Lot 5037

Description

Macedon, Philip II, (359-336 B.C.), silver fifth stater, posthumous issue of Amphipolis mint issued 323-315 B.C., (2.56 grams), obv. head of Apollo to right, hair bound with tainia, rev. naked youth on horse prancing to right, **L* in circle below horse, above **FILIPPOU*, (S.6689, Le Rider period III, [p.123, Pl.45,17], SNG ANS 661-2, Troxell Group 7, No.370 [p.58, Pl.15]). Spotty tone, good very fine, minor deposits and rare.

Ex CNG Electronic Auction Sale No.224, December 16, 2009 (lot 71). Troxell in ’Studies in the Macedonian Coinage of Alexander the Great’, ANS NM No.21, note on p.58, 13 examples of this type, This issue is regarded by Le Rider as a posthumous issue.