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409, Lot: 122. Estimate $200.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC, or king, 306/5-301 BC. Fourrée Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 14.89 g, 8h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Magnesia mint. Struck circa 318-301 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field and below throne. Cf. Price 1970 (drachm). Near EF, plating broken in spots, revealing core.


From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon. Ex vAuctions 218 (18 December 2008), lot 8.

An interesting contemporary forgery of a denomination that is unknown for this issue.