355, Lot: 20. Estimate $500. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Pausanias. Circa 394/3 BC. Fourrée Stater (21mm, 8.98 g, 1h). Head of Apollo right, with short hair, wearing tainia / Horse standing right within linear square [within shallow incuse square]. Westermark, Remarks, pl. LXIX, 25; SNG ANS 86. Fine, toned, light roughness, a few deposits, small spots of active corrosion.

As noted by Westermark (p. 306), the majority of Pausanias’ staters are plated, reflecting a possible shortage of silver during his reign.