Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 163. Estimate $300. Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. Sold For $700. 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 (16.73 g, 12h). Miletos mint. Struck circa 300-295 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field, labrys below throne. Price 2143; ADM I series XII (obv. die 247); Marcellesi 24. Near EF, small flat spot on lion skin, a hint of porosity on reverse. Elegant Hellenistic style.