Diverse Group of Coins Graded by NGC Ancients Featured in Stack’s Bowers Sale in August

Stack's Bowers Galleries will hold several auctions in Las Vegas, Nevada, in early August featuring NGC-graded ancient coins. Online bidding for Session B, which includes the NGC-certified ancients, is now open, with the auctions ending on August 6, 2020.

Among the most anticipated coins in the sale is one from the dawn of coinage: a Lydia Gold Stater of Croesus, 561-546 B.C., graded NGC Ancients Ch XF, with 4/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface. Croesus ruled as King of Lydia (in modern-day Turkey) until he was defeated by Cyrus the Great in 546 B.C. This coin has an estimate of $35,000 to $45,000 USD.

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Another highlight of the sale is a Roman Empire Gold Aureus of Maximian, A.D. 286-310, graded NGC Ancients Ch MS, with 5/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface. This coin features a seated portrait of Hercules, whom the Romans regarded as a hero and a god, holding a club with a lion skin. Maximian ruled with Diocletian into the early 4th century, but his conflict with Constantine led to his death in 310. This coin has an estimated sales price of $30,000 to $40,000 USD.

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The auction features nearly 200 coins, virtually all of them certified by NGC Ancients, including these additional highlights:

• a Western Roman Empire – Majorian, A.D. 457-461, Gold Solidus graded NGC Ancients AU, with 4/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface, with an estimate of $20,000 to $25,000 USD
• a Judaea – Jewish War, A.D. 68/9 Silver Half-Shekel graded NGC Ancients AU, with 4/5 Strike and 5/5 Surface, with an estimate of $10,000 to $15,000 USD
• a Ptolemaic Kingdom Ptolemy II, 285/4-246 B.C., Gold Octodrachm graded NGC Ancients AU, with 5/5 Strike and 3/5 Surface, with an estimate of $8,000 to $12,000 USD
• a Judaea – Bar Kokhba, A.D. 134/5 Silver Sela graded NGC Ancients Choice AU, with 4/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface, with an estimate of $8,000 to $10,000 USD
• a Lucania – Sybaris, circa 550-510 B.C., Silver Stater graded NGC Ancients Choice AU, with 5/5 Strike and 3/5 Surface, with an estimate of $4,000 to $6,000 USD
• a Sicily – Syracuse, circa 510-490 B.C., Silver Tetradrachm graded NGC Ancients Ch F, with 5/5 Strike and 2/5 Surface, with an estimate of $5,000 to $10,000 USD
• a Thraco-Macedonian – Bisaltae, circa 480-465 B.C., Silver Octodrachm graded NGC Ancients Ch VF, with 4/5 Strike and 3/5 Surface, with an estimate of $4,000 to $6,000 USD
• a Kingdom of Macedon – Philip II, 359-336 B.C., Gold Stater graded NGC Ancients MS, with 5/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface with Fine Style, with an estimate of $5,000 to $7,500 USD
• a Kingdom of Thrace – Lysimachus, 305-281 B.C., Gold Stater graded NGC Ancients AU, with 5/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface with Fine Style, with an estimate of $4,000 to $6,000 USD
• a Judaea – Jewish War, A.D. 67/8, Silver Shekel graded NGC Ancients Ch AU, with 4/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface, with an estimate of $5,000 to $7,500 USD
• a Judaea – Bar Kokhba, A.D. 133/4, Silver Sela graded NGC Ancients AU, with 4/5 Strike and 3/5 Surface, with an estimate of $5,000 to $7,500 USD
• a Babylonia, circa 328-311 B.C., Gold Double-Daric graded NGC Ancients Choice VF, with 4/5 Strike and 5/5 Surface, with an estimate of $6,000 to $9,000 USD
• a Ptolemaic Kingdom – Arsinoe II, mid-3rd century B.C., Gold Octodrachm graded NGC Ancients Choice VF, with 5/5 Strike and 5/5 Surface, with an estimate of $7,000 to $9,000 USD
• a Ptolemaic Kingdom – Arsinoe II, issued after circa 193/2 B.C., Gold Octodrachm graded NGC Ancients MS, with 5/5 Strike and 2/5 Surface, with an estimate of $8,000 to $12,000 USD
• a Roman Imperatorial – Julius Caesar, 40 B.C., Silver Denarius graded NGC Ancients Choice VF★, with 5/5 Strike and 4/5 Surface, with an estimate of $6,000 to $9,000 USD
• a Roman Empire – Faustina Sr., A.D. 138-140/1, Gold Aureus circa graded NGC Ancients Choice AU, with 5/5 Strike and 3/5 Surface, with an estimate of $4,500 to $6,000 USD
• a Roman Empire – Manlia Scantilla, A.D. 193, Base Metal Sestertius circa graded NGC Ancients VF, with 5/5 Strike and 2/5 Surface, with an estimate of $6,000 to $9,000 USD

All estimates are provided by the auction house.