Le Rider Plate Coin

410, Lot: 15. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.46 g, 10h). Pella mint. Struck circa 342/1-337/6 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Youth, holding palm frond, on horseback right; thunderbolt below, [N in exergue]. Le Rider 234 (D117/R189 – this coin, illustrated); HGC 3, 864. Good VF, toned, off center on reverse.

Ex Birkler & Waddell II (11 December 1980), lot 124; 1965 Thessalonica (or Olympias in Chalcidice) region hoard (CH I, 37).