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Electronic Auction 466  22 Apr 2020
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Lot 50

Estimate: 150 USD
Price realized: 450 USD
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KINGS of MACEDON. Ptolemy Keraunos. 281-279 BC. Æ (23mm, 8.07 g, 5h). Kassandreia mint. Laureate head of Zeus right / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt; torch to upper left, ΠAP monogram to right. Psoma, Maroneia M304 var. (monogram, not torch); HGC 3, –. Glossy brown patina with red hues. VF.

From the David Wray Collection, purchased from Colosseum Coin Exchange.

For an authoritative analysis of this coinage, conventionally attributed to a non-extant city of Paroreia in Macedon, see chapter 8 in S.E. Psoma, The Coins from Maroneia and the Classical City at Molyvoti: A Contribution to the History of Aegean Thrace (Athens, 2008).
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