KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Antigonos II Gonatas – Demetrios II Aitolikos. 246/5-229 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 17.17 g, 12h). Amphipolis mint. Head of Poseidon right, wearing wreath of marine plants / Apollo, testing bow in extended right hand, seated left on prow left inscribed BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIΓONOY; monogram below. TEA Period III, Group 37, 163 (O25/R154); HGC 3, 1051; SNG Ashmolean 3266 (same obv. die); Hermitage Sale II 775 (same obv. die). Deeply toned, with blue iridescence, slight roughness. EF.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica D (2 March 1994), lot 1370.
