Naville Numismatics’ Live Auction 50

Naville Numismatics Live Auction 50 features a selection of 695 lots of Greek, Roman, Byzantine coins, all chosen with contribution from NAC’s experts. The sale will close on 23 June 2019, 16.00 UK time, at which time the live session will begin. Absentee bidders can bid electronically through Naville Numismatics website from the day the sale is published online up to the start of the live session.

The sale begins with a selection of coins, including bronzes and fractions, from Magna Graecia, Sicily and Greece, some of them from the duplicates of the BCD collection and others from the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection sold in association with Stacks Bowers Galleries.

This section of the sale includes coins offers an attractive series of rare and beautiful coins from Neapolis, Tarentum, Heraclea, Metapontum, Thurium, Croton, Petra, Syracuse, Athens and Corinth, even beyond a selection of Hellenistic portraits of Seleucid, Parthic and Ptolemaic kings.

Highlights include a wonderful didrachm of Selinus (Ex NAC sale 82, 2015, 49), a very rare didrachm of Maroneia (Ex NAC sale 46, 2008, 246) and an apparently unrecorded 1/10 stater of Evagoras I for Salamis.

The Roman selection boasts an interesting series of Roman Republican bronzes and a striking array of denarii.

This includes a beautiful didrachm (Ex NAC sale 100, 2017, 1352), a well preserved quadrigatus, a well struck denarius of P. Maenius M.f. Antias or Antiaticus (Ex NAC sale 106, 2018, 1238), a beautiful denarius of L. Calpurnius Pio Caensorinus (Ex NAC sale 106, 2018, 395), a scarce denarius of C. Coelius Caldus (Ex NAC sale 114, 2019, 471), two rare denarii of Cnaeus Pompeius and a very rare denarius of I. Caesar and L. Livineius Regulus.

In this part, there is also an interesting selection of Republican portraits such as I. Caesar, Cnaeus Pompeius, Marcus Antonius and Octavian.

The Imperial selection of the sale features an attractive series of Augustus, a beautiful dupondius of Livia (Ex NAC sale 114, 2019, 593), an interesting tetradrachm of Gaius and Agrippina, an interesting series of Nero, a very rare as of Nerva with Neptune published in NC 173, 2013, p. 97, n. 14, a pleasant sestertius of Hadrian, even beyond a selection of solidi, siliquae, denarii, tetradrachms, sestertii, dupondii, asses and folles, some of them from an old Canadian collection and from the M.J. collection, which includes Claudius, Nero, Galba, Vitellius, Vespasian, Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Geta, Elagabalus, Gordian I, Balbinus, Gordian III, Philip I, Philip II, Trajan Decius, Trebonianus Gallus, Diocletian, Carausius, Maximianus I, Constantius I, Galerius, Severus II, Licinius I, Constantine I, Julian II, Jovian, Valentinian I, Gratian, Magnus Maximus and Zeno.

They are also remarkable such as a beautiful sestertius of Drusus (Ex ACR sale 12, 2006, 750), a rare aureus of Hadrian with Jupiter on reverse and an extremely rare semis of Probus (Ex Auctiones sale 26, 1996, 1117).

In addition the auction presents an interesting and beautiful selection of Byzantine, Medieval and Modern World coins with important highlights such as a rare necessity taler of 42 stuiver besieged by the States-General 1578 and a beautiful pierreale of Constance and Peter of Aragona.

The Roman Provincial part of the sale includes a selection from the Dattari Collection.

It is composed of Alexandrine coins from Octavian to Galerius with various types of obols, diobols, hemidrachms, and drachms featuring rare portrayals of ancient divinities.

Highlights include coins of Augustus, Claudius, Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Lucius Verus, remarkable specimens both for the state of preservation and rarity.

Giovanni Dattari was born in Livorno on 19th April 1858 and moved to Egypt with his family after the death of his father in 1875.

He is known to have been a keen and competent amateur-merchant of Egyptian antiquities and Greek and Roman coinage. His study in the family villa in Cairo was a common meeting place for archaeologists, Egyptologists and numismatists.

Dattari started his coin collection in 1891 and by 1894 it was comprised of 395 pieces in base silver and 2207 in bronze.

By 1903 the collection had grown to 6835 Alexandrian, 91 archaic Greek, 230 of Alexander the Great, 910 Ptolemaic, 19320 Roman coins and 630 lead and silver pieces and in the following years this number of coins more than doubled.

Naville Numismatics Ltd’s partnership with NAC guarantees highly professional numismatic service and certifies an unlimited warranty of authenticity for the lots it sells.

Lots can be viewed in our office in London, by prior appointment only. During the Live session you can see current lots and bid in real time, making it an easy and fast way to participate in the auction.

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