Ram

AR Obol, 0.54g. 8mm. c.500-450 B.C. Ram's head to left. Rv. Incuse. Demeester 94(this coin). Klein 312. Weber 5350.  Dark toning.

AR Obol, 0.68g. 4th cent. B.C. Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rv. NEAN. Ram standing to right within shallow incuse. SNG von Aulock 7628 var. Klein 318 var. Dark toning and exceptional quality for this issue.

Provenance/Pedigrees: 

Ex: Lanz, Munich, Auction 151, June 30, 2011, lot 433

AE 16, 3.45g. c.218-175 B.C. Veiled female head to right. Rev. Ram and Punic inscription. Coliero, Numismatic Chronicle, 1971, #5. Viola, CNP 494. Rare in this quality; dark green patina.

Provenance/Pedigrees

Ex: David Freedman collection, Triton V, New York, January 15, 2002, lot 290.

AE 20, 8.55g. c.350-300 B.C. Ram's head to right; eagle below. Rev. Laureate head of Apollo to r. SNG COP 266. Brown patina.

Provenance/Pedigrees

Ex: CNG. Lancaster, PA, E auction 320, February 12, 2004, lot 188.

AE Dichalkon, 1.83g. 13mm. Dated year 11=126/127 A.D.   Laureate head of Hadrian to right with drapery on left shoulder.  Rev. Ram standing to right; solar disc above. RPC III, 6436(this coin illustrated).  Dattari 6402.  Brown and green patina and of extraordinary quality.

Provenance/Pedigree:
Ex: Michel Durr, Geneva, Auction, November 16, 1998, lot 803
Ex: Jacquier, Kiel, Germany, Auction 38, September 13, 2013, lot 278.

AE Drachm, 27.76g.  34mm. Dated year 8= 144/145 A.D.  Zodiac series, Mars in Aries.  Laureate head of Antoninus Pius to right.  Rev. Ram leaping to right with head reverted; helmeted and cuirassed bust of Ares(Mars) and star above.  Dattari 2958(this coin). Geissen 1898. Fine brown patina.   Rare and among the finest known examples.  This coin was photographed in the 1901 edition of the Dattari collection to illustrate the Zodiac type; very few coins were illustrated from the massive collection in the original edition to illustrate the types.

Provenance/Pedigree:

Ex: Dattari collection, 2958 and plate XXVI in the 1901 edition.
Ex: Münz Zentrum, Köln collection and published, Ludwig Lehr, "Beschreibung und Bedeutung der zwölf Tierkreiszeichen auf den Grossbronzen von Alexandria unter der Regierung des Antoninus Pius" in  Helvetische Münzenzeitung, Thun 1971, page 7(reverse illustrated).

AR Denarius, 3.82g. 19mm. Uncertain Eastern mint, c.17 B.C. CAESAR. Bare-head of Augustus to right surrounded by an oak wreath. Rev. AVGVST. Candelabrum ornamented with rams ' heads and crescent; patera and bucrania within wreath. RIC 540. BMC 684. The portrait is struck in very high relief and with unusually good centering; attractive light toning.

Provenance/Pedigrees

Ex: Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, Auction 53, November 29, 1977, lot 253.