Superb Deified Alexander Portrait

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 451. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON (Roman Province). Aesillas. Quaestor, circa 95-70 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.85 g, 12h). Uncertain mint. Head of the deified Alexander the Great right; monogram before / Money chest, club, and chair; all within wreath, [B below]. Bauslaugh Group III (O14/R83); SNG Copenhagen 1327. Superb EF, lightly toned.

Ex F. Martin Post Collection (Freeman & Sear 13, 25 August 2006), lot 128.