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CNG 106, Lot: 230. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos III Doson. 229-221 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 17.18 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 137 (O21/R135 [die combination erroneously listed as no. 136 on the plates]); EHC 436; Touratsoglou 52–3; SNG Berry 369–70; SNG Saroglos 933; Hermitage Sale II 775 (same dies). Superb EF, lightly toned, minor die wear on obverse.


From the Belgica Collection. Ex Semon Lipcer Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 76, 12 September 2007), lot 309; Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 190.