Classic Greece. Robert Ready British Museum electrotype. Islands off Ionia. Samos. Circa 350 B.C. Silver tridrachm copy. 23 mm. A lion's scalp / Infant Hercules strangling serpents. Head plate 19, 37.

An in-hand experience of the finest of Greek coinage: Robert Ready British Museum Electrotypes

In the late 1850's the British Museum hired the seal-maker, Robert Ready, to produce copies of some of the finest coins in the British Museum collection. With an electrotyping technique they had perfected Ready and his sons produced exact replicas of the actual museum coins. They were produced in two parts, an obverse and a reverse. We acquired a select group of some of the most beautiful and important pieces they produced. All of these were direct copper casts of the actual coins and all but lot 41 have been gilt to illustrate the color of the actual coin, silver or gold.

All electrotypes offered here are in two separate halves.