Trial Strike
366, Lot: 425. Estimate $750. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Alexander III – Kassander. Circa 325-310 BC. PB Trial Strike(?) (33.5mm, 75.82 g). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Blank. Apparently unpublished. VF, earthen patina. Very rare.
From the Robert A. Weimer Collection, purchased from Victor England, Ltd., circa 1980s.
This lead piece is likely a trial strike of an obverse die that has a style consistent with dies from Amphipolis in the 320s-310s BC. It is uncertain whether this die was an official product of the mint, or a die made by a forger copying a die of that period.