Extremely Rare Moriaseis Bronze

346, Lot: 27. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Moriaseis. 2nd century BC. Æ (19mm, 4.63 g). Laureate head of Zeus right / Star. SNG ANS –; P.R. Franke, “MOPIAΣEΩN - Die erste Münze eines bislang unbekannten thrakisch-makedonischen Stammes” in: V. Spinoi & L. Munteanu, Miscellanea numismatica antiquitatis in honorem septagenarii magistri Virgilii Mihailescu (Bucarest 2008), p. 67–8 = Heidelberger Münzhandlung 64, lot 150; Schenk-Behrens 64, lot 47. VF, brown patina, obverse tooled and smoothed. Extremely rare, apparently the third known.