Sale: Nomos 3 & 4, Lot: 66. Estimate CHF3000. Closing Date: Monday, 9 May 2011. Sold For CHF3200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 17.14 g 3), Pella, c. 315-310. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress.
Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Zeus seated left on high-backed throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing right with closed wings; to left, Boeotian shield; below throne, snake coiled to left. Price 249. A superb, fresh and well centered example. Good extremely fine.
From the OBS collection, London.