Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 414. Estimate $300. Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008. Sold For $600. 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 (17.04 g, 6h). Babylon mint. Lifetime issue, struck circa 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; bee in left field; below throne (without strut), monogram above M. Price 3620 corr. (with and without strut). VF, lightly toned, slight wave in flan.
From Collection C.P.A.
The description in Price notes a strut on the throne separating the two control marks, but his illustrations of examples a and b show that the strut is not always present.