★ Le Rider Plate Coin – Ex Mieza and Lockett Collections ★

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 14.48 g, 6h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 355-349/8 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / ΦIΛIΠΠOY, Philip, wearing kausia, chlamys, tunic, and boots, raising right hand and holding rein in left, on horseback left; bow below raised foreleg, horizontal club below belly. Le Rider Group IB, 119a (D56/R101) = Lockett 1411 ( this coin ); SNG ANS 474 (same rev. die); SNG ANS 475 (same obv. die); SNG Berry 114. Attractive old collection toning, insignificant die break on obverse. Superb EF. Struck in high relief from exceptionally detailed dies.

From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 97 (17 September 2014), lot 80; Mieza Collection (Nomos 7, 15 May 2013), lot 44; Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2009), no. 35; LHS 100 (23 April 2007), lot 216; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Greek Part II, Glendining, 12 February 1958), lot 1324.