Le Rider Plate Coin

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 283. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $3700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.41 g, 6h). Amphipolis mint. Lifetime issue, struck circa 355-349/8 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Philip II on horseback left; bow below raised foreleg of horse. Le Rider 167a (D76/R137 – this coin, illustrated); SNG ANS 487 (same rev. die). Good VF, lightly toned.

Ex Maxime Collignon Collection (Feuardent, 17 December 1919), lot 192.