ROMAN REPUBLICAN BRONZE

Italy, Apulia, Luceria
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Italy, Apulia, Luceria

AE Cast Quatrunx, 30.88g. 30mm.  c.217-212 B.C.  Thunderbolt.  Rev. Club, L, and four pellets.  Vecchi 346. T.V 282. Haeberlin pl. 71. HN Italy 677b.  Wonderful olive patina and of exceptional quality

Provenance/Pedigree:
Ex: NAC, Zurich, Auciton 46, 2008, lot 321.

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about Extremely Fine/Extremely Fine $5,000.
Italy, Apulia, Luceria, pedigreed to 2000
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Italy, Apulia, Luceria, pedigreed to 2000

AE Quincunx, 37.98g. 33mm. c.217-212 B.C. Four wheel spokes. Rv. Four wheel spokes; five pellets and L within quadrants. Vecchi 345. T/V 281. Light greenish-blue patina and exceptional quality for the issue

Provenance/Pedigrees
Ex: CNG, Lancaster, Auction 53, March 15, 2000, Lot 1263.

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good Very Fine $1,500.
Rome, Cast Quadrans
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Rome, Cast Quadrans

AE Cast Quadrans, 76.02g.  42mm.  Rome, c.240 B.C.  Sickle series.   Hand; three pellets as mark of value to left; sickle to right.  Rev.  Two barley grains and three pellets.   CR 25/7. T/V 39. Italian Cast Coinage 51. RBW 44.  Dark olive-green patina.

Provenance/Pedigrees:
Ex: Stacks, NY, Frederick Knobloch collection, May 3, 1978. lot 6.
Ex: Triton, Auction XX, January 9, 2017, lot 488.
Ex: Andrew McCabe collection

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good Very Fine $4,500.
Rome, Cast Sextans
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Rome, Cast Sextans

AE Cast Sextans, 46.69g. 33mm. Rome,  c.230 B.C. Wheel Series.   Tortoise.  Rev.  Six spoked wheel with two pellets as mark of value.  CR 24/7.  Sydenham 63.  T/V 35.  Italian Cast Coinage 71.  RBW 37var.   Olive green patina.

Provenance/Pedigrees:
Ex: Baranowsky, Rome, Collections of Joseph Martini(Rome) and Valerio Traverso(Genoa), Feb. 25th, 1931, lot 35.
Ex: Ratto, Milan, List XXI(1939), no. 22.
Ex: Kricheldorf, Stuttgart, Auction 29, March 3, 1975, lot 221.
Ex: CNG, Auction 105, May 10, 2017, lot 656( no pedigree listed).
Ex: Andrew McCabe collection.

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good Very Fine/Fine $2,650.
Rome, Struck Triens
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Rome, Struck Triens

AE Triens, 8.50g. 20mm.  c.169-158 B.C.  PT or TP Series.  Helmeted head of Minerva to right; four pellets as mark of value above.  Rev.  ROMA in exergue.  Prow of ship to right. PT monogram above.  CR 177/3.  Syd. 353b.  RBW 749.  Light brown patina.

Provenance/Pedigree:
Ex: Jesus Vico, Madrid, Auction 136, November 7, 2013, lot 267.
Ex: Andrew McCabe collection

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Very Fine $1,450.
Struck As, D. Iunius Silanus, 91 B.C.
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Struck As, D. Iunius Silanus, 91 B.C.
AE As, 10.65g. 27mm. Janus head.  Rev. D SILANVS.  Prow of ship to right.  CR 337/5.  Syd. 649. RBW 1235.  Green patina.
 
Provenance/Pedigrees:
Ex: Frank Sternberg, Zurich, Auction XXVI, 1992, lot 240.
Ex: EJW, Ltd. private purchase, June 11, 1993 with old ticket
Ex: RBW collection, CNG, Auction 326, 2014, lot 394.
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Very Fine $1,200.
L. Hostilius Tubulus, 105 B.C. Ex: Tolstoi et al.
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L. Hostilius Tubulus, 105 B.C. Ex: Tolstoi et al.

AE Struck Uncia, 3.87g. 11mm. Helmeted head of Roma to right; pellet as mark of value behind.  Rev. L H TVB within wreath; ROMA below.  CR 315/1. Syd._  RBW 1166.   Red and brown patina with green encrustation.  Scarce and with an exemplary pedigree.  

Provenance/Pedigrees:
Ex: Count Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoi collection(1858-1916), Adolph Hess, Frankfurt, Auction March 11, 1912, lot 670 (For bio see: https://coin.com/indexes/?find=2711)
Ex: Virgil Brand collection(1861-1926), Sotheby's, Zurich, Auction October 25, 1984, lot 478(part)
Ex: Goodman-Schaefer collection, Triton, New York, Auction 1,  December 2, 1997, lot 1134
Ex: Gemini, New York, Auction X, January 13, 2013, lot 156.
Ex: Andrew McCabe collection.

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about Extremely Fine $1,750.
C. Marcius Censorinus, 88 B.C. ex: Hamburger 1932
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C. Marcius Censorinus, 88 B.C. ex: Hamburger 1932
AE As, 13.56g. 26.5mm.   NVMA POMPILI ANCVS MARCI.  Jugate heads of Numa Pompilius, bearded, and Ancus Marcius, beardless, to right; both wearing diadems.  Rev. C CENSO ROMA. Ship sheds at Ostia depicted as two arches; one  containing a spiral column with Victory holding a wreath and one with a ship’s prow.   CR 346/3.  Syd. 716. BMC RR 2419.  Banti, Marcia 72/1(this coin).  Brown and green patina.  Scarce with an impressive pedigree and among the finest known examples. 
 
The obverse portrays the founder of the Marcia family Ancus Marcius and his purported grandfather Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome.  The reverse with its depiction of ship enclosures is the earliest numismatic reference to the port of Ostia. It relates to the mythical founding of the port by Ancus Marcius, a claimed ancestor of the moneyer. 
 
Provenance/Pedigree:
Ex: Leo Hamburger, Frankfurt, Auction 95, 1932, lot 179.
Ex: Bank Leu, Zurich, Auction 2, 1972, lot 332.
Ex: Goodman collection, Trition, NY, Auction 1, 1997, lot 1157.

 

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good Very Fine $7,500.
 

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