★ Stater of Berge ★

Thraco-Macedonian Region. Berge circa 525-480 BC.
Stater AR

17 mm, 6,14 g

Ithyphallic satyr standing right, grasping hand of nymph fleeing right; [pellets above, to left, and to right] / Quadripartite incuse square divided diagonally.

nearly very fine

Smith Group 5; Peykov A0020; HPM pl. VIII, 4; HGC 3, 531 ("Lete").

According to S. Psoma the city of Berge is the most likely attribution and not Lete or Siris, as previously. (See S. Psoma, "The 'Lete' Coinage Reconsidered" in Agoranomia.)

From the Tareq Hani collection