Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 2677 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $1,200
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SOLD $720
MACEDON, Kingdom of, Alexander III, (336-323 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (17.18 g), Amphipolis mint, issued 315-294 B..C., obv. head of Herakles to right wearing lion skin with dotted border, rev. Zeus seated on throne to left, eagle in outstretched hand, **L* over torch to left, to right **ALEXANDROU, MHG* monogram below throne, (cf.S.6713, Price 447, BMC 447a-e, M.37). Trace of a golden tone, well centred, good extremely fine and about as struck.
Ex Gorny & Mosch, November 1993 (lot 925). c.1964.
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