448, Lot: 49. Estimate $800. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.42 g, 2h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 348/7-343/2 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Youth on horseback right, holding palm and reins; grasshopper below raised foreleg. Le Rider Group IIA, 191 var. (D87/R– [unlisted rev. die]); SNG ANS 489–93. Toned, fine cleaning marks on reverse. Near EF. Well centered and struck from dies of fine style.
Ex Stack's Bowers and Ponterio 182 (10 January 2014), lot 24.