Rare Soli Mint Issue

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 136. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $820. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.21 g, 12h). Soli (Cyprus) mint. Struck circa 325/3-319/8 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; to inner left, prow right; below throne, I above strut. Price 3098 (Amathos); Troxell, Alexanders pl. 71, 15. Good VF, attractively toned, light die rust in fields. Rare.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 118 (15 October 2002), lot 1252.