Hello everybody, I recently acquired a small group lot of 4 small Greek bronze coins, ostensibly from ancient Syracuse. I've been trying to identify them and I think I've got 2 down but I cannot seem to find any match to this one: There seem to be a fair amount of coins with one or the other facing left but I can't seem to find any coins similar with both the bust and Pegasus facing right. I don't have a pair of calipers handy, but I'd say it's about 15 - 16mm, and weighs right on 3 grams. And I'll just throw this one up too, just in case someone can give me a head start on it as well. This one is maybe 16mm and weighs 4.1 grams: Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I believe the first is from Syracuse - something like this: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7054324 The second is likely from Syracuse also. ATB, Aidan.
I think the second may be Syracuse, Hieron II: https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/sicily/syracuse/hieron_II/t.html or Agathokles: https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/sicily/syracuse/agathokles/t.html I’m leaning towards the last .
I think @akeady and @svessien are correct. I believe the first one is HGC 2 1508. Obv. Head of Apollo. Rev. Flying Pegasus. Second one is HGC 2 1490. This one is rare. Obv. Head of Arethousa. Rev. Charging bull. Booth strucked under Agathokles.
HGC says R1 with the definintion. "Rare. Whitin a range of 10-30 examples. R1 coins appear in a smaller number of collections and catalogs. R1 coins will be available on the market infrequently, perhaps several times a year." About the price it's hard to say but similar coins in the same grade sells for 50-150 euro.
Unfortunately in addition to "rare" it has to have an audience that wants it. I hope you have a very valuable coin there.
Yeah for it to be "very valuable" it needs to be not only rare but also in high demand, and I don't think these little coins are particularly sought-after. That's fine though, I didn't buy them to flip for profit. I sort of bought them accidentally, as a matter of fact. I placed what I thought was a low bid on the lot and ended up winning.
