Artistic Die

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 135. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $12500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Mygdones or Krestones. Circa 480-470 BC. AR Stater (9.96 g). Goat kneeling right, head reverted; solid rosette above / Quadripartite incuse square. Lorber, Goats, Issue 6, pl. 14, 6; HPM pl. III, 17; SNG ANS 58 var. (Aigai, obverse symbol). EF, attractive fine toning with even granulation in the fields. Struck from artistic obverse die.