★ Artistic head of Zeus ★

Kings of Macedon. Pella. Philip II of Macedon 359-336 BC.
Tetradrachm AR

22 mm, 14,36 g

Laureate head of Zeus to left / Nude rider on horseback to right, holding long palm branch in his right hand, ΦΙΛΙΠΠOΥ above, bee to right below horse's foreleg.

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Le Rider 435; SNG ABC 275 var.; SNG ANS 429.

NGC graded AU Strike 4/5 Surface 4/5 The left-facing Zeus head tetradrachms struck in the name of Philip II are very rare, particularly so in good condition. They were struck from just two obverse dies, only at Pella, and belong to the beginning of the late group III. The head of Zeus on both dies is of wonderful and striking style. It has been suggested that they were intended to be part a larger series for Philip III, which would be thus differentiated from the coins of his father Philip II by the left-facing Zeus portrait.

From the Matteo Savoca collection