Pedigree Spanning Three Centuries
Ex Nanteuil, Jameson, Berlin, and Prokesch von Osten Collections

Triton XIV, Lot: 61. Estimate $100000. Sold for $110000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Amphipolis. 363/2 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 13.98 g, 6h). Head of Apollo facing slightly right, wearing laurel wreath, drapery around neck / AMΦ-IΠO-ΛIT-EΩN on raised linear square enclosing race torch; A to inner right; all within broad shallow incuse square. Lorber 23a (O14/R19) = Traité IV 1093, pl. CCCXX, 15 = de Nanteuil 750 = Berlin 6 = Hurter p. 34, K, pl. 6, K = K. Regling, “Phigela, Klazomenai, Amphipolis,” ZfN 33 (1922), p. 75, 44 = A. Baldwin Brett, “Facing heads on Greek coins, part 2,” AJN XLIII (1909), pl. III, 12 = A. Prokesch von Osten, “Description de quelques médailles grecques,” RN 1860, p. 268 (this coin). VF, attractive cabinet tone. Masterful depiction of Apollo, well centered on a broad flan. Very rare.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 46 (2 April 2008), lot 230; Numismatica Ars Classica 8 (3 April 1995), lot 213; Hess-Leu 24 (16 April 1964), lot 122; Hess-Leu (2 April 1958), lot 132; Henri de Nanteuil Collection; J. Hirsch XXXII (14 November 1912), lot 430; R. Jameson Collection (purchased privately as duplicate from Berlin cabinet); Münzkabinett of the Königliche Museen zu Berlin; Baron A. Prokesch von Osten Collection, purchased in Corfu in 1852.