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Triton XVIII, Lot: 441. Estimate $500.
Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Archelaos. 413-400/399 BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.34 g, 7h). Reduced standard. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Head of lion left; club above, A-P to left; all within incuse square. Westermark, Remarks, pl. LXIX, 8; SNG ANS 75 (quarter obol); SNG Alpha Bank 164–6 (hemiobol); SNG Saroglos 13 (hemiobol). Near EF, dark iridescent tone, small area of flat strike on reverse. Exceptional metal, well centered strike.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 77 (11 May 2000), lot 169.