Experts in Coins & Medals

GREECE. Georgios I, 1863-1913. Pattern 1 Drachmi 1910 (Silver, 23 mm, 4.98 g, 6 h), Pattern lacking the mint marks and with large letters on reverse. Paris, struck from dies by Georgios Jakobides, reeded edge. ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ Α! ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ / 1910 Elderly head of George I to left; below truncation, in tiny letters, Γ. ΙΑΚΩΒΙΔΗΣ. Rev. ΔΡΑΧΜH Veiled Thetis, seated to left on a hippocamp swimming to right, holding with her extended right hand the shield of Achilles adorned with a facing gorgoneion. Divo -. Karamitsos T.72. KM Pn41. Extremely rare, a pattern that has only appeared a very few times over the past generation. Graded by NGC "MS 62". Cert number: 2909004-007.

THRACE. Abdera. Antoninus Pius, 138-161. (Bronze, 19 mm, 3.74 g, 6 h). ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΤΩΝEΙΝ Head of Antoninus Pius right. Rev. ΑΒΔΗΡEΙΤΩΝ Diademed and draped bust of Abderos (?) to right; star in crescent behind his neck. C-N 943 (D1/R12). RPC IV Online 4494 (same dies). Rare. Some cleaning marks, otherwise, good fine.