Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 140. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Archelaos. 413-399 BC. AR Obol (0.46 gm, 7h). Aigai mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / APX-E, wolf's head right; club below; all within shallow incuse square. Westermark, Remarks pl. LXIX, 7; AMNG III 8; SNG ANS -; SNG Alpha Bank 162. Good VF, toned, minor porosity. 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.