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420, Lot: 129. Estimate $200.
Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Demetrios I Poliorketes – Antigonos II Gonatas. Circa 300-250 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.56 g, 3h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Uncertain mint in the Peloponnese (Argos?). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left on throne with Nikai on back; in left field, Athena Promachos advancing left; EY below throne. Price 759; Troxell, Peloponnesian Group I, Issue 3, dies A6/P– (unlisted rev. die). Good VF, areas of roughness and die wear on obverse, scratches on reverse. Rare, eleven noted by Troxell (including the four in Pella), two in CoinArchives.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 17 January 2004.