Numismatica Ars Classica
Spring Sale 2020 25 May 2020
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Ex Crippa 1971 and sold with an Italian export licence.
The Roman Republic.
L. Marcius Censorinus. Denarius 82, AR 18 mm, 4.04 g, 9h. Laureate head of Apollo r. Rev. L·CENSOR Marsyas walking l. with r. arm raised and holding wine-skin over l. shoulder; behind, column bearing statue on top. Babelon Marcia 24. Sydenham 737. RBW 1372. Crawford 363/1d.
Wonderful old cabinet tone with some iridescence, a delicate portrait
of the finest style. Virtually as struck and almost Fdc
Ex Crippa Fixed Price List 4, 1971, 309. This coin is sold with an export licence issued by the Republic of Italy.
For sale is eight lots of RRC 363, L.CENSOR, the best specimens of the most comprehensive collection of this series in private hands in terms of the variety of symbols. From a still unpublished die study, around 600 dies were produced in this series, all but twenty without controlmarks. As for the series of P.CREPVSI, two engraver schools produced these dies, which Ted Buttrey called G (gross) and F (fine) engravers. The die study reveals very few different engravers, producing a limited number of dies or just one. This is the case for this unique die, produced by a master engraver who would've worked solely on it. This might be understood in the framework of a kind of "mint contest" to select the engravers for a series. This coin, in superb preservation and with iridescent hues, is therefore of the highest rarity and one of the best among the other ten known specimens. Charles Hersh recognized its specificity and had a coin with the same dies in his collection (now BM inv. 2002,0102.3048).
The Roman Republic.
L. Marcius Censorinus. Denarius 82, AR 18 mm, 4.04 g, 9h. Laureate head of Apollo r. Rev. L·CENSOR Marsyas walking l. with r. arm raised and holding wine-skin over l. shoulder; behind, column bearing statue on top. Babelon Marcia 24. Sydenham 737. RBW 1372. Crawford 363/1d.
Wonderful old cabinet tone with some iridescence, a delicate portrait
of the finest style. Virtually as struck and almost Fdc
Ex Crippa Fixed Price List 4, 1971, 309. This coin is sold with an export licence issued by the Republic of Italy.
For sale is eight lots of RRC 363, L.CENSOR, the best specimens of the most comprehensive collection of this series in private hands in terms of the variety of symbols. From a still unpublished die study, around 600 dies were produced in this series, all but twenty without controlmarks. As for the series of P.CREPVSI, two engraver schools produced these dies, which Ted Buttrey called G (gross) and F (fine) engravers. The die study reveals very few different engravers, producing a limited number of dies or just one. This is the case for this unique die, produced by a master engraver who would've worked solely on it. This might be understood in the framework of a kind of "mint contest" to select the engravers for a series. This coin, in superb preservation and with iridescent hues, is therefore of the highest rarity and one of the best among the other ten known specimens. Charles Hersh recognized its specificity and had a coin with the same dies in his collection (now BM inv. 2002,0102.3048).