CNG 100, Lot: 1403. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KOLCHIS, Uncertain. 1st century BC. AV Stater (20mm, 3.46 g, 9h). Imitating Byzantion mint issue of Lysimachos of Thrace. Stylized head of the deified Alexander right; pellet above forehead, Θ below nose / Stylized Athena Nikephoros seated left; transverse spear in background, N to inner left, trident left in exergue; legend at sides degraded to hash marks. Arslan, Statere, Group I, unlisted variety; K. Golenko, “Kolchis” in Chiron 2 (1972), pp. 570–2; cf. Sergeev 593–4; cf. Marinescu pl. 67, 10; HGC 7, 218. Good VF, a couple edge splits, light marks, small punch in right field on obverse. Very rare.