Triton XVIII, Lot: 489. Estimate $750. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON (Roman Protectorate), Republican period. First Meris. Circa 167-149 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 17.01 g, 9h). Amphipolis mint. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder, in the center of a Macedonian shield / Club; AP monogram and MAKEΔONΩN above, ΠPΩTHΣ below; all within oak wreath, thunderbolt to left. Prokopov, Silver 178 (O48/R150); SNG Copenhagen 1310–1; SNG Dreer 646–7 (same obv. die); SNG Manchester 748 (same obv. die); Triton VIII, lot 203 (same dies). EF, beautiful even light gray toning with peripheral iridescence, a couple minor die breaks.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from C. H. Wolfe, 3 June 1988.