322, Lot: 168. Estimate $200. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas. 277/6-239 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.75 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Pella mint. Struck circa 276-274 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; tripod in left field, monogram below throne. Price – (but same obv. die as illustration of Price 546); Müller 1152. Near VF, toned. Extremely rare, perhaps the second known.

As he could not find an example of Müller’s 1152, Price left it out of his corpus. The obverse die link to the BM coin of Price 546 assures us of the mint and date of this issue. In his text, Müller noted that the coin he saw was in the collection of A. von Prokesch-Osten, but the latter did not list this exact variety in the listings of his collection in NZ 1 and 3 (= Price PO(1) and PO(2), respectively). However, Price notes that von Prokesch-Osten was not careful in recording his issues, so it is possible that PO(1) 250, with tripod in left field and star below throne, attributed to the same mint as Müller 1152, is the coin Müller referred to. In any event, as Price did not find that coin, its current location is unknown, thus, the present coin is either that coin, or the second recorded example.