TYPE Ancient Greece, Aigai (Macedon), 500-480 BC, silver trihemiobol(?), 1.05g DESCRIPTION . Obv: Goat kneeling right, head turned, pellet above Rev: Quadripartite incuse square REFERENCE: SG 1293, P 1111, BMC 4. GRADING: VF, minor archaic porosity, slight toning, scarce ORDER INFO: G1682, $138 Elusive archaic Macedonian issue, from the original capital of the Macedonian kingdom. The practical difference between Archaic and Classical eras in coinage is perhaps nowhere more obvious than in the case of this northwesternmost Greek province. Following the great victories against the Persians in 479 BC - the divider between the two eras - civic "Greek style" issues like this one were superseded by regal Macedonian coinage, commencing with the reign of Alexander I. Typical pun with goat following city name.