Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 195. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.51 gm, 7h). Pella or Amphipolis mint; Zoilos, mintmaster. Struck circa 179-178 BC. Diademed head right; ZWILOU below / BASI-LEWS PER-SEWS, eagle standing right, wings spread, on thunderbolt; two control marks (monograms) to right; all within oak wreath, star below. Mamroth, Perseus 1; AMNG III 1 (same dies as plate coin); SNG Alpha Bank 1130 var. (control marks); SNG München 1196 (same obverse die); Hunterian pg. 346, 5 (same dies); De Luynes 1712 (same dies). Good VF, toned. ($5000)