Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 1010

Price realized: 360 CHF   (Approx. 409 USD / 380 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


KINGS OF PAEONIA. Patraos, circa 335-315 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 9.58 g, 2 h), a contemporary imitation. Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΠΑΤΡΑOY Paeonian horseman, wearing crested helmet and full armor, galloping right and spearing fallen enemy. Paeonian Hoard 509 (same obverse die). Peykov E2250. Well centered and of charmingly crude style. Good very fine.


From the Lucien Birkler Collection.

Starting price: 100 CHF

Match 1:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 1011

Price realized: 380 CHF   (Approx. 432 USD / 401 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


KINGS OF PAEONIA. Patraos, circa 335-315 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 12.76 g, 12 h), Astibos or Damastion. Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΠΑΤΡΑΟΥ Paeonian horseman, wearing crested helmet and full armor, galloping right and spearing fallen enemy; below to left, boukranion. Paeonian Hoard 234 (same dies). Peykov E2190. Flan crack and the obverse struck slightly off center, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.


From the Lucien Birkler Collection, ex The New York Sale XXXIV, 6 January 2015, 98.

Starting price: 100 CHF

Match 2:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 1012

Price realized: 480 CHF   (Approx. 546 USD / 507 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


KINGS OF PAEONIA. Patraos, circa 335-315 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 23 mm, 12.61 g, 6 h), Astibos or Damastion. Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΠΑΤꟼΑΟΥ Paeonian horseman, wearing crested helmet and full armor, galloping right and spearing fallen enemy. Paeonian Hoard 445-447 (same dies). Peykov E2160. Nicely toned and unusually well preserved. Extremely fine.


From the Lucien Birkler Collection.

Starting price: 150 CHF

Match 3:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 1008

Price realized: 340 CHF   (Approx. 386 USD / 359 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


KINGS OF PAEONIA. Patraos, circa 335-315 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 12.45 g, 12 h), Astibos or Damastion. Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. Paeonian horseman, wearing crested helmet and full armor, galloping right and spearing fallen enemy; above, M. Paeonian Hoard 303 (same dies). Peykov E2150. Nicely toned. Two test cuts (?) on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine.


From the collection of the renowned Swiss architect Max Vogt (1925-2019), ex Schweizerische Kreditanstalt Monetarium FPL, December 1993, 42.

Starting price: 75 CHF

Match 4:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 1007

Price realized: 240 CHF   (Approx. 273 USD / 253 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


KINGS OF PAEONIA. Patraos, circa 335-315 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 12.88 g, 8 h), Astibos or Damastion. Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. Π[ΑΤ]ΡA[OY] Paeonian horseman, wearing crested helmet and full armor, galloping right and spearing fallen enemy. Paeonian Hoard 445. Peykov E2160. Struck from the usual somewhat worn dies and with a flan crack, otherwise, good very fine.


Ex Artemide E-Auction 10, 24 November 2019, 83.

Starting price: 75 CHF

Match 5:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29Auction date: 24 February 2024
Lot number: 20

Price realized: 600 CHF   (Approx. 681 USD / 629 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


LOWER DANUBE. Uncertain tribe. Circa 4th-3rd centuries BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 12.93 g, 1 h), imitating Damastion. Celticized laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. Stylized tripod with legs ending in lion's feet, set on base; to left and right, imitative legend. Dembski -, cf. 1536-7. Flesche -. Lanz -. May, Damastion, -. OTA -. SLM -. Lightly toned. Very rare and of very abstract style, a beautiful piece. Slightly granular, otherwise, very fine.

Starting price: 100 CHF