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CNG 87, Lot: 399. Estimate $300.
Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Philip V – Perseus. 187-168 BC. Æ (23mm, 7.24 g, 9h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Zeus right / Eagle standing right, head left, on thunderbolt; NK monogram to upper left, ΠAP monogram to right. Touratsoglou, Macedonia -; AMNG III/2, p. 5, 36 var. (Paroreia; torch to upper left); BMC p. 15, 60 (Paroreia). Good VF, dark green patina.


For a discussion of this coinage, previously attributed to Macedonian Paroreia, see Y. Touratsoglou, The Coin Circulation in Ancient Macedonia (ca. 200 B.C. - 268-286 A.D.): The Hoard Evidence (Athens, 1993), p. 33, n. 4.