CORINTH SILVER STATER – EXTREMELY RARE VARIETY WITH HAND HOLDING TORCH – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK COIN (Inv. 19102)
$3,750.00
19102. CORINTHIA. CORINTH. EARLY–MID 4th CENTURY BC.
Silver Stater, 8.35 g, 21 mm.
Obv. Pegasus flying left, koppa below. Rev. Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet, hand grasping torch in left field.
Pegasi 115 (same reverse die); ANS inv. 1944.100.36725 (same reverse die).
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed,” high–relief strike with pleasing light gray toning, a rare variety that depicts only the hand with torch symbol (as opposed to Pegasi 116, another and more common variant that also includes a bucranium in lower right field).