Very Rare Gamshurst Stater

Triton XVIII, Lot: 813. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CENTRAL EUROPE, Helvetii(?). Early-mid 3rd century BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.28 g, 8h). Imitating Philip II of Macedon. Gamshurst type. Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / [Φ]IΛIΠΠ[OY], charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left, driving biga right; kantharos below. Sills 98.2579 (dies 3/3 – this coin); D&T 3021; Flesche 282; Lanz –; KMW –; Zürich 376. Good VF, lightly toned, small scrape on reverse. Very rare, Sills located thirteen Gamhurst staters, and only one in CoinArchives.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 9; Leu 61 (17 May 1995), lot 19; Leu 25 (23 April 1980), lot 19.