Experts in Coins & Medals

KYRENAIKA. Kyrene. Circa 510-490 BC. Didrachm (Silver, 19 mm, 8.79 g, 1 h). Eagle (?) standing to right, flanked by two silphium fruits (serving as a value mark?). Rev. Gorgoneion facing with protruding tongue; the whole within a linear border in a shallow incuse square. Apparently unpublished. For a bird similar to the one on our obverse, see the reverse of the drachm in The Hague, BMC p. XXVI, 21b and pl. IV, 13. For similar reverses on contemporary tetradrachms, see Asyut 825, BMC 10 and Buttrey, period II, 69, but all have differing obverses. Seemingly unique. Some scratches and reverse very weakly struck, otherwise, good fine.

Hadrian, 117-138. Denarius (Silver, 18 mm, 3.47 g, 6 h), Rome, 129-130. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS Laureate head of Hadrian to right. Rev. ROMA FELIX COS III P P Roma seated to left, holding branch in her right hand and scepter in her left. BMC 566. Cohen -. RIC II.3, 1119. Lightly toned. Good very fine.