Experts in Coins & Medals

CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. Pantikapaion. Circa 340-325 BC. Stater (Gold, 19 mm, 9.10 g, 5 h). Head of Pan to left, wearing a wreath of ivy. Rev. Π-Α-Ν Griffin standing on grain ear to left, his head facing front, holding a spear in his mouth and with his right forepaw raised. Anokhin 1021. HGC 7, 20. Kraay & Hirmer 440. MacDonald 54. SNG BM Black Sea 864. Struck from the same dies, but of finer quality, as the piece from the Rosen Collection, that appeared as lot 282 of Triton XXIII in 2020 (it had previously been lot 93 in Gorny & Mosch 195 in 2011). Impressively high relief for the series; a true masterpiece of late Classical art. Virtually as struck.

KINGS OF PERGAMON. Eumenes I, 263-241 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 28.5 mm, 15.84 g, 12 h), struck in the name and with the portrait of Philetairos, founder of the kingdom, circa 263-255/0. Head of Philetairos to right, wearing taenia. Rev. ΦΙΛETAIPOY Athena seated left on backless throne, holding, with her right hand, a shield adorned with a gorgoneion and, with her left, spear downwards over her left shoulder, and resting her left elbow on a sphinx; to left, below her arm, ivy leaf; on the throne, Α; to right, bow. SNG Paris 1604-9. Westermark Group III. Harshly cleaned, otherwise, nearly very fine.