KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’, 336-323 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 28 mm, 17.02 g, 12 h), uncertain mint in western Asia Minor, circa 300-280. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress.
Rev. AΛEΞANΔPOY Zeus seated left on low throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and eagle standing right with closed wings in his right; in field to left, club; all within dotted border. Classical Numismatic Group 84 (2010), 236 (
same obverse die). Classical Numismatic Group, Triton IX (2006), 787 (
same obverse die). Classical Numismatic Group 70 (2005), 118 (
same dies). B. Rousseva: La circulation monétaire en Thrace pendant la haute époque hellénistique, in: RN 32 (1990), pl. VI, 17. Cf. Price 733 ('Argos'). Very rare, nicely toned and of excellent style. Light marks and the reverse a bit weak
, otherwise, good very fine.
Ex The New York Sale XX, 7 January 2009, 135, from the JW Collection, privately acquired from Freeman & Sear in 2008 and ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 459, September 1983, 5.