Signed Obverse Die

CNG 99, Lot: 48. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 125-100 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.36 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedonia. Obverse die signed by ANT–. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin; ANT on jaw of skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in inner left field, helmet above HP monogram; monogram below throne. Karayotov I 255 (O74/R251); Callataÿ p. 102, dies D29/R1 (letters on obv. not noted); Topalov, Messambria 18; Price 1095; CNG 69, lot 166 (same dies). Near EF, lightly toned, a few spots of porosity on reverse. Very rare obverse signed issue.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 78 (26 May 2014), lot 1410.

Karayotov notes that the obverse die by this engraver, ANT-, is of the finest style among the late Alexander-type tetradrachms of Mesembria.