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WORLD & ANCIENT COINS JANUARY 10 & 18-19, 2022 | NYINC | NEW YORK PLATINUM NIGHT ® Front Cover Lots: 30039, 30110, 30244, 30382, 30390 Inside Front Cover Lots: 30009, 30019, 30060, 30147, 30167, 30191, 30219, 30229, 30323, 30378 Inside Back Cover Lots: 30001, 30027, 30074, 30150, 30157, 30162, 30193, 30207, 30222, 30235 Back Cover Lots: 30036, 30053, 30062, 30145, 30224, 30254, 30267, 30305, 30374, 30391 Signature® Auctions #3097 & 3098 PLATINUM NIGHT® Featuring: The WTR Collection | The Ulysses Collection | The Buxton Collection | The Hadassah Collection Selections from the Galleon Collection | The GK Collection | The Silas Collection | The Cape Coral Collection The Abbeygate Collection | The Long Island Collection January 10, 18 & 19, 2022 | New York Heritage Auctions InterContinental New York Barclay 111 East 48th Street | New York, NY 10017 FLOOR Session (3097) (Floor, Telephone, HERITAGELive!®, Internet, Fax, and Mail) Monday, January 10 • 5:00 PM ET • Lots 30001–30397 ANCIENTS • 30001 - 30116 | ALBANIA - YEMEN • 30117 - 30397 Sessions 1 - 4 (3098) (HERITAGELive!®, Internet, Fax, & Mail only Session) Session 1 – ANCIENTS Session 3 – GREAT BRITAIN - LAOS Tuesday, January 18 • 10:00 AM CT • Lots 33001–33347 Wednesday, January 19 • 10:00 AM CT • Lots 33739–34091 Session 2 – ALBANIA - GOLD COAST Session 4 – MACAU - ZANZIBAR Tuesday, January 18 • 4:00 PM CT • Lots 33348–33738 Wednesday, January 19 • 4:00 PM CT • Lots 34092–34491 LOT VIEWING BIDDING METHODS InterContinental New York Barclay | 111 East 48th Street ®1 BIDDING New York, NY 10017 Bid live on your computer or mobile, anywhere in the world, Friday, January 7 | 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM ET during the Auction using our HERITAGELive!® program at HA.com/Live Saturday, January 8 | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM ET LIVE FLOOR BIDDING Sunday, January 9 – Monday, January 10 | 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM ET Bid in person during the floor sessions. 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Tarentum. Time of Pyrrhus of Epirus (ca. 280- 272 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.50 gm, 4h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck / Male youth (Taras?), nude but for chlamys draped over left arm, reins in right hand, trident in left, driving rearing biga right; eight- pointed star above, dolphin right below. Fischer-Bossert G21. Vlasto 16. HN Italy 955. Solidly struck from fresh dies on gleaming flan. A gorgeous coin in hand. From the Buxton Collection From the time he became king of Epirus in 319 BC, the handsome and charismatic Pyrrhus dreamed of emulating his cousin Alexander the Great’s career of conquest. He married Lanassa, the daughter of king Ag- athocles of Syracuse, in 295 BC and an opportunity presented itself in 280 BC, when the city of Tarentum in southern Italy sought his assistance in resisting Rome. Landing in Italy with his army and several war elephants, he marched against the Roman consul Publius Valerius Laevinus and de- feated him in a bloody encounter near Heraclea. Pyrrhus won a second, even more costly victory at Ausculum in 279 BC, after which he is said to have remarked, “another such ‘victory’ and I am finished!” Thus was born the phrase “Pyrrhic victory,” a battle won at such cost that it might as well be a defeat. Next, the Siceliotes lobbied for his support against Ro- man ally Carthage in 278 BC, resulting in Pyrrhus taking over the island and being acclaimed ‘King of Sicily’. The presence of Pyrrhus in southern Italy and Sicily soon became an occupation, with the hosting cities forced to strike coins to pay the army. He returned to Italy in 276 BC and eventu- ally to Epirus. Starting Bid: $20,000 Auction #3097 | Monday, January 10, 2022 | 5:00 PM ET 5 GREEK Signed Euainetos Decadrachm 30002 SICILY. Syracuse. Time of Dionysius I (405-370 BC). AR decadrachm (33mm, 42.49 gm). NGC AU 4/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Reverse die signed by Euainetos, ca. 400 BC. Racing quadriga driven left by charioteer, reins in left hand, kentron in right; Nike flying right in field above to crown him, military arms, including aspis (shield), greaves, cuirass, and crested Attic helmet, all joined by horizontal spear, ΑΘΛΑ (“prizes”) below all in exergue, dotted border / ΣΥ-ΡΑ-Κ-Ο-ΣΙΩΝ, head of Arethusa left, hair wreathed with barley ears, wearing triple pendant earring and beaded necklace; four dolphins swimming around, Δ below chin, die-engraver’s signature EY-AINE below bottom dolphin, dotted border. Galla- tin (D.I/R.X). HGC 2, 1299. Widely considered to be the most beautiful coins ever struck, the impres- sive silver decadrachms of Syracuse from the later fifth century BC rep- resent the full flowering of classical Greek sculptural art. Syracuse, the foremost Greek city in Sicily, had produced coins of exceptional beauty for nearly a century when, ca. 415 BC, engravers began signing their coin dies. Chief among these were the master engravers Kimon and Euainetos, whose large silver decadrachms seemed to capture the spirit of the artistic and intellectual revolution then sweeping the Greek world. The obverse of these pieces depicts a four-horse racing chariot, or quadriga, in full career to left while Nike, goddess of Victory, flies above to crown the driver with a laurel wreath. Below this scene is a set of Greek armor offered as a prize to the victorious charioteer. The reverse depicts a beautiful head of Arethusa, nymph of a sacred spring, with dolphins frolicking around her. The decadrachm of Euainetos became a widely-copied archetype for Greek coinage, and the master engraver’s head of Arethusa remains a paradigm of cool, classical beauty today. Starting Bid: $20,000 6 Visit HA.com/3097 to read full descriptions, check graded population data and auction comparable results, view enlargeable images, and bid online. Unsigned Euainetos Decadrachm 30003 SICILY. Syracuse. Time of Dionysius I (405-370 BC). AR decadrachm (35mm, 43.12 gm). NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 5/5, Fine Style. Struck ca. 400-390 BC. Unsigned dies in the style of Euainetos. Racing quadriga driven left by charioteer, reins in left hand, kentron in right; Nike flying right in field above to crown him, military arms, including aspis (shield), greaves, cuirass, and crested Attic helmet, all joined by horizontal spear, ΑΘΛΑ (“prizes”) below all in exergue, dotted border / ΣΥ-Ρ-Α-Κ- ΟΣΙΩ, Head of Arethusa left, hair wreathed in barley ears, wearing triple pendant earring and beaded necklace; four dolphins swimming around, pellet below chin, four dolphins swimming around. Gallatin (R.XXI/J.I). SNG ANS 375. SNG Copenhagen 694. One of the largest silver denominations minted in classical antiquity, the decadrachm of Syracuse remains one of the most alluring and celebrated coins in history. The immense size of this ten-drachm denomination offered the engravers the scope to fully display their mastery of the medium. After a brief “trial run” in the 460s BC, the decadrachm was reintroduced in Syracuse by the tyrant Dionysius following his assumption to power in 405 BC, testament to his grandiose vision to make Syracuse the foremost city in the Greek world. Starting Bid: $15,000 Auction #3097 | Monday, January 10, 2022 | 5:00 PM ET 7 GREEK 30004 ZEUGITANA. Carthage. Ca. 350-320 BC. AV stater (20mm, 30006 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander I (ca. 498-454 BC). 9.38 gm, 2h). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5. Bust of Tanit left, hair wreathed with AR octodrachm (29mm, 28.01 gm). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 2/5, test grain ears, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace with eight pen- cut. Ca. 492-480/79 BC. Bridled horse prancing right, nude warrior ‘Ares’ dants; dotted border / Horse standing right on exergual line; three pel- standing right on his far side, shoulders facing, wearing causia or pet- lets to lower right at shin height, dotted border. Jenkins & Lewis, Group asus, two transverse spears in right hand / Shallow, stippled, quadripar- IIIh. Exceptionally well-struck on highly lustrous surfaces. Excellent eye tite incuse square. SNG ANS 1. Rosen 117 (Bisaltae). SNG Lockett 1266. appeal. Boldly struck on a broad, massive flan. Starting Bid: $4,000 Although previously attributed as a tribal issue of the Bisaltai, one of the powerful Thraco-Macedonian tribes that struck coinage in the late 6th and early 5th centuries, recent scholarship assigns it to Alexander I, king of Macedon during the Greco-Persian wars of 492-479 BC. Alex- ander was painted as a rather double-dealing character by the historian Herodotus. When Persian envoys arrived in 492 BC to ask for Macedon’s submission, Alexander ordered their arrest and execution. He spent several years enlisting the support of the tribal regions of Thrace and Mace- don in a guerrilla campaign against the Persians; this was likely the era in which this coin was struck on a weight standard also used by the allied Bisaltai. The huge invasion of Greece launched by Xerxes in 480 BC forced Alexander to submit to Persian rule; however, while supposedly acting as a mediator between the Persians and the other Greek states, he secretly plotted against his overlords and gave the allied Greek army criti- cal intelligence prior to the battle of Plataea in 479 BC that helped them secure a resounding victory. When the surviving Persian soldiers passed through Macedon, Alexander attacked them near the river Strymon and massacred most of the 43,000-man host. Starting Bid: $3,000 30005 MACEDON. Chalcidian League. Ca. 432-348 BC. AR tet- radrachm (25mm, 14.41 gm, 5h). NGC MS 4/5 - 3/5, brushed. Olyn- thus, ca. 390 BC. Laureate head of Apollo left / Χ-Α-Λ-ΚΙΔ-ΕΩΝ, cithara with seven strings. Robinson & Clement Group H, 20. SNG ANS 473. Bright, lustrous flan. Areas of light toning. The Chalcidice is a three-fingered area of land extending from eastern Macedon into the Aegean Sea. Wary of Athenian imperialism and the ris- ing power of the Macedonian Kingdom, the free cities of the Chalcidice banded together in 432 BC to form a defensive coalition called the Chal- cidian League, with its capital of Olynthus. The silver coinage struck at Olynthus was on the Macedonian standard, somewhat lighter than the Attic standard employed by most of Greece, and was legal tender at all cities belonging to the league. The standard design featured a head of Apollo, god of beauty, art and music, with a type of lyre called a cithara on the reverse. The heads of Apollo on these pieces are remarkable for the strength and beauty of their style. Sadly, the Chalcidian League’s coinage came to an end with the capture and destruction of Olynthus by King Philip II of Macedon in 348 BC. Starting Bid: $4,000 8 Visit HA.com/3097 to read full descriptions, check graded population data and auction comparable results, view enlargeable images, and bid online. Choice Mint State Star Fine Style Alexander the Great Portrait Stater 30007 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Philip II (359-336 BC). AV stater (17mm, 8.61 gm, 12h). NGC Choice MS★ 5/5 - 5/5, Fine Style. Late posthumous issue of Colophon, under Philip III Arrhidaeus, ca. 322 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right, with the features of Alexander III the Great / ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, charioteer driving galloping biga right, reins in left hand, kentron in right; tripod below right. Le Rider pl. 90, 16 and 93, 26 (different dies). SNG Alpha Bank 260. Thompson Philip p. 58 and pl. VI, 12. From the Buxton Collection While the types of this gold stater issue of Colophon conform to the norm for Philip II (359-336 BC), the magnificent obverse die of this late posthumous issue of Colophon bears a portrait of “Apollo” that is quite dis- tinctive and clearly depicts a real person. Comparison with the coins of Lysimachus and surviving portrait sculpture leaves no doubt the portrait represents Alexander III the Great himself. The issue seems intended to legitimize the patchwork Macedonian regime put together by Alexander’s generals after his death in Babylon under the figurehead rulers Philip III Arrhidaeus, Alexander’s slow-witted half-brother, and the infant Alexan- der IV, his posthumously born son. As such the “Philip” named on the reverse should probably be seen as referring to Arrhidaeus rather than the traditional attribution to Philip II. Starting Bid: $10,000 Auction #3097 | Monday, January 10, 2022 | 5:00 PM ET 9 GREEK 30008 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Philip II (359-336 BC). AV hemistater (14mm, 4.25 gm, 11h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 4/5. Amphipolis II, ca. 340-328 BC. Head of young Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck / ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, forepart of lion leaping right, horizontal thunderbolt over crescent below. Le Rider 3a, pl. 85. SNG ANS -. SNG Lockett 1407. Very rare and seldom-encountered denomination. Appealing matte surfaces. From the WTR Collection If not for the incredible career of his son, Philip II of Macedon might today be known as “Philip the Great.” Under his rule, Macedon transformed from a poor backwater to the most powerful state in the Greek world, setting the stage for Alexander’s conquests. His coinage also set the pattern followed by his more famous son: The head of the young Heracles, beardless and wearing a headdress made from the skin of the Nemean lion, on this rare gold half-stater is the clear antecedent of the same type found on Alexander the Great’s later silver coinage. Starting Bid: $3,500 10 Visit HA.com/3097 to read full descriptions, check graded population data and auction comparable results, view enlargeable images, and bid online. Fine Style Alexander Distater 30009 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336- 323 BC). AV distater (22mm, 17.16 gm, 10h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 5/5, Fine Style. Lifetime-early posthumous issue of Amphipolis, ca. 330-320 BC. Head of Athena right, hair in four tight corkscrew curls, upswept at temple, and flowing over left shoulder, wearing necklace and triple-crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on head, long divergent crest ends, the bowl decorated with coiled serpent right / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Nike standing facing, head left, wreath in outstretched right hand, stylis cradled on left arm; cantharus in left field. Price 167. Müller 192. Struck from bold, high relief dies of Fine Style on satiny surfaces with underlying luster. At the beginning of his reign in 336 BC, the Macedonian Kingdom was re- portedly in debt to the tune of 500 silver talents (a talent being 6,000 silver drachms and a “king’s ransom” in earliest Greek times). To give an idea of the vast loot his conquests amassed, at Susa alone Alexander seized 50,000 talents of silver and 40,000 of gold. This huge intake of bullion resulted in hitherto unseen denominations such as the gold distater, tar- iffed at two staters and ten silver tetradrachms, about 20 day’s wages for a Macedonian soldier during wartime. The distater was likely employed to pay off many of Alexander’s veteran soldiers, who were rewarded for their labors with the equivalent of a silver talent. With the new denomination, a talent could be paid out as 120 gold distaters. Despite their size and enormous buying power, gold distaters evidently circulated heavily, for most specimens found today display considerable wear and numerous contact marks. Starting Bid: $20,000 Auction #3097 | Monday, January 10, 2022 | 5:00 PM ET 11