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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 430. Estimate $200. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004. 
Sold For $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (4.14 gm). Chios mint. Struck circa 290-275 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; monogram above grapes in left field. Price 2318 corr.; Müller 1531. EF, lightly toned. ($200)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (12 July 2000), lot 56.

Price suggests that this coinage may have been struck under Lysimachos during his military operations that led to the battle of Korupedion.