427, Lot: 122. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.02 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Sidon mint. Struck under Laomedon. Dated RY 13 of Abdalonymos (321/0 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; N (date) in left field, ΣI below throne. Price 3501; Newell,
Dated 39, obv. die XV; DCA 877. VF, toned, slight roughness, some smoothing.
See A. DeShazo, “The Alexander Type Coinage of Sidon” in JONS 233 (forthcoming), for an analysis of this series, proposing a few changes on certain aspects. The article is currently available at https://www.academia.edu/36978032/The_Alexander_Type_Coinage_of_Sidon