CNG 96, Lot: 37. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Akanthos. Circa 480-470 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.03 g). Lion right, biting into the hindquarter of a bull crouching left, head right; pellet-in-circle above, floral ornament in exergue / Quadripartite incuse square. Desneux 78 (D76/R71); AMNG III/2, 4; SNG ANS 10 var. (bull head left); SNG Lockett 1282 (same dies). Good VF, toned, slight die shift on obverse.