Gemini III, January 9th, 2007
Lot # 95Estimate: US$1200
MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III The Great. Silver 
tetradrachm 

MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III The Great. (336-323 BC). Silver 
tetradrachm (17.14 gm). , Astibus(?), Paeonia, ca. 300-286 BC. Head 
of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress / AËEÎANÄÑOÕ, Zeus 
enthroned left, holding eagle on extended right hand and resting 
left on lotus scepter, bucranium above X in left field. Unpublished. 
Cf. Price 651, pl. xxxvi (same obverse die). Of unusual style. 
Struck in high relief. Mint state. 

Closest reverse match is Price 833 with bucranium and A, uncertain Greece or Macedonia.

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  ... Lot 95 sold for high bid of $850 [ $977.5, or approx 755.6075 EUR, 498.525 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 


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