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Triton XIX, Lot: 88. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.48 g, 5h). In the name and types of Philip II. Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 336-333/26 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / ΦIΛIΠ-ΠOY, nude youth, holding palm frond in right hand and rein in left, on horseback right; below, prow right. Le Rider – (D193/R331 [unlisted die combination]); SNG ANS 534/535 (same obv./rev. dies). EF, lightly toned, a hint of die rust.


Ex Nomos FPL (with Classical Numismatic Group, Winter-Spring 2015), no. 18.

From the first issue of coinage under Alexander III at Amphipolis.