World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session

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WORLD & ANCIENT COINS
MAY 5-7, 2022 | CSNS | DALLAS
PLATINUM SESSION
Front Cover Lots: 30001, 30135, 30151, 30156, 30217
Inside Front Cover Lots: 30086, 30115, 30131, 30149, 30150, 30158, 30237, 30269, 30312, 30359
Inside Back Cover Lots: 30071, 30103, 30139, 30152, 30154, 30157, 30179, 30225, 30233, 30292
Back Cover Lots: 30076, 30081, 30111, 30148, 30153, 30209, 30253, 30254, 30314, 30338
Signature® Auction #3099
PLATINUM SESSION
Featuring: The "For My Daughters" Collection | The Regent Collection | The WTR Collection
May 5-7, 2022 | CSNS | Dallas
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Ancients | Lots 30001-30142 Friday, May 6 • 10:00 AM CT • Lots 31001–31453
Albania-Yemen | Lots 30143-30366
Session 3 — AFGANISTAN–FRANCE
Friday, May 6 • 4:00 PM CT • Lots 31454–31815
Session 4 — GERMAN NEW GUINEA–MUSCAT & OMAN
Saturday, May 7 • 10:00 AM CT • Lots 31816–32280
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Saturday, May 7 • 4:00 PM CT • Lots 32281–32621
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World & Ancient Coin Specialists
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Dear Bidder,
With spring comes renewal and growth, and our May Central States World & Ancient Coins Signature Auction has
captured the optimism of this season. It has been an incredible honor curating this sale, and we are pleased to offer
such a remarkable assemblage of high-end vintage and ancient rarities that span the globe.
As the ancient coin market continues its strong bull showing, more high-grade, attractive collections are being drawn
out of cabinets globally. We are excited to present a set of Lydian Kingdom issues through the WTR Collection,
including a prototype gold stater, heavy and light standard staters, trites, hectes, hemihectes, and a beautiful silver
stater, all from Croesus. The Macedonian Kingdom is also well-represented by staters spanning nine different mints
with two examples unlisted in Price. Constantine I’s festaureus--the first we have ever offered--and an NGC-certified
Choice Mint State Pertinax aureus are sure to draw bidders, as will Years 1, 2, and 3 Judaean half-shekels. For
collectors looking to add the most eye-appealing coins to their cabinet, numerous “stars” are featured throughout the
sale. Our Signature sessions include an abundance of highly desirable pieces: a sharp hecte with Cecrops, a gorgeous
Aegean turtle stater, and handsome Antoninus Pius aureus.
At the forefront of our world coins Platinum session is one of, if not the finest group of early Australian gold, all of
which are Proof Patterns from the newly established Sydney mint, the first Royal mint branch. Crowned by the 1853
Sovereign and 1/2 Sovereign, each the only of four in private hands, we place our best foot forward, offering in total
six of these early types selling in succession as part of the Regent Collection; each having impressive pedigrees,
remaining in advanced states of preservation, and laden with eye appeal. With such a historic grouping of iconic
Australian patterns, coupled with a classic Australian rarity, the 1920-S Sovereign in MS64+, we anticipate strong
demand to drive significant bidder interest. Following suit are historic Czechoslovakian and Greek issues, including
a pair of gold medals of the Zappas Olympics, prototype games inspiring the first international Olympiad. Scattered
throughout are numerous gold Mint State multiple Ducats, issues we simply can’t get enough of after 2021’s historic
Paramount Collection that included dozens of similar pieces.
Anchoring both our Platinum and Signature sessions is yet another spectacular display of classic British rarities.
A perennial favorite that will undoubtedly elicit a strong response from collectors is the 1839 “Una and the Lion” 5
Pounds in PR62 with the coveted “Ultra Cameo” designation, preceded by two 1826 5 Pounds. With renewed and
continued interest for the series, and following a record-breaking “Gothic” Crown result from our January sale, we
present six similar examples, assigned a myriad of advanced grades and superlatives that will surely satisfy the needs
of collectors of this visually inviting series.
We hope our passion and appreciation are readily apparent as you peruse this catalog, as it has been an absolute
privilege to handle the historic, curated rarities within these pages. Please know that we are always here to assist you
however we can, and we wish you the best of luck in your collecting endeavors.
Sincerely,
Cristiano Bierrenbach Warren Tucker

PLATINUM SESSION
SESSION ONE
ANCIENTS
GREEK

Pyrrhus, Cousin of Alexander the Great
30001 CALABRIA. Tarentum. Time of Pyrrhus of Epirus (ca.
280-272 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.57 gm, 5h). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5, Fine
Style. Cle-, magistrate. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin head-
dress, paws tied before neck / KΛH, male youth (Taras?), nude but for
chlamys draped over left arm, reins in right hand, trident in left, driving
rearing biga right; eight-pointed star above, dolphin downward right be-
low. Fischer-Bossert G20. Vlasto 18. HN Italy 955. Solidly struck from
fresh dies on gleaming flan. A spectacular coin in hand.
From the WTR Collection

From the time he became king of Epirus in 319 BC, the handsome and
charismatic Pyrrhus dreamed of emulating his cousin Alexander the
Great’s career of conquest. He married Lanassa, the daughter of king Ag-
athocles of Syracuse, in 295 BC and an opportunity presented itself in 280
BC, when the city of Tarentum in southern Italy sought his assistance in
resisting Rome. Landing in Italy with his army and several war elephants,
he marched against the Roman consul Publius Valerius Laevinus and de-
feated him in a bloody encounter near Heraclea. Pyrrhus won a second,
even more costly victory at Ausculum in 279 BC, after which he is said
to have remarked, “another such ‘victory’ and I am finished!” Thus was
born the phrase “Pyrrhic victory,” a battle won at such cost that it might
as well be a defeat. Next, the Siceliotes lobbied for his support against Ro-
man ally Carthage in 278 BC, resulting in Pyrrhus taking over the island
and being acclaimed ‘King of Sicily’. The presence of Pyrrhus in southern
Italy and Sicily soon became an occupation, with the hosting cities forced
to strike coins to pay the army. He returned to Italy in 276 BC and eventu-
ally to Epirus.
Starting Bid: $40,000
Session One, Auction #3099 | Thursday, May 5, 2022 | 4:00 PM CT 5
GREEK

30002 ZEUGITANA. Carthage. Ca. 264-241 BC. Time of First Pu-
nic War. EL trihemishekel (22mm, 10.39 gm, 12h). NGC AU 4/5 - 3/5.
Head of Tanit left, hair wreathed with grain ears, dot on wreath, hair drawn
30003 MACEDON. Sermylia. Ca. 500-470 BC. AR tet-
into multiple coils and tendrils at back of head, wearing triple-pendant
radrachm (30mm, 16.75 gm). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 2/5, scratches.
earring and necklace with eight pendants / Horse standing right on ex-
ΣERMYΛIAO-N, warrior on horseback right, brandishing spear in right
ergual line; double uraeus to either side of radiant solar disk above, with
hand, reins in left; raised pelleted bar as ground line, partially broken dot-
seven rays above and five below, pellet on ground line behind rear hoof.
ted border / Quadripartite incuse mill-sail square punch; cross of five pel-
Jenkins & Lewis Group Xb, 428-446. SNG Copenhagen 183. Struck from
lets in center. AMNG III/2, 3, pl. XXI, 5. Traité I 1668. Rare. Struck on a
highly detailed dies, perfectly centered on lustrous flan with warm toning.
heavily toned medallic flan.
Ex Auction World Company, Auction 11 (20 January 2018), lot 4089
Little is known about the ancient city of Sermylia, located on the second
“finger” of the Chalcidice. Its rare archaic coinage depicts a mounted
In addition to the death and destruction caused by the First Punic War warrior galloping along with spear at the ready, indicating that it excelled
between Carthage and Rome, the impact on the world’s economy was also in producing cavalrymen. During the Persian Wars, Sermylia, perhaps
profound. Though immensely rich, Carthage’s stock of gold reserves were reluctantly, supplied troops and supplies to the Persians, but it did not
eventually reduced to the point where coins of pure gold were increasingly seem to suffer any Greek reprisals in the aftermath and became part of
debased with silver, producing denominations such as this remarkably the Delian League alliance with Athens in the mid fifth century BC. In the
styled electrum trihemistater. An unusual feature is the quasi-Egyptian following century it became a charter member of the Chalcidian League,
solar disk flanked by serpents above the proud Punic horse. but apparently it shared the fate of neighboring Olynthus and was leveled
Starting Bid: $3,000 by Philip II in circa 348 BC, after which Sermylia disappears from the
historical record.
Starting Bid: $2,500

30004 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Philip II (359-336 BC). AV
stater (18mm, 8.61 gm, 4h). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5. Late lifetime-early post-
humous issue of Pella, ca. 340-328 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right /
ΦIΛIΠΠOY, charioteer driving fast biga right, kentron in right hand, reins
in left; trident head right below horses. HGC 3, 846. SNG ANS 8, 144-
154. Boldly struck on silky surfaces.
Starting Bid: $2,500
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PLATINUM SESSION

30007 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Philip II (359-336 BC). AV
stater (18mm, 8.59 gm, 3h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 4/5. Lifetime-early
30005 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Philip II (359-336 BC). AV posthumous issue of Pella II, ca. 340-328 BC. Laureate head of Apollo
stater (19mm, 8.57 gm, 9h). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5. Posthumous issue of right / ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, charioteer driving fast biga right, kentron in right
Lampsacus, under Philip III Arrhidaeus, ca. 323-315 BC. Laureate head hand, reins in left hand; cantharus below horses. SNG ANS 138-43. Per-
of Apollo right / ΦIΛIΠΠOY, charioteer driving fast biga right, kentron in fectly centered on mellow flan with subdued luster.
right hand, reins in left; facing head of Helios and ΑΠ monogram below. Ex Myntauktioner i Sverige, Auction 35 (21 November 2020), lot 979
SNG ANS 282-284. Le Rider pl. 91, Commerce 1964, 13. Superbly struck
Starting Bid: $2,500
from fresh dies. Areas of reflective luster and overall quite bright.
Starting Bid: $3,000

Unpublished Alexander Stater
30006 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Philip II (359-336 BC). AV
stater (17mm, 8.59 gm, 10h). NGC AU 5/5 - 4/5, edge marks. Late life- 30008 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-
time to early posthumous issue of Amphipolis, ca. 340/36-328 BC. Laure- 323 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.59 gm, 12h). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5. Posthu-
ate head of Apollo right / ΦIΛIΠΠOY, charioteer driving fast biga right, mous issue(?) of uncertain mint. Head of Athena right, hair flowing loose in
kentron in right hand, reins in left; barley corn below. Le Rider 19. SNG short curly bunches and upswept at temple, wearing pendant earring, beaded
ANS 242. SNG Lockett 1401. Deeply concave reverse with strong details necklace, and triple-crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on head, long
from high-relief dies. divergent crest ends, bowl decorated with coiled and entwined serpent right
/ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing facing, head left, wreath in outstretched
right hand, stylis cradled in left arm; IA monogram above ΣY in outer left
From the “For My Daughters” Collection
field. Price -. Struck from meticulous, artistic dies on fully lustrous flan.
Starting Bid: $2,500
This specimen is enigmatic - the ΣY on the reverse is known in Price only
from Carrhae however the style is nothing like what is typically found
from that mint. Also, the ΣY appears to have been engraved over a dif-
ferent symbol which had been removed from the die. Perhaps the die was
prepared elsewhere and transferred to Carrhae? Even so, the ΣY is only
noted for a silver tetradrachm and hemidrachm. The IA monogram fails to
point in a direction as well, since it’s not attested at any mint in Price. Per-
haps the key to discovering the origin is in the carefully designed helmet.
Typically the serpent is executed in a large loop however on this masterful
example the animal is looped and coiled around itself as seen on Mysian
cistorphori. The hair style also is likely an attribute to eventually unlock-
ing the mystery as the curly clusters are quite distinctive.
Starting Bid: $2,500
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GREEK

30009 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-
Extremely Rare Alexander
323 BC). AV stater (19mm, 8.61 gm, 9h). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5. Posthu-
mous issue of Amphipolis, under Cassander, ca. 310-301 BC. Head of Lifetime Issue Salamis Stater
Athena right, hair in six tight spiral curls and loose over left shoulder,
wearing necklace and triple-crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on 30011 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-
head, long divergent crest ends, bowl decorated with coiled serpent right 323 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.59 gm, 1h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5.
/ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Nike standing facing, head left, wreath in outstretched Lifetime issue of Cyprus, Salamis, ca. 332-323 BC. Head of Athena right,
right hand, stylis cradled on left arm; trident head left in left field. Price hair in three tight corkscrew curls, upswept at temple and flowing loose
175. Muted luster with areas of orange hues. over left shoulder, wearing pendant earring, double necklace and triple-
Starting Bid: $2,500 crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on head, long divergent crest ends,
bowl decorated with coiled serpent right / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing
facing, head left, wreath in outstretched right hand, stylis cradled in left
arm; eagle standing left in left field below wing. Price 3133. Struck from
artistic dies on fully lustrous flan. Extremely rare - only one example in
sales archives (November 2014).
Starting Bid: $3,000

30010 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-
323 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.54 gm, 8h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 5/5.
Posthumous issue of Babylon, under Seleucus I Nicator, ca. 311-305 BC.
Head of Athena right, hair in three tight corkscrew curls, flowing loose over

left shoulder and upswept at temple, wearing pendant earring, necklace,
and triple crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on head, short parallel 30012 MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great
crest ends, bowl decorated with griffin leaping right / AΛEΞANΔPOY / (336-323 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.55 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU 5/5
BAΣIΛEΩΣ, Nike advancing left, wreath in outstretched right hand, stylis - 4/5. Late lifetime-early posthumous issue of Cyprus, Citium, ca. 325-
cradled in left arm; MI in outer left field, HYP monogram within wreath in 320 BC. Head of Athena right, hair wildly loose and upswept at temple,
left field below wing. Price 3749. Deeply struck with high-relief obverse wearing necklace and triple-crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on
die. Attractive style and good flan. head, long parallel crest ends, bowl decorated with coiled serpent right /
Starting Bid: $2,500 ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡOΥ, Nike standing facing, head left, wreath in outstretched
right hand, stylis cradled in left arm; KT (city ethnic) monogram in left
field, below wing. Price 3104. Excellent centering on gleaming flan. High-
ly detailed dies.
Starting Bid: $2,500
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