Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118Auction date: 8 April 2024
Lot number: 372

Price realized: 650 GBP   (Approx. 822 USD / 757 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


Kingdom of Macedon, temp. Demetrios I Poliorketes - Antigonos II Gonatas AR Tetradrachm. In the name and types of Alexander III. Uncertain Peloponnesian mint, possibly Epidauros, circa 300-250 BC. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; [ΑΛ]ΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ to right, Φ in left field, EΠ monogram below throne. Price 763 (this coin cited); Müller -; Meydancikkale 1925; Prokesch-Osten (2) 31. 16.96g, 25mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine; light iridescent cabinet tone.

This coin cited in M. J. Price, The Coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus (London, 1991);
This coin published in P. Schindel, 'Un tétradrachme inédit d'Antigone Gonatas (277/6 - 240/39)', Bulletin du Cercle d'Etudes Numismatiques 25.2 (1988);
Ex Jean Elsen & ses Fils S.A., Auction 119, 7 December 2013, lot 100;
Ex P. Schindel Collection.

Estimate: 200 GBP