Experts in Coins & Medals

Romanus IV Diogenes, with Eudocia, Michael VII, Constantius, and Andronicus, 1068-1071. Histamenon nomisma (Gold, 27 mm, 4.42 g, 6 h), Constantinople. KωN MX ANΔ Michael VII, standing facing and holding a labarum in his right hand and an akakia with his left, between Constantius, on the left, and Andronicus, on the right, each standing facing and holding a globus cruciger in his outer hand and an akakia in his inner; all crowned, wearing a loros and standing on a dotted ground line. Rev. + PωMANS - EVΔUKIA / IC - XC Christ, draped and with a cross-nimbus, standing facing on a footstool, crowning with his raised hands, Romanus and Eudocia standing facing to his left and right, each wearing a loros, and holding a globus cruciger with their inner hands. DOC 2. SB 1861. With an unusually sharp and clear reverse. Extremely fine.

KINGS OF MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes, 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27.5 mm, 16.90 g, 5 h), Amphipolis, circa 290-289. Diademed head of Demetrios I to right, with bull's horn above his forehead. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ Poseidon, nude, standing to left, his right foot on a rock, holding a trident with his left hand and resting his right on his right thigh; in inner fields to left and right, monogram. Newell 116, obv. die CV. HGC 3, 1014b. Lightly toned. Minor marks, otherwise, very fine.