Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 219. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, The Bisaltai(?). Mosses. Circa 470 BC. AR Drachm (3.21 gm, 12h). Horseman, wearing chlamys and petasos, and holding two spears, leading horse right / MO-S-SE-W around square within shallow incuse square. AMNG III 8; Raymond pl. VI, b; HPM pl. XI, 20 = Traité pl. XLVI, 21 (same reverse die); SNG ANS 1016 (Paeonia); Dewing 1012 (same dies). VF, toned, light porosity. Choice centering and strike. Rare. ($1000)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.

Based on stylistic grounds, Raymond argues that this dynast was not of the Bisaltae (Raymond, pg. 115, note 4), but rather one of the tribal chieftains who retained a semblance of autonomy while paying tribute to Alexander I of Macedon. Most references retain the Bisaltai attribution, though, and placement among the Paeonian kings is even more conjectural.