350, Lot: 99. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. Fourrée Fifth Tetradrachm (13mm, 1.94 g, 8h). Copying Amphipolis mint issue struck under Polyperchon, circa 318–317 BC. Head of Apollo right, wearing tainia / Youth on horseback right; shield below. For prototype, cf. Le Rider pl. 46, 29 & 32; cf. Troxell,
Studies, Group 8, 382; cf. SNG ANS 731-5. VF, toned, breaks in plating exposing bronze core.
From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from Antioch Associates, 23 February 1998.