Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A small collection of ancient and early medieval coins, including: Byzantium: Focus (602-610, gold solidus, rev. with angel standing holding staff, 20.6 mm, 4.3 g; Asia Minor: Cilicia, Nagidos, silver stater, Aphrodite enthroned, rev. Dionysis standing holding vine branch, 24 mm., 10.6 g; a billon coin bearing the head of Aphrodite, her owl to the reverse; another depicting Pallas-Athena, Pegasus to the reverse; and five others, together with a fragmentary medal commemorating the capture of Porto Bello in 1741; and a small collection of modern proof and commemorative issues. [qty]