Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XXII 7-8 Oct 2021
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Karia, Kaunos AR Tetradrachm. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 300-280 BC. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, drapery about legs and waist, holding sceptre; double headed axe before, ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ behind. Price 2074; Müller 1128. For the reattribution to Kaunos, see R.H.J. Ashton, "Kaunos, not Miletos or Mylasa," NC 2004, pp. 33-46. 17.05g, 29mm, 12h.
Near Mint State; attractive iridescent old cabinet tone.
Ex Ambrose Collection;
Ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, lot 311 (hammer: $8,500);
Privately purchased from Spink & Son Ltd, February 1989.
When one compares these dies to the contemporary issues of the type from this mint, which are uniformly of poor style and execution, it is not perhaps implausible to conceive of this having been a special issue intended for some specific purpose or occasion, such is its medallic quality.
Near Mint State; attractive iridescent old cabinet tone.
Ex Ambrose Collection;
Ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, lot 311 (hammer: $8,500);
Privately purchased from Spink & Son Ltd, February 1989.
When one compares these dies to the contemporary issues of the type from this mint, which are uniformly of poor style and execution, it is not perhaps implausible to conceive of this having been a special issue intended for some specific purpose or occasion, such is its medallic quality.