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164, Lot: 56. Estimate $750.
Sold for $702. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PAEONIA. Lykkeios. Circa 359-335 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 13.06 g). Laureate head of Zeus right / Herakles strangling the Nemean lion, bow and quiver behind him. SNG ANS 1019; Gaebler 8; Sotheby's, "Paeonian Hoard," 63 (all from the same obverse die). EF, typical worn obverse die, well centered obverse.



Almost all the tetradrachms of Lykkeios are struck from the identical obverse die, with a distinctive raised square protuberance on the head of Zeus. This mark does not seem to be an intended part of the design. It has been suggested that this is the tip of a punch that was sunk into the die to indicate the deepest part of the intaglio design. The die engraver, working down to that point, failed to remove all traces of the punch.