KINGS of MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 15.31 g, 12h). Reduced Attic standard. Pella or Amphipolis mint; Au-, mintmaster. Struck circa 171-168 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣI-ΛEΩΣ ΠEP-ΣEΩΣ, eagle standing right on thunderbolt; ΘE monogram above, AY monogram (mintmaster) to right, AN monogram between legs; all within oak wreath; below, plow left. Mamroth, Perseus 25; HGC 3, 1091; SNG München 1199; Rhousopoulos 1204; Ward 409. Toned, a couple of insignificant die breaks on obverse, small scrape under tone on reverse. EF. Fine style portrait.
Ex Friend of a Scholar Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 100, 7 October 2015), lot 1343, purchased from Maison Platt, January 1985.