Ancient Greece

Attica, Athens. AR tetradrachm. (454-404 BC). Obverse: Head of Athena right, with frontal eye, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl. Reverse: Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent to left, AΘE to right; all within incuse square. HGC 4 1597; SNG Cop. 31; Kroll 8; Gulbenkian 519–21. Weight: 17.19 grams. Diameter: 23.00 mm. Brilliant. Good VF

Mithridates VI Eupator King of Pontus (121-63 BC) gold stater (striking period: 88-86 BC, Istros, during the First Mithridate War). Weight: 8.38 grams. 18 x 19 mm.

On the obverse there is a right-facing portrait of Alexander the Great with a diadem and ram horns (horns of Ammon).

On the reverse, modeled on the medal image of the Thracian king Lysimachos, Athena Nikephoros sits on a throne to the left, with a trident under the throne.

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