The Greek Pankration

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 353. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.17 g, 6h). Aigai mint(?). Lifetime issue, struck under Antipater, circa 332-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, pankratiast standing left, in ‘guard’ position. Price 187; Noe, Sicyon 3; A. Milavic, “Pankration and Greek Coins,” The Celator 13, 12 (December 1999), fig. 1 and front cover (this coin). VF, toned, minor die wear on obverse. Rare.

From the collection of Maj. Anthony F. Milavic, USMC (Ret.).

See Milavic, op. cit. pp. 12-13, for the author’s arguments in favor of retaining Noe’s attribution of this series to Sicyon.