Stater

Features

Issuer	Pheneos (Arkadia)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	360 BC - 350 BC
Value	Stater (2)
Currency	Aeginetic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	12.05 g
Diameter	23 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 475181
References	BCD Peloponnesos# 1622 Alan S. Walker; 2006. LHS Auction / Volume 96: The BCD Collection. Coins of Peloponnesos. LHS Numismatics, Zürich, Switzerland. , BMC Greek# 13 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , Lampson# 241 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson; 1923. Catalogue of Ancient Greek Coins Collected by Godfrey Locker Lampson. Arthur L. Humphreys, London, United Kingdom. , Kraay&Hirm# 515 Colin Mackennal Kraay, Max Hirmer; 1966. Greek Coins. Thames & Hudson, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Lockett# 5225 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , Weber# 4322 Hermann David Weber, Leonard Forrer. Descriptive catalogue of the collection of Greek coins formed by Sir Hermann Weber M.D. 1823-1918. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , HGC 5# 976 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 Fitzwilliam# 3897 Fritz Heichelheim. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume IV - The Fitzwilliam Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (8 volumes). , Gillet# 1001 . Charles Gillet Collection. , Regling Kunstwerk# 664 Kurt Regling; 1924. Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk = The ancient coin as a work of art. Berlin, Germany.

Obverse

Head of Demeter to right, wearing grain wreath, elaborate disc and crescent earring with pendants, and pearl necklace.

Reverse

Hermes, naked but for chlamys over his left shoulder and arms and petasus, carrying on his left arm infant Archas, who raises his right hand to touch petasus, and holding caduceus in right.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΦΕΝΕΩΝ

Mint

Pheneus, Arcadia, modern-day Archea Feneos, Greece

Comments

Schultz 6-7; Traeger, Arkadien 515.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (360 BC - 350 BC)							$ 22 000

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 48 Lot 87	21 Oct 2008	XF	USD 138 152.42 (CHF 110 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Sotheby’s, Wilkinson and Hodge 23 March 1896, Montagu, 420; Sotheby’s, Wilkinson and Hodge 3 February 1909, Benson, 586 and Leu 81, 2001, 225 sales
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Roma Numismatics Auction XXV Lot 189	22 Sep 2022	VF	USD 24 006.34 (GBP 18 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Roma Numismatics Limited
	Künker Auction 304 Lot 412	19 Mar 2018	VF	USD 19 589.02 (EUR 17 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Sternberg XXI auction, Zurich 1988, no. 112; Myers/Adams 6 auction, New York 1973, no. 156; Hess-Leu 36 auction, Lucerne 1968, no. 229; Jacob Hirsch XXX auction, Munich 1911, no. 543; Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 23 May 1894, lot 177
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg
	Gemini Auction X Lot 56	13 Jan 2013	VF	Unsold
Ex Egger 40 (1912), Prowe Collection, lot 1162. Ex Egger, 10 December 1906, lot 399
© Gemini Numismatic Auctions LLC
	CNG Triton XXVI Lot 173	10 Jan 2023	F	USD 15 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex Naville V (18 June 1923), lot 2260
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.