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Weekly Auction 231940  –  4 October 2019

Heritage Auctions, Weekly Auction 231940

Ancient and World Coins

Fr, 04.10.2019, from 3:00 AM CEST
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MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AR tetradrachm (27mm, 8h). NGC VF. Late lifetime-early posthumous issue of 'Side', ca. 325-320 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck / BAΣIΛEΩΣ-AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus enthroned left, left leg drawn back, feet on stool, eagle in right hand, scepter in left; ΦΙ in left field, ΛY below throne. Price 2958. Apparently extremely rare. Only one example in sales archives in the past 20 years - Classical Numismatic Group, Mail Bid Sale 60 (22 May 2002), lot 319.

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Price realized 120 USD
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Estimate 100 USD
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