Classic Greece. Robert Ready British Museum electrotype. Bruttii. Croton. Circa 420 B.C. Silver nomos copy. 22 mm. (Actual coin weighs 7.85 gm). Heracles, naked, seated left on a rock covered with a lion skin and holding a branch over a flaming altar; a bow and quiver behind him / Tripod, Apollo on the left shooting an arrow at a python on the other side. Head plate 14, 18.

An in-hand experience of the finest of Greek coinage:
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 lots 38 and 46 have been gilt to illustrate the color of the actual coin, silver or gold.
All electrotypes offered here are in two separate halves.