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KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC. Fourrée Tetradrachm (24mm, 15.86 g, 7h). Imitating Tyre mint issue, with pseudo-date of RY 16. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, |O and ||| ||| – (date [16 in Phoenician]). Toned, breaks in plating, deposits, roughness. Near VF.
From the Kenneth S. Abramowitz Collection.
The style of this fourrée suggests that the prototype was from the latest issues of the mint of Tyre, struck under Antigonos I, and dated to the reign of an uncertain king. The engraver, however, used a date that is impossible, as year 16 would date to 302/1 BC, long after the Alexander type coinage ceased to be struck in Tyre. Similarly, the prototype could not be a year 16 of 'Ozimilk, as that predates the dated Alexander coinage by 5 years, and the coin has an obverse style that is much later than that found on the early issues of the mint.
From the Kenneth S. Abramowitz Collection.
The style of this fourrée suggests that the prototype was from the latest issues of the mint of Tyre, struck under Antigonos I, and dated to the reign of an uncertain king. The engraver, however, used a date that is impossible, as year 16 would date to 302/1 BC, long after the Alexander type coinage ceased to be struck in Tyre. Similarly, the prototype could not be a year 16 of 'Ozimilk, as that predates the dated Alexander coinage by 5 years, and the coin has an obverse style that is much later than that found on the early issues of the mint.