Stater - Agathokles

Kios, the Bithynian Greek city on the Propontis, struck very little gold on its own authority — this stater belongs to a narrow window of autonomous issue before the city fell under Macedonian and then Bithynian pressure in the late fourth century. The magistrate name Agathokles appears on only a handful of known specimens, making this among the more personal of the city's rare gold emissions.

The De Luynes 2415 variety designation signals a die difference from the cabinet piece recorded in that nineteenth-century collection — worth tracking against Recueil des monnaies grecques if pursuing attribution more precisely.