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.

BULGARIA. Second Empire. Ivan Aleksandar, 1331–1371. Gros (Silver, 21 mm, 1.65 g, 6 h). IC - XC Christ, nimbate, seated facing on throne, raising his right hand in benediction and holding Gospel book in his left. Rev. Ivan Aleksandar standing facing, holding cruciform staff with his right hand and globus cruciger in his left hand; in left and right fields, stars and monograms. Dimnik & Dobrinić 9.1.1. Raduchev & Zhekov 1.13.1. Youroukova & Penchev 71. Good very fine.