Matched Obverse Dies

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 175. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $830. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.98 g, 6h). Tyre mint. Struck under Demetrios Poliorketes, circa 301-286 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram in circle set on line; below throne, Λ above strut, monogram in circle below strut. Price 3534A; Hersh, Tyrus 17 (obv. die VII). EF.

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot.