Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 952

Price realized: 460 CHF   (Approx. 523 USD / 486 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great', 336-323 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 17.08 g, 12 h), Arados, struck under Ptolemy I as satrap, circa 320/19-315. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev. AΛEΞANΔPOY Zeus seated left on low throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and eagle standing right with closed wings in his right; to left, monogram of AP. Price 3426 corr. (Byblos). A beautifully toned piece of excellent style. The obverse struck slightly off center and with minor flan faults, otherwise, good very fine.


From the collection of Mark Gibbons, Newcastle, ex Leu Web Auction 20, 16-18 July 2022, 613, Hirsch 256, 5 May 2008, 55 and Hirsch 253, 27 September 2007, 2105.

Starting price: 100 CHF