Ex Rothschild Collection

CNG 100, Lot: 1339. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos III Doson. 229-221 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 17.08 g, 11h). 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 177a (O29/R172 – this coin, illustrated [erroneously as no. 179]); EHC 436; Touratsoglou 52–3; SNG Berry 368 (same obv. die); Davis 96 (same obv. die); SNG Saroglos 933. EF, toned.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Leu 38 (13 May 1986), lot 73; Merzbacher (2 November 1909), lot 2800; ‘Late Collector’ [Rothschild Collection] (Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 28 May 1900), lot 216.