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286, Lot: 46. Estimate $100.
Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.50 g, 12h). Uncertain eastern mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, forepart of Pegasus left; P below throne. Price 3871; SC 194. VF, lightly toned, minor porosity, reverse die break. Very rare, perhaps the second known.


From the Peter Lee Collection.

Price records an obol from Susa (3871) with a P below the throne, but that coin is listed as having an “anchor?” in the left field. Evidently Hersh, who is listed as the source, could not positively identify the symbol either. An examination of the BM coin ( here), while not die linked, appears to be the same type.

The authors of SC note in their entry for the type: “Very doubtful attribution; probably not Susian, and perhaps not even Seleucid.”