PHILIP V SILVER DIDRACHM – EXTENSIVELY PROVENANCED SPECIMEN, EX LOCKETT COLLECTION, EX BRITISH MUSEUM, GOING BACK TO THE RATTO SALE OF 1909 – VF STAR NGC GRADED GREEK MACADONIAN COIN (Inv. 20167)

$7,500.00

20167. KINGDOM OF MACEDON. PHILIP V, 221–179 BC.
Silver Didrachm, 8.40 g, 24 mm. Issue of Pella, ca. 184–179 BC.
Obv. Diademed head of Philip V right. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΦIΛIΠΠOY, club horizontally to right, ZΩ control monogram above, ME and EO monograms below, all within oak wreath, star in outer left field.
Mamroth, Philipp, 24 (this coin listed); HGC 3, 1059; SNG Lockett 1530 (this coin listed and illustrated).
Ex Münzen & Medaillen Deutschland 46, 2/15/2018, lot 100 = Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel 88 (5/17/1999), lot 154 = Lockett II (1958), 1398 = Lockett Purchase records in British Museum, page 28 illustrating coin and citing Naville sale where he purchased it for 135 Swiss Francs = ex British Museum Collection, et al, Naville Ars Classica V, 6/18/1923, lot 1469 = ex Ratto (4/26/1909), 1976.
NGC graded VF STAR, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, Ratto and Lockett provenance noted on label.