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15 November 2015
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Starting Price: 150 CHF
Hammer Price:  460 CHF
Lot 128

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’, 336-323 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 31mm, 16.74 g 12), Dionysopolis (?) or uncertain mint in the Black Sea area, circa 225-190 BC. Head of Herakles in lion skin headdress to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔΡOΥ Zeus seated left on high-backed throne, holding eagle in his right hand and long scepter in his left; in left field, grape; below throne, monogram of ΡΚΑ. Price -, but cf. 947-960. Apparently unpublished and, perhaps, unique. Minor cut on the obverse and scuffs on the edge, probably from the removal of a mount, otherwise, very fine.


This is a particularly enigmatic coin because its style only tells us its rough date and the general location of its mint. It is paralleled by coins from the mint of ‘Dionysopolis’ but it is quite unlike them in the way the large bunch of grapes is positioned. This is a coin for a true specialist in the mints of Alexander!

Online bidding closes: 15 Nov 2015, 19:04:00 CET Current Date & Time: 26 Apr 2024, 08:25:22 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:460 CHF by BlackSea (9 bids)
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