Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 142. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Pausanias. Circa 395/4-393 BC. AR Stater (9.07 gm, 8h). Aigai mint. Head of Apollo right, with short hair, wearing taenia / [P]AU[S-A]-NIA, horse advancing right, trailing rein, within linear border in shallow incuse square. Westermark, Remarks pl. LXIX, 24; AMNG III 1 = McClean 3295 (same obverse die); cf. SNG ANS 86 (plated). VF, toned, minor porosity, light scratches under tone, a few small test cuts along edge. Very rare full silver issue; most staters of Pausanias are plated. ($3000)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.

See lot 129 for more information on early Macedonian kingdom and its coinage.