Triton XVI, Lot: 614. Estimate $1000. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Alexander III of Macedon. 3rd-2nd centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.10 g, 5h). Uncertain mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / ΛƎVΛXIC [...]ƎΛXVΛƎVΛΛO[...], Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; OO below throne. Unpublished in the standard references. Good VF, lightly toned. Rare.

Although unpublished, the types, with the “name” and “royal title” in parallel along the sides suggests this is an imitation based on an Alexander type issue from the Black Sea mints. The style of the obverse, especially the pellets around the edge of the ear and the mane, are quite similar to the common lower Danube imitations Philip III tetradrachms struck in the 3rd-2nd centuries BC (cf. OTA 579/6–9, CCCBM I 190, and KMW 1468).