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420, Lot: 40. Estimate $200.
Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Amphipolis. 2nd century AD. Æ (19mm, 6.40 g, 1h). Bearded head of Herakles right, lion skin tied around neck / Athena Nikephoros standing left. AMNG III/2, 54; RPC –; SNG ANS 144. Good VF, brown patina.


From the Belgica Collection. Ex Christopher Morcom Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 76, 12 September 2007), lot 256; Noury Bey Osman Collection.

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.