Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 3282 Session 11 (9.30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $750
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $700
MACEDON, Kingdom of, Alexander III, (336-323 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (16.756 grams), Corinth mint, issued c.310 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, H under throne, dove in wreath to left, to right **ALEXANDRO[U], below **BASILEW[S]*, (cf.S.6713, Price 671 [citing This Coin], BMC -, Troxell 'Peloponnesian Alexanders' Pl.xix, 6 [This Coin], M.-, SNG Von Post 7 [This Coin]). Well centred on the obverse, otherwise very fine and very rare.
Ex Noble Numismatics sale 53 (lot 2072), Sotheby's, London Sale 9 - 10 October 1995 (lot 65 part) and Eric Von Post Collection and current owner ticket.
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