MACEDONIA FIRST MERIS SILVER TETRADRACHM – SPECIMEN EX SALTON COLLECTION – CHOICE FINE NGC GRADED ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN (Inv. 18508)

$750.00

18508. MACEDONIA. ROMAN PROVINCE (FIRST MERIS). Ca. 167–148 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 16.67 g, 31 mm.
Obv. Draped bust of Artemis right, within decorated Macedonian shield. Rev. ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ ΠΡΤΗΣ, club right, ΣΗΑTΡ monogram above, TKP and MYTE monograms below, all within wreath, thunderbolt in extreme left field.
HGC 3, 1103.
Ex Salton Collection, likely acquired in the 1950s–1960s when Mr. Salton owned a numismatic firm in New York.
NGC graded CHOICE FINE, Strike 4/5, Surface 2/5, “edge filing,” with attractive light gray cabinet patina.