Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 207. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas. 277-239 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.03 gm). Uncertain mint. Struck after 271/0 BC. Horned head of Pan wearing goat skin in the center of a Macedonian shield, lagobolon over shoulder; shield decorated with seven eight-pointed stars within double crescents / Athena Alkidemos walking right, brandishing thunderbolt and shield, shield decorated with aegis; kalathos left, monogram right. Mathisen pl. 22, 39 (same dies); SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Ashmolean 3257 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 1198 (same dies); SNG Berry -. Good VF, exceptional for issue. Very rare with the right facing Athena, only 14 specimens recorded by Mathisen! The first example that we have handled. ($1000)