1620, Prague. Very rare. Very fine +.
Gold löser of 20 ducats n.d. (1611-1633), Winsen (Luhe).
Probably unique. About extremely fine.
Extremely fine.
Gold medal of 50 ducats, 1851 by F. W. Kullrich,
commemorating the completion of the equestrian statue of
Frederick the Great. Extremely rare. About FDC.
From the collection of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg.
by H. Krafft after a draft by Albrecht Dürer as a gift for the
Emperor on the occasion of the planned Imperial Diet in
Nuremberg. Extremely rare. Original strike. Extremely fine.
1740, Paris. Very rare. NGC PF62 CAMEO. Proof.
by V. Alexeev commemorating the peace with Persia.
Extremely rare. Extremely fine to FDC.
of the half taler. Extremely rare. PCGS MS63PL.
Extremely fine to FDC.
Selections from the Staffieri Collection at Astarte
Astarte SA
Web Auction 2
Coins
9 December 2023
Online
Astarte SA from Lugano, Switzerland, offer their Web Auction 2 featuring 482 lots and closing on Saturday, 9 December 2023, beginning at 16 CEST.
The first section of the sale starts with 339 lots of Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins, weights and seals. The sale features the Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection “Numi plumbei antinoënsi”. These rare fifteen specimens of lead tesserae minted at Antinoë in memory of Antinous, the favourite of Emperor Hadrian who drowned in the Nile in October 130 AD, represent either the personal study material of the collector and researcher Giovanni Maria Staffieri or the topic of the lecture on the theme “Numi plumbei antinoënsi”, which he gave at the 16th International Numismatic Congress in Warsaw on 16 September 2022 and which will soon be published in its proceedings, where he solves the well-known enigma of the dates on the tesserae, in the sense that, they refer to the years of the “era of Antinoopolis” founded in 130 AD.
The second section of the sale offers 50 medieval and modern coins and medals from various states and the G. M. Staffieri Collection of 78 coins and medals from Mantua and the Gonzaga family. View some of the highlights of the sale:
Lot 108
Lot 108. Lycia. Patara. Circa 400 BC. Hemidrachm. Apparently the second known example. Starting price: 1,000 CHF.
Lot 249
Lot 249. Egypt. Alexandria. Trajan, 98-117. Drachm Year 16 = 112/3. Unicum. RPC III, 4710.1 this specimen illustrated. Starting price: 350 CHF.
Lot 296
Lot 296. Sabina. Wife of Hadrian, 128-136/7. As. Starting price: 400 CHF.
Lot 478
Lot 478. Napoleon. Silver medal. Foundation of the Cisalpine Republic. Starting price: 300 CHF.
