Extremely Rare Lampsakos Stater

CNG 112, Lot: 244. Estimate $5000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Lampsakos. Circa 394-350 BC. AV Stater (16mm, 8.44 g, 1h). Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin / Pegasos flying right within incuse square. Baldwin, Lampsakos 15; SNG BN –; Gulbenkian 686; Traité II 2557, pl. CLXXII, 1 = A. Löbbecke, “Münzfund bei Avola” in ZfN XVII (1890), 6. A few light marks, scrape on reverse. Good VF. Extremely rare, only the Berlin and Gulbenkian specimens published, no others in CoinArchives.

Ex Künker 280 (26 September 2016), lot 209; Pecunem/Numismatik Naumann 39 (3 January 2016), lot 281; Gorny & Mosch 232 (5 October 2015), lot 263.