Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 487. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $2450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES. Mygdones or Krestones. Circa 490-470 BC. AR Stater (9.47 gm). Goat kneeling right, head reverted; solid rosette above / Quadripartite incuse square. C. Lorber, "The Goats of 'Aigai'," pour Denyse: Divertissements Numismatiques, Issue 6, pl. 14, 6; AMNG III 4 (Aigai); Svoronos, Primitif pl. III, 17; Traité pl. XLIX, 9; SNG ANS 58 var. (Aigai, obverse symbol). VF, toned, nicely centered. Rare. ($3000)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.

Originally attributed to the Macedonian city of Aigai, this series has recently been re-evaluated by O. Picard ("Les monnaies au bouc attribuées à Aigai," BSFN 50/6, 1995) and C. Lorber (see above), who have convingingly shown that, based on linguistic and iconographic evidence, Aigai cannot possibly be correct. Lorber also re-evaluated the contemporary numismatic and historical evidence, and synthesized her findings with metrological, iconographic, and hoard data to conclude that these coins were actually tribal issues eminating from an area west or southwest of Bisaltia, probably inhabited by the Mygdones or Krestones.