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416, Lot: 103. Estimate $200.
Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Demetrios I Poliorketes – Antigonos II Gonatas. Circa 300-250 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.65 g, 7h). In the name of Alexander III. Uncertain mint in the Peloponnese. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; murex shell in left field, A below throne. Price 771 corr. (position of A); Troxell, Peloponnesian, –; HGC 3, –. Good VF, toned, areas of roughness. Extremely rare, none in Pella, ANS photofile, or CoinArchives.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 118 (14 October 2002), lot 1273.

This coin is possibly unique, as Price cites a specimen in a hoard from the Peloponnesos (CH VI, 28) that was seen in commerce, but not recorded in detail. Thus, this coin may be the specimen from that hoard.