Unique Year 1 Stater – Pedigreed to 1886

Triton XIX, Lot: 2045. Estimate $10000. Sold for $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPOROS. Asander. As archon, circa 47-43 BC. AV Stater (20.5mm, 8.14 g, 1h). Dated RY 1 (47/6 BC). Bare head right / APXONTOΣ [A]ΣANΔPOY [BOΣ]ΠOPOY, Nike, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling palm frond in left arm, standing left on prow left; ЄT A (date) across upper field; to inner left, monogram above Φ. Frolova & Ireland § 6, 1 (O1/R1) = Natwoka 1a = Zograph pl. XLIV, 4 = Jameson 2541 = A.L. Bertier de la Garde, Materials for Weight Research on the Monetary Systems of Sarmatia and Tauric Chersonese (Moskow, 1913), p. 105, 12 = C. Giel, Kleine Beiträge zur antiken Numismatik Südrusslands (Moscow, 1886), p. 2, 22 (this coin, illustrated in all); Anokhin 1313 (this coin illustrated); MacDonald 189/1 (this coin illustrated); RPC I 1842 (this coin referenced); HGC 7, 199; DCA 447. VF, struck from worn dies. Unique stater of Asander’s first year.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, March 1991. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts Winter Mail Bid Sale (18 December 1987), lot 130; Numismatic Fine Arts I (20 March 1975), lot 142; Hess-Leu (4 April 1963), lot 55; A. Hess (5 April 1955), lot 32; Robert Jameson Collection, 2541; Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich Collection; C. Giel Collection (1886).