Watch List notes:

CALABRIA, Tarentum. Alexander the Molossian. King of Epeiros, 350-330 BC. AV Obol – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 0.64 g, 6h). Struck circa 333-331/0 BC. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly left / Thunderbolt; AΛ/EΞ in two lines, above and below. Vlasto, Alexander, Type 6A, pl. ix, 10 (same obv. die); Liampi, Ἀλεξάνδρου, pl. 4, 17 (same obv. die); Fischer-Bossert pp. 380–1; Vlasto 1864–5; cf. HN Italy 906; Hunt II 403 (this coin); Hunterian 2 (same obv. die); De Luynes 1892 (same obv. die). A few faint scratches. Near EF. Well centered.


Ex Künker 262 (13 March 2015), lot 7886 (hammer €4600); Peus 376 (29 October 2003), lot 107; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part II, Sotheby's New York, 21 June 1990), lot 403.