★ A particularly wild and ferocious head of Pan ★

CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. Pantikapaion. Circa 370-355 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 15 mm, 2.41 g, 5 h). Bearded head of Pan with animal ears and a pug nose facing slightly to right. Rev. ΠANTI Lion crouching to right; all within shallow circular incuse. HGC 7, 64. MacDonald 41. SNG BM Black Sea 862. SNG Stancomb 537-8. Very rare and with a particularly wild and ferocious head of Pan. Slightly granular and with very light cleaning scratches, otherwise, good very fine.

From the Pontos Euxeinos Collection, formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Leu 11, 14 May 2022, 100.