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Agathokles of Syracuse Electrum Coin
Apollo and his sacred tripod give this small electrum coin the cultural confidence of Syracuse under its ambitious soldier-ruler Agathokles.
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Antiquity
Ancient Greek Gold Earring
A compact Hellenistic gold earring that demonstrates how ancient goldsmiths concentrated refinement into intimate personal scale.
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Brutus and the Koson Gold Stater
Issued amid the Roman Republic’s final civil wars, this enigmatic Balkan gold coin turns ancestral virtue and the eagle of power into political imagery.
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Antiquity
Greek Pediment-Shaped Gold Diadem
A ceremonial gold diadem shaped as an architectural pediment, preserving an intricate language of palmettes, laurel leaves and berries.
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Antiquity
Hellenistic Gold Ear Stud
Front and back discs of a sophisticated Greek ear stud, enriched with beading, rope filigree and a six-petalled rosette.
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Antiquity
Hellenistic Greek Gold Dress Ornament
A finely preserved gold dress ornament made to catch light across the folds of ceremonial clothing.
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Coin
Ionia Electrum Twenty-Fourth Stater
One of the collection’s earliest objects, this minute Ionian electrum fraction preserves the abstract geometry from which struck coinage emerged.
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Mithradates VI Gold Stater
Mithradates VI adopts the idealised image of Alexander while Athena enthroned turns inherited Hellenistic imagery into a claim of Pontic kingship.
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Philip III Arrhidaios Gold Stater
Struck after Alexander the Great, this stater preserves Macedonian authority through Athena’s disciplined profile and Nike’s promise of victory.
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