Pharzoios, AV stater, Olbia mint. 18 mm, 8.28 g.

Diademed head of Pharzoius, right, PF monogram beneath the neck.
BASILEWS FARZOIOS above and beneath eagle standing right on symbol resembling a double-ended caduceus. OL over SPAR monogram in right field.

RPC II, 492A; Oberlander in Cercetari Numismatice XII-XIII (this coin); Stancomb 930; Jameson IV, 2537.

With permission of Roma Numismatics XIX, lot 86, March 2020 (estimate £10,000).
Ex Bank Leu auction 45, lot 189, May 1988.

This coin was found in the area of Buzau, Romania in 2004 or 2005. It was offered to the Romanian National History Museum in 2006 but the museum was unable to pay the high price set by the owner and it was sold elsewhere.