CNG 100, Lot: 62. Estimate $4000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KOLCHIS, Uncertain. 1st century BC. AV Stater (18.5mm, 5.71 g, 12h). Imitating Byzantion mint issue of Lysimachos of Thrace. Stylized head of the deified Alexander right / Stylized Athena Nikephoros seated left; transverse spear in background, trident left in exergue; legend at sides degraded to hash marks. Arslan, Statere, Group II, 7; Golenko pp. 570–2; Sergeev 593; Marinescu pl. 67, 10; HGC 7, 218. VF, a couple minor scratches in fields. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, January 2001.