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283, Lot: 46. Estimate $200.
Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.13 g, 6h). Myriandros or Issos mint. Struck under Menes or Philotas, circa 325-324/3 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram; monogram below throne. Price 3223 corr. (monogram); Newell, Myriandros 22. VF, die-break on cheek.


See J.D. Bing, "Reattribution of the "Myriandrus" Alexanders: the Case for Issus," AJN 1 (1989), for an alternative attribution of the Myriandros series to the mint of Issos.