420, Lot: 39. Estimate $50. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Amphipolis. 2nd century AD. Æ (13mm, 1.95 g, 9h). Helmeted bust of Athena right / Eagle standing left, head right. AMNG III/2, 50 var. (eagle right); RPC –; cf. SNG Christomanos 142 (larger denomination). VF, dark green-brown surfaces. Very rare.

From the Belgica Collection. Ex Pecunem 27 (4 January 2015), lot 396.

As noted in RPC III, during the reign of Trajan, the spelling of the ethnic changed from AMΦIΠOΛITΩN to AMΦIΠOΛЄITΩN. This coin has the latter spelling.