Sale: Nomos 7, Lot: 54. Estimate CHF900. Closing Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2013. Sold For CHF800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 17.22 g 11), ‘Amphipolis’, uncertain mint in Macedonia, c. 323-320. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress.
Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Zeus seated to left on backless throne, holding eagle in his right hand and long scepter in his left; below the hand holding the eagle, Macedonian helmet. Price 113. Nicely struck. Some minor porosity. Extremely fine.
From the Mieza collection, acquired privately from CNG in October 2009.