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420, Lot: 276. Estimate $150.
Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Alexander III of Macedon. 3rd-2nd centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 15.89 g, 4h). Uncertain prototype. Balkan mint style. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; grape bunch(?) in left field, uncertain control below throne. Cf. OTA 570/1; cf. KHM 1453; cf. Lanz 880. VF, toned, mount removed from edge, traces of solder remaining.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Spink, 30 December 1994.