Triton XV, Lot: 1140. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas. 277/6-239 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 17.12 g, 10h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 274/1-260/55 BC. Horned head of Pan left, lagobolon behind, in the center of a Macedonian shield / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIΓONOY, Athena Alkidemos advancing left, shield decorated with aegis on left arm, preparing to cast thunderbolt held aloft in right hand; crested Macedonian helmet to inner left, TI to inner right. Touratsoglou 8–17; SNG Copenhagen 1202; SNG München 1074-5; SNG Alpha Bank 983; SNG Ashmolean 3260 (same obv. die [re-engraved]). Good VF, lightly toned.
From the Deyo Collection. Ex Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 187.