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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 7 | Auction date: 26 April 2014 |
| Lot number: 293 | |
| Lot description: Macedon, Koinon Æ27. Time of Gordian III AD 238-244. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Diademed head of Alexander III right / Alexander on Bukephalos right. AMNG III 445 (same obv. die as pl. iv, 12); SNG Copenhagen 1356 var. 12.16g, 27mm, 7h. Good Very Fine. Bukephalos was the great warhorse of Alexander the Great, possibly the most famous steed in all of antiquity. History records that Bukephalos died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, and Alexander founded a city named in his honour. Estimate: 100 GBP |  |
