December 1st, 2025
Dr. Jason Forsyth, the MAC's Curator of Coins, released a new article on his website, Recovering Sawhill, about the recovery of Lot 1063 from the Sawhill Collection. Lot 1063 is a hemidrachm of Argos in the Peloponnese of southern Greece. Issued between 85–50 BCE, this small coin shows the foreparts of a wolf on the obverse (mostly worn away), but on the reverse it has an array of symbols: “A” indicating the city of Argos, Greek letters for the magistrates who issued the coin, and the twin caps of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) below. This coin is somewhat rare with these symbols, with only one known example in CoinArchives.
Madison Art Collection
