Lot 79A
Two Greek Silver Coins of the Classical Period, mounted in gold (or silver-gilt) circular bands, with eyelets for suspension: one, a silver stater or drachma from the island of Aegina, possibly as early as the fifth century BCE, with the obverse image of a tortoise or sea-turtle, and the reverse device of an incuse square, approx. diameter 3/4 in.; the second, a very fine silver tetradrachm of King Philip II of Macedon (c. 382-359-336 BCE), father of Alexander the Great, with laureate head of Zeus, obverse, and reverse figure of a nude jockey on horseback carrying a palm branch, with a thunderbolt below, and the mint mark probably of Pella, inscribed ?????-??? ["Philip"], approx. 1 in. diameter.
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