Ancient coins set to soar at Pegasi Auctions

Silver and gold pieces from before the Roman Empire lead an exciting auction this month

Pegasi auctions of Missouri and Pennsylvania is offering an impressive range of rare coins and antiquities in two weeks' time in a sale comprising several hundred lots.

The sale is a Bid or Buy auction, meaning that the listings allow you to buy outright at the given price, and only offer a mere bid if you would like it for less.  Appropriately for an auctioneer named after a creature - Pegasus - from Greek myth, the prize pieces are coins from Thrace and Alexandria:

Firstly, a highly attractive silver coin in excellent condition dates from 386-375 BC and depicts a powerful Griffin preparing to spring on the obverse with a nude image of the god Apollo carrying a laurel branch and patera and accompanied by a stag.

Once part of the Fekula collection, the Tetradrachm is offered at $7,500.

Pipping it to the top spot is a Gold Octadrachm from the reign of Ptolemy II in Alexandria from 285-246 BC. The Veiled head of Arsinoe II facing right appears on the obverse, whilst a double cornucopia appears on the reverse. It is very rare and in very fine or better condition, justifying its listing at $11,500.

Internet bidding for all the coins in the sale is available now, and continues until August 18. Alternatively, a range of fine rare coins outside the auction is also available now.

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