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437, Lot: 48. Estimate $200.
Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 17.14 g, 10h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 36 of ‘Ozmilk (314/3 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, -|O (Phoenician ‘K = ‘Ozmilk [king of Tyre]) and ||| ||| –= (date, in Phoenician). Price 3292 (Ake); Newell, Dated 41, obv. die XXXV; DCA 737. Good VF, toned, graffiti and flan flaw on reverse.


See A. DeShazo, “Dated Satrapal and Alexander Coinage of Tyre” (forthcoming), for an analysis of this series, which places the present issue in 313/2 BC. The article is currently available at https://www.academia.edu/38086866/Dated_Satrapal_and_Alexander_Coinage_of_Tyre