(BC 200-169) Pharnakes III - Tetradrachm

ca 170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.85g, 12h), Sinope mint. Diademed and bearded head of Pharnakes III to right / Pantheistic male deity standing facing, wearing broad petasos, chiton, chlamys and high boots, holding a cornucopiae and a kerykeion with his left hand and feeding a fawn standing right from a vine branch and grapes held in his right; thunderbolt above his head, star within crescent to left. RRR! Toned, probably the finest known tetradrachm of Pharnakes, and with the most realistic of all Hellenistic portraits. Extremely fine.

From the collection of W. Wahler, Numismatic Fine Arts XXV (11/1990), 119, ex Numismatic Fine Arts V (2/1978), 123, and Monnaies et Medailles 47 (11/1972), 475.

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City/Mint name:	Kings of Pontos
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Keywords:	silver / hellenistic
References:	Kraay/Hirmer 770 var. RG p. 12 and pl. I, 9
Valuation:	Leu Auc. 81 (5/2001), lot 237 (CHF 34,000 ($19,620) + comm)
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