Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 451. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004. Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.13 gm). Babylon mint. Struck under Philip III Arrhidaios, circa 323-317 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; M in left field, monogram in wreath below throne. Price - (same obverse die as Price 3697 plate coin); Hersh,
Additions -; V. Arena, "New Acquisitions at the British Museum: additions to Price,
Alexander, and to the 1870 Larnaca Hoard,"
NumChron 2003, -; Müller -. EF, recently cleaned, some light scratches in fields. ($500)