Experts in Coins & Medals

KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great', 336-323 BC. Drachm (Silver, 19 mm, 4.26 g, 12 h), Kolophon, circa 310-301. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Zeus seated on backless throne to left, holding eagle in his right hand and scepter with his left; in the field to left, monogram of ΚΑ; below the throne, Φ. Price 1823. Nicely toned and well-centered. Light marks and some deposits on the reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.

Divus Antoninus Pius, died 161. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 32.5 mm, 25.24 g, 12 h), struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, Rome, after 161. DIVVS ANTONINVS bare head of Antoninus Pius to right. Rev. CONSECRATIO / S - C decorated funeral pyre of four tiers, surmounted by a quadriga. Banti 75. BMC 876. Cohen 165. RIC 1266. Some peripheral roughness, otherwise, about very fine.