Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 263. Estimate $600. Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004. Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas. 277-239 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.03 gm). Amphipolis mint. Struck after 271/0 BC. Horned head of Pan left, wearing goat skin in the center of a Macedonian shield, lagobolon over shoulder; shield decorated with seven eight-pointed stars within double crescents / Athena Alkidemos advancing left, brandishing thunderbolt and shield, shield decorated with aegis; crested helmet before, TI behind. Mathisen pl 21, 36 var. (monogram); AMNG III ; SNG Alpha Bank 983; Martin, "Hoard from Thessaly,"
ANSMN 26 (1981), 538. Toned VF, well centered. ($600)
From the Ronald Cohen Collection. Ex Stack's (March 2003), lot 1373.