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<p>[QUOTE="AncientJoe, post: 7391815, member: 44357"]The coinage of Pantikapaion is indeed incredibly artistic regardless of the denomination. I tried and failed for years to acquire a stater of the common type but then managed to cross off the much rarer "wild hair" earlier variety earlier this year and couldn't be happier.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286249[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><i>CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS, Pantikapaion. Circa 380-370 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 9.08 g, 1h). Head of Pan left / Griffin standing left, head facing, holding spear in its mouth, left forepaw raised, on grain ear left; Π-A-N around. Anokhin 1001; MacDonald 31; HGC 7, 17; SNG BM Black Sea 855; Gulbenkian 580–1; Jameson 2144 (this coin); Prinkipo 166</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Ex Black Sea Collection (Nomos 13, 7 October 2016), lot 149; Guermantes Collection (Leu 86, 5 May 2003), lot 307; Robert Jameson Collection (sold privately Dr. J. Hirsch); Grand Duke Alexander Mikailovitch Collection (sold privately by Spink).</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="AncientJoe, post: 7391815, member: 44357"]The coinage of Pantikapaion is indeed incredibly artistic regardless of the denomination. I tried and failed for years to acquire a stater of the common type but then managed to cross off the much rarer "wild hair" earlier variety earlier this year and couldn't be happier. [ATTACH=full]1286249[/ATTACH] [I]CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS, Pantikapaion. Circa 380-370 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 9.08 g, 1h). Head of Pan left / Griffin standing left, head facing, holding spear in its mouth, left forepaw raised, on grain ear left; Π-A-N around. Anokhin 1001; MacDonald 31; HGC 7, 17; SNG BM Black Sea 855; Gulbenkian 580–1; Jameson 2144 (this coin); Prinkipo 166 Ex Black Sea Collection (Nomos 13, 7 October 2016), lot 149; Guermantes Collection (Leu 86, 5 May 2003), lot 307; Robert Jameson Collection (sold privately Dr. J. Hirsch); Grand Duke Alexander Mikailovitch Collection (sold privately by Spink).[/I][/QUOTE]
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