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.

KORKYRA. Korkyra. Circa 400-338 BC. Stater (Silver, 20 mm, 11.29 g). Cow standing left, her head turned back to right to lick calf suckling to right. Rev. Two rectangular stellate incuses, one with a central linear rectangle and the other with a central linear lozenge; all within incuse square. BMC 39. Dewing 1451. Fried Group II. HGC 6, 32. SNG Copenhagen 143. SNG Evelpidis 1868. Lightly toned. Struck from worn dies, otherwise, very fine.