Hess-Divo
Auction 339 22 Oct 2020
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GREEK COINS. KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA.
ALEXANDROS III THE GREAT, king 336-323 BC. Tetradrachm, posthumous, Mylasa, about 300-280 BC. AR 17.08 g. Head of Herakles r., wearing lion skin. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Zeus, wearing himation, nude to waist, seated l. on throne, holding sceptre with his l. hand, eagle on his outstretched r. hand; in field l. bipennis (double axe). Price 276, 2074; SNG Oxford 2791; M. Thompson, The Alexandrine mint of Mylasa, Quaderni Ticinesi X (1981),213, pl. II, 20.
Scarce. Nice early hellenistic style. Light tone. Extremely fine
ALEXANDROS III THE GREAT, king 336-323 BC. Tetradrachm, posthumous, Mylasa, about 300-280 BC. AR 17.08 g. Head of Herakles r., wearing lion skin. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Zeus, wearing himation, nude to waist, seated l. on throne, holding sceptre with his l. hand, eagle on his outstretched r. hand; in field l. bipennis (double axe). Price 276, 2074; SNG Oxford 2791; M. Thompson, The Alexandrine mint of Mylasa, Quaderni Ticinesi X (1981),213, pl. II, 20.
Scarce. Nice early hellenistic style. Light tone. Extremely fine