Ancient Coins
Coins are the most portable record of the ancient world. Each carries a ruler's portrait or a city's emblem, a god, and often a mint mark, struck for daily use and then spent, saved or buried for some two thousand years.
Greek silver
The tetradrachm, a large silver coin worth four drachms, was the main currency of the Greek world. Alexander the Great's coins show Herakles in a lion-skin headdress on one side and Zeus enthroned on the other. The Hellenistic kings who followed him, in Pergamon, Syria and Egypt, struck their own, and their royal portraits are among the finest small-scale sculpture of the period.
Roman and Byzantine gold
The gold solidus, introduced under Constantine the Great in the early fourth century AD, held its weight and purity for roughly seven hundred years and circulated well beyond the empire's borders. Every solidus names its emperor, so each can be placed in a specific reign, from Constantius II and Valentinian I to Heraclius and the iconoclast Constantine V.
Buying from us
Every coin we sell is guaranteed authentic. Some are mounted in gold jewelry, as rings or bracelets. For appraisals of coin collections, see Certified Appraisal Reports. To sell a collection, see Sell to Us.
