Experts in Coins & Medals

THRACO-MACEDONIAN REGION. Uncertain mint. Circa 500-480 BC. Hekte (Silver, 12 mm, 2.25 g). On the left, moving to right, a spider using four of its arms and its jaws to attack a wasp, moving to left with its wings spread. Rev. Irregular incuse square. Apparently unknown and certainly unpublished. Seemingly unique, an extraordinary and iconographically exciting coin, with possibly the only known depiction of a spider on a Greek coin. Rough surfaces, otherwise, very fine.

Nerva, 96-98. Cistophoric Tetradrachm (Silver, 24 mm, 9.98 g, 7 h), uncertain mint in Asia Minor, January-September 97 AD. IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR POT P P Laureate head of Nerva to right. Rev. COS III Aquila between two standards. BMC 80. Cohen -. RIC 119. RPC III 1298. The reverse somewhat weakly struck, and surfaces a little porous, otherwise, very fine.