Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 169. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON. Philippi. Circa 357-330 BC. AR Drachm (2.92 gm). Head of young Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Tripod with fillet; dolphin downwards to right. AMNG III pg. 101, 5; SNG ANS -; SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, light porosity. Very rare. ($750)

Following Philip II's capture of Amphipolis in 357 BC and his acquisition of the important mining area of Mt. Pangaion, the mining center at Krenides was given the name of Philippi in the king's honour.