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CNG 88, Lot: 165. Estimate $300.
Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.97 g, 9h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Tarsos mint. Struck circa 316-301 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monograms in left field and below throne. Cf. Price 3796-3808 for series (attributed to Carrhae?). Near EF, slight porosity. Excellent detail on face of Zeus. Unpublished with this monogram in left field.


For the reattribution of this series to Tarsos, see CNG 85, lot 301.