Extremely Rare Kios Stater

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 170. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Kios. Circa 350-300 BC. AV Stater (8.60 g, 12h). Proxenos, magistrate. Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Prow of galley left, decorated with star; above, club right; to left, eagle standing left; ΠPOΞENO[Σ] below. RG 1; SNG Copenhagen -; Traité II 2853; de Luynes 2415. Good VF, some die rust, obverse a little off center. Extremely rare. This magistrate is only known on two examples of Kios staters, both in museums (Paris and Berlin).