Coins and Historical Medals To be sold by auction at: Sotheby’s, in the Upper Grosvenor Gallery The Aeolian Hall, Bloomfield Place New Bond Street London W1A 2AA Day of Sale: Friday 2 December 2016 at 10.30 am and 2.00 pm Public viewing: Nash House, St George Street, London W1S 2FQ Monday 28 November 10.00 am to 4.30 pm Tuesday 29 November 10.00 am to 4.30 pm Wednesday 30 November 10.00 am to 4.30 pm Thursday 1 December by appointment Or by previous appointment. Catalogue no. 84 Price £15 Enquiries: Tom Eden, James Morton, Paul Wood, David Kirk or Stephen Lloyd Cover illustrations: Lot 1108 (front); lot 792 (back); lot 551 (inside front); lot 787 (inside back) Tel.: +44 (0)20 7493 5344 Fax: +44 (0)20 7495 6325 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mortonandeden.com This auction is conducted by Morton & Eden Ltd. in accordance with our Conditions of Business printed at the back of this catalogue. 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Order of Sale Thursday 1 December 2016, starting at 12.00 noon and 2.30 pm Orders, Medals and Decorations see separate catalogue Friday 2 December 2016, starting at 10.30 am Ancient Coins from the John Casey Collection lots 401-535 Ancient Greek Coins lots 536-586 Roman, Byzantine and Axumite Coins lots 587-709 Islamic Coins lots 710-782 Friday 2 December 2016, starting at 2.00 pm Historical and Commemorative Medals lots 783-787 British Gold Coins lots 788-893 British Silver and Bronze Coins lots 894-925 World Gold Coins lots 926-1138 World Silver and Bronze Coins lots 1139-1188 Banknotes lots 1189-1192 The condition of most of the coins and medals in this catalogue is described by the use of conventional numismatic terms. For an explanation of these expressions, or for any further information, clients are invited to contact us directly. SESSION ONE Friday 2 December 2016, starting at 10.30 am ANCIENT COINS The John Casey Collection The following 135 lots represent the bulk of the collection of John Casey formed over almost 50 years. P.J. Casey (1935-2016) began his career as Assistant Librarian at the Institute of Bankers during which time he spent week- ends helping on rescue excavations including those of the temple of Mithras in the City of London and the Bishop of Winchester’s Palace in Southwark taking, at the time, four years evening classes obtaining a diploma from the Institute of Archaeology. Bored with his job as a librarian and aspiring to become a professional archaeologist he then obtained his degree after a further three years study as a mature student at Cardiff University. He spent the rest of his career as Lecturer in Archaeology at Durham University. John Casey was never interested in collecting coins in their best style and condition but for the information that they pro- vide. During his time at Durham University he acquired the majority of his Roman and all of his Anglo-Saxon coins as a teaching collection relevant to the course he gave to his students, mostly coins in poor condition in order to teach his stu- dents how to identify such coins in the condition they are usually found in during excavations. In his retirement he continued to collect Greek and eastern Roman provincial coins in poor condition and generally sold unidentified, enjoying the challenge of trying to identify them as a past-time. There are nevertheless a number of coins in good condition and some, particularly the pedigreed denarius of Carausius (lot 449) and the siliquae of Constantine III (lots 484 and 485) and Maximus (lot 486) are notable. Hopefully many collectors will find something of interest here since the bulk of the money raised from the sale will go to charities including the Royal Numismatic and British Numismatic Societies. Simon Bendall. Greek coins 401 Ancient British, Imported coinage, billon attributed to the Leuci (LT 9044; ABC 79) and the Remi (LT 8124; ABC 82) and Æ 17mm of the Remi inscribed Remos Atisios (LT 8054); Cantii, potin (2, ABC 132 and 150); Iceni, Ecen silver unit (ABC 1663); Durotriges, silver stater (ABC 2160) and quarter staters (2, ABC 2211, one damaged); Trinovantes, Æ unit attributed to Dubnovellaunos (ABC 2413 – “very rare”), Æ units of Cunobelin (3, ABC 2963, 2969 (2)); and Armorican billon stater, mainly fine to very fine (14) £400-600 404 Pontic Kingdom, Mithradates VI (120-63 BC), 402 tetradrachm, year 212 (86/85 BC), head right, rev., stag graz- th Kings of Macedon, Alexander III (336-323 BC), ing; below IA (11 month), 17.00g (Rec. Gen. p. 18, 16, pl. suppl. tetradrachms (3), early posthumous, of Sinope (Price 1255), B, 12), soft striking, very fine £800-1,200 Tarsus (formerly Carrhae? Price 3798) and Sidon (cf. Price 3504 var. with ΣΙ in left field), fine to very fine; and early stater 405 th of Aegina, fine (4) £350-450 Paphlagonia, Sinope, early drachms (3), 5 cent. BC (cf. SNG BM 1360); together with fourth century drachms (4, including SNG BM 1459, 1479 and a barbarous imitation), hemidrachms (3) and quarter drachm, six of the seven drachms with test cuts, otherwise fine to very fine; with drachms of Amisus (2), one pitted, the other plated (13) £300-500 403 Corinth, stater, c. 350 BC, Pegasus flying left, rev., head of Athena left with symbol of Palladium behind, 8.43g (BMC 256), toned, good very fine £200-250 Roman coins 414 Roman Republic, quadrigatus, 6.46g, obv. pitting, very fine; 406 with miscellaneous Republic denarii (17) including Sextus Paphlagonia, Sinope, drachm, 330-300 BC, head of nymph Pompey and legionary issues of Mark Antony (3), victoriati (3) left, rev., eagle on dolphin, 5.01g (SNG BM 1481), extremely and quinarii (3), mainly fair to fine, a few damaged; with fine £200-250 Republican bronze issues (20), including “fleet coinage” light series as of Mark Antony and Octavia (CRI 296; S.