Exceptional Eagle Drachm

CNG 87, Lot: 326. Estimate $2000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.24 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in Macedon, or Miletos mint. Struck under Antipater, circa 332/25-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Eagle standing right, head left, on thunderbolt; monogram to left. Price 153b = ADM I 28b (same dies). EF, beautiful old cabinet toning, a hint of die wear on reverse. Very rare.

Ex Leu 81 (16 May 2001), lot 182; Leu 50 (25 April 1990), lot 115; J. Schulman 254 (11 November 1971), lot 3036.