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.

TABARISTAN. 'Abbasid governors. Muqatil, PYE 136-141 / AH 172-176 / AD 788-792. Hemidrachm (Silver, 23.5 mm, 2.33 g, 11 h), TPWRSTAN (Tabaristan) mint, PYE 139 = AH 174 = AD 790/1. Draped Sasanian-style bust to right, wearing crown surmounted by star-in-crescent and wings; behind head, 'GDE / ʾp̄zwt' ('[may his] glory increase' in Pahlavi); before head, 'Muqatil' in Arabic; in the outer margin to left and right, 'nywk' ˗ ʾp̄d' ('good ˗ wonderful' in Pahlavi). Rev. Fire altar, flanked by two attendants; above altar, star and crescent; to left, date in Pahlavi; to right, mint name in Pahlavi. Album 63. SICA I, 425. Deeply toned. Some deposits, otherwise, about extremely fine.