Experts in Coins & Medals

KINGS OF ARMENIA MINOR. Mithradates, Satrap, 180s-170s BC. Circular, uniface bracteate-like roundel (Gold, 12 mm, 0.62 g, 12 h). 𐡌𐡕𐡃𐡕 ('mrdt' in Aramaic) Draped and bearded bust of Mithradates to right, wearing an upright bashlyk tied with a diadem and with long ear flaps. Rev. Incuse of the obverse design. Unpublished, but cf. Leu (W) 4, 2019, 358 (CHF 26000), for a much larger roundel (3o mm in diameter), with a vaguely similar bust of a bashlyk-wearing bearded man, but of a rather refined Greek style, and with attachment loops on the reverse. Apparently unique and with an impressive portrait of local style. Some hairline scratches and minor marks, otherwise, about extremely fine.

BOEOTIA. Thespiai. Circa 210 BC. (Bronze, 15.5 mm, 3.88 g, 12 h). Female (Arsinoe III) head to right, wearing modius and veil. Rev. ΘEΣΠI/EΩN Lyre; all within laurel wreath. BCD Boiotia 612. SNG Copenhagen 406-407. Dark brown patina with light green and red earthen highlights. Very fine.