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Triton XXIII 14-15 Jan 2020
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MACEDON, Akanthos. Circa 470 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 17.19 g, 11h). Lion right, attacking bull crouching left, biting into its hindquarter; AKA above; in exergue, fish left / AKA-N-ΘIO-N in shallow incuse square around quadripartite square in relief. Unpublished, but cf. Desneux 92 for similar style obverse, but quadripartite reverse. Slight die shift on obverse. Near EF. Extremely rare.
The similarity of the obverse die here to that of Desneux 92, a tetradrachm with a plain quadripartite reverse, suggests that this issue is the first of the long series with the full ethnic on the reverse, and thus struck circa 470 BC.
The similarity of the obverse die here to that of Desneux 92, a tetradrachm with a plain quadripartite reverse, suggests that this issue is the first of the long series with the full ethnic on the reverse, and thus struck circa 470 BC.