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141, Lot: 34. Estimate $200.
Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm. ‘Barbarous’ issue. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion’s skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; cornucopiae (?) in left field, X below throne. Cf. Price pl. CLI, B4b. VF, toned.



Price p. 506 notes that the ‘barbarous’ copies of Alexander III tetradrachms differ from contemporary imitations in that they were meant not to defraud but rather to provide coinages for the local economies in areas on the fringes of the classical world.