EX Gorny & Mosch 10.10.2022 sale 289 n 728

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Sotheby’s (7 March 1996), lot 119.

NOT RIC 27b but RIC 37b

Looks like a fake. The mule sold by Leu: https://leunumismatik.com/en/lot/69/1207

This coin = Lindgren II 1513.

Minting error... Bust of Helena but legends of Fausta !!!

"Aus Sammlung Fürst Waldeck," per Münzen und Medaillen 38 (6 Dec 1968), Lot 456 (hors catalogues; presumably private purchase c. 1930s from Münzhandlung Basel/H.A. Cahn, as were several others of Voirol's ex-Waldeck coins).

This coin illustrated in P.F. Mittag's (1994) article, “Kaiser oder Philosoph? Kurze Bemerkungen zur Münzprägung Marc Aurels” (SNR 73: 61-74; Taf. 1, 2, this reverse).

Also ex Sammlung Gustav Philipsen (Copenhagen, 1853-1925) [Hirsch XXV (25 Nov 1909), 1300 (Pl. XVI)]

This is RIC 271 (16Fa) with a draped bust and the legend SER GALBA IMP CAES AVG TR P. It can be die matched to a Sestertius sold by The Coin Cabinet, The Euclidean Collection (28 March 2024), Lot 70 that clearly shows that the bust is actually draped. Note that The Coin Cabinet example is also misattributed, this time as RIC 262, but that issue has a completely different legend than the coin pictured.

This is RIC 271 (16Fa) with a draped bust and the legend SER GALBA IMP CAES AVG TR P.

Note also that Michailovich bought the Giel collection en bloc in the 1890s, supporting the cataloger's hypothesis. See Vladimir Stolba (2005), "Russian Private Collections of Greek Coins from the Black Sea Region: The Case of Grand Duke Alexander Michailovich (1866-1933)," p. 121-3.

Horace His de la Salle, H. Hoffmann, 6 - 7 April 1877, Lot 396 (attributed to Eresus, Lesbos), purchased for 45FF; Clement Platt, 3 - 4 April 1933, Lot 138, Purchased by Forrer for 240FF; Hess-Leu 1965, Lot 204; WAG 49, Dortmund 2009, Lot 47; Künker, 341, 1 October 2020, Lot 5542. Sold 1300 Euro; Numismatica Ars Classica, February Sale , 1 March 2026, Lot 303.
The mint for the autonomous coins of Hermione up until 1871 was misattributed to three other mints including Eretria, Euboea (Domenico Sestini) ; Orchomenus, Boeotia (British Cataloguers); and Eresus, Lesbos (T. E. Mionnet - and French cataloguers. F. Imhoof- Blumer made the correct attribution in 1871. Earlier English cataloguers and numismatists were not comfortable on stylistic grounds with the Orchomenus attribution.

Caesarea Maritima COL I FLA ....

Caesarea Maritima

All known specimens of this type with a stephaned bust are the product of a single obverse die. Comparison to other known specimens indicates this coin has been tooled to add details not present originally. See: https://www.ma-shops.com/kornblum/item.php?id=220121011

Ex Hess-Leu 1959, Lot 220 (tooled since)

Presumably Lot 25 or 26 of Bourgey (12 Nov 1951) Georges Motte Collection (not illustrated). CNG EA 460, Lot 607 (also "from the Alpine Collection") was Lot 24 in the Motte sale (Claudius Aureus, illustrated on Plate 1).

Ex Bourgey (12 Nov 1951), Lot 24 = Georges Motte Collection

date is 1577

The Greek words in the exergue mean 'Come into the world' not 'all things to Heaven'.

RS drehen um 180˚

This coin also = MacDonald 143 (O192/R371.e) = H. Schulman, 6-11 Jun. 1969, Lot 1690 (T.O. Mabbott coll.) = Cahn 71 (1931), 830 (plate 30, O.N. Bey collection) = Howgego 765, c.3 (this coin cited on p. 266) = Brunk 434 (this coin, cited in The Numismatist 87.12, Dec. 1974) = Forrest SS06, Fig. 2a (this coin, in “Strange Shores VI" in NI Bullentin 31.2, Dec. 1996)

This coin also = MacDonald 235 (O288b/R586.m) = H. Schulman, 6-11 Jun. 1969, Lot 1699 (T.O. Mabbott coll.) = Hermann Weber 6415

26mm / 9.4 g

Augustus 27 BC - AD 14