402, Lot: 63. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PAEONIA. Patraos. Circa 335-315 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 12.46 g, 12h). Damastion or Astibos mint. Laureate head of Apollo right / Warrior on horseback rearing right, spearing fallen enemy below, holding round shield and spear; [control mark to left]. Cf. Paeonian Hoard 168 and 172–254 (same obv. die); HGC 3.1, 148. Good VF, toned, a couple test cuts on edge.

Ex Malter 59 (6 November 1994), lot 64.

The obverse die used for this coin was one of the most extensively used for Patraos’s tetradrachms, and was always paired with a reverse with a control mark.