Nearly 550 lots will be up for sale during CGB’s Live Auction on 13 December 2016, from

Ancient coinage to Royal and Modern French coins as well as World coins.

The auction will begin with a fine assortment of ancient coins. An interesting selection

of over fifty Greek coins will introduce the catalogue, in particular with a very beauti-

ful Tetradrachma from Syracuse (Lot 409768), a magnificent Philip III Arrhidaeus gold

Stater for Abydos (Lot 409565), a rare Tetradrachma of Cleopatra Thea and Antiochus

VIII Grypus (Lot 409713) and even a splendid Shekel from year III (68), of the first Jew-

ish-Roman War (Lot 411851).

In the selection of Roman coins, you will find a rare Domitius Ahenobarbus Denier (Lot

408194), a beautiful Faustina Minor Aureus (Lot 412726), a rare and lovely Septimius

Severus Aureus (Lot 409820) and a rare Denier from the dynastic currency minted for

Septimius Severus and Caracalla (Lot 411378). A very splendid Emperor Basiliscus Soli-

dus (Lot 408749) will close out this part of the auction.

The same goes for Byzantine coins with a very lovely series of Byzantine Solidi including

a Tiberius III Apsimar (Lot 408792) or a splendid Nomisma Histamenon of Emperor

Basil II (Lot 408793).

We then leave Rome and Byzantium to visit the Celts. The Live Auction on 13 December

2016 is offering a remarkable selection of Celtic coins, especially gold ones, mainly from

two major collections, with interesting pedigrees. Among them there are four Arverni

Staters (including a remarkable one that has a head with a mustache (Lot 412303) and a

CAS with a lily and a stork (Lot 412344), two Parisii Staters and a quarter from the same

civilization, a lovely set of gold, electrum, silver and billon Armorican coins, as well as

the exceptional COVERTOMOTVL Drachma (Lot 411517) and a series of silver Mas-

salia coins (a few drachmas and four ancient coins from the Auriol Treasure).

The portion dedicated to french royal coins has a particularly rich selection of rare coins.

This means you’ll find both a gold Ecu with salamanders from the reign of French King

Francis I minted in Toulouse (Lot 413306) and one minted in La Rochelle (Lot 413308),

from the L.G. collection which was amassed between 1925 and 1955. Take a look at the

extremely rare Louis XI gold Half-Ecu (Lot 409595), also from the L.G. collection, a

Louis XII Teston from Paris (Lot 413310) or a magnificent gold Ecu with a porcupine

from Bretagne (Lot 413311).

There is a coin-collecting benchmark among the feudal coins, the Verdun four franc

coin of Charles de Lorraine-Chaligny (Lot 397744) which was already officially listed

during the nineteenth century, and first became part of the Wormser collection before

being sold at the Monte Carlo Vinchon auction in November 1982. The Lorraine region

of France will be well represented with several extremely rare coins. Another noteworthy

CGB LIVE AUCTION – WINTER 2016

CLOSING DATE, 13 DECEMBER 2016