416, Lot: 65. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. 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 (26mm, 17.17 g, 8h). Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 22 of Azemilkos (328/7 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, ‘Z (in Phoenician [for Azemilkos]) above ||= (Phoenician date [22]). Price 3254 (Ake); Newell,
Dated 16 (obv. die XIV); DCA 736. VF. Clear date.
From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Wayne Woolmer, 10 November 2005. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 70 (21 September 2005), lot 121 (hammer $450).