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.

DYNASTS OF LYCIA. <i>Protodynastic Period</i>, circa 490-430 BC. Obol (Silver, 9 mm, 0.79 g, 12 h). Forepart of a boar to right. Rev. Tortoise within an incuse square lined by pellets. Apparently unpublished as obol! Cf. Falghera 49 (third stater), Müseler II 30-1 (staters). SNG Ashmolean 1141. Same dies as Vinchon, June 2019, 172. A scarce and intriguing coin. Very fine.