Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 224. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, The Mygdones or Krestones. Circa 490-485 BC. AR Stater (9.29 gm). Goat kneeling right, head reverted; three pellets around, no border / Rough quadripartite incuse square. Lorber, Goats, Issue 2; AMNG III 1 (Aigai); Asyut 149 (Aigai); HPM pl. III, 10; Traité pl. XLIX, 1 (Aigai); SNG ANS -. VF, lightly toned, slight granularity. Very rare. ($2000)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.

Originally attributed to the Macedonian city of Aigai, this series has recently been re-evaluated by O. Picard ("Les monnaies au bouc attribuées à Aigai," BSFN 50/6, 1995) and C. Lorber (see above), who have convincingly shown that, based on linguistic and iconographic evidence, Aigai cannot possibly be correct. Lorber also re-evaluated the contemporary numismatic and historical evidence, and synthesized her findings with metrological, iconographic, and hoard data to conclude that these coins were actually tribal issues emanating from an area west or southwest of Bisaltia, probably inhabited by the Mygdones or Krestones.