Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 120. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. Sold For $575. 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 (17.19 g, 12h). Aspendos mint. Civic issue, dated CY 8 (circa 205/4 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress /
ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field,
AS above H (date). Price 2888; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG München -; SNG Saroglos 485 (same obv. die). EF, minor deposits. Good metal.
See C. Boehringer, “Beobachtungen und Überlegungen zu den Ären der pamphylischen Alexandreier” in Melanges Le Rider for an alternate dating of the civic era at Pamphylia, which places this issue in 203/2 BC.