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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 

From the Fielder, Boston MFA, Warren, & Ivanoff Collections

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 158. Estimate $3000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. 
Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Akanthos. Circa 430-390 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.38 g, 7h). Alexis, magistrate. Lion right, attacking bull kneeling to left; AΛEΞIΣ in exergue / AKA-N-ΘIO-N in shallow incuse around quadripartite square, the quarters raised and granulated. Desneux 145b (D137/R141) = Boston MFA 532 = Warren 545 (this coin); AMNG III/2, 29; SNG ANS 15 var. (no exergual line). Near EF, toned.


From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection. Ex William and Louise Fielder Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2006), lot 112; Classical Numsimatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 197; Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts VIII, 6 June 1980), lot 96; Warren Collection, 545; Ivanoff Collection (Sotheby & Wilkinson, 1863), lot 38.