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CNG 90, Lot: 471. Estimate $300.
Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC, or King, 306/5-301 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 4.38 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Lampsakos mint. Struck circa 310-301 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, forepart of Pegasos left; AI below throne. Price 1385; ADM II Series XVIII, 457 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned, die break on reverse. Well centered and struck.


The die break on the reverse gives the illusion that this example features the full figure of Pegasos.