Pedigreed Pantikapaion Stater

CNG 100, Lot: 1401. Estimate $50000. Sold for $75000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS, Pantikapaion. Circa 340-325 BC. AV Stater (19.5mm, 909 g, 11h). Head of Pan left, wearing ivy wreath / Griffin, holding spear in its mouth, standing left, head facing, forepaw raised, on grain ear; Π-A-N around. MacDonald 54; Anokhin 1021; HGC 7, 20; SNG BM Black Sea 864; Gulbenkian 587 = Locker-Lampson 123; cf. Kraay & Hirmer 440. EF, toned, faint scratch in field on obverse. High relief and fine style.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Leu 48 (10 May 1989), lot 86; Münzen und Medaillen AG XIX (6 June 1959), lot 349.