Watch List notes:

MACEDON, Akanthos. Circa 480-470 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 17.05 g). Attic standard. Lion right, biting into the hindquarter of a bull crouching left; pellet-in-circle above, floral ornament in exergue / Quadripartite incuse square. Desneux 48–68 (unlisted dies); AMNG III/2, 4; SNG ANS 10; SNG Lockett 1282; Boston MFA 518–9; Dewing 997; Gillet 743; de Luynes 1535. EF, toned, traces of find patina, faint cleaning marks on reverse. Boldly struck.


Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 59 (4 April 2011), lot 548.