Better luck in New York Sale

I managed to finally get a good coin!

AV Quarter Stater /Pella Mint/ struck 340BC 2.15g. 14mm. MS-55
Kingdom of Macedon
Philip II
obv. Herakles wearing lions headress/ facing right
rev. club/ bow/ lion head facing
Only specimen known with that obv. die according to LeRider (Whever that is?)
Hammer price $3300.00 (Just put me in the poorhouse)

 

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A lovely obverse portrait. Congrats on a very nice coin.

 

Beautiful coin!! The detail down to the lion head facing is amazing!! Well struck, nice centering!

 

Great coin and that denomination is much more rare than the full stater. Well done.

 

Congrats--- a real beauty!!!

 

Seems to be a book/catalog author; search for "Georges Le Rider". Oh, and have fun mowing even more lawns. But that sure is a good looking piece ...

Christian

 

Thanks everyone for wonderfull feed back! I sure will be mowing a lot of lawns next season/ but with all the snow we are getting, maybe I will have to shovel some roofs. Since I have a phobia for heights, I stick to bungalows with flat roofs.
No one wants to work here, so I can charge $800 @ roof/ takes 3 hrs for each one. $2400 a day ain't bad, right up there with what lawyers make Plus, you get a good workout!
John

 

When have you ever *not* posted an uber-cool coin here, panzerman? ;-)

 

I really like that Quarter-Stater @panzerman . You pick'em well. I am a big fan of any fractionals as they usually are harder to get. I am also a BIG fan of Philip II. With all that he did to revolutionize and rebuild Makedon, his efforts enabled Alexander III to change history. However, without Philip's reforms and innovations, that part of History would never had happened.

Here is my Philip II fractional Stater in a AR version:


MACEDON Philip II 1/5th Stater Apollo head r - Horseman r trident below as S6691
Ex: FSR

 

I agree! Thats a neat coin!
But...I always cheered for the Persians, wished Darius I had completed the conquest of Greece. However, I like Greek coins MUCH better then the Persian Darics, so probably better that Greece came out on top. Had I been the Persian King of Kings, I would have used my bowmen to have destroyed the Macedonian/ Spartans/ Athenians in battles/ much like the English did at Agincourt/ Crecy/ Poitiers vs the French during early phases of Hundred Years War.

 

It sits on LeHorse.

Nice coin.

 

I dunno, man, that's a pretty steep premium over melt.

I'm not an ancients collector, and even I'm entranced...

 

Outstanding coin! One that I looked at and was thinking about bidding, but that came to an abrupt end when the bidding took off

 

That coin cost more than my last car...of course, I'm a bottom feeder when it comes to vehicles. Either way, that is one really nice coin.

 

Great coin @panzerman !

 

That is GOOD! Actually made me chuckle

 

That happened to me during Triton auction, I felt that I had the Philip III AV Stater in the bag....but then some very rich bidders in the room went ballistic.
In the World section, same thing. Luckily, the New York Sale was more realistic, so I ended up getting my coin. Had that same coin been in Triton, probably would have went triple, what I paid.

 

Great addition!

I try and avoid collecting gold as I consider it overpriced... I reckon people pay way in excess of the difference in bullion value for golds coins sometimes perhaps, just because they are gold. But admittedly, gold coins were circulated less and thus do appear in higher grades which probably adds to their overall attraction to some collectors.

Having said that, a gold stater of Philip II is on my wish list and I am somewhat envious of your purchase above (if you cannot tell!).

To answer your initial question, Le Rider, being short for Le monnayage ď 'argent et ďor de Philippe II frappé en Macédoine de 359 à 294 by Georges Le Rider, is the standard reference for the gold and silver coinage of Philip II. The following coin from my collection is a plate coin from Le Rider.

 

Thank you! That is a magnificent piece. Great portrait of Philip/ reverse is something to behold. I heard that Philip used to compete in Olympic equestrian events.
John

PS: I know that high quality gold go for high prices, but when you compare the rarity of these gold coins to lets say US gold coinage/ then the ancient ones are reasonable. Look at the 1933 Double eagle (15 know and counting) 7 MILLION $.
Many Roman aurei like the Saturninus which is unique, are no where near that figure.