Triton XVIII, Lot: 492. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PAEONIA. Patraos. Circa 335-315 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.56 g, 9h). Astibos or Damastion mint. Head of Apollo right, with short hair, wearing laurel wreath / Warrior on horse rearing right, thrusting spear held in his right hand at enemy below who defends with shield on his left arm; [Π]ATPAOY to left, retrograde ME monogram behind horse’s rear legs. Paeonian Hoard II 174 (same dies); Peykov E2140 (same rev. die as illustration); NBRM Paeonia –; SNG ANS 1031; Alpha Bank, Hellenic 82 (same rev. die); Šeldarov –. Near EF, toned, with some iridescence, die break on obverse. Well centered and struck.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from Antioch Associates, 25 January 1999.