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Extremely Rare Fraction of Amyntas

448, Lot: 48. Estimate $200.
Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Amyntas III. 394/3-370/69 BC. AR Obol (8.5mm, 0.50 g, 9h). Aigai mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Eagle standing left, head right. Troxell, Studies, p. 40 = Price 156 corr. (Amyntas, not Alexander III); HGC 3, 907 corr. (reign); otherwise unpublished. Toned, some roughness and porosity. VF. Extremely rare, possibly the second known, only the BM piece (noted by Price) is published, none in CoinArchives.