424, Lot: 80. Estimate $150. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Alexander III – Seleukos I. Circa 324/3-300 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.10 g, 9h). Uncertain mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin; c/m: prow right with dolphin terminal, ΠY above, all within incuse circle / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; control marks not visible. For similar pieces with this c/m type, see M. Thompson, “A Countermarked Hoard from Büyükçekmece” in MN VI (1954). Fair, toned, porous. Very rare with Büyükçekmece type countermark.

From the WRG Collection, purchased from William Porter, May 1992.

Byzantion and Kalchedon applied these prow type countermarks for a limited time in the second half of the third century BC, prior to their striking of autonomous silver. The Propontis Hoard also contained two examples with this countermark type.