Ex Seleucus I Hoard

375, Lot: 256. Estimate $200. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.94 g, 1h). Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 24 of Azemilkos (326/5 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, ‘Z (in Phoenician [king’s name]) above |||| = (Phoenician date [24]). Price 3260 (Ake); Newell, Dated 20 (obv. die XVI); DCA 736. VF, toned, obverse slightly off center. Clear date.

From the collection of Will Gordon. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 159670 (December 2005); Seleucus I Hoard (CH X, 265).