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Nomos 21

21 November 2020
Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Zurich

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Estimate: 750 CHF
Hammer Price:  700 CHF
Lot 132

KINGS OF MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas, 277/6-239 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 30 mm, 17.06 g, 3 h), Pella, circa 274. Horned head of Pan to left, wearing goat's skin tied around his neck and with a lagobolon behind; all within the center of a Macedonian shield adorned with stars and crescents. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIΓONOΥ Athena Alkidemos striding to right, hurling thunderbolt with her upraised right hand and holding shield with her left; in field to left, kalathos; in field to right, monogram of ΠΥΡΤΗ. AMNG III, 2. Athena Fund 442. Mathisen pl. 22, 37. Extremely rare and missing from most major collections. With a reverse of particularly elegant style. Very fine.

From a European collection, in Switzerland prior to 2010.

This type, with Athena striding to right, must have been the prototype for the main series struck in Amphipolis: while the obverse is more-or-less the same, the reverse, with the exceptionally carefully engraved right-facing Athena of very fine style, is infinitely more artistically done.

Online bidding closes: 21 Nov 2020, 11:00:00 CET Current Date & Time: 27 Apr 2024, 03:11:57 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:700 CHF

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