In the Name of Antigonos

CNG 97, Lot: 111. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1510. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas. 277/6-239 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.74 g, 10h). Pella mint. Struck circa 276-274 BC or after 272 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; EK monogram in left field. Mathisen pl. 21, 29 = Troxell, Peloponnesian, pl. XIX, 1 (same obv. die); Price pl. CLVIII, E (same obv. die); AMNG III p. 179, 3 var. (Antigonos I; position of name); SNG Alpha Bank 982 var. (same); Triton IX, lot 830 (same obv. die). VF, toned, some minor porosity. Very rare issue in the name of Antigonos.