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Unique Susa Drachm

318, Lot: 79. Estimate $200.
Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 4.24 g, 3h). Susa mint. Struck under Koinos, circa 324/3-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram above bee; XAB monogram below throne. Cf. Price 3840 (tetradrachm); Seleucus I Hoard 1632 (this coin, illustrated). VF, toned. Unique – the only known drachm of this issue from Susa.


Ex 2005 Unknown Findspot (“Seleucus I”) Hoard (CH 10.265).