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161, Lot: 25. Estimate $150.
Sold for $228. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Archelaos. 413-400/399 BC. AR Diobol (14mm, 2.01 g, 4h). Pella mint. Horse prancing left / ARCEL-A-O, Crested helmet left in double linear square within shallow incuse square. Westermark, Remarks pl. LXIX, 3; AMNG III/2, 6; SNG ANS 39. VF, toned, a few light marks. Rare denomination.



Archelaus was responsible for moving the capital of the kingdom from Aigai to Pella. Stylistically, the horse and helmet are nearly identical to the light tetrobols of his predecesor, Perdikkas II, so it is likely the mint workers of Aigai were brought to the new mint. The diobol was the largest fractional silver piece of Archelaus' coinage.