CELTIC SILVER TETRADRACHM – IMITATING A POSTHUMOUS ISSUE FROM AMPHIPOLIS EX SALTON COLLECTION – AU NGC GRADED CELTIC COIN (Inv. 18488)

$875.00

CELTS OF EASTERN EUROPE. 4th-3rd centuries BC.
Silver tetradrachm closely imitating a Philip II posthumous issue from Amphipolis, 13.98 g, 26 mm.
Obv. Laureate head of Zeus right. Rev. ΦIΛΠ-OV, nude rider holding palm branch right, Λ above torch below horse, KO control monogram in right field, below horse’s leg.
Cf. Lanz 351 for a less stylized specimen of this type; for the Macedonian model cf. Le Rider, pl. 47, 23.
Ex Salton Collection, likely acquired in the 1950s-1960s when Mr. Salton owned a numismatic firm in New York.
NGC graded AU, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, seemingly a rare variety of an issue copying the cited Amphipolis issue; although the controls are replicated faithfully, Philip’s name is garbled.