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Auction XXIII  24-25 Mar 2022
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Lot 209

Estimate: 6000 GBP
Price realized: 6000 GBP
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Kings of the Bosporos, Asander (as Archon) AV Stater. Dated RY 3 = 45/4 BC. Bare head to right / Nike standing to left on prow, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling palm frond in left arm; ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟΣ to right, ΑΣΑΝΔΡΟΥ [B]OΣΠOPOY to left, TЭ [Γ] (sic - date) across upper fields, A to inner left. Anokhin 1315 (same dies); MacDonald 191 corr. (this coin, [photograph above 192]); RPC I 1844; DCA 447; HGC 7, 199.

NGC graded Ch XF 3/5 - 3/5 (#2090350-002). Extremely Rare with this date.

This coin published in D. MacDonald, An Introduction to the History and Coinage of the Kingdom of the Bosporus (Lancaster PA, 2005);
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XXII, 8 January 2019, lot 231;
Ex Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Auction 91, 7 June 2016, lot 1835;
Ex Antiqua Ltd., [undated] 2005, no. 39;
Ex Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., Sale 114, 23 May 2000, lot 23;
Ex Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 97, 11 October 1999, lot 325.
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