Unique Stater of Pharnakes I

Triton XIX, Lot: 2053. Estimate $50000. Sold for $225000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PONTOS. Pharnakes I. Circa 200-169 BC. AV Stater (19.5mm, 8.47 g, 12h). Amisos mint. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΦAPNAKOY, male figure, wearing flat headdress, holding cornucopia in right hand, vine branch in left, from which a deer, standing right, feeds, on his left; MH monogram to inner right. Callataÿ, First, dies O1/R1, a and fig. 15 = Göbl, Antike 877A (this coin); HGC 7, 322 (this coin illustrated); Alram 26 (this coin referenced and illustrated). Good VF, light scuff and edge mark on reverse. Unique.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Margaretha Ley Collection (Lanz 70, 21 November 1994), lot 81; Tkalec & Rauch (25 April 1989), lot 105; Leu 22 (8 May 1979), lot 116; Kastner 4 (27 November 1973), lot 52.