Rare Alexander Type in the Name of Audoleon
Published by Peykov

CNG 100, Lot: 1346. Estimate $500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PAEONIA. Audoleon. Circa 315-286 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 14.96 g, 11h). In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Astibos or Damastion mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AYΔΩΛEONTOΣ BAΣIΛEΩΣ, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; cornucopia in left field. Peykov E4335 (this coin illustrated); cf. Price pl. CLVIII, G (for type); Waggoner, Reflexions –; NRBM Paeonia –; SNG ANS –. Near VF, toned, areas of roughness, short hairline flan crack. Extremely rare, the only published example of this issue.

From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon. Ex Rauch 82 (23 April 2008), lot 80.