363, Lot: 55. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. 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, or king, 306/5-301 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.78 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Abydos mint. Struck circa 310-301 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, head of Ammon right; monogram below throne. Price 1549; ADM II Series XII, 180 (same dies). VF, toned, large scrape across Herakles’ ear and lion skin, long cut across eagle and Zeus’ torso on the reverse.
From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon.