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Auction XXII  7-8 Oct 2021
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Lot 229

Estimate: 4500 GBP
Price realized: 3800 GBP
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Kingdom of Macedon, Archelaos I AR Stater. Aigai, 413-399 BC. Youthful head of Apollo to right, wearing taenia / Horse walking to right, with right foreleg raised and rein trailing; APXEΛAO around; all within linear square within incuse square. Westermark Group II, Series 2, dies O92/R- (unlisted rev. die); AMNG III 3; SNG ANS 65-69; SNG Alpha Bank 148 (same obv. die); HGC 3.1, 795. 10.56g, 26mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine; beautiful iridescent cabinet tone. An interesting mint error - the rev. has evidently been first struck off-centre and then subsequently re-struck.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Classical Numismatic Review XXIII.2, Fall/Winter 1998, no. 18.
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