Very Rare Full Silver Pausanias Stater

CNG 99, Lot: 66. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Pausanias. 394/3 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 9.07 g, 9h). Aigai or Pella mint. Head of Apollo right, with short hair, wearing tainia / Horse advancing right, trailing rein; [Π]AYΣ-[A]-NIA around; all in linear square within shallow incuse square. Westermark, Remarks, pl. LXIX, 24; AMNG III/2, 1, pl. XXIX, 31 = McClean 3295 (same obv. die); SNG ANS 85; SNG Alpha Bank 182; SNG München 36. VF, toned, minor porosity, light scratches under tone, a few small test cuts along edge. Very rare full silver issue; most staters of Pausanias are plated.

Ex RAJ Collection; William and Louise Fielder Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 142; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 166 (March 1957), no. 7.

Pausanias was the son of Aeropos, and became king upon his father's death. Almost nothing is known of his very brief reign, which is mainly attested by his coinage.