Description
Amphipolis, 315-294. AR tetradrachm, 14.4 gr., 25 mm.
Obv.: laureate head of Zeus to the right.
Rev.: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ; naked youth on horseback riding to the right, holding palm branch with his right hand and in his left reins; below horse’s belly: Λ over torch; below its raised right foreleg: dolphin swimming to the right.
Ref.: Le Rider pl. 48, 1; SNG ANS 808 (these dies); SNG Copenhagen 560.
Powerful portrait. A few light marks to the reverse, otherwise Good Extremely Fine.
From the collection of the Money Museum, Zürich. Ex CNG 40, (Lancaster 1996), lot 968; ex CNG Triton XVIII (New York 2015), lot 472.
