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Macedon, King Philip V, Eagle reverse

Æ obol; 19mm/4.4gm   ca. 221-179 BC

Con/ Brown patina with green highlights; obverse struck slightly off-center, otherwise, Good Fine

Obv/ Head of Perseus r., wearing winged Phygian cap decorated with griffin, harpa over right shoulder

Rev/ Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings spread, looking right; BA above, gamma to left, star below.

Ref/ Sng Cop 1256 variety

Sellers Note/ A rare and beautiful coin in hand

FYI - A harpa was a very ancient kind of instrument, in the form of a denticulated sickle, one of the symbols associated with of Saturn who, according to myth, used it to mutilate his father, Uranus. Mercury is also said to have used a harpa to kill Argus, and Perseus employed it as a weapon to cut off the head of Medusa.