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476916. Sold For $5000

MACEDON, Akanthos. Circa 480-470 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.22 g). Attic standard. Lion right, biting into the hindquarter of a bull crouching left; A above, floral ornament in exergue / Quadripartite incuse square. Desneux Type F2, 90 var. (unlisted dies); AMNG –; HGC 3, 384; SNG Lockett 1283. EF, toned, a few minor marks. An attractive and bold piece with a lion and a bull of a particularly vigorous, late Archaic style.


Ex Nomos 9 (21 October 2014), lot 71; Nomos 6 (8 May 2012), lot 39.