Experts in Coins & Medals

CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. Pantikapaion. Circa 380-370 BC. Diobol (Silver, 14 mm, 1.96 g, 6 h). Head of Silenos to left, bald, bearded, wearing an ivy wreath, and with an animal ear. Rev. ΠANTI Head of a ram to left; all within a shallow circular incuse. HGC 7, 73. MacDonald 53. SNG BM Black Sea -. SNG Stancomb 532. Well centered and toned; struck from finely engraved dies of a rich and refined Classical style; attractive golden toning accentuating the ram's vitality. Slightly porous, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.

Constantine X Ducas, 1059-1067. Histamenon (Gold, 26 mm, 4.36 g, 6 h), Constantinople. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTIhm Christ, nimbate, seated facing on straight-backed throne, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. + KωN BACΛI O ΔOVKAC Constantine standing facing, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left. DOC 1a. SB 1847. Attractive and well struck. Slightly off center, but on a broad flan, otherwise, extremely fine.