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Electronic Auction 469  3 Jun 2020
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Lot 112

Estimate: 200 USD
Price realized: 650 USD
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WESTERN ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Mid-late 3rd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.58 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; no control marks. Price –; Mektipini 725; Seyrig, Trésors, pl. 10, 5.21 (same obv. die). Dark iridescent tone. VF.

There are numerous Alexander type issues without any control marks from disparate mints issued from the late 4th-1st centuries BC. Their mint of issue and dating can only be presumed from a careful comparison with other issues whose attributions are known. The present piece has a stylistic affinity to a variety of civic Alexander issues in Ionia and Caria in the mid-late 3rd century. Interestingly, Price appears to include only a handful of these unmarked issues, leaving out many that were even present in references he consulted.
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