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Auction 138  18-19 May 2023
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Lot 142

Estimate: 5000 CHF
Price realized: 4250 CHF
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Philip V, 221 – 179.
Tetradrachm, Pella or Amphipolis circa 211-197, AR 17.01 g. Head of young Perseus l., wearing winged griffin-headed helmet, sword on his r. shoulder, in centre of Macedonian shield. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ – ΦIΛIΠΠOY Club within oak-wreath; in r. field, M. Boehringer, Chronologie pl. 8, 6 (these dies). Boston, MFA 734 var. (M in l. field). F. Burrer, Die Tetradrachmenprägung Philipps V. von Makedonien Serie II, in JNG 59 (2009), 3 (these dies).
An extremely rare variety and in exceptional state of preservation. A very attractive
portrait of excellent style and a light iridescent tone. Extremely fine

Ex Roma Numismatics sale XII, 2016, 214. From the Collection of an Aesthete.
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