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Two Stunning Alexander Tetradrachms

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 118. Estimate $2500. 
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. 
Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.13 g, 7h). Miletos mint. Struck circa 300-295 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field, labrys below throne. Price 2143; ADM I series XII (obv. die 247); Marcellesi 24; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG München -; SNG Saroglos 443 (same obv. die). Choice EF, light golden hue around the devices. Graceful and elegant style.