325, Lot: 143. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.08 g, 10h). Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 24 of Azemilkos (326/5 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, –|O above [|]||| = (date). Price 3260; Newell,
Dated 20; NAC AG 59, lot 1597 (same dies). VF.
See Le Rider, Alexander pp. 126ff for reattribution to Tyre, but also for increasing date by one year (regardless of mint attribution).