T H E _ELATOR® Vol. 25, No. 10, October 2011 • SELECT NUMISMATIC ISSUES OF THE ISAURIAN DYNASTY (717-802 AD) WITH RELATIONSHIP TO THE FIRST ICONOCLASTIC PERIOD (726-780 AD) • AN ANCIENT COIN RELEVANT TO RENAISSANCE ART Collect-ton Pantikapaion Gold Stater Kyrene Tetradrachm A Classical Masterpiece Syracuse Dekadrachm Head of Zeus Ammon An Icon of Ancient Greek Coinage A Magisterial Specimen The Majestic Art ot Coins Over 600 Spectacular and Historically Important Greek Coins To be auctioned at the Waldorf Astoria, NEW YORK, 4 January 2012 A collection of sublime quality, extreme rarity, supreme artistic beauty and of exceptional historical importance. It has been over 20 years since such a comprehensive collection of high quality ancient Greek coins has been offered for sale in one auction. Contact Paul Hill ([email protected]) or Seth Freeman ([email protected]) for a free brochure Vol. 25, No. 10 The Celator" Inside The Celafof'ID ... October 2011 Consecutive Issue No. 292 Incorporating RomGII Coins mId Culture FEATURES PublisherfEdilor Kerry K. Wetterslrom [email protected] 6 Select Numismatic Issues of the Isaurian Dynasty (717·802 AD) with Relationship to A"-SOCiale Editors the First Iconoclastic Period (726·780 AD) Robert L. Black by Spero Kinnas Mkhael R. Mehalick Page 6 18 An Ancient Coin Relevant to For Back lssues From Renaissance Art 1987 to May 1999 contact: by Peter E. Lewis Wayne Sayles wgs @wgs.cc DEPARTMENTS Art: Parnell Nelson 2 Editor's Note Maps & Graphic Art: Coming Next Month Page 18 Kenny Grady 4 Letters to the Editor P.O. Box 10607 34 People in the News lancasler, PA 17605 .{OroHlts in Jlumisma(j(s TeVFax: 7 1 7~557 (Offiee Hour.: Noon to 6PM) 35 Art and the Market For FedEx & UPS deliveries: Kerry K. 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Box 10607 that this is aone-per­ Lancaster, PA 17605-0607 son business when you're trying to reach FOUNDED 1987 BY me. Thank you! WAYNE G. SAYLES October 2011 1 EDITOR'S " . COMING NEXT '".. MONTH NOTE ~. IN THE CELATOR· In this space las\ Seeattas: The Neglected month, [ promised to give my impres­ Silver Coinage of Ea rly sions of the American Numismatic As­ Anglo-Saxon England - sociati on's World's Fair of Money. A Collector's Perspective which was held in August in Rosemont. Illinois. This convention was billed as Of course, you can' t have acoin show by Tony Abramson the "world's largest coin show," and it without hcaring some complai nts, and the Pythagoras of 5amos, Celator more than li ved up to the pre-show hype. most common onc I heard during the con­ Coveri ng 220.000 square feet of vention was that th is show was simply too by John Francisco space in the Rosemont Convention Cen­ big. Many dealers believed that some of te r, Ihi s was easily the largest coin show their customers never found them or if they AND COMING SOON that 1 have ever attended. [ was at the did find them. they had already spent all convention for all five days (Tuesday of their money. I suppose that this was Avoiding Fake Oil Lamps through Saturday), and I'm still not cer­ possible, but I know that I did see every by Ken Baumheckel tain if I saw everything. I dec ided to be dealer in attendance that advertises in The methodical in my approach to walking Ce/ator. I printed out a list of the bourse A Supernova on Ancient the bourse floor by starting at one end. dealers from the ANA's website, which Coins-Part III and slowly walking was much casier to by Robert S. Mcivor down each aisle, ac- carry around than the tually each side of 152-page Official Half-Figure of the King­ H More than once / cach aisle, so that I Program, and placed Unraveling the Mysteries of would not miss a was distracted by a red X by their name single dealer. and table number. the Earliest Sigloi of Darills 1 Morc than once I something (usually a In the end, thi s by William E. Daehn was distracted by really nice coin of some was a tremendous & something (usually ANA convention, Demeter's Torch The a rea ll y nice coin of type!), which is why / and the Chicago Mysteries of Elel/sis some type!), which can't state with absolute Coin Club, the host by George L Beke is wh y I can' t state club, and the entire with absolute cer­ certainty that I covered stuff of thc ANA de­ Frolll tile Shekel Hakodesil tainty that I covered the entire bOllrse floor. " serve a big round of to tile Sl1eke1 of lsmel the elll ire bourse applause and con- by Gary M. Fine fl oor. gratulations! Now. [ also spent quite it's time to start A "New" Bronze of a bit of time in the working on next collector exhibits area, which is always year's World's Fair of Money. slated for Antigonos Gonatas a highlight of any ANA convent ion, and August 7- 1I in Philadelphia. PA. The ANA by Walter C. Holt, M. A. th is year's show was noel(ception. [ was and my local coin club, the Red Rose Coin especially impressed by the el(hibits in Club, are already working to make sure Numismatic Evidence of the "Coins Issued Prior to 1500 AD" that it will be just as successful as the Chi­ Bishops' Symbols category, which obviously covers an­ cago convention. by Gary Waddingham cicll! coinage. Larry Sckulich, who was I would li ke to apologize to Scott Rot­ the author of "Arethusa's Enigmatic tinghaus. George Cuhaj and Joe Paonessa How to Read the Headband" in last month's issue, won for the mistake I made on the "cold strike" Legends on Coins of the first placc in this category with his ex­ photos for their excellent article "New hibit on "Dolphin Myths and Symbols Experimental Evidence for Cold Striking Western Kshatrapas: on Selected Ancient Greek and Roman of Ancient Coins ," which appeared in the A Beginner's Guide Coins." He also received the Ira and August issuc. On page 6, there was sup­ by Pankaj Tandon Larry Goldbcrg Award for Best Exhibit posed to be an illustration of ''ten differ­ of Coi ns that Made History, and if this ent examples of the coins that were struck A Unique Civic Seal wasn't enough, he was also fi rst runner­ cold, from th roughout the striki ng pro­ of C%nin Ptolemnis up for Best-in-Show. Belated congratu- cess." Well, coins 3·1 0 were the same coin. 1a1ions to Larry for this very impressive MeaCulpa! I will print the correct illus­ by Adolfo Eidelstein exh ibit! tration in the November issue. 'lhe Celat07 is named to! and dedicated to the coin di e-en~!a v e!s ot a1ttiqultl/ ",hose au !emai1ts as po",eztul a1td appealinj toda~ as in thei! o",n time. 2 The Gelator We Invite You to Consign World & Ancient Coins and Currency We would like to sell your coins and currency to the highest bidders in an upcoming Stack's Bowers and Ponterio auction! Stack's Bowers and Ponterio Auction Schedule Official Baltimore Auction Novembe r 14 - 19, 2011 Consignments Closed -Request a Catalog The January 2012 N.Y. I. N.C Auction Jan uary 6-7, 20] 2 Consign by October 10, 201 1 The April 2012 Hong Kong Auction April 2-4, 201 2 Consign by January 9, 2012 O ffi cial Auction for the ANA World's Fair of Money August 1-1 1, 201 2 Consign by May 14, 2012 Of Particular Interest: Rare u.s.