Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 734. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $4600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Archelaos. 413-399 BC. AR Stater (10.65 g, 8h). Aigai mint. Horseman, wearing chlamys and petasos, holding two spears, riding horse left / AR-CE-LAO, forepart of goat right, head reverted, within linear border in incuse square. Westermark, Staters, Group 1 (unlisted dies); Westermark, Remarks pl. LXIX, 1; AMNG III 1 var. (orientation of name); SNG ANS 64 var. (same); SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank 137. Good VF, lightly toned, some flatness on obverse, possibly overstruck. Rare first coinage of Archelaos, with superb detail of horseman. ($3000)

From the Robert Weimer Collection. Ex Lanz 74 (20 November 1995), lot 150.