CNG 100, Lot: 1338. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas. 277/6-239 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 17.07 g, 11h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 274/1-260/55 BC. Horned head of Pan left, lagobolon behind, in the center of a Macedonian shield / Athena Alkidemos, seen from behind, advancing left, shield decorated with aegis on left arm, preparing to cast thunderbolt held aloft in right hand; crested Macedonian helmet to inner left, HP monogram to inner right. Panagopoulou Period II, 2 and 4–8 var. (O2/R– [unlisted rev. die]); Touratsoglou 18 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 1200; Hermitage Sale II 781. EF, lustrous. Well struck from fresh dies.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, September 1980.