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                                Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 135. Closing Date: Jan 
                                10, 2005. KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander I. 498-454 
                                BC. AR Oktadrachm (28.22 gm, 10h). Struck circa 
                                465-460 BC. Estimate $7500 Sold For $4500 

                              KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander I. 498-454 BC. AR 
                              Oktadrachm (28.22 gm, 10h). Struck circa 465-460 
                              BC. Horseman, wearing chlamys and petasos, and 
                              holding two spears, leading horse right; crescent 
                              behind horseman's head / ALE-XA-ND-RO around 
                              quadripartite square, all within larger incuse 
                              square. Raymond Group II 54 var. (OP15/A-; 
                              unlisted reverse die); AMNG III -; HPM pl. XIII, 
                              9; SNG ANS 23; SNG Alpha Bank -; McClean 3274 
                              (same obverse die). VF, toned, slight roughness. 
                              Well struck on a broad flan. Rare. ($7500)

                              From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.

                              Raymond notes that only about a third of the known 
                              oktadrachms exhibit the crescent, which she 
                              believes is a slight directed at the Athenians. In 
                              465 BC the Athenians, after conquering Enna Hodoi, 
                              moved inland but were defeated by the Thracians, 
                              in alliance with Alexander, at Edonian Drabeskos. 
                              Alexander's addition of the crescent to his coins 
                              mimics the Athenians' use of the symbol on their 
                              tetradrachms to mark their defeat of the Persians.

                              See lot 129 for more information on early 
                              Macedonian kingdom and its coinage.








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