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The Poet Arion

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 162. Estimate $750. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. 
Sold For $1450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.35 g, 1h). Methymna mint. Civic issue, struck circa 215-200 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, two monograms above the poet Arion on dolphin right. Price 1691-4 var. (control marks). Good VF, minor porosity. Unpublished variety of a rare mint issue.