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Electronic Auction 416  14 Mar 2018
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Lot 69

Estimate: 300 USD
Price realized: 260 USD
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.97 g, 11h). Uncertain mint in the Levant or East. Possibly posthumous issue. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, NK monogram above ΔEI; HI monogram and P below throne. Price PO(1) 211 = A. F. von Prokesh-Osten, Liste des Alexandres de ma collection qui ne se trouvent pas dans le catalogue de Mr. L. Müller" in NZ 1 (1869), 211; CNG Inventory 263521 (same dies). Good VF, toned, some roughness and light die wear. Very rare, three in CoinArchives, one in CNG sold coins database, from the one obverse and two reverse dies."

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Triton XII (6 January 2009), lot 1197 (part of).

There are a number of coins in the collection of Prokesh-Osten that Price could not verify. These coins were therefore omitted from Price's catalog, but were listed in his concordance list on pp. 535–40.
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