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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton X, Lot: 156. Estimate $1000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. 
Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.15 g, 11h). Myriandros or Issos mint. Lifetime issue, struck 330-325 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; scorpion in left field, monogram below throne. Price 3218; Newell, Myriandros 18. Near EF. Rare.



See J.D. Bing, "Reattribution of the "Myriandrus" Alexanders: the Case for Issus" AJN 1 (1989), for an alternative attribution of the Myriandros series to the mint of Issos.