Le Rider Plate Coin

Triton XIX, Lot: 87. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 14.42 g, 5h). In the name and types of Philip II. Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 336-333/26 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / ΦIΛIΠ-ΠOY, nude youth, holding palm frond in right hand and rein in left, on horseback right; janiform head below raised foreleg. Le Rider 269a (D126/R230 – this coin, illustrated); SNG ANS 510 (same dies). Good VF, toned, slightly off center and light scuff on reverse.

Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG VI (6 December 1946), lot 617; Hamburger 98 (3 April 1933), lot 503.

From the first issue of coinage under Alexander III at Amphipolis.