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CNG 106, Lot: 206. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Kassander. As regent, 317-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 14.31 g, 4h). In the name and types of Philip II. Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 316-311 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Youth, holding palm frond and rein, on horseback right; Λ below, pellet-in-Π below raised foreleg. Le Rider p. 124 (this coin cited); Troxell, Studies, Group 9, 335 = Paeonian Hoard 60 (this coin); HGC 3.1, 988. Near EF, lightly toned. Very rare, one of only four in CoinArchives, none in ANS photofile.


From the George Bernert Collection. Ex John A. Seeger Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 76, 12 September 2007), lot 3023; Catalog of the Paeonian Hoard (Sotheby & Co., 16 April 1969), lot 60; Paeonia 1968 Hoard (IGCH 410; CH I, 40).