From the Boston MFA & Warren Collections

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 167. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.43 g, 1h). Pella mint. Lifetime issue, struck circa 342/1-337/6 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / ΦIΛIΠ-ΠOY, nude youth, holding palm in right hand and reins in left, on horseback right; upright thunderbolt below, small N in exergue. Le Rider 216a (D123/R175) = Boston MFA 648 = Warren 636 (this coin); SNG ANS 383; SNG München 102; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Saroglos -. EF, attractively toned, slight die shift on reverse. Well centered and struck.

From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XX (9 March 1988), lot 669 (incorrectly listing as ex Greenwell); Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts VIII, 6 June 1980), lot 106; E.P. Warren Collection.