Experts in Coins & Medals

THESSALY. Larissa. Early 4th Century BC. Trihemiobol (Silver, 16 mm, 1.61 g, 9 h). Small, round shield with the device of a bull's hoof to right within a dotted circle; all within a circle of dots. Rev. Λ-API (retrograde) Laureate and draped bust Asklepios to right, bearded and with long hair, before him, snake coiling right. BCD Thessaly I 1120 and II 169 var. (both struck from the same dies, albeit different from the ones here). Traité II, 4, 690 and pl. CCXCVII, 23-24. A wonderful piece, very rare, toned and with a sensitive 'portrait' of Asklepios. Struck on a curiously oblong flan, otherwise, good very fine.

GREATER TABARISTAN. 'Abbasid governors, Time of Al-Mansur, AH 95-158 / AD 714-775. Hemidrachm (Silver, 24 mm, 1.82 g, 7 h), Anonymous AFZWT type, TPWRSTAN (Tabaristan) mint, PYE 133 =AD 767/8. Bust of Khosrau II to right, wearing merlon crown surmounted star and wings; to left, legend in Pahlavi script; to right, AFWZT in Pahlavi script. Rev. Fire altar flanked by two attendants; to left, date in Pahlavi script; to right, TPWRSTAN in Pahlavi script. SICA I, 420-421. Nicely toned. Struck from worn dies, otherwise, about extremely fine.