Ex Lockett and Consul Weber Collections

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 111. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AV Half Stater (4.29 g, 11h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 340/36-328 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / FILIPPOU, forepart of lion right; thunderbolt (over crescent) below. Le Rider 3b (D1/R2’) = SNG Lockett 1407 (this coin); SNG ANS -; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG München 87 (same dies); SNG Saroglos -. EF. Very rare.

Ex Künker 100 (21 June 2005), lot 14; Leu 86 (5 May 2003), lot 347; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Glendining, 12 February 1958), lot 1319; Schlessinger 13 (4 February 1935), lot 626; Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (J. Hirsch XXI, 16 November 1908), lot 1189.