Greek Silver & Bronze

Lot 5024    Session 16 (9.30am Friday)    Greek Silver & Bronze

Estimate $250
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $300

CORINTHIA, Corinth, Augustus, (31 B.C. - A.D. 14), AE As, issued 2-1 B.C., issued by C. Servilius and M. Antoninius Hipparchus, (6.35 grams), obv. bare head of Augustus to right, CAESAR to left, CORINT traces to right, rev. heads of Gaius and Lucius Caesar facing each other around traces of C SERVILIO C F PRIMO M ANTONIO HIPPARCHO IIVIR,(S.166 [£75], BMC 505, Amandry Group XI, obv. D11, rev. 8.2 [This Coin], this coin illustrated plate X, D11 obverse only, Lanz BCD Sale 105, lot 338 realised 1100 euros [near EF]). Portraits very fine, weak legends, very rare.

Ex BCD Collection [from duplicates] and purchased in Nov. 1976, lot includes tickets and photographs. This example comes from one of only two known from this set of dies and is illustrated in the standard reference Michael Amandry 'Le Monnayage des Duovirs Corinthiens', Paris 1988. In all Amandry reports 75 known examples from all dies most of which are in public collections.