441, Lot: 55. Estimate $400. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 15.14 g, 12h). Reduced standard. Pella or Amphipolis mint; Au-, mintmaster. Struck circa 171-168 BC. Diademed head right / Eagle, wings spread, standing right on thunderbolt; MA monogram above, AY (mintmaster’s) monogram to right, Φ between legs; all within oak wreath; below, plow left. Mamroth,
Perseus 18b; HGC 3, 1094. VF, toned, scratches on obverse.
From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 67 (2 May 1994), lot 968 (part of).