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The top lot is a coin that is over 2,500 years old, with an estimate of at least $35,000.Stack's Bowers Galleries will hold several auctions in Las Vegas, Nevada, in early August featuring NGC-graded ancient coins. Online bidding for Session B, which includes the NGC-certified ancients, is now open, with the auctions ending on August 6, 2020.
Among the most anticipated coins in the sale is one from the dawn of coinage: a Lydia Gold Stater of Croesus, 561-546 B.C., graded NGC Ancients Ch XF, with 4/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface. Croesus ruled as King of Lydia (in modern-day Turkey) until he was defeated by Cyrus the Great in 546 B.C. This coin has an estimate of $35,000 to $45,000 USD.
Another highlight of the sale is a Roman Empire Gold Aureus of Maximian, A.D. 286-310, graded NGC Ancients Ch MS, with 5/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface. This coin features a seated portrait of Hercules, whom the Romans regarded as a hero and a god, holding a club with a lion skin. Maximian ruled with Diocletian into the early 4th century, but his conflict with Constantine led to his death in 310. This coin has an estimated sales price of $30,000 to $40,000 USD.
The auction features nearly 200 coins, virtually all of them certified by NGC Ancients, including these additional highlights:
Western Roman Empire - Majorian, A.D. 457-461, Gold Solidus graded NGC Ancients AU, with 4/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface, with an estimate of $20,000 to $25,000 USD
Judaea - Jewish War, A.D. 68/9 Silver Half-Shekel graded NGC Ancients AU, with 4/5 Strike and 5/5 Surface, with an estimate of $10,000 to $15,000 USD
Ptolemaic Kingdom Ptolemy II, 285/4-246 B.C., Gold Octodrachm graded NGC Ancients AU, with 5/5 Strike and 3/5 Surface, with an
estimate of $8,000 to $12,000 USD
Judaea - Bar Kokhba, A.D. 134/5 Silver Sela graded NGC Ancients Choice AU, with 4/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface, with an estimate of $8,000 to $10,000 USD
Lucania - Sybaris, circa 550-510 B.C., Silver Stater graded NGC Ancients Choice AU, with 5/5 Strike and 3/5 Surface, with an estimate of $4,000 to $6,000 USD
Sicily - Syracuse, circa 510-490 B.C., Silver Tetradrachm graded NGC Ancients Ch F, with 5/5 Strike and 2/5 Surface, with an estimate of $5,000 to $10,000 USD
Thraco-Macedonian - Bisaltae, circa 480-465 B.C., Silver Octodrachm graded NGC Ancients Ch VF, with 4/5 Strike and 3/5 Surface, with an estimate of $4,000 to $6,000 USD
Kingdom of Macedon - Philip II, 359-336 B.C., Gold Stater graded NGC Ancients MS, with 5/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface with Fine Style, with an estimate of $5,000 to $7,500 USD
Kingdom of Thrace - Lysimachus, 305-281 B.C., Gold Stater graded NGC Ancients AU, with 5/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface with Fine Style, with an estimate of $4,000 to $6,000 USD
Judaea - Jewish War, A.D. 67/8, Silver Shekel graded NGC Ancients Ch AU, with 4/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface, with an estimate of $5,000 to $7,500 USD
Judaea - Bar Kokhba, A.D. 133/4, Silver Sela graded NGC Ancients AU, with 4/5 Strike and 3/5 Surface, with an estimate of $5,000 to $7,500 USD
Babylonia, circa 328-311 B.C., Gold Double-Daric graded NGC Ancients Choice VF, with 4/5 Strike and 5/5 Surface, with an estimate of $6,000 to $9,000 USD
Ptolemaic Kingdom - Arsinoe II, mid-3rd century B.C., Gold Octodrachm graded NGC Ancients Choice VF, with 5/5 Strike and 5/5 Surface, with an estimate of $7,000 to $9,000 USD
Ptolemaic Kingdom - Arsinoe II, issued after circa 193/2 B.C., Gold Octodrachm graded NGC Ancients MS, with 5/5 Strike and 2/5 Surface, with an estimate of $8,000 to $12,000 USD
Roman Imperatorial - Julius Caesar, 40 B.C., Silver Denarius graded NGC Ancients Choice VF#9733;, with 5/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface, with an estimate of $6,000 to $9,000 USD
Roman Empire - Faustina Sr., A.D. 138-140/1, Gold Aureus circa graded NGC Ancients Choice AU, with 5/5 Strike and 3/5 Surface, with an estimate of $4,500 to $6,000 USD
Roman Empire - Manlia Scantilla, A.D. 193, Base Metal Sestertius circa graded NGC Ancients VF, with 5/5 Strike and 2/5 Surface, with an estimate of $6,000 to $9,000 USD
Posted 07/17/2020 3:04 pm
