Just Won This Lot Of Byzantine Coins Of Sicily

I do not usually bid on lots like this, but the provenance sold me on it.


Lot of five coins. Syracuse unless stated. V-VI cent., Æ -mm., -g. Heraclius with Heraclius Constantine, follis. Spahr 54ter*. Sear 884; Constans II, follis. Spahr 113* (the author sees an Î, but could be a B). Sear 1103; Constans II, follis. Spahr 117. Sear 1107; Constantine V and Leo IV, follis. Spahr 333*. Sear 1569; Leo V and Constantine, follis. Spahr 373. Sear 1636.
About Very Fine-Very Fine.
From the Spahr collection. Sold with the original collector's ticket.
Ex: Naville Numismatics Auction 41 Lot 671, June 24 2018.


From the Auction house:

"For the Byzantine section, Naville Numismatics is proud to offer for sale the Spahr collection of Sicilian Byzantine coins. Rodolfo Spahr (Catania 3.11.1894-Binningen 15.12.1981), son of Johann Rudolf and Anna Ida Schweizer, was born in Catania where his father had a businness in textiles. He spent his infancy there and eventually served in the Swiss army. A love for his birth town spurred him to study the history of Sicily, and in due course he went on to produce two books (Le monete siciliane dagli Aragonesi ai Borboni [1282-1836], 1959 (rist. 1982) and Le monete siciliane dai Bizantini a Carlo I d'Angiò [582-1282] 1976) that, still to this date, remain the fundamental reference works for every collector of Sicilian coins from the Middle Ages to the closure of the mint of Palermo. He also wrote many articles that were published in the Bollettino del Circolo Numismatico Napoletano. Naville Numismatics hopes that collectors interested in this period will relish this opportunity to own specimens formerly belonging to this collection and that they will share the same emotions felt by their previous owner."