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LOT 2909
Kingdom of Macedon, Philip II AE Unit. Circa 359-336 BC. Uncertain Macedonian mint.
Diademed male head to left / ΦIΛIΠΠOY, naked youth on horse to right, Θ(?) below. Cf. SNG ANS 926. Near Very Fine.(5.10gr, 18mm, 10h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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