First Issue of Tetradrachms

CNG 106, Lot: 125. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Chalkidian League. Circa 400 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21.5mm, 13.91 g, 6h). Olynthos mint. Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Kithara; X-A-Λ-KIΔ-EΩN around; all within incuse square. Robinson & Clement Group E, 3 (A3/P3); HGC 3.1, 497; SNG ANS 469; BMC 5. VF, toned, slight roughness, trace deposits. From the first issue of tetradrachms of the Chalkidian League.

From the Belgica Collection. Ex Elsen 83 (12 March 2005), lot 103.