Lot 3964

Description

Corinthia, uncertain mint, (c.300 B.C.), silver stater, (8.51 g), obv. Pegasos flying to left, uncertain below, (Maybe **L* = Leucas); rev. head of Athena to left, wearing Corinthian helmet, behind neck a guard axe, (cf.S.2629, Calciati 494/2 [same obv. die], Ravel 1119 [both noted as a barbarous issue], BCD Corinth 140, HGC 4, -). Toned, struck from slightly worn obverse dies, otherwise nearly extremely fine, very scarce.

Ex Joseph Lepczyk Auction Sale 50, 26-27 November 1982 (lot 9861); the from Numismatik Lanz Munchen, Sale 105, November 26, 2001 (lot 139) from the BCD Collection with his and other tickets and collector's packet.^An almost identical example from the same dies and condition was sold by Leu Numismatik Web Auction 18, 18 December 2021 (lot 952), it realised 550 SFr (= US $596); another in Leu Numismatik Web Auction 17, August 14, 2021, (lot 894) realised 1300 SFr. (= US $1408).