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Rare Mark on Antigonos Gonatas Tetradrachm

171, Lot: 25. Estimate $500.
Sold for $666. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas. 277/6-239 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 17.06 g). Amphipolis mint. Struck after 270 BC. Head of Pan wearing goat horns and goat skin in center of Macedonian shield, lagobolon over shoulder; shield decorated with seven eight-pointed stars within double crescents / Athena Alkidemos walking left, brandishing thunderbolt and shield, shield decorated with aegis; crested Athenian helmet left, KS monogram right. Merkin, “Antigonos Gonatas and Antigonos Doson”, in MN IX (1960), p. 46; cf. SNG Alpha Bank 983, 986-9 (monogram); cf. SNG Saroglos 921-7 (same). VF, choice, toned. Rare.


Merkin notes a “K” mintmark, which may be the same as this mark, but does not cite a source for it. This variety does not appear in any of the published collections, and the only other example with this mintmark to appear in a recent public sale was in Künker 83 (17 June, 2003), lot 211.