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CNG 90, Lot: 424. Estimate $750.
Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.48 g, 3h). In the name and types of Philip II. Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 336/5-329/8 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Nude youth, holding palm frond and reins, on horseback right; janiform head below horse’s raised foreleg. Le Rider 319 var. (D–/R279 [unlisted obv. die]); SNG ANS 510-20. Good VF, toned. From Alexander’s first silver coinage at Amphipolis.


Ex Peus 403 (27 April 2011), lot 90; Münzen und Medaillen AG 94 (16 December 2003), lot 414 (1500 CHF hammer).