CNG 94, Lot: 800. Estimate $1000. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Philip II of Macedon. 2nd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (21mm, 12.48 g, 1h). Kroisbach–mit Reiterstumpf type. Mint in the Burgenland-West Slovakian region. Diademed, beardless head right, with "boxer's nose" and pronounced jaw line / Rider on horseback left, showing only his torso, hair bound with diadem and tied into a topknot with three trailing curls. Lanz 743–5; OTA 469; CCCBM I 152-4; KMW 1391. Good VF, thick dark patina, graffito and tiny dig in field on obverse, areas of porosity on reverse.