Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 259. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $660. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Aphytis. Circa 400-350 BC. Æ 20mm (7.30 g, 12h). Head of Zeus Ammon facing slightly left / Kantharos. AMNG 5; SNG ANS 211; BMC 2. VF, brown patina, some encrustation.

From the Christopher Morcom Collection. Ex Clarence S. Bement Collection.

According to Pausanias (III.18.3), Aphytis was celebrated for its temple of Zeus Ammon, and according to Xenophon (Hell.V.3.19) the city also had a temple dedicated to the worship of Dionysos, referred to on this coin by the kantharos.