254, Lot: 62. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Time of Philip V and Perseus. 187-168 BC. Æ (16mm, 3.70 g, 6h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Zeus right / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt; torch to upper left, monogram to right. Touratsoglou,
Macedonia -; AMNG III/2, p. 5, 36 (Paroreia). Near VF, green patina.
For a discussion of this coinage, previously attributed to Paroreia, see Y. Touratsoglou, The Coin Circulation in Ancient Macedonia (ca. 200 B.C. - 268-286 A.D.): The Hoard Evidence (Athens, 1993), p. 33, n. 4.