Ex Van Every Collection

CNG 108, Lot: 53. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.48 g, 1h). Pella mint. Struck circa 342/1-337/6 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / ΦIΛIΠ-ΠOY, nude youth, holding palm frond in right hand, rein in left, on horseback right; thunderbolt below, N in exergue. Le Rider 233 (D130/R188); HGC 3, 864; SNG ANS 384–95; SNG Alpha Bank 272; SNG Fitzwilliam 2047; SNG Saroglos 49–50; Gulbenkian 816. Near EF, attractively toned, slight die shift on reverse. Fine style.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 100 (29 May 2017), lot 118; LHS 103 (5 May 2009), lot 70; Richard Arnold van Every Collection (Leu 15, 4 May 1976), lot 193.