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Lot 178

Starting price: 300 CHF
Price realized: 1500 CHF
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KINGS OF MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas, 277/6-239 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 31 mm, 17.07 g, 11 h), Struck posthumously under Antigonos Doson, Amphipolis, circa 229-221/0 BC. Horned head of Pan to left, wearing goat's skin tied around his neck and with lagobolon behind; all within the center of a Macedonian shield adorned with seven stars within double crescents. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIΓONOΥ Athena Alkidemos striding to left, hurling thunderbolt with her upraised right hand and holding shield with her left; in field to left, Macedonian helmet with transverse crest; in field to right, KT monogram. Panagopoulou Period III, Group 17, 86 (O15/R79). SNG Saroglos 3261. SNG Copenhagen 1201. Fine style and with a great depiction of Athena. Very fine.


The head of Pan on this coin reminisces stylistically the ones engraved on dies that struck the famous gold staters of Pantikapaion.
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