Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 107. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Akanthos. Circa 480-470 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.07 gm). Lion right, attacking bull kneeling to left, bull's head reverted; Q above, floret in exergue / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Desneux 69-79 (unlisted dies); AMNG III 5; SNG ANS 10 var. (bull's head not reverted). Good VF, toned, light porosity, old scrape on reverse. ($2500)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29-30 May 1997), lot 196; Numismatic Fine Arts XIV (29 November 1984), lot 83.

See lot 105 for more information on the Akanthos and its coinage.