Experts in Coins & Medals

GREECE. Georgios I, 1863-1913. Pattern 2 Drachmai 1911 (Silver, 27 mm, 9.90 g, 6 h), Paris, struck from dies by Georgios Jakobides, reeded edge. ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ Α! ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ / 1911 Elderly head of George I to left; below truncation, in tiny letters, Γ. ΙΑΚΩΒΙΔΗΣ. Rev. ΔΙΔΡΑΧΜΟΝ Veiled Thetis, seated to left on a hippocamp swimming to right, holding with her right hand, the shield of Achilles adorned with a facing gorgoneion; ESSAI in tiny letters in the right field. Divo P 80. Karamitsos T.75 (this coin mentioned). KM EA23. Graded by NGC "MS 64". Top Pop from NGC and PCGS. Cert number: 2908902-003.

CRUSADERS. Antioch. Tancred, regent, 1101-1112. Follis (Bronze, 20 mm, 3.81 g, 9 h), fourth type. S/ P/[Ε-TRVS] St. Peter standing facing, raising his right hand in blessing and holding cross-tipped scepter in left. Rev. Đ-S / F-Ŧ (Latin acronym of Domine salvum fac Tancredum [Lord save Tancred]) in the quarters of cross pattée. CCS 6. Metcalf, Crusades 71. Very fine.