191, Lot: 8. Estimate $200. Sold for $465. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 4.23 g, 11h). Uncertain eastern mint. Struck circa 325-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, BAK monogram in wreath. Cf. Price 4006A (tetradrachm); B. Nelson, “The 2005 ‘Seleucus I’ Hoard” in
CH X (forthcoming), 667 (this coin, illustrated). VF, lightly toned. Unpublished as a drachm, apparently unique.
Ex 2005 ‘Seleucus I’ Hoard.