Ex BCD, Gillet, and Jameson Collections

Triton XIX, Lot: 2040. Estimate $5000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EUBOIA, Karystos. Circa 313 BC. AV Drachm (12mm, 3.03 g, 9h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Bull recumbent left; ˚ÅrU and trident above, club below. Melville Jones pp. 32, 6 = BCD Euboia 573 = Gillet 911 = Jameson 2066 (this coin); HGC 4, 1545 (this coin illustrated); BMC 17; Triton XI, lot 163 = Triton VIII, lot 305 (same dies). Good VF, toned, light field marks. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex BCD Collection (Lanz, 25 November 2002), lot 573; Charles Gillet Collection (1972), 911; Robert Jameson Collection, 2066.

During the War of the Diadochoi (315-311 BC), Antigonos I Monophthalmos sent his nephew Ptolemaios to Greece, where he formed an alliance with anti-Macedonian factions in various city-states. Ptolemaios was successful in uniting these factions into a single revolt against Kassander, and effectively wrested most of Greece from Macedonian control. His effort began in Boeotia and Euboia, where this issue was struck, likely to help finance the anti-Macedonian cause. The actions of Ptolemaios and his mercenaries succeeded in tying-up Kassander’s forces during this war, and enabled Antigonos to focus his own efforts against the other Diadochoi allied against him.