421, Lot: 407. Estimate $150. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Alexander III of Macedon. Late 4th-early 3rd centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 16.68 g, 12h). Imitating Cilician mint issue of Philip III in the name and types of Alexander III. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; wreath in left field. Price B36. For likely prototype, cf. Price 2949. Good VF, minor deposits, struck from worn reverse die. Very rare.

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot. The reverse die used here is extremely similar to that used on lot 310 in CNG E-416.