KINGS of MACEDON. Kassander. As regent, 317-305 BC. AR


KINGS of MACEDON. Kassander. As regent, 317-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.24 g, 4h). In the name and types of Philip II. Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 316-311 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / ΦIΛIΠ-ΠOY, youth, holding palm frond in left hand and rein in right, on horseback right; dolphin below, pellet-in-Π below raised foreleg. Troxell, Studies, Group 9, 331–2; Le Rider pl. 46, 9 & 19; HGC 3, 988; SNG ANS 749–56 (and same obv. die as 740). Lightly toned over lustrous surfaces. Near EF.

From the DMS Collection, purchased from Jonathan K. Kern.


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