CLASSICAL COINS
KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA
Stater, gold, posthumous, Abydus , about 318 BC. AV 8.53 g. Laureate head of Apollo r. Rev. FILIPPOU Fast biga r., charioteer holding reins with his l. hand, kentron in his r. hand; below, star and monogram, in exergue, lagobolon (pedum). Thompson, DM II 47,105c (these dies). SNG ANS 301.
Rare issue . Good style. Extremely fine Provenance: Auctions S. Bourgey, Paris Dec. 12-13,1993, 25 and Auctiones 6 (Basel 1976), 97.