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    E51, Lot 110:

    Tiberius. A.D. 14-37. Æ cast “sestertius." 17.12 gm. 36 mm. Paduan type. Aftercast. His bare head left; TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST IMP VIII / Tiberius seated left on curule chair, holding patera and scepter; CIVITIBVS RESTITVTIS. Klawans 4. Very Fine; brown patina.

    "Paduan" medals are so named after Giovanni da Cavino of Padua (1500-1570), who during his lifetime produced high quality dies to strike imitations and fantasy versions of Roman coins. The dies were passed down through Cavino's family until being purchased by the antiquary to the king of France in the 17th century, 100 years after Cavino's death. It is quite likely that the dies were used in the years between Cavino's death and their sale, and many copies were also cast based on struck originals. Casts were also created using existing casts, these 'aftercasts' generally decrease in quality and fidelity the further removed they become from the original struck examples.

    Whether or not they were made as intentional counterfeits is not conclusive (many scholars argue no). Various examples found their way into serious collections over time, but Zander Klawans's 1977 reference (and the many preceding works by Lawrence and others) mean that they are now rarely mistaken for real examples. Unlike many non-contemporary counterfeits Paduans are historic and collectible in their own right.
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    E51, Lot 111:

    Claudius. A.D. 41-54. Æ cast “sestertius." 22.64 gm. 36 mm. Paduan type. Aftercast. His laureate head right; TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP P P / Spes standing left, extending hand to emperor standing right between two soldiers; SPES AVGVSTA S C. Klawans 4. Very Fine; green and brown.

    "Paduan" medals are so named after Giovanni da Cavino of Padua (1500-1570), who during his lifetime produced high quality dies to strike imitations and fantasy versions of Roman coins. The dies were passed down through Cavino's family until being purchased by the antiquary to the king of France in the 17th century, 100 years after Cavino's death. It is quite likely that the dies were used in the years between Cavino's death and their sale, and many copies were also cast based on struck originals. Casts were also created using existing casts, these 'aftercasts' generally decrease in quality and fidelity the further removed they become from the original struck examples.

    Whether or not they were made as intentional counterfeits is not conclusive (many scholars argue no). Various examples found their way into serious collections over time, but Zander Klawans's 1977 reference (and the many preceding works by Lawrence and others) mean that they are now rarely mistaken for real examples. Unlike many non-contemporary counterfeits Paduans are historic and collectible in their own right.
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    E51, Lot 112:

    Galba. A.D. 68-69. Æ cast “sestertius." 21.24 gm. 34 mm. Paduan type. Aftercast. His laureate and draped bust right; IMP SER SVLP GALBA CAES AVG TR POT / The emperor standing left on low platform, addressing five soldiers holding standards; ADLOCVT S C. Klawans 3 (obverse die), 4 (reverse die). Good Very Fine; attractive brown patina. Superb portrait of this rare emperor. (There are no genuine coins of this type.)

    "Paduan" medals are so named after Giovanni da Cavino of Padua (1500-1570), who during his lifetime produced high quality dies to strike imitations and fantasy versions of Roman coins. The dies were passed down through Cavino's family until being purchased by the antiquary to the king of France in the 17th century, 100 years after Cavino's death. It is quite likely that the dies were used in the years between Cavino's death and their sale, and many copies were also cast based on struck originals. Casts were also created using existing casts, these 'aftercasts' generally decrease in quality and fidelity the further removed they become from the original struck examples.

    Whether or not they were made as intentional counterfeits is not conclusive (many scholars argue no). Various examples found their way into serious collections over time, but Zander Klawans's 1977 reference (and the many preceding works by Lawrence and others) mean that they are now rarely mistaken for real examples. Unlike many non-contemporary counterfeits Paduans are historic and collectible in their own right.
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    E51, Lot 113:

    Vitellius. A.D. 69. Æ cast “sestertius." 19.48 gm. 34 mm. Paduan type. Aftercast. His laureate and draped bust right; A VITELLIVS GERMAN IMP AVG P M TR / Mars advancing right, holding spear and trophy; S C. Klawans 4. Very Fine; dark patina.

    "Paduan" medals are so named after Giovanni da Cavino of Padua (1500-1570), who during his lifetime produced high quality dies to strike imitations and fantasy versions of Roman coins. The dies were passed down through Cavino's family until being purchased by the antiquary to the king of France in the 17th century, 100 years after Cavino's death. It is quite likely that the dies were used in the years between Cavino's death and their sale, and many copies were also cast based on struck originals. Casts were also created using existing casts, these 'aftercasts' generally decrease in quality and fidelity the further removed they become from the original struck examples.

    Whether or not they were made as intentional counterfeits is not conclusive (many scholars argue no). Various examples found their way into serious collections over time, but Zander Klawans's 1977 reference (and the many preceding works by Lawrence and others) mean that they are now rarely mistaken for real examples. Unlike many non-contemporary counterfeits Paduans are historic and collectible in their own right.
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    E51, Lot 114:

    Domitian. A.D. 81-96. Æ cast “sestertius." 20.42 gm. 34 mm. Paduan type. Aftercast. His laureate bust right, aegis at point of bust; IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XII CENS PER P P / Domitian seated left on dais inscribed S P Q Q O S V F P D, giving fumigants to male citizen standing right; child with upraised hands standing to right of citizen; tetrastyle temple in background; PONT MAX TR P VIII LVD SAEC around, S C in exergue. Klawans 4. Good Very Fine; attractive brown patina. Fine example.

    "Paduan" medals are so named after Giovanni da Cavino of Padua (1500-1570), who during his lifetime produced high quality dies to strike imitations and fantasy versions of Roman coins. The dies were passed down through Cavino's family until being purchased by the antiquary to the king of France in the 17th century, 100 years after Cavino's death. It is quite likely that the dies were used in the years between Cavino's death and their sale, and many copies were also cast based on struck originals. Casts were also created using existing casts, these 'aftercasts' generally decrease in quality and fidelity the further removed they become from the original struck examples.

    Whether or not they were made as intentional counterfeits is not conclusive (many scholars argue no). Various examples found their way into serious collections over time, but Zander Klawans's 1977 reference (and the many preceding works by Lawrence and others) mean that they are now rarely mistaken for real examples. Unlike many non-contemporary counterfeits Paduans are historic and collectible in their own right.
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    E51, Lot 115:

    Hadrian. A.D. 117-138. Æ cast “sestertius." 28.11 gm. 33 mm. Paduan type. Aftercast. His bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Galley right, Neptune standing at bow; FELI CITATI A VC in two lines across sail, COS III P P S C in two lines below. Klawans 1. Very Fine; brown patina; scattered small casting bubbles on reverse. A rare and popular type.

    "Paduan" medals are so named after Giovanni da Cavino of Padua (1500-1570), who during his lifetime produced high quality dies to strike imitations and fantasy versions of Roman coins. The dies were passed down through Cavino's family until being purchased by the antiquary to the king of France in the 17th century, 100 years after Cavino's death. It is quite likely that the dies were used in the years between Cavino's death and their sale, and many copies were also cast based on struck originals. Casts were also created using existing casts, these 'aftercasts' generally decrease in quality and fidelity the further removed they become from the original struck examples.

    Whether or not they were made as intentional counterfeits is not conclusive (many scholars argue no). Various examples found their way into serious collections over time, but Zander Klawans's 1977 reference (and the many preceding works by Lawrence and others) mean that they are now rarely mistaken for real examples. Unlike many non-contemporary counterfeits Paduans are historic and collectible in their own right.
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    A41, Lot 145:

    Classic Greece. Robert Ready British Museum electrotype. Iasus?. Circa 395 B.C. Silver didrachm copy. 29.5 mm. (15.31 gm., the actual piece). Head of Persian satrap right / Lyre with seven strings; ΒΑΣΙΛ. Head plate 19, 41.

    Head: "It has been ascribed to the time when Tissaaphernes was collecting his forces against Dercylidas in 395 at Issus."

    All Greek electrotypes offered here are in two separate halves.

     

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    Robert Ready British Museum Electrotypes

    In the late 1850’s the British Museum hired the seal-maker, Robert Ready, to produce copies of some of the finest coins in the British Museum collection. With an electrotyping technique they had perfected Ready and his sons produced exact replicas of the actual museum coins. They were produced in two parts, an obverse and a reverse. We acquired a select group of some of the most beautiful and important pieces they produced. All of these were direct copper casts of the actual coins and all have been gilt to illustrate the color of the actual coin, silver or gold. (Numbering based on Barclay Head’s 1889 work A Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients. Published by the British Museum. Modified and republished in 1932; subsequently modified slightly and republished in 1959.)
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    A41, Lot 147:

    Classic Greece. Robert Ready British Museum electrotype. Italy. Bruttium. Pandosia. Circa 350 B.C. Silver drachm copy. 22 mm. (7.78 gm., the actual piece). Head of Lara Lacinia wearing a lofty stephanos adorned with griffin foreparts and honeysuckles, three quarters facing, turned slightly right / Pan, the Hunter, seated on a rock, a hound at his feet; at left a bearded terminal figure with a caduceus. Head plate 25, 23.

    All Greek electrotypes offered here are in two separate halves.

     

    An in-hand experience of the finest of Greek coinage

    Robert Ready British Museum Electrotypes

    In the late 1850’s the British Museum hired the seal-maker, Robert Ready, to produce copies of some of the finest coins in the British Museum collection. With an electrotyping technique they had perfected Ready and his sons produced exact replicas of the actual museum coins. They were produced in two parts, an obverse and a reverse. We acquired a select group of some of the most beautiful and important pieces they produced. All of these were direct copper casts of the actual coins and all have been gilt to illustrate the color of the actual coin, silver or gold. (Numbering based on Barclay Head’s 1889 work A Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients. Published by the British Museum. Modified and republished in 1932; subsequently modified slightly and republished in 1959.)
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    A41, Lot 149:

    Classic Greece. Robert Ready British Museum electrotype. Syria. Antiochos VI Dionysos. 144-142 B.C. Silver tetradrachm copy. 31 x 35 mm. 16.53 gm actual coin weight. Radiate bust of young Antiochus IV Dionysus right / The Dioscuri charging left; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΧΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ in four lines; date ΘΖΡ (Year 169 = 144/3 BC); ΤΡΥ over Φ in field for his guardian Tryphon. Head plate 40, 25. As made; an extreme rarity in the series.

    All Greek electrotypes offered here are in two separate halves.

     

    An in-hand experience of the finest of Greek coinage

    Robert Ready British Museum Electrotypes

    In the late 1850’s the British Museum hired the seal-maker, Robert Ready, to produce copies of some of the finest coins in the British Museum collection. With an electrotyping technique they had perfected Ready and his sons produced exact replicas of the actual museum coins. They were produced in two parts, an obverse and a reverse. We acquired a select group of some of the most beautiful and important pieces they produced. All of these were direct copper casts of the actual coins and all have been gilt to illustrate the color of the actual coin, silver or gold. (Numbering based on Barclay Head’s 1889 work A Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients. Published by the British Museum. Modified and republished in 1932; subsequently modified slightly and republished in 1959.)
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    A41, Lot 152:

    Electrotype of English hammered coinage. Aethelheard (Coenwulf as overlord). 792-805. Penny electrotype. 19 mm. Second issue. The British Museum piece weighs 21.3 grains (1.38 gm). (?-796). +ΛEDILHEΛRD ΛRC : C; EP, bar above / +O FF ΛR EX around, divided by arms of a cross patee; Μ, bar above, in center. BMC Vol I: 22 (Pl. XIII:3). N. 231. S. 886A. (Seaby/Spink Standard Catalog plate coin, 1976 to 2007). As made. The obverse of this piece was consistently shown upside down in Standard Catalog issues until the 2007 revision.

    All British electrotypes offered here are joined into a single piece.

     

    Electrotypes of Anglo-Saxon and English coins in the British Museum

    Used for the Standard Catalog prior to 2007

     

    These double-thick electrotypes of British Museum Anglo-Saxon and English hammered coins have not had the prominence of the series of Greek coin electros we have been offering. But they are direct copies of pieces in the British Museum and many can be seen in the plates of the the two BMC volumes issued in 1887 and 1893: Keary & Poole, A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series Volume I. and Grueber & Keary, A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series Volume II.

    These copies were used for the production of the reference that has become the standard for English coins, the Spink Standard Catalog.  (Prior to 1998 the publication was known as the Seaby Standard Catalog.) The pieces offered here are the actual pieces photographed for all the annual catalogs from the small format 15th edition in 1976 until the major revision in the 42nd edition 2007, when the catalog changed from black and white to color. (Prior to the larger size publications begun with the 16th edition in 1978, the earlier editions beginning in 1962 were smaller 5 by 7 ½ inch books. Earlier still, prior to 1962 the publications were larger and thinner with drawings rather than photographs illustrating the coins.)

    They are apparently extremely rare if not generally unique. I have seen a very few examples of other types in this format being offered but never a duplication of any offered here. (AD)
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    A41, Lot 153:

    Electrotype of English hammered coinage. Cuthred (King of Kent). 796-807. Penny electrotype. 19 mm. First Series. The British Museum piece weighs 21.1 grains (1.37 gm). His bust right; +CVDRED REX CΛNT around / Large cross-crosslet in center; +BEORNFRED MONETΛ (Beornfrth). BMC Vol I; Cuthred 1. Plate XI: 3. N. 211. S. 877. (Seaby/Spink Standard Catalog plate coin, 1976 to 2007). As made.

    All British electrotypes offered here are joined into a single piece.

     

    Electrotypes of Anglo-Saxon and English coins in the British Museum

    Used for the Standard Catalog prior to 2007

     

    These double-thick electrotypes of British Museum Anglo-Saxon and English hammered coins have not had the prominence of the series of Greek coin electros we have been offering. But they are direct copies of pieces in the British Museum and many can be seen in the plates of the the two BMC volumes issued in 1887 and 1893: Keary & Poole, A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series Volume I. and Grueber & Keary, A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series Volume II.

    These copies were used for the production of the reference that has become the standard for English coins, the Spink Standard Catalog.  (Prior to 1998 the publication was known as the Seaby Standard Catalog.) The pieces offered here are the actual pieces photographed for all the annual catalogs from the small format 15th edition in 1976 until the major revision in the 42nd edition 2007, when the catalog changed from black and white to color. (Prior to the larger size publications begun with the 16th edition in 1978, the earlier editions beginning in 1962 were smaller 5 by 7 ½ inch books. Earlier still, prior to 1962 the publications were larger and thinner with drawings rather than photographs illustrating the coins.)

    They are apparently extremely rare if not generally unique. I have seen a very few examples of other types in this format being offered but never a duplication of any offered here. (AD)
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    A41, Lot 154:

    Electrotype of English hammered coinage. Aethelbearht. 858-865/6. Penny electrotype. 21 mm. BM Type i. Inscribed cross. The British Museum piece weighs 20.2 grains (1.31 gm). Circa 858-862/4. His portrait right; +ΛEDELBEΛRHT (elided) REX / +BΛDEM on a horizontal arm of a cross, VND MO bottom to top on the vertical arm; Λ N E T in the angles of the cross. BMC Vol II; Aethelbearht 1. N. 620. S. 1053. (Seaby/Spink Standard Catalog plate coin, 1976 to 2007). As made.

    All British electrotypes offered here are joined into a single piece.

     

    Electrotypes of Anglo-Saxon and English coins in the British Museum

    Used for the Standard Catalog prior to 2007

     

    These double-thick electrotypes of British Museum Anglo-Saxon and English hammered coins have not had the prominence of the series of Greek coin electros we have been offering. But they are direct copies of pieces in the British Museum and many can be seen in the plates of the the two BMC volumes issued in 1887 and 1893: Keary & Poole, A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series Volume I. and Grueber & Keary, A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series Volume II.

    These copies were used for the production of the reference that has become the standard for English coins, the Spink Standard Catalog.  (Prior to 1998 the publication was known as the Seaby Standard Catalog.) The pieces offered here are the actual pieces photographed for all the annual catalogs from the small format 15th edition in 1976 until the major revision in the 42nd edition 2007, when the catalog changed from black and white to color. (Prior to the larger size publications begun with the 16th edition in 1978, the earlier editions beginning in 1962 were smaller 5 by 7 ½ inch books. Earlier still, prior to 1962 the publications were larger and thinner with drawings rather than photographs illustrating the coins.)

    They are apparently extremely rare if not generally unique. I have seen a very few examples of other types in this format being offered but never a duplication of any offered here. (AD)
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    A41, Lot 155:

    Electrotype of English hammered coinage. Alfred the Great. 871-899. Penny electrotype. 20 mm. BM Type xv. "Edward the Elder" type. The British Museum piece weighs 16 grains (1.04 gm). (?-796). +ΛEL FRE DREX around / +ΛDEL +++ VLFMO in three lines. BMC Vol II; 444 (Pl. VI: 16). N. 620. S. 1053. (Seaby/Spink Standard Catalog plate coin, 1976 to 2007) (The line image used in the earliest Seaby catalog editions is also of this piece). As made.

    All British electrotypes offered here are joined into a single piece.

     

    Electrotypes of Anglo-Saxon and English coins in the British Museum

    Used for the Standard Catalog prior to 2007

     

    These double-thick electrotypes of British Museum Anglo-Saxon and English hammered coins have not had the prominence of the series of Greek coin electros we have been offering. But they are direct copies of pieces in the British Museum and many can be seen in the plates of the the two BMC volumes issued in 1887 and 1893: Keary & Poole, A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series Volume I. and Grueber & Keary, A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series Volume II.

    These copies were used for the production of the reference that has become the standard for English coins, the Spink Standard Catalog.  (Prior to 1998 the publication was known as the Seaby Standard Catalog.) The pieces offered here are the actual pieces photographed for all the annual catalogs from the small format 15th edition in 1976 until the major revision in the 42nd edition 2007, when the catalog changed from black and white to color. (Prior to the larger size publications begun with the 16th edition in 1978, the earlier editions beginning in 1962 were smaller 5 by 7 ½ inch books. Earlier still, prior to 1962 the publications were larger and thinner with drawings rather than photographs illustrating the coins.)

    They are apparently extremely rare if not generally unique. I have seen a very few examples of other types in this format being offered but never a duplication of any offered here. (AD)
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