The Coin Cabinet Ltd. > Ancients Auction 19Auction date: 27 February 2025
Lot number: 40

Price realized: 46 GBP   (Approx. 58 USD / 56 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


ANCIENT GREECE. CYPRUS, SALAMIS. Nikokreon.
Bronze Unit, circa 331-310 BC.
In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔPOY, club above quiver-within-bow; ΣA above, K below.

About Good Very Fine.

Acquired from Parthenon Gallery Ltd, London (5/6/2003).

Reference: Price-3143 var. (letter below on rev.); Zapiti & Michaelidou-11 var. (same); CNG E-575, lot 178 (hammer: 250 USD).
Die Axis: 2h.
Diameter: 16 mm.
Weight: 5.04 g.

Estimate: 60 GBP

Match 1:
Numismatik Naumann (formerly Gitbud & Naumann) > Auction 147Auction date: 1 December 2024
Lot number: 135

Price realized: 110 EUR   (Approx. 116 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:




KINGS OF THRACE (Macedonian). Lysimachos (305-281 BC). Drachm. Kolophon. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon.

Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin.
Rev: AΛEΞANΔPOY.
Zeus seated left with eagle and sceptre. Controls: In left field, crescent left above head of lion left; Π below throne.

Thompson -; Price 1812; HGC 3.1, 1751d.

Condition: Very fine.

Weight: 4.19 g.
Diameter: 17 mm.

Estimate: 80 EUR

Match 2:
Numismatik Naumann (formerly Gitbud & Naumann) > Auction 150Auction date: 2 March 2025
Lot number: 88

Price realized: 211 EUR   (Approx. 219 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:




KINGS OF THRACE (Macedonian). Lysimachos (305-281 BC). Abydos. Sestos. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon.

Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin.
Rev: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ.
Zeus seated left on throne, holding eagle and sceptre. Controls: in left field, forepart of lion left and monogram; cornucopia below throne.

Price 1586.

Condition: Very fine.

Weight: 4.16 g.
Diameter: 18 mm.

Estimate: 40 EUR

Match 3:
Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio) > February 2025 World CCO AuctionAuction date: 24 February 2025
Lot number: 74076

Price realized: 260 USD   (Approx. 248 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


AEOLIS. Temnos. AR Tetradrachm, ca. 188-170 B.C. NGC VF. Marks.
Pr-1678. Struck in the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Obverse: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin; Reverse: Zeus seated left on throne, holding eagle and scepter; in left field, monogram and E above oenochoe within grape vine.

Estimate: $150 - $300

Match 4:
Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio) > February 2025 World CCO AuctionAuction date: 24 February 2025
Lot number: 74077

Price realized: 280 USD   (Approx. 267 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


LESBOS. Mytilene. AR Tetradrachm, ca. 215-200 B.C. NGC Ch VF. Scuffs.
HGC-6, 1046; Pr-1699. Struck in the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Obverse: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin; Reverse: Zeus seated left on throne, holding eagle and scepter; in left field, monogram above lyre.

Estimate: $150 - $300

Match 5:
The Coin Cabinet Ltd. > Ancients Auction 19Auction date: 27 February 2025
Lot number: 4

Price realized: 55 GBP   (Approx. 70 USD / 66 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


CELTIC. EASTERN EUROPEAN CELTS.
Silver Drachm, 2nd Century BC.
Imitating types of Alexander III of Macedon. Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev: Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; blundered legend to right, monogram in left field, B below throne.

Good Very Fine; some areas of weak strike.

Reference: Lanz-939 var. (Λ below throne); CCCBM I-203 var. (same); KMW-1486.
Rarity: Rare.
Die Axis: 11h.
Diameter: 18 mm.
Weight: 3.45 g.

Estimate: 50 GBP