300, Lot: 19. Estimate $300. Sold for $360. 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 (30mm, 17.22 g, 2h). Myriandros or Issos mint. Struck under Menes or Philotas, circa 324/3-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field and below throne. Price 3235 (Myriandos); Newell,
Myriandros 34. VF, toned, scattered light marks, scratch across reverse.
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.