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Lot nuber 109

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.29 g, 9h). Amphipolis mint. Struck under Antipater, circa 325-323 BC.


Electronic Auction 480
Lot: 109.
 Estimated: $ 300

Greek, Silver

Sold For $ 425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.29 g, 9h). Amphipolis mint. Struck under Antipater, circa 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field. Price 141; Troxell, Studies, Group E/F; ANS inv. 1944.100.28940 (same dies). Lightly toned, a little die rust, minor die shift on reverse. Good VF. Well centered. Very rare, only three in CoinArchives, six in Pella.

From the BRN Collection. Ex Album FPL 218 (November 2006), no. 50546.

This drachm type was unknown until the discovery of one piece the 1919 Sinan Pascha hoard (published by M. Thompson in ADM I), which was acquired by E.T. Newell, and is now in the ANS (1944.100.28940; along with 1944.100.28941, another example that Newell had subsequently acquired). No pieces were found in the large 1964 Asia Minor hoard, but six were found in the 1993 Near East hoard (published by C.A. Hersh & H.A. Troxell in AJN 5-6 [1993]; one of these is likely BM 2002,0101.83, which was part of C.A. Hersh's bequest). The chronology of the Sinan Pascha hoard allowed Thompson, followed by Price, to place this drachm issue among the huge tetradrachm issues with the same control (were it is always paired with another symbol; Price 128-40), dated to circa 320-317 BC. However, the inclusion of six examples in the Near East hoard, certainly deposited by 322 BC, disproved such a late dating. In her seminal work on the primary Macedonian mint, Troxell firmly placed the issue parallel with her tetradrachm Groups E and F, in the period circa 325-323 BC. As all of these 1993 coins were dispersed in the marketplace, it is uncertain whether the present coin is a new example, or another from the Near East hoard.

Closing Date and Time: 11 November 2020 at 10:36:00 ET.

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