Academic Potpourri From Villemur

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1773. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ROMAN. Provincial. Æ from Spain to Egypt. Includes: SPAIN, Bilbilis // Caesaraugusta // Celsa (4) // Emerita (2) // Segobriga // Segovia // Tarraco // Terraconensis, Carthago Nova (4) // Turiaso // GAUL, Antipolis // LUCANIA, Paestum (5) SICILY, Agrigentum // Panormus (2) AFRICA, Colonia Iulia Pia Paterna // Hadrumentum (2) // Thapsus // Utica // MACEDON, Amphipolis (2) // Pella (4) // Philippi // Thessalonica (4) // ACHAEA, Corinth // CYPRUS, Paphos // PAMPYLIA, Termessos // PHRYGIA, Acmoneia // Eumenia // SYRIA, Coele-Syria, Balanea-Claudia Leucas (2) // Mallus // PHOENICIA, Berytos (2) // Sidon (2) // EGYPT, Alexandria (3) // Lot also includes a Greek Æ of Sikyonia, Sikyon, and a Roman Imperial Æ Sestertius of Augustus with c/m. One fake and one tooled. Mostly of Augustus and with collector’s original tickets and attributions . Fair to VF condition, mostly with small problems, includes one fake and one tooled piece. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Sixty-four (64) coins in lot.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection.