Triton XX, Lot: 126. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos III Doson. 229-221 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 17.10 g, 11h). Amphipolis mint(?). Struck circa 227-225 BC. Head of Poseidon right, wearing wreath of marine plants / Apollo, testing bow in extended right hand, seated left on prow left inscribed BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIΓONOY; monogram below. Panagopoulou 155d (O27/R153 - this coin [die combination erroneously listed as no. 156 on the plates]); EHC 436; Touratsoglou 52–3; SNG Berry 369–70; SNG Saroglos 933; Boston MFA 715 (same dies). EF, toned.
Ex Superior (31 May 1988), lot 1484.