348, Lot: 184. Estimate $200. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.03 g, 1h). In the name of Alexander III. Sidon mint. Uncertain date. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; [date in left field], ΣI below throne. Cf. Price 3508 and 3510–12; cf. Newell,
Dated 54 and 56–7; DCA 877. Near VF.
From Group SGF.
Although the date is not visible, the style of the dies is most consistent with the dies Newell lists for years 20–22 (314/3–312/1 BC). Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot.