Watch List notes:

MACEDON, Akanthos. Circa 525-470 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.88 g). Lion right, attacking bull crouching left, biting into its hindquarter; [floral ornament in exergue] / Quadripartite incuse square. Desneux Type B, – (unlisted dies); HGC 3, 381. Lightly toned, minor granularity, slight die shift and small area of smoothing on obverse. VF.


From the Judy Day Frink Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs. Ex Numismatics Fine Arts IX (10 December 1980), lot 152 (erroneous weight and Desneux dies noted).