Athena/griffin. VG 95 375 -. Pylamaenes. AE 22. Herakles/Nike. aVF 351 200 -. Birylus. AE 19. Kabeieros/club, VF+ "99 20 Bithynia, Apamae. AE 19. Athena/bull. F 352 10 -, -. AE 11. as tast. VG/F 110 85 Bit hynia, Cius. AE 25. Herakles/ctub & bowcase. F 353 35 -, Cebren. AE 9. Male hd./monogram. F 115 250 - ,Dia. AE 21. ZeuS/eagle. EF 354 25 -, -. AE to. 2 ram's hds./monogram. F 11. 75 - , Heraclea. AE 19. Herakles/lion. F .. 355 35 -, -. AE 10. Male hd./ram's hd. aVF 117 125 -, -. AE 19. Herakles/ctub & bowcase. aVF 357 65 -,Dardanus. AE 15. Horseman/cock. F+ 198 30 Prusias I. AE 27. Apotto cmkd/winged Athena. aF 358 65 -, -. AE 16. Zeus/horseman. F+ 199 65 - Prusias II . AE 17. Apolloflyre. aVF 360 50 - , Gargara. AE 19. Ap ollo/horse. aVF 201 75 - AE 22. Oionysos/centaur. VF 361 20 AE 12. As last. F" A 201A 75 - AE 15. Hermes/caduceus. VF 3.2 25 -, -. AE g. As last. aF A 2018 45 -. AE 13. Athenaltrophy. aVF 363 45 -, Gergis. AE 12. Hd./sphin~. F 202 35 - . AE 29. Athenil/Nike. aF 364 75 -, Hamaxitus. AE 16. ApollO/lyre. F 203 325 Mysia. Adramyteum. 365 45 -, Ilium. AE 20. Athena/Athenn stg. F+ AE 20. Apollo/cornucopia. pilei. VG 10 -, -. AE 12. Athena /Athena stg. VG 238 125 -, Gambrium. AE 18. Apollo/star. aVF "6375 15 -, Neandria. AE 11. Apollo/wheat grain. aF 239 45 -, -. AE 16. Apollo/star. F 376 15 -, -. AE 20. Apollo/horse. VG 240 60 - , -. AE 12. ApotlO/bul1. VF+ 378 10 -, Scepsis. AE 10. PegasoS/tree. VG/F 252 30 - , 1001a. AE 21. Athenajforepart pegasos. aF 379 65 -, -. AE 17. PegasoS/fir tree. F A 254A 60 -. Lampsacus. AE 11. Helmet/pegasos. F+ 381 10 -, Sigeum. AE 18. Athena/OWl. VG 255 35 -, - AE 9. Helmot/pegaso s. F 383 45 -, -. AE e. Athena/crescent. F .. 256 35 - , - AE 14. Facing Apollo/pcgosos. VG 384 35 -, Zeleia. AE 13. Artemis/stag. F+ 257 125 -, - AE 15. Zeus/ pegasos. F 38' 6 Classical Greek, Greek Imperial, Roman, Byzantine, Medieval Coins and Antiquities Numismatic Literature Fixed Price Lists Auctions Free sample catalog upon request We maintain one of the most active publishing and show schedules Send us your want list for our prompt attention "Quality Coins for Discriminating Collectors" Subscri ptions arc available LO our publications: $30 in the US and $45 for foreign addresscs. Subscription includes our quarLCrly fixed price lists, auc tions, and supplements OIl Medieval coins, antiquities, and books Pegasi Coins P.o. Box 4207, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Visa & MasterCard Postpaid. IS-day relum period. Phone: (313) 434-3856 ~ June 1992 29 Historical evidence points to Tourette's syndrome as the cause of Claudius' unusual behavior with a handsome frtce. a fine head of by George M. BlIrdell, M.D. white hrtir and rt firm neck". Further more, Clrtudius was of superior intellect. Because of his early deprivation of a The emperor Claudius, the fourth \0 public life, he composed many li tera ry rute Rome, succeeded \0 the thronc after works, including a twenty vol ume his the assassination o f Cal igu!a in A. D. 41, tory of the Etruscans and an eight volume at the age of fifty. Hi s coinage is popu hi story of Carthage, which were wel1 lar 10 aficioll 30 The Celator vast cmpire, who invokes ridi cule bc suffcrers to indulge in more complex hc would onen ordcr executions on very ca use of his unpredictable and voca li zat ions, as opposed to the sharp scant grounds. Pcrhaps some of his inappropriate verbalizations and tics. barks, grunts, and coprolalia, which do irritability was duc to the constant pro He is misunderstood by his famil y, and not seem to be ascribed specificall y 10 miscuityofhis wifc,Messalina. Onone considered a fool, discriminated against Claudius (though the fa ct lhat his re occasion she cngagcd in a contcst with for years before finally being able 10 marks "would have come ill from a a notorious prostitute to see who could demonstrate his underlying worth. This private citizen" suggests that some co ~entertain " the most men in one eveni ng. is highly suggestive of a diagnosis of prolalia may indced have been prescnt). The empress won. Subsequently, she Tourette's syndrome. Thi s syndrome The historians also found it notable to publicly married while hcr husband was has come to more prominence both re mark on Claudius' compulsive cating, out of the city. She was executed for her medica ll y and in the popular press in gambling, and womanizing habits. troubles, as was hcr bridegroom. recellltimes. It is charactcri zed prima The emperor also showed signs of The unfortunate sequel to this was rily by bizarre tics and movcments, and im pulsi veness and irritability, which can that Claudius marricd his niecc Agrip most people are aware of the tendency be associated featuresofTourellc's. Of pina, and adopted hcr son by a previous of victi ms to use "four letter" expletives course, one would also wonder how marriage. Perhaps worn out by the (a symptom known as coprolalia) in much of a mental tolilhe affliction look, disabilitics and stigma attached to his tota ll y inappropriate si tuations. It can and how much irritability would ari sc Tourette's, his judgcment was fai ling in cause a great deal of distress for its from simpl e frustra ti on. The emperor his latcr years. In any event, aflcrdining sufferers, who arc oftcn socially ostra secmed 10 be very irasci blc later in his on poisonous mushrooms provided by ci zed because of people's lack of reign, delighting in executions and ])tll\ his wife, thc cmperor died miscrably ill understanding of the condit ion. ishi ng supposcd sl ights ra t her arbi trari Iy A .D. S4 at the age of 64 years. This lcft Claudius' ties were primarily of the and severely. Hespent much time in the the way clear for the "cnlightcncd" rule head and neck, the most common loca law courts, and it was feh thai his ver of his adoptcd son Nero. ti on in Tourellc's, affecting 94% and di cts wcre sometimes ralhcr impulsive, 9 1 % of sufferers respecti vely in these sometimes being very wise and some Bi bliography: Th t Twtlvt Catsars, by Suetonius. areas. Stu ttering and stammering arc times frivolous. For example, on one n MThe Trea tment of Tourette's Syndrome , noted to be secn in 20% of Tourette's occasion, a woman refuscd to acknowl byT.J. Murray, 11,e Nova Scotia Medical patients, occurring because of thoracic, edgematemityofheradult son. Claudius Bul/nin, October, \983. abdominal, or di aphragmatic muscle suggested that they the refore be married Th t Twelve Caesars, by Michael Grant. contract ions. The emperor's bizarre on the spot, at which poi nt it became Th t Emperor Claudius, by Vincent M. and inappropriate commentS fit in wilh cvident that the woman was in fact the Scaramuzza. the compulsive need in some Tourettc 's young lad 's mother. On the othcr hand, Coin Auction! Order Your Catalog Today! l' h ~ NBD Bank Money Museum Collection Numismatic Public & Mail Bid Sale June 12-13, 1992 Featuring . .. 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You'll now get as told to Bob Levy dius denarii, who were observing the a laSleof what an ancien! coin reunion is goings-on from their vantage poi nt in like - from the coin's point of view. the corner of the room. The room re This was the second ni ght of our T he crowd was becoming preny sounded with the musical ta lellts of"The wee kend reunion extravaganza. The boislcrousat the "Ancient Roman Ju l10- Muse Brothers", who were performing firsl night had been quite different. In Claudian Era Coinage Reunion". As some old hits from twO millennia ago. the absence of tables, the coins had all might be expected, the various groups As for myself, l'm a Brutus denarius taken il upon themselves 10 mi ngle and of coins tended \0 slick to themselves. from 42 s. c., exhibiting a portrait of the roll about the room. Coins struck for The Julius Caesar various individuals portrait dellari i and different de were at one table. cades of st rike in Tiley, of course, fel t this l20-yearpcriod more important of history fr eely than the nOll-por mixed with one an trait Issues of othe r, exchanging Caesar, who we re stories of historical together al ,mOl her events that they had lable. The coins of witnessed over the Tibcrius, conSisti ng years, how they Ill A :;;rnall, though rca sonnbly well to be optimistic. An austere and More impressive is the scowl ing, preserved bronze coin became part of responsible ruler, Pertinax immediately bearded portrait of Pertinax, distin the historical record with the publication embarked on a plan of agricultural and guished by his chara cteristic heavy brow. of Alex O. Mall oy, Inc.'s special Thedecae!e of issue of this important 730-101 i Ilustraled auel iOIl cala logue piece is also s ubstantiated by its of Greek Imperial coinage. A rare similarity, both in module and in emperor even fo r Ihe common Roman reverse type, to Rosenberger- IS. The Imperial series, th e local Greek latter, readers should note, is listed in coinage of Perlinax 's In -day reign is that work under Nero in error, and in practical ly unknown on Ihe all likelihood bears the portrait of num ismatic markel . Septimius Severus. The reverse de· An Itnlinn, Pcrtinnx was 66 36 The Celator SUPERIOR ESTABLISHES MORE WORLD RECORDS! Our recent Bromberg Collection of Jewish Coins, Part I, blasted the former price levels of Jewish Coinage, including: Lot 56 realized $242,000 Lot 62 realized $253,000 World record for a Jewish coin (until Lot 62) World record for a Jewish coin Lot 79 reallzed $79,750 Lot 126 realized $44,000 World record for a Bar Kokhba tetradrachm World record for a year one Bar Kokhba denarius June 1992 37 Antiquities The Piazza Armerina mosaics Part 1: the discovery by David Liebert It's not oftcnlhm an ancient Roman emperor and a modem dictator are jointly responsible for an archaeological find, but it happened in the late 1930's in Italy. The year was 1937, and Mussolini was searching for ways to solidify his power and enhance the prestige ofltal y. Coincidentally, it was the two thou sandth anniversn ry of the birth of Augustus Caesn r in 63 B.c. Mussolini decided 10 honor the event, and link himself to Italy's Imperial Roman past, by placing special funds in the hands of archaeOlogists, whose projects wou ld "illustrate the Imperialtrnditions of the Fatherl nnd". Although rich mosaics we re known 10 cxistllear the Sicilian village of Pi azza Armerina si nce the lat e 19th century, when traces of the remains were A mosaic discovered in the excavations at Piazza Armerina. unea rt hed, nOi much in the way of seri ous modem excavation had ta ken place. Despite the fact that the ru incd villa which housed the mosaics had nothing to do wi th Augustus, funds were al1o The Time Machine Company cated on the theory that the si te was is always ea ger to aid beginning col/ec/ors with moderately priced coins and likely to yield important arti stic fi nds. antiquities. Call David Liebert direct to discuss your interests and needs. Between 1937 nnd 1939 (when WW II abruptly stopped the excavations), seve ra l new mosaics were unearthed, A grou p of including a brilliant scene of animals on ly 5 Greek being herded aboard sh ips bound for miniature Rome. Mussolin i never lived tosee thc pottery vessels, full fruits of what he sta rted, however, c. 4th century because it was not until after the warthat the re3i importance of the sile was re B. C. All EF vealed. With the death of II Duce's and intact. dreams, not to mention the death of II Most with Duce himself, it seemed likely that the floral or excavations in Pi azza Armerina wou ld be abandoned, and the site once again geometric relegated to a local curiosity. paint. The archaeologists, however, sus pected that much more was yet to be $225 each found. They poimed out to the govern mem that if more of the interesting We have many more interesting antiquities and ancient coins in stock. mosaics were unearthed, the site would If you are nor on our mailing list, you are missing some ol/he best buys in become an important tourist attraction. ancient art. Send for your free catalog today, For more information contact: Since the post-wnr government was ea ger to foster anything that would bring The Time Machine Co. tourists back to I!aly, they agreed to P.O. Box 282, Flushing Station, continue financing the excavations. Queens, NY 11 367 Wha t the archa eologists hoped to (718) 544-2708 find was the remainsofa Iypical Roman viI In, complete with a few more mosaics 38 The Celator typical of such st ructures. Their fondest hope wasthat one ortwo of these might TRIVIA QUIZ eq ual or even surpass the beauty of the beSt of those already found. Which Roman Emperor, according What they actually uneanhed far to Geoffrey of Monmouth, was the exceeded their wildest expectati ons. In Grandson of "Old King Cole"? th e years immediately following the war, th ey uncovered not a small villa with a (Answer on page 56) few mosaics, but a vast rambling pal ace-like complex built in a style heretofore unknown in Roman architec ture. Wandering over four hills, and r------, covered with a vast array of mosaics, the I / C/ip& Save ~ I si te st retched over an area of about 3500 square yards. Throughout this struclLLre, mosaic i qf Coin File ti!!!!I i Ooors were unea nhed, all of them of archaeological interest, and some of i------,Augustus . them easily classed among the finest ye t found . Hunting scenes abound, with AR - Denarius rea listic depictions of many varicd ani 27 BC - AD 14 mals. Although not all of the mosaics BMC 631 are of equal quality, some, such as the masterpiece depicting the labors of Her C. Octavius was born in 63 B.C .• a great-nephew and adopted heir of Julius cules, rival th e finest mosa ics known Caesar. Following the assasination of Caesar, Octavian consolidated his from antiquity. Whatever the skill in position 01 leadership through a series of military victories, including the defeat execution, the human figures often dis 01 Mark Antony, and cunning political victories over the Republican party. This play recognizable fa cial trai ls, and even action restored stability to Rome after decades of civil war. The title g Augustus· th e depiction of the bod ies is rather was bestowed upon him by the Roman people at the lime of his accession as the pedestrian, an important feature of this lirstemperor of Rome in 27 B.C. Hewas married three times, eventually adopting type of Roman mos.1ic art, as we shall Tiberius, the son of his third wife, Livia, and naming him successor. Augu stus see next month. died at Nota in A.D. 14 at the age of 76. The anepigraphic (no legend) obverse of this coin presents a sensitive portrait of Augustus, while the reverse depicts a front view of the temple of Divus Julius, with the inscription IMP CAESAR on L ______~ the architrave. The advertisers r-;A~;;'~~~; ~ela~.-~~abo... on these pages : : Personality Augustus Sourct: I support your journal. I Denominat ion Denarius Support them I References AtC t.60.266/BMC 63t/Cohen t22 Nllmismatic I I Database (sale) appear. 6 (1979· 1990) Archil'i~s. I and say you saw it in Ave. Weight 3.72 gms P.O. Box 173, I I Ave. Condition about Extremely Fine Lilt/CIOn, C080160 %e Ce£ator I Ave. Price Re alized $1.020 I L ------Correction /0 References for last issue's Coin File: RIC I, 122,55/Cohen 1 .J WHilE DICfAT ING HI. AIITOB IOGRAPH Y, KING ARlJ1 UR INAD VERTA»WI WIN" A pttR~~e. - CAMELOT ->oMETIMf Bt1WtEN 4,0 AND II June 1992 39 Coills of the Bible Full Hasmonean chronology still a mystery Ethnarch by Julius Caesar in 47 s.c., by David Helldill but never held the title "King". Surely Hyrcanus II would have used the impor· tant title "King" if possible. The new reading of a fragment of the Thus, it seems logi cal that the Dead Sea Scrolls adds a lillie more con YON AT AN coins were issued by a ruler fusion to an old numismatic mystery. who simply did not have the right to call We're talking about Ihe continui ng sag:l himself"King". of Ihe ch ronology of Ihe coins of the This coin, with the Hebrew legend Recently, however, a new transla· fami ly Maccabcc, also called ·YEHONA TAN tho King' wa s issued by tion of Dead Sea Scroll fragment 4Q448 Hasmoncans, of ancient Israel in the King Alexander Jannaous (103-76 B.C.). second and first centuries B.C. Recent theories, first published in was king, and we know his Greek mIme th is space [june, 199 1, p. 6J, suggested was Alexander. that Ihe group of coins with the ancient It had previously long been thought Hebrew name YONATAN might have thaI Ihc Ilamc YON AT AN, appearing been issued by John Hyrcanus 11 (67 and on another series of coins, was simply 63-40 B.C.) instead of Aicxnndcr another version of YEHONAT AN Ihnt Jallllllcus ( 103-76 B .C.) as many be omilled severnI leuers. lieved. However, since none of the regulnr A new Dead Sea Scroll 'fagmflnt This possibi li ty was suggcsted based series YONATAN coins cnrry any ref· ttanslation indk;ates tha t this coin with the on the faci that there exist a number of erence to the title "King", it seems tha t Hebrew name YONATAN may well be II coi ns with the Il ame "King A lexander" these could be coins of Hyrca nus 11 , coin of JannaeU8. Other current theon'os on one side, and "YEHONAT AN the whose Hebrew fi rst name is otherwise point to Hyfcanus /I (67 and 63·40 B. C.). King" on the ot her. Theseare delinitely unknown. Hyrcanus II held the title coins of J:mnaeus, since we know he "High Priest oftheJews~, and was named by Ada Yardeni, a Hebrew Uni versity doctoral student in the study of ancient writi ng (paleography), sheds more light - or shall we say more shadow - on Are you interested in the matter. Yardeni has tra nslated the four·by· CHOICE WORLD COINS? six inch Dead Sea Scroll fragment as follows: "Holy city, fo r King Yonatan You should be receiving our publications and all the congregation of your people MORE THAN THREE Israel who are in the four winds of Heaven". MAIL BID CATALOGUES ANNUALLY Thistranslation, The Jerusalem Post recently reported, "was the first refe r· ence ever found in the Dead Sea Scrolls Featuri ng RARE and CHOICE gold and silver coins of 10 a Jewish historical figure". the world as well as ancient co inage an d world paper We know that the reference is to money. A sample catalog ue is $15.00 postpaid. Jannaeus, si nce he was the only one at about the time this scroll waS written Includes Prices Rea lized who had a name like thi s one and the tit le K ing. The re was another YONATA N. the brother of Judah An annual subscri ption is also avai lable. The cost is $45 Maccabee. one of the immediate fam il y within the U. S. and $60 outside the U.S . that liberated Jerusalem from the Greeks. But that YONATAN ru led Judea be· tween 157- 142 B.C. and held only the Ponterio & Associates, Inc. title High Priest, and never the title King. (There is also no possibility that 1818 Robinson Ave. this first YONATAN issued coins wit h San Diego, CA 92103 his name, since the Jewish Ki ngs did not 1-800-854-2888 or 619-299-0400 receive permission to minI thei r own coins unt it the later reign of Antiochus Licensed AIICfioll Company #968 VII , 138-129 s. c.). Richard H. Ponte rio - President L M. #2163 Since scroll fragment 4Q448 refers to Jannaeus wi lh the name YONATAN, 40 The Celator it may mean that both the YEHONATAN and the YONATAN coins we re struck by Jannaeus. JUST FOR BEGINNERS But nOI necessarily. You see, at the by Wayne G. Sayles time th is scroll was written, around the first century B.C., two forms ofwrinen Hebrew were in use. First was the Questions Answers formal "bookhand", and second was a less formal cursive script that was used Why do so many Personally, J have never seen a satisfactory explanation for faster "handwri ting" . This cursi ve Greek Imperial, of this phenomenon. Your observations are en tirely correct, and th ey do indeed discount the traditional theories of a ~cri pt i s especially difficult to read since Ptolemaic, Seleucid lathe lor trimming blanks. The apparatus wh ich you de several pairs o f letters are amazingly and other bronzes scribe is illustrated in an article by David Sellwood in Roman ~ imilar, and sometimes scveral lellcr~ bear small indenta- Crafts, (p. 67) edited by Donald Strong an d David Brown. appea r to combine as onc. tions near the Sellwood explains that the "facing bir was clamped in a In a recent conversation with I srael center of the flan? I hand brace, and th en turned to remove the rou gh edges of M useum Chief Curator o f Archaeol have been told that the flan. He further suggests that the addition of lead to the ogy, Ya'akov M eshorer, he explained alloy weakened grain boundaries, making it easier to trim these are marks o f the metal, and thereby making it po ssible for the blank to tha t the formal H ebrew name for a lathe· like appara rem ain in place through simple friction between the blank l:mnaeus was certainly YEHON A TAN, tus which gripped and Ihe workbench. bUI thai YONAT AN was also used in the flan, leaving the There are a number of problems associated with this the less formal H ebrew - kind of an flan m o re perfectly theory, not the least of wh ich is th e time element involved in planchet preparation. The need for massive issues of abbreviation or diminutive. round. This seems It would seem thm the formal ver bronze coins coutd never have been satisfied by such a not only impracti labor inlensive process. If it were essential to mechanically sion of the King's name would be used cal, but is unsatis remove rough edges, why do we not find the same process on official objects such as coins. One factory because: 1) used on all coins of the period? The indents appear on coins also wonders if a casua l name variation the flans are not separated by 500 years in lime and vast geographical would be used as a formal, royal name p erfectly round, distances. In each case where we find this occurrence, we on ly one genermion later. atso find contemporary coins, even coins from the same 2) the indentations mints, struck without the indentations. It clearly seems not This is JU St the kind of numismatic do no t m atch up to have been done out 01 technical necessity. mystery I like. I also recognize, how between obverse What is certain is that, in particular issues, th is ph enom ever, Ihal this type of information makes and reverse, and enon was directly associated with the production process. many collectors nervous. Collectors, 3) the indentations Whether it was done prior to or aher striking is debatable, and examples may be found to support either hypothesis. after all, tend to be orderly personali aTe o ften far from COins with indentations do not necessarily bear any evi ties, and many hate to have a coin that the center of the ca nnot be labeled with certainty. dence of scraping on Ihe edges, and they are not always flan. Does anyone concentric. Often, the indentations are off center - wh ich I doubt if thm will be possible in the know the answer? means that the lacing bit would have to have been much nearfulure with regard 10 the H asmonean larger than the flan in order to avoid concentric grooves in coins. Ms. Yardeni 's newtranslation of the lield. II the bit were that much larger, what would be the 4Q448 only adds to uncerta inty. purpose of trimming at all? These coins remind me of my childhood, when my I posed th is ques ti on to Ya'akov mother would place a copper penny under th e agitator of her M eshorer: "What do you have to say to wringer washer. The penny served as a bUShing, and when the collectors who are listening to the removed it had a neat liule indentation in the center. II turned new theories with interest and frustra over and replaced, it left an indentation in each side. While tion?" I'm nol implying that these ancient coins were used as Meshorer's response: "In scholarly bushings, it seems likely to me that somehow in the prepa ration or finishing stage they were mechanically rotated. endeavors we often deal with theories The precise reason, however, still remains a mystery. Per that change frolll time to lime because haps one of our readers knows more aboutlhis? of new information. In the ca se of Ihe chronology of the Hasmonean coins, we actllall y solved one important problem, bUI while doing so several others were ffyoll are not already on our Ill:liling list , created ." now is the time to request your free catalog for our I woul d imagine that it might lake another couple o f generations 10 sort all 5th Annual Mail Bid/ Bid Board Auction thi s out. And then again, the chronol held in conjullnion w ith the ogy of the H asmonean coins may be olle of those numismalic problems that will 18th Annual Prescott, AZ Coin Show - June 19-2 1, 1992 si mply defy resolution forever. closes at 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 20 © 1992 by Da vid Hcndin No buyer's fees - Most lots :lffor(l:l.bte for the aver.lge collector (Send questions to David Hendin, P.O. ANCIENT COINS - Michael & Sandra Wolf Box 805, Nyack, NY 10960. Those of general interest will be answered in fu P.O. Box 233, Dewey, AZ 86327 - (602) 772·7 144 ture articles.) June 1992 41 Reference Reviews BOOKS on The COINAGES of GREEK ITALY by Dennis Kroh Dewulg, SNG ANS, SNG Copenhagen and artistic · time~ periods · (fashionable a! the 1heu ore 20 timer more ujutnct works and Gulhenkiall). Due 10 space restraints, the time) rather than dates, which hinders its other booh on Ancie/U Coins available (oday publishd collections (except the BMC) are us efulness. Reprints about 585. than juri twt'nry years ago. Very Jew numis not listed here (bill see YOllr February & marir/s know how to utilize these references. or March /99/ isslles of The CeliJlor). Garrucci *** even whtrt /0 sian looking jor ctrwin iltlns. In 1885 Raffaele Ga rrucci published his "Le Many of these books QU trremial for the mont tt dell '/Ialia all tiea W in response to the collector /0 own, orhers WO f lhy of ont ft!ading lack of illustrations in the BMC. It consists (and are rle"tr again consulltd). and some are Gruk Coins & 77leir Va/lies, Voillme*** / of 188 pages of text and 125 plates, and obm/ell! and pOrltUrou! aueires in f Uriliry. (Europe) actually covcrs Italy prelly wcll, although now very dated (wilh the chronol This momhly column explores most references but thc precious metal coins are listed ogy all but useless), it has its good points. 011 Anciem Coins (by dry-sICU! or tilM period), separately from the base-metal coins, so it is and !ViII fOU them according to their useful Originals very rare, but a reprint is available ness, dariry, iIIUs/rlllions, and QV(lilabiliry, a bit of a hassle 10 use. Many of the from FORNI fo r 135,000 Lire (about $ 120). utilizing a five -slar $)Isiem similar 10 thal uud commonly encountered and most unusual for mollits. TrslIlUm,,'S, and haUls. Prices are items arc included, alth ough the valuations Sambon ***'h a/so given wherevtf (lvi/ill/ble . II is highly given (especially for the JE issucs) leaves "Les monnoies antiquu de I'llalit W by ' t((mv~nde d thaI at least 10% afyour COIlUI much to be desired . In print, but now S50 Arthur Sambon (Paris, 1903) was fo r quite ing budg~1 be im'esttd in coin r~fe r enc~s. (up from $27.50 just a few yeaTS ago). some time utilized as Ihe standard reference for these, and il is still wi dely quoted by Here we will examine many of Ihl! more "Me. Italy European dealers in their sale catalogues. GENERAL references and most of the The very first volume in this serics (1873),* The 445 pages of Italian text in particular is imporlanl SPECIALrzED articles and books this is not much used as there are insuffi very infonnative and thorough (wilh accom on the coinage of WMagna Graecia W(lisled cienlline- Coins from ancient 10 modern bought and sold , Free verl> SPINK Hi.~ l o ria Nt/morum *** S PI .~" '" sos tTll . .'.6 '" J "' ~ 'iTRIIT ST J A~I FS S . LO~j)O" SW1Y!\OS '11' L 0 11·~J(l J8SS. lAX, 0 71· ~ J 9 >Ell. TELEX: Y167 1l This work does no t covcr th e coinage of I",,w. \\ ~ . s;".~. k>o __ anJ """",,~. Oro:ol.t ,...... on.! ..-A,' . T""... · ~ I 42 The Cefa tor A re~ised edition of HN (Volume I: Italy & appears in the 1889 Nllmismatic ChrOnicle, off-prints (with heavy board covcrs) were Sicily) is being prepared by Martin Price. and takes up 226 pages oftext and cleven of evidently commissioned by Vlasto, as they the fine collotype plates. Evans divides the show up rather frequently for a work of Ihis Holloway post-archaic issues into a number of groups age (around Sloo). -Arl and Coinage in Magna Graec/a****wby R. and although his chronology is no longer the Ross Holloway (1978) is a fresh look at this "last word" on the scries, it gave later coinage from an artistic perspective. Not a numismatists (such as Vlaslo) a firm founda Vlasto Collf'Ction tion from which to work. This reference is coin catalogue, it compares the coinage to Oscar Ravel's classic ~Descripli"e***** Cata other contemporary art (s uch as statuary blessed with some very deep research and a loglle of 11Ie Collection of Taremine Coins detail, etc.) and judgements are offered as to readable text on the history that all students fonned by M.P. VlaslO Hwas first published their faithfulness. 171 pages with exccllent and collectors of this series should digest. in London in 1947. Containing 1,877 coins illustrations throughout. Around S80. Unfortunately it has never becn reprinted, of Tarcntum, all illustrated, this is the seldom appears for sale, and very casily standard reference for these as it contains *** brings S200 and up when it does. nearly all known types in spectacular ~L e monelat.ione incusa della Magna condition (and most were dispersed through Grec/a - (Milan, 1975) by Giovanni Gorini the marketplace). 195 pages of text, 53 is a gcncral study of the coinagcs with excellent plates. Originals are quite rare incuse reverses struek by such great cities as Two works covering unusual coins***** struck in (S400-5OO), but are to be greatly preferred Sybaris, Kroton, Metapontum, Poscidonia, Tarentum by M.P. Vlasto are indispensable, to the 1977 Obol reprint (now OP) whi ch Caulonia and others during the archaic especially since they arc not covered in can be had for S75 or so (but ain't so bad). period. 233 pages of Italian text, this is Evans work. "TAI'Al: 0IKIJ:f[I:, a reknowned for its many exceptional enlarged Co ntribulu)/I to Tarentute Nll mismatics It photographs throughout. About S60 or so. was published in 1922 as ANS Numismatic COte Co Ilf'C tion NOles and Managraphs No.15 . This is the wColieclion Clavdivs COlt de ***Lyon, SPECIALIZED REFERENCES standard reference for the post-ineuse and Monnaies de Taren/e dr 550 a 209 /lV. }.·C. " pre-horseman coinage. 234 pages, 13 superb was an auction hcld by Rodolfo Ratto, 28-9 double plates . Rare, it will easily run SI50 January 1929, Ihal contained 611 lots of & up . WAlexanderson of Neoplolemos of Tarcntine slaters, many of th em excellent HThe Coinage of th e Rasna, ***** a Sludy in Epirus- (1926 NUmismalic Chronicle, pp. specimens. 42 pages, 19 fme plates. The ElrIucan Numismalics W is an exceptional and 155-231, with three great plates) is the original editions are scarce (SI50+), but a fascinating work by ltalo Vecchi that standard reference for this very rare an d decent reprint is available just about appears in the 1988 & 1990 editions of the beautiful gold and silver coinage. Many everywhere for only S8-1O. Swiss Numismalic Review. The Etruscans referred to themselves as the Rasenna, hence the title. The initial part (SNR Vol. 67, pp. 43-73 , with five plates) presents an excellent overview to this enigmatic coinage Miinzen nnd Medaillen AG (which was lillie und erstood until recent times) including a summary of researeh. It 1942-1992 then catalogues by di e the various silver For 50 years we have been serving coinages of Populonia and Vetulonia struck on the scmple standard before 217 BC with collectors of A ll ciellt Coins ... many illustrations. Part 2 of this study (in alld we would like to serve YOll too ! SNR Vol. 69 , pp. 5-25, with sevcn plates) catalogues the familiar silver ten & lWenry asses, most of which feature the head of a facing Gorgon. Again aU of the die varie· ties are pictured and many examples cited. It is argued that these coins werc struck c.2IS-211 BC and later, instead of the traditional dating of the 5th to 4th Centuries • Monthly Illustrated Fixed Price Lists ' BC. There will be at least two more parts to this study, the next appearing in SNR 71 . Public Sales· Appraisals' Buying and Selling (1992) . SN R's retail for 60 SFr. each. . Large Stock in All Price Ranges· Please send us your want list. We willfill ill "Campanian Coinages, 475-380 BC" by N.K. Rutter (Edinburgh, 1979) is a very readable survey and detailed die-study of the Please contact: Campanian mints of Cumae and her great Miinzen und Medaillen AG colony Neapolis. 196 pages of text, 34 excellent plates. A Bargain at about $40. P.O. Box 3647 . Malzgasse 25 CH - 4002, Basel, Switzerland Evans ***'11 The large widely-quoted work by Sir Arthur Tel. (061) 272 75 44 Fax. (061) 272 7514 J. Evans , -Th r Horsemen of TarrnllUlI-, June 1992 43 *** Sternberg *** Cra ..... ford. PaeJtum **** "Ta ras, "sH is/ory and Cei/wge· by George "Dit Silberprl1gllng von Laos ca. 510-440 v. This reference is vcry tough to acquire, but Brauer (New Rochelle, \986) is esscntially Chr." by Heinz-Rainer Stcrnberg appears "Pu estum and Rome: 71le Form and Func a history book tied to the coin-types strock only in "Actcs du 8 .... Congrc::s International tion of a Subsidiary Coinage" by M ichael in the different periods. 231 pages, 63 dc Numismatique" (Paris - Basel, 1976). pp. Crawford is a 63 page anicle that appears very decent illustrations in text. About $50. 143-162 with 4 excellent platcs. A very only in La Mooetazione di Oronw di good die-study, it is unfonunately vcry Poseidonia-PaestuiII, ALii del II/ Co n~egll o scarce (more so than Ihe coins). del Centro Internazionale di Studi Cahn **** Numisnwtici - Napoli 19-23 Aprile /971 "Early Taren/ine Chronology " by Herbert Not' (& Johnston) (Rome, 1973, a supplement 10 Volume A. Cahn appears in Essays in Greek Coin ****I "Tile Coinage oj Metapontum Paris and 18-19 of .ANNALl~ ). This work also ag/! Presenled to Stanley Robinson (Oxford, 2" were originally publishcd as ANS contains six other major articles on this city 1968). pp. 59-74 with two plates. Cahn Numismatic NOles and Monographs Nos. 32 (but none but the above mentioned in essentially presents arguments for later and 47 (in 1927 and 1931). It was reprinted English). 17 1 pages, 14 plates of photos. dating and a revised sequence for some of in t 984 in a large format by the ANS with Very rarc and elusive. About $100 or so. the earliest groups based on evidence. additions and corrections by Ann Johnston. It is a die-study that still remains Ihe Kraay. Sybaris Sch("u. LuCQIIUlIIS standard reference on the subject. 120 Nol all specialized references need to*** cost a *** pages of text, 44 very decent plates of "Tile Coinage oj lht Lucanians" by bundle! Colin Kraay's "J1u Coinage oj Frederick Scheu appears in the 1964 photos. Original editions arc still much in Sybaris After 510 B.G. " is a rather short but Numismatic Ch ronicle, pp. 65-74. il demand (at around $100 each) but are not is a readable and informative study that appeared study of the relatively small issue of coinage reco mmcnded due to misleading dating and in the 1958 Numismatic Chroniclt. It does stru{',k in a bid for indcpcndancc during the othcr information since corrected (although not cover the famous incuse coins however, second Punic war while allied with Hannibal th e plates are a touch better). Reprint S32. only those struck afterwards. A eardcover (or at least occupied by his troops). Johnston ***'h reprint is available for $2-3, and features 2S ""[ht Coinage of MetIJpolltum Pari 3" is a pagcs of text and two piales. ***111 continuation of Ihe work done by Nac, and "The Earlier SIGlers oj lIeraclea Lucuniae". covers the "classica l" silver coinage. Not'. Thurium **** New York, 1940 (ANS NNM No.91). A Written by Ann Johnston (New York, Sidney P. Noe, long a stalwart of the ANS, corpus and die-study, still va lid (exccpt for 1990), it contains 102 pagcs and 21 plales. was a very prolific author and many of his the dating) and very important. 40 pagcs of The numbcring system is very unusual and books still remain the standard referenccs text, 8 double-page plates. OP, around $40. will take getting uscd to. $40. long after most of his eontemporarics' works SUBSCRIBE TO THIS IMPORTANT NEW PUBLICATION NOW! 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Caulonig Rn:. ling ** I1lUrian Di-StaLtrs ~ (ANS NNM No.7 1). ~The Coinage ojCaufonia ~ (ANS Numisma*** "Terinu " by Kurt Regling was published in published in 1935. This is an excellent and tic SlIIdies No .9, 1958) by Sidney P. Noe is Berlin in 1906. It was an early attempt at a essential die-study of these coins, although a die-study of the archaic coinage of thc die-study, but was Ilawed by insufficient a bit limited in its use si nce they arc so incuse reverse-lype. Il is very detailed , with material and incomplete research and the infrequently encountered. There still is no much essential infonnation on that time chronology is now also considered way off. work on the attractive staters of this city. period, but is quite scarce and very difficult Effectively supersceded by Holloway &: 68 pages, II double-page plates. OP and to find. Cardcover, 62 pages of tell t, 20 Jenkins (see below), it is no longer utilized. scarce, about $100. execUenl plales. Around SI50 and up. 80 pages of text, 3 pilltes of photos. Scarce, it still sells well at $100 and up. Mane; i{'ri ~ Velia, e La Sua Monetuliollt (Velia and liS ***** Larina ** Holloway & .Jenkins Coinager is a corpus an d die study of the ~Lokri Epi.t.tphrii " by Pietro Larizza ~ Te rina~ (Bellinzona, 1983) is***** a detailed interesting coinage of Velia published in (Reggio Calabria, 1942) is included here for updated die-study of th e beautiful silver Lugano in 1986. The historical text is brief completeness. As can be expected, a work statcrs produced by this city in th e Fifth and but interesting. and it comes with a on numismatics pub lished in Italy during the Fourth Cenluries B.C. a$ well as a brief card cover English translation of the Italian height of the war is very scarce, and history of the city itself. 71 pages of text, lext (which makes it very convenient to usc). although I have utilized it in the past I did with 128 coins illustrated on 24 excellent 140 pages of text, 27 plates, about $75. not lind it particularly useful and do not plates. Aboul S50. recall ever seeing it offered fo r sale. 242 Scheu. Bruttiall$ ***'/z pages, ill ustrated. The Brettian League was formed during the NEXT MONTH; occupation of Italy by Hannibal, and two The specialized references concerning studies by Frederick Scheu on their eoinagc lIt'rzfelder ****'/z the ADOPTIVE emperors of Rome (in the Numismatic Chronic/e) arc still the "Les monnaies d'urgent de Rhegiumjrapies (98- 192 AD) will be covered . standard references fo r them. "Bronu entre 461 11 dl ",iti lU dulV, sUeI, Have your coill s prof essionally researched and catalogued through the DA VID R. SEA R Ancient Coin Certification Service (A.c.C. S.) Each coin submitted will be personally examined by David R. Sear, accurately described, complete with citation 01 references, and graded. Additionally, the Detailed Format indudes a lull commentary on the historical and numismatic background 01 the piece. The inlormation is presented on an anractive laminated certificate complete with high quality black and white photograph. 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Complimentarycatalogs are available by writing to Box 2064A, Phone or FAX: 303-226-5704 Albany, NY 12220, or phoning (518) 482·2639. 46 The Gelator Letters Continued from page 4 articles encompass then the question until discoveries around Samaria in the cannot put it down until I have read it many readers CQuid ask is why are his Jast 15 to 20 years." from cover to cover. I wait eagerly for articles not titled accordingly? the next issue and can often be seen, Rabbi S.Z. Reich Readers well acquainted with this like a dog waiting for his master, at the Canada subject may seriously wonder at such post box. I enjoy the leiters section in an ambiguous title. And the fact thai il the magazine especially. It shows the tA Rose is a Rose . ... oJ isn't just a one time oversight, but rather wide variety of views held by your a permanent choice. could suggeslthat audience, and also the ignorance of the selection 01 this title was with Variety of views some. indifference to possibly misleading the I would like to take the opportunity to w.e. Holt reader into thinking thai the articles thank you on a great magazine. I find I Australia se riously encompass C.T. coinage. Jewish coinage often mentioned in his articles would lend to fortify this illusion in the readers eyes. I believethat a more appropriate title could easily be found, and none other than David Hendin himself tilled Chapter 11 of his book~Cojnsof New Testament ARCHAEOLOGIA CALLERY proudly announces its firSl catalogue of Times". Why not the same sensitive antiquities and anciCnl coins. Archaeo!ogia is a leader in the antiquities journalism lor The Celator? II it is a non· market, with 25 years experience. sectarian title that is desired, then The This offering is but a sample of our vast and diverse stock. \'\Ie service Gelatoreditor is quite capable of hitting the most advanced collector or investor as well as the novice. Please let the nail right on the proverbial head. us know of your panicular wants. For (J. fllfty j/lu.flraled c(J.lalofjIU I)/ease write or fax. B) With all due respect to our AU,: Len Spcvack or G reg Manoukian columnist, I feel compelled to bring to 1486 Shcrbrooke West, Montreal, P.Q., C ranada H3G 1L3 the attention of his readers a serious Tel.: (5 14) 932~7585 • Fax: (514) 932·9143 flaw in his statement "all O.T. mentions of coinage are in fact anachronistic (emphasis mine)." His reason: "Coins as we knowthem were not invented until late in the 7th century B.C'- Established since 1900 as How can an authority on Biblical coins claim that the O.T. mentions coinage auctioneers of COins and Medals. before 7th century B.C., when in fact We COllsistellliy sell there is no mention anywhere in the O.T. of the word "coin" until350 B.C.E., more material than allY where we lind (Ezra 2:69) darcemon or of our Lolldoll competitors. darics. Theword "shekel" literally means weight, and ukessef" silver. Is our Glendining's columnist's source perhaps a loose \01 New Bond Street translation 01 the original Hebrew? London W I Y 9LG, England Tel: 01 t 44 71 4932445 Fu; 01] 44 7t 491 9181 C) Yes, ancient tradition mentioned in the Talmud etc. does have coinage preceding the 7th century B.C.E., and yes David Hendin's dismissal of this source in the form 01 calling it an WHOLESALE TO ALL! anachronism will still be heard. But hasn't Oavid Hendin himself 100 ancient coins in flips and attributed . A diverse lot written that when one finds no coinage including Nero , Caesar Augustus, Alexander the Great, archaeologically that this is no proof Biblical "Widow's Mite", etc. Only $475.00 postpaid, with that it didn't exist? Allow us to quote satisfaction guaranteed! from his Celator article of November, 1991, p. 6: ~ Within the last two decades an entire new area of ancient Jewish ~.ona.on ([.oin ®all:eri:es: numismatics has come to light: the study of the coins of Samaria from the Suite 132, Mission Viejo Mall, fourth century B.C.E." and "The Mission Viejo, CA 92691 • (714) 364-0990 Samarian coins were virtually unknown June 1992 47 Professional Directory C~ _____A_n_ti~qu _i_ti_e~s _____) ( Antiquities ) ( Antiquities ) ~ -'"'...z _.::>. \I - - + .... -- ..... -.:-.. 2 24 years serving you... ,I EGYPTIAN & CLASSICAL l MAlL BID AUCTIONS \ ANTIQUITIES I . 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First we did the Long Beach Int'l in collectors from all over the country have been calling I Long Beach. The night prior to the show there was a to get reservation cards or information. • 6.9 earthquake which hit southern California. Erik. The show is sold ou t as I write this, with 62 tabl es who had never experienced an earthquake before, and 70 dealers who will be manning those tables. We was curious as to why our respective beds were antiCipate that a lot of dealers will also be in atten I going from lelt to right over and over again. Being on dance, especially from Europe, who did not want the the 15th floor of the Hyatt also helped the experience, bother of manning a table and schleping over coins, i as I believe the hotel is designed to sway rather than but who will want to participate. crack. The weather in NYC in lale June can be magnifi The following week we once again returned to cent, and I assume that many dealers and collectors I California for the San Francisco NAB. This hap will be coming with their famil ies. since the kids will be pened to be the weekend that LA (or parts thereof) out of school, and can take advantage of NY in the got burnt to the ground, and of course we had a few Spring. riotous acts and looting in SF. This time as we sat on For next year, we are already planning to move to I the 11 th floor of the Holiday Inn, we could watch all the main ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel. which will the newscopters hovering over the turmoil at the give us about tOO tables and also allow us space for same time as we saw the actual scene on the TV. the mints to participate. and perhaps even have Anyone who caught a picture of a motorcycle lying in judged exhibits. I also anticipate that there will be a the streets of SF and on fire might be interested to number of auctions to coincide with next year's event. learn that it happened to be the 'cycle of the SF I must thank publicly Erik Gold, my business associ policeman who does our security for NAB. ate who has taken over the job of ShowCo-Ordinator I am definitely glad that Central States conflicted, for me as the paperwork involved is daunting, and I because with our luck it would have been the next have a habit of never remembering where I put those week in Sioux City, Iowa. and of course as luck would darn application forms. have it, we probably would have hit the biggest locust Once we get past the NY Spring International we plague in the past 50 years. really have very few shows to do in July & August, but Since our next show away will be at the Long if things go as planned, we will be quite busy with an Beach Expo, any of you who need to lind our room in anlicipaled venlure that we have been working on the Hyatt. just look lor the lintel smeared with Jamb's over the past several months. Be sure to stay tuned blood. That will delinitely be our room. We ain't to the next Back Page for all the delails. taking any more chances!! I must publicly thank all the dealers who managed FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE to turn up for the SF NAB. Every single dealer came WE WILL BE IN N.J. out! A special tip of the Back Page Hat to Rob & Paul from NFA, who braved rioters, fires, and an LAX Show Schedule: socked in with smoke to linally make it up tothe show. L.o.og Beach Expo, June 4-7, at th e Long Beach Conven I also want to thank th e over 160 dedicated collectors tion Center. This is the big show and is from Thurs.-Sun. who turned out for the evenL I think that this must Show hours are 10~7. 10·4 on Sun. We will have our usual show that nothing is going to stop a coin colleclor corner table #356 under the American flag. from making a show, not even common sense. N,Y, Spring Inl'l, June 25.27, NYC, at the Roosevelt Hotel The one ingredient missing from both shows was (45th & Madi son). Thurs.-Sat. show (no Sun. show) with fresh coins. Still the drought goes on lor the type of show hours 12·7 on Thurs. and 10·7 the next 2 days. We will material that makes everyone sit up and take nole. I have a double table #31 & 32. did note that a lot of dealers seemed coin-starved. When a ve ry large parcel of what I call "mail order" coins did come in from England, people were lined up to gel fresh material, both ancient, foreign, and me Rare Coins & Classical Arts Ltd. dieval. Collecting is still very strong, and when new "Specialists in Museum Quality Coins~ material comes up, the market is definitely stimu Member: ANA, ANS, SAN, AtNA. INS. Ex-Fellow RNS lated. Of course the big story for me will bethe NY Spring P.O. Box 374 P.O. Box 699 International, which I started out putting on by myself, South Orange, NJ 07079 Palm Dese rt, CA 92261 and which soon proved so popular a concept thaI my Phone: (201 ) 761-0634 Phone: (619) 345-7161 fellow co-owners of the NY Inl'l decided to take it over FAX: (20 1) 761-8406 June 1992 55 INDEX OF DISPLAY Celator Classifieds ADVERTISERS Rates: Aiga; Numismatics 36, ~2 Album, Stephen $5.00 for the first 20 words, 20¢ each additional word. Amphora 28,49 Amsellem, Claude 18,50" Ancient W",,1d Ans, lid. Wa nled to buy: ancient Roman. Pri Wanted to buy - Bronze Age weap Archaeologia Gallery " vate collector pay more for better mate ons. Write 10: Robert W. Smith, P,O. Arif15 Photographic "54 Asterion Ancient Numismatics, Inc. 2J rial, especi311y the 12 Caesars. Also Box 563, Rockland, ME 04841 or call Alhena GmbH Byz3 ntine and Medieval. M3Tio (207) 594-4526. Bank Leu lid "22 Assan te, 1079 Atwood Ave., Johnston, Bay Siale Coi .... Show Wanted by Private Collector: Gold R102919. 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