Watch List notes:

KOLCHIS, Uncertain. 1st century BC. AV Stater (18.5mm, 5.71 g, 12h). Imitating Byzantion mint issue of Lysimachos of Thrace. Stylized head of the deified Alexander right / Stylized Athena Nikephoros seated left; transverse spear in background, trident left in exergue; legend at sides degraded to hash marks. Arslan, Statere, Group II, 7; Golenko pp. 570–2; Sergeev 593; Marinescu pl. 67, 10; HGC 7, 218. VF, a couple minor scratches in fields. Very rare.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, January 2001.