Among the Finest Known

Triton XVIII, Lot: 442. Estimate $20000. Sold for $32500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Aeropos. Circa 398/7-395/4 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 10.49 g, 10h). Head of Apollo right, with short hair, wearing tainia / Horse walking right, trailing reins below; AEPO-Π-O around; all within shallow incuse square. Westermark, Remarks, pl. LXIX, 12 (same dies); SNG Alpha Bank 172 = Alpha Bank, Alexander 40; SNG ANS 76 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 2434A; SNG München –; SNG Saroglos –; Hunt IV 206. Choice EF, attractively toned. Excellent metal. Very rare, and one of the finest known.

Ex Mieza Collection (Nomos 7, 15 May 2013), lot 43; Leu 48 (10 May 1989), lot 157.