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355, Lot: 231. Estimate $75.
Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Alexander III of Macedon. 3rd century BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 3.64 g, 12h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, lion’s head left above B; labrys (or monogram) below throne. For prototype: Price 1833 (Kolophon mint–pentagram below throne); otherwise unpublished in the standard references. VF, toned, small test cut on obverse. Stylistically better than most imitations.