Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 227. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Akanthos. Circa 470-430 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.12 g, 6h). Attic standard. Lion, right, attacking bull kneeling to left, biting into his hindquarter; DI above, branch in exergue / Ethnic around quadripartite square, the quarters raised and granulated; all within incuse square. Cf. Desneux 104-106 (unlisted dies); AMNG III 23; SNG ANS -. Near EF, toned. Good metal for issue.

Ex Triton V (15-16 January 2002), lot 1264; Numismatic Fine Arts XXVII (4-5 December 1991), lot 42.