Watch List notes:

Greek Coins
Kings of Macedonia. Alexander III, 336-323 BC, posthumous issue. Tetradrachm, Caunus Cariae circa 300-280 BC, AR 17.04 g.

Description

Head of Heracles r., wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Zeus seated l. on throne, holding eagle and sceptre; in l. field, labrys.

References
SNG München 580
M. Thompson, The Alexandrine Mint of Mylasa, QT X (1981), 207ff. and pl. II, 20
R. H. J. Ashton, Kaunos, not Miletos or Mylasa, NC 2004, 42
Price 2074

Condition
Of extraordinary style and with a wonderful light iridescent tone. Good extremely fine

Provenance
Gorny & Mosch sale 180, 2009, 108
Hess-Divo sale 328, 2014, 31