Lorber Plate Coin

CNG 106, Lot: 122. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Amphipolis. Circa 357-353 BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.42 g, 4h). Head of young male right, wearing tainia / Fish (perch) leaping downward right in linear square within shallow incuse square. Lorber 75d (O.o.7/R.o.7 – this coin, illustrated); HGC 3.1, 416. Near EF, toned, light porosity. Choice for issue.

From the Belgica Collection. Ex Collection C.P.A (Classical Numismatic Group 78, 14 May 2008), lot 313; Peus 376 (29 October 2003), lot 242; Sternberg XIX (18 November 1987), lot 117.