Watch List notes:

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos III Doson. 229-221 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33.5mm, 17.09 g, 11h). Amphipolis mint(?). Struck circa 227-225 BC. Head of Poseidon right, wearing wreath of marine plants / Apollo, testing bow in extended right hand, seated left on prow left inscribed BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIΓONOY; monogram below. Panagopoulou 157 (O27/R154 [erroneously listed as no. 158 on the plates]); EHC 436; Touratsoglou 52–3; HGC 3, 1051; SNG Fitzwilliam 2309 (same obv. die); SNG Newham Davis 97 (same dies); Boston MFA 715 (same obv. die). Superb EF, wonderful light cabinet tone, a little die rust on obverse. Well centered on a broad flan.


Ex Leu 86 (5 May 2003), lot 367; Numismatica Ars Classica 8 (3 April 1995), lot 229.