Triton XX, Lot: 102. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MACEDON, Amphipolis. 369/8 BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 3.95 g, 9h). Heavy series. Head of Apollo facing slightly right, wearing laurel wreath, drapery around neck / AMΦ-IΠO-ΛIT-EΩN on raised linear square enclosing race torch; all within shallow incuse square. Lorber 63 (Od9/Rd1); SNG ANS 79 = SNG Berry 14; Gulbenkian 406. Near EF, toned. Very rare heavy drachm, only 13 noted by Lorber.
From the collection of a Northern California Gentleman. Ex Kagins 345 (21 November 1987), lot 3513.