Tetradrachm - Antigonus II Gonatas

Features

Issuer	Kingdom of Macedonia
King	Antigonus II Gonatas (277 BC - 239 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	277 BC - 239 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	16.87 g
Diameter	31 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 575362
References	AMNG III# 1-2 Hugo Gaebler. Die antiken Münzen Makedonia und Paionia. Berlin, Germany (2 volumes). , HGC 3.1# 1043 Oliver D. Hoover; 2016. Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors / Volume 3, Part 1. Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros: Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom.

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Obverse

Horned head of Pan to left, wearing goat skin and around his neck and with lagobolon behind. All within the center of a Macedonian shield adorned with stars and crescents

Reverse

Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing thunderbolt in her right hand, holding shield decorated with aegis on her left arm; kalathos to inner left, monogram to inner right.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΟΥ

Comments

Mathisen pl. 22, 37; AMNG III/2, p. 186 №1-2 and plate XXXIV, 1-2.

Uncertain mint, possibly Pella.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (277 BC - 239 BC)							$ 2000

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Heritage Auctions Wednesday & Thursday World & Ancient Coins Select Auction 232222 Lot 61061	1 Jun 2022	XF (NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 3/5)	USD 1850.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Heritage Auctions
	CNG Electronic Auction 584 Lot 116	2 Apr 2025	VF	USD 2000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	H. D. Rauch Auction 89 Lot 1103	5 Dec 2011	VF	USD 1277.32 (EUR 1100.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© H. D. Rauch
	CNG Triton IX Lot 831	9 Jan 2006	VF	USD 2800.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Sotheby's Zurich (27-28 October 1993) [Athena Fund Sale], lot 442; Numismatic Fine Arts XXV (29 November 1990), lot 87
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.