Watch List notes:

KINGS OF MACEDON. Archelaos, 413-400/399 BC. Obol (Silver, 8 mm, 0.41 g, 3 h), Aigai. Head of youthful Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev. APXE Head of wolf to right; below, club to right; all within shallow incuse square. HGC 3.1, 801. Westermark, Remarks pl. LXIX, 7. SNG Alpha Bank 162. With a finely engraved head of a wolf. Rare. Light scratches, and surface roughness on the reverse, otherwise, very fine.



Herakles appears for the first time in the regal Macedonian issues on the fractions of Archelaos.