British Museum Duplicate

Triton XIV, Lot: 81. Estimate $3000. Sold for $22000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.62 g, 10h). In the name and types of Philip II. Pella mint. Struck under Antipater or Polyperchon, circa 323-318/7 BC. Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / ΦIΛIΠΠOY, charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in left, driving biga right; kantharos below. Le Rider 444a (D202/R331) = Bement 690 (this coin); SNG ANS 172; SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Saroglos -. EF, a couple light marks. Exceptional pedigree.

Ex Hess Lucerne (18 December 1933), lot 50; Clarence S. Bement Collection (Naville VI, 28 January 1924), lot 690; John Glas Sandeman Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 June 1911), lot 88; Bank of England Collection [British Museum Duplicates] (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 February 1878), lot 60, 61, or 62.

While this coin is from the Bank of England Collection, none of the later sales cite the lot number, and Sotheby’s had a stater with kantharos in each of the three lots of Philip II type staters in the sale.