Superb Attic Weight Perseus

CNG 94, Lot: 290. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 17.11 g, 12h). Attic standard. Pella or Amphipolis mint; Zoilos, magistrate. Struck circa 174–173 BC. Diademed head right / eagle, wings spread, standing right on thunderbolt; ZΩ monogram (= Zoilos) above, ME monogram to right, EY monogram below; all within oak wreath; below, plow right. Mamroth, Perseus 4; SNG Copenhagen 1266; Bement 792; Pozzi 982. Superb EF, lightly toned.

From the James Fox Collection.