KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Alexander III – Kassander. Circa 325-310 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.60 g, 4h). In the name and types of Philip II. Uncertain mint in Macedon. EF.

Triton XXVIII
Lot: 175.
Closing Date: Jan 15 2025 11:00 ET

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Estimate: $ 4 000

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KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Alexander III – Kassander. Circa 325-310 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.60 g, 4h). In the name and types of Philip II. Uncertain mint in Macedon. Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath; pellet behind neck / ΦIΛIΠΠOY, charioteer, wearing long chiton, holding kentron in extended right hand, reins in left, driving galloping biga right; thunderbolt below. Le Rider 628 (D260/R245 [Pella mint]); SNG ANS 205 (same obv. die); SNG Lockett 1402 (same obv. die). Minor mark on edge. EF. Attractive style. Rare.

From the Michael Rogal Collection. Ex Patrick H.C. Tan Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 97, 17 September 2014), lot 92; Gemini VII (9 January 2011), lot 250; Classical Numismatic Group 69 (8 June 2005), lot 146.

Le Rider’s attribution of his Group IIIC gold to Pella was tentative. He noted that the overall style was unlike other Pella issues, and the lack of these staters in hoards of other Pella issues was troubling. These gold issues find parallels in the tetradrachm coinage of Alexander that Price assigned to Pella, but he did not provide any analysis to support their attribution to that mint. As noted by N.J. Moore (The Lifetime and Early Posthumous Coinage of Alexander the Great from Pella [Princeton University, 1984], Appendix I), Newell placed these coins at an “uncertain mint in Macedon.” Moore’s analysis of the hoards of the parallel Alexanders is most persuasive in discounting both Pella and Amphipolis as a possible mint. Noting the overall “Macedonian” style of many of these coins, she preferred a return to Newell’s original attribution.

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Triton XXVIII – Session One – Lot 1–287 will be held Tuesday morning, 14 January 2025 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.

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