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Triton XVIII, Lot: 487. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31.5mm, 15.38 g, 12h). Reduced standard. Pella or Amphipolis mint; Au-, mintmaster. Struck circa 171-168 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣI-ΛEΩΣ ΠEP-ΣEΩΣ, eagle standing right on thunderbolt; ΘE monogram above, AY monogram (mintmaster) to right, AN monogram below; all within oak wreath; below, plow right. Mamroth, Perseus 19b; SNG Berry 382; Cahn LX, lot 469; CNG 94, lot 291 = CNG 60, lot 371. Near EF, toned, some minor die wear. Rare issue.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Auctiones 26 (16 September 1996), lot 133.