Log in or Sign up
Coin Talk
Home
Forums
>
Coin Forums
>
Ancient Coins
>
Dorney auction wins
>
Reply to Thread
Message:
<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8251146, member: 110350"]I've bought a wide variety of Roman coins from Ken Dorney (plus one that was ex. Ken Dorney), over the last couple of years. All at retail; I've never participated in any of his auctions. He's one of my favorite dealers. Here are some of them (footnotes omitted from all descriptions). All the photos are his except the first one:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, L. Aurelius Cotta*, AR serrate Denarius, 105 BCE, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Vulcan right, wearing conical cap (pileus) bound with laurel wreath, tongs behind shoulder with * [= XVI; mark of value] above; beneath chin, control mark “D” with single pellet below**; all within myrtle-wreath / Rev. Eagle standing three-quarters right on thunderbolt with wings spread and head left; in exergue, L • COT; laurel-wreath around.*** Crawford 314/1b, RSC I Aurelia 21 (ill.); BMCRR 1296, Sydenham 577, Sear RCV I 191 (ill.). 19 mm., 3.74 g. Purchased from Ken Dorney June 2021; with old coin ticket from 1950s/1960s [with Sydenham number but not Crawford].</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453715[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan AR Drachm, 115-Feb. 116 AD [<i>before granting of Parthia title</i>], Arabia Bostra (or Rome*) Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan right, with paludamentum, seen from rear, AYTOKP KAIC NЄP TPAIANѠ APICTѠ CƐB ΓƐPM ΔAK [<i>equivalent of IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM DAC</i>] / Rev. Bactrian (two-humped) camel, walking left, ΔHMAPX ЄΞ YΠATO ς [<i>equivalent of TR P COS VI (sixth consulship)</i>]. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 4076 (2015); RPC III Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4076" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4076" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4076</a>, SNG ANS VI 1158; Sydenham 205 [E. Sydenham, <i>The Coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia </i>(1933 & 1978 Supp. by A.G. Malloy)]; BMC 20 Cappadocia 65-66 at p. 54 & Pl. IX No. 16 [Wroth, Warwick, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum</i>, <i>Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria</i> (London, 1899)]. 19 mm., 3.10 g. <i>Purchased from Kenneth W. Dorney</i>. (<i>Coin is double die match to Roma Numismatics Auction, May 21, 2013, Lot 767 [<a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=474&lot=767];" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=474&lot=767];" rel="nofollow">https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=474&lot=767];</a> image of that coin is reproduced as Plate 14, No. 7 in Woytek & Butcher article cited in note below.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453717[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Philip I AE Octassarion (8 Assaria), Second Issue, AD 247-249, Syria, Seleucis & Pieria, Antioch Mint. Obv. Radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right, ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Turreted and draped bust of Tyche right; above, ram leaping right with head turned back left; star below bust; ΑΝΤΙΟΧƐΩΝ - ΜΗΤΡΟ ΚΟΛΩΝ around; Δ – Ɛ [Delta – Epsilon] across upper fields; S - C across lower fields. 30 mm., 15.68 g. McAlee 990 (ill. p. 345) [Richard McAlee, <i>The Coins of Roman Antioch</i> (2007)]; RPC VIII Online (unassigned, ID 7493) (see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/7493" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/7493" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/7493</a>); BMC 20 Syria 526 [Warwick Wroth, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 20, Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria</i> (London, 1899) at p. 215]. <i>Purchased from Kenneth W. Dorney, Feb. 2022</i>.*</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453718[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Anonymous colonial civic issue, AE 23, 251 - 260 AD (Trebonianus Gallus to Valerian I), Troas, Alexandria Troas Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown, vexillum inscribed CO AV over right shoulder, CO ALEX TR / Rev. Horse (of Erichthonius?)* grazing to right, COL AVG, TROAD in exergue. RPC IX 505 (see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/505" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/505" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/505</a>); Bellinger A486 [Alfred A. Bellinger, <i>Troy, The Coins</i> (Princeton 1961)]; BMC 17 Troas, 46 <i>var. </i>[diff. legends]; see also id. 45, 47-50 <i>var. </i>[Warwick Wroth, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 17, Troas, Aeolis, and Lesbos </i>(London 1894)]; SNG Copenhagen 108-113 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part 20, Troas</i> (1945)]. 23 mm., 5.80 g. <i>Ex: Pars Coins; Ex: Kenneth W. Dorney</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453720[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian, AR Argenteus, ca. AD 295, Heraclea Mint (1st Officina). Obv. Laureate head right, DIOCLETI-ANVS AVG / Rev. The four tetrarchs [the Augusti Diocletian and Maximian, and the Caesars Constantius Chlorus and Galerius], draped, sacrificing over a tripod altar, two of them on each side, before military camp gate with six turrets (four in front and two in rear), VICTORIA-SARMAT [referring to victories over the Sarmatians*]; in exergue, H A [Heraclea, 1st Officina]. RIC VI Heraclea 6 [see <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.her.6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.her.6" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.her.6</a>], RSC V Diocletian 488j, Sear RCV IV 12612. <i>Purchased from Kenneth W. Dorney, Oct. 2021. Ex. Ira & Larry Goldberg Auction 90, 2 Feb. 2016, Lot 3274</i>. 19 mm., 2.70 g. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453721[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8251146, member: 110350"]I've bought a wide variety of Roman coins from Ken Dorney (plus one that was ex. Ken Dorney), over the last couple of years. All at retail; I've never participated in any of his auctions. He's one of my favorite dealers. Here are some of them (footnotes omitted from all descriptions). All the photos are his except the first one: Roman Republic, L. Aurelius Cotta*, AR serrate Denarius, 105 BCE, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Vulcan right, wearing conical cap (pileus) bound with laurel wreath, tongs behind shoulder with * [= XVI; mark of value] above; beneath chin, control mark “D” with single pellet below**; all within myrtle-wreath / Rev. Eagle standing three-quarters right on thunderbolt with wings spread and head left; in exergue, L • COT; laurel-wreath around.*** Crawford 314/1b, RSC I Aurelia 21 (ill.); BMCRR 1296, Sydenham 577, Sear RCV I 191 (ill.). 19 mm., 3.74 g. Purchased from Ken Dorney June 2021; with old coin ticket from 1950s/1960s [with Sydenham number but not Crawford]. [ATTACH=full]1453715[/ATTACH] Trajan AR Drachm, 115-Feb. 116 AD [[I]before granting of Parthia title[/I]], Arabia Bostra (or Rome*) Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan right, with paludamentum, seen from rear, AYTOKP KAIC NЄP TPAIANѠ APICTѠ CƐB ΓƐPM ΔAK [[I]equivalent of IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM DAC[/I]] / Rev. Bactrian (two-humped) camel, walking left, ΔHMAPX ЄΞ YΠATO ς [[I]equivalent of TR P COS VI (sixth consulship)[/I]]. RPC [[I]Roman Provincial Coinage[/I]] Vol. III 4076 (2015); RPC III Online at [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4076[/URL], SNG ANS VI 1158; Sydenham 205 [E. Sydenham, [I]The Coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia [/I](1933 & 1978 Supp. by A.G. Malloy)]; BMC 20 Cappadocia 65-66 at p. 54 & Pl. IX No. 16 [Wroth, Warwick, [I]A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum[/I], [I]Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria[/I] (London, 1899)]. 19 mm., 3.10 g. [I]Purchased from Kenneth W. Dorney[/I]. ([I]Coin is double die match to Roma Numismatics Auction, May 21, 2013, Lot 767 [[URL]https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=474&lot=767];[/URL] image of that coin is reproduced as Plate 14, No. 7 in Woytek & Butcher article cited in note below.[/I]) [ATTACH=full]1453717[/ATTACH] Philip I AE Octassarion (8 Assaria), Second Issue, AD 247-249, Syria, Seleucis & Pieria, Antioch Mint. Obv. Radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right, ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Turreted and draped bust of Tyche right; above, ram leaping right with head turned back left; star below bust; ΑΝΤΙΟΧƐΩΝ - ΜΗΤΡΟ ΚΟΛΩΝ around; Δ – Ɛ [Delta – Epsilon] across upper fields; S - C across lower fields. 30 mm., 15.68 g. McAlee 990 (ill. p. 345) [Richard McAlee, [I]The Coins of Roman Antioch[/I] (2007)]; RPC VIII Online (unassigned, ID 7493) (see [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/7493[/URL]); BMC 20 Syria 526 [Warwick Wroth, [I]A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 20, Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria[/I] (London, 1899) at p. 215]. [I]Purchased from Kenneth W. Dorney, Feb. 2022[/I].* [ATTACH=full]1453718[/ATTACH] Anonymous colonial civic issue, AE 23, 251 - 260 AD (Trebonianus Gallus to Valerian I), Troas, Alexandria Troas Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown, vexillum inscribed CO AV over right shoulder, CO ALEX TR / Rev. Horse (of Erichthonius?)* grazing to right, COL AVG, TROAD in exergue. RPC IX 505 (see [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/505[/URL]); Bellinger A486 [Alfred A. Bellinger, [I]Troy, The Coins[/I] (Princeton 1961)]; BMC 17 Troas, 46 [I]var. [/I][diff. legends]; see also id. 45, 47-50 [I]var. [/I][Warwick Wroth, [I]A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 17, Troas, Aeolis, and Lesbos [/I](London 1894)]; SNG Copenhagen 108-113 [[I]Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part 20, Troas[/I] (1945)]. 23 mm., 5.80 g. [I]Ex: Pars Coins; Ex: Kenneth W. Dorney[/I]. [ATTACH=full]1453720[/ATTACH] Diocletian, AR Argenteus, ca. AD 295, Heraclea Mint (1st Officina). Obv. Laureate head right, DIOCLETI-ANVS AVG / Rev. The four tetrarchs [the Augusti Diocletian and Maximian, and the Caesars Constantius Chlorus and Galerius], draped, sacrificing over a tripod altar, two of them on each side, before military camp gate with six turrets (four in front and two in rear), VICTORIA-SARMAT [referring to victories over the Sarmatians*]; in exergue, H A [Heraclea, 1st Officina]. RIC VI Heraclea 6 [see [URL]http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.her.6[/URL]], RSC V Diocletian 488j, Sear RCV IV 12612. [I]Purchased from Kenneth W. Dorney, Oct. 2021. Ex. Ira & Larry Goldberg Auction 90, 2 Feb. 2016, Lot 3274[/I]. 19 mm., 2.70 g. [ATTACH=full]1453721[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
Your name or email address:
Do you already have an account?
No, create an account now.
Yes, my password is:
Forgot your password?
Stay logged in
Coin Talk
Home
Forums
>
Coin Forums
>
Ancient Coins
>
Dorney auction wins
>
Home
Home
Quick Links
Search Forums
Recent Activity
Recent Posts
Forums
Forums
Quick Links
Search Forums
Recent Posts
Competitions
Competitions
Quick Links
Competition Index
Rules, Terms & Conditions
Gallery
Gallery
Quick Links
Search Media
New Media
Showcase
Showcase
Quick Links
Search Items
Most Active Members
New Items
Directory
Directory
Quick Links
Directory Home
New Listings
Members
Members
Quick Links
Notable Members
Current Visitors
Recent Activity
New Profile Posts
Sponsors
Menu
Search
Search titles only
Posted by Member:
Separate names with a comma.
Newer Than:
Search this thread only
Search this forum only
Display results as threads
Useful Searches
Recent Posts
More...
