Sale: Nomos 5, Lot: 149. Estimate CHF1000. Closing Date: Monday, 24 October 2011. Sold For CHF1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos III Doson. 229-221 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 16.91 g 6). Bearded head of Poseidon to right, wearing wreath of reeds
Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΟΥ Apollo, nude, seated left on galley prow, holding bow in his right hand; below, oblong monogram. SNG Ashmolean 3266. SNG Berry 361 ff. SNG Copenhagen 1204. Toned and struck on a broad flan. Very fine.
From the PGB collection, acquired in New York in 1968 from F. Knobloch.