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Auction: 24125 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 39: Ancient Coins, featuring the Little Busby Hoard of Roman Denarii - e-Auction
Lot: 1137

Kingdom of Macedon, Philip II (359-336 BC), AR Tetradrachm, Amphipolis, posthumous issue, struck under Kassander, as regent (317-305), in the name and types of Philip, c. 316-311, laureate head of Zeus right, rev. PHILIPPOY, naked youth on horseback riding right, holding palm frond in right hand, rein in left, on horseback right, aphlaston below, pellet-in-P below raised foreleg, 14.23g (Le Rider pl. 46, 17–8; Troxell, Studies, Group 9, 323-5; SNG ANS 740 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 2479–80), struck from slightly worn obverse, nevertheless beautifully toned and about extremely fine

Provenance

Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015, lot 471

"From the collection of a Southern Pathologist"

Purchased from C. H. Wolfe, 6 June 1989

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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£550