Watch List notes:

KINGS of MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.65 g, 11h). Attic standard. Pella or Amphipolis mint; Zoilos, mintmaster. Struck circa 179-178 BC. Diademed head right; ZΩIΛOΣ below neck / BAΣI-ΛEΩΣ ΠEP-ΣEΩΣ, eagle, wings spread, standing right on thunderbolt; two monograms to right; all within oak wreath; star below. Mamroth, Perseus 1.11 = Consul Weber 1275 = de Sartiges 212 = Kunstfreund 238 = Gillet 811 (this coin); AMNG III 1; SNG München 1196 (same dies); Athena Fund II 452 (same obv. die); de Luynes 1712 (same obv. die); GPCG pl. 42, 7 = EHC 588 = Boehringer, Chronologie, pl. 7, 5 (same obv. die). Near EF, attractively toned. Artistic dies.


Ex Leu 48 (10 May 1989), lot 202; Kunstfreund [Gillet] (Leu & Münzen und Medaillen, 28 May 1974), lot 238; Vicomte de Sartiges Collection, 218; Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XXIV, 16 November 1908), lot 1275.