262, Lot: 41. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.15 g, 10h). Myriandros or Issos mint. Struck under Menes or Philotas, circa 325-324/3 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monograms in left field and below throne. Price 3230; Newell,
Myriandros 27. VF, reverse off center.
See J.D. Bing, "Reattribution of the "Myriandrus" Alexanders: the Case for Issus" AJN 1 (1989), for an alternative attribution of the Myriandros series to the mint of Issos.