Thursday, May 10, 2018

Tyrant Collection of Ancient Coins at Long Beach

Unique variety Antiochos gold Stater, 280-217 B.C."The Tyrants of the Tigris & Euphrates" exhibit will be at the Long Beach Coin, Currency, Stamp & Sports Collectible Expo, June 14-16, 2018. (www.LongBeachExpo.com). King Mithradates I is on this Parthian Kingdom silver Tetradrachm, circa 154-132 B.C.

Electrum Stater of Ephesus, circa 625-600 B.C. One of five known.

Darius gold Daric, circa 500-485 B.C., King of Persia
One of only about two dozen known examples of the world’s first gold coin, Stater prototype, circa 564-539 B.C., of King Kroisos.

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