Le Rider Plate Coin

Triton XVI, Lot: 301. Estimate $4000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Kassander. As regent, 317-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.33 g, 3h). In the name and types of Philip II. Pella mint. Struck circa 317/6-315/4 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / ΦIΛIΠ-Π•Y, nude youth, holding palm in right hand and reins in left, on horseback right; below, coiled serpent right; Boeotian shield in exergue. Le Rider 530f (D281/R437 – this coin, illustrated); SNG ANS 450 var. (same obv. die, shield under foreleg); SNG Saroglos –; SNG Lockett 1414 (same dies). Choice EF, lovely old cabinet toning.

Ex R. Abecassis Collection.