Sale: Nomos 10, Lot: 23. Estimate CHF3000.  Closing Date: Sunday, 17 May 2015.  Sold For CHF22000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II, 359-336 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 24mm, 14.49 g 12), Pella, 342/1-337/6. Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. Nude jockey on horse prancing to right, holding long palm branch in his right hand; below horse, horizontal thunderbolt. Le Rider 195 (D114/R157). Attractively toned and of splendid style. Extremely fine.

From a collection in America.

This coin comes from a series of tetradrachms bearing some of the finest portraits of Zeus made in late Classical Greece. The god�s head is monumental in its refined and noble elegance.