Experts in Coins & Medals

CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. Pantikapaion. Circa 200-150 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 14 mm, 2.25 g, 12 h). Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΠΑΝ Lion's head facing, with spread mane, grasping a spear head in its jaws. Anokin 160. HGC 7, 90. MacDonald 131 = SNG BM Black Sea 914. Very rare. Clear and toned. Some uncleaned deposits as found. Good very fine.

KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great', 336-323 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 28.5 mm, 17.18 g, 1 h), struck posthumously under Ptolemy I as Satrap, Arados, circa 320/19-315. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Zeus seated to left on throne, his feet on a footstool, holding eagle on his outstretched right hand and long scepter in his left; in the left field, AP monogram. Price 3426 (Byblos). Taylor, Reattribution 409-10 (A64/P226). Well-struck on a broad flan; fine style and toned. Light marks and faint graffito, otherwise, good extremely fine.