Experts in Coins & Medals

IONIA. Uncertain mint. Circa 650-600 BC. Trite (Electrum, 12.5 mm, 4.68 g), Lydo-Milesian standard. Globular surface with an uncertain pattern of dots. Rev. Oblong incuse divided into two squares. BMFA 1749. Elektron 10 var. (hekte). Pozzi 2350. Rosen 253. SNG von Aulock 7761. Traité II, 1, 3. One of the earliest coins of the Western World. Striking cracks and minor marks, otherwise, basically about as made.

PHOENICIA. Tyre. ‘Uzzimilk, circa 347-332 BC. Shekel (Silver, 21 mm, 7.40 g, 11 h), year 15 = 336/335 BC.. Melqarth, holding bow, riding on hippocamp to right; below, two lines of waves and a dolphin swimming to right. Rev. Owl standing to right, crook and flail over left shoulder; to right, phoenician letters O =ajin and IIIII. Betlyon 37. BMC 40. DCA 918. Elayi & Elayi 26. HGC 10, 349. Lightly toned. Minor roughness, otherwise, very fine.