Naville Numismatics Live Auction 68
Naville Numismatics (NN) presents its Live Auction 68. The auction will close on Sunday 3rd October 2021, 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 auction features a selection of 608 lots of Greek, Roman, Byzantine coins, all chosen with contribution from NAC’s experts.
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The sale includes a selection of coins, including bronzes and fractions, from Magna Graecia, Sicily and Greece, some of them from the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection sold in association with Stacks Bowers Galleries. This first section of the sale starts with a rare stater of the Ambiani, a well preserved triens of Tuder, an attractive series of rare and beautiful coins of Tarentum, Metapontum, Thurium, Caulonia, Syracuse and Athens, even beyond a series of coins from the BCD duplicates, a selection of Hellenistic coins. Noteworthy in this section are a rare 30 litrai or hemidrachm of Syracuse, a well struck tetradrachm of Philip II, a very rare stater of Ephesus and a scarce double siglos of Sidon.
The Roman selection boasts an interesting series of Roman Republican bronzes and a striking array of denarii. This includes a well struck denarius of C. Iunius C.f., a beautiful denarius of C. Terentius Lucanus, an interesting denarius of L. Licinius Crassus and Cn. Comitius Ahenobarbus, a beautiful denarius of Q. Antonius Balbus, a rare denarius of L. Cornelius Sulla Imperator, a well preserved denarius of P. Satrienus, a rare denarius of C. Egnatius Cn. F. Cn. N. Maximus, a very rare quinarius of Iulius Caesar and a beautiful cistophoric tetradrachm of M. Antonius and Octavia.
The Imperial selection of the sale features an attractive series of Augustus and also an attractive selection of Roman bronzes and silver coins, a dupondius of Livia, a semis of Tiberius, a rare as of Tiberius, a rare sestertius of Tiberius, a well preserved sestertius of Nero, a sestertius of Vespasian, a rare sestertius of Nerva, a beautiful sestertius of Trajan, a rare sestertius of Hadrian, a beautiful sestertius of Commodus and a rare denarius of Pescennius Niger, even beyond an interesting selection of Solidi, Denari, Antoniniani, Sesterti, Dupondi, Asses and Folles. Very remarkable in this part are an aureus of Nero with the Salus on reverse, an aureus of Titus and especially a very beautiful aureus of Marcus Aurelius caesar in a contemporary gold pendant.
The Medieval and Modern section includes a selection of interesting coins such as a grosso of Louis of Savoy and a paduan sestertius of Gaius from the Archer M. Huntington collection. The Roman Provincial part of the sale includes a selection from the Dattari Collection.
All lots of the sale can be viewed online.
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