Roma Numismatics Ltd
E-Live Auction 4 29 Nov 2018
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Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III 'the Great' AR Drachm. Uncertain mint (Possibly Sardes or Nisyros?), circa 334-323 or circa 201 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; AΛEΞANΔPOY to right, N or monogram in left field. Price -, cf. 2581 (Sardes) & 2507 (Nisyros, tetradrachm). 4.10g, 17mm, 11h.
Very Fine, slightly porous.
Alexander drachms are known to have been struck at Sardes with a monogram in the left field similar to the mark on the present piece, though they all have secondary marks either in the field, under the throne or in exergue so we cannot be certain of an attribution to this mint.
Though no drachms were known to have been struck there, Price tells us (Part 1, pg. 316) that the issues attributed to the island of Nisyros, struck at around the same time as the Alexander coinage from Rhodes, are Karian in style and have a letter N in the left field, conditions that this piece would appear to meet.
Very Fine, slightly porous.
Alexander drachms are known to have been struck at Sardes with a monogram in the left field similar to the mark on the present piece, though they all have secondary marks either in the field, under the throne or in exergue so we cannot be certain of an attribution to this mint.
Though no drachms were known to have been struck there, Price tells us (Part 1, pg. 316) that the issues attributed to the island of Nisyros, struck at around the same time as the Alexander coinage from Rhodes, are Karian in style and have a letter N in the left field, conditions that this piece would appear to meet.