AESILLAS SILVER TETRADRACM – EX JOHN QUINCY ADAMS COLLECTION – VF ROMAN MACEDON COIN (Inv. 20820)

$2,000.00

20820. MACEDON UNDER ROME. AESILLAS, 93-87 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 16.01 g, 29 mm.
Obv. MAKEΔONΩN, head of deified Alexander the Great right, with horn of Ammon, Θ behind neck. Rev. AESILLAS Q, club, cista, and sella, all within laurel wreath.
HGC 3.1, 1110; Bauslaugh, Aesillas, obverse die 61; SNG Copenhagen 1330; AMNG III 22.
Ex Stack’s, The Massachusetts Historical Society Sale, Part 1, March 5-6, 1971, no. 161, in yellow 2×2 holder labeled “John Quincy Adams, Mass. Historical society.”
VF, dark glossy old cabinet toning.

This coin originally belonged to the coin collection formed by John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States (1825-1829), and his heirs. The vast collection was donated to the Massachusetts Historical Society by his grandson Henry Adams in 1913, but due to the insufficient space for display or storage at the institution it was sold at auction by Stack’s in 1971.