Experts in Coins & Medals

PTOLEMAIC KINGS OF EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter, as satrap, 323-305 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 17.20 g, 6 h), In the name and with the types of Alexander III, Memphis, 322-321. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Zeus seated to left on a backless throne with a thick cushion and ornamental legs, holding an eagle in his right hand and a scepter with his left; in the field to left, rose; below and to right of the throne, ΔΙ-◦. CPE 19. Price 3971. SNG Copenhagen 7. Attractively toned and of particularly fine style. Light scrape on Herakles's chin, otherwise, extremely fine.

MACEDONIA OR THE NORTHERN AEGEAN AREA. Uncertain mint. Circa 480 BC. Obol (Silver, 10 mm, 0.82 g). Eagle with spread wings, alighting to right on, and tearing with his beak and talons, the belly of a supine hare. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Apparently unpublished, but cf. Classical Numismatic Group 344, 11 February 2015, 126, Naumann 78, 2 June 2019, 134, and Nomos 37, 16 November 2025, 73. Very rare. Granular surfaces, otherwise, very fine.