Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1285. Estimate $400. Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002. Sold For $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MACEDON, Kings of. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.20 gm). Amphipolis mint. Struck 323-320 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / ALEXANDOU left, Zeus seated left, holding eagle in right hand, sceptre in left; Athena Promachos standing right before. Price 105; Troxell,
Studies in the Macedonian Coinage of Alexander the Great, F4 (this coin illustrated on the frontispiece); Müller 649. Toned near EF, detailed obverse die showing the lion's eyelash. ($400)
Ex Stack's (June 1965), lot 11.