Very Rare Early Stater

CNG 106, Lot: 110. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACO-MACEDONIAN REGION, Uncertain. Circa 525-500 BC. AR Stater (18mm, 8.86 g). Nude winged figure running right / Quadripartite incuse square, each quarter diagonally divided. Ras Shamra 3 and 8 (same dies); Demanhur 50–1; HPM pl. XVII, 10/3 (for obv. die./rev. type); AMNG III/2, –; cf. SNG ANS 1010. VF, toned, granular surfaces, struck from worn dies. Very rare.

From the Belgica Collection, purchased from an old Belgian collection via Dominique Thirion Ars Antiqua, who exhibited the coin at Cultures – The World Arts Fair, 8–12 June 2016, Brussels (a scan of the relevant catalog pages will be included with this lot).

C. M. Kraay suggested that this coinage is an early issue at Akanthos (ACGC, pp. 133–4), but K. Liampi disagrees, suggesting they are Euboian standard hemistaters issued at Stageira (Liampi p. 237).