129
Islands off Attica, Aigina (c.550-500 BC), Silver Stater, 12.08g. Turtle with row of pellets on shell. Rev. Incuse
square divided into eight compartments (SNG Lockett 1960; Asyut 541; SNG Delepierre 1501). Struck in
high relief, beautiful cabinet toning, almost extremely fine.
$ 3,800
130 131
130
Islands off Attica, Aigina (c.456-431 BC), Silver Stater, 12.28g. Land tortoise, with segmented shell. Rev.
Incuse square of skew pattern (S. Milbank, ‘
The Coinage of Aegina
’, ANS NNM 24, 1925, pl. II,
12; SNG Copenhagen 517; Dewing 1683; SNG Lockett 1983). Well centred and struck, good metal, light
iridescent tone, extremely fine and attractive.
$ 1,800
131
Corinth (c.375-300 BC), Silver Stater, 7.7g. Pegasos flying left, Koppa and
Σ
below. Rev. Helmeted head of
Athena facing left, bowl of helmet decorated with laurel wreath,
Ω
-[?] below neck, ivy leaf with berry
behind (Pegasi -, but cf 434; BCD Corinth -). Extremely fine.
$ 1,000
This unusual Corinthian Stater is seemingly unrecorded in the standard references, having both the Koppa and the letter
Σ
below
the pegasos.
132 133
132
Corinth (c.330 BC), Silver Trihemidrachm, 3.91g, 12h. Bellerophon, wearing a petasos and a chlamys, and
thrusting a javelin downwards, on Pegasos flying right, koppa below. Rev. Chimaera standing left, its right
forepaw raised,
ΔI
between its hind legs, an amphora below (BCD 144 (these dies); Warren, in Essays to
Robinson, p.128, Group V.A.1.1, pl. 13, 9 (these dies)). Very fine.
Very
rare
.
$ 1,750
133
Peloponnese, Achaian League, Elis (late 1
st
Century BC), Silver Hemidrachm, 2.17g, 2h. Head of Zeus facing
right, laureate, magistrate’s name
ΘPAKYΛEWN
behind. Rev. monograms, a thunderbolt below, all within
a wreath (Clerk 272; BCD 688; BMC 70). Struck on a very broad oval flan, attractive cabinet tone, nearly
extremely fine.
$ 150
134
Kingdom of Pontus, Mithradates VI “the Great” (c.120-63 BC), Silver Tetradrachm, 16.34g, 12h. Struck in
the name of Alexander the Great. Mint of Odessos, struck c.100-70 BC. Head of Mithradates, as Herakles,
facing right, wearing a lion skin headdress. Rev.
BAΣIΛEΩΣ / AΛEΞNΔPOY
, Zeus seated left, holding an
eagle and a sceptre, monograms on left and below seat (Price,
Alexander,
1190). Extremely fine, boldly
struck.
$ 750
