Lifetime Hemidrachm

CNG 88, Lot: 87. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Hemidrachm (11mm, 1.69 g, 7h). Pella mint. Struck circa 359-355/4 BC. Young male head right, wearing tainia / Youth, holding palm and raising arm, on horseback left; monogram below. Le Rider -; Le Rider, Monnayage, p. 18, 3, pl. I, 5-6 corr. (same dies; monogram); SNG ANS -; SNG Alpha Bank 268 corr. (same dies; monogram). Good VF, toned, porous. Extremely rare, one of four known, and the only example with the monogram clearly visible.