Referenced by Traité II, 2821bis

BMC Greek (Mysia) p. 36, 133 has this monogram

Previous sale is Numismatic Fine Art VIII, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 6 June 1980, lot 209

Segovia

Ex Pozzi Collection, Ars Classica I (1921), lot 133
Ex Lockett Collection. Plated in SNG Lockett Part I (Spain-Italy, 1938), 221. Ex Glendining, Catalogue of Part II (1955), lot 189

Artuqid coin. Copper dirham of Fakhr al-Din Qara Arslan.

Believed to have been stolen in transit to the UK via FedEx in June 2026: please contact info@numismaticus.nl if you know current whereabouts.

Papaevangelou-Genakos 6 (this coin illustrated on plate 2)

Papaevangelou-Genakos 17 (this coin illustrated on plate 2)

Per CNG bibliography, I imagine just: Baldwin's Aucitons. Greek Coins and the Persian Empire: The Collection of the late Professor James C Brindley. Catalog of public auction [34], 13 October 2003. London. 2003.

Correction: ex NFA Winter 1987, Lot 538 (part of 4 coins: Rosen 87, 89, 90, and 94; no weights or photos).

Ex Ars Classica XII, 1926, 103 = Ex Lockett Coll. Part II, Glendining 10/25/55, 58.

1 of 2 known

This coin has been stolen from a collector in London and a reward is available for information leading to its safe return.

Coin is not a tornesello of Francesco Venier. It is a more common one of Andrea Gritti. Auction house was informed about their wrong attribution but didn't correct it or withdrawn it.

Coin is a sesino of Francesco Venier, not a tornesello as wrongly attributed by the auction house.

The standard reference catalog numbers for this specific Thessalonica bronze coin (Poseidon / Galley Prow) include:SNG ANS 798-9 (American Numismatic Society) [THESSALONICA in MACEDONIA 187BC Poseidon Trident ...]Moushmov 6608 (Ancient Coinage of Thessalonika) [Thessalonika, Ancient Coinage of, by Moushmov Number]HGC 3.1, 719 (Handbook of Greek Coinage)

NAVILLE NUMISMATICS LTD AUCTION 100, 1 OF 2 IN THE WORLD

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While there is no official global census or exact headcount, numismatic experts estimate there are fewer than 50 to 100 known specimens of the Aelia Zenonis monogram coin (RIC X 1017) surviving in the world today.Because it is a small, low-value bronze denomination (a nummus) from a brief, chaotic 20-month reign, the vast majority of the original mintage was lost, melted down, or corroded beyond recognition.The total population of these coins can be estimated based on several factors:Major Institutional Collections: The largest numismatic bodies, like the American Numismatic Society and the British Museum, generally hold only 1 to 3 specimens each.Public Market Presence: In major historical auction databases like CoinArchives, only about 1 or 2 distinct specimens crawl into high-end public auctions worldwide each year.Unrecorded Private Holdings: A small handful of unrecorded examples remain in private collections or are heavily worn, uncleaned "metal-detector finds" from Eastern Europe and Turkey where the monogram is completely smoothed over.Ultimately, if a coin is labeled "very rare" (R2 or R3) in Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC) volumes for this era, the total worldwide surviving population across all public museums and private collections is exceptionally small.If you have a specimen, its value will depend almost entirely on how readable and crisp the monogram lines on the reverse side actually are

Bement 937, not 934

This coin also ex Dattari Collection = Dattari-Savio 9961. Ex Robert L. Grover Collection & Art Institute of Chicago no. 1984.1680

Mysia, Pergamon – Attalid bronze coin, ca. 250–200 BCE, during the reign of Eumenes I or Attalus I, issued in the name of Philetairos.
• Obverse: head of Asclepius wearing a laurel wreath, facing right; your specimen bears a star- or sun-shaped countermark.
• Reverse: a snake rising independently to the left; to the right, a distinctive temple key, surrounded by the remnants of the inscription ΦΙΛΕΤΑΙΡΟΥ.
The decisive information is found on page 122 of BMC Mysia: the reverse of types 84–85 is described as “temple-key; on left, snake,” and for specimen 85, it is noted separately as “countermark, star.” An image of it appears in Figure 12 of Plate XXV. BMC Mysia, page 122
https://ikmk-ing.univie.ac.at/object?id=ID24464
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/11123

Not mykalessos, Thebes

For references see Ingvaldsen VI, 28 and Pixodarus 6

Tiberius II Constantine SB 430