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416, Lot: 66. Estimate $150.
Sold for $405. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.14 g, 1h). Babylon mint. Struck under Stamenes or Archon, circa 325/4 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; Φ in left field; below throne, M above grape bunch. Price 3585; Berlin obj. no. 18207728 (same dies). VF, toned, graffiti on reverse. Extremely rare, only four in Pella (from one obv. and two rev. dies), none in CoinArchives.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Triton III (30 November 1999), lot 1743 (part of).