The New York Sale XXVII - The Spectacular Prospero Collection of Ancient Greek Coins Wednesday 04 January 2012 19:30 Baldwin's New York Vanderbilt / Lobby Level Waldorf Astoria Hotel Baldwin's New York (The New York Sale XXVII - The Spectacular Prospero Collection of Ancient Greek Coins) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Park Avenue, between 49th & 50th Street Baldwin's New York (The New York Sale XXVII - The Spectacular Prospero Collection of Ancient Greek Coins) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 1989 - The estimates are in USD The Prospero Collection of $ 4,000 Ancient Greek Coins. GAUL. , Massalia (c.150-100 B.C.), Silver Drachm, 2.69g, . Bust of Artemis Lot: 4 facing to right, wearing a diadem The Prospero Collection of and drapery, a bow and quiver at Ancient Greek Coins. ITALY. her shoulder. Rev. Etruria, Populonia (after 211 MA&#918&#918A / A?, lion B.C.), Silver 20 Asses, 7.98g. moving to left on ground line, Head of gorgoneion facing, raising its forepaw (Muret 1112; wearing a diadem, mark of value Dewing 22). Attractive iridescent X••X below. Rev. tone, extremely fine. - The Blank (I. Vecchi, 'The Coinage of estimates are in USD $ 550 the Rasna. A Study in Etruscan Numismatics', part 2, SNR 69, 1990, 67 (this obverse die); SNG Lot: 2 Delepierre 101 (this obverse die); The Prospero Collection of SNG France 15 (this obverse Ancient Greek Coins. ITALY. die); HN Italy 152). Struck from a Etruria, Populonia (c.300 B.C.), slightly worn obverse die, toned, Silver 10 Units, 4.20g. Female very fine. Ex Spink Auction 82, head facing to right, wearing a London, 27 March 1991, lot 397 - diadem and an earring, mark of The estimates are in USD $ value X behind. Rev. Plain 1,800 (Sambon 68a; SNG France 41; HN Italy 165). Toned, extremely fine. Ex Olga H. Knoepke Lot: 5 Collection, Glendining's in The Prospero Collection of conjunction with A.H. Baldwin & Ancient Greek Coins. ITALY. Sons Ltd., London, 10 December Campania, Hyria (c.405-385 1986, lot 10 - The estimates are B.C.), Silver Didrachm, 7.20g, . in USD $ 2,500 Head of Hera Lakinia facing, inclined slightly to right, wearing a stephane decorated with a Lot: 3 central palmette flanked by two The Prospero Collection of griffins, and wearing a necklace, Ancient Greek Coins. ITALY. ? on right. Rev. YPINA Etruria, Populonia (after 211 (retrograde), man-headed bull B.C.), Silver 20 Asses, 8.26g. standing to right on ground line Head of gorgoneion facing, (Rutter 128 (O47/R114); SNG wearing a large diadem, mark of ANS 270 (this obverse die); value X X below chin. Rev. Jameson 41 (this obverse die); Octopus (SNG Lockett 41 (this HN Italy 540). Attractive style, coin); I. Vecchi, 'The Coinage of toned, very fine. - The estimates the Rasna. A Study in Etruscan are in USD $ 2,500 Numismatics', part 2, SNR 69, 1990, 25, 6 (this coin); BMC 4; Antikenmuseum Basel 10; HN Lot: 6 Italy 146). Reverse off-centre, The Prospero Collection of beautiful old cabinet tone, about Ancient Greek Coins. ITALY. extremely fine, rare and with a Campania, Neapolis (c.350-325 distinguished old pedigree. This B.C.), Silver Didrachm, 7.64g, . coin published in 'The Coinage of Head of nymph facing to right, Rasna. A Study in Etruscan her hair bound with a broad band Numismatics', I. Vecchi, SNR 69 decorated with a meander (1990), 25, 6; and in SNG pattern. Rev. Lockett, 41, illustrated on pl. I. Ex [NE]O?OΛITH[&#918] (in P. Barron Collection Ex Jacob the exergue), man-headed bull Hirsch, Auction XXX, Munich, 11 standing to right, Nike flies above May 1911, lot 18 Ex R. Allatini to right to crown the bull Collection Ex Clarence S. (Sambon 363 (this coin); SNG Bement Collection, Naville VI, ANS 293 (these dies); HN Italy Lucerne, 28 January 1924, lot 21 565). Struck from dies of the Ex R.C. Lockett Collection, Part I, finest style, excellent metal, Glendining & Co., London, 25-28 attractively toned and good October 1955, lot 24. Purchased extremely fine, one of the finest from Spink & Son Ltd., London, known examples and a superb 1 of 150 Baldwin's New York (The New York Sale XXVII - The Spectacular Prospero Collection of Ancient Greek Coins) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com piece of ancient art. This coin Lot: 9 published in 'Les Monnaies The Prospero Collection of Antiques de L'Italie', A. Sambon Ancient Greek Coins. ITALY. (1903), p. 205, 363, illustrated on Campania, Nuceria Alfaterna pl. III. Ex Franz von Wotoch (c.250-225 B.C.), Silver Collection, Sambon & Canessa Didrachm, 7.25g, . Oscan legend, Auction, Paris, 11 & 12 head of Karneios facing to left, December 1901, lot 66 Ex with ram's horn, a small dolphin Comtesse de Behague behind. Rev. Dioscouros Collection, J. Vinchon, Nouveau standing facing, head turned to Drouot, Paris, 14 April 1984, lot 3 left, beside his horse, holding the - The estimates are in USD reins and a thyrsos (SNG France $ 7,000 1102 (these dies); Sambon 1008; SNG ANS 560 (these dies); HN Italy 608). Obverse a little off- Lot: 7 centre, toned, nearly extremely The Prospero Collection of fine, rare. Ex Prof. L. White-King Ancient Greek Coins. ITALY. Collection, Sotheby's, London, 22 Campania, Neapolis (c.300-275 & 23 April 1909, lot 7 Ex Hess - B.C.), Silver Didrachm, 7.38g, . Leu, Auction 28, Lucerne, 5-6 Head of nymph facing to right, May 1965, lot 10 Ex Frank her hair bound with a broad Sternberg, Auction XX, Zurich, 20 band, and wearing a triple- April 1988, lot 40 Ex Giessener pendant earring and a necklace, Mnzhandlung, Auction 42, a kantharos behind, XAPI Munich, 11 October 1988, lot 12 - (moneyer's name?) below neck. The estimates are in USD $ Rev. [NEO?OΛITH&#918] 3,000 (in the exergue), man-headed bull standing to right, Nike flies above to right to crown the bull, Lot: 10 small K between the bull's legs The Prospero Collection of (Sambon 467b; SNG ANS 356 Ancient Greek Coins. ITALY. (these dies); HN Italy 579). Campania, Phistelia (c.405-400 Reverse a little off-centre, very B.C.), Silver Didrachm, 7.39g, . pretty style, nearly extremely fine. Female head facing, inclined - The estimates are in USD slightly to right. Rev. Man-headed $ 700 bull standing to left, a dolphin to left in the exergue (Sambon 828; Rutter 179, 6; SNG ANS 563-5; Lot: 8 HN Italy 611). Cabinet tone, The Prospero Collection of nearly extremely fine. Ex Hess - Ancient Greek Coins. ITALY. Leu, Auction 36, Lucerne, 18 Campania, Nola (c.400-385 April 1968, lot 9 Ex Monnaies et B.C.), Silver Didrachm, 7.08g, . Medailles SA, Auction 68, Basel, Head of nymph facing to right, 15 April 1986, lot 5The precise her hair bound with a broad location of the ancient site of ribbon, and wearing an earring Phistelia is unknown and its and a necklace. Rev. existence is only known to us NΩΛAIΩ[N] (in from its coinage. - The estimates the exergue), man-headed bull are in USD $ 2,800 walking to left, Nike flies above to left to crown the bull (Rutter 34 (N014/NR25); Sambon 806b; Lot: 11 SNG ANS 553 (this obverse die); The Prospero Collection of HN Italy 605). Reverse a little off- Ancient Greek Coins. ITALY. centre, toned, very fine. Ex Spink Campania, Suessa Aurunca & Son Numismatics Ltd., Auction (c.265-240 B.C.), Silver 20, Zurich, 6 October 1986, lot 24 Didrachm, 7.11g, . Head of - The estimates are in USD Apollo facing to right, wearing a $ 2,200 laurel-wreath, his hair long and flowing, a bow behind. Rev. SVESAN[O] (in the exergue), Dioskouros, wearing a pilos and holding a palm-branch tied with a fillet, riding to left with a second horse beside him (SNG ANS 594- 7 var.; Sambon -; SNG France -; 2 of 150 Baldwin's New York (The New York Sale XXVII - The Spectacular Prospero Collection of Ancient Greek Coins) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com HN Italy 447). Beautiful astride dolphin to right, holding a Hellenistic style, attractively cuttle-fish in his right hand and toned, about extremely fine, a extending his left hand. Rev. very rare variety. - The estimates TAPAS (retrograde), hippocamp are in USD $ 5,500 to right, a scallop-shell below (Fischer-Bossert 23 (V10/R18); Vlasto 126 (this obverse die); Lot: 12 BMC 44 (these dies); HN Italy The Prospero Collection of 827). Attractive cabinet tone, Ancient Greek Coins. ITALY. good very fine, rare. Ex Bourgey Calabria, Tarentum (c.510-500 Auction, Paris, 14 June 1932, lot B.C.), Silver Incuse Stater, 7.86g, 1 Ex Adolph Hess AG, Auction . TARAS (retrograde), 254, Lucerne, 25 & 26 October Phalanthos seated astride 1983, lot 19. Purchased from dolphin to right, his left arm B.A. Seaby Ltd., London, April extended and his right hand 1984 The city-state of Tarentum resting on the back of the was one of the richest of the dolphin, a scallop-shell below, Greek colonies in Magna Graecia dot and cable border. Rev. The and it produced an extensive same type incuse and reversed, series of coinage from the late ribbed incuse border (Fischer- sixth century B.C., of which the Bossert 11e (V6/R10) (this coin); staters are among the most Vlasto 62 (these dies); SNG ANS beautiful. A consistent image 825 (these dies); HN Italy 826). running through the staters is the Dark old cabinet tone, very fine, figure of Taras riding a dolphin.