Experts in Coins & Medals

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I, circa 200-185 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 35 mm, 16.84 g, 12 h). Diademed and draped bust of Demetrios I to right, wearing elephant's skin headdress; border of dots. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ Herakles standing facing, crowning himself with a wreath held in his right hand, holding his club in his left and with a lion's skin draped over his left arm; in the inner left field, monogram of PK. Bopearachchi 1c. HGC 12, 63. SNG ANS 187. With a noble portrait, lightly toned and struck on a broad flan. Minor marks and porosity, otherwise, very fine.

PHRYGIA. Laodikeia ad Lykos. Pseudo-autonomous, time of Antoninus Pius, 138-161. Assarion (Bronze, 22 mm, 5.43 g, 6 h), struck under magistrate Po. Ailios Dionysios Sabinianos, c. 139-147. ΛΑΟΔΙΚEΩΝ Draped bust of youthful Dionysus to right, wearing ivy wreath. Rev. ΑΙΛ ΔΙΟΝYCΙΟC Ivy wreathed mask of Silenus to right, set upon cista mystica entwined by serpent; to left, pedum over which hangs pair of cymbals. BMC 96. RPC IV.2, ID 2114 (temporary). SNG Copenhagen 532. Some surface roughness, otherwise, about very fine.