CNG Mail Bid Sale 84, lot 517, 05.05.2010. Sold for $32,000

Tauric Chersonesos, Chersonesos. 25/4 BC – AD 134. AV Stater 
20mm, 7.64 g. Dated Year 119 (95 AD). 

Obv: XEPCONEITWN, Diademed and draped bust left; sceptre before.
Rev: Artemis advancing right, holding bow and arrow, 
preparing to cast spear; monogram to left, PI-Q (date) across lower field. 
Anokhin, Khersonesa 248-9 var. (date & legend); Zograph pl. XXXVII, 13-5 var. (same).

Extremely rare, fewer than 10 Chersonesos staters known for this period of coinage, none with this date.

From the Alex Shubs Collection.

In the late 1st century AD, Chersonesos issued a series of
gold coinage, all with a diademed and draped bust on the 
obverse (sometimes with the city name), and Artemis on the 
reverse. These coins are also dated. 
Only a handful of these gold coins exist, with only six examples published (all in museum collections): Anokhin* 215 
(CY 71 [State Historical Museum, Moscow]); 216 (CY 73 
[Berlin]); 228 (CY 104 [Hermitage]); 233 (CY 109 [BN]); 248 
(CY 131 [Berlin]); and 249 (CY 158 [Odessa State Historical 
Museum]). 
* Anokhin's Chersonesos work, not his Bosporos work.