99, Lot: 7. Estimate $500. Sold for $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonas II Gonatas. 277-239 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.50 gm). Alexandrine issue. Pella mint. Struck 272 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; monogram in left field. R. W. Mathisen, "Antigonos Gonatas and the Silver Coinages of Macedonian circa 280-270 BC,"
ANSMN 26 (1981), pp. 95-6, pl. 21, 29 (same dies); cf. AMNG III pg. 179, 3 (Antigonos I); cf. SNG Alpha Bank 982 (same obverse die); SNG Ashmolean -. VF, minor roughness. Very rare.