Ancient Gold Coins - Greek
Lot 2630 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Ancient Gold Coins - Greek
Estimate $1,500
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SOLD $1,800
MACEDON, Kingdom of Philip II, (359-336 B.C.), gold stater, (8.64 g), Pella mint, struck under Antipater, Polyperchon or Kassander (for Philip III and Alexander IV), c.323-315 B.C., obv. head of Apollo to right with laureate wreath, rev. galloping biga to right, driven by charioteer holding kentron in right hand, reins in left hand, bee above A below horses, in exergue **FILIPPOU*, (cf.S.6663, cf.Le Rider 594-598, Group III B (cf.Pl.72), cf.SNG ANS 255). Traces of mint bloom, of fine style, has been mounted and smoothed, otherwise good very fine and very scarce.
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