Experts in Coins & Medals

Theophilus, 829-842. Follis (Bronze, 23 mm, 4.48 g, 6 h), Constantinople, 830/1-842. ΘЄOFI - bASIL Crowned half-length figure of Theophilus facing, wearing a reversed loros and a crown surmounted by a tufa decorated with pellets, holding a labarum with his right hand and a globus cruciger in his left. Rev. + ΘЄO/FILЄ AVς/OVSTЄ SV/hiCAS in four lines. DOC 16b. SB 1668. Blackish dark-green patina. Good very fine.

SAMARIA. Uncertain mint. Circa 4th Century BC. (Bronze, 9 mm, 1.09 g, 6 h). Dolphin swimming to left; below conch shell. Rev. Facing head of lion. Roma E-3, lot 275. Cf. CNG MBS 63, 781 (for a hemiobol of similar design). Very rare, and unpublished in the standard references; green patina. Some roughness, otherwise, good very fine.