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Triton XVIII, Lot: 482. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas. 277/6-239 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 17.07 g, 12h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 274/1-260/55 BC. Horned head of Pan left, lagobolon behind, in the center of a Macedonian shield / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIΓONOY, Athena Alkidemos, seen from behind, advancing left, shield decorated with aegis on left arm, preparing to cast thunderbolt held aloft in right hand; crested Macedonian helmet to inner left, HΛ monogram to inner right. Panagopoulou Period I, 95a (O16/R85 – this coin); Touratsoglou 25–40; SNG Copenhagen 1199; Pozzi 2037. EF, toned, a patch of find patina and minor flan flaws on reverse.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Tkalec (19 February 2001), lot 65; Numismatic Fine Arts XVII (31 March 1987), lot 124 (the further pedigree to J. Hirsch 13 noted by Panagopoulou is erroneous).