Diverse Offering of Alexander Tetradrachms

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 336. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.22 g, 2h). ‘Amphipolis’ mint. Lifetime issue, struck under Antipater, circa 332-326 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, prow left. Price 4; Troxell, Studies, Group A1. EF, toned. Overstruck on uncertain type.

From Collection C.P.A. Ex Münzen und Medaillen Deutschland 10 (22 March 2002), lot 183.