CNG 106, Lot: 158. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Archelaos. 413-400/399 BC. AR Stater (25.5mm, 10.66 g, 2h). Aigai mint. Group II, Series 2. Head of Apollo right, wearing tainia / Horse standing right, foreleg raised, wearing bridle with trailing rein, within incuse square. Westermark,
Staters, Group II, Series 2, dies O92/R– (unlisted rev. die); HGC 3.1, 795. Good VF, toned. Well centered on a broad flan. Choice for issue.
Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXVI (Summer 2001), no. 32.
Although the reverse die was not known to Westermark, it must have been engraved by the same hand as reverse dies 115 and 116.