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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: about Extremely Fine/Extremely Fine $5,000. |
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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 good Very Fine $1,500. |
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Rome, Anonymous, struck uncia
AE Uncia, 11.29g. 25mm. Anonymous, Semilibral struck bronze. c.217-215 B.C. Helmeted head of Roma to left; pellet behind. Rev. ROMA. Prow of ship to right; pellet below. CR 38/6. Syd. 86. RBW 98-99. Lovely green patina. Provenance/Pedigree: good Very Fine $1,000. |
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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.
Very Fine $1,200. |
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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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