Experts in Coins & Medals

Anonymous, circa 225-214 BC. Quadrigatus (Silver, 23 mm, 6.62 g, 7 h), Rome. Laureate janiform head of the Dioscuri, with separated sideburns. Rev. Jupiter standing to right, holding a sceptre in his left hand and hurling a thunderbolt with his right, in a fast quadriga driven by Victory to right; below, on a rectangular raised tablet with vertical ends, ROMA incuse. Crawford 28/3. HN III 334. RBW 64. RSC 23. Sydenham 64. Attractive dark toning; very well centered struck on a very broad flan. Extremely fine.

KYRENAIKA. Kyrene. Circa 500-480 BC. Hemiobol (Silver, 6 mm, 0.46 g), Attic standard. Silphium fruit with pellet above. Rev. Incuse square divided rectangularly by four lines into eight compartments. Apparently unpublished as a hemiobol and with this arrangement of the reverse incuse. Cf. BMC 6, pl. II, 10 (for a drachm of the same series) & Buttrey 41-43 var. (for a hemidrachm of the same series). For another example of this elusive type but with the incuse square divided in six compartments see Obolos 38 (2025) 384. Of the highest rarity; well centered and toned. Very fine.