Ex Hermitage Museum Collection

441, Lot: 59. Estimate $500. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PAEONIA. Audoleon. Circa 315-286 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.97 g, 9h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Astibos or Damastion mint. Struck circa 298-287/6 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; star in left field. Price 644; Waggoner, Reflexions, Issue II, 17b = Hermitage Sale II 697 (this coin); HGC 3, 157. EF, toned, double struck on reverse, slight porosity on reverse.

From the WCN Collection. Ex Schweizerischer Bankverein 38 (12 September 1995), lot 111; Hermitage Museum Collection (Schlessinger 13, 4 February 1935), lot 697.

This coin is illustrated in Waggoner’s article, in which one may notice a mark in the reverse field that is not present on this coin (or the photo in the 1935 Hermitage sale). However, Waggoner’s illustration was taken from a cast made by E. T. Newell, likely before the 1935 sale, as it is marked as being a cast from “Leningrad;” the mark is a defect in the cast, not on the coin.