Experts in Coins & Medals

KYRENAIKA. Barke. Circa 400-350 BC. Obol (Silver, 9 mm, 0.64 g, 9 h), struck under the magistrate Akesis, c. 380. Silphium plant with two 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 Apparently unpublished, but for a Barke tetradrachm of the magistrate Akesis with a facing head of Zeus Ammon on the reverse, see BMC, 32, pl. 47, 8, Jameson 2137 and Traité II, 3, 270. Struck from the same dies as Peus 410, 2013, 225 (but with the name of the magistrate unread and thus miss-attributed as an issue of Kyrene) and Nomos 37, 2025, 198. Clear and attractive. Minor surface roughness. Good very fine.

SELEUKID KINGS. Seleukos I Nikator, 312-281 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27.5 mm, 16.81 g, 11 h), Seleukeia on the Tigris I mint, circa 300-281. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY Zeus seated to left on high backed throne, holding Nike stretching right to crown him in his right hand and scepter in his left; below throne, Σ; in left field, NO. HGC 9, 16f. SC 119.3b. Attractive style. Somewhat porous surfaces, otherwise, extremely fine.