Ex Price and Newell Collection
Newell Plate Coin

CNG 108, Lot: 76. Estimate $500. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.21 g, 5h). Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 26 of ‘Ozmilk (324/3 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, ‘K (in Phoenician [= ‘Ozmilk]) above ||| ||| = (Phoenician date [26]). Price 3265 (Ake); Newell, Dated 24 (dies XIX/γ – this coin referenced and illustrated); DCA 736. Good VF, toned, slightly off center.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Michael F. Price Collection (Stack’s, 3 December 1996), lot 45; Stack’s (16 March 1983), lot 29; E. T. Newell Collection.