Nikai on Throne

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 435. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.22 g, 3h). Uncertain mint in the Peloponnese (Argos?). Struck circa 280-200 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, on throne with Nikai on back; in left field, Athena Promachos advancing left; EY below throne. Price 759; Troxell, Peloponnesian 3 (A6/P- [unlisted rev. die]). EF.