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Auction 13  7 October 2016
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Lot 149

Estimate: 125 000 CHF
Price realized: 130 000 CHF
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Pantikapaion. Circa 355-340 BC. Stater (Gold, 18mm, 9.09 g 2). Head of bearded Pan with goat's ear and unkempt hair to left. Rev. Π - Α - Ν Griffin prancing on a grain ear to left, his head facing and holding a spear in his jaws (its shaft forming the crossbar of the Α), and with his right forepaw raised. Gulbenkian 580. Jameson 2144 (this coin). Prinkipo 166. SNG BM 855. Extremely rare. With a head of Pan of remarkably fine style, made with great elegance and delicacy. Some minor scrapes on the obverse, otherwise, extremely fine.

From the Black Sea Collection, from the Guermantes collection, Leu 86, 5 May 2003, 307 and from the collections of R. Jameson (sold privately by Dr. J. Hirsch) and the Grand Duke Alexander Michailovitch (sold privately by Spink).


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