Lot 4907

Description

Thraco-Macedonian Tribes, Mygdonia (or Galepsus) or Krestones, Circa 480-470 BC. silver Stater (9.88 grams), obv. he goat kneeling right, head reverted, pellet in ring above (solid rosette or theta), dotted border, rev. Quadripartite incuse square, (S.1292 [Å“2500 VF], Lorber Pour Denyse, [The Goats of `Aigai’], Issue 6 (Mygdonia) who knew of 6 examples; RN 2003 (Galepsus), Svoronos HPM, p.34-35, Pl. III, 17, [same dies] (attributed to Aigai); AMNG III, p.20, No.14 and Pl. V,24; SNG ANS 58 var. (Aigai, obverse symbol). Extremely fine and very Rare.

A similar example in Triton V (January 15, 2002) realised US$10,000 +15%. Originally attributed to the Macedonian city of Aigai, this series has recently been re-evaluated by O. Picard ("Les monnaies au bouc attribu‚es … Aigai," BSFN 50/6, 1995) and C. Lorber (see above), who have convincingly shown that, based on linguistic and iconographic evidence, Aigai cannot possibly be correct. Lorber also re-evaluated the contemporary numismatic and historical evidence, and synthesized her findings with metrological, iconographic, and hoard data to conclude that these coins were actually tribal issues emanating from an area west or southwest of Bisaltia, probably inhabited by the Mygdones or Krestones.