Certified Ancient Gold Coin Collection

Greek

Ionia Electrum Twenty-Fourth Stater

c. 625–550 BC

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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Greek

Philip III Arrhidaios Gold Stater

323–317 BC

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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Greek

Agathokles of Syracuse Electrum Coin

317–289 BC

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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Greek

Mithradates VI Gold Stater

120–63 BC

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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Greek

Brutus and the Koson Gold Stater

44–42 BC

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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Roman

Constantine I Gold Solidus of Antioch

AD 335–336

Issued for Constantine’s thirtieth regnal anniversary, this rare Antioch solidus joins the emperor’s jeweled diadem to Victory, trophy and the vows of three decades.

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Roman

Constantine I Gold Solidus of Nicomedia

AD 335

A tricennial solidus from Nicomedia presents Constantine in the new jeweled diadem while Victory inscribes the vows of thirty years under the gaze of Genius.

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Roman

Constans Gold Solidus of Thessalonica

AD 337–350

The youthful portrait of Constans and an advancing Victory present continuity and triumph during the divided inheritance of Constantine the Great.

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Roman

Constans Gold Solidus of Aquileia

AD 337–350

Two Victories hold a votive wreath beneath the portrait of Constans, making anniversaries, consensus and successful rule visible in gold.

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Roman

Valens Gold Solidus

AD 364–378

Valens faces an emperor holding Victory and the labarum, combining personal command with the military and Christian emblems of late Roman sovereignty.

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Roman

Valentinian I Gold Solidus of Trier

AD 364–375

Struck at Trier, this solidus pairs Valentinian I with a victorious imperial scene that makes partnership and universal rule visible in gold.

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Roman

Arcadius Gold Solidus

AD 383–408

Arcadius faces the imperial capital across the coin, pairing a youthful ruler with Constantinopolis as the stable centre of eastern Roman authority.

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Roman

Honorius Gold Solidus

AD 393–423

Honorius appears in confronting military dress while Constantinopolis stands for the Roman order the western court struggled to preserve.

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Roman

Theodosius II Ceremonial Gold Solidus

AD 402–450

A frontal military portrait and a victorious imperial reverse transform the long reign of Theodosius II into an image of order, defence and sacred rule.

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Roman

Theodosius II Gold Solidus with Constantinopolis

AD 402–450

Theodosius II faces Constantinopolis, binding the ceremonial emperor to the fortified capital that defined the security of his long reign.

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Roman

Marcian Gold Solidus

AD 450–457

Marcian’s armoured portrait faces Victory and the long cross, presenting a short but stable reign as guarded by military command and sacred triumph.

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Roman

Leo I Gold Solidus

AD 457–474

A frontal military portrait and Victory with the long cross place Leo I between Roman command and a fully Christian language of triumph.

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Roman

Zeno Gold Solidus, Second Reign

AD 476–491

Struck as western imperial rule disappeared, Zeno’s solidus asserts that Roman authority survived in the East through armour, Victory and the cross.

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Byzantine

Anastasius I Gold Solidus

AD 491–518

Anastasius inherited the late Roman solidus and made it the stable gold voice of a newly confident eastern empire. Victory and the long cross unite classical triumph with…

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Byzantine

Justin I Gold Solidus

AD 518–527

Justin I’s solidus preserves the last strength of the late Roman portrait tradition: an armoured emperor answered by Victory and the patriarchal cross.

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