209, Lot: 59. Estimate $300. Sold for $440. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.17 g, 2h). Amphipolis mint. Struck under Kassander or Antipater, circa 323/2-315 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Youth on horseback right; star and I between horse’s forelegs and hindlegs, dolphin below raised foreleg. Le Rider pl. 48, 4; SNG ANS 812. VF.

These late issues attributed to Amphipolis may actually be the earliest Celtic imitations of Philip II's tetradrachms. They exhibit a more formalized style, and Philip's name is sometimes, as on this particular issue, broken after the second Π instead of the first.