Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 112. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Akanthos. Circa 430-390 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.38 gm, 7h). Alexis, magistrate. Lion right, attacking bull kneeling to left; ALEXIS in exergue / AKA-N-QIO-N in shallow incuse around quadripartite square, the quarters raised and granulated. Desneux 145b (D137/R141) = Boston MFA 532 = Warren 545 (this coin); AMNG III 29; SNG ANS 15 var. (no exergual line). Good VF, toned, struck with slightly worn obverse die. ($2500)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection. Ex Classical Numsimatic Group 42 (29-30 May 1997), lot 197; Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts VIII, 6 June 1980), lot 96; Warren Collection, 545; Ivanoff Collection (Sotheby & Wilkinson, 1863), lot 38.

See lot 105 for more information on the Akanthos and its coinage.