Triton XVIII, Lot: 444. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Didrachm (19mm, 7.16 g, 7h). Pella mint. Struck circa 354/3-349/8 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / ΦIΛIΠ-ΠOY, Philip, wearing kausia, chlamys, tunic, and boots, raising right hand and holding rein in left, on horseback left; tiny Δ below raised foreleg, facing head of Helios below horse’s belly. Le Rider, Monnayage, p. 18, 4 = BM Museum no. 2002,0101.1503 (same dies), otherwise unpublished. Good VF. Well centered strike. Very rare denomination, the second and finest known for this issue.

From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex Triton XII (6 January 2009), lot 166.