Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 375. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON. Under Roman Rule. After 168 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.74 gm). Diademed head of Artemis right with quiver over shoulder in the center of a Macedonian shield; shield decorated with seven eight-pointed stars within double crescents / MAKEDONWN DEUTERAS , club within oak-wreath; monogram above; thunderbolt left (off flan). Gaebler, AMNG pl. 2, 4 (same dies); SNG Lockett 3290 var. (monograms); SNG Berry 387 var. (same). Fine. Very rare issue from the second Macedonian region. ($1000)

After the defeat of Perseus at the battle of Pydna in 168 BC, the Romans divided Macedonia into four separate autonomous administrative regions (regiones); the first (PROTES) lay east of the Strymon with its capital at Amphipolis, the second (DEUTERAS) between the Strymon and Axius with its capital at Thessalonica, the third between the Axius and Peneus with its capital at Pella, and the fourth included most of Upper Macedonia with its capital at Heraclea Lynci. Livy informs us that initially all commerce between the regions, exploitation of the silver and gold mines and the importation of salt were forbidden. Almost all the coinage of this period is struck in the name of the first region and runs parallel to the mass coinages of Thasos and Maronea from about 158. No silver is known from the third and fourth regions, and only a small number of rare tetradrachms from the second region. These four regions only lasted until 148 when the country was finally united to constitute a Roman Province and proceeded to issue coins under the authority of its legatus pro praetore.