Watch List notes:

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.46 g, 1h). Pella mint. Struck circa 342/1-337/6 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / ΦIΛIΠ-ΠOY, nude youth, holding palm frond in right hand, rein in left, on horseback right; thunderbolt below, N in exergue. Le Rider Group IIA.2, 280 (D156/R221 – this coin); HGC 3, 864; SNG ANS 384–95; SNG Ashmolean 2461 (same dies); Gulbenkian 816 = Weber 2052 (same dies); Hirsch 1040 (same dies); Ward 385 (same dies). Beautiful cabinet tone. EF. Lovely style.


From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG VII (3 December 1948), lot 432.