Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 837. Estimate $750. Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.72 g, 12h). Pella or Amphipolis mint; AY-, mintmaster. Struck circa 171-168 BC. Diademed head right /
BASI-LEWS PER-SEWS, eagle standing right, wings spread, on thunderbolt; mintmaster's monogram to right, control marks above (MAP monogram) and between legs (AI monogram); all within oak wreath, plow below. Mamroth,
Perseus 25; AMNG III 2-3 var. (control marks); SNG München 1199; SNG Alpha Bank 1132. Good VF, toned, light scratches on neck. ($750)
From the John F. Sullivan Collection. Ex Stack's (16 November 1983), lot 177.