Savoca Coins
Online Auction 31 | Silver 10 Mar 2019
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Kings of Macedon. Babylon. Antigonos I Monophthalmos 320-301 BC. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC. In the name and types of Alexander III. Struck under Peithon, circa 315-311 BC
Tetradrachm AR
25 mm., 16,01 g.
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / [ΒΑ]ΣΙ[ΛΕΩΣ] [ΑΛΕ]ΞΑΝΔΡ[ΟΥ], Zeus seated left on high-backed throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on a low foot rest, holding long scepter in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing right with closed wings, KΛ in left field, monogram in wreath beneath throne.
nearly extremely fine
U. Wartenberg & J.H. Kagan, "Some comments on a new hoard from the Balkan area," Travaux Le Rider, p. 398, 52; Price 3713 var. (monogram in wreath in left field, KΛ beneath throne).
Tetradrachm AR
25 mm., 16,01 g.
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / [ΒΑ]ΣΙ[ΛΕΩΣ] [ΑΛΕ]ΞΑΝΔΡ[ΟΥ], Zeus seated left on high-backed throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on a low foot rest, holding long scepter in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing right with closed wings, KΛ in left field, monogram in wreath beneath throne.
nearly extremely fine
U. Wartenberg & J.H. Kagan, "Some comments on a new hoard from the Balkan area," Travaux Le Rider, p. 398, 52; Price 3713 var. (monogram in wreath in left field, KΛ beneath throne).