CNG 100, Lot: 1343. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 15.31 g, 12h). Reduced standard. Pella or Amphipolis mint; Au-, mintmaster. Struck circa 171-168 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣI-ΛEΩΣ ΠEP-ΣEΩΣ, eagle standing right on thunderbolt; ΘE monogram above, AY monogram (mintmaster) to right, AN between legs; all within oak wreath; below, plow right. Mamroth, Perseus 25; SNG München 1199; Rhousopoulos 1204; Ward 409. EF, toned, a couple insignificant die breaks on obverse, small scrape under tone on reverse. Fine style portrait.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, January 1985.