| Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd > Auction 60 | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 45 Price realized: 800 USD (Approx. 733 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Macedonian Kingdom. Amyntas II. Silver Didrachm (10.69 g), 395/4-393 BC Aigai or Pella. Male head right, wearing taenia. Reverse: ΑΜΥΝΤΑ, Horse prancing right; all within incuse square. SNG ANS 82; HGC 3.1, 86. NGC grade XF; Strike: 3/5, Surface: 4/5. Die-shift. Estimate: 1000 USD |  |
Match 1:
| Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd > Auction 60 | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 46 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: Macedonian Kingdom. Perdikkas II. Silver Tetrobol (2.64 g), 451-413 BC Aigai(?), ca. 432-422 BC. Horseman carrying two spears on horse prancing right; below, plant. Reverse: Forepart of a lion right within incuse square. Raymond grp. IV, 230; SNG ANS 54; HGC 3.1, 792. Choice Very Fine. Estimate: 300 USD |  |
Match 2:
| Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd > Auction 60 | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 44 Price realized: 750 USD (Approx. 687 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Macedonian Kingdom. Alexander I. Silver Tetradrachm (12.55 g), 498-454 BC Aigai, ca. 492-480/79 BC. Horseman, wearing chlamys and petasos, and holding two spears and reins, riding right. Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square. Raymond pl. II, 8; SNG ANS 2-5; HGC 3.1, 762. Toned. Very Fine. Alexander I was the son of King Amyntas I of Macedonia, and is most known to history for secretly helping the Greek city states during Xerxes' invasion of Greece in 480-479 BC, although Macedonia was allied with the Achaemenid Persians. Herodotos reported that while the army of the Greek coalition was camped in the Vale of Tempe in Thessaly, Alexander warned them of the danger of their position and induced them to withdraw, saving them from certain disaster at the hands of the massive Persian army. Likewise, before the Battle of Plataea in 479, Alexander again helped the Greeks by revealing the Persian general Mardonius' battle plans. Estimate: 750 USD |  |
Match 3:
| Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles > Auction 137 | Auction date: 29 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 1035 Price realized: 10,500 USD (Approx. 9,725 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Macedonian Kingdom. Philip II. Gold Stater (8.60 g), 359-336 BC. Abydos, ca. 323-319 BC. Laureate head of youthful Apollo right. Reverse: charioteer, holding kentron and reins, driving galloping biga right; below, Ξ and horse's leg. ADM II, Series V, 88; SNG ANS 298; Money of the World 8 (this coin). Boldly struck with golden lustrous surfaces. Wonderful late classical style, the reverse, especially, a work of art for this series. NGC grade Ch AU; Strike: 5/5, Surface: 2/5. Fine style, brushed. Estimated Value $6,000 - UP The popular gold coinage of Philip II ultimately derived its obverse image of Apollo from the coinage of the Chalkidian League, an important Greek federal state in southern coastal Macedonia that he conquered in 348 BC. The type may have been intended to refer to Philip's status as leader of the Amphiktyonic League of Delphi - Apollo's most famous sanctuary in Greece - or to cast him in a more general panhellenic light in preparation for his projected war against the Achaemenid Persian Empire. The biga reverse type refers to the victory of Philip's chariot in the Olympic games of 348 BC, which was discussed by Plutarch (Alex. 4.9) in one of the rare instances of a surviving ancient textual source regarding coinage. The intended purpose was to promote the Macedonians as Greeks, which indeed they were but were nevertheless seen by their more affluent and culturally refined southern neighbors as backwards bumpkins. The Macedonian king was fond of commemorating his Olympic victories on his coins. His horse-and-jockey tetradrachms also celebrate the victory of his horse in the keles event of the Olympic games in 356 BC. Ex Goldberg's Auction 46, May 26, 2008 The Millennia Collection, Lot 16. Illustrated in Money of the World, coin 8. |  |
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| Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd > Auction 60 | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 130 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: Lycian Dynasts. Kherei. Silver Stater (8.28 g), ca. 440/30-410 BC Xanthos. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet. Reverse: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress; all within incuse square. Mørkholm & Zahle II 5; Müseler VI, 62-4. NGC grade Ch XF; Strike: 3/5, Surface: 3/5. Die-shift. Estimate: 1500 USD |  |
Match 5:
| Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd > Auction 60 | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 160 Price realized: 2,000 USD (Approx. 1,832 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I. Silver Tetradrachm (16.96 g), ca. 171-145 BC Diademed and draped bust of Eukratides I right. Reverse: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ above, ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟΥ in exergue, the Dioskouroi, each holding palm branch and couched lance, on horses rearing right; in lower right field, PK monogram. Bopearachchi 1B; SNG ANS 431; HGC 12, 130. NGC grade Ch XF; Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5. Eukratides I is notable as one of the very few Graeco-Baktrian and Indo-Greek kings for whom we have historical evidence outside of coins. He revolted against the reigning Demetrios II in ca. 171 BC, but soon found himself besieged by Demetrios at the head of a 60,000-strong army. According to Justin, through repeated sorties, Eukratides used his small force of 300 men to raise the siege and gain victory after four months. He then crossed the Hindu Kush, conquering parts of western India. Unfortunately, his dramatic reign came to a violent end when his son murdered him, reportedly coldly driving his chariot through his blood. The enduring popularity of Eukratides' Dioskouroi reverse type may be gauged by its continued use by several of his Indo-Greek successors, its imitation by non-Greek peoples in Sogdiana and Baktria, and its incorporation into the seal of the modern Da Afghanistan Bank (founded 1939). Estimate: 2000 USD |  |
