Mamroth Plate Coin – Ex Consul Weber

Triton XVII, Lot: 180. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.05 g, 12h). Attic standard(?). Pella or Amphipolis mint; Zoilos, mintmaster. Struck circa 178-174 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠEPΣEΩΣ, club; ZΩ (mintmaster's) monogram above, ΛΩ and ZΩ monograms below; all within oak-wreath; star to outer left. Mamroth, Perseus 14y, 5 & 6 (this coin, illustrated [Mamroth mistakenly lists the same coin twice]); Boston MFA 723 (same dies); Gulbenkian 888 (same obv. die). EF, beautifully toned. Struck in high relief for drachm.

Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 73 (17 October 1988), lot 151; Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (J. Hirsch XXI, 16 November 1908), lot 1279; J. Hirsch XII (17 November 2004), lot 130.