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Electronic Auction 427  22 Aug 2018
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Lot 99

Estimate: 200 USD
Price realized: 220 USD
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 16.77 g, 9h). Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 21 of 'Ozmilk (329/8 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Phoenician -|O (Phoenician 'K = 'Ozmilk [king of Tyre]) above |= (21 [date] in Phoenician). Price 3252; Newell, Dated 14, obv. die XIII; DCA 736. VF, toned, off center on obverse.

See A. DeShazo, "The Satrapal and Alexander Coinage of Tyre" in JONS 233 (forthcoming), for an analysis down-dating the series by two years. The present issue would thus be struck in 327/6 BC. The article is currently available at https://www.academia.edu/36979096/The_Satrapal_and_Alexander_Coinage_of_Tyre
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