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From the Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection

Triton XVII, Lot: 147. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.14 g, 2h). Tarsos mint. Struck under Menes or Philotas, circa 327-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; plow in left field, Θ below throne, small globule above right arm. Price 3032; Newell, Tarsos 38 (obv. die XXXVIII); SNG Alpha Bank –; SNG Ashmolean 2891 (same obv. die); SNG München –; SNG Saroglos 511. EF, toned, die break on obverse (diagnostic for die), minor deposits.


Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 66 (17 October 2012), lot 33; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part II, Sotheby’s, 21 June 1990), lot 376.