Experts in Coins & Medals

KYRENAIKA. Barke. Circa 400-350 BC. Obol (Silver, 9 mm, 0.59 g, 12 h), struck under the magistrate Akesis, circa 380. Silphium plant with three pairs of leaves and five umbels. Rev. A-KE Bearded head of Zeus Ammon facing, turned slightly to the right and with a ram's horn over each ear; the whole within a circular dotted border. Apparently unpublished, but for a tetradrachm of the magistrate Akesis in Barke with the facing Zeus Ammon on the reverse, see BMC, 32, pl. 47, 8, Jameson 2137 & Traité III, 270. Same dies as Peus 410, 2013, 225 (with the name of the magistrate unnoted and thus missatributed as an issue of Kyrene). Extremely rare and apparently only the second example known. Nicely toned and with a dramatic and exciting head of Zeus, who has an almost Celtic moustache. Somewhat porous, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.

ACHAIA, Achaian League. Patrai. Circa 86 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 16 mm, 2.48 g, 9 h). Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. Achaean League monogram; above, ΕΥ: to left, Α; to right, ΠΑ; below, dolphin to right; all within laurel wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 507. BMC 41. Clerk 70. Well-struck on a broad flan. Some flatness and deposits, otherwise, extremely fine.