51st Auction

Dear ladies and gentlemen

Unfortunately, we are unable to hold our Auction 51 on 5 November as announced due to illness.

The new date is

Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 10:00 a.m.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the postponement and thank you for your patience.
Of course, you will now have another four weeks to look through Auction 51.

Kind regards
Münzen & Medaillen GmbH

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Münzen & Medaillen GmbH will have their Auction Sale 51 on December. 4th, 2024, on the internet on the www.biddr.com platform.

The auction starts with coins from Magna Graecia, Nomoi from Tarent, silver and bronze from Metapont, and several rare issues from Apulia, Calabria, Lucania and Bruttium. A collection of 200 coins from Sicily contains coins from little known mints as Abakainon, Agyrion, Herbessos, Alontion and Kephaloidion.

From the Greek main land come a hemidrachm from Olympia in Elis, dated 390-380 B.C. and signed by the die cutter Polykaon. There is a beautiful tetradrachm from Smyrna in perfect condition and toning with a provenance from Baselland, Switzerland, and a rare gold stater of Ptolemaios I. Soter of Egypt which depicts him in a chariot drawn by elephants; it has a pressure mark and an old provenance: Münzen & Medaillen AG Basel Auktion 2 (1943), Nr. 512.

Among the Roman coins there are some Aurei, e. g. from Octavian, coined 43 B.C., then an extremely rare legion aureus of Marcus Antonius, and aurei of Vespasian, Trajan, and Faustina junior. Several silver and bronze coins are issues of the Roman Republic and the early Empire, some of them struck for Julius Caesar.

Late Roman and Byzantine solidi in the auction are coins of Constantius II., Valentinian I., Valens, Theodosius I., Honorius, Theodosius II., Arcadius, Justinus, Mauricius Tiberius, Phocas, Heraclius, Theophilos and Romanos III. Argyros. Some curiosities are the silvery-looking antoninian of Gallienus, ANNONA AVG, weighing exceptional 6.50 grams, then a SPES PVBLICA antoninian of Aemilian, and a rare nummus of John who ruled after the death of Honorius from Nov. 20th, 423, to May 425 when he was dethroned by Theodosius and beheaded.

Then there is a series of billon tetradrachms from Alexandria under the Roman emperors which are part of a collection which was formed in Germany during the middle of the 20th Century. One interesting coin shows a detailed representation of the Pharos, the light house of Alexandria, minted under Hadrian. The Pharos was one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World before it was destroyed by several earthquakes during the middle ages.

One billon tetradrachm shows Annia Faustina, third wife of Elagabal whose marriage in the year 221 was only of short duration, and one tetradrachm was made for Tranquillina, wife of Gordian III. Her coins are rare.

In the medieval and modern section a collection of coins of Franconia and Nuremberg is offered as well as coins of the Kaiserreich, German New Guinea and the Free State of Danzig.

The auction will take place on the internet platform www.biddr.com on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024, starting at 10 a. m. CET.
If you want to take part in the live bidding you need to register in advance.

The catalogue can be viewed on the internet on www.biddr.com, www.numisbids.com, www.sixbid.com and www.numis24.com

A selection from Auction 51:

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