Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 146. Estimate $5000. Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005. Sold For $5200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AV Stater (8.61 gm, 5h). Pella mint. Struck under Antipater, Polyperchon, or Kassander (for Philip III and Alexander IV), circa 323-315 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right /
FILIPPOU, charioteer driving biga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins in left; bee below. Le Rider 546 (D197/R394); SNG ANS 183 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 2455 (same dies); Kraay & Hirmer 566 (same obverse die). Superb EF. Struck with fresh dies on a broad flan. ($5000)
From the Ronald Cohen Collection. Ex Distinguished American Collection (Leu 52, 15 May 1991), lot 56.Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot.