421, Lot: 404. Estimate $200. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Alexander III of Macedon. Late 4th-3rd centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.18 g, 12h). Imitating Amphipolis mint issue of Kassander in the name and types of Alexander III. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; crescent in left field, pellet-in-Π below throne. For prototype, cf. Price 131. VF, lightly toned.
From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 18 January 2002.