Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 139. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Archelaos. 413-399 BC. AR Diobol (0.90 gm, 4h). Aigai mint. Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / APX-E, forepart of wolf right, devouring prey; club above; all within shallow incuse square. Westermark, Remarks pl. LXIX, 6; AMNG III 8; SNG ANS 72; SNG Alpha Bank 156 (same dies). Good VF, toned, slight die shift on reverse. Rare. ($300)

The fractional silver coinage of Archelaos marks the first appearance of Herakles in the regal Macedonian series.

See lot 129 for more information on early Macedonian kingdom and its coinage.