Choice Perseus Tetradrachm
CNG 112, Lot: 145. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31.5mm, 16.87 g, 11h). Attic standard. Pella or Amphipolis mint; Zoilos, magistrate. Struck circa 174–173 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣI-ΛEΩΣ ΠEP-ΣEΩΣ, eagle, wings spread, standing right on thunderbolt; ZΩ (mintmaster's) monogram above, MI to right, Φ below; all within oak wreath; below, plow right. Mamroth,
Perseus 8; HGC 3, 1091; SNG Copenhagen 1267; SNG Manchester 745. Attractively toned, minor die shift on reverse. Superb EF. Well centered on a broad flan. Wonderful portrait.
From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex Leu 81 (16 May 2001), lot 188 (hammer 7200 CHF); Numismatic Fine Arts XX (9 March 1988), lot 685.
