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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8274680, member: 26430"]They've sold a few really cool looking hoards with the vessels in the past. Not that I'm the kind of buyer who could ever spend 10s or 100s of $1,000s on coins in a weekend, but I always pay very close attention to those. It's all the stuff that goes with the coins that I find fascinating.</p><p><br /></p><p>By far the greatest complete hoard I've seen listed at CNG was "<b>The Ghazzat Hoard</b>" (or "<b>The Gaza 1960s Hoard</b>") = <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=300257" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=300257" rel="nofollow"><b>Triton XIX (4 Jan 2016), Lot 82</b></a>. 27 spectacular archaic coins. Hammer, $450,000!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460929[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>Photo Credit</i>: CNG, <a href="https://cngcoins.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/" rel="nofollow">cngcoins.com</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It has a wonderful backstory, too, if you read the article below (or their description, I think, gives an abbreviated version).</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not sure what the disposition after the sale was, but there's an article about it (pre-sale) by Fernando López Sánchez and Daniel Gómez Castro (2015) in <i>American Journal of Numismatics</i> 27: 1-18. (Online: <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/90017060" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/90017060" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/90017060</a>.) It's also got a very minimal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazzat_hoard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazzat_hoard" rel="nofollow">wikipedia article</a>, but it does include some images.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They've had other interesting Greek archaic and hacksilber hoards, such as <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=265591" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=265591" rel="nofollow"><b>CNG 97 (17 Sep 2014), Lot 1</b></a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Romans, below,</b> I only noticed later, long after they were sold (c. 2004 & 2006).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>My favorite ever Roman hoard they sold</b> was Triton VII, 1044 & 1045. Roughly $60k for the pair, including auction fees. (I'm sure many of us have the campgates below without knowing it.)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=43853" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=43853" rel="nofollow"><b>Triton VII (12 Jan 2004), Lot 1044</b></a>. "Medallic silver bowl of one Roman pound (200 mm, 330 gm=1 Roman pound). Ephesus ‘mint’, 1 March 322 AD." Plus 85 coins from the hoard. Hammered at $40,000.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=43854" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=43854" rel="nofollow">Triton VII (12 Jan 2004), Lot 1045</a></b>. "<b>Licinius I - Constantine II. </b>A nearly intact hoard of 915 folles (<i>see the previous lot for the remaining 85 coins from the hoard and its container</i>)..." Hammered at $8,000.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460925[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1460926[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>Photo Credit</i>: CNG, <a href="https://cngcoins.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com" rel="nofollow">cngcoins.com</a></p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>" Silver bowl with simple curved profile. In the center is a struck medallion within a lathe-cut circle: LICINIVS AVG OB D V LICINI FILI SVI, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed facing bust of Licinius I. On the outside of the bowl, near the rim, is a small round stamp: EUG/EFE/MEB in three lines. Three medallic bowls of the same issue (one of Licinius I, with design and legend identical to the present piece, and two of Licinius II) were in the ‘Munich’ Treasure: J.P.C. Kent and K.S. Painter, <i>Wealth of the Roman World AD 300-700 </i>(British Museum 1977), pp. 20ff., nos. 1-3; B. Overbeck, <i>Argentum Romanum: ein Schatzfund von spätrömischen Prunkgeschirr</i> (Munich 1973), pp. 23, 29. Complete, bent and cracked, with remaining encrustation from the bronze folles that were secreted within.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lot also includes: a partial hoard of 85 folles found with the bowl (see the next lot for the remaining 915 coins from the hoard). All coins are "Campgate" reverse types issued from the mint of Heraclea, struck in the names of Licinius I, Licinius II, Constantine I, Constantine II, and Crispus. The coins are uncleaned, some with heavy encrustation, but most appear to have minimal, if any, wear, and a number exhibit well-silvered surfaces under the encrustation. (See the next lot for further information on this hoard.)"</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>One other:</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=318962" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=318962" rel="nofollow">CNG 103 (14 Sep 2006), Lot 1295</a>.</b> 5453 mid to late-3rd cent Ants from a find in Dorset (<i>always with the finds in Dorset! just throw a shovel there and you'll hit a hoard!</i>), hammered at $20,000:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>"Coins are grouped in large brown paper envelopes, each envelope noted with general attribution. Lot includes the intact bottoms of two pottery vessels that contained the coins, as well as additional fragments of the vessels."</p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8274680, member: 26430"]They've sold a few really cool looking hoards with the vessels in the past. Not that I'm the kind of buyer who could ever spend 10s or 100s of $1,000s on coins in a weekend, but I always pay very close attention to those. It's all the stuff that goes with the coins that I find fascinating. By far the greatest complete hoard I've seen listed at CNG was "[B]The Ghazzat Hoard[/B]" (or "[B]The Gaza 1960s Hoard[/B]") = [URL='https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=300257'][B]Triton XIX (4 Jan 2016), Lot 82[/B][/URL]. 27 spectacular archaic coins. Hammer, $450,000! [ATTACH=full]1460929[/ATTACH] [I]Photo Credit[/I]: CNG, [URL='https://cngcoins.com/']cngcoins.com[/URL] It has a wonderful backstory, too, if you read the article below (or their description, I think, gives an abbreviated version). I'm not sure what the disposition after the sale was, but there's an article about it (pre-sale) by Fernando López Sánchez and Daniel Gómez Castro (2015) in [I]American Journal of Numismatics[/I] 27: 1-18. (Online: [URL]https://www.jstor.org/stable/90017060[/URL].) It's also got a very minimal [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazzat_hoard']wikipedia article[/URL], but it does include some images. They've had other interesting Greek archaic and hacksilber hoards, such as [URL='https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=265591'][B]CNG 97 (17 Sep 2014), Lot 1[/B][/URL]. [B]The Romans, below,[/B] I only noticed later, long after they were sold (c. 2004 & 2006). [B]My favorite ever Roman hoard they sold[/B] was Triton VII, 1044 & 1045. Roughly $60k for the pair, including auction fees. (I'm sure many of us have the campgates below without knowing it.) [URL='https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=43853'][B]Triton VII (12 Jan 2004), Lot 1044[/B][/URL]. "Medallic silver bowl of one Roman pound (200 mm, 330 gm=1 Roman pound). Ephesus ‘mint’, 1 March 322 AD." Plus 85 coins from the hoard. Hammered at $40,000. [B][URL='https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=43854']Triton VII (12 Jan 2004), Lot 1045[/URL][/B]. "[B]Licinius I - Constantine II. [/B]A nearly intact hoard of 915 folles ([I]see the previous lot for the remaining 85 coins from the hoard and its container[/I])..." Hammered at $8,000. [ATTACH=full]1460925[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1460926[/ATTACH] [I]Photo Credit[/I]: CNG, [URL='https://cngcoins.com']cngcoins.com[/URL] [INDENT]" Silver bowl with simple curved profile. In the center is a struck medallion within a lathe-cut circle: LICINIVS AVG OB D V LICINI FILI SVI, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed facing bust of Licinius I. On the outside of the bowl, near the rim, is a small round stamp: EUG/EFE/MEB in three lines. Three medallic bowls of the same issue (one of Licinius I, with design and legend identical to the present piece, and two of Licinius II) were in the ‘Munich’ Treasure: J.P.C. Kent and K.S. Painter, [I]Wealth of the Roman World AD 300-700 [/I](British Museum 1977), pp. 20ff., nos. 1-3; B. Overbeck, [I]Argentum Romanum: ein Schatzfund von spätrömischen Prunkgeschirr[/I] (Munich 1973), pp. 23, 29. Complete, bent and cracked, with remaining encrustation from the bronze folles that were secreted within. Lot also includes: a partial hoard of 85 folles found with the bowl (see the next lot for the remaining 915 coins from the hoard). All coins are "Campgate" reverse types issued from the mint of Heraclea, struck in the names of Licinius I, Licinius II, Constantine I, Constantine II, and Crispus. The coins are uncleaned, some with heavy encrustation, but most appear to have minimal, if any, wear, and a number exhibit well-silvered surfaces under the encrustation. (See the next lot for further information on this hoard.)"[/INDENT] [B]One other:[/B] [B][URL='https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=318962']CNG 103 (14 Sep 2006), Lot 1295[/URL].[/B] 5453 mid to late-3rd cent Ants from a find in Dorset ([I]always with the finds in Dorset! just throw a shovel there and you'll hit a hoard![/I]), hammered at $20,000: [INDENT]"Coins are grouped in large brown paper envelopes, each envelope noted with general attribution. Lot includes the intact bottoms of two pottery vessels that contained the coins, as well as additional fragments of the vessels."[/INDENT][/QUOTE]
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