Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29Auction date: 24 February 2024
Lot number: 512

Price realized: 4,400 CHF   (Approx. 4,994 USD / 4,615 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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KINGS OF MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas, 277/6-239 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 30 mm, 17.17 g, 3 h), Amphipolis, circa 274/1-260/55. Horned head of Pan to left, wearing goat skin around his neck and with lagobolon behind; all within the center of a Macedonian shield adorned with stars and crescents. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - ANTIΓONOΥ Athena Alkidemos striding left, seen three-quarters from behind, brandishing thunderbolt in her right hand and holding shield decorated with aegis on her left arm; to left, facing Macedonian helmet with transverse crest; to right, monogram of HΛ. HGC 3.1, 1042. Panagopoulou, period I, 86g (this coin, O26/R82). SNG Ashmolean 3258-9. SNG Copenhagen 1199. SNG Fitzwilliam 2304 (same dies). Attractively toned and perfectly centered. Minor marks on Pan's cheek, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.


Ex Vinchon, 27 February 1961, 121, and from the collection of R. de Castro Maya, Bourgey, 18-19 November 1957, 64.

Starting price: 1000 CHF