Stater

Features

Issuer	Stymphalos (Arkadia)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	350 BC
Value	Stater (2)
Currency	Aeginetic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	12.04 g
Diameter	24 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 144993
References	BCD Peloponnesos# 1704-1705 Alan S. Walker; 2006. LHS Auction / Volume 96: The BCD Collection. Coins of Peloponnesos. LHS Numismatics, Zürich, Switzerland. , BostonMFA# 1269 Agnes Baldwin Brett; 1955. Catalogue of Greek Coins. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. , Gulbenkian# 560 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (publisher). A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2 volumes). , Kraay&Hirm# 514 Colin Mackennal Kraay, Max Hirmer; 1966. Greek Coins. Thames & Hudson, London, United Kingdom. , HGC 5# 1022 Oliver D. Hoover; 2011. Handbook of Coins of the Peloponnesos / Volume 5: Achaia, Phleiasia, Sikyonia, Elis, Triphylia, Messenia, Lakonia, Argolis, and Arkadia : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , SNG Copenhagen# 287 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , SNG Spencer-Church# 168 Edward George Spencer-Churchill; 1931. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 1.1. The Collection of Capt. E.G. Spencer-Churchill, M.C., of Northwick Park: The Salting Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom. , Gillet# 1005 . Charles Gillet Collection. , BMC Greek# 6 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , Jameson# 1267 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes).

Obverse

Laureate head of Artemis facing right, wearing a rosette and crescent earring from which hang five pendants, a necklace of pearls, and with her hair tied in a bun at the back

Reverse

Herakles, nude but for his lionskin wrapped around his left arm, striding to left and preparing to strike with his club held over his head with his right hand. Between his legs, the letters ΣΟ

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΣΤΥΜΦΑΛΙΩΝ

Mint

Stymphalus, Arcadia, Greece

Comments

Traeger, Arkadien 599; Traité III 884, pl. CCXXIV, 22; SNG Berry 871; Kunstfreund 204; McClean 7008; ACGC 320.

Per CNG, approximately 25 specimens known, of which 15 are in museums.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (-350)							$ 30 000	$ 620 000

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Examples of the type

BMC Greek (Peloponnesus) 6, p. 199

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 158 Lot 113	5 Nov 2025	XF	USD 634 092.09 (CHF 500 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	CNG Triton XV Lot 1015	3 Jan 2012	XF	USD 300 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex ‘Outstanding Collection’ (Leu 81, 16 May 2001), lot 226, and the Argos Hoard of 1966 (IGCH 130)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 124 Lot 173	23 Jun 2021	XF	USD 152 182.10 (CHF 120 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Leu 28, 1981, 118 and LHS, 96, 2006, BCD, 1705
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	CNG Triton XXVI Lot 174	10 Jan 2023	VF	USD 27 500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex Leu 77 (11 May 2000), lot 226; Charles Gillet Collection; Capt. C. E. Spencer-Churchill Collection; Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933), lot 1301
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Auction 109 Lot 134	12 Sep 2018	VF	USD 40 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Nomos AG Auction 15 Lot 125	22 Oct 2017	VF	USD 50 727.37 (CHF 40 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	CNG Triton XV Lot 1183	3 Jan 2012	VF	USD 42 500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: The New York Sale Auction 32 Lot 150	8 Jan 2014	VF	USD 25 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© The New York Sale
	The New York Sale Auction 27 Lot 400	4 Jan 2012	VF	USD 20 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Monnaies et Médailles SA, Auction XIX, Basel, 5-6 June 1959, lot 442
© The New York Sale