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Earliest Dated Alexander

409, Lot: 106. Estimate $200.
Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.14 g, 1h). Sidon mint. Struck under Menon. Dated RY 1 of Abdalonymos (333/2 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; Phoenician S in left field, Phoenician A (date) below throne. Price 3467; Newell, Sidon 8 (dies I/β); DCA 868. Good VF, toned, obverse off center. The earliest date on an Alexander issue. Very rare, eight in Pella, one in CoinArchives.


From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon. Ex Stack’s (4 December 2001), lot 76.