Three grams puts a serious piece of relief work in your hand for the price of a lunch, which is why fractional silver medals have found an audience well beyond bullion buyers. This one belongs to the Alternate History Series and carries 3 grams of .999 fine silver with an antiqued finish across both faces. The subject is Leonidas of Sparta and his reply at Thermopylae.
Key Features:
- Purity and Weight: 3 grams of .999 fine silver
- Metal Type: Silver
- Obverse Design: Leonidas in profile wearing a crested Corinthian helmet
- Reverse Design: Leonidas standing with shield and severed crowned head, dated 2026
The obverse fills the field with a single portrait. Leonidas faces left in a Corinthian helmet, the tall horsehair crest sweeping back in individually cut strands and the cheekpieces framing a lined face and heavy curled beard. His cloak gathers at the shoulder, fastened by a disc clasp stamped with the Spartan lambda. 3g Silver .999 is stamped in the left field. The antique finish settles into every recess, which pushes the contrast hard and makes the relief read as sculpture rather than a struck coin.
The reverse shows the king full-length, one foot planted on a boulder, a round shield raised in his left hand bearing the lambda inside a Greek key border. His cloak falls in long folds behind him, and in his lowered right hand he holds a severed crowned head by the hair, the alternate-history conceit of the series. 2026 appears in the left field, the Greek letters βκϛ in the right, and ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ! curves along the bottom rim.
The inscription translates as “come and take them,” Leonidas’s answer when Xerxes demanded the Spartans surrender their weapons in 480 BC. The antiqued surface will darken further with handling, so a capsule or flip is worth using.
Detail this deep on a three-gram planchet is uncommon, and the price of entry is minimal. Add the King Leonidas Molon Labe silver round to your cart today.