Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 151. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.36 gm). Pella mint. Struck circa 323-315 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / FILIP-POU, youth on horseback right, crowning horse with palm; serpent below, Boeotian shield under raised foreleg. LeRider 525 (D279/R433); SNG ANS 450; Winterthur 1455 (same dies). Beautifully toned EF. Unusual placing of the reverse legend with FILIP in a straight line instead of the usual curved orientation. This is the only die so engraved. (See color enlargement on plate 6.) ($2500) 

Ex Münzen und Medaillen 52 (19-20 June 1975), lot 123.