Experts in Coins & Medals

MYSIA. Kyzikos. Circa 500-450 BC. Stater (Electrum, 18.5 mm, 16.23 g). Sphinx seated to left; between the Sphinx's forelegs and hindlegs, the head of a tunny fish to right; before, tunny fish upwards. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. SNG Paris -. SNG von Aulock -. Von Fritze I, 73 (same dies, a coin once in the Jakountchikoff Collection, St. Petersburg); for another example from the same obverse die, see Roma, E-61, 20. Extremely rare. Clear and well-centered. Minor marks, otherwise, very fine.

Anonymous, after 211 BC. Quinarius (Silver, 16 mm, 2.36 g, 3 h). Helmeted head of Roma to right; behind neack, V (mark of value). Rev. ROMA within linear frame The Dioscuri, wearing pilei and chlamydes, charging to right on horseback, with couched spears and stars above their heads. BMC 96. Crawford 45/2. King 2. Sydenham 169. A beautifully struck and centered Republican fraction. Minor die rust on reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.