Experts in Coins & Medals

CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. The Sindii. Circa 400 BC. Diobol (Silver, 13 mm, 1.31 g, 3 h). Griffin seated to right; in the field to right, barley grain. Rev. ΣΙΝΔΩΝ Head and neck of horse to right; all within a shallow incuse square. Anokhin 1986, 59. HGC 7, 3. MacDonald 83. Toned and clear. Some minor marks and scratches, otherwise, good very fine.

ISLAMIC WEIGHTS, Ottoman. Period of Sultan Abdul Mejid, AD 1255-1277 / AD 1839-1861. (Bronze, 23.5 mm, 32.17 g), 20 Dirham weight. Polyhedron form with punched thugra of Sultan Abdul Mejid and workshop stamp dated ٢٦٦[١] (AH [1]266 = AD 1849/50) . Cf. Kürkman, 'Anatolian Weights and Measaures', no. 231 for earlier example. A very rare later Ottoman issue.