Sale: Nomos 1, Lot: 42. Estimate CHF9000.  Closing Date: Tuesday, 5 May 2009.  Sold For CHF25000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Chalkidian League. Circa 383-379. Tetradrachm (Silver, 14.57 g 6), Olynthos. Laureate head of Apollo to left Rev. ΧΑΛΚΙΔΕΩΝ Kithara with seven strings. Gulbenkian 420 var. Robinson & Clement Group M. With an elegant, boyish head of Apollo. Minor marks, otherwise, extremely fine.

The series of Chalkidian League tetradrachms in this sale is a particularly attractive one. The heads of Apollo run from the severity of the end of 5th century to a full-blown late Classical handsomeness. Those late Apollo heads are what served s the model for those on the gold staters of Philip II.