Rare Aeropos Tetradrachm from Hunt

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 105. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Aeropos. 398/7-395/4 BC. AR Stater (10.44 g, 10h). Aigai or Pella mint. Head of Apollo right, with short hair, wearing taenia / AERO-P-O, horse advancing right, trailing rein, within linear border in shallow incuse square. Westermark, Remarks pl. LXIX, 12; AMNG III/2 1; SNG ANS 76; SNG Alpha Bank 172; SNG München -. Good VF, attractive dark iridescent toning. Rare.

Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s, 19 June 1991), lot 206.