420, Lot: 131. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Ptolemy Keraunos. 281-279 BC. Æ (17.5mm, 5.07 g, 3h). Kassandreia mint. Laureate head of Zeus right / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt; monogram to upper left, ΠAP monogram to right. Psoma,
Maroneia M305; HGC 3, –. VF, dark brown patina.
From the Belgica Collection.
For an authoritative analysis of this coinage, conventionally attributed to a non-extant city of Paroreia in Macedon, see chapter 8 in S.E. Psoma, The Coins from Maroneia and the Classical City at Molyvoti: A Contribution to the History of Aegean Thrace (Athens, 2008).