164, Lot: 46. Estimate $150. Sold for $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.00 g). Damascus mint. Struck circa 330-320 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, forepart of ram right; below throne, pellets above both struts, pellet and
DA below lower strut. Price 3208; Müller -. VF, toned.
Ex CNG E137, lot 4, called a fourrée there. The break on the edge at first glance looks like a break in the plating, but actually it’s just a chip, revealing more silver, not the copper core one would find in a fourrée, what appears to be plating is a surface layer of silver oxide.