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Auction: 1011 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins, Commemorative Medals & Numismatic Books
Lot: 73

Kingdom of Macedon, Philip II (359-336 BC), AV Stater, 8.54g, Abydos, c.323-316 BC, laureate head of Apollo right, rev. iioy, charioteer driving biga right, and cornocopia below (SNG ANS 296; Thompson 851), toned, very fine / good very fine Estimate £ 1,100-1,400 provenance Spink, 1955 The gold Staters of Philip II were widely copied by the Danubian and Gallic Celts and were thought by Evans to have been the origin for the designs found on the earliest British Celtic coins.

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