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CICF Signature Sale 3046 14-15 April 2016
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MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AR tetradrachm (29mm, 17.07 gm, 11h). Late posthumous issue of Bithynia, Calchedon, 260-220 BC. Head of Heracles right wearing lion-skin headdress / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, Zeus seated on throne left, holding eagle on outstretched right hand and scepter in his left; K in inner left field and grain ear in exergue. Price 931 (Callatis). HGC 7, 521 (Calchedon). Rare! Deeply struck in fresh metal, light doubling evident on reverse. NGC MS★ 4/5 - 5/5, double strike.
Estimate: 1000-1200 USD
MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AR tetradrachm (29mm, 17.07 gm, 11h). Late posthumous issue of Bithynia, Calchedon, 260-220 BC. Head of Heracles right wearing lion-skin headdress / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, Zeus seated on throne left, holding eagle on outstretched right hand and scepter in his left; K in inner left field and grain ear in exergue. Price 931 (Callatis). HGC 7, 521 (Calchedon). Rare! Deeply struck in fresh metal, light doubling evident on reverse. NGC MS★ 4/5 - 5/5, double strike.
Estimate: 1000-1200 USD