Ex Pozzi Collection

CNG 100, Lot: 1341. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip V. 221-179 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.62 g, 11h). Pella or Amphipolis mint; Ar–, mintmaster. Struck circa 188/7-184 BC. Head of the hero Perseus left, wearing winged helmet surmounted by griffin’s head; harpa in background; all in the center of a Macedonian shield / Club; AP (mintmaster’s) monogram and BAΣIΛEΩΣ above, ΦIΛIΠΠOY below, monograms to lower left, and right; all within oak wreath tying to left; harpa to outer left. Mamroth, Philip 3; de Luynes 1702; Pozzi 973 = Pozzi, Boutin 2051(this coin); Rhousopoulos 1189. Good VF, old cabinet tone. Fine style.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, May 1984. Ex Prof. Samuel-Jean Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 14 March 1921), lot 973.