Kings of Cappadocia; Ariarathes VIII Epiphanes circa BCE 101/100-96/5, AR Tetradrachm, 16.27 g, 27 mm, 1h. Ariaratheia or Eusebia-Tyana mint(?). possibly c. BCE 99/98?
SC 2150.1, Series 3, Control Linked to
Drachms of Mørkholm’s “Mint B”
O: Diademed hd of Antiochus VII r. fillet border.
R: BAΣIΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOV ΕYEPΓETOV, on outer left monogram ΔI above A, T on inner left and Λ on inner right fields. Athene stg. left holding Nike with rt hand who crowns royal epithet, spear with left arm and resting left hand on shield depicting Gorgon.
Ex: CNG 351 portion lot 892 (20 May 2015)
Ex: Collection of Alexandre
Carathéodory Paşa (1833-1906)
CNG write up re the selection of coins
sold from this collection:
CNG is pleased to present selections from the collection of Alexandre
Carathéodory Pasha, a leading statesman in the Ottoman
Empire , whose interest in collecting ancient coins was inspired by
his meeting with the French diplomat and numismatist William-Henri Waddington
at the Congress of Berlin in 1878. Twenty Greek coins of the Eastern Aegean and
Western Asia Minor are being offered in CNG
99, and the majority of the collection is being offered in CNG Electronic
Auction 351, which runs concurrently with CNG 99 and closes on 20 May 2015.
Alexandre Carathéodory Pasha (or Karatheodory; in Greek: Αλέξανδρος Καραθεοδωρή; 1833–1906) was a prominent Greek scholar, diplomat, and statesman in theOttoman Empire . Carathéodory was born
in Constantinople to an eminent Constantinople
Phanariot family. His father, Stefanos Carathéodory, was the personal
physician to Sultans Mahmud II and Abdul-Aziz. His mother’s ancestors, the
Mavrocordatos and Mourousis, had for centuries served as Princes of Moldavia
and Wallachia .
After obtaining a doctoral degree from the Paris Faculty of Law, Carathéodory pursued a career in the public service of theOttoman
Empire . In 1874, he was appointed ambassador to Rome Russia Germany Bismarck ,
Disraeli, Salisbury , and Gorchakov, resulted in
the revision of the San Stefano peace terms in favor of the Ottoman
Empire (Treaty of Berlin, 1878). Disraeli characterized
Carathéodory as “full of finesse and yet calm and plausible.” During the Berlin Asia Minor .
Upon his return toTurkey Ottoman Empire (1878-1879). He was the only Greek to ever
occupy such a prominent position. In 1884, the Sultan appointed him Prince of
the autonomous Greek island
of Samos
In addition to his political career and historical pursuits, Carathéodory translated from Arabic to French the Traité du Quadrilatère, attribué à Nassiruddin-El-Tussin, a seminal work on the mathematics of the 13th-century Persian astronomer. He also authored research papers and scholarly essays on Aristotle’s Meteorology, Homeric studies, as well as a series of mathematics theses that are still in use. Their shared interest in mathematics forged a bond with his nephew, Constantine Carathéodory, a professor of mathematics at theUniversity of Munich
In 1895, amid renewed religious and social tensions inCrete , Abdul Hamid II appointed
Carathéodory as Governor of the island for a second time. Unsuccessful once
again in restoring order, Carathéodory resigned the post in December of the
same year and was appointed First Translator to H.I.M. the Sultan. In his book,Constantinople,
City of the World’s Desire, Philip Mansel notes that Abdul Hamid called
Carathéodory “a man with remarkable ability, not only the cleverest diplomat
in Turkey , but one of the
cleverest in Europe .” In 1901, Carathéodory
attended the funeral of Queen Victoria
His funeral in 1906, inConstantinople ,
was officiated by the Patriarch and all the Holy Synod. It marked, according to
Mansel, the end of the Phanariot tradition begun by his Mavrocordato ancestors.
In 1923 his children and grandchildren left Turkey Greece , others in Egypt ,
Switzerland , and Belgium
The present coin collection was passed on to Catherine Pilavachi-Carathéodory, who was the daughter of Stefanos A. Carathéodory, the eldest son of Alexandre Carathéodory Pasha. Catherine and her family leftEgypt
for Lausanne , Switzerland
Alexandre Carathéodory Pasha (or Karatheodory; in Greek: Αλέξανδρος Καραθεοδωρή; 1833–1906) was a prominent Greek scholar, diplomat, and statesman in the
After obtaining a doctoral degree from the Paris Faculty of Law, Carathéodory pursued a career in the public service of the
Upon his return to
In addition to his political career and historical pursuits, Carathéodory translated from Arabic to French the Traité du Quadrilatère, attribué à Nassiruddin-El-Tussin, a seminal work on the mathematics of the 13th-century Persian astronomer. He also authored research papers and scholarly essays on Aristotle’s Meteorology, Homeric studies, as well as a series of mathematics theses that are still in use. Their shared interest in mathematics forged a bond with his nephew, Constantine Carathéodory, a professor of mathematics at the
In 1895, amid renewed religious and social tensions in
His funeral in 1906, in
The present coin collection was passed on to Catherine Pilavachi-Carathéodory, who was the daughter of Stefanos A. Carathéodory, the eldest son of Alexandre Carathéodory Pasha. Catherine and her family left
