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June 2011 1 EDITOR'S " COMING NEXT ~ - MONTH NOTE ~- IN THE CELATOR® Record prices continue to be the History and Coinage of the Lopic of conversa­ Akarnanian Confederacy tion as witnessed by two Swiss auc­ by Steve M. Benner Lions recently. A gold medallion of 8 aurei, issued circa 308 AD by Maxen­ Menander I and Buddhist tius, brought 1.3 million Swiss francs coinage has become a standard ref­ Iconography on or $1,407,550 (based on exchange erence for that particular series of th Indo-Greek Coins rates on the day of the sale-April 5 ). coins, and this catalogue for the The finest of two known, this Maxen­ Thessalian portion of the BCD col­ by Milan Singh tills gold medallion was lot 1164 in lection is no exception. But 1 really Numismatica Ars Classica's Spring enjoyed the interjection of BCD AND COMING SOON sale, their Auction No. 59. The pre­ own's comments throughout the cat­ sale estimate was 850,000 Swiss alogue, especially when there was u New Experimental francs. An impressive piece, it brought dialogue between BCD and Alan Evidence for Cold Striking an even morc impressive price. Walker. It added a special flavor to of Ancient Coins A month latcr at the Nomos AG this auction, and I hope that BCD Auction of the BCD Collection of the continues the practice. by Scott Rottinghaus, George Coins of Thessaly, As our econo- Cuhaj, and Joe Paonessa lot 1307, a silver my (and just about Boionan Magistrate Staters stater of the tyrant "Until March 1st of this every other one in Alexander of Phe­ the world) contin­ by Wayne K. Schroll rai, 369-358 Be, year, Mr. Korver had ues 10 sputter, an­ garnered 684,400 served on the Cultural cient coins, indeed The Shield of Brutus Swiss francs, Property Advisory Com­ coins of all types by Pierre R Manney which includes the and eras, continue buyer's fee (or mittee for the last eight to fetch strong, A Numismatic Biography of $78 1,546 U.S. dol­ years. His comments and sometimes record Lucius Cornelius Sulla lars). Grossly and observations as an "insid­ prices. What does by Sam Spiegel purposefully un ­ this mean? My best derestimated at er" are both fascinating guess is that until Arethusa's Enigmatic 50,000 Swiss and a disturbing commen­ those individuals Headband francs. BCD had with excess discre­ tary on our political and by Lawrence Sekulich purchuscd this coin tionury income 10 bureaucratic process." in an April 3, 1989 spend have more Select Numismatic Issues Giessener Miinz- confidence in the of the lsaurian Dynasty handlung auction for 180,000 German overall world economy, and the more marks, which was equal to 165,000 traditional places to store one's mon ­ (717-802 AD) with Relation­ Swiss francs or $106,325 U.S. dollars ey (Le. the stock market and real es­ ship to the First Iconoclastic at that time. tate), we are going to continue to wit­ Period (726-780 AD) In the catalogue for the BCD Col­ ness record price levels for the "best lection of Thessalian coins, cxpcrtly of the best." by Spero Kinnas prepared by Alan Walkcr, BCD was Sceattas: The Neglected allowed to interject his own comments ********** throughout the catalogue. For this par­ Silver Coinage of Early ticular coin, BCD stated: "There isn't Please take the time to turn to page Anglo-Saxon England - much one can say about this stunning 30 of this issue, and read the special A Collector's Perspective coin, it speaks for itself. Probably the "guest editorial" by Robert Ko rver. best by far that has ever been offered Until March 1" of this year, Mr. Korver by Tony Abramson at auction." This coin does indeed had served on the Cultural Property Pythagoras of Somas, Celator "speak for itself" as attested by Advisory Committee for the last eight $781,000 U.S. dollars! years. His comments and observations by John Francisco By the way. each and every cata­ as an "insider" are both fascinating and Avoiding Fake Gil Lamps logue prepared for part of the stagger­ a disturbing commentary on our po­ ing BCD collection of ancient Greek litical and bureaucratic proccss. by Ken Baumheckel

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June 2011 3 narius I purchased from him. As 1 live Ancient Coin in the Chicago area, I visit Subak, Inc. several times a year. Still, it was terrif­ Import Restrictions ic see ing Jon Subak and Carl Subak, I have read information on restric­ and visiting with the many other friends tions of ancient coi n imports to the US. I have made. I did not like the restrictions on coin Thanks to everyone who made the imports imposed by the Memorandum 2011 CICF a success! 01 Understanding, MOU, between the Philip M. Griest U.S. and Cyprus (see note 1 fo r sum­ Lab Manager mary and link). BuL. I collect Roman HOYA Vision Care Reader Enjoyed 2011 Chica­ Republican coins, and the MOU was Chicago Facility go International Coin Fair another collector's problem. On Janu­ ary 19, 201 1, an agreement between If you guys happen to mention the Reader Comments on the U. S. and Italy (see note 2 for sum­ Chicago International Coin Fair in your mary and link) was much more disturb­ next issue (duh!), you can tell those McIvor Articles ing. The coins I collect are direclly tar­ who missed it that they missed a terrif­ geted by the MOU. Most of my collec­ I have been fascinated by Robert ic time. tion is post 211 BC, and is not restrict­ Mcivor's articles on the recurring th eme The past couple of years I managed ed. As I expand my collection, f wou ld to get Friday off of work so thai I cou ld of the star symbolizing the ~So n of God" like a few items on the restricted list. attend the event for two days: Friday on Roman coins, but I cannot accept It is interesting how some of tha and Saturday. As I have become a so­ the suggestion that Mark and Luke did U.s. and Eu ropean coin companies ph isticated collector (yea, right), it not mention the star and Magi for fear and auction houses have handled tha of Roman reaction. Mark does not men­ lakes more time for me to visit all of subject. I receive catalogs and a-mail tion the birth of Jesus at all, his focus the dealers and view the huge variety massages and my observations three is on his life and teachings. The early of offerings. These guys have a wide months into the agreement are as fol­ range of knowledge, tell great stories, Christian leaders went to their deaths lows. Most of the U.S. companies have and supply just plain fun . proclaiming that a man put to death by not mentioned the MOU in conjunction Attached is a photo of Jon Subak the Romans in the most shameful way with their sales efforts. One exception handing over the Roman Republic de- was God. They did not fear 10 tell Ihe is Classical Numismatic Group, (CNG). star story. allhe time it was not impor­ Page 5 of their Auction 87 catalogue tant as what Jesus said and did. Mark notes: All lots of Magna Graecia and in particular had gonen past his fear. Sicily (lots 11 2-242) were in posses­ He had started out with Paul on a mis­ sion of CNG in CNG's Lancaster, PA sion, but turned back and was consid­ ollice no later than 18 January 2011 ered a quilter. But he regained his cour­ (see nota 4). Several Eu ropean com­ age and was in Rome wi th Peter and panies have addressed the subject in Paul to the end. recent auctions. Numismatica Ars Clas­ But it may well be that the Roman sica (NAG) did an excellent job of de­ star propaganda prompted th e Chris­ scribing the MOU, explaining what al­ tians to point out the star was th ere at lowed the items to be shipped to the Jesus birth. U.S., and went the extra step on stat­ Cynthia Burdge MD ing they would import the coins to the U.S. and ship them from he re (see note 5). The Bru Sale, with a link on sixbid.com, did not address the MOU , Don't miss a single issue of but lists each item's provenance: Jon 5!4bak (left) preselll Philip Grie.~t with The Ce1a tor. Subscribe today! 011 his new pllrcha,fe (j( this year's CleF. continued page 40....

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June2011 5 THE SILVER AND BRONZE MINTS OF PHILIP II AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN MACEDONIA ander's bronze coins also carries the favored by Le Rider. Price and Trox­ by Thomas L. Gibson, Ph.D. Herakles head with the same fine style ell both considered changing the attri­ and other characteristics as his si lver bution of the main mint to Pella. al­ identifying them as more issues of the though Price still uscd the tradi tional The famous coinage of the Mace­ main mint. attribution "Amphipolis" (in quotation danian kings Philip II (359-336 Be) If you like to hold ancient coins in marks) to avoid confusion when indi­ and Alexander the Great (336-323 Be) your hand and imagine their connec­ cating the main mint in his British includes impressive coins created in tion with specific times and places in Museum catalog. In his catalog, Price fine classical style. Studying Mace­ ancient history, you may be disap­ (pp. 85-89) proposed eventually reat­ donian coins for many years and ex­ pointed to find that there is serious tributing the main Macedonian silver ploring the numismatic literature and confusion about thc mints and dating to Pella. He also suggested attributing historical background with visits to of Macedonian coins among the ma­ some silver toAegeae, a former Mace­ mint cities in Greece and the Middle jor numismatic authorities: Edward T. donian capital 25 miles southwest of East have suggested additional ideas Newell (1923), George Le Rider Pella in the Pierian district. for attributing the coins. The purpose (1985), Martin J. Price (1991), and Changes in types and style of the of Ihis article is to compare the silver Hyla Troxell (1997). These authors Macedonian coinage may be traced to and bronze coins, and 10 propose more have attributed the gold and silver to the often tumultuous events of the complete sequences, mint locations, and (at least) two mints in Macedonia, and times. The assassination of Philip II dating for the issues struck in Europe. systematically arranged the issues in in 336 BC led to a new royal coinage The coins photographed for this article sequences while disagreeing about the for his son and successor Alexander arc all from the author's collection. mints and dating. However, they did the Great. Their coin types referred to The heart and soul of a great mint not attribute the bronze units to mints, the Macedonian kings' claims to de­ in ancient Greece was the style of its although they are potentially just as scent from Zeus through his son Her­ coinage: the style that also carried the important. The open questions include akles. Philip's tetradrachm with the beauty and distinctive image by which identifying the location of the royal head of Zeus was followed by Alex­ the city or people were known every­ minIs for silver and bronze struck in ander's tetradrachm with the head of where. The Athena/owl silver of Ath­ Europe. Was there one main mint for Herakles-symbolic of the son follow­ ens in the 5th century, the Corinthian silver and bronze located at the royal ing the father. Alexander did not visit Athena/Pegasus staters, anCl Alexander capital of Pella (the most logical site Macedonia after 334 Be during his the Great's Herakles/seated Zeus sil­ for the treasury and mint) and a sec­ successful conquest of the Persian ver from the main Macedonian mint ondary mint at Amphipolis, or was Empire, although he frequently sent arc all examples. These distinctive Amphipolis the main min t? Amphip­ detailed instructions for government issues were ty pically kept alive with olis was a strategic trading center 66 operations including finances . All little change for as long as several de­ miles cast of Pella, IOCaied in newly matters were handled by his very ex­ cades to maintain the valuable popu­ conquered territory colonized by Phil­ perienced regent in Europe, Antipat­ larity of the currencies. As I will at­ ip IT after 357 BC. It was proposed as er, who defeated a formidable revolt tempt to show, a large series of Alex- the main mint by Newell and is sti ll led by Sparta in 330 and a second re­ volt in 322 BC by the Athenians and unemployed mercenary soldiers. 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June 2011 7 from old age in 319 Bc' the regency loyal to the family of Alexander, who pias overth rew and executed Philip III system continued, while con trol of championed the claims of her grand­ and his wife Eurydice in 3 17 BC, Macedon ia was di sputed between fac· son Alel( ander IV expecting him to Olympias was herself killed by sup­ ti o ns supporting Olympias, Al el( ­ take fu ll power when he carne of age. porters of Cassander, who detained ander's mother, and Cassander, the son Meanwhile, Cassander rebelled and and later murdered Alexander IV in the of Antipater. Pell a became a strong­ took over other areas including Am­ citadel of Amphipoli s (309 BC) to hold of Olyrnpias and Macedonians phipolis as hi s powerbasc. After Olyrn- usurp the th rone.

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\ 0 \. 0 Guided by the style, moneyers' THRACE marks. previously established se­ ILLYR I AN~S 0 ~)!N~" quences of silver coins (by New­ ell , Le Ri der. Price, and Troxell), ~ (iJPPER and the similar style and markings "ACr.PPHIA LOWE of the bronze, we can make a logi­ v).I MACfOOM cal arrangement of the Macedonian coins including bronze by date and '" _1:/( · mint. List I in cludes 49 Mace­ donian coins (8 sil ver and 41 \'\. \( ,, ~ bronze) attributed to the main AI­ AEGEAN el( ander mint (probably located at ). EPIRUS ~_R. SEA Pella) arranged by date. These is­ Z. r- "-- I.AAI O~" ~"lldom sues were selected from Ihe tO lal OOOON~ ~ Macedonian coinage because they 'I, . ) ~~ . o? 1 Pier .. (crig. horn. d M~~) all mainlain the style (see Fig. I) 2. 8011' ..~ 0>01:. by M~l 1 . MI. ~ of traditional fine art used by the ~ THESSAL Y ""' , . IIottiI (SPfI""""') royal mint since the 5'h century BC. ~ 5. ~At Dvsoron (8isa11ia · siIvef) ~ . NigtI1l (PvIl) The mint was first located at Aege­ 1. MI. Pongaion (g,"d) I . D~mM," (Uppo, Mao6aoo · IL ~ r) ae in lower Macedonia and presum­ 11. ~ (P-.,iI _ .iI\ter) THE MACEDONIAN KINGDOM AND (TS NEIGHBORS to. P_·II...... - ...... l ably moved from Aegeae to Pella when the royal capital was moved in 400 Be. The pl ains of lower Macedonia around Pe lla and Aege- ae had been occupied by the Mace­ donians si nce the 7'" centu ry BC, and thecelators allhe main mint developed a distincti ve style of die engraving, which can be distinguished from the styl e at the eastern Macedonian mini probably at Amphipolis (see Fig. 2). The style in each case was probably inOuenced by the local cu lture. In lower Macedonia (Aegeae /Pel­ la), the Maeedonians originally spoke Ihei r ow n dialect of Greek, and their - SPECIALIZE IN ANCIENT COINS language and culture may have pre­ - PURCHASE AND CONSIGN COLLECTIONS served archaic features seen in their - OFFER APPRAISALS AND EXPERT ADVICE art and epigraphy that carried over - REPRESENT CLIENTS AT MAJOR INTERNATIONAL SALES onto the coinage. A barred:=: is seen • in the king 's name on some silver and bronze coins of Alexander attributed to Pell a (Fig. I, nos. 18 and 20), but is nOI seen on coins from Amphipolis. Sinee thi s letterform is also seen on monuments carved in Aegeae. it may represent an archaic form fa vored in lower Macedonia. Li st 2 contains another 38 coins (5 si lver and 33 bronze) with a differe nt style presumably from a new minI. That mint cou ld logically beAmphip­ oli s in eastern Macedonia, the second

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June 2011 9 largest city of the kingdom, which was cd to use objects (prow, thunderbolt, 4. Perdikkas III (365-359), IE 23, originally a Greek ci ty state but re­ grapes, etc) as moneyers' symbols at Herakles hd/lion breaking spear, SNG ceived Macedonian settlers including the main mint (Pella) and letters and Cop 5 19 cavalry after its capture. The culture monograms at the other mint (Am­ at Amphipolis was inlluenced by its phi polis); (6) European mint issues Period 2. 359-336 BC. surviving Greek colonists who no began using Alexander IU's name soon 5. Phi li p II (359-336), AR 4dr, Zeus doubt included the arti sts who had after his accession and continued from hd/king on horse, symbols: M trident, minted the town's own civic coinage 336-323 Be: and (7) Philip IT 's types Le Rider 39, D22 R33 in fine classical style before 357 Be. were revived and used for Philip III 6. _IE unit, Herakles hd/horseman The sequence and dating of the sil­ (323/322-317 Be), while Alexander arm raised, no symbol, SNG ANS 973 ver and bronze coins in Lists 1 and 2 Ill's types were continued for his son 7. _IE un it, Apollo hd/horseman, are based on their style. The silver Alexander IV (323/322-309 BC). The trident, SNG ANS 87 L Drama 35 coins provide a framework, and the title BALlAEQ :E was added (0 the leg­ 8. _IE un it, Apoll o hd/horseman, sequence and arrangement of the ends ca. 323-3 16 Be to refer to Alex ­ spearhead, SNG ANS 871, SNG ANS bronze coins is partly based on their ander IV. 850, Drama 23 stylistic similarity to the silver issues. 9. _IE unit, Apollo hd/horseman, The following proposed guidelines List I-Main Macedonian mint, dolphin, SNG ANS 864, Drama 3 1 were also useful for arranging the probably at Pella, dates arc approxi­ 10. _IE unit, Apollo hd/horseman, bronze issues: ( 1) European mi nt mate (sec Fig. I-Editor's Note: Due thunderbolt. SNG ANS 880, Drama 43 bronze units of Alexander always have to space limitations, every coin in Fig­ I I. _IE unit. Apollo hd/horseman. a reverse type of a bow-and-quiver; (2) ures I and 2 are no t illustrated here, ivy leaf, SNG ANS 867, Drama 32 vaT. Asian mint bronze units usua\1y have but interested readers can send an 12. _fE unit, Apollo hd/horseman, as reverse a di fferent bow-in-bowcase email to the editor requesting a PD F prow, SNG ANS 854, Drama 26 design; (3) the Tarsus mint and a few file of photos for every coin in the fo l­ 13. Philip II (359-336), AR 4dr, others in Asia have silver and bronze lowing lists): Zeus hd/jockey, sym: bee, prow; Le ty pes with bow-and-quiver copied Period 1. 389-359 Be. Rider 470, 023] R421 fr om the original European types used I. Amyntas III (389-369), AR stater, in Macedonia; (4) both the mints in Herakles head/horse, SNG ANS 92 Period 3. 336-325 Be. Macedonia probably adopted the same 2. _ ,£ IS, Herakles hd/forepart of 14. Alexander III (336-323 Be), changes in obverse and reverse types boar, SNG ANS 97 AR 4dr, Herakl es hd/Zeus std, sym: at about the same dates; (5) under Phil­ 3. _ IE 16, Herakles hd/eagle & ser­ prow I; Price 4 ip and Alexander, the moneyers tend- pent. SNG ANS 100 IS. _ IE unit, Herakles hd/club, bow & quiver, symbol: thunderbolt; Price 269, Drama 103 16._,_; similar with different re­ The Miinzen und Medaillen Companies verse die, stru ng bow, Price 269 17 ._,_; similar, different obverse 1942-2011 die, Price 269 (see barred :::) 18._ IE unit, Heraklcs hd/club, bow For 69 years our legacy has been to serve the & quiver, symbols; Ll, thunderbolt; collector oj Ancient, Medieval & Modern Coins ... Price 275b, Drama 104 (see barred 3 ) and we would like to serve you too! 19._'£ unit, Herakles hd/club, bow & quiver, symbols: 6., thunderbolt; Price 275b, Drama 104 20. Alexander III (336-323), AR 4dr, Herakles hd/Zeus std, sym: bow; Price 48a (see barred 3 ) 21. _ IE un it, Hcrakies/club, bow & quiver, sym: .1. (inverted), thunder­ bolt; Price 276, Drama 105 • Public Sales· Appraisals· Buying and Selling· 22. _ IE unit, Herakles hdl bow & • Large Stock in All Price Ranges· quiver. club, sym: 6. AV monogram; Price 292 Miinzen nnd Medaillen GmbH - Joachim Stollhoff 23. _ IE unit, Herakles hd/ bow & Postfach 2245 0 -79557 Weil, Gemlany quiver, club, sym: '" star; Price 277, Drama 112 Telephone: (01 1) 49 76 21 48 560 • Fax: (01 1) 49 76 21 48 529 24. _ fE unit, Herakles hd/ club, M&M Numismatics, Ltd. - Lucien Birkler bow & quiver, sym: 6. star; not in Price P.O. Box 65908, Washington, D.C. 20035 USA or Drama 25 . _ IE unit, Herakles hd/club, bow Telephone: (202) 833-3770 • Fax: (202) 429-5275 & quiver, sym: '" ivy leaf; Price 289, Drama 11 6 . ACAMA - Antike Milnzkunst - Dr. Hans Voegtli 26. _ IE unit, Herakles hd/ bow & Malzgasse 25 Postfach CH-4002 Basel , Switzerland quiver, club, sym : '" grapes; Price 283, Telephone: (011) 4 1 61 272 75 44 · Fax: (0 11) 4161272 75 14 Drama 114 (.-

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June 2011 11 27. _ IE unit, Herak!es hd/ bow & Period 5. 322-316 BC. List 2-Eastern Macedonian mint quiver, club, sym: inverted 6., grapes; 38. Alexander III (336-323), AR probably at Amphipolis (see Fig. 2, Price 283 var. 4de Herakles hd/Zeus std, sym: bow please see Editor's note for List 1). 28. _ IE uni t, Herak les hd/club, in case; Price llOc dates are approximate bow & qu iver, sym: inverted 6., 39. _iE un it , Herakles hd/bow & Period 1. 357-336 BC. grapes; Price 284 var. quiver S A club, sym: thunderbolt; 1. Philip II (359-336), AR 4dr, Zeus 29. _ IE unit. Herakles hd/ bow & Pri ce 376 hd/king on horse, symbols: 6. Hel ios quive r, club, sym: inverted 6., grapes; 40. jE unit, Herakles hd/bow & hd, Le Rider 137a, 0 74 R 109 Price 285, Drama 113 quiver SA club, sym: ivy leaf; Price 383 2. jE unit, Apollo hd/horseman, 30. _ IE unit, Herakles hd/ bow & 4 1. _IE unit, Herakles hd/bow & symbol: AB, SNG ANS 905 var. quiver, club, sym: 6. trident; Price 280, quiver BA club, sym: wreath; Price 388 3. _iE unit, Apollo hd/horseman, Drama 110 42. _IE unit, Heraklcs hd/bow & sym: A, Drama 62 quiver BA club, sym: mouse; Price 382 4. _IE unit, Apollo hd/horseman, Period 4. 325-323/322 Be. 43 . _IE 112 unit, Shield/helmet SA, sym: bow, AV monogram, SNG ANS 31. Alexander III (336-323), AR sym: crayfish; Price 418 900, Drama 51 4dr, Herakles hd/Zeus std, sym: Ath­ 44. _IE 1/2 unit, Shield/helmet SA, ena Promachos; Price 105 sym: serpent; Price 409 Period 2. 336-326 BC. 32. _ IE unit, Herakles hdl bow & 5. Alexander III (336-323) IE unit, quiver, club, sym: 6. grain ear; Price Period 6. 316-309 Be. (under Cas­ Herakles hd/club, bow & quiver, no 290, Drama 108 sander) symbol; Price 266, Drama 99 33. _ IE unit, Herakles hdl bow & 45. Alexander IV (3 22-310) IE unit, 6.-"E unit, Herakles hd/bow & quiver, club, sym: 6. crescent; Price Herakles hd/bow & quiver SA club, qu iver, club, no symbol; Price 268 270 var. sym: no mgr; not in Price/SNG ANS var., Drama 100 var. 34. _ AR 1/2dr, Herak les hd/eagle 46. _iE 1/2 unit, Apollo/horse, sym: 7._IE uni t, Herakles hd/bow & stg. no symbol; Price ISO aplustre; Price 346 qu iver. club, sym: caduceus; Price 35. _ IE 1l2unit. Herakles hd/ea­ 47. _ iE 112 unit, Apollo/horse, sym : 273, Drama 10 1 gle, sym: crescent; Price 9la shield side view; Price 350 36. _ IE l!2unit, Hera k!es hd/ea­ 48. _ IE 1/2 unit, Apollo/horse, sym: Period 3. 325·323/322 BC. gle, sym: ivy leaf; Price 28a dolphin; Price 339 vae 8._ IE unit. Herakles hdJclub, bow & 37. _ IE 112unit, Herakles hd/ea­ 49. _ iE 112 unit. Apollo/horse. sym: quiver, symbol: A, Price 296. Drama 120 gle, no symbol; Price 158 long torch?: Price 338 9._1£ unit, Herakles hdlclub. bow & quiver, symbol: 6.. Price 295, Drama [ 18 10. Alexander III (336-323), AR 4dr, Herakles hd!Zeus std, mgr: 6H, Price 210 11._ iE unit, Herakles hd/c1ub, bow NUMISMA T1CA ARS CLASSICA NAC AG & quiver, mgr: L<.H, Price 318 / 12 ._ iE unit. Heraklcs hdlclub. bow & quiver, sym: e. Price 299 var.. Drama Ancient Coin s - Greek - Roman - Byzantine 128 val'. Mediaeval - Renaissance - Medals 13 ._ iE unit, Herakles hdl bow & quiver, club, sym: 9?, Price 299 var., Auctions - Sales & Purchases - Estimations Drama 128vaL 14._ iE unit, Herakles hd/bow & quiv­ er. club, sym: K, Price 30 I, Drama 134 15 ._ IE unit, HerakJes hd [cfU bow & quiver, club, sym: K, unlisted type 16._ .tE unit, Herakles hdlclub, bow & quiver, sym: K, Price 300, Drama 133 17._ IE unit, Herakles hdl bow & quiver. club, sym: n, Price 31 1, Drama 123 18._ IE unit, Heraklcs hd/ bow & quiv­ er, club, sym: q>, Price 313, Drama 137 [9._ IE unit, HCr'

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June 2011 13 Period 4. 322-316 RC, 35 . Philip 111111 , 1E unit, Apollo hdl be attributed to a mint in Pella or Ae­ 24. Alexander Iii, AR 4dr, Herak­ horseman. sym: race torch, un listed geae because Amphipolis in eastern les hd/Zeus std, sym: thunderbolt, 36 . Alexander IIIIIV, fE unit, Apol­ Macedonia did not belong to the king­ Price 232 lo hd/horseman AAE:=:ANt..PO, sym: dom during this period. That no mon­ 25._ 1£ unit, Herakles hd/ bow & thunderbolt Price 37 1 var. eyers' markings appear on the coins quiver, club, sym: grain ear, not in Price 37._ fE 112 uni t, Apollo/horse, suggests one mint under one official 26._ 1£ uni t, Herakl es hd/ bow & sym: A; Price 363? was responsible. quiver, club, sym: L, SNG Cop 1040 38. _ IE 112 unit. Apollo/horse, In the second period (359-336 Be), 27._fE unit, Herakles hdlclub, BAIl, monogram: En; unlisted Ph ilip II was king and early in his reign bow & quiver, mgr: KE, Price 395 struck (5) the silver tetradrachm with 28. Philip III (3 22-31 6 BC), AR Aegeae/Pella Mint Coinage - types of Zeus head/Kin g Phi li p on 4dr, Zeus hd/jockey, sym: thunderbolt; See Figure 1 horseback with symbols M and trident, Le Rider 5 15a, D273 R424 and (6) bronze unit with Herakles head! 29. _ IE unit, Apollo hd/horseman, In Fig. I: The first period 389-359 horseman with arm raised, both in fine sym: dolphin, mgr: AP, SNG ANS 909, BC contains coins struck by the si n­ style. Later other similar bronze units Drama 53 gle royal mint, which presumably (7-12) were struck with trident, spear­ 30. _ IE uni t. Apollo hd/horseman, moved from Aegeae to Pella after the head, dolphin, thunderbolt, ivy leaf, obv A rev n. SNG ANS 968, Drama 65 ? capital moved there in 400 Be. The an d prow markings. The fin e style is­ 31. _ fE unit, Apollo hd/horscman, king kept his treasury and mint at the sues of the traditional mint generally rev monogram A dot. SNG ANS 935, capital in readiness for any emergen­ continued to use symbols of this sort Drama 63 cy, but the mint may have been tern · (with a few exceptions), while a sec­ 32. _ IE double unit, Apollo hd/ porarily evacuated back to Aegeae ond royal mint later established in east­ horseman. sym: thunderbolt E. SNG during times of invas ion. Al l the coins ern Macedonia (Amphipo li s) em­ ANS 839, Drama 85 including ( I ) the early silver stater of ployed mostl y Greek letters or mono­ 33._ fE 11 2 unit, Shield/helmet BA . Amyntas III (ca. 389-369) with Her­ grams as moneyers' marks. The main sym :~; Price41 7 akl es head/horse, (2) an early bronze mint later struck the series of silver coin with Herakles head/boar, (3) a tetradrachms of Phi lip II with Zeus Period 5. 316-309 BC (under Cas­ bronze with Herakles head/eagle. and head/jockey on horse ( 13) that ended sander) (4) the large bronze coin (10 gram s) with symbols such as a bee and prow 34 . Alexander Ill/IV, AR 4dr. Her­ with Hera kl es headl1 ion of Perdiccas to finance the Macedonian invasion of ak les hd/Zeus std, sym: A, race torch, III (365- 359 BC) achieve the same Asia that began in 336 BC. Pegasus; Price 460 fine classical style. These coins can In the third period (336-326 BC), upon Phi lip's assassination, his son and successor Alexander soon initiated a new silver coinage (1 4) on the heavier Attic weight standard with Herakles head/seated Zeus continuing the same symbols (prow, etc.). A series of bronze units (1 5- 19. and 21-30) with Herak­ les head/club, bow and quiver types cbtcbal displays the same fine obverse style as Alexander's silver tetradrachms (14 and 20). The club is sometimes above (16·19,2 1,28) and sometimes below ~tlbtr the bow (22, 23 , 25-30). The money­ er's symbols start with a thunderbolt and then use the letter 11 with thunder­ bolt, star, ivy leaf, trident head, AV monogram, etc. These symbols pre­ $9 sumably identi fy officials in charge of each issue. Curious about medieval as a natural complement to your ancient In Period 4 (325-323/322 BC), style collection, but don't want to invest much until you know you like remained good, and the mint also it? Then start small and painless. For every $9 you send, I'll send struc k bronze half units (35 -37) with types Hcrakles head/eagle. In Period you a different m edieval coin .. . $ 18 for 2 different, $36 for 4 5 (322-317 BC) after A lexander's different, $90 for 10 different, etc. With 12 different, get a free death, the main mint struck silver (38) copy of Walker's Reading MedievalEuropean Coins. Pl ease add with the usual types with the added ti­ tle BALIAEnr and bronze units (39- $3 postage per order. 42) also in fine style but with BA to indicate the succession of the new agberman@aol. com kings Ph il ip III and Alexander IV. New llen G. Berman (845) 434-6090 ., ...... " .. -..... ,,~ half uni ts (43-44) have ty pes of Mace­ u.s. ord~," add $3 pWlage ~ g P.O. 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June 2011 15 Alexander the Great and BA. The more fin e silver and bronze coins (8- hunting, war, and heroic leadership; coins struck under Cassander in Peri· 23) were issued including sil ver wi th (2) The spread of Macedonian rule to od 6 (3 16-309 Be), especiall y the a distinctive reverse throne (with or­ the east as shown by a new mint se­ bronze (45·49), show some deteriora­ namental back). Bronze units contin­ ries from Amphipolis with a different tion in style with new half unit types ue to have a si milar style bow and style; (3) The importance of bronze of young head/horse AA E2: ANL\POY quiver. One characteristic of the Peri­ coinage from all royal mints which in honor of the young king Alexander od 3 coins is the use of Greek letters was accepted in both Europe and Asia; IV who was popu lar in Pella. or monograms as the usual moneyers' (4) The very numerous bronze hoards symbols. During Period 4 (322-3 17 found in Macedonia, Thrace, Asia Eastern J\.1aced oni an/Amphipo1is Bq, silver and bronze coins (24-26) Minor, Cyprus, and Phoenicia, etc.; Mint Coinage- See Figure 2 were issued in the name of Alexander and (5) The profit to the mints from IV. while coins (27-33) were iss ued in striking significant sums in bronze Period I (357·336 BC): Royal the name of Philip III or with the let­ coinage provided a motive for many Macedonian coinage here only begins ters BAl! and BA referring to both issues. The bronze coins were impor­ afte r the conquest of Amphipolis in Philip III and Alexander IV. In Period tant for small, everyday transactions, 357 BC. The earlier coins in silver and 5 (316-310 Bq. Amphipolis became and coin hoards in the Balkans from bronze (1 -4) are less naturalistic in a favorite powerbase for Cassander the 4"'_3'" century Greek era are dom­ style than the traditional Macedonian (317-294 Be) who usurped the throne inated by Philip and Alexander types art of the Pella mint. This difference of Macedonia and murdered Al exander of approximately 7 -gram bronze units. is seen in the figures of the ri der and IV and his mother Roxanne who were In addition, it is possible to collect horse (ct". Fi g. 2. no. I vs. Fig. I. no. under hi s control in Amphipolis (ca. coins of Alexander's lifetime from 5). Period 2 (336·326 BC): During the 309 Be). eaeh of his approximately 30 min ts, reign of Alexander the Great, the cast­ The series of Phi lip and Alexander coins of the Persians whom Alexander ern, Amphipolis mini developed its the Great illustrates many events of met in hand·to-hand combat, coins of own fine classical style and began to ancient hi story that are not always rec­ the cities like Thebes, Tyre, and Gaza issue coinage including the bronze ognized: ( I ) Thc Macedonian dcvcl­ that he besieged, and those cities units (5-7) in Alexander's name. These opmcnt of Greek culture and fin e art founded and named Alexandria in his starting issues from Amphipolis have at the main mint in the Pclla/Aegeae honor. I have visited the sites of 19 fine but unusual obverse and reverse region with local archaic aspects, e.g. mint cities in Asia that struck coins types with a morc wcdge-shaped quiv­ in the seated Zeus wi th parallel legs with Alexander's types including eight er than Pella and rarely have money­ and leiter styles of the legend. These cit ies in Cyprus (which he never saw). er's marks. In Period 3 (325-322 BC), coins also show special concerns for Thompson. et aI (1973) lists 30 such hoards from this period containing more than 3200 bronze Philips and Alexanders. A new searchable web site Edward J. Waddell, Ltd. at hllp:flco ins.ekt.gri Ancient Coin ist (CoinsSearch.jsp?lang=en Mace­ doni an Kingdom: the Bronze Coinage) G reek, Roman & B~nti ne £:o,ins developed in Greece ill ustrates 400 Philips and 390 Alexanders among a For-all youffillecting needs ' ~ Visit our , total of 1,470 royal coins from three -- .A n C:ien- H~b in,s I large bronze collections: Alpha Bank \,," • Numl~tn'atic books 'I (Athens); Charles Hersh (USA and I, • AbaU~ coi nCeases UK); and Portolos (T hcssaloniki in Macedoni a). Alexander's bronze coinage repre­ sented a profitable business fo r the mints because the bronze (a cheap base alloy) in a Macedonian unit probably cost less than one tenth its face value believed to be 112 obol sil ver value for a 7-gram bronze unit. The best source of information on finds of bronze coins of Ph ilip and Alexander is A.R. Bell­ inger's publication (1964) of a hoard from Drama in eastern Macedonia, 10 miles northwest of Phi lippi and 25 mi les northwest of Amphipolis. This hoard of 785 bronze pieces was bur­ ied ca. 323-320 BC at the end of Al­ exander's li fe. and contains 358 Phil­ ips and 229 Alexanders plus similar coins of Phi lippi, etc. all described in P.O. Box 3759, Frederick, MD 21705 detail. Al so included were Alexander Phon e: (301) 473-8600 ' Fax: (30 1) 473-87 16 ' E-mail: [email protected]

16 The Gelator June 2011 17 bronzes minted overseas in Asia: In­ Coin Hoards, ANS, New York, 1973. Figure 1- Main Macedonian Mint-Prob­ cluding 21 Alexander bronze un its 6. Macedon ian Kingdom: The ably at Pella with approximate dates. struck in Lampsacus, see Thompson Bronze Coi nage at http://coins.ekLgr/ Period 1. 389-359 BG. ( 1991); 2 from Miletus; I from Sardes; CoinsSearch.jsp? lang=en I from Western Asia Minor; 2 from 7. Drama, Macedonia Hoard- A.R. Tarsus; I from Salamis in Cyprus; and Bellinger, "Philippi in Macedonia," 6 unidentified probably Asian issues. ANS MU~'eum Notes 11, New York, By my attributions, the Drama hoard 1964, Pl'. 29-52. found in Eastern Macedonia contained 8 . M. T hompson, Alexallder's about 47 Alexander bronze units from Drachm Millts 11: Lamp.l"acus and Pella and 127 from Amphipo1is. Abydus, Numismatic Studies No. 19, ANS, New York, 1991. See her coins Bibliography and Notes nos. 15-21. I. E.T. Newell, Alexander Hoards /I, Demanhur, 1905, ANS NN M 19, About the author- After earning a New York, 1923 . Ph.D. in chemistry from the Univer­ 2. G. Le Rider, Le monnayage sity of Texas at Austin, Thomas Gib­ d'argent et d'or de Philippe 11 frappe son taught and traveled extensively in 4 en MacCdoine de 359 a 294. Paris, the Near East. He later returned 10 the 1977. United States, and recently retired af­ Period 2. 359-336 BG. 3. M.1. Price, Coinage illlhe Name ter 30 years in environmental and en­ of Alexander the Grea l alld Philip Ar­ ergy research with the U.S. auto in­ rhidaeus, A British Museum Cata­ dustry. logue, Zurich & London, 1991 . See pp. 85-89 for the mint attributions. Editor's Note: Due to space limi­ 4 . H.A. Troxel!, Studies in the tations, every coin in Figures I and 2 Macedonian Coinage ofAlexander the are not illustrated here, but interested Creat, Numismatic Studies No. 21, readers can send an email to the edi­ ANS, New York, 1997. See p. 19 for tor ([email protected]) requesting a discussion of the mint attributions. PDP file of photos for every coin in 5 . M. Thompson, O. M~rkho l m, these Figures. and C.M. Kraay, An Inventory of Greek

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Armlud CLA IRAND ~ Joel CORNU - Jean-Marc DESSAL - Samuel PARISOT - Mic6ei PRIEUR SCUM1TT The Celator 24 The Celator The American Numismatic Society Announces Cultural Change: Coins of the Holy Land Exhibit Most of the coins on display are graphic area that is unique in the total­ NEW YORK, NY-The American from the collection of Abraham and ity of its cultural and ideological vari ­ Numismat ic Soc iety recen tly an­ Marian D. Scheuer Sofaer. During ety and significance. The Holy Land nounced the opening of its latest ex­ more Ihan three decades of assem­ has been fought over by various em­ hibit at the Federal Reserve Bank 01 bling their collection, the Solaers care­ pires for some 3,000 years. The Holy New York. Opening on May 6, 2011, fully acquired a multi-cultural represen­ Land has almost always been a prov­ Cultural Change: Coins of the Holy tation of coins that includes ancient ince of one of the area's major empires, Land is on view at the Federal Reserve Jewish coins. Christian coins of the since about the 6 111 century BCE, when Bank, 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY Byzantine and Crusader Periods, and coins were first minted there, until the through December 31, 2011. Hours for Islamic coins minted in the area. The State 01 Israel was declared. But it has the exhibit are Monday through Friday scope of the collection ranges from the been a province rich in human drama, 10AM-4PM . and a government issued S'h century BCE to the 13'hcentury CE, social and political upheaval, cultu ral 10 is required for entry. and includes some of the greatest rar­ and religious diversity, commerce, and Throughout its long history, the ities struck in Jerusalem and through­ creativity. Consequently, while lacking Near East has been at the center of out the region. the military, political, artistic, and eco­ some of the most important political On display are over 300 coins and nomic dominance of the empires which and religious developments in world objects, which illustrate topics such as controlled it, Holy Land numismatics is history. A new exhibition, organized Christian and Jewish symbols, coins intellectually and artistically rewarding.H by the American Numismatic Society and Jesus, the Jewish Wars, the Arab Abraham Sofaer is a former Federal in conjunction with the Federal Re­ tradition of coinage, as well as Byzan­ District Judge of the Southern District of serve Bank of New York, illustrates tine and Crusader coinages. In partic­ New York. He was Legal Adviser to the the economic and religious aspects ular, the coins of Jerusatem illustrate U.S, State Department under Secretar­ of the coins of this area. From the how different people tried to claim the ies of State George P. Shultz and James very beginnings of coin production in city by giving it dillerent names- in A. Baker, III. He is currently the George the reg ion in the 4'1> century BC E, the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Arabic-or P. Shultz Senior Fellow at th e Hoover designs on coins show the ethnic and symbols to the Holy City. Reflecting on Institution, Stanford University. Last year religious diversity of the various civ­ his collection , Abraham Sofaer notes ilizations. that "These coins represent a geo- con tillued 011 page 38 ... .

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June2011 25 CelesHal Sl!:lImbols on Roman S~anJarJs by George L. Beke

On Roman coins. we often see the standards thaI were carried in front of the legi ons by the bravest, strongest soldiers. dressed in the pelts of the fi ercest ani mals, like Hercules in his lion skin. In battle. the standards com­ municated to Ihe troops the commands of their leaders, and the greatest shame befell any legion that lost il s stan­ dards. One type of Roman standard had Figure I-Denarius of Marc Antony. Reverse: Standards with Moon several disks, or orbs, stacked one atop crescent below stacked orbs. the other along a central pole . What did these di sks represent? In A Dic· tionary ofAnciem Roman Coins, John picting Venu s (Figure 2. top) as well The days of the week were named Melville Jones wri tes: as Luna riding in their celestial bigas. after the planetary gods (Saturn day. "Standards were decorated Willi CI while Sol. Mars (Figu re 2, bollom). Ju­ Sun day, etc.), and fitti ngly the first w/riety of objects 0 11 their shafts. Pa­ piter. and Saturn galloped overhead in day of the week is Moon day (French: ferae, phalerae, crescellls (Illd circles their quadri gas. lund!). Our entire week is a voyage (perhaps IUI/ar and solar symbols) .. . .. Varyi ng opinions differed as \0 the through the Planets (along musical in~ If the crescent logically stands for orders of the Planets (the military cult tervals according to Cassius Dio), with the Moon, then the orbs might repre­ of Mithras for example). so we do see the nco-Platonist writer Martianu s sent other celestial objects that move coins that have the lunar crescent at Capella describing a celestial musical along the ecliptic: the Planets. with other locations along the standards (in ascent in The Marriage ofPh ilology and two of the Wa nderers being the Moon multiple at times). But the most prev­ Men:ury(ca. 400 AD). and here. too, the and the Sun (explaining the "lunar and alent view held that since the Moon is fi rst step up is to the lunar sphere: solar symbols"). Already on coins of one of the largest Wanderers in the sky "Then the bearers picked up the Marc Antony (ca. 30 BC), we see stan­ and occasionally eclipses the Sun. it goddess' palanquin alld with great ef­ dards with the lunar crescent at the must be the closest to the Earth, thus fOri carried her aloft. Bome up by bottom and several disks, circles, or lowest on the pole. Plato already pre­ their buoyal/cy they rose 126,000 sta ­ orbs above them (Figure I). sents this lunar location in Timaells: des, alld completed the first of the ce­ By the earl y Roman era, major "He placed them illlo the orbits lestial tOllal intervals; then the maid­ gods and goddesses were linked to the traced by the period of the Different ... en entered the circle of the mOOll ... " wanderi ng Pl anets and their heavenly He set tile Mool! in rhe first circle Why would Roman legions carry at orbits, with coin s of the Repu blic de- aroulld the earth ... " their forefront a representation of the Plan ets stacked along the eC lipt ic? Because savants of the time. neo­ Pythagoreans (Nigidius Figulus, Cice­ ro, Numeni us) as well as neo-Pla­ tonists (Porphyry. Iamblichus, Macro­ bius), taught th at the departed soul ascended to the celestial abode through the planetary spheres. This elite soteriology would be passed down to the Roman legions by the sci­ ons of the equestrian and senatorial orders. the tradi tional leaders of the Roman army. Without doubt, the great­ est glory and reward for a Roman war­ rior, should he die that day on the bat­ tleficld, wou ld be to join the company of the heavenly gods.

26 The Gelator Who would welcome this brave soldier upon his arrival in heaven? Following his consecrario, that would be the deified Octavian himself (Di­ vus Augustus), the founder of the Empire ("pater patriae"), whose astro­ logical sign Capricorn appears on his own coins as a personal gel1ius (Michael Molnar, The Celator, April 1994), just as it would appear at the top of Roman standards hundreds of years later (see Figure 3 on page 28), With the crescent Moon at the bottom and a zodiacal sign at the top, there can be little doubt that the orbs in be­ tween also stand for celestial objects that travel along the ecliptic: the Pl an­ ets that trace out the Zodiac itself. In discussing celestial symbols on Roman standards, we must not forget the cagle that perches centrally with the greatest honors. As the funeral pyre of Augustus blazed, the bird of Jupi­ ter was released to represent the em­ peror's soul !lying to the heavens, a tradition that wou ld be repeated fo r later emperors, as depicted on Roman Figure 2-Denarii of the Republic. Top: Venus in her heavenly biga coins where the deified emperor nies (ca. 133 Be). Bottom: Mars in his celestial quadriga (ca. 131 Be). skyward atop an cagle (see Figure 4 on page 28), man army, where the widespread cult tial ladder through the Planets (see Fig- The notion of heavenly ascent of Mithras showed strong astrologi­ proved to be very popular in the Ro- cal affinities and portrayed a celes- SHOPS The big online coin mall • Ancient Coins 200,000 coins, medals, banknotes and accessories • Medieval • The Holy Roman Empire • German Coins makes coin buying as easy as • M edals, marks, jetons • Error Coins child's play • Empire Germany Coins • Colonies • Weimar Republic, 3. Reich • Allied occupation • BRD I DDR • World Coins and Euro • Gold .. . and much more.

June2011 27 ure 5, left image, on page 29) that picious would be described by the Greek phi­ nights the losopher Celsus: planets line "In that system there is an orbit for up to reveal the fixed stars, another for the plan­ the stairway ets and a diagram for the passage of to heaven as the soul through the larter. They pic­ the ancients ture this as a ladder with seven gates, saw it (see and at the very top an eighth gate"." Figure 5, Away from light pollution, we can right image, still witness the shifting planetary on page 29). staircase that runs along the Ecliptic The (the path of the Planets), and on aus- memory of Figure 4- Sestertius showing the soul of Divus Marcus Aurelius carried to heaven on an eagle.

lure, while in the Commentary on the ascent through the the Dream of Scipio (ca. 400 AD). Planets certainly sur­ Maerobius lists the attributes a soul vived for, in his acquires when descend ing to an Paradiso, the 14'h _ earthly' li fe, attributes that it will century Dante vividly relinquish on its return journey recounts a passage through the planetary spheres when it through the planetary leaves the body behind. spheres. Earli er, "The moon, Me rcury, Vel!u~', the around the time of sun, as well as Mars, Jupiter, and Sat­ Augustus, the Roman urn, differing from one another in the Figure 3- Coin of Gordian III (ca . 240 AD). Reverse: Stan­ arch itect Vitruvius magnitude of their orbits as though dards with Moon crescent at the bottom, planetary gives the classical or­ their courses were at different points spheres in between, and the Zodiacal sign of Augustus, der of the planetary in a [lig/If of steps ... " - Vitruvius Capricorn (top left and right) flanking the imperial eagle, staircase in his Ten "In the sphere of Saturn it obtains the bird of Jupiter. Books on Architec- reason and understanding ... in Jupi­ ter's sphere, the power to act ... in Mars'sphere, a bold spirit ... ill the SUII'S sphere, sense-perception and imagination.. in Venus ' sphere, the impulse of p{/s~· ion ... ill Mercury's ( sphere, the ahility to speak and inter· pret. .. and in the lunar sphere, thefunc­ tioll ofmolding and increasing bodies." - Macrobius The treadmilr orthe Planets at the heart of astrology still supports many astrologers in our times that claim to reveal the future (remember Nancy Ancient Coins - Modern Coins Reagan's astrologer?), much as Roman emperors pored over the natal charts Historical medals of potential challengers, and then had them executed to remove any possi­ ble threat. Perhaps we have none other to blame for this than the greatest West­ ern philosopher, Plato, who in Repub­ lic has the Fates harmonizing to the Music of the Planets. "And up above on each of the rims of the circles stood a Siren, who ac­ companied it~· revolution, uttering a single sound, one single 1I0te. And the concord of the eight notes produced a single harmony. And there were three other beings sifting at equal distanc­ esfmm one anolher, each on a throne. Th ese were the Fales, the daughters of Necessity.. and they sang 10 the

28 The Gelator music of the Sirens. Lachesis sang of the past, Chlotho of the preselll, alld Atrol)OS of the flltllre. " With the Fates singing of Time (especially of the future) to the music of the planetary Sirens, one gets a gl impse of the appeal of such a precise cosmology and soteri ology, where the visible orbits of the Plan­ ets both reveal the fu ture and erect a ladder to the ce­ lestial abode. The planetary stairway to heaven on the standards of Roman legions deliv­ ered the ultimate physical challenge and spiritual promise, one that could well have iss ued from the mouth of a Roman com­ mander: "Co urage, men! We march into battle for fame. honor. and possibly. celestia l immortality!" Figure 5. Left: Mosaic path at Ostia mithraeum depicting the ladder of the Planets (Photo: Payam AbO/II rhe aUlhor­ Nabarz). Right: the shifting planetary staircase, with the bright planet Venus (bottom), Mars (mid­ George L. Beke is an inde­ dle), and Saturn (top) along the ecliptic with its zodiacal light (Photo: Tunc TezeliTWAN). pendent researcher and au- thor, whose earlier days in publishin g included a 20-year stinl al Time Inc

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June 2011 29 Congratulations! Your government believes ... H You Collect Coins, You Are No Better Than A Tomb Robber input, and hopefully your atlention. by Robert B. Korver They operate under a carefully defend­ ed vei l of secrecy, to further their per­ sona! preferences and objectives. Trust Before I tell you my sad tale aftoil­ me-after eight years, I promise you ing for eight years inside the Federal that this is not paranoia; in the State sausage/pickle factory of laws/regs! Department's Bureau of Education & rules that affect your collecting activ­ Cultura l Affairs (ECA), it 's Standard ities, you should know that you owe Operating Practice (SOP). an enormous debt of gratitude to Pe­ If you want to know why your abil­ ter Tampa, collector of ancient coins, ity to collect the ancient coins of Iraq, ANS Trustee and attorney for ACCG Cyprus. and Italy-and soon to be and PNG; he has done more to protect joined by Greece-has been restricted, your rights as collectors than all of the you need to look inside the vast bu­ votes that you have cast in all of the reaucracy of the U.S. State Deparl­ elections over the last three decades! ment. Amf memorize these abbrevia­ How can Ihis be? tions. The Cultural Property Advisory Robert 8. Korver, who was a mem­ If you are like most Americans, you Committee (C PAC) was created by the ber of the Cultural Property Advi­ really don't want 10 get over-involved Federal Cultural Property Imp lemen­ sory Committee (CPAC) from July in politics, much less bureaucratic tation Act. 19 u.s.c. § 2604 (CPIA) 2003 until his resignation on March minutiae. In fac t, 1" 11 guess that you which was created to effectulHe the 1,2011. know more about Roman pOlitics than 1970 UNESCO Convention (some­ the D.C. vari ety. If you arc a busi­ times the U.N. really is behind it !). The I was asked by the Bush White nessperson, you probably realize th at CPIA is subject to many reservations House to join CPAC in July of 2003, your daily life is more affected by reg­ and understandings made by the U.S. and J served the interests of the col­ ulations created by bureaucrats (with Senate, and was carefu lly crafted to lecting community faithfully until my the force of lllw) than the LAWS actu­ take AmericHn business and collector resignation effective March I. 2011. J all y passed by Congress. The biggest intcrests into account before formu lat­ consuited with many parties before di ffe rence is that you get to vote fo r ing any Memorandum of Understand­ deciding to quit, because we all be­ your Congressional representatives, so ing (MOU) with a fo reign government lieved that it was better to have a seat you can pretend that you have had a (MOUs have the legal authority and at the CPAC discussion table, and voice in the governmental intrusions power of a treaty). These MOUs arc hopefully convince some that we are into your private life. In reality, most not your friend: the process has been not all criminals. Alas. th at justifica­ of these imp,lcts come from face less highjacked by politically driven bu­ tion lasted only as long as CPAC's rec­ bureaucrats who promulgate regul.l­ reaucrats whose overreach has turned ommendations were fo llowed by the tions well away from the harsh light s their legal mission to serve CPAC into State Dept (and subsequentl y by the of public scrut iny. Bureaucrats who a mission to pervert codified law based President); my resignation was re­ wi ll claim "National Security" to hide on a grievous misinterpretation of a quired once it became obvious that the their actions even further from your few words in a very long CPJA. new SOP of bureaucratic overreach meant ECA Staff twisting the CPIA law to advunce their personal prefer­ ences (reversing legally derived rec­ ommcndations of C PAC behind closed doors, with no public input or even CPAC notification). Technically, these ECA Staff actions meant a complete denial of my rights and responsibili ­ ties afforded under CPIA, 19 U.s.c. § caraloglle Ol! request 2604, Section 306 (f) (5). Quitting frees my hands to work with Stale's KIRK DAVIS Inspector GeneraL and hopefully with Congress. Classical Numismatics I may be the first person to ever say Post Office Box 324, Claremont, CA 9171 1 this, but my desire at thi s point is to be subpoenaed by Congress to pierce Tel: (909) 625-5426 [email protected] my Ol!lhs of secrecy; only th en can I

30 The Celator speak freely of the actions behind the Cu riously enough, as a trained eth­ Believe th is: the CPIA was careful­ curtain of Oz. Congress needs to be no-historian, I am sympathetic to the ly crafted to avoid hurting American made aware of how their CPIA law has arguments of the archaeologists. I pre­ businesses at the expense of their glo-·. been perverted, and specifically how fer to see the context of a site pre­ bal competitors, yet by creating this the actions of ECA staff directly con­ served for professional excavation. new loophole to due process, ECA travene both the letter and the spirit But then again, I much prefer Britain's bureaucrats have shifted the ancient of the CPIA. Until then, you can watch Portable Treasure scheme, which al­ coin trade to Europe, where it is still the criminali zation of collecting an­ lows duplicate material to enter the fully legal. No problem- America cients proceed apace, and watch col­ market. But then again, to archaeolo­ doesn' t need the jobs. And just as lectors around the world enjoy more gists, there is not such thing as dupli­ CPAC was carefully constructed to rights than you do! cate material. Every pot is sacred. And represent a diversity of opinion, the What can you do to protect your you don't deserve any of them. In the ECA bureaucrats do not recognize that rights? The events of the last two years meanti me, you better start collecting denying many voices in favor of just have proven conclusively that writing well-photographed catalogs along one is a perversion of the representa­ to CPAC du ring the MOU process with coins, because the MOU import tive process. When one bureaucrat reg­ does little more than place your small , restrictions will bar (he entry of cul­ ularly overrides the votes and wishes discredited voice on the public record tural goods legally sold abroad un less of the legall y constituted many, it - BUT HER E I MUST RECOM ­ they are accompanied by detailed threatens the legitimacy of the entire MEND that you continue to do so, if provenance information. process. Not to menti on a waste of the ONLY TO PREVENT ECA from say­ Some day, 1 may wri te a history of money involved in CPAC affairs. ing that "collectors don't care" as fur­ how the archaeologists, who stand on The specifics of the CPIA and ther justification for their rogue ac­ the shoulders of two centuries of nu­ MOU process require that there are no tions. You are stuck, so go th rough the mismatic research, have tu rned on less drastic measures avail able and motions, but do not expect different their former best friends. Perh aps it is that the requesting State Party is per­ results. Don't lake this personally; because they have now promised to fo rming to a high standard; instead, we ECA/State even refuses to provide stop robbing graves and stealing have: Congress with the required reports that bones, and we all know there is noth­ I) Cyprus: As again reported by would pierce the dark vei l of secrecy! ing more intolerant than a reformed Tompa, a high-ranking Cypriot diplo­ Just in case no one has told you sinner. And here you were busy learn­ matic admitted that Cyprus could not this before, professional archaeolo­ ing about ancient cultures, not even outlaw metal detectors, because it gists own ancient history, not crim­ aware that you were part of a vast in­ inals like you. According to archeo­ ternational conspiracy. r.. thought, you should be happy enough holding all of the ancients you looted BEFORE the MOUs were enacted. You have already looted enough coins from tombs to last your lifetime. Think I am being over dramatic? As Peter Tompa has reported on his blog (http:! Icu I tu ra I property observer. blogspoLeom/), one of the CPAC ar­ chaeologists attacked the founder of a program to teach chi ldren about the ancient world through sandbox liars

June 2011 31 would discourage British tourist traf­ are archaeologists. They are funda­ specifically intended this exemption. fic. Instead, our Customs agents are mentally hostile to all forms of private By their very nature, coins are intend­ busy looking for Cypriot coins instead collecting, and fervently believe that ed to circulate widely and can't nec­ of dirty bombs. The archaeologists all historical artifacts, coins included, essarily be claimed as the cultural praise the MO U for seizing coins, even should be under the control of this property of any single modern politi­ though it's Cypriot inaction that de­ chosen academic elite. I am prohibit­ cal entity- imagine today America stroys site context! Oh, and the ncxt ed by law from revealing these Nation­ claiming all $100 bills circulating time you buy me a drink, ask me about al Secrets, but former CPAC trade rep­ abroad as our "cultural patrimony." how American taxpayers are footing resenlatives have confirmed thaL Numismatists appreciate every surviv­ an increased Customs budget to deny CPAC minutes arc filled with their ing piece from the past, but most types Americans their right to legally import mu lt iple protests against the slaff's of ancient coins survive in large num­ coins found outside of Cyprus, and archaeological bias to the detriment of bers. Collectors need not be wealthy how the Academics del iberately lied a fair hearing. Having failed to con­ to enjoy these ancient works of metal­ about this! trol CPAC th rough injudicious direc­ lic art, but {he new MOUs may force 2) Italy: The Italian government is tion and presentation of research, ECA many to give up their hobby for fear slashing its cultural protection budget Staff has now created a methodology of being criminalized by their own at the same time that Pompeii is liter­ for the archaeo logical ambush of government. Does a collector in Chi­ ally falling down. Instead of taking CPAC recommendations; this is the cago buying a common " rare" coin care of their own affairs. they have new standard operating practice. for $75 really 'jeopardize' Italy's succeeded in sh ifting financial respon­ Change the rules and the results after cultural heritage? Are these truly sibility for protecting their cultural it is too late to have any input from national treasures worthy of protec­ patrimony to the American taxpayer. CPAC duly appointed commissioners. lion by our Immigration and Cus­ 3) Greece: I want to be fair, real­ CPAC guided previous administra­ toms Enforcement (ICE)? ly, so I'll say nothing. Pick up your tions in their response to the cultural ECA twisting of CPIA law to sat­ morning newspaper and you know property demands made by foreign isfy personal desires and minority everything you need to ahout the governments, and had previously opinions is a classic example of bu­ cradle of western civilization. Weep agreed that while the import of certain reaucratic overreach. It perverts the for the peop le . antiquities and works of art should be legal process, and diminishes the ECA has increasingly fallen under regulated, ancient coins should be ex­ statutory role of CPAC, and thus di­ the spell of an academic archaeologi­ empt from such restrictions; contem­ mi nishes the ability of the President cal clique; all of the Staff researchers porary documents prove that Congress to sign laudable MOUs. Once the lunatics figured out how 10 seize control of the asylum, it was time for me to quit. I feared that my CPAC participation was being used to ANCIENT COINS ONLINE put a veneer of legitimacy or acquies­ cence on such actions and advocacy www.vcoins.comlancientlwaynephillips by ECA staff. In point of fac t, this ar­ gument was put fo rward by a govern­ ment attorney in one of the ACCO's FOI A courtroom arguments. I may have resigned from CPAC, but not from the fight- and I hope you will join me. You deserve better treatment from the bureaucrats {hat you didn't elect. Robert B. Korver [email protected]

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LONDON-The venerable British harbor of Ostia, estimated at £2,000- firm of Baldwin's is offering the David 3,000. The collection also contains Heuer Collection of Ancient Greek and lots 30-42, a good run of Mark Ant­ Roman, British, and Foreign coins as ony legionary denarii, and also sev­ part of the ir June 4'" Argentum auction. eral nice denari i of the Emperor Au­ The collection comprises 151 lois gustus. Lots 55 and 56, both fine ex­ amassed by the Heuer family during amples of sestertii of Caligula, are the 1930$ to 1980s. Many olthe Greek offered with estimates of £800- coins were bought in London during the 1,000, and compliment a smattering 19505, and come complete with prov­ of three or four wonderful examples enances from the main London deal­ of Roman gold. Lot 59, a Claudius ers of the time. gold aureus, purchased by David Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Dav­ Heuer through Baldwin's in 1953, is id Heuer developed a passion for coin estimated here at £2,000-2,500. collecting from an early age, taking in­ For all inq uires about the collec­ spiration from his father, Douglas Heu­ t ion , please contact Pau l Hill at er, who trave led frequently to the UK [email protected] or by telephone during the 19305 to expand his collec­ at +44 (0)20 7930 9808. tion. Working in the hardwood busi­ ness, Douglas had opportunities to travel to London and purchased coins Don't miss a single predominately through A. H. Baldwin & issue of David Heuer Sons Ltd. This tradition was continued Tile Celator. by his son, David, when visiting the UK several years later. Subscribe today! David served w ith the United States Marine Corps during WWII, and later joined the International Harvester Company, working first in Havana, Cuba and then moving to Durban, South Africa. While living in South Africa, he and his family enjoyed extensive travel to England, Italy, and Egypt among other places. During th is period, David continued collecting coins, always connecting them with the history of the country at the time of minting, as this was most integral to his collecting. He continued collecting un­ til his retirement when he moved back to his fami ly farm, situated just outside Memphis. In the later years of his life, Dav­ id passed his collection on to his chil­ dren who, after his death in 2007, decided to conSign his collection to Baldwin's. It is their hope that who­ ever buys the collection, or parts thereof, will feel the same sense of history and awe that both they and their father experienced during his years of collecting. Single highlights from the collec­ tion include lot 21, a beautiful exam­ ple of a Julius Caesar denarius, struck during his lifetime and depict­ ing an excellent portrait, estimated Ask your dealer for a free catalog or contact us at: at £2,000-2,500, and lot 63, a very 1800 Mearns Rd-Suite ll, Warminster, PA 18974 (877) 395-SAFE fine and rare example of a Nero ses­ tertius, with a reverse showing the http://www.coincases.com June2011 33 William H. McDonald 1924-2011 William H, McDonald, 1924-201 1 patrol and trade missions in It was with a strong feeling of the the South Pacific. After the passing of an era that the death of Wil­ war, Bill left the west for at· liam H, (Bill) McDonald was announced tawa and Gwe n joined him on Saturday. May 14, 2011. Bill was a a year later where they were huge force in Canadian numismatics, married in 1950. Bi ll now founder of th e CPMS (Canadian Paper began his long career as a Money Society), th e CMNS (Classical banker, eventually joining and Medieval Numismatic Society), the Bank of Nova Scotia in and the Ferguson Foundation. Toronto, the city that re­ Bill, born in Winnipeg in 1924 into a mained his much· loved large family, left home to join the Navy home for the rest of his life. in 1943. (He spoke of picking apples Bill's career climbed with in the Annapolis Valley, a task used by the explosive growth of the the military to keep their young recruits post·war city; he was in· busy, and of a train trip to the west volved in mortgage writing coast where he was to take up ship. for the developers of the old Passing th rough his hometown, his la­ Henry Farm for example, lher mel the Irain and slipped him a wh ich became a fine flask of whiskey: ~ You ' re a man now, planned community and the BilLft) He joined the ACNVA and for the site of the McDonalds' fam­ duration of the World War II sailed on ily home.

It was his banking career that first sparked his primary collecting inter­ est: paper money, and specifically tlroftles in banknotes. His collection of these grew to enormous proportions. At one time a display of his collection ~ umiS'matlcS' at the Toronto-Dominion Centre en­ Adolphe Dieudonne compassed seventy showcases. In a 1868-1945 demonstration of the numismatic adage to buy the book before the coin, Bill put together a collection of Adolphe Dieudonne was born in Paris on January books on banking history that filled 3 1, 1868. He spent [oTty-one years of his life at the th ree walls of his home li brary. Bi ll Bibliotheque Nationale Coin Cabinet before retir­ was always interested in the learn­ ing in 1937. Dieudonne retraced these years in an ing aspect of numismatics, and to article titled " Quamme et un ans au Cabinet des further spread his own commitment M edailles el Antiques de la Bibliotheque Nationale," which wa s published in to paper money, he founded the 1939 in the Revue Nllmismatique. From the beginning of his career. his main C PMS and with it, its publication interest wa s in ancient coins, and he never abandoned this field of research. But which is still operating today. he was also a budding medievalist. and he undenook the publication of the After his retirement from banki ng, Catalogue des IIIOlllwies /ram;aises de la Bibliollreque Nationllie. Credit is due Bill fell the need of another chal· to Dieudonnc for two volumes of this great work: u s lIIolllwies caperienlle.'i. 011 lenge. He turned to a small collec· m)"lIles/rallfaise.f, Vo l. I, 1923 and Vol. II, 1932, as well as Volume I V of the tion of ancient coins he had bought Manuel de fIImr ismatique /rallfaise. MOllnaies /eodafes /ranr;ai::ies, published and pu t away years before, and lor in 1936. In 1924, he took over the management ofthc Coin Cabinet as successor 10 inform ation about them, developed a Ernest Babclon. He died on June 4,1945 in Pari s, the victim of a u-affic accident. friendship with Bruce Brace , the fore­ Dieudonne's bibliography is impressive- he published more than :I hundred and most ancient numismatist of his day fifty books and ankles, as well as four hundred notes and monographs, and hi s in Canada. Bruce introduced Bill to contribution \0 French numismatics remains an essential one. the rest of the ancient coin spectrum, This feature is provided courtesy of Kolbe & Fanning and suggested he limit himself to one Numismati c Booksellers, Gahanna, OH 43230 facet of this very wide field. continued 011 page 36.. 34 The Celator many of which achieved mul­ tiples of the pre-sale esti­ mates. We're also seeing exceptionally strong results fo r impo rtant Late Roman gold coins from the time of Constantine the Great to This silver tetradrachm from Naxos In Sicily, lot 13 in the Heri­ the early Byz­ tage-Gemini CleF sale, realized $174,800 against an estimate of antine era: $185,000. MThe key to having a successful sale today is con­ The Heritage-Gemin i sale nearly sistent high quality." Berk sald,O"which matched the pre-auction estimate of in this competitive market is not easy $3.5 million despite the withdrawal of to achieve." continued on page 37 ...

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Bill wisely chose the period from 100 Be to AD 100, and for the rest of his collecting caree r stuck pretty close­ ly to that. although if a coin of the em­ peror Trajan attracted him he wouldn't qu ibble if its minting date was 102 or even 110. His partic ular interest was the coinage of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene. Coins of this king of Numidia are not rare but ones including the por­ trait of his queen are. (Cleopatra Se­ lene was the daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII). Bill spent some time hunting one down, finally finding one in an Edmonton listing on eBay. As in the case of paper money, Bill wanted to spread information on his new interest. To this end, he founded the Classical and Medieval Numismat­ ic Society, in partnership with Bruce Brace in 1991. This was accompanied by a pair of publications: the annual Picus and the quarterly newsletter An­ vil. In 2000, these two publications were replaced by a card-covered quar­ terly, the CMNS Journal, which con­ tained both scholarly and general in­ terest articles. Four issues a year were mai led from an 'assembly line' around the McDonald dining room table. and the 'world-wide distribution centre' staff then made their way to the post office wi th 300 copies to be mailed from TOf­ onto to Tehran , Athens to Australia. Al­ ter that, the mailing team (same as the FINE GREEK, ROMAN, PERSIAN, editorial team and the office staff) made PARTHIAN & SASSANJAN COINS their way to the Fish House for a well Specializing in BIBLICAL COINS & ARTIFACTS deserved post-publication dinner. At one time, Bill and Gwen even ran Now featuring early modem a mail order book business from their Russian & Austrian coins home. Called Marlcourt Books, it car­ www.zuzimjudaea.com ried most publications in print for an­ We build and buy {jne collections cient numismatics and sent out many ra re and out-Of-print resources 100. NumistmatJst Bill would be happy to know he is NY 11210 so much remembered for his dissem­ ina tion of numismatic information. Whether it was the founding 01 soci­ eties. publications, books or semi­ nars, Bill was a giant in Canadian nu­ mismatics and he will be long re­ the World membered for th aI. He leaves his wi fe Gwen, their · Buying and Selling World and Ancien ts daughter Barb and her family, close · I" n.-e Appraisals; Consignments encouraged friends in the Chedoke Numismatic · IJcnler ror NGC & PeGS Society of Hamilton , Ontario, Feathers · Memhcr of ACCG, ANA, VNA (a numismatic club named for the pub · Shop hours-Fri & &.t 9:30-1 :OO p it started in) . and thousands in the larg­ ''''' _ ..... c ...... oo, ...... ,"" ... _.. _- ...... er numismatic world for whom the con­ Connie Robe.1soll Visit In,· online storts: tri butions of Bill McDonald are now PTeSLdenl. RIchmond CQin Club .....· ..· .,·cQins.com/""ck" Ueo""I(!SCl.l in s fond memories . PO. Iklx 791. Glen AUen . VA 23060 ...... ,·coi"s.com/worl,VCO lllllesCQ ill ' James Bakes, CMNS [email protected] 8(N·65/_25J6 ... ww.co"n k , coillS.CO Ill R. Toron to

36 The Celator Heritage Coot from page 35 also fared well, with the highlight be­ ing $34,500 for a denarius of Diva Sa­ ew Titles the cover coin, an Athenian dec­ bina, wife of Hadrian (lot 334, estimat­ Numismatic Literature adrachm with an estimated valu e of ed at $12,000). Roman gold aurei con­ For Sale $875,000. Bark said the decision to tinued to be in high demand, with pric­ withdraw a high-profile coin a week es like $27,600 for an aureus of Hadri ­ Roman Coins & Their Values before the sale, based on new infor­ an depicting a reclining Hispania (lot 330, estimated at $14,000); $29,900 for mation which called its authenticity into Volume IV, 284-337 question, spoke to the integrity of the mint state aureus of Antoninus Pius (lot $80.00 two firms. "The public's reaction to our 341, estimated at $14,000); and withdrawal of the Athens from the sale $43,125 for an FOC au reus of Nu mer­ was very positive," he noted. ian (lot 426, estimated at $26,000). In the Greek section, a collection of ~Across the board, the results were 13 highly pedigreed coins of Elis, Olym­ outstanding," Berk said. ~ The price for pia brought un iform ly strong bids, the Diva Sabina was remarkable, as lopped by $37,375 lor a beautiful sil­ was a Severus Alexander denarius seil­ lier staler struck circa 452 BC , lormer­ ing for $750. The faclthat Illinois has Iy 01 the Spencer Churchill Collection no sale tax on numismatic coins cer­ (lot 51). Two runs of early eleclrum tainly helped. This is all the more spe­ cial because the whole sale came to­ coins, circa 7lh_6t~ centuries BC, from Lyd ia and Ionia also drew intense in­ gether in ju st over 30 days. " terest and bidding, with a lion-headed Late Roman and Byzantine gold proved exception­ ally strong , with most coins going fo r well over esti­ mate . Highlights included $8, 150 for a facing-portrait solidus o f Con­ stantius II (lot 45, estimated a t $2,500); $16,100 British Commemorative Medals fo r a solidus of & Their Values Julian II "The $125.00 This gold medallion of Constantius II, struck circa 350-355 Apostate" (lot 462, AD in Thessalonica, 101448 in the Heritage-Gemini CICF sale estimated at realized $126,500 against an estimate of $710,000. . ' $9,750); $12,650 for a solidus o f stater 01 Miletos achieving $74,750 (lot Magnus Maximus 74). Other notable Greek prices includ­ (lot 461, estimated at $7 ,500); and ed $92,000 for a silver stater of Cos $40,250 for an FOC tremissis of Euge­ struck circa 480 BC (lot 80); $86,250 nius (lot 469, eslimated at $28,000). for a silver tetradrachm of Acragas, cir­ ca 406 BC (101 10); and $60,375 for a Ptolemaic bronze coin with an excep­ Muscular Dystrophy Association tional portrait of the famous Queen Cleopatra VII (lot 133), setting a record for an Egyptian bronze coin. A high-quality offering of Roman Republican and Imperatorial coins, many from an old California collection Where sparked nearly frenzied bidding on ~ number of silver coins in excellent con­ Hope Begins Each plus $6.00 shipping dition, including $4,025 for a denarius of TI. Velurius (10 \ 151 , estimated at $1,000); $4,025 for a denarius of C. Limelanus (estimate $750); $10,350 for Charles Davis a denarius of Q. Pompon/us Musa (101 P.O. Box 547 1tl 205, eSlimate $4,100); $21,850 lor a Wenham, Mass 01984 ·Sulla's dreamH denarius of L. Aemil­ ius Suea (10\ 240, estimated at Tel: (978) 4682933 Fax : (978) 468 7893 $15,000) ; and $4,887 for an ~ elephan t 1-800-FIGHT-MD [email protected] http://www.vcoins.comlancientlcharlcsdavis de~ariu s" of Julius Caesar (101 242, www.mdausa.org estimated at $2,000) . Imperial silver

June2011 37 ANS Exhibit COllt. rrom pg. 25 his rebellious co-Emperor Maxentius at ter the Temple was destroyed, so the the Milvian Bridge outside of Rome. Pri· images may well have been created by or to the battle, Constantine had a dream people who saw the Temple or contem­ Solaer and his wife Marian donated a in which he saw a cross of light above porary drawings of it. signifi cant part of their collections to the the sun with the Greek words that trans· 4. The Coins Jesus Knew. There is American Numismatic Society and the lated into Latin as IN HOC SIGNa VINC· no doubt that the coins of his time can Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Dr. Ute ES or~ln this sign, you will conquer."The help us to better reconstruct some por­ Wartenberg Kagan, Executive Director sign was described as the Greek leUers tions of the world in which Jesus lived. of the American Numismatic Society, Chi (X) and Rho (P) superimposed on According to the Gospels, Jesus was commented on the exhibition, ~ It is rare each other. Constantine ordered this well aware of the importance of money, to find a collection of such intellectual sign to be inscribed on the helmets and whether coins or other forms of curren­ breadth and historical importance. We shields of his soldiers, and he won the cy, During Jesus' lifetime, bronze coi ns are very grate/ulle Abe and Marian So­ battle. He believed his success was due of various denominations were manufac­ faer for thei r generosity in sharing this to divine protection, and he convened tured in the Galilee, Judaea, and Samar­ collection in this groundbreaking exhi· to Christianity. The chi-rho symbol, also ia, and many silver coins circulated in b il io n . ~ called a Christogram, first appeared on these areas even though none were The exhibition is curated by David a coin of Constantine. Later, Theodosius manufactured there during this period. Hendin, Adjunct Curator of the American I (379-385 CE) used the symbol of the It follows that as a man widely traveled Numismatic Society. An accompanying cross on coins for the first time. Of in these lands, Jesus was familiar wi th catalogue of the exhibit will be available. course, this cross corresponded to the the use of money, including coined man· A scholarly, two-volume catalogue of the cross upon which Jesus was crucified ey in both large and small transactions. Solaer collection of almost 5,000 coins by the Romans on the hill of Golgotha in This exhibit displays Tyre shekels and will be available in early 2012. Jerusalem. Quickly, the cross became half Shekels, which were mandated for Ihe pre·eminent symbol of Christianity. use as the annual Temple tribute, and Exhibition Overview This display also contains other an­ probably made up the 30 pieces of sil· 1. Christian and Jewish Symbols: cient objects showing the menorah, chi­ ver. Also featured are coins of all of the Cross, Chi-Rho, and Menorah. Con­ rho and cross, including oil lamps, seals, rulers of Ihe Holy Land from the time of tained in this display is Sotaer's exam· amulets, and large crosses. the birth of Jesus during the reign of pie 01 the famous and rare menorah coin 2-3. Jewish History on Coins is fea· Herod I through the lives of his disciples. of the last Hasmonean king, Mattathias tured in two cabinets. The coins struck These include coins of Herod Antipas Antigonus (40-37 BCE). Fewer than 25 in the ancient Holy Land between the 4" who Jesus called "that fox~ (luke 13:32); examples of this coin are known to ex­ century BCE and the 2nd century CE pro­ Herod Archelaus (Matthew 2:22); Aris· ist, and Sotaer's is among the best pre­ vide a primary source of informat ion tobulus, King of Armenia, with an ex· served. It depicts the golden menorah about the history, heritage, and emerg­ ceedingly rare portrait of Salome, who from the Jerusalem Temple, along with ing culture of the Judea-Christian tradi­ asked for the head of John the Bapti st another sacred object. the Showbread tion. Th is display contains coins of the after her dance pleased Anlipas (Mark Table. I! was forbidden to duplicate reli· Hasmonean (Maccabean) and Herodi­ 6: 22 - 25); Philip (Luke 3:1); Agrippa I gious objects from the Temple, but Anti­ an kings, the procurators of Judaea un­ (Acts 12: 1-2); and procurators such as gonus deliberately used them as a pro­ der Rome , and a remarkable collection Pontius Pilate (see Matthew 27:2). paganda 1001 designed to rally the Jew· of coins of the Jewish War and the Bar 5. Arabs in the Holy Land. The Na· ish people to tight more vigorously to Kokhba revolt. Among the many won­ bataeans were ancient Arabs of the protect the sanctity of the Temple and derful coins here, one may see the best southern Levant and Northern Arabia, its High Priest against Herod and his preserved example of a silver half·shekel who became wealthy by controlling sup· Roman supporters who, nevertheless from the fourth year of the Jewish War, plies of frankincense and bitumen. Mat· eventually won. 68/69 CE o It is one of fewer than ten thew 2:11 notes that three precious gifts Constantine the Great (307-337 CE) known examples. The Jerusalem Tem ­ were given by magi on the birth of Jesus, was the first Roman emperor to use a ple is displayed on the silver sela'im (Iet­ ~ ... they presented unto him gifts; gold, Christian symbol on coins. On October radrachms) of the Bar Kokhba Revol! and frankincense, and myrrh." Il ls thus 28,312 CE, Constantine fought against (23), which took place only 62 years af- sometimes assumed that a Nabataean king or prince was one of the magi, but there is no confirmation in any sources. THE PROFESSIONAL NUMISMATISTS GUILD, INC. After the last Nabataean king, Rab· belli, whose ru le ended in 105 CE, there 0", 55 YEARS of were no Arab coins minted in the ancient KNOWl.EDGE, INTEGRITY & RESPONSIBI LITY Holy Land until those struck under the Umayyad Caliphate in the 7Ih century Founded ill 1955, the PNG is o non-pmfit orgalliwtion, comprised CE oT he display shows a sampling of ofrhe rop rare coin and paper money expertsfrolll (III oroulld the world. Sofaer's diverse collection of Umayyad, For lIIore information on the PNG, plew'e COnraCT: Abassid, Ikhshidid, Qarmatian, and Fa­ timid Dynasty coins, all struck al vari­ Robert Brueggeman. Executive Director ous mints of the Holy Land including 28441 Rancho California Rd. , Suite 106 Jerusalem, Acre, Joppa, Tiberias, Asca­ Temecula, CA 92590 lon, Saffuriyya, and Gaza among others. Tel. (951) 587·8300 F" (95 1) 587·8301 6. Gods, Goddesses, and Monu­ www.vnr:dmlers.com email: iufo@nngdealers,co/l! ments on the City Coins. Even before

38 The Gelator the first Maccabean coins, important cit­ itolina ~ under Hadrian (the first of 16 ies in ancient Israel struck coins. Many emperors to order coins struck at the BLOCKBUSTER more were issued after Augustus, when Jeru salem mint); rare Byzantine coins INVENTORY Roman authorities gave minting privileg­ naming Jerusalem; Islamic coins refer­ es to certain cities. These powers were ring to Jerusalem as ~ Uyan or ~a l Kuds;" REDUCTION SALE granted.ro promote both loyalty to Rome and Christian Crusader coins depicting 50 % off the books listed below and co.rce in the area. The city coins the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and (except as Il oted). Will not be also developed as a means of local eco­ Tower of David. repeated ror at least one year - nomic, political, and cultural expression. The exhibition website is at http:// For orders received by Solaer's city coins are among the jew­ www.numismatics.org/ExhibitslCullural­ March 30'b, 2011 els In his remarkable collection, and the Change. B_Iooo. u s Ori,Uws tk II_I". Ar"' ...., ...... m .oo book of his collection, being published Baid",i .. A_. I'«;~, H,'" "" "'oKOrnl C""" __ . __ ._5 $10.00 "olot:. Umoyyod. "'hbuid and Tu l "~id. GI,,-u lII-i,loI, .- soon by the ANS, will be the reference VI_I Siamp, (OOr) " ...... " ...... ,.. ... " ...... " .. w_oo IIdlin,... A.R.. Troy. ,M C"''',... ______...... U "OO of choice for city coins of the Holy l and Kirk Davis U. Ul ngt:,JlMul le•• Nu ,";, .." iq"' d, L' '''"d,"", A/n'qw a Vol""",, S.,) __ ,...... "".. 59',00 a shrine, surrounded by a Zodiac wheel, Fried""". A__ Co;,.. of'M Bibl, lOOP) 'lin Coin lttpIic .. containing the various signs of the Zo­ CLAREMONT, CA- Kirk Davis has ,...... ______..... _ ... _._.. _ .... __.. _. $ 14.00 FRed""". A __ CMIU of ,w BibI.- (OOP) . '/6 Coi" Replic .. diac. Perseus holding the head of Me­ released his 59" Catalogue of Ancient ,. C<)Ver ______... _ ...... _ .... _ .. _.. ______... $ 19.00 dusa appears on a rare coin of Joppa. Coins. The fixed price list dated Spring Owl. k... . n., Coina~, of AIUIoom,,'u H R"" WiJi,.,.~, P 'UpG,M ...... CEl, which depicts the two phases of include a choice Motya tetradrachm from ... _ ... __ ..... _ .... ___ .. _ ...... _ ... _._... _ ... __.. _ ... $-1'.00 the binding of Isaac, with Abraham of­ Punic Sicily, plus a superb Terina H"lIsch. 0;, Pl<>ie_lClt.- ~ />In:: .,..} R«m.. ""~,,, .... ______...... " ... _ ,... _ ,...... ,...... ,..... _ ,... $1'.00 fering his bound son to a local god com­ drachm. There is a nice assemblage of lIill. 0 .. /k.e,;p';;" Ca"' loll>{"'~ci.'" Gr"k Coitt, bining Jehovah and Zeus. A large ar­ coins from Central Greece and the (John WanIIMw0l"'lit.n Mu",U'" <>f Art) O.O.P, " ... 52'.00 Itlil. 0 .. ~ I.'" G.-.d C,n., lOOP) .. ,.... 525,00 chitectural bronze of Capitolias in the Peloponnesos, including many selec­ lIill. O.F__ "' ...... ' U<,Iwd'I>{ Coi.i"l ." .... $10.00 tions from the BCD collection . The Greek I~, $ .. o;.,lio",,')' ofGru~ C.... '. Kript...... _... 5 530.00 Decapolis, struck under Marcus Aure­ kard. 5., Dklio"",), ofGrut. C..... ''''''riptioRs _ .. H $5S.OO lius (161- 180 CEl shows the facade of East section features choice Baktrian, JUIIe$OI'I, R.. MotIIIIIi'J GttqW. ",",iqw." J..,.,,,,,I•• Judaean, and North African coinage. The R""",,,,,,. 4 boo,. voh •..." ..... _ ..... Wu 132S. _ $16S.oo an ornate temple with fou r columns, a KI..... 8I. 7~ . O.,Ii", of",,,,i,., G... ! C"'''' __ __ ...... $16,00 central arch between two fortified tow­ Roman secti on is dominated by 40 Re­ x ",.~ . C.. "'",haie "nd Cla,,;c"1 G,,,k Coin' ." ...... 595 .00 Kroll. J .. 11., Mh <>IG"",""ni C",_n,. Pod""" $1.00 U'y. 8" K_ C,,;/U;~ ,''' /''';>101,'''' U~;"'''II)' Ub",,), with Zeus seated within. the Empire through Byzantine. The Cat­ lOOP) .______.. __ _ ...... _ ... ______.... _. SlOO.oo 7. Coins of Jerusalem. The final dis­ alogue is available to Gelato( readers MKDoooNld. 11><- E:>'OI~,;"" ofCo<""~ ._.... _ .. _ ... 520.00 free of charge my submitting your stan­ Met ••lr. n.e Cisloplaori of HoJriaIo ._ ..... _ ... _ ... _ $6'.00 play feature s coins of Jerusalem, which "-Iii .... 1.0 .. Ca'dIOlMt of M.und';"" Coi", .... _ .. _ $60.00 has been a city of importance since the dard mailing address to P.O. Box 324, N.w.ll. E.. L TIlt C"'''''gtJ o/D.nt!,." <>IC"",,_')' ...... _ $1'.00 the mid-4'" century BCE Many of the Soboo ..... />1 _, s,-_ (2 vol ...... ) ______.. _ .... .$9',00 s.e. S .. Bibl;"al N"""""",~.~n.;11J Pi«., of Sil ... , coins struck in this holy city mention (OOP)...... ______.. _ .. $ 15/),00 Jerusalem by name-and in th e numis­ Su,IIe,lond. C-HY. 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SANFORD J. DURST Thus, we find here coins of the Mac­ 106 WoodcleftAvc. cabees and the Jewish War struck in KIRK DAVIS Freepon.NY I I 520 USA c __"""~_JU.c .. 91111 us,. Jerusalem; coins of the Bar Kokhba re ­ Phone(S\6) 867-3333; Frot (516) 867-3397 ('o<)I>!OU-"''' volt expressing a longing for Jerusalem; E-Mail: sjdboo};s@verizonnet Roman provincial coins celebrating the Ebay Siore: Numisbooks 33 re-founding of Jerusalem as "Aelia Cap- •• Also 00 Amazon.com and Alibris.oom

June2011 39 to all coins up to the Kingdom of Italy I Designated List be amended. Coins LETTERS Arte Antica Katane - Numismatica Ka­ constit ute an inseparable part of the tane (see note 8) stated simply they will archaeological record of Italy, and, like Con/billed from page 4 not ship oulside of Italy. other archaeological objects, they are The one positive note I see from this vulnerable to pillage and illicit export.~ French private collection; European process is thai an emphasis will be b. Coins of Italian Types-A type private collection; Belgian private col­ placed on the origin of coins we buy in catalogue of listed currency and coins lection; Formerly collection of _, etc the U.S. I have purchased many an­ can be found in NK Rutter et al. (ads.), (see note 6). At least one company did cient coins, but have only three that Historia Numorum: Italy (London, not mention the MOU, and shipped me came with a provenance back to where 2001). Others appear in G.F. Hill, Coins a small cast coin (Aes Grave) after Jan­ they were found. As ancient coin col­ of Ancient Sicily (Westminster, 1903). uary 19"'. Another company replied that lectors, we should follow the advice 3. http://www.accg.usihome.aspx ~ th is coi n is in my property," and it Harl an Berk sent to customers shortly 4. h tI P :lIwww.sixbid.com l would be shipped as any other item. after th e MOU: "1\ is more important for nav.php?p=viewsale&sid=385 - CNG One company sent me an interesting the good of the industry to document Auction 87, see page 5 01 the virtual answer. I asked: "Has the new U.S.lltal­ all coins already in this country... . so catalogue. ian trade agreement changed your that future generations can still enjoy 5. NAC in their Auction 59 sold business with the U.S.?" Their answer: the hobb y.~ coins on the restricted list. Footnotes ~About the restrictions, Ilind them nar­ Because of my interest in ancient were added to indicate how items row minded and above all uncalled for. coins, I joined the Ancient Coin Collec­ wou ld be allowed to be shipped to the I don't adapt my sales to ii, don', even tor's Guild (see nole 3 for the ACCG US: know why I would.· web site and how 10 join). I hope that a . h tip :llwww.sixbid.com l , have noticed that some Italian their efforts will change some recent n av. php? p=v iew lot&sid =3 70&lot=536 companies have restrictions on where trends. If nol , then opportunities to add - Lot 536 - From a Eu ropean private they do business. Two companies on some interesting items to my collection collection and outside of Italy prior to the deamoneta.com web site took dif­ will be restricted. 19'" of January 2011. ferent approaches. Numismatica Tin­ Gene McPherson b. h tIp :llw ww .sixb id.com I tinna stated in their current auction (see President, Pasadena (TX) Coin n avoph p? p=viewlot& si d= 3 70& lot=67 4 note 7) that shipments outside of Italy Club - Lot 674 - This coin is sold with an would require approval of the Ministry Member of ANA, ACCG English export license proving that is of Cultural Goods, a process that will was in the United Kingdom prior to the take 45 days. This procedure applies tfoIll; 19'" of January 2011. 1. http://exchanges.state.gov/heri­ C. http ://www.sixb i d . com/ tage/culprop/cyfaCI.html nav.php7p=viewlot&sid=370&lot:675 a. ~ Archaeo logical objects from cat­ - Lot 675 - This coin was in the Unit­ egories described in the Designated ed Kingdom prior to 19'" January 2011. List may enter the U.S. only if they 6. h tI p: Ilwww.woboo k .co m/ have an export permit issued by the WBU i4ZW3ys3R - The Bru sale on Government of Cyprus, or documenta­ sixbid.com tion that they left Cyprus prior to the 7. http://www.deamoneta.com/auc­ effective dale of the restriction: July 19, lions/search/41 - Numismatica Tintin­ 2002. As of Ju ly 16, 2007, coins of na on deamonela.com states: Cypriotlypes constitute a subcategory We warn a/l the costumers (sic) non­ of archaeological metal objects subject resident in Italy that the delivery will be to import restriction .~ Note that the date done only after the receiving of the free July 19, 2002 applies to an earlier circulation allowing from the MIBAC agreement that did not restrict coins. (Mlnistey (sic) a/Cultural Goods). That 2. http://exchanges.state.gov/heri­ results in a 45 days expected response tage/culprop/itlact.html - An amended after the adjudicationlburgain of one or Designated List was published in the more coins. This procedure is applied Federal Register by the Department of to a/l the coins up to the Kingdom of the Treasury on January 19,2011. Italy. a. http://exchanges.state.gov/me­ 8. hllp:/Iwww.deamoneta.com/enl dia/olfice-ol-policy-and-evalualionl kataneiview/1302S - Arte Antica Ka­ chc/pdfs/il20 11 dlf rn.pdf - "The DeSig­ tane - Numismatica Kata ne on nated List of articles that are protected deamoneta.com states: pursuant to the bilateral agreement, as NOT SHIPPING OUTSIDE OF THE extended, has been revised and set ITALIAN TERRITORY forth below. We note that, pursuant to 9. Harlan J. Berk newsletter dated 19 U.S.C. 2604, the category entitled 1/25/201 1. 'Metal' has been amended to include t he subcategory 'Coins of Itatian Types.' This amendment comes in re­ Say that you read it ill sponse to a Diplomatic Note from the Government of Italy requesting the The Celator

40 The Celator be familiar with the stamped amulets and weights of the Roman and Byzan­ tine periods. In the early Islamic peri­ od in the eighth century AD, stamped glass weights became very popular since they could not be altered and continued 10 be used into the fifteenth century AD. Such weights usually had the name of a local official and can thus be accurately dated. Many such weights come from Egypt, and they appear with some regularity on the market as, like coins, they were pro­ Inscribed Glass of duced in great numbcrs. So much so that one could still form a modest col­ Early Islam lection today rather inexpensively. In a related technique, Islamic glass­ Glasswares were in production in makers pinched the hot glass with tongs the Islamic world long before the in­ whose jaws were inscribed. These short troduction of islam. Indeed, many ar­ texts are often repeated several times on eas such as Egypt and the Levant were the same vessel. Painting on glass, par­ among the most important centers for ticularly in the luxury luster technique, An inscribed piece of early Islamic glass production in the ancient world. It offered a wider range of inscriptions glassware. Photo courtesy of is not surprising then that the tradition from about the tenth century onward. Time/ine Auctions. continued into the Islamic period. Thus, we begin to see important inscrip­ At first, there was little to distin­ tions including the names of well-known gilding process replaced these tech­ guish between pre Islamic and Islam­ personages. Gold glass was also used in niques. Perhaps the finest examples of ic glass techniques. Soon, however. this period, although it must have been enameled inscribed glass were made C[u ly Islamic styles and techniques quite expensive. as mosque lamps, of which many have began to evolve. One of these was the From the twelfth century AD on­ survived. All in all, inscribed Islamic regular inclusion of inscriptions as part ward, under the influence of the glass is a fertile area of study for the of the decoration on glass objects. In Ayyubids, the simpler enameling and modern collector. classical times glass was rarely in ­ scribed, although the practice was not unknown. In facl, many of the tech­ niques used to inscribe glass in the Is­ THE SWISS NUMISMATIC SOCIETY lamic period were in use in various pre Islamic cultures for decoration if not Founded in 1879 for inscriptions. Mostly such inscrip­ At the forefront of scientific and hisiorical research·for over one hundred years; the Swiss tions in pre Islam ic times were etched Numismatic Society has established a worldwide reputation by its work with leading into the surface after the glass cool<;d. scholars, collectors and dealers diffused through its well known Revue and Gazette journals with articles in four languages, together with numerous monographs and special publica ~ However, as noted, other techniques . tions in such series as Typos and the Catalogues of Swiss Coins. were not completely unknown such as The Society itself owes its inception in 1879 to the pioneering spirit of Dr. Charles Franyois the gold glass sandwich technique of Trachsel , its founder and first president, but the Swiss numismatic tradition goes back to the the late Roman period. earliest days of coin collecting in the late 15" century when connoisseurs like the Amerbach The earliest Islamic glass inscrip­ family of Basel , inspired by Renaissance humanists such as Erasmus of Rotterdam then tions were also etched or carved in residing in the city, established important cabinets. The Society continued from the old century under the guidance of Eugene Demole and Paul relief using the same techniques used Stroehlin , while the new was presided over by eminent scholars such as Dietrich Schwarz in earli~r times. However, by the ninth and Colin Martin. and tenth centuries AD we see a The Swiss Numismatic Society remains today at the service of the international numismatic macked increase in the use of these community, dedicated as it is to the furtherance of the knowledge of those small but techniques for short inscriptions. invaluable witnesses of art and history, the coins of Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the Orient, Tftese inscriptions typically offered the middle ages, the modern period and Switzerland itself. good wishes for the owner. Invoking By joining this leading society, you will be able to participate direclly in numismatic research and moreover be eligible to receive the annual Revue and the quarterly Gazette, as well as the blessing of Allah on the bearer in members' discounts on most special publications. much the same way that Greek pottery j Applications for membership in the Society are welcome from all with an interest in ancient often had inscriptions wishing good and modern numismatics. luck to the bearer. Although most of The membership fee is Sfr 130 peryear (including postage) and Sfr 2500 for life membership, these inscriptions arc etched, some or a sponsoring membership from Sfr 250 per year. Please make checks pay?ble to the were carved despite the greater diffi -. Swiss Numismatic Society. Please visit our website at: www.numisuisse.org. culty of this technique for forming let­ ters. Because of this difficulty, the SWISS NUMISMATIC SOCIETY carved inscriptions are often shorter c/o Secretary: Pierre-A. Zanchi, Chemin Cure 6 B and sometimes all but illegible. CH-1008 Prilly, Switzerland Fax: -t41 21 728 65 61 Another widely used glassmaking technique was stamping. Collectors will E-mail: pmzanchi @bluewin.ch June 2011 41 rience. Not only did we play with con­ cepts, but also with various titles. One of my favorite titles that did not make the cut was "A Shekel for Your Thoughts." A big challenge with the Sofaer collection , be­ cause of its Museum Exhibit: breadth, was to create a multi-cul­ It Takes a Village tural experience If you have ever created an exhibit since the collec­ for a coin show- or even a science fa ir tion strived to in­ project-you will relate 10 Ihis. clude coins of the Figure i-The author begins work on one of the displays at Recently I had a parallel- but very Holy Land of sig­ CULTURAL CHANGE, the current ANS special exhibit at the different- experience, as curator of nificance to Jews, New York Federal Reserve Bank Museum in Manhattan. the American Numismatic Society ex ­ Christians, and hibit CULTURAL CHANGE: Coins of Moslems. Another challenge-always sometime between 30 and 33 AD, he {he Holy Lnndfeaturing coinsfrom the a challenge with coins-is that they was one of many thousands of non­ Ahraham D. and Marian Scheuer 50- arc small. How does one focus a view­ Romans who were dispatched by this faer Collection . It will be on exhibi t er's attention on something as tiny as ghastly form of capital punishment. so at the New York Federal Reserve Bank a Yehud coin that is only about 8 mm the cross was not unique to Jesus. The until January 2012. in diameter and weighs less than a fifth cross did not become widely used as a As I thought about the project be­ of a gram? Finally, the Sofaer collec­ symbol of Christianity until the late fore the work began, I believed il tion contains many thousands of coins, fourth century AD. The earliest Chris­ would be very similar to creating a but we were able to use only a few tian symbol used on coins was the su­ coin show exhibit. I became a curator hundred in the seven cabinets of ex­ perimposed Greek letters chi and rho. only recently. So, how was 110 know? hibit space at the Fed. the first two le tters of Christ in Greek. How wrong I was. I can on ly usc Hi l­ We decided to use space, photog­ The seven-branched menorah was lary Clinton's words to describe what raphy, and other objects to help tell the central in the Jewish faith from earli­ is required to create a museum-quali­ stories of these coins. One important er times, since it was described in Ex­ ty exhibit of coins-it takes a village. display in our exh ibit focuses on the odus 25:3 [-40: "And you must make I thought Cefalor readers would be early use of religious symbols such as a lampstand of pure gold ... And you interested in the process, who was in­ the mcnorah and the cross. The exhib­ must make seven lamps for it; and the volved, and how it works. it points out that both of those symbols lamps must be lit." Firs! on the agenda is a concept, one are generally linked directly to their re­ Jewish priests in the Jerusalem of an exhibit curator's basic jobs. Hap­ spective religions from earli est times. Temple took care of the golden meno­ pi ly, I was able to draw on the experi­ But the reality is that both the menorah rah. But the depiction of the menorah ence of ANS executive director Ute and the cross came to be used much lat­ outside of the Jerusalem Temple was Wartenberg Kagan and ANS deputy di­ er than most people helieve. a violation of Jewish law, as later codi­ rector Andy Meadows. Both of them To show how we handled one nar­ fied in the Babylonian Talmud. Because were curators of Greek coins at the Brit­ rative, the exhibit notes that when of this prohibition. there are few imag­ ish Museum, and have had lots of expe- Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem es of the menorah known to have been made while the second Temple stood: the Romans destroyed it in 70 AD. f.[)H. D. RAUCH GmbH Vienna Wide use of both the cross as a symbol of Christianity and the meno­ RAUCH Numismatist and Auctioneer since 1969 rah as a symbol of Judaism began only For Ancient, World Coins & Historical Medals in the third and fourth centuries. The coins that fi rst display these images are • Ih Ih NextAuctlOn: July 14 -15 quite small and difficult to display. So Bid live from y our location hy computer! Printed we supplemented them with other ob­ catalogue also available. jects, including large menorahs en­ graved on bronze, bronze Byzantine crosses, oil lamps with cross and meno­ Please contact us: Ot 143 I 533 3312 rah motifs, as well as some photographs. E-mail : [email protected] Speaking of photographs, Ute had discovered among the ANS treasu res Visit our shop: www.hdrauch.com an amazing book from the mid-\SOOs Write to: A-lO IO Wien, Graben 15 (Europe) filled with images of the Holy Land tak en by Felix Bonfi ls. We decided 42 The Gelator that a selection of those photographs would give the exhi bit a nice touch, and we added some other images that fur­ Tim Wnlkes ther enhanced and explained the coins. Specialist in Medireval and Islamic Coins Text was required for seven cabi­ nets, plus seven posler-sized wall­ boards. It took me around two months to write the text. But soon it became clear that I had been too optimistic about how much text would fit. We had to hack, hack, hack away even as the PO Box 150 signs were being designed by ANS Battle museum administrator Joanne Isaac. e_mail: [email protected] East Sussex As she set up the design for the text of www.wilkescoins.com TN330FA one cabinet, she would caWme in and www.vcoins.com/ancient/timwilkes UK point OUI that I had written around 3,000 words bUI there was only space for around 1,400 words. Soon it WllS time \0 go into the ANS vault and pull out the coins. This is an impossible task without the help of Early ANS collections manager Elena Stol­ yarik. Not only does she know the lo­ Islamic & Oriental cations of most of the more t han 800,000 coins and related objects in Coins ANS collections, but she patiently ex­ plained the procedures for removing coins for exhibit and recording what they are and where they have been taken. www.vcoins.com/najafcoins Once the coins are selected, the text needed to be refined so it would be www.najafcoins.com appropriate to the exact coins chosen. Meanwhile, other ANS colleagues, such as Robert Hoge, who is Curator of North American Coins and Curren­ cy, double-checked the text. Now on a large table in the center of the ANS curatorial department, E I ~ Guide to BIBLICAL COINS ena precisely measured out the size of each display cabinet one by one. After the dimensions were perfect, we laid out FIFTH EDITION the coins, images, and other objects ex­ actly the way we wanted them to look by David Hendin when we set up the exhibit at the Feder­ al Reserve Bank's Museum. MOST POPULAR REFERENCE EVER WRITTEN This process of creating layouts took three days; all the while ANS FOR BIBLICAL AND JEWISH COINS pholOgrapher Alan Roche was making of super sharp photos of each of the coins 640 pages; 56 pages high-quality plates; and objects we had selected for the sturdy hardcover; dust jacket exhibit. Some of the enlarged photos will be used to enhance the displays, Order from your favorite numismatic book dealer, and almost all of them will be used in Amazon.com, or direct from the publisher the catalog that is being created based at $85 plus $6 shipping. upon the exhibit. (Don't order yet, bUI the catalog should be available next winter from the ANS.) During the layout process, ANS www.AmphoraCoins.com assistants Julian Biber and Anouska Hamlin helped out tremendously. USll~ ally both of them are working on the AMPHORA B":;; ~), ANS digitalization project, but when If... P:o. Box 805 POt 11 big exhibit is being launched, its "~1l "- ~ N,,,'.NY 10960 ~~ ~.~j hands on deck." . ,":I 1t'.J 845-358·7364 ~, ~ - ~~ dhendin@gmai l. com • "", cuntinued 011 page 46 .. June 2011 43 ancient world- several other cultures existed in Nonh Africa as well- and just happened to leave hehind coins for us to collect! (Figure I) Mauretania Furthest west of the three cultures I would like to briefly explore in this column, an­ cient Mauretania occupied the now coastal region of Morocco and Al­ geria, as contrasted against mod­ Figure 2-Roman Republic, AR Denarius, 56 ern Mauritania, which is on the Be, Faustus Cornelius Sulla-Mauretania Al­ Atlantic coast of western Africa. liance. Image courtesy of CNG, Inc., Triton Mauretania was an independent X, Lot 531, January 2007 via acsearch.info. North Mrica - It's kingdom before the Romans con­ more than just Egypt! quercd it in 44 AD by Claudius. It (Figure 2). This references the was established ca. III BC by King Jugurthine War of 112-1 as BC against When the subject of North Africa Bocchus 1. a Berber king and the fa­ the Romans, which, after two losses, comes up, the most prevalent response ther-in-law of lugurlha. Bacchus concluded a treaty with Sul­ I get from folks relates to Pharaonic or I am unaware of any coinage pro­ la. l ugurtha was turned over as part of Ptolemaic Egypt. Understandable, of duced under Bocchus r or Bacchus II. the alliance and executed in 104 Be course, since their civilizations lasted However, there is a popular and famous in Rome. After Ju gurtha's execution, thousands of years combined. Howev­ Roman Republican dcnarius of Faustus part of Numidia came under the con­ er, Egypt wasn't the only game in town Cornelius Sulla from 56 BC with the trol of Mauretania and some joint coin­ when the Romans began laking over the rcverse showing Bocchus I kneeling be- age was minted under Juba I and II. fore Lu- Another note of interest for Mauret­ cius Cor­ ani a is the Roman emperor Macrinus nelius Sul­ (2 17 AD) hailed from there. Obviously, la and of­ being a Roman emperor, coinage exists fe ring a from his reign and can be used as a nice pal m tie-in 10 a collecting topic. branch, and Numidia Ancient Numidia was a bound, located in parts of modern Algeria, kneeling Tunisia and Libya. It existed as an in­ Ju gurtha dependent kingdom from 202 BC until

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the western part was annexed by Mau­ retania and the remainder under local princes until fully annexed by Rome in 46 BC after the Battle of Actium. The first king of Numidia, Masi­ nissa (202-148 Be), issued bronze coins. One such issue shows a male head left on the obverse and a horse Learn All About Collecting Ancient Coins rearing left with a palm behind on the reverse (Figure 3). If the reverse looks familiar, that's becanse Numidia sur­ www.ancientcoinmarket.com rounded Carthage, which had the same style and motifs on their coinage. New Articles Monthly c0l1til111ed 011 page 46 . 44 The Gelator The implication here seems to be that two individuals named Tarkotidimotos shared some degree of authority at Anaz­ arbus at one point in time. Also, that each of these individuals had singular author­ ity for a period as well and that there was a transition from one directly to the other. It would seem logical that such a Figure 1-Anazarbus /E-22 transition within a dynasty would be after 19 BG. TAP-TAP monogram. from father to son. The only possible transition at this time would necessarily ways seemed unlikely to me, but the have been from Tarkondimotos II to a alternative would require the existence successor of the same name who could A Tarkondimotid Clue of yet another individual named have been either a son or a nephew­ Last month in this column, we Tarkondimotos within the tight gene­ the son of Philopator. alogy of the dynasty. looked at the enigmatic series of bronze Fortunately, all of the coins from One of the joys and benefits of spe­ coins struck atAnazarhus in CiJ icia dur­ this series seem 10 have been struck ing the final years of lhe 1st century Be. cializing in coinage of a single mint is from a single obverse die that degrad­ The monograms on these coins bear that the collector or researcher tends to ed significantly over time. Conse­ testimony to local authority of the focus on minutiae that offer clues to the quently, it may be possible through an Tarkondimotid Dynasty, though little history of that place and the details of extensive study of the extant speci­ research has focused directly on this its monetary issues. It was my good for­ mens 1O determine which of the two relatively obscure series. The Ziegler tune to discover just this month an im­ TAP monograms appeared first on the corpus that I mentioned last month portant variant of the type discussed. coins struck at Anazarbus. Ziegler records fou r monograms: This coins looks very much like al! the places the chronology as ordered in the other civic bronzes of Anazarbus with a monogram illustrat ion here. That is, head of bearded Zeus on the obverse and monogram 3 preceded monogram 4 in Zeus Nikephorus seated on the reverse. the chronology. J can neither confirm The detail that sets this piece aside from that order nor refute it with the evi­ all others is the monogram--Df rather the dence at hand, but it certainly is wor­ combination of monograms. Nowhere 2 thy of scrutiny since confirmation 3 4 else in this series does more than one would tell us with some certainty These monograms apparently refer monogram appear on a coin. However, which monogram was used by Tarkon­ \0 Philopator. Tarkondimotns, Tarkon­ on Ihis coin there exists a unique com­ dimotos II , and that would·be useful in dimotos, and Tarkondimotos as illustrat­ bination of the third and fourth mono­ establishing chronologies at some other grams illustrated above. The TAP mono­ ed from left to right above. There seems Cilician mints where the Tarkondimo­ little doubt that all of these monograms gram no. 4 appears horizontally at the top tids had infl uence·during this period. appear after the death of Tarkondimo­ of the scheme while the TAP monogram The elephanHn the room is mono­ los I. It seems fair to assume that the no. 3 appears vertically below. The two gram 2 above.df monogram 3 or 4 is first monogram found on Ziegler cat­ monograms share the letter P (rho) link­ Tarkondimotos· II , then to whom does alogue nos. 4 through 6 represents ing them in a fashion that seems to imply monogram II belong? Like the situation Philopator, the son of Tarkondimotos more than a mere sharing of authority. fac ing Alice, it just gets "curiouser and I. Likewise, the second monogram, curiouser." But, that's what makes the found on Ziegler nos. 6 through 15, study and collecting of ancient coins a wou ld seem to represent Tarkondim­ hobby with few parallels for the inde­ otos II , the second son of Tarkondim­ pendent scholar. There are many unre­ otos J who shared power wi th his solved questions thai one can sink their brother for some indeterminate time. teeth into and the thrill of discovery is Identifying the successors of these never ending. two brothers has been a question of some debate. The chroniclers tel! us that the dynasty ended in AD 17 with Are you looking for someone you can trust the death of a "King Tarkondimotos." to sell your collection for yOU? But who exaclly was this king and "",here does he fit into the scheme of Consign with confidence to monograms from contemporary coins of Anazarbus? 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June 2011 45 Hendin ConI. from pg. 43 Elena and I have spent five full to those who study weights and objects days at the Fed's Mu seum setting up from ancient Israel. The book has 88 Among other seemingly mundane the exhibit. Elena ordered stands, ped­ pages with 312 black & white photo­ tasks that absolutely must be taken care estals, inert pins of the right size to graphs of individual items, plus 18 of is a complete inventory of the ex­ hold the coins, and special pins with photographs of clusters of items. Some hibit, with appraisals for insurance numbers, so that each object can cor­ charls, tables and graphs are purposes. And last, but not least, ev­ respond to the text. included.oOrder direClly from http:// ery coin and object must be carefully Before we put anything into a case, www.galata.co.uk. packed for shipment to the Federal we taped the borders and marked the Reserve Bank Museum. and this criti­ entire area into grids, so we would be Copyright © 20 11 by David Hendin cal (and lengthy) job was undertaken able to balance the material in the by ANS curatorial assistant Sylvia most visually appealing way. At the Internet Cont. from pg. 44 Karges, along with Elena. Most muse­ cnd of each workday, the material we ums have very good security and we are prepared was placed into the exhibit After Numidia was made a client not at all worried about the New York cases by the staff of the Federal Re­ state of the Roman Empire and Juba Federal Reserve Bank, since in addition serve Bank. It was quite an ela borate II was placed as the ruler, some very to our exhibit, they are protecting the thing \0 open the cases because alarms interesting coinage was produced. Al­ largest single stash of gold in the entire needed to be turned orf and glass, hun­ though there exist a seemingly collect­ world- more than Ft. Knox! dreds of pounds of it, needed to be lift­ ible variety of types, mostly in silver, ed to insert the exhibits. Our host at the Fed was Rosemary Lazenby, who greeted us each day and took care of all of the questions and needs particular to this job. All of us at the ANS and the NY Federal Reserve Bank Muse­ um hope that when you are next in New York you will visit the Museum at the New Yo rk Federal Reserve Bank. 33 Liberty Street, Figure 4-King Juba If and Cleopatra and check out CULTURAL Selene of Numidia, AR Denarius, 20 CHANGE: Coins oftlie Holy Land BC-24 AD, Caesarea Mint. Image cour­ in order to see what our little vil­ tesy of eNG, Inc., Mail Bid Sale 78, Lot lage has created. It will be open 1007, 2008 via acsearch.info. from now until December 31 ". NEW BOOK RECEIVED: I examples don't come to market with recently received a copy of any regularity. One popular example Weights and Weight-like OhjeclJ of the period shows King Juba [I on frolll Caesarea Maritima by Lion­ the obverse and a reverse with the el Holland. This is a fascinating headdress of Isis and a sistrum, issued Figure 2-Rosemary Lazenby of the NY Fed­ study of objects found along the during the joint reign with Cleopatra eral Reserve Bank, David Hendin, and Elena beach at Caesarea by Holland Selene (25 BC-24 AD; see Figure 4). Stolyarik of the ANS near one of the displays himself, and other local collec­ at CULTURAL CHANGE tors. It is a book of major interest contin/led {)II page 56..

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