Le Rider Plate Coin
Ex Abecassis Collection

Triton XVIII, Lot: 448. Estimate $5000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Didrachm (17.5mm, 7.06 g, 9h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 355-349/8 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; bow below raised foreleg. Le Rider 174b (D80/R144 – this coin, illustrated); SNG ANS –; SNG Alpha Bank 281 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen Supp. 110 (same dies). Good VF, attractive old collection toning. Extremely rare, one of only three published, only this example in CoinArchives, none in ANS photofile.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 81 (16 May 2001), lot 176; R. Abecassis Collection.