Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 257. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AV Stater (8.51 g, 1h). Uncertain mint. Struck mid-late 3rd century BC. Laureate head of Apollo right with individualized features / Female charioteer driving biga right; ivy leaf below. Unpublished. Near VF, ex-jewelry, numerous marks, scuff on horse’s head. Possibly unique.

Ex Leu 28 (5-6 May 1981), lot 84.

A handful of mid 3rd century BC imitations of Philip II staters have individualized features (cf. M.J. Price, “The Maeander Valley Hoard,” NC 1969, p. 9 and pl, 3, 12; and M. Caramessini-Oeconomides, “Un statère d’or trouvé à Amphipolis,” RN 1967). Based on similarities with other portraiture, these have been attributed to various kings or dynasts, mostly in Asia Minor. The portrait on the present coin does not lend itself to immediate identification, but there are similarities with certain coin portraits of the Seleukid kings Antiochos II, Antiochos Hierax, and Antiochos III, all of whom were active in Asia Minor during the mid 3rd century BC.