Pedigreed Lifetime Philip II Tetradrachm

424, Lot: 49. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 14.22 g, 6h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 356-355 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / Philip, raising hand and holding rein, on horseback left; thunderbolt below, ΔH in exergue. Le Rider Group I A, 8 (D3’’/R7); HGC 3, 859. VF, toned, a few deposits. Well centered. From the first issue of Philip II at Amphipolis.

From the WRG Collection, purchased from William Porter, November 1991. Ex Sternberg X (25 November 1980), lot 54.