Experts in Coins & Medals

THRACE. Dikaia. Circa 515-480 BC. Stater (Silver, 20 mm, 9.86 g). Head of bearded Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev. Incuse square divided into four triangles, of which two are further divided in half by thin lines. ACGC 562. BMC 1. J. M. F. May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C., NC 1965, pp. 1-25, esp. p. 11, 3 (A.3/-) and pl. I, 3. Weber 2355 (same obverse die). Schönert-Geiss, Bisanthe, p. 24, 10 (V4/R-). Very rare. A bold, well-centered and well-struck coin with a remarkably attractive head of Herakles in Late Archaic style. Nearly extremely fine.

CILICIA. Uncertain mint. Circa 4th Century BC. Hemiobol (Silver, 7 mm, 0.34 g, 1 h). Female figure seated to right, raising her left hand. Rev. Herakles kneeling to right, drawing bow; in field to right, amphora. Goktürk -. Klein 641. Troxell & Kagan 6. SNG Levante -. SNG Paris -. Rare. Granular surfaces, otherwise, good fine.