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Triton XVII Sessions 1 & 2  7 January 2014
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Lot 137

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 2400 USD
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KINGS of MACEDON. Pausanias. 394/3 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 9.07 g, 9h). Aigai or Pella mint. Head of Apollo right, with short hair, wearing tainia / ΠAYΣ-[A]-NIA, horse advancing right, trailing rein in linear square within shallow incuse square. Westermark, Remarks, pl. LXIX, 24; AMNG III/2, 1, pl. XXIX, 31 = McClean 3295 (same obv. die); SNG ANS 85; SNG Alpha Bank 182; SNG München 36. 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.


From the RAJ Collection. Ex William and Louise Fielder Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 142; Münzen und Medaillen FPL 166 (March 1957), 7.

Pausanias was the son of Aeropos, and became king upon his father's death. Almost nothing is known of his very brief reign, which is mainly attested by his coinage.
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