Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 223. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Mygdones or Krestones. Circa 480-470 BC. AR Stater (9.47 g). Goat kneeling right, head reverted; solid rosette above / Quadripartite incuse square. Lorber, Goats, Issue 6, pl. 14, 6; HPM pl. III, 17; SNG ANS 58 var. (Aigai, obverse symbol. VF, toned, minor die rust. Well centered.

Ex William and Louise Fielder Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 67, 22 September 2004), lot 487.

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.