398, Lot: 353. Estimate $500. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Philip II and Alexander III of Macedon. 3rd-2nd centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 12.34 g, 1h). Uncertain mint (in Noricum?). Stylized head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Warror, preparing to cast spear, on horseback left; ornaments around. Unpublished in the standard references, but cf. Göbl,
Noricum, H2 (Eccaio) series, and KHM 814–8 for similar reverse iconography and style. VF, toned, attempted piercing.