375, Lot: 27. Estimate $200. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.92 g, 1h). Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 23 of Azemilkos (327/6 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Phoenician
‘K above |||= (date). Price 3256 (Ake); Newell,
Dated 18; DCA 737. Near VF, struck with a worn obverse die, graffito in field on reverse.
From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 320 (12 February 2014), lot 46.