375, Lot: 258. Estimate $300. Sold for $320. 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 (25mm, 17.05 g, 11h). Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 26 of Azemilkos (324/3 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, ‘Z (in Phoenician [king’s name]) above [|||] ||| = (Phoenician date [26]). Price 3265 (Ake); Newell,
Dated 24 (obv. die XVIII); DCA 736. VF, toned, slightly off center.
From the collection of Will Gordon.
Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot (dated RY 25).