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American Numismatic Society Duplicate
From the John D. Leggett, Jr. Collection

Triton XVII, Lot: 176. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos III Doson. 229-221 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.95 g, 6h). Amphipolis mint(?). Struck circa 227-225 BC. 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. Panagopoulou 174–84 var. (O29/R– [unlisted rev. die]); EHC 436; Touratsoglou 52–3; SNG Berry 368 (same obv. die); Davis 96 (same obv. die); SNG Saroglos 933. EF, attractively toned. Well centered and struck.


Ex Duplicates from the American Numismatic Society Collection (Gemini V, 6 January 2009), lot 391; ANS accession no. 1997.9.186; from the Estate of John D. Leggett, Jr., 1997.