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375, Lot: 412. Estimate $300.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAMPHYLIA, Aspendos. Circa 212/11-184/3 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.56 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Dated CY 28 (185/4 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; AΣ above KH (date) in left field, sling(?) beneath throne. Price 2911; DCA 312. VF, toned, light marks and scratches. Overstruck with traces of a possible undertype visible.


From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon. Ex Ponterio 130 (30 April 2004), lot 1324.

Price calls the object beneath the throne a sling, whereas it appears to look more like an astragalos.